Tommy Got a Job!!!

So there has been some pretty exciting news this week! My brother won the Kitchener Symphony Orchestra audition!!!! He won the Calgary Symphony Audition two weeks ago as well. He’s been auditioning for professional positions for about two years now (since he finished his undergrad degree) and I think he was getting discouraged. Not that I don’t blame him. I know I was pretty discouraged about finding a job after I graduated. It took me over nine months to find a “real” job that paid decently and was what I wanted to do-the first two jobs were crap and paid pitifully. I hope my brother takes the Kitchener position because that is about an hour and a half from Toronto. Ward’s younger brother lives there now and it seems to be a pretty cool city. I don’t know which orchestra would be better for his career though, so obviously we’ll be happy for whatever he decides.

I had the weirdest dream last night. I dreamt that my grandmother, who has diabetes and is dying from that (needs dialysis but is refusing treatment), came to Toronto to visit and was trying to help out by cleaning our condo. She went around our place and picked up all these glasses and stuffed them in the dishwasher, but there were so many glasses everywhere that they wouldn’t all fit, so she just started cramming them in there and they started breaking and there was broken glass all over our condo. Then she was no longer there and my mom was visiting and was walking around our condo without any shoes on and I got really nervous because my mom is taking blood thinners because she had a clot in her leg and if she got cut she would bleed a lot. And then my mom was like, “what the hell were you doing letting granny clean your place?”

Weirdest dream… Maybe it’s telling me I shouldn’t be such a bad granddaughter and write to Granny. I hate talking to her on the phone because she is almost completely deaf and you have to talk really loudly and she gets confused easily. Not very nice of me though.

Sammy got groomed yesterday, he looks very handsome now. I tried to cut his hair myself about a month and a half ago with Ward’s electric hair razor. I didn’t put any of the attachments on it so it wouldn’t totally shave the hair off-so he was almost completely bald. I also didn’t realize that the razor gets really hot after being on for a while, so I think I must have burnt the shit out of him. I felts so terrible afterwards-I’m never cutting his hair again. He looks much better when they do it. I don’t know what I was thinking- I suck at grooming and cutting people’s hair. Ward asked me to clean up his hair cut by shortening the hair on the side of his head and I didn’t do a bad job at that, but I shaved off his side burns and he didn’t like that- I didn’t mean to completely shave them off, just trim them. I cut my friend Rachel’s hair in high school and it was super crooked so I kept on cutting it shorter and shorter, finally my other friend had to straighten it out. I don’t know what Rachel was thinking, letting me near her hair with scissors.