Farewell & So Long, Folks!

Alrighty, this seems to be it - time to say a fond farewell for the next little while, as this'll essentially be the only way of reaching me, albeit indirectly. So goodbye friends, all of you amazing people that I'll be leaving in the snowy tundras of the north with your stellar winter while I slowly burn down South.

My sad news for today is that I found out - first via the news on TV and then from the startling Facebook condolences - that a friend of mine just passed away. His name is Aaron, and he was the same age as I am, and I just can't imagine what it's like for everyone who never got to say a proper goodbye to him. I saw him very recently too - I was walking down the street with a guy friend of mine and he said how he was a little sad we didn't talk and he wasn't quite part of our little clique. :( Our conversation was interrupted by a girl running up to us to call the police as she found an unconscious girl drunkenly passed out underneath her car. Aaron immediately ran up to them and called 9-1-1. That was the last time I saw him. (RIP, pal )So I've been trying to do a better job of making whatever I say to people count - cause you never know!

 

 Goodbye Time!

(all done cryptically to possibly apply to youuu)

Goodbye brothers and sisters of the motorcoach, whether clad in orange (or red, or blue), or warning students to follow them or get lost - safe travels over the winter ahead. Whoever gets my icy Quebec trips better layer it on. -44 degrees is a beeeetch. I'll hopefully see ya next season :) I owe it to them!

Goodbye Playdriana Alpiano, the original Belle (sans Bête) who was sort of the inspiration behind the whole run-off-get-away-from-Toronto-and-why-not-Disney?  idea.

Goodbye tall blue mage and champion of the Ransei region, may I eventually grow to be as powerful as you are while I voyage far away. May you also find a dedicated replacement for me to join you at Dance Camps full of Grapefruit.

Goodbye the new Mrs. Pickering, we barely see each other every 6 months anyway so this isn't such a far stretch! I shall miss ya mucho, my happily married amiga!

Goodbye fellow Toronto folk, my roommates, and my two fellow world-travelling gals (forward for Korea!). May you hold down the fort while I'm gone, and hopefully assassinate our mayor with high cholesterol.

Goodbye monsters, I hope you scare the bejeezus out of all those terrified teens in Wonderland. Make one throw up out of fright. Do it for ol' Lorenzo and me.

Goodbye vegetarian boy who I wish I got to know far better. Even though I keep saying "it just isn't meant to be!", at the very least we'll always have the Ganary District. (Hands down the best part of my birthday week)

Goodbye little brother and mini-royal, may you continue to live on our legacy of travel and just being all around charming, all the time.

Goodbye assorted boys that I leave behind -whether ginger or scruffy or in love with cats and honey boo boo, or incredibly political, or crazy about dancing and theatre or circus, or saving lives, or doing real estate, or just talking in French cause you're awesome like that - I'll miss you all. Don't sleep with each other too much.

Goodbye recently-engaged/married/pregnant/getting on with real life people. You all suck for growing up so fast. I only kid! Just try not to keep on grown-upping so much while I'm away, it'll hurt my Peter Pan complex.

And of course, goodbye Ginger Spice and......Salt (aka Lack-Of Spice). Yknow I love you both x like, a bagillion.

And to EVERYONE ELSE who reads this blog and who I didn't have time to figure out a clever thingy for (coz I haven't finished packing at this point!)-

(I spent the first half of this video waiting to hear the last 20 seconds of it.)

Now it's time I say goodbye to all my company - 

M-I-C - See you real soon! (if you survive the zombie apocalypse at the end of this year)  

K-E-Y - Why? Because I like you! (also because federal law prohibits me from staying in the States)

M-O-U-S-EEEeeeee. (That spells mouse.) (Eeeeeeee.)

Ciao! Au revoir! Sayonara!  ----Next time I write here, it'll be from California!