SUNDAY, May 5, 2019

Whew! I thought your toilet tale was going in an entirely different direction ...

Blushing in your general direction. (I do have those stories for anyone interested-NOT)

Bonnie, I think you and I have GOT to meet! :)

I don't think we're that far apart.

I have thought the same of you, and see that happening (my heart and magic 8-ball tell me so).

I'm so glad you are finally getting the other eye done. Hopefully all will go smoothly.

It is hot, hot, hot and humid here. I wish I was home to support SIL. But DSD is probably visiting next weekend so that will be good.

Last night I went to a neighbors home for an ad-hoc get-together after DH went to bed. It was fun having some silly martinis and talking to someone without dementia.

Today I am making a Mexican meal out of items that need to be used in the fridge in honor of Cinco de Mayo and also so I don't have to cook during the week. There might be an accompanying margarita.

Have a beautiful and satisfying Sunday!

Liz, those sound like some fun events. :)

Thanks for the surgery congrats. That's exactly how I feel about it, too. :)

Greetings Merry Makers

156.5 today. No gain = no pain. Did quite a bit yesterday (for me) including going to the homeless outreach, cutting a bunch of dead sage plants and hand weeding around the heathers. I am pretty slow and inefficient at it but managed to fill a big paper lawn bag. Took Chip on a little walk. More today. Also got rid of some stuff. Not much but a start. Had some old vinyl records that I gave to a gallery member. He said he had none of this stuff and was thrilled.

So I took some baby bell cheeses to the homeless thing since they are packaged and will keep unrefrigerated for a couple of days. Then I noticed one man had taken a bite from one without removing the waxy covering! I didn't say anything. I found it sort of depressing. Most of these people appear to have some mental illness. So sad our society is not more helpful.

Well Ann, glad you are getting eye #2 done and no longer have to be a cyclops. Wishing you a good result. If I was anywhere near I would take you. Yeah, you and Bonnie need to meet up. Go for it.

Peps I agree with whomever suggested a dexa. Bet you are much lower fat than you fear. But wait until that back is better. Did the chiropractor help? Sitting at a computer typing is probably not the best.

My brother with brain surgery is still in rehab until the 9th. Wish I could do more for him. Other brother is healing from shoulder surgery. Aging sucks but I am grateful for not having their issues.

DianeO so proud of your daughter!! Vancouver is a plum spot so she must have beat out a lot of competition. Great place for you and Shel to meet up.

Liz glad you had a fun night out. Hope there are more such events for you.

The asparagus roll ups were ok but the turkey wasn't very good. An off brand. The new me is going to toss it. The old me would have put it in the freezer until it became unrecognizable and then got tossed. Skip step one.

Time for more coffee. Ooooh, just noticed my big old climbing rose is starting to bloom. Yay. Diane S

LOL on saving food in the freezer then tossing it ultimately. I have a bag of stuff in our freezer to do exactly that on our next trash day (I set up a reminder on my calendar to remember to do that because putting food out in the trash too much in advance of trash day can be rather stinky here in Florida).

Yep, my husband always asks me Wed. night to go through the fridge and toss any stuff for next day's trash. I peruse the freezer too. D

I caught up reading all the posts from while I was away. Bonnie, like everyone else here notes you emanate Grace in the toughest of situations. Prayers for good news Thursday. Glad to hear Ferg is managing his pharmaceutical regime. As my Texas brother in law would say, oh my stars! Ann, I hope your post surgery hotel is appropriately swanky! Shel, my take away from the hair raising crevice dangling, twisting story, is the worst possible thing that could happen did, and your friend survived. The worst is survivable. I like that ending.

DS, as he says, did the thing. We left for Wisconsin Friday night, and visited son and friends in the dumpy house, a college town pit of a house that rents for way more than it should. My daughter was laughing because she said I was holding court with a number of the boys while we discussed legalizing marijuana, a recent Controversy Club topic, so I was up to date. :) The next day, the commencement ceremony was at 9:30 am. As he said, my son did the thing, and walked across the stage, while his friends let out a whoop! We went back to his house to have the champagne and cheese and meat trays I brought on the wobbly, but luckily ground level, deck. We finished up with a late lunch at a super chic steak house. Our financial situation has improved quite a bit in the last 5 years, as debt was retired and salaries increased. It was a real treat for us to tell sons friends we were treating. We then said goodbye, and left them to the real partying :)

On the way home, we stopped to visit my sil, who was hospitalized again Friday. She needed a procedure to unblock her kidney (a tumor is preventing it from draining, she now has a stent in her back ), and to be rehydrated with IVs. Our daughter chatted lovingly with her Aunt, but cried and cried after we left. Liz, I feel so much empathy for you ... there is not much we can do for my sil but abide with her. At one point I asked sil if it wasn't time for her pain meds. She said I'll take them later, but not while you're here, I don't want to fall asleep. So I think our visits are something good in her day. I did notice when we were standing up to leave, she hit the call button right away to request her meds. :(

Daughter is now back in Boston, and I'm getting ready for the coming work week. Joy and sorrow all compressed into a few days. I said goodbye to my Aunt, welcomed a new baby, watched my son reach a milestone, comforted my grieving daughter, felt my heart break for dh and his family, and for me too... it's life. All of it.