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Day 5229 of being sick. Well, not quite that long. I called in sick today too. I did do an online IEP meeting with some parents and other staff this morning at 7:15 am. Technically we are not supposed to do any work during a sick day, but rescheduling these meetings is so difficult, and there are meeting deadlines. If I didn't do it this morning, we'd be out of compliance with federal law.

Liz, those new golf clubs might change your life! While it would be fun to get some new jewelry, I don't want DH to pick it out. I don't wear silver, and he could confirm that, she doesn't wear silver or white gold, but then he will buy me something silver. Or BFF tries to buy me jewelry, also silver (Mexico does have lovely silver) and earrings. I'm unusual, as I don't have pierced ears. No amount of earring wearing will keep my piercings open, so I finally gave up about 30 years ago.

It sounds like Justice will have a very nice stay when you are traveling. Lucky pup : )

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The Art Museum lecture was great! The photographer Robert Farber spoke for an hour about his fashion and other photography. Such an interesting guy. A lot of what he said was that he took advantage of things that just happened/fell his way. He had been a painter, but started taking pictures. At first they were theoretically bad shots and looked terribly grainy but he liked the look and took many pictures intentionally with that grainy look so the effect looked more like paintings than photos. Some of his newest stuff are pictures of degraded slides of old pictures. Really amazing stuff. https://www.farber.com/

Dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant with 6 other women was also fun. I knew 3 of them quite well but I really enjoyed meeting the other 3. A bit too much golf talk at some points but it didn't entirely encompass the conversations. We shared several really tasty dishes.

Before the museum I visited the person who is going to watch Justice next month while we go away. It is on a farm where they board polo horses! Justice met a goat named Lilly, saw the chickens and cows and met the two family dogs (9 year old yorkie and an older 12 year old dog). The woman is from Venezuela and has quite an accent but we understood each other. I think he will do well there.

DH is getting me better golf clubs for my birthday. We ordered them this weekend. I would have preferred jewelry but he hates buying it. Oh well. So much golf around here. Maybe I will love the game more with better clubs ;)

Today there is nothing specific on the agenda. Yeah! I have a bit of a pain in my neck I think from overdoing something a****er aerobics yesterday. Hopefully that eases up today before class tomorrow morning.

Justice walk soon. Have a triptych Tuesday!

I guess they figure that only one of you will be driving at a time a lot of the time?

Death of a parent or a sibling is definitely a defining event for a child. So hard to comprehend and also to understand the effect on other family members. Sounds like your DH hand I had a common disaster. I lost my father, then brother, then my mother became a nasty alcoholic.

Hilarious!

126.8 - back up after Super Bowl foods we really didn't enjoy that much.

Yeah, the Eagles definitely won that game! I was sorry to see the Chiefs fall apart as they did. But c'est la vie!

And the halftime show was very disappointing as entertainment. I'm aware of the Lamar v. Drake grudge fest and a bit about why. But at Super Bowl halftime I really don't want to have to listen to a 10-15" long rap about it. Most of all I couldn't understand a single two words in a row. And I didn't think the staging was very good. Again ... I wanted to be entertained. So sue me.

On an earlier subject about men who may prefer happy tears to sad ones--IMHO, men's emotions are often quite different from women's emotions--in the events that prompt them and how they're expressed. I've been reading lately about how very much our childhood stresses and traumas affect our adult emotions and our ability to express them, how we express them, and how well we can control them. And of course our early "training" (by which I mean to include our modeling of what we think is expected of us in certain situations and how our parents, teachers, and other adults encouraged, rewarded and punished us for expressing various emotions in specific cir****tances) shaped our "grown up" emotions, whether we suppress or express them. Big, big subject!

On that front, DH's mother died when he was seven years old, and her death was definitely the defining event in his young life, followed by his father's horrific behavior afterward. Life makes a lot of unfair demands on some kids.

Today, we finalized our home and combined auto insurance plan. Again, it's surprising how much money we saved just by being married and combining our auto insurance under one plan. Doesn't seem fair to single people.