But these had changed , lest they would not be in their current state . Or perhaps I had not remembered them clearly , adding life and vitality to something that was already dying , making the memories happier places to be . I already had so many memories of those around me dying , slowly and in an instant both , that maybe my mind shaped these ones into something of gentler times , better things to be enjoyed . No . I refused to let myself delude myself into thinking that they had always been this way . They had been the ones to change , not my memories of them .

A: What may be the reason for deluding oneself from reality ?

I am happy , and I get to watch it again before I ' m off to Canada!Then there was dinner , which was n't bad in and of itself , except that Daughter Two left her purse at the restaurant . The next day I went to retrieve it , and it was missing all the cash that she had had in it . D#2 was given $ 25 a day to spend at con , and saved it instead .

A: How may I feeling during this post ?

So to day I slept late , which was not planned , and then got up and made pancakes . Special toffee pancakes , which were actually a bit complicated . Making the toffee was easy though . The end result was really good .

A: What can we say about the narrator 's diet ?

When I got up Thursday morning , the door to my bathroom was locked and my suitemate was n't home to unlock it . I slipped a note under the door asking her to unlock it and took my toothbrush to work . When I reached work , I pulled up the hurricane tracker and was shocked to find that Ike was headed straight for Houston and mandatory evacuations were in place for part of the county .

A:
What is causing the narrator such panic ?