So it's been a month, oops.
Let's see, I have a lot of notes in my phone, some of which are incomprehensible now... note to self: write clearer jot notes. No real news in the last month of the life of AMB. Still working, still alive. Looking forward to the summer of family and friends and new pseudo-niece arriving for extended visit!
Yesterday JB and I had a nice date-day planned, which was almost ruined by me being incredibly hungover. I love you, orange rum Breezers. How any of our discussions begin, I don't know. Anyway we started talking about where our ancestors came from. He said that perhaps I have Scottish background, because my maternal grandmother came from the Codroy Valley, NL. Then he said that a lot of Newfoundland is from the same place in Ireland and two distinct differences are the Codroy Valley, where there are many Scottish folk, and the Port au Port area where it's French. (General terms of course, I'm sure of Acadia and English and whoever else as well). O and guess where the Scot people came from? Nova Scotia. I guess maybe I didn't put enough thought into why everything in Nova Scotia has a kilt on it, but there you go, and now I know. After more discussion, I remember that everyone in the world came from Africa, or so many people believe.
Then, see, I'm a genius and ask: if Africans have been here for-frigging-ever, you'd think they would be the most developed and evolved people... right? Well no. Anyway I don't know how I'm going to get even more information on this, the whole task of learning about the history of the entire world population is a bit intimidating.
Don't even get my mind going on the missing link and alien DNA in humans! *
* I recognize of course that my actual knowledge on anything I write here is likely about only 5% of the total available information on anything. Just so you know, I know. No worries.
Well anyway. I find it incredibly interesting! The way we speak, maybe even things like work ethic, basically our whole entire lives are evolved and come from those who came before us. Do people today have some sort of immunity to sea sickness if there ancestors historically were fishermen and on the water and whatnot? Wouldn't that be something? Maybe that's weird. Maybe you're reading this thinking, Amanda, you moron, did you learn anything in your 29 years? Yes, but I guess I have never thought about it in such a huge scale as I do now, which is way more interesting than ever. We're all so different across this country, I never gave much thought to why.
Side note: on one visit to the Rooms in St. John's there was a whole display based on the Irish and English coming to Newfoundland, showing maps of where everyone came from. But what was really cool was this photo display, showing present day Irish and Newfoundlanders with the same last names who looked identical! I've tried hard to find a link, but I cannot. I think it may have been the "Irish Legacy Project" but I can't be sure. There's a Murphy from some town in Ireland and another from NL and then two people named Connolly or Kennedy - I think there were six or eight examples, and the similarities were uncanny. I wish you could have seen it.
Anyway Sunday afternoon is approaching, and it involves a toasted turkey sandwich, mopping the kitchen, washing sheets, and Lego Indiana Jones.
See you soon!
-AMB
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