Ethan’s Journey

I decided to go thrifting today. I didn’t have anything particular I was looking for. I saw some pretty ugly things. One item I felt should not have been donated. It was so ugly it should have gone right in the trash. It was a dress. I can’t even imagine who would wear this out in public. Maybe Bob Cratchit’s wife would wear it as a nightgown? But it was marketed as a dress. I scored three pair of jeans, one still had the tags on. With tax and me rounding up to the nearest dollar, my total was $17.00. Nice. Avery and Kendall came over. Avery had to drop off tax documents. We decided to go get Ramen to celebrate Kendall’s birthday (which was in October). I ordered bubble tea. I don’t care for it. It has little balls of tapioca in the bottom and feel like gelatinous fish eggs in your mouth. They don’t really have a taste. They are just round and mushy. I am not used to a drink with stuff that can get sucked up into a straw.  The dinner was good. The company was fun. We came home and ...

I sent this picture to Ethan today. I sent it in a text message with a sentence: “Jiminy wants you to blow off the rest of the day at work and have you come home a little early to snuggle with him.”  It warmed up today. I let our fire go out this afternoon. Ethan was out in the garage working. He hasn’t done that in a few months. That made me happy. For dinner I made a 16 bean soup with ham. I ate a small bowl to make sure it wasn’t going to bother my stomach. It was delicious. I puttered this evening. Did some chores. Paul went out riding with the guys. He suspects it is the last weekend to ride.  I have some tasks to finish up in the morning. Then I may venture out into the public like an actual human being. We will see how I feel in the morning. This evening Jiminy and I snuggled on the heating pad. I was totally enjoying it. He is just so easy to love. I asked Ethan if I could sleep with Jiminy tonight. Normally, Jiminy sleeps with Ethan. They have a cute little night time...

 Avery has a girl that has befriended her in one of her classes. It was not by Avery’s choice or consent. This girl continues to wait for Avery after class and chat her ear off. Avery was telling me about it and I apologized to her for “the curse”. I also have “the curse”. The curse is that random people find comfort in your company quickly and over share many details. It happens out in public all the time. But I never want to be rude and either try to politely leave or end the conversation. Avery sent me a 30 second snippet of the girl talking AT Avery in one continuous run on sentence of nonsense. This poor girl just had diarrhea of the mouth and Avery has become the diaper. I started suggesting helpful ways for Avery to exit the conversation. My go-to was having active diarrhea. I told Avery to drive the conversation in a way that would make the girl perceive Avery as “weird” and want to avoid her.  We started brainstorming topics and this is what we came up with: Thoughts ...

 As I sat downstairs for my morning coffee, I listened to all of the noises Paul makes in the morning. Sooooooo many noises. I swear a noise came out of every orfice of his body. It’s almost as if he has a daily competition of how loud he can be. Excessive throat clearing, coughing, sneezing and trouser coughs. Grunting, loud breathing and sighing. Wow! He has a large audio footprint. I like to call it wedded bliss. Ladies, this loud beast is all mine.  After work Avery came home and I drove her and Ethan to meet Nana and Papa, Paul and Auntie for dinner. We went to the Cheesecake Factory. Their menu is so long!  We ate dinner and a few of us ordered cheesecake to go. I didn’t order any cheesecake. My stomach is still a little wonky from traveling and just wasn’t craving the sugar like I normally do. Lame, I know/ Avery told me a little more about her summer research project. It is a LLE -Laboratory Laser Energetics. She is going to be working on trying to figure out a wa...

 I have never really had a desire to visit Mexico. The dirty diarrhea causing water is the biggest turn off. My idea of a vacation does not include loose stools. But I do feel so bad for tourists and innocent citizens that are dealing with all the aftermath of the take down of the cartel leader. I have been watching the videos and I can’t imagine how scary it must be. The fire place today was so toasty. I was very thankful for the fireplace keeping myself and my sleepy co-workers warm. Ethan and I watched a show together this evening. It is a feel god show with good cops and gun fire. To make it exciting. I really enjoy those moments with Ethan. I will miss these moments when he moves out, even though he will be 10 paces to the south. Ha!

Ethan got home from work annd I reminded him that he had an eye doctor anppointment. He was irritated because he had forgotten about this appointment. He was tired and he didn’t want to go.   In an effort to slowly get Ethan more independent with appointments, this appointment was easy for him to go by himself. Most of his appointments I will probably go to with him. He has some complex things going on and a second set of ears helps.  I did email over a list of his medications as requested as well as made sure his insurance was all set. I wanted it to go smooth for him while he is by himself. There is no need for me to be at an appointment like this. There isn’t anything too concerning or changes Ethan is noticing. He said the appointment went well. Great! Avery and I did our exercise call. She has officially secured her summer time research project at U of R. Yay! I am not sure what she will be doing, other than “research”. This program was difficult to get into, so she ...

  I left Virginia this morning. I was frustrated with this conference. There was very little traffic and the days were long. The bright side was I met a fellow co-worker and she was really nice. I hope we work together again someday. The Roanoke airport was a breeze. No line at TSA. Through in less than 3 minutes. I logged in to try and catch up on some work. I have nothing better to do and my hospitals need people yesterday. Some guy was coughing his brains out. It set me off. I relocated to a different and less contaminated area with little people. Doesn’t this guy gravitate into my area. Packed up again.  I don’t like him showering me with his illness. It wasn’t a heart disease or asthma/COPD cough. It was a wet, I am sick cough with sneezing, sniffling and cascading germs all over every surface kind of cough. He also was coughing into his hand….then touching things. I need a bubble ASAP! I started to panic that I would be sitting next to this guy on my flight. What are my ...