I am not even thinking of going to bed right now. It is 2am. My sleep schedule is all upside down this week. Sigh. I am listening to music. Enjoying being alive and smoking a cigarette (of course). My dad has really changed over the years. He is a kinder older gentleman now. This is what life is about: changing so as we get older, we can enjoy life and love better. He certainly seems happier now despite terrible health in some ways. 

God, was I ever a wreck growing up and in my youth! I led a priviledged life for a while though. I went to university. I traveled. I had good jobs for a while (career). I was very priviledged for a while and I am even more so priviledged today since I don't have to work yet own a house, am married, have delicious food every day I can cook etc. 

I was very sick throughout my youth, in bouts after 21. But always recovered for a new adventure soon after. I have snowshoed alone in the woods for 5 days during a snowstorm, I have hiked 150km with my first dog Jerry in the backcountry and villages of Quebec and New brunswick for three weeks in 2002. I have seen Fiji, Vanuatu by private boat,  New Zealand, France, Spain, Morocco, Cuba, crossed the USA by car with dog and now hubby, Costa Rica, India.  I have also lived as a homeless for a month in one Fall when my health failed me in 2006. I love my life!