What were you? What are you?

You Were a Cat

You are an independent person who inspires others with your dreams. A calm protector, you will fight when you need to.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

You Are Not a Cook

You know cooking isn't for you, and you wouldn't even consider trying to make a homecooked meal. And this is a very good thing. You've saved all your friends and family from unntentional food poisoning!

Are You A Good Cook?

You Are a Dreaming Soul

Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all... But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you. Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses. Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others. Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life. Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

The Trail

My Husband took this picture. It was taken at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, BC.

I love this picture. It reminds me of my journey with depression. An uneven and uphill path leading towards the light. I guess you can say it's almost like "The long & winding road" by the Beatles.

I've been on an uphill and sometimes downhill battle with depression for 9 years. It's a difficult battle, but one I'm bound & determined to win.

I know who I am

I know who I am
I have nothing to prove

I don't have to answer to anyone

I know what I have done
and I know what I must do

My cares are my own
and if I should choose
I will make them known

I am responsible for my actions
I take ownership of them
be they right or wrong
I learn from my mistakes
and I grow

I live my life as best as I know how
That is all I can do

I know who I am
and I have nothing to prove
except to myself!

Cathe Thompson

Put an X beside it

I don't know why I'm posting this stupid thing.... I really dislike it when friends send me these chain letters. I guess it's just the frame of mind I'm in...which lately hasn't been that good lately.

So take it for what it is....or is not!

Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the x from the ones you have not, and send it to all of your friends (including me). Then answer the questions in the end.
This is for your entire life:

(X)Smoked a cigarette
(X) Drank so much you threw up
( x )Crashed a friend's car
( )Stolen a car
(X) Been in love
(X)Been dumped
(X)Shoplifted
( x )Been laid off/fired
( x ) Quit your job
(X)Been in a fist fight
( )Snuck out of your parent's house
(X)Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
()Been arrested
( x )Gone on a blind date
(X)Lied to a friend as to not hurt her
(X) Skipped school
( x )Seen someone die
(X) Been to Canada duhhh kinda like I live here!
( )Been to Mexico
(X) Been on a plane
( )Been lost (With NO English signs)
( )Been on the opposite side of the country.
( )Gone to Washington,DC
(X)Swam in the ocean
(X)Felt like dying - on a regular basis!
(X)Cried yourself to sleep
()Played cops and robbers
()Recently colored with crayons
(X)Sang karaoke
( x ) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X)Made prank phone calls...
(X)Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose

(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue,
( x ) Danced in the rain,
( x ) Written a letter to Santa Claus
( x )Been kissed under the mistletoe
( x )Watched the sun rise with someone you care about
( x ) Blown bubbles
( x )Made a bonfire on the beach
()Crashed a party
( x )Gone roller-skating
( x ) Ice-skating
( x )Any nicknames?

1. Mother's name? Shirley... but what does that have to do with anything
2. What is your favorite drink? Water
3. Tattoos? Got 3...want more

4. How much do you love your job? Don't work...

5. Birthplace: Ontario

6. favorite vacation spot? Anywhere but here...and preferably sunny

7. Ever been to Africa? Sure...go there all the time!

8. Ever steal any traffic signs? Nope

9. Ever been in a car accident? Yep

10. Foot size? 8 1/2

11. 2 Door or 4 Door? 4 Dr...

12. Salad dressing? Epicure Verde Vinaigrette or Paul Newman's Oil & Vinegar

13. Favorite pie? Apple

14. Favorite number? anything odd

15. Favorite movie? Ever After

16. Favorite holiday? Who knows...they're all too commercial for me anymore

17. Favorite food? Mexican & Japanese

18. Favorite day of the week? any day I don't have to get up early

19. Favorite brand of body soap? soap is soap

20. Favorite TV show? Lost

21. Toothpaste? anything cinnamon

22. Favorite smell? outside after it rains in the spring

23. What do you do to relax? sleep

24. Message to your friends reading this? Good question... I don't know

25. How do you see yourself in 10 years? ??? Who the hell knows

26. What do you do when you are bored? sleep

27. What do you enjoy receiving? Love & respect

28. Furthest place you will send this message? The world

29. Who will respond the fastest? No Idea

30. Least likely to respond? Don't know

31. What time is it now? 4:00am

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that, because the world needs people to come alive.

The Dark

The darkness enfolds me
it binds me to it's will...
it envelopes me
and I am lost... I am nothing...
I am dark!

I am it's slave
it has sapped my strength...My will...
I cry out my pain to the world that is silent

The Dark has devoured my desires,
...My dreams ...
I am inconsequential....I am
lost!

I am paralyzed by it's deadly beauty
I cannot move...
it's grip is too strong
and I yield....
to the dark...
I am nothing...And nothing is me

Cathe Thompson

Happy 18th Anniversary!

This time 18 years ago, I was on my way to get my makeup & hair done. In a few hours I would be getting married!...April 9, 1988 was one of the best days of my life! I had my friends & family around me and for once I was the center of attention... Well isn't the bride always the star of the show? And isn't it something little girls always dream of when they get older????

It was a loooonnnnng wedding service. It was anglican, so what does anyone expect...and our minister (Father Ray, bless his soul) convinced us to take communion, so all told, I think we were there for at least an hour!

The reception was held in the hall right next to the church. It was a lovely day.. started out with light rain, but then cleared up in time for our pictures at Lonsdale Quay.

There was lots to eat, lots to drink & a really kick-ass DJ who really knew how to spin those tunes! Usually a lot of the guests leave after the cake, but most stayed until we had to vacate at 1am. What a party. Brook & I stayed right till the end and we didn't even leave to get changed. Would have cut into us having too much fun partying.

