This morning at breakfast Richard said, quietly, and in passing, “I still miss Rebecca.”. He noted that he had gone to get some new rechargeable batteries, and the drawer where we keep batteries is the same drawer we kept her food bowl, back when we’d been trying the special kidney diet. The bowl is still [...]
Tonight was the monthly craft night, and I brought my little sister’s sweater with me, to get some feedback on how to finish it off. Because this was our December gathering we all brought goodies to share, and ornaments for a gift exchange. I’d found a peanut butter pie recipe on TUS that sounded [...]
I had today all mapped out. First we were going to wrap up the presents to be mailed, and then drop them at the post office on the way out of town. Off we’d go to do our bi-monthly trip to CostCo, to stock up on huge bags of rice for the various food drives [...]
Hooray for decongestants. While I am grateful that the allergy shots have kicked in enough that getting a cold no longer means I have to spend a few weeks being unable to breathe, apparently they have not yet progressed to the point where my sinuses don’t try to get me in some way or another. [...]
My office has done a few things together, for charitable work. This past summer we spent two (very long) Saturdays doing construction work for Habitat for Humanity – and best of all everyone still seems interested in doing it again. Plus my boss and at least a few of my coworkers seem really interested in [...]
It occurred to me this morning, while sitting at work and slowly downloading several hundred files of all manner of fascinating data from World Bank (like the average number of cell phones per 1000 people in every country in the world, or the number of people per country who live on less than $1 per [...]
I finished downloading all the files from World Bank today – a task which has taken me three days to complete. There were close to 600 of them, now all residing as lovely Excel files on our server. I’m not sure exactly when we will ever need to access a 44 year history of number [...]
Last night there was choir practice. They’re borrowing a baby grand for the cantata and last night was the first time we’ve sung with it. It’s…different – for one thing, the way it’s pointed I’m sure the congregation will be able to hear the piano, but we choir people – the ones who *need* to [...]
Today was the tea group’s December meeting. Amusingly, it was at the same place I went with my sisters and my mom the day after Thanksgiving, so at least I was familiar with how to get there and what to do upon arrival – pick out a tea, pick out a teacup and saucer, pick [...]
Richard’s been fighting off an upper respiratory infection for nearly two weeks now. It looked yesterday like things were getting a little better, but then this morning he was right back on his nebulizer the instant he woke up. Ah, the joys of asthma. I feel a little guilty because it’s my fault he’s sick [...]
