from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 1, 2018, 11:24 PM
subject Publicités numériques: Ottawa ne changera pas les règles; ‘The dude was regular as f–k’: Sub-
contractor describes working alongside alleged Toronto serial killer
Dear Justin,
I am still alive. I am surviving the very white, first world problem of complaining about not knowing when my paintings are finished or not, or any good or not, to my psychoanalyst before going on a date night with my wife, where we watched a movie about an OCD dressmaker who only falls in love when his girlfriend poisons him.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 5, 2018, 11:00 PM
subject Un bureau spécial au cabinet de Trudeau recevra les plaintes d’inconduites; Kathleen Wynne
cancels town hall event at Windsor club over restrictive membership policy for women
Dear Justin,
I am still alive. I survived a big dinner party we threw Friday night, which started out with Clo inviting Kristiina and Adama and Peter and Swintak and Pip, and I invited Sarah and Pascal, and then Clo invited Dean and Karen (Karen had helped with the Post It notes) and then to top it off Clo also invited Stephen and Anne Marie. So then we had to decide what to serve, and we decided on gluten free pasta and Peter brought tomatoes he had canned and garlic and seaweed and I took those items from him after our party planning meeting at Caffé Italia and I wandered the market getting other ingredients, the pasta for example, and then went home and cooked and picked up the kids and cooked and cleaned and arranged my studio table in the kitchen with our kitchen table so all 13 of us could sit while eating, and guests arrived, and many bottles of wine and vodka were consumed, and the party was loud but the kids still fell asleep eventually and there was dancing and some falling down and snow as ice and some snowball fights indoors and spillages and I finally went to bed at 5am, I had not had too much to drink as my meds make me wary.
Saturday morning I took the kids to the bal des neiges in the schoolyard, then we got ready for the opening at Oboro, and after that we ate at Nouveau Systeme.
Sunday we slept in a bit, then ran errands. I bought some new tubes of paint. I have been painting a fair bit in the studio. I made Annie’s pasta for the kids for supper and made a large double batch of roasted vegetables soup for Clo’s party this Wednesday.
I forgot to retrieve my downhill skis from Poubelle du Ski, which I had dropped off on Friday for sharpening, and now they don’t open until Wednesday at noon, and we are planning a ski day on Wednesday, so I will probably have to rent.
After dropping kids off this morning I came back home and had a nap until 11:30, then ate cookies for lunch, then painted until 3, had a quick shower, my first in days and days (did I tell you I got my haircut
and beard trimmed on Friday at Oblic?), then met Tanya for coffee, and then got some groceries, picked up the kids, made supper, put them to bed (Clo went to Tremblant with Pip for the day and is out for supper with anne and elie), then painted more in the studio.
Things I am NOT completing while working on paintings in the studio (which gives me some satisfaction while also making me feel guilty for not doing the following:) Sol’s invitation, my taxes, the bronze application to CALQ, looking for a job, any admin, cleaning the house, baking a cake, washing dishes, cleaning the floors, etc. etc.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Joe Frank lately, did you know he passed away three weeks ago, on January 15? Have you ever listened to him? Pure radio genius.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 8, 2018, 8:40 PM
subject Blindés en Arabie saoudite: pas de preuve de violations des droits, dit Ottawa; Police probe of
alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur turns up remains of six people, more charges expected
Dear Justin,
I am still alive. I survived Clo’s birthday yesterday. We went cross country skiing on the mountain, then went to Bota Bota, where I had 2 naps in the relaxing area, then picked up the kids and got them supper and then Romy came over to babysit and we went to the studio with the two large pots of soup I made on Sunday, and enjoyed our friends, but I was feeling… drained, and I went home early (10:30) and to bed early, then up this morning to get the kids off lunches made but could barely get myself out the door, then met Mo at Anne’s new place to unload all the plywood, there is still too much activity in the house with the general contractor so we left, met Pascal and Sarah and my place as they are leaving Holiday with us as they are in Quebec City this weekend for Mois Multi, and then I had my session with Yaël and then picked up a toy lego space shuttle from Toys R Us for Sol, and then my drills from Michael’s, then dropped Emi off at Lowell’s school, then picked up some tools and supplies I need to make SRobert’s painting to cover the hole in her fireplace, bought $60 worth of linen, will make a painting of white bricks on it, sometime before the end of February I told her in an email from a few weeks ago and reiterated it to her last night at the party, then went back to Anne’s to wrap the wood because the current owner won’t give us access to the building and the workers had left before 3, and then I picked up the kids and we had leftover soup for supper, and I finished A wrinkle in time with Rose, and now I should try to paint but I’m exhausted, feeling drained and worn out, I need just to go to bed.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 15, 2018, 10:01 PM
subject Cannabis: le gouvernement doit renoncer à la légalisation en juillet; Challenges to drug-impaired
driving charges likely to clog up Canada’s courts, police warn
Dear Justin,
Am I still alive? I’m surviving a sinus cold, and have been working all week long hours trying to get all the cabinets and shelves done at Anne’s place before they move in, tomorrow. Too tired to go on, am going to bed. Sol turns 5 years old tomorrow! Time flies when we’re having fun.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 18, 2018, 9:09 PM
subject Le congrès du NPD se termine sous le signe de l’unité; Despite Alberta-B.C. rift, New Democrats
dodge controversy at last pre-election gathering
Dear Justin,
I am still alive. I survived Sol’s “fête des amis” today, with close to a dozen kids here all told. High intensity, lots of energy, even a visit from the police. They were called by someone who lives next to the schoolyard and saw me burying a box in the snow. Luckily an hour later when we arrived to the final destination of the treasure hunt the police were just leaving and were able to give us back the box of cheap Dollarama lego kits along with a brief speech about why a neighbour spotting an adult male burying a box in a schoolyard and hiding it under a bright orange traffic cone, would find it necessary to call the police.
-chris
from chris lloyd
to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 26, 2018, 9:40 PM
subject Le budget fédéral détaillera la gestion de la hausse de l’immigration; Patrick Brown drops out of
Ontario PC leadership race, citing need to fight sexual misconduct claims
Dear Justin,
I am still alive, just swamped trying to finish the paintings, the frames, getting car serviced tomorrow, visiting friends on the weekend, cooking, laundry, not time for cleaning, no time for much. Oh I did go out with Mohanad Saturday night to celebrate his Bday, we went to the Ritz there was a good program of black music but I can’t remember what the night was called or who organized it or the names of the 4 acts (Simon Says) maybe the MDMA messed my memory. And now I have to finish dishes and laundry and varnishing a painting and get some sleep.
-chris
DEAR PM 