4:40 AM - Since I have the day off, I'm going to start it right by going to a 6 AM exercise class. It looks as if neither of us are ready for it to be wake up time.
7:05 AM- Now that exercise is out of the way, I can have a productive day of computer network building and household chores. I wish I had a day off more often. SO FUN! P.S. There are a lot of old ladies with zero energy level in the early morning classes. I feel bad for the instructor, it must be like leading the Bataan Death March each morning.
9:30 AM- The secret lives of my cats are revealed to me... Pepper sleeps while shedding and Flannel practices guerrilla tactics by camouflaging himself among my bed pillows.
1:40 PM- This is the view from Mrs. Miller's ER room. She had a bad spell at the physical therapist's, detailed in Gavin's 12 of 12, and was in the hospital for a few hours in the afternoon. I liked her ER doc, Dr. G., he explained stuff really well. Something interesting that I noticed: all the health care people talked to me and Mrs. Miller, like Gavin wasn't even there. Do they assume that my estrogen naturally makes me the caregiver? Someone should do a sociological study on that.
7:05 PM- I take a last minute look at the thread that describes a get together happening tomorrow. A friend of mine has ordered a bunch of food from Home Bistro and we're gathering to taste test to see if it is better than homemade.
7:40 PM- I stop for gas in Annapolis on my way to an appointment. $3.05 for gas, people! It was MORE expensive down the street. This is a bad, sad day for America.
10:30 PM- I finally get the wireless network router that I bought around 10 AM to work. I've been assing around with this thing off and on all day. DANG! Now Gavin and I can both use our computers in the house. Hooray!
11:03 PM- I put away the spicy soba noodles with shitake mushrooms and napa cabbage that I fixed for dinner. It was really good, and I'll eat it for lunch tomorrow. I will have to remember to buy snacks when Gavin moves in. As you can see, I keep a thin selection of ready to eat stuff.
11:15 PM- This is Pepper's impression of Zuzu from It's A Wonderful Life, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings". Except substitute "Rachel goes in to the kitchen" for bell ringing and "Pepper gets food in his dish" for the wings. Depending on your viewpoint, they're both wrong, but Pepper is the wrongest one of all.
11:30 PM- I set my alarm for the next day. It looks really early. Sigh.
11:35 PM- I stare at this corner of the room a lot, since it's in my direct sight line from bed. I think about how it will look different with Gavin's dresser there.
11:45 PM- Finally winding down for the night with a copy of Walter Mosley's Cinnamon Kiss. I only read a few pages before falling asleep.
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2 comments:
Wow, your day seems only a bit less crazy than mine, though you were all over the place and got started even earlier than me! -G
p.s. I did notice how the doc was talking mostly to you & Mom even though I was sitting between the two of you. Wierd. Maybe he thought you were Michelle, since she's listed as the next of kin on the hospital forms.
I think you have the earliest timed opening photo for someone getting up (Bon doesn't count, as her 1 and 3am photos are at the end of her day).
And I thought I had to get up early at 5:45/6:15!
Helen, 12 of 12er
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