My Life Without Me Page #5

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You've been thinking about me?

Yeah.

I've been thinking about you a lot.

Too much.

I've got a sister, you know, who...

she works for this radio

company up north.

And she makes these tapes for me

that she sends to me,

music that she likes and

I've got the latest one

out in my car right now.

We could go listen to it,

if you want...

If you don't kiss me right now,

I'm going to scream.

Shut up!

If you don't kiss me right now,

I'm goinna f***ing scream.

Hello, Ann.

This some kind of therapy

to get over your shyness?

Something like that.

So you didn't come last week.

There didn't seem to be a lot of point.

I have to give you a further scan

and a fuller biopsy.

No, I'm sorry.

I don't want any of those things, okay?

I need to feel

like I've got some control.

So I don't want any more tests

if they're not going to save me.

I don't want to die here.

I will not have the only thing my kids

remember about me be a hospital ward.

So why are you here?

It's this package.

I want you to look after it for me.

I don't know. What is it?

I've recorded birthday messages

for both of my daughters,

for every birthday

till they're eighteen.

And you want me

to give these, don't you?

Why don't you ask your husband?

'Cause...

'cause Don, you know, he'd lose them

or maybe he'd give them to them next year,

and maybe the year after that,

or maybe he'd give them to them

all at once.

They wouldn't understand

a thing if he did that,

so... please tell me

you'll do it, please.

I'll only do it

if you promise to come here

every week

and I have to give you medication.

I would imagine that the nausea's

got worse, you're not eating.

Dying's not as easy as it looks.

But there's no need for you to have

to feel terrible all the time.

It's just...

It's just I'm kind of afraid

I'm going to come in here one day

and I'm never gonna leave...

and I've got to so much

I have to do before I die,

I have so many things I have to do.

I have to do them, or...

It'll only bejust some painkillers.

I promise we won't do any more tests,

just something to ease the pain.

And anyway...

I brought you some candies.

- So you'll look after it for me?

- Of course.

Let's just say it's part

of your therapy.

God. These candies are so good.

I don't get it.

I've been counting my calories today,

and I can't have eaten more than 1500,

and in theory I need 2000,

so in theory I should have lost weight,

and I just weighed myself

before I left the house

and I weigh nearly a pound

more than I did yesterday.

It must be my metabolism.

They should give us compensation

for slow metabolisms,

give us some kind of allowance.

Laurie, you want to come over

for dinner tomorrow night?

Yeah, I'd love to.

Great.

Diet food, I hope.

I don't want to ruin my diet.

It's cold in the supermarket,

and you like it like that.

People always read the labels of their

favourite brands really really carefully

just to see how many chemicals

they have,

and then they just sigh

and they put them in their cartanyway,

like they're saying sure

it's bad for me,

it's bad for my family but we like it.

No one ever thinks

about death in a supermarket.

Sixty dollars and forty eight cents.

Girls, you finish

those mashed potatoes, okay?

Oh, God. These ribs are so great.

How did you get them

so tender?

I leave them soaking in my fridge

in milk for a couple of hours.

You leave them soaking in milk

in the fridge for a couple of hours.

I must try and remember that.

Patsy, stop playing with your food.

Ann, tell Patsy to stop playing

with her food.

You do what your Dad tells you to do,

okay? Stop playing with your food.

Try and eat a little more.

It's more fun playing with it

than eating it.

You know

that eating food can be fun too?

Why?

Well because...

because you're doing new things,

you're trying new things

and that's fun.

Mashed potatoes isn't new.

It's more fun doing things with it.

Laurie, why don't you have

some more sauce?

Here, Don made it himself.

Goodness me.

I didn't know your husband cooked.

I didn't know there were husbands

that cooked.

It wasn't really cooking.

I just added honey

to a bottle of barbecue sauce.

Well that's better than nothing.

You could have lied,

said you made the whole thing.

No, Don would never lie.

He wouldn't even know how.

How did you two guys meet?

We met at a Nirvana concert.

Actually

it was the last Nirvana concert

before Kurt Cobain...

No, my God.

Did you save the tickets?

They must be worth a fortune by now.

No, no we didn't save them.

No, we were sort of too excited

to keep them.

Ann spent the whole concert crying.

I didn't really like Nirvana back then,

so I was this kind of bored

and I was looking around,

and that's when I saw Ann.

She was this beautiful girl

just crying her eyes out,

so I went up to her

and I offered her a handkerchief,

but I didn't have a handkerchief,

I didn't even have a paper one,

so I just...

I took off my T-shirt

and I gave it to her.

Thats how we met.

That's really romantic.

- Do you have any more mashed potato?

- Yeah, sure.

You're a pig.

She's basically a nice person,

you know?

Oh Christ, Ann.

Don't talk so loud.

Penny's right.

I mean, the woman ate eight ribs.

And they were f***ing huge ribs.

Did you see those things?

I know, but...

F***ing huge.

Her fianc dumped her

the day before her wedding, you know.

He invited her to an All You Can Eat

and they wanted to charge her triple?

That's not funny, Don.

That's not funny.

Food can be fun.

Food can be fun.

She's a really nice person.

Lately she's got this obsession.

Yeah, lately you seem to have

the opposite.

It's the anaemia.

Gonna go get more vitamins this week,

go to the hospital.

Do you want me to come with you?

No, don't worry, I can manage.

Ok.

Tonight I realized how lucky we were

to meet that night.

I mean, in spite of everything,

in spite of living in this sh*t hole,

in spite of never having anything new,

in spite of never going

on vacation.

You never complained once,

not once.

I would...

I would like to be better for you.

I love you, you know that?

Don't you ever forget that.

I love you.

What are you doing?

I'm sweeping up.

- What are you doing?

- I'm the queen witch

and I'm teaching this little witch

how to make spells.

- I'm the little witch.

- Really?

And what kind of spells

are you doing?

Oh, just normal spells,

turning frogs into cars

and turning lizards into airplanes.

You know how to do that?

- Are you going to teach me?

- Sure!

Hi, there.

I'm Ann.

I see you've already met

Penny and Patsy.

- Yeah. I'm also Ann.

- Oh yeah?

There you go.

Nice to meet you.

- So you just moved in or...?

- Yeah, a few days ago.

I was just trying to do some gardening

or something.

- Looks great.

- They're so sweet.

Their little gets ups on.

Listen,

this is kind of a weird question

since we just met and everything,

but I was wondering,

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