The Weekend

My Sister is going good. More or less. The hospital staff at the new hospital are amazed at how well she is doing. How strong she is. She has indicated to the staff that she knows family is there with her.

This past weekend, I went to Calgary, Alberta for the Comic Expo that went on there. The guest list included the likes of Amada Tapp, The Twins who played the Twins from the Harry Potter movies, the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And STAN LEE.

For any of my readers that do not know who Stan Lee is….Google him.

I had an amazing time. I decided very late on going to the event that started on Friday, I decided on Thursday morning that I was going.

Calgary is where Lady Love lives.

I sent her a text asking her if she wanted to meet for coffee. I never got a response from her.

I think it was for the best that I did not get the response from her, this is the first time that I have been to Calgary that I actually enjoyed myself the whole time I was there. The night I got there however, it was not so good. I had rented a car and for the first time, I drove myself. Always before it was Lady Love that did the driving. To an extent, it was a great experience driving in Calgary on my own, however, it was almost as if I went onto autodrive and I ended up in all the places that Lady Love and I have been too. Places from where we have eaten to IKEA to Walmart to the mall where she worked, and finally, I somehow ended up at the section of th city where she lived the last time I was there to visit her. I nearly had a breakdown in the rental car. Then I made it to the hotel I was staying at and from there to the Comic Expo.

The engery in the venue was amazing. It was so intense. It was AWESOME. So many people dressed up like their favourite character from Sci-fi or comic or tv shows. It was simply awesome. Some people had put so much effort into their outfit and it showed.

There were a lot of artists and individuals promoting their own independant comics. People selling their arts and crafts. I met so many people with the same interests as I have. I felt almost at home there. On Sunday, I started to revisit the idea of moving there. This time, the move would be for myself, not for Lady Love.

It was a sad moment on Sunday afternoon, when it came time for me to leave and make my way home. I met one lady at the Expo that over the course of three days, we have established a link, a way to become friends. As I was about to leave, she made me promise to keep in touch with her, when I landed, I sent her a text and we had a short conversation. I think her and I could become really good friends. Given time.

The most liberating thing from the weekend has to be the lack of reply from ‘Lady Love’.

The thing that most bothers me is the fact that while I was driving and while I was at the Expo, I thought about the different things that I was going to write about, and I now seem to have forgotten most of what I wanted to write.

~Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Let them come, and then let them go. No feeling is your permanent reality, no matter how intense it is.~ Anonymous