Our Last Canadian Thanksgiving

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving…

So, this year, for the last year, we will be celebrating two Thanksgivings (not that we celebrated the American one more than once or twice in the last seven years)…in two weeks we are moving back to the United States…and we’re a thankful for that.

We are so done with this city, this country.

We’ve met great people, and a far number of not so great ones. It’s expensive to live here on almost every level…say what you will about “free” healthcare. Taxes are insanely high, from the stores to the income taxes, property taxes and more. And the “free” healthcare only gets you so far; you still have to pay for things like an ambulance, and specialty doctors, if you don’t get a referral from your family doctor, who can take weeks to get to see you.

We suck for writing today, and yesterday. Stress levels are high after the last three days of trying to serve Termination papers to our tenants for Non-Payment of rent. They won’t even open the front door to us, just stand there in the porch, yell and slam the interior porch door. They are breaking all sorts of rules by not letting us in the house, giving us a key to the front door that doesn’t work, not paying their rent…harassing us on the street last Sunday (http://just-call-me-frank.blogspot.com/2011/10/trying-to-locate-human-in-humanity-part.html)

Wow, deviate much…we’ll stop there with the bitching, we could go on about what is bad about Canada, in much the same way we could about the United States; though we could probably find more fault in the USA if you were to survey each of us, but it’s also our home.

We are thankful, today in Canada, for another chance at going home....and next month spending the first American Thanksgiving with Baby Brother, Angry Brother and The Mother in over fifteen years...

~Frank et al

Some of our writing plucked from the archives that is better than some of our other posts, topics from relationships, to life, to mental illness, philosophy, cooking and more...

The Mental Health Entries:
Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder

• Mental Health Awareness Month: Our Introduction
• The Other Girl 
• The Other Girl: Her Final Journal
• We Chat With The Father About DID (this post contains information on what DID is)
• Frank Gets Candid (We talk about Catherine, one of our alters)
• **We Freak Out** (this was a very important day, the day we met Marisa, recoverer of DID)
• We Are Fragments
• We / We Get Random / We Have Questions
• Marisa Answers Our Questions
• Frank Gets Candid, About Memories...and Bethany (we talk about one of our alters)
• A Note From Frank, and ONLY Frank (actually not written by Frank)
• Standby and The Death of the Other Girl: Part 1 of 3 (we start talking about the death of one of our alters [our core])
• Our Ears May Be Burning (we talk about what people we recently knew might be saying over Easter)
• We Just Need A Good Map (Mental Health Awareness Month Post - Frank talks about DID mapping)
• We Don't Do A Blog Post (we talk a little about mapping, Bethany, unicorns & stuff)
• We Discuss Three Mis-Diagnosed Mental Illnesses
• The D in DID: Dissociation (written by Cassandra)
• Bethany Has A Flashback?
  
  
Other, Not As Much DID related, Written By Alters:
• A Day In The Room (Writing done by those other than Frank et al)
• We Have Nothing To Lose (Cassandra talks about the death of a mentally ill "friend")
• Frank Lets You Know Bitch (me!) (Bethany got to write her very own entry about herself)
• Sam Gets Angry About Ignorance  (Written by Sam)
• A Little Bit Of Emmie (Written by Emmie)
• Sam Gets Set-Off (Written by Sam)
• We Answer Some Follower Questions 
• Cassandra Writes About 'Someone Special' (Written by Cassandra)
• One of Us Has Sociopathic Tendencies (Written by Melody) 
• Just Another Fucking Friday Night In The House of Frank (Written by Cassandra)
• Emmie Writes About Sex & Erotica (Written by Emmie)
  
  
   The Other Girl - Stuff She Wrote:
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal: Canada to Berlin
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part II: Berlin, Germany
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part III: Munich, Germany
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part IV: Germany -The Final Days
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part V: Germany In Photography
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part VI: Amsterdam In Photography
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part VII: Cairo, Egypt
• The Other Girl: A Travel Journal Part VIII: Alexandria, Egypt
Health:
• When Anxiety Attacks 
• Franks/Our 100 Pound Weight Loss Story
• Collision: The Other Girls/Our Terrible Car Accident
• Stress and Expediential Weight Loss
• New Pain and Old Fear
• Anxiety, Revisited
Family:
• Why Most Of Us Dislike Our Mother
• We Chat With The Father About DID (this post contains information on what DID is)
• A Few Hours With The Father and Baby Brother
• Father's Day, It's All About Our Father
• Cracks In The Dam
Relationships:
• Relationships, Frank...and Love 
• Our First Girlfriend
• The First Boy We Liked, That Liked Us Back
• An Ass-Face Comes A Texting
• We Go To University, We Take A Lover
• We Say Goodbye To Special Someone
  
  
  Standby:
• To A Human, If Indeed That Is What You Are (1 of 3)
• The "Death" of Standby and the "Birth" of a Villain (2 of 3)
• Standby: The Final Chapter (3 of 3)
• Standby and The Death of the Other Girl: Part 1 of 3 (to be continued)
  
