Something posted before midnight...
...that's what I want. Then, I'll come back later, add and publish.
    Today was another absurdly lucky, serendipitous day. We received a free microwave. Our old one finally, today, refused to pop popcorn. I decided to visit some friends for the afternoon, leave Mom alone, let her relax and sleep from yesterday's near marathon day. We both needed a vacation from one another [thankyou, that she is alert and healthy enough to be left alone for some hours, now, thankyou on her behalf and on mine]. The friends are MCFs, intimates, with whom I discuss every detail of almost everything and vice versa. I whined that our microwave was dying. They had an extra. She gave it to me. I felt, damn, blessed.
    Our a/c has taken a trip into Insane Land but I'm not considering this infelicitous since it is a 1.5 month old unit. It won't stop cooling so I have to turn it off manually at the circuit breaker. I'm a little obsessive about reading the temperature and sensing it, but that is all.
    Mom was in good spirits. Insisted on playing Sorry. I won three out of four in amazing sets that mimicked each other almost identically. I was delightedly, apologetically astonished, and expressed my inability to do anything about what was happening to my mother. As I mentioned once before, I did not inherit my sore loser/in-your-face winner from my mother, although I didn't from my father, either.
    I'm doing some routine maintenance. Wondering how to express myself today about today in the background. I'll probably be back later. Not sure when.
    I am unusually expectant. Of what, I'm not sure.
- posted by gail rae @ 23:54   email...this post