Today's prompt is " What are you a geek about?" At this point, nothing really. I love books on quantum healing, crystals, aromatherapy and essential oils, witchcraft, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, Ascended Masters, Jesus, herbs, tarot cards, journaling, and self healing.
It is now 1:37 a.m. here. Yesterday was a doozy of a day. It started out simply enough. I had no appointments to worry about so I took it slow, even though Caleb woke me up earlier than I wanted to get up. I did my morning routine and got Caleb his meds too. I just kind of chilled in my chair at the table, looking through facebook. I had alot of ads for curly hair products, which led me to wanting to see if my curly hair products worked as well as those shown. I went and combed my hair out and applied leave in conditioner and a product that I have not used in a long time by Garnier Fructis. It seemed to take a long time to get my hair to dry completely to be able to see the end result, but in the end I liked it.
Caleb and I went to Walmart because I was craving chips and dip. We ended up buying $100 in groceries. Isn't that how it goes though? I never spend just a few dollars at the grocery store anymore. Everything is expensive. I had to restock on some staples anyway, and I bought fresh produce to make a huge salad, so I do not feel so bad about buying the chips and dip. Caleb got some double stuf Oreos and a Pecan Pie, which is his favorite pie ever. I bought a whole bunch of red peppers because they were available. At $1.38 each, they are not cheap, but man do they taste good.
Before I went to Walmart, Dianna, one of my dad's friends messaged me on facebook. She said she had a dream about me and my dad. I will copy it here.
" I just had to tell you about a dream I had this morning and you were in it before I am busy and forget..... I was on a bus trip to somewhere... on arrival I hear your dad's voice and he is beside me pointing at a brick military gymnasium and saying excitedly, Jennifer is in there, this is so wonderful... I am so proud of my Jennifer! We get out in a very crowded huge building and sit down at tables. There was a competition going on in gymnastics. He was saying "She chose gymnastics", and pointed you out in a crowd walking by. You were stunningly slender and strong and beautiful. Time had turned back, and you were young again and you walked by head high, confident, and ready to perform in the gymnastics competition and head for the uneven bars. I was amazed how beautiful you looked and how young, I even felt envious because I always wanted to do something like that when I was young. Your dad said " She just went for her dream and worked hard for this..." He didn't take his eyes off you and he said, " I am so proud of my Jennifer. When she wants something, she goes right after it." He was smiling and I thought he would burst with pride and excitement. Your hair was shining and waved down to your shoulders and looked so strong. Then the dream ended... It was so beautiful and unusual, I had to tell you."
I took this to mean that I needed to find a way to talk to my dad again. I felt like he might be trying to reach me and needed my help. I have not talked to Dianna since my grandpa died and I was trying to reach my dad to let him know.
I tried to call the number I had for him that was in my phone, but I got a message saying the service was no longer in use, or something like that. I got the same message when I called Sharon's number. I thought maybe they had blocked me and that was the reason I could not get through, so I had Caleb call both numbers, but he got the same messages.
I later decided to go and see if I could find my dad's updated information in ebenefits. The login information I had was still correct, but I had to change the password. I looked at his profile, but it did not have his contact information there. I looked under the "My documents" tab and found the latest document was dated March 5, 2021 and had his updated information on it. I took a few minutes to breathe before calling the first of the 2 numbers provided. The first number to the motel where they are living. I hung up before typing in the room number. I called the second number and got the voice mail. So I called the first number again and this time I went all the way to getting an answer on the line from my dad's room.
Sharon answered. I asked to speak to John de Mello and she handed the phone to my dad. I did not know how I wanted to proceed so I pretended like I was calling from the VA about his locked ebenefits account. It did not last long before I said, "You do not recognize me, do you?" He did not.
When I told him who I was, I did not know what to expect. He could have hung up. He could have yelled and screamed at me. He could have cursed me He did not do those things. He was surprised to hear from me. I told him I needed to make sure he was ok. I told him I missed him and worried about him. We talked for maybe an hour before he had to go pick up groceries from the store. He told me his car is broken down. I thought, maybe he could use my Volvo, since I have not been driving it. We talked about Mathew and what happened between us. Caleb wanted to say hi to him and did. He was nice to Caleb. It was like no time had passed, and yet we both had so much to say to each other because in reality it has been more than a year since I last spoke to him.
When the call was over, I was too tired to do anything else. I could not make dinner. I just took my medication with a snack.
I got a phone call from Aunt Lisa and told her about the conversation I had with my dad.
Caleb fed Bella and I went to lay down.
On the way home from Walmart, I took Caleb to the beach. He couldn't resist going into the water. It was very cold still, LOL. A group of older people who were walking on the beach were walking by, and a man told Caleb, "You've got balls of steel!" LOL
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