  
  Fuck Face:
• A Mistress Without Cutlery
• What Become Of The Broken Hearted
• Fuck Face: Who He Is (also work related)
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 1
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 2
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 3
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 4
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 5
• The Demise of Fuck Face...Part 6
• We Have Drinks With Fuck Face
• To Send, or Not To Send...The E-mail Is The Question
• Situation Stand Still
• Our Final Goodbye to Fuck Face
  
  
  James/The Boyfriend:
• 50,000 Tweets and All We Got Was...
• A 'State of the Union' Re: The Visit of Our Twittercrush James
• James and the Giant Peach Pit...Of Despair

• A 'State of the Union' Re: The Boyfriend Moving In

• Our British Invasion
Friendships:
• Friends: A Tale of The Non-Bestie
• Our Ears May Be Burning
• We Have Nothing To Lose
• Girl Crush Gets The 411 on Us
• A Frank Evening With Fabulous People and The Pup
• We Get An E-Mail Intervention
• We Get An E-Mail INtervention: Followup: The Followup
Work:
• All In a Days Work
• All In a Days Work II
• All In a Days Work III
• A Day In The Room
• Another Day, Another Dollar; Fuck Our Life
• When The Job Gets Fuckity
• We Get Fired From Our Job
• We Get A New Job and James Meets Fuck Face
• Our First Day at a New Job
• Good Deeds and Old Jobs 

• We Put In Our Three Weeks Notice

Life:
• Please Don't Let Us Be Misunderstood
• All We Have Is Hope
• A Distraction, In The Form of The Jeans
• Seriously...And @NickSilly Answers Some Questions
• We Have Nothing To Lose
• How We Feel About Advice...and We Ramble
• Sometimes Karma is a Bitch for a Reason (1 of 3)
• Life Kicks Us in the Ass at Every Turn (2 of 3)
• ...More Ass Kicking From Life... (3 of 3)
• Fuck Face Gets Fired and What We Think About That
• We Get A New Job and James Meets Fuck Face
• Good Deeds & Old Jobs
• Why Our Twitter Account Is "Me" and Not "Us" 
• How We Turned Roast Beef Into An Apple Fritter
• Trying To Locate The "Human" in "Humanity"
• Cracks In The Dam
Food & Cooking
• Cooking With Frank
• Cooking Shepherds Pie With Us, Drunk
• Cooking With Frank, Ratatouille 
Opinion/Philosophy:
• Religion, You Say? We Have A View On That
• Growth and Change; An Artist Standpoint
• Reading We Recommend: Casey Hannan
• Hell Ride: A Film Review
• Doing Freedom Right, Our 9/11 Post
• Being A Good Person; What Is The Point?
Art/Poetry:
• Evil of Three: A Painting
• Saviour: A Painting
• Deadly Catch: A Painting
• Untitled Vision A: A Paiting
• Sad Clown Society: A Painting
• Pretty Things: A Poem
• Erase This Poem
• Envisage of We: A Poem
Humour/Random/Fun:
• The Tale of the Barbie Massacre Trail/Part 1
• Happy Zombie Day A.K.A Happy Easter
• Love Juice...We're No Cosmo Magazine But...
• Emmie Writes About Sex & Erotica
• The Flavours of Emotions
Social Media:
• Birds of A Feather, on Twitter, CAN Flock Together
• For Us, It's All About Team Awesome...and Twitter
• We Talk About Listing People On Twitter
• Who Are The Twitter Elite...And Of Course We Ramble
• You're Doing Twitter Wrong
• So, You've Been Unfollowed and/or Blocked
• There's More Than One Way To Skin A Troll
• We’re Not Breaking Up With You, Twitter, But…
Guest Bloggers:
• Our New Guest Blogger (Kerry Stott @kerrystott) 
• Our Guest Blogger Writes About Depression (Kerry Stott @kerrystott)
• Our Guest Blogger Writes About Suicide (Kerry Stott @kerrystott)
• Our Guest Blogger Writes About Endopsychic Energy (Kerry Stott @kerrystott)
• Our Guest Blogger Writes About S.A.D. (Kerry Stott @kerrystott)
• We Get A Guest Blogger - Kinky Sex! (The Single Mom @singlemomdate)
• How To Tie A Nose With Words (Jake @vagabondroyalty)
Imported From Our Boyfriends Blog:
• 'I Meet Cassandra And It Doesn't Go Well' 
• 'A Rough Night, Not The Good Kind'
• 'Who's Here Today'
• 'I Talk to Cassandra'
• 'Nine of Nine'
• 'Meet Catherine, Not Bethany'
• 'Today Was A Good Day'
• 'They Are One'
• 'They Are Nine'
• 'An Emotional Night For Us All' 
• 'Brooke Gets The Better Of Me'