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Strange evening spent doing girl things with my sister and mother – looking at catalogs, reading girly magazines, eating dark bittersweet chocolate and salty potato chips – and talking. Good grief I didn’t know S could talk so much – after a while I zoned out and thought my head was going to explode. Then I returned to the can and saw the Angel of Death with his sickle in front of the entrance –…
Last night, at the last minute N and the Snake called and we jumped in the car and got there right when Hermes was rolling – the first of three parades. We had a good time hanging on our corner with all our friends – right across from the apartment that S and I used to live in 11 years ago when we moved here for those 11 months. I caught a blinky jester –…
Arlene’s EKG and Xrays showed nothing but a slightly enlarged left ventricle – now the next step is take her to the eye doctor because in her one blue eye her retinae is enlarged which could be normal because she has two different colored eyes but it could also mean other things – like neurological damage, cardiovascular issues – so we’ll see if the eye doc can shed light on what is causing her episodes.…
The electrician called with changes so I went and picked up S and brought him to the LaLa to field questions then it was such an outstanding gorgeous day – 84 degrees and sunny – we looked for a place to eat outside. S wanted to go to a new restaurant called Stanley’s on Decatur because he said they have the best shrimp poboys but we ended up at Dizzy’s sitting outside and having fried…
Yesterday S and I met with the contractor, the electrican, the framer and finally see some progress percolating on LaLa. About damn time. It’s warming up around here in a balmy kind of overcast way but the weather report says that the next parades will be cold and possibly rainy for Muses in particular on Thursday night. Exchanged some nice missives with a new friend about being born anew – The whole point of having…
Lower 9 – utter devastation. Got out and walked around in it with Nanc in our cowboy boots, and both of us came away feeling lost and hopeless. We spoke about T and how they are having a rift and she said, he can’t know what we are going through here – if he knew he wouldn’t withhold his love. “We need our friends more than ever” K told S. Elizabeth’s was closed so we…
Watching Gray’s Anatomy just out of casual boredom and not ready to open my new novel and it’s an episode where the very hot doctor shows up from the recent past – Mark – who had an affair with his best friend and colleague’s wife – he said his $400/hour therapy taught him that under his rugged, self-confident exterior – he learned inside he is filled with self-loathing and self-deception and that he has a…
Woke up this morning looking like a MACK truck had run me over. After spending most of the morning motivating myself to get out of the house, I went to the gym and then the grocery, and came back to spend the rest of the day hanging out. While hanging out by myself is totally fine, today hanging out with my thoughts was not. Long conversations with S about reinvigorating our work self. She has…
We started off good – go to the gym THEN go to the parade, but half a muffin and Milan, Party, Columns, Markey’s later you wonder what is wrong with you that you would think you are 20 years younger and can go on like that. The parade was fast, rather five of them went by like one parade – rolling by so quickly we were all surprised when it was over just as we…
Stayed up late last night communicating with an old friend and woke this morning feeling slightly off kilter from lack of sleep and the rehashing of bygone days. I say this and I mean it – my emotional reserves are tapped out. Right now I can only concentrate on today and possibly make small plans for tomorrow but that is the extent of my abilities at the moment. Tried to linger in bed to catch…