Shopping spree....

[fajrdrako]

What an evening.

First, I went to the Silver Snail and bought all the recent Catwoman material in sight: Selina's Big Score, the current issue of Catwoman and the meagre handful of back issues that were all they had.

I went also to the pet store at Cooper and Bank to get millet for the little feathered guys for Thanksgiving. We're having turkey, it's only fair that they should get millet. But no luck: the store closed at six. I was there about ten after.

I went home. About 7.30 I called Marcelle and we went on a shopping spree. We went to Costco (where we love the hot dogs) ostensibly for supper, but we picked up a pile of stuff for the thanksgiving dinner we're planning with Sarah and Joy for Sunday. We browsed the books and DVDs (as always) and ate hot dogs for supper - incredibly delicious - and then dashed over to the nearby PetSmart store before they closed, where I bought many tons of millet and birdseed. I'm not going to let my little guys go hungry over Thanksgiving. Or the guest budgies either - maboroshimaki has gone to Montreal for the weekend so I'm budgie-sitting her birds as well.

After that, we went to Loblaw's and got another batch of food for Thanksgiving dinner. There's more to get, but some of the job is done.

I was thinking of phoning my father and just as I was thinking that, the phone rang, and it was him. He hasn't phoned in weeks. (Nor I him.) He was feeling cheery: he said he heard one of the songs from My Fair Lady on the radio and that made him think of me. I liked that. He couldn't remember who played Eliza Doolittle in the movie. I told him it was Audrey Hepburn. He said, "I thought it was Julie Andrews singing." I explained about the Broadway version, and Marnie Dixon. He asked what the Shaw play was that it was based on and I explained about Pygmalion.

He said that the weather in Vancouver was nice and I said it was nice in Ottawa too. Usually if one of us is having good weather, the other isn't.

It was the longest conversation we've had since.... Since.... Probably since I last visited him, almost a year ago. Wow. I wish that happened more often. I felt quite daughterly. He isn't a man inclined to easy communication.

Then I played computer Scrabble. Just one game. I play under the name of Aragorn and I play to win.

Comments

[brancher.livejournal.com]

Dja get the Brubaker/Pulido Catwoman issues? Fantastic stuff.

You know, I don't know you, but what you wrote about your father made me happy.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I got at least one of the Brubaker/Pulido issues, #18. Did a hunt of the comic book shops today and found #6, #14, #15, #18, #21, #22, and #23. I see that Frank Miller has a recommendation on the cover of #18 - damn! If I'd seen that before, I'd have picked this comic up earlier.

I'm glad you liked my little interlude with my father. Fathers are funny things.