Click

well... my friend Pam ( miss pamyla ) came to Ontario for a wedding yesterday.... because her time was so limited, and her trip rushed, her entire week was planned out.....thankfully, I made the "chosen few " list, and I got to see her a couple of times.... tonight she and I went to see the movie "Click" ....

This movie is a must see movie for parents..... it sure helped me put my life into perspective... since I rush around SO much, I end up fast forwarding my life away..... and in the end, what do I have to show for it? I came away from that movie eager to make my relationship with my kids even stronger.....I was gonna drive to Barry's Bay just to say I LOVE YOU to my kids.... but being a rational creature, I came home to my comfy bed!!!!

I have to tell you though, that movie sure made me think.... As I sat at my desk thinking about my life, my eyes wandered to the things in my desk drawer ( quite OBVIOUSLY I have a short attention span!! ) ... anyway, it brought back memories from my childhood....When I was a kid, my dad, an insurance broker, had his office in our house. When he wasn't around, I would sneak out to his office ( in Randboro and in Belleville ) and sit in his desk chair..... and look at the cool things in his desk drawers..... I remember he had this really cool tape measure, some really cool screw drivers ( the kind you use on your glasses ), he had old glasses, cool pens, broken pens, etc etc etc. I used to find such delight in just picking the things up and looking at them.... interestingly enough, my kids now do that with my desk.
Last fall one night when I was still singing with the Chapelaires, Anna was home alone, while Abby and I had gone to a concert in Rodney..... On the way home, I spent most of the trip talking on the cell phone with Anna ( she was a little spooked by being alone ) ... all the while we talked, she was sitting at my desk going through my desk drawer!! The only difference between me doing that as a kid, and HER .... was that when SHE was done, the desk drawers were organized!!! bless her pea picking heart!

so tonight, I was looking at my desk drawer..... here are some of the treasures that have found a final resting place in my desk drawers :

- A Westclock Pocket Ben pocket watch, that used to belong to Alden Learned.

- A cool cowboy tie that I got from my friend Dorothy ... ( I am neither cool OR a cowboy, so the tie stays IN THE DRAWER!! )

- a lapel Button ( I used to collect buttons ) ... that says : Improve your image : Be seen with me!

- Lock De-Icer ... handy for those cold July Nights in Brantford!!

- A contact lense for my right eye .... still in the package... expiry November 2003.... Spose it's too late to wear it???

- 8 rolls of pennies! jeepers..... Coffee Money!

- A shoe horn from Tana

- a brand new Parker Pen - A stainless steel jotter... still in the package... I LOVE parker pens.. I'm saving this one for a rainy day!

- a Garrison padlock... missing the keys, of course... but in mint condition.... can you say YARD SALE?

- a gorgeous smooth purple rock... from my childhood... I think I found it in New Brunswick somewhere when I was a kid... I LOVE this rock!

- 1800 business cards... ( NO I DID NOT COUNT THEM! )

- a house key... from hmmmm 4 houses ago!!!

- a very corroded TTC subway token... back when they used to cost a $1

- some really cool Mastercraft mini - plyers.....

- a tube of Calvin Clein skin moisturizer.... not doing my skin much good, in my drawer!

- an old cell phone cover... the one I gave up using when I got the Montreal Canadiens' cover

- two very cool old jacknives.... i don't know who I got those from...







and that is only in the top left drawer..... some other night, I'll show you what is in my OTHER desk drawers!

it's like a trip down memory lane.... no wonder my kids love doing this... no wonder I loved doing it in my dad's....

sigh.... life goes by too fast