...Guess what I did today???

I totally helped identify some unknown remains today!

I volunteered to go to the morgue, with another tech, to take some skull x-rays of some poor individual that was found deceased.

I don't know the whole story, but I do know that my images have been used to positively identify a missing person. X-rays were needed because the individual had been deceased for quite awhile and decomposition was quite advanced.

No, the smell wasn't bad. He was dessicated, not rotting.

Yes, there was some extensive damage to his head and face, but I did fine, didn't get nauseous or faint.

Yes! It was cool.

The other techs opted out of going, but I really wanted the experience. I am glad I did it and I am also glad at how well I handled it.

That's another notch on my belt. Feeling pretty good right now.

....Johnsons make the world go 'round.

So, I was witness to a beautiful thing tonight...

As I was sitting in my room in Penticton, I went on Skype and saw my husband, my sister's boyfriend, and my brother's fiance sitting in my living room, back in Coquitlam, laughing it up and having a great time with a couple beers and some hilarious stories.

It really was a thing of beauty....

3 different, unrelated people, brought together by their love of a Johnson.

We are one powerful family.

...I need to get back into doing scrap pages.

My sister, Ting, made the above scrapbook page. I love it. I used to do this. Before x-ray.

Maybe I will be inspired.

Thanks for the lovely page, Sis.

...where have I been, you ask?

Penticton, of course.

But of course it doesn't look like this right now...add more snow, less green.

That's more like it....except I don't hang out by the water...my view is a little more like this...

But, less sunshine...and more lonely.

This would be a picture of me, if I sat around naked, and I was more sepia-toned and less Chinese. See, lonely.

Actually, this is me now...in Penticton/Summerland. Wishing I were much closer to going home than I am.

A little under 2 months, people....2 long months.

I miss my kids...

I talk to them almost every night on Skype, but it just isn't the same.

Anyways! Found this picture on the internet...Aislinn in the newspaper again.

It was taken about a month ago. She was playing in the Junior Girls semi-finals. Her team lost. But I was pretty proud of her.

Okay, off to bed. Another day down...I'm keeping count!

Love Tanya