We've heard that our wedding reception was one of the best, our guests had ever attended. I'm glad. We sure had fun.

Now 18 years later, it's a memory...a very fond one. Lots of things have changed in our lives... (it's bound to!) and we're not the same people as back then. But our love has endured, and that's the most important thing, isn't it?

Tonight, we will quietly celebrate with each other... we're going to a movie, just Brook & I... maybe we'll cuddle & hold hands...and sit in the back row!

Calling all you non-compliant diabetics!!!

Soooo... I just checked my blood sugars because I'm feeling kind of yucky.... my sugars read 28.3 mmol/L so no wonder I'm feeling pretty wretched... but then it's my own fault.

My questions to all of you non-compliant people out there are....

1. What's your reason(s) for being non-compliant?

2. How are you non-compliant?

3. How do you feel about being non-compliant?

4. Has being non-compliant caused any long term complications?

I'd love to hear your answers & more. This is something I've struggled for many years now.

Favorite sayings!

- Two wrongs don't make a right! (my ultimate favorite)

- I before E, except after C

- Fair doesn't always mean equal

- I need some quiet time... (my kids hate that one)

- Fibick Ibov!

- Blah, Blah, Blah

- If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, then it never was. (how's that for really old!)

- Was that me?

- I'm just making a suggestion?

- Did you say something? (in response to when someone passes wind or burps)

- More useless than 3 tits on a bull!

- Oh look, a rock!

- No shit Sherlock (to which the response is "Keep digging Watson)

- I'm sorry (I'm always saying sorry for something or other...)

- Okey Dokey.... (and sometimes will add "artichokie")

- Life's a bitch and then you die

- Life's a bitch and then you marry one

- Life's a bitch and so am I

- I'm gonna go wat-o-wiggle on yo' ass (from Dickie Roberts)

- There you have it!

- For every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction

- Home is wherea you hanga your hat...Home... I'm so broke up I wanna go home....(from Buckaroo Banzai)

- Ya think!

- I see said the blind man to his deaf wife as the lame man got up & walked away

- Too right!

- Oh come off it... (or variation... Oh, just come off it you guys!)

- Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle

- Hey Monkey boy/bum/girl

- Never Assume.... because you make an ASS out of U and ME

- No Worries

- Take left foot out....put right fooot in!

- You never know until you ask!

- Where there's a will, there's a way

- Sooooo?

A Mother's rant....part 2

After I initially posted my first entry, I received a call from the school counsellor. She's a very nice lady, & probably the only one who does more than the others....but..... (don't you just hate those....buts.... you know something negative is gonna hit ya after that....but!) still it's not enough. She tried to convey the ever so clever idea that my son needs to be accountable for his actions.... welllllllll.... DUHHHHHH! no kidding! I tried to convey to her my thoughts on how it seems that these kids are allowed to get away with their bullying, that nothing is being done about it, and exactly how my son is feeling about himself, school and the world! I'm not altogether sure she got the idea.

I've told her that we are going to go elsewhere to have this matter resolved, and that in Nick's best interest, we are considering changing schools for him...if not for this year, then certainly for September.

She wants to set up an meeting between these bullies & my son to hopefully clear the air. She wants us to wait until this meeting before we do anything. I'm not sure my son can wait any longer....but we will wait a little while!

A Mother's Thoughts on Bullying

My son, who is 11, has been bullied in school for the past 2 years. It's verbal abuse...name calling, teasing, doing things that bother him & excluding him. He has no friends... No one at school who will stand up for him and show him kindness.

The school plays lip service to our complaints, but nothing gets done. (I understand this is normal procedure) The kids tease, name call...My son reacts negatively and guess what? He's the one getting in trouble. My son doesn't trust the teachers anymore. He doesn't feel safe in school because he feels the teachers won't protect him.

Nick has been diagnosed with moderate ADHD, anxiety & depression. He has difficulty socializing with other kids, so this makes it more difficult for him because the kids just tease him that much more for his social ineptness.

Yes my son can be annoying and very trying at times. (Sometimes I don't even want to be around him!) But does that justify what these kids are doing to him? Does that give them the right to make him a scapegoat for their inadequacies?

You see I know why kids bully. I've read enough articles, talked to more than my share of counselors/teachers/others....And read books to understand. These kids bully because they are feeling bad about themselves. sooo it makes me wonder what's going on in their lives to do this to others... It makes me wonder about their parents and how they treat these kids... And ultimately I blame the parents for raising their children to be this way.... To not be involved in their kids lives not to see the clues until it's too late...Until a life gets taken...Either innocent or not!

My son has endured this hell for 2 years, and now he is starting to push back. He just got suspended for 2 school days because he fought back while being teased. Those boys just got a talking to! Where is the fairness in that. Having said that, I will admit that the school had to discipline Nick as they did. He did commit violence...But I still fail to understand why the school felt that boys actions were trivial compared to Nick's actions. It was still an attack... It was still an act of aggression.

My son suffers from low self esteem, and recently has talked frequently about how his life sucks. Sometimes he tells me he wishes he never lived & would be happier dead. This scares me...I stand up and I listen and I watch....HE finds little joy in doing things he used to like (other than playstation... He wants to play that all the time now). He's even lost interest in Tae-Kwon-Do - it just doesn't hold any interest for him anymore.

I know this is his depression talking. Having been cursed with this dastardly illness for the past 10 years... I recognize the signs. I'm 45 & still have difficulty... He's 11! I can't imagine going through it at his age. I will say that he has great strength to endure like he does....He doesn't know it, and wouldn't believe me if I told him...But he really does.

I could really use some advice on dealing with the school. I'm tired of talking to the teachers & principal. I think it's time to take this elsewhere...But am unsure of where to go.

I don't want my son to be another statistic.