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I Miss Poppa Bean

It’s been over half a year now and though the tears have stopped, but there is still a void in my life. It is only natural that one’s parents pre-decease them, and to be expected. I just was not expecting … Continue reading

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General Bean Update

Another month has come and gone and March was quite interesting – to say the least. My paternal unit, one Elder Bean, passed away on March 10th. So now there is only me, Beanie, Lil Bro and Momma Bean left … Continue reading

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Elder Bean is no more

My father, Jaunutis Jonas, died this past Wednesday March 10, 2010. I am devastated by his death, but it wasn’t a surprise for me. As many of my faithful readers know he’s been suffering for quite a while, and had … Continue reading

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Healthcare Guardian? Moi?

I received a phonecall today from a Social Worker at St. Joseph’s Health Centre — the hospital in which my father has been in for nearly 3 weeks. She rang my mother, but the maternal unit’s english is rather poor … Continue reading

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Poppa Bean

I went to visit the paternal unit today after work. I was naughty in that I hadn’t seen him in nearly a week. Looking back, and hindsight is always 20/20, I should have come sooner. My father had been moved … Continue reading

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Paternal Unit

I’m very worried about my father. Since mid-2007 he’s had oneĀ  health scare after another. A month before my mitrofanoff in Nov’07 my father went into St. Joseph’s Health Centre here in Toronto for surgery. One of his testicles had … Continue reading

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Musings on 2009

2009 was an eventful year for me, and looking back to January 2009 I don’t think a year ago I could have imagined what the next twelve months would be like. To be brief it was a year which I … Continue reading

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Tax Season

…it has begun! I have received the phone call I get each year from my mother in February – “your father would like to know when you can come over and do our taxes”. I like how she uses my … Continue reading

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Christmas, how do I love thee

It’s the Christmas/Holiday Season – in case no one has noticed – a time of much merriment and shopping. Last year I couldn’t go Christmas shopping because going about the local Sears or the Bay would have been a tad … Continue reading

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Child Care Provision

Here in Canada we have something called the “Canada Pension Plan” that each working individual contributes to, and based on those contributions one gets a “state pension” – very much in the same vein as Social Security, Old Age Pension … Continue reading

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