Because it really is personal…

Later this week #3 and I will be flying to Texas and driving home (in a teeny underpowered truck, with no cruise control and manual transmission. Won’t that be fun!). Sometime this week I’ll be fixing up food for #2 and Sweet Daddio, so I can with good concience leave them to fend for themselves. #4 will be spending time with friends, seeing caves and zoos and all manner of stuff.

I found out yesterday that Grandmother (she’s 95, remember) had a dizzy spell and fell down, cracking her pelvis. Oy. Dad said she’s in excellent spirits, and the folks where she lives are taking good care of her. She says she’s in no pain unless she tries to walk, so it’s The Queen in Her Throne for her, being wheeled to dinner and such. She is mildly embarrassed by all the fuss, and insists that we think nothing of it, because that’s how she’s treating it.

I am looking forward to June. No travel plans, no plans (that I know of) for visitors, just sleeping late and doing housework. I want to get some sewing done, and some vegetable gardening, and some painting (the guest room could use a coat of pale sage green), and some more painting (watercolors) and some writing.

The Monday Melee

1. The Magnificent: Name someone you absolutely adore, and tell us why.
Well, Sweet Daddio, because he’ll tell it like it is and still give me flowers later.

2. The Muddy: Tell us something about life you just don’t “get”.
What’s so all-fired wonderful about YOUTH? I want to be old one day. I hated being young, with all those expectations and all.

3. The Magnetic: Name something or someone good (or bad) you’re drawn to and you just can’t help it. Tell us if you want to change this or not.
Alcohol. I love a good drink, and I’m willing to try any and all variations. I don’t know about changing it, because it doesn’t bother me to be this way. Maybe if it were a compulsion I’d want to change it, but it’s not, so I’m ok with it for now.

4. The Mainstay: Who or what is something you just can’t live without? Why?
Food. I have never actually tried living without it, but I’ve heard that to do so is bad for you.

5. The Masquerade: Tell us something about yourself we wouldn’t already know.
My shoe size is 8 wide.

6. The Mettle: Tell us about a time you showed courage in yourself, or tell us what you wish you had the courage to do
I wish I had the courage to walk into a room full of women and join the fun, but honestly, rooms full of women scare me to bits. One (or maybe 2, if they’re looking friendly) is about all I can handle at a time.