Category: Friends and Family

Anxiously Waiting But No Word From Shelley

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July 26th 2008 5pm – Yes I realize watching the phone isn’t going to make it ring. I sent Shelley the letter and it should have arrived today and it’s 5pm now which means she should have been off work by now unless she works at night however in which case I will have to wait until tomorrow, she probably hasn’t checked her mail yet. At any rate, I sit here waiting anxiously for her to call.

July 26th 2008 9:03pm – Well, I guess I gotta wait and wonder for another day or so. I didn’t get a phone call from Shelley today like I was expecting. I can only think that she didn’t get it in the mail or it went to her mom’s house and she didn’t go get it or something. Or, they don’t live there anymore and I will get it back in a few days. I can only wait and see.

July 28th 2008 8:57pm – Well, today was Monday and I sent that letter to Shelley on Thursday so she should have gotten it on Saturday. I was thinking maybe she might get it on Monday and then I’d hear from her since I didn’t hear from her on the weekend. But, I didn’t hear from her today so I’m thinking that I will probably get it back in the mail tomorrow (return to sender, person doesn’t live here anymore) or perhaps it went into the garbage can.

Maybe she or whoever she lives with thought it was junk mail and trashed it. I think if I don’t get it back in the mail that maybe she thought it was junk because of the labels so I might try again with a new letter but writing “Shane” as the return address and writing her address on the envelope instead of using a label. I also might think about using the other address that I have for her since there were 2 addresses in the thing that I got from US Search. I won’t give up just yet. I might also think about printing that picture as a little tiny sticker and use it to seal the envelope. You won’t be able to miss that.

Update January 30th 2011: I don’t know why I never updated this but here goes.  I still have yet to hear from her to this day.  I guess she put me in her past and left me there forever because she moved on.  Well it’s time for me to move on as well.  I won’t even give it another thought.  I had no ill intention when I wanted to contact her, I just wanted to see how she was doing and catch up but if she doesn’t want to do that then that’s fine.  So, it was fun knowing her those couple of years that I did know her and life goes ahead.

Letter to Shelley

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Today I called the phone number I got for Shelley, my high school girlfriend, and it was a fax so I had to write a letter to her. I tried writing it but my handwriting is so horrible that I had to type it out. I’ve relied on the computer for too long and now my handwriting is worse than ever and it hurts my hand to write.

So anyway, I typed it out and printed it and my stupid printer wouldn’t print black so I had to make it maroon lol. I went to write the name and address on the envelope and it was so hard to read so I just made a label and forgot to make it maroon and it printed in black lol.

I don’t get it, it wont print black on paper but it will print black on a label. Oh and I printed out the picture of me and her mom and it printed fine. Oh well, maybe it’s time for new paper.

I sent it to her and she should get it by Saturday so all I can do is leave it up to her to call me. If you get this and you look at my blog first let me plead for you to call me Shelley. I have no ill intentions, I just want our friendship back.

My High School Girlfriend

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Ok so tonight I was on MySpace and I was looking at the picture I have as my main picture which is of me at age 16 sitting with my high school girlfriends mother Jewell and it occurred to me that perhaps Shelley was on MySpace so I looked for her but to my dismay she wasn’t there.

So, while I was looking I decided to go to the Yahoo yellow pages thing and click people (like the white pages) and it found her but it wouldn’t give me any information. It also listed her mom and dad and so I knew it was her. So, I called 1-800-free-411 because regular 411 is $1 and so the free 411 didn’t have her last name listed so I called regular 411 and naturally they didn’t have her listed either.

So, I went back to the USA Search thingy and paid $4.95 and of course they tacked on another $1. So I found her address, there is actually 3 addresses listed and a phone number. I’m pretty sure the phone number is for her mothers house but I won’t know until I call her. Since I got the information after 10pm I have to wait until tomorrow to call because I don’t call people after 9pm. The wait is killing me though lol. I hope she doesn’t reject me.

Here is the picture on my My Space page:

I Need More Friends

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Everyday when I get on my computer I load AIM and Yahoo messenger and it’s the same thing everyday. Nobody is ever online. There are a few people who come online but I’m not allowed to IM them at certain times.

Like take for example my friend Alyce. I can’t IM her during the day because she is working so I have to wait until 6pm to ask her if she’s still working and the last week she hasn’t been online at all. She goes invisible so nobody will IM her.

My sister is online on Yahoo but she is also at work and she doesn’t like to be bothered by me anyway so I just don’t bother IMing her. I don’t know what I did but she’s usually short with me.

Then there are a few other people who I never IM because they always have their away message on. I have a bunch of people on my buddy lists but usually only 5% of them are ever online and that 5% doesn’t want to talk to me. I need more friends.

Helping

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Yesterday and today we went over to Julia’s house to help her niece Jean and her husband Bill clean up a bit. She had a lot of “stuff” so basically we were bagging up clothes, shoes and purses to be sent to the goodwill. I think there were over 100 bags of just clothes.

Anyway, it was back-breaking and my foot was getting cramps but it was fun lol. I know it’s strange to call that fun but it was. We went to the Olive Garden and I forgot my glasses on the table but thank goodness they found them so were going to get them tomorrow. I’m typing blindly right now hehe.

Julia Lanier

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Our dear friend Julia Lanier passed away this morning at around 2am. She was a friend of Chips mom for years and when Opal passed away in 2004 Darrin began a friendship with Julia to help fill the void left when Opal passed (void for both of them). Darrin and Julia talked just about every day on the telephone. She would call when there was a news story that she thought he would enjoy watching on TV and vice versa.

Darrin used to take the bus over to her house and drive her to her doctors appointments with her car. Or he would just go with her and she would drive her own car. About 4 months ago when we got our car he brought a little foldable step-ladder because a ford explorer is a bit high for a woman in her late 80’s and he was going to bring her to her doctor’s appointment but ended up taking her to the emergency room instead. She was admitted into the hospital and was there for probably 2 weeks.

He visited her on a daily basis, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day, early in the morning, noon time and dinner time. The doctor released her to go into a nursing facility called Californian Care on Mt. Vernon Ave. She stayed there until she passed away this morning.

Julia didn’t want anybody to do anything special for her after she died. No obituary, no headstone, no funeral at all. She will be cremated and put in an urn in the same plot as her husband. Because there is no headstone the only way someone will be able to visit her gravesite is if they go to the office and say hey, where is she? Then of course they will have to escort you there. Anyway, she is in a much better place (as they always say, but it’s true).

Cynthia Lindsay

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We celebrated the life of Cynthia Lindsay in her Malibu home.  There were quite a lot of people there to pay their respects.  Everyone adored Cynthia as she was always the life of the party.  At the very end Robbie’s step-daughter Jackie took the kayak out and released Cynthia into the ocean to be with her husband and daughter as well as their pets.  She did a wonderful job and oddly enough came back dry.