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Hi all - posting in on New Year's Day! I got back from the East Coast here on Thursday and have been down with a bit of a cold from my flight. I have tested for covid twice and it seems like it is just a cold - my tests were both negative for covid. I am going to go to the city testing site and do a PCR test just to be sure on Tuesday - just have to rule things out.

I don't do anything for New Year's Eve. It was nice and quiet here. I cooked a nice meal and watched the LOTR movies at home (theatrical releases). Seemed like the perfect way to spend New Year's. I don't drink really and I don't like to be on the road on Dec 31st either. I was pretty tired from the cold and so I was asleep by 9:30 pm - very boring here. I usually don't make it to midnight and I find the New Year's Eve shows pretty boring too. Really, who cares anyway?

I was on the East Coast visiting family and had a nice time. I stayed with my parents who are very elderly and it gave my brother a break from caring for them for 9 days. I got to see how my parents are doing and I concluded that they need some help there in their daily and weekly management and that we should put in place some home health people to assist them. They need help with things like food prep, house cleaning, and things like that. So my brother and I are going to see what we can do. I did a bunch of research about companies in the area that do services so we have the info. The trick is getting my parents to accept the help. That is the tricksy part. They are very resistant to anything there - but they really need it so hoping we can make this happen.

We did some fun things there too - my SIL planned some fun activities for the holiday - we went to see "A Christmas Carol" at the Palace Theater in Manchester, NH. Just a beautiful show based on the Dickens story with amazing costumes and music there. Love this. I have seen it once before and they go every year. We also went to see Bob Marley the comedian for my brother's birthday and he is hilarious. Very funny show - side splittingly funny. Loved that. I also took my brother out for sushi a few times and we had a nice Christmas Day.

Good times. I got my Slashy Valentine assignment and it is nice and open ended. I better start on that right away before it gets away from me. Time has a way of passing quickly on that.

Back to work on January 3.

Hope you all had a great holiday time and happy new year to you. May 2023 be a better year for all of us.

2023

Women's Day

Mar. 8th, 2021 06:30 pm
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Today is International Women's Day. I did not do anything for that. I did note it in my mind and saw that there were speeches in DC. I am reading on women's issues right now. I am reading a very interesting book on misogyny called - Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne. It is a philosophy book so I have to keep looking up things while I read it but the author uses examples from politics and major crimes to make her points. Things I remember. So it is interesting from that stand point. Not an easy read but very worthwhile. I do recommend it with warning - it is disturbing to read about this stuff and the examples are stark. I am looking forward to the climax of the book where she dissects the 2016 election and all of that. Should be really interesting to read that. 

Monday was a Monday. I got work done - got derailed a little bit by the Harry and Meghan interview from last night - and reading about the reactions to that. I have a little bit of a fascination with the royalty thing and what goes on there. I remember how I felt when I heard that they had left the royal family. Honestly I thought - good for them. I know we are getting this all second hand and who knows what is true. But they don't have to stay there and deal with that. Harry is the spare - not really in line for the throne so why not? If his wife is unhappy - why stay? And don't get me started with how brutal the UK press was on her. Brutal. My opinion - they did not have to stay so they didn't.  Not going to do a blow by blow on the interview. Just my two cents on that. 

I am doing some family work - my parents need some help so I am researching home health care providers in their area - NH. Looking at help that they can get in their home. They are pretty independent but could use some visits during the week to get some support. So seeing what there is. They are in a good area for it - so lots of options. I have created a spreadsheet that I am sharing with the siblings. I love spreadsheets. I am not the decision maker so it is not up to me. I think it is a group decision. So we all have access to the info. Love google sheets. 

This week - Saturday - I get my second dose of the vaccine. Very excited about that. A little worried I won't feel well from it but will see what happens with that. Some people have no effects from it. Hope I am in that category. I am going to prepare some meals so I am ready for that. And see how I do. That is about all I have - hope you are well and take good care. 





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So I went to Los Angeles for last weekend - it was a two-fer. My brother had gotten a teaching award at UCLA and I wanted to go to the awards ceremony - and we got to celebrate my birthday. So that is the two for one special - actually three in one as my parents came in and I got to visit with them too. We did lots of fun things and had a grand time. Here is the run down -

-awards ceremony at UCLA Chancellor's House - Friday
-mani-pedi's for the three girls - Saturday
-dinner at The Strand House, Manhattan Beach - Saturday
-visit the science museum, Imax of Hubble Telescope and visit the space shuttle Endeavor - Sunday
-concert by Bruce Brubaker, pianist at the LA County Museum - playing Phillip Glass selections - Sunday

It also was important to touch base with my parents. My mom is 77 and my dad is 84. They are getting up there and doing well but seems like age is settling in. My dad went to see a great audiologist in LA and got new hearing aids. This is a huge thing as his old hearing aids were not working very well at all and were pretty run down. I notice my mom is stumbling around a lot and she wears these platform shoes 2-3 inches there. I have to figure out how to tell her and get her to wear flats. She is really unsteady on her feet and she took a fall in her house earlier in the year. I am worried about her falling again. So what do I do? I am trying to figure out how to broach the subject and handle this without hurting her feelings. If anyone has any ideas - feel free to comment.

Anyhoo. This is the stuff I am dealing with. Work is very very busy. I don't hardly get to breathe when I am there. Just too busy and getting busier.

So that is all I have. Thanks to everyone who left me birthday messages. It was amazing! *hugs to all*

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