Friday, December 13, 2024

Quick post - it is almost 4:30 am and I have to walk to the airport shortly.

Yesterday was emotional but good. Amazing how many lives my BIL touched and how many counted him as a family member in addition to our own. Lots of stories about his fabled chocolate chip cookies. And good family time. But it kept feeling like BIL should be there with us. Different from deceased DH's funeral as he had already left us way before. My SIL and remaining 2 BILs are having a hard time with the loss of another sibling. I stayed with SIL and eldest daughter for an extra couple of hours afterwards having a glass of wine and talking. At the hotel by 8 and asleep by 9 (though I woke up at midnight a couple of hours). Good thing I had a leftover 1/2 sandwich from the night before as there was no restaurant at the hotel.

Off to walk through the freezing cold. I may add more from the airport. Update: I am sitting at the gate at 5:15. We take off at 6 (hopefully) and should be back in Florida between 9-9:15.

Have a flying Friday!

Funerals make me think, how nice it would be for the person being celebrated to hear all the lovely things being said about them. A good reminder to tell people how you feel about them while they are alive.

I am irked this morning. One of my pet peeves is people being late. My neighbor asked if I would take her and her son to Costco today. he's a chef and is catering a good friend of hers' celebration of life tomorrow. I of course said yes. The original plan was to leave at 10, but she called me yesterday and asked if we could leave at 9. I am absolutely not a morning person, which my friend knows, but trying to be accommodating, I said okay. At 5 minutes to 9, she texts that her son is not ready and he's going to be another hour so we should just leave at the original 10 o'clock time. Seriously? I would have loved to stay in bed an extra hour this morning. I was exhausted and had to pry myself out! I feel like if someone is doing you a huge favor like driving you an hour and a half each way to Costco, you do your darndest to be ready at the time agreed upon! I don't want her to feel bad, but I want to say something as a lesson to her 27-year-old son who should know better... Here endeth my daily rant.

Hmm, it seems all I had in my brain was my rant! If I think of anything else, I'll let you know... take care all!

I'm sure your friend was very embarrassed and it was the son who had no clue that it was rude to do that. I think people who haven't had to do much compromising often don't realize the implications when they change things last minute.

Oh man, I would have been ticked too! I definitely would say something to the 27 year old, even if it was just, I sure wish I could have enjoyed that extra hour of sleep this morning!

I often try to look at cir****tances such as someone being an hour late a gift of time. While it does irk me to be twiddling my thumbs waiting, I have so little down time in my life that I enjoy the gift of an empty 30 minutes or an hour.

Good way of thinking about it Peps.

You are so right about the Celebration of life. I'm so happy Ben got to do his "last lecture" the month prior to him passing! What a wonderful time of meeting with those that mean the most to you!

Very special! For everyone.

216.2 Slowly, slowly trending down....

Liz, if all went according to plan you are already home! I will leave for the airport in about 90 minutes. I had a stress dream about catching a flight to Paris. Everything went wrong, and yes I missed the flight. UGH... I'm guessing it's because I am not looking forward to this weekend, which makes sense.

Really good workout yesterday. I'm finding I get more done when I workout by myself, rather than with the trainer. Probably because I'm not carrying on a conversation with someone!

I have given some thought to Paula's question about cardio. It does have 3 main (IMO) benefits: heart/pulmonary health, weight management (albeit minor), and blood sugar management. Of course, there are other benefits listed, too. I think for me, it's the building of stamina and breathing that are attractive. I will see if I can't add at least one cardio session to my week for starters. It certainly won't hurt, but I do need a reason for cardio because it's boring as sh*t!

It is gray and chilly and spitting from the heavens. Looks like I will miss the atmospheric river that's coming through tomorrow. But I wouldn't mind having a lazy wet Saturday with nothing to do! Earlier this week I looked at my calendar and briefly got excited because there was nothing scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. LOL! It's because I'm not here!!!

Have to get cracking so I don't miss THIS flight.

So funny that I also had a dream last night that I had missed a flight coming home from a vacation somewhere.

What's with the "atmospheric rivers" and "bomb cyclones"? Are they new names for events that have always occurred or are they entirely new? Something makes me think it is the former. And I hate when things are renamed like that.