Figure It Out For Yourself -You're On Your Own in Everyday Ramblings

It still is a wonder to me that the leaves do come back each year just in time to shade us from the more intense light. Or here, where light is often a rare commodity, shade us from the gloomy glare. Two sides of the place I live are planted full of rhododendrons and each year they get a little taller. When the blossom crowns shoot out they are this bright pink and then they open into a delicate white flower.

The crowns are very pink today and such a happy sight in the rain.

Yesterday I had to go out midday to take my work phone that stopped working last week into one of our buildings downtown so a phone tech could look at it. It was raining but not too hard when I left. I thought I’d be fine with my waterproof jacket and boots. Two blocks away, kaboom, torrential downpour. My new waterproof pants were folded up neatly in my closet.

Not so today. I put them on before I went out and have managed to stay completely dry even walking the deserted track. The big gravel area with the pull up bars next to the track is underwater and we’ve had some urban flooding and mudslides lately.

This too shall pass.

My sister is coming home on Monday! Four full weeks in the hospital. Wow. She is stronger but still can’t yet walk up stairs. She’ll have medical transport and they will carry her wheelchair up the steeply inclined front stairs of their beautiful old apartment building in Seattle.

She is getting this miraculous total IV nutrition and it is making a huge difference. She’ll continue that at home with visiting nurses and caregiver training. She still has her port but my niece is terrified of the prospect of helping. I totally and completely get the reluctant caregiver thing. Oh yeah.

You want me to do what??? Every day?!?!? Really???

This is the way I feel about giving Sammy all his meds and sticking him everyday with that big old needle and making sure I never ever run out of anything. He still has a pretty darn good life and lets me know that in his own wild man way.

Yesterday, though after four hours on my cell phone to India and Florida and Most Honorable for Tech Support in my home office area that looked like a Tech Bomb had gone off with pliers and flashlights and magnifying glasses and cord ties and instructional material strewn everywhere my new cable modem was perfectly functional across platforms and I was changing a setting on my router when Sam walked across my keyboard trying to get my attention, umm…that circumstance was a little challenging to maintain equanimity in…

We had a bit of a time out.

So after hours trying with all my might and intellectual prowess to figure out how to make my phone work (I finally got the cable company to admit they had probably done a local upgrade that had messed with my settings) I took the phone to Tech Support in my company and the handsome Tech plugs my phone into a cable on his desk and it works fine and he says…”Well. It is not the phone…I guess you will have to go to your coworkers homes and figure out by elimination what they are doing that you are not and make those changes at your place…”

I work in the Twilight Zone.

That can be the only thing that explains it.

Man am I happy it is the weekend.