Friday we went to Chicago to see the symphony and have dinner with John & Megan. I’m still on crutches for walking outdoors, even though I don’t need them in the house right now, so we took a lot of Lyfts. I thought we might take the L more, but everyone’s saying it’s filthy and … [Read more…]
Well, let’s make that the last day of 2022; I started this the 30th and didn’t get very far. My plan was that me and my bum knee would accompany Mark on his walk – that went OK, 4.5 miles. I walked sans orthotics, since I have not been wearing them for about the last … [Read more…]
I started writing this last week, when it was still September, the 28th to be precise, Wednesday, and that was the Wednesday after the Tuesday when the exercises & stretches the PT gave me for my bum knee and calf cramps started to feel like they were working instead of just making me cry. And … [Read more…]
I feel like I’m forgetting everything I ever knew, and especially how to do all the things I’m supposed to be good at. Getting old and irrelevant, not keeping up. Maybe I’m living in that Billy Collins poem. I know one of the ways I’m feeling not like myself is how little documentation of cooking … [Read more…]
And a show with no dinner. Monday night my plan for dinner was freshly griddled English muffins with various toppings. The English muffins had been rising in the fridge since Saturday night, while we were in Chicago for the day on Sunday; more on that in a minute. The muffins were the Washington Post no-knead … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago on John’s birthday, but we didn’t get to see John. We had tickets for the opera, Tosca, that’s really long, two intermissions. It started at 7:00, so we made a dinner reservation for 5:00, thinking maybe they could join us at the restaurant for a drink if the timing worked out. … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago yesterday for an overnight to see the Symphony perform Beethoven, the 8th and 5th symphonies. So popular and a Saturday night, it was a much more mixed-age group than the Friday or Sunday matinees we go to, where in our 60s (oh, and 70s I keep forgetting …) we’re the youngsters … [Read more…]
We went on another trip to Chicago, an overnight for a Friday evening symphony and there was no school that day, so our exchange student came with. We stayed at a Fairfield Inn to get a pull out couch for the kid. We did a bunch of things we had not done since pandemic, like … [Read more…]
My little song for a Tuesday, when I drive, because I volunteer at the food pantry, and then have to be at work, looking presentable, for class at 1:30. I had a weekend of minor but kinda permanent mishaps – Saturday in the Target parking lot I put the first scratch on my car, and … [Read more…]
Hi ho, Hi ho. And other disappointments. And transitioning from summer to fall, which I usually quite like but somehow keep getting fooled by this year. Like I’ll choose a piece of clothing from a drawer, and then put it back, thinking that it’s not fall enough to wear whatever it is, fleece, sweater, leggings … [Read more…]