Day 343 - the calm before the storm

 Today is the 7th day of the 49th week, the 9th day of the 12th month, the 343rd day of 2023, and:

  • Anna's Day - time to start preparing the lutefisk for Christmas Eve
  • Christmas Card Day
  • Cremation Day
  • Gingerbread Decorating Day
  • Independence Day - Tanganyika [AKA Tanzania] from Britain in 1961
  • International Anti-Corruption Day
  • International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and The Prevention of this Crime 
  • International Day of Veterinary Medicine
  • International Shareware Day
  • National Day of the Horse
  • National Llama Day
  • National Opal Apples Day
  • National Pastry Day
  • Weary Willie Day
  • World Techno Day
  • and Voyager 1 is 22h 33m 11s of light travel time from Earth 

Quote of the day:
"Grief is like a stream running through our life, and it’s important to understand that it doesn’t go away. Our grief lasts a lifetime, but our relationship to it changes."
~  Martha Beck, “Elegy for Everything”

A few years [and a couple jobs] ago, I had a manager who took exception to the reason I have for taking off in December, asking me if it wasn't time that I "got over" letting Frank's death on the 16th impact my Christmas spirit.  Grief just doesn't work that way, you never quite get numb to the loss.  It is something I think about a lot as 2024 approaches and I realize that soon I will have been widowed for as long as I was married to him.

And I have to stop myself from worrying if this is the last Christmas I will see my son - it doesn't make sense to grieve for a person's passing while they are still with you - and instead focus on the adventure of getting to see his home in Nashville for the first time.  Just two more sleeps!  

So the tasks today  all have to do with packing, and that will probably spill over into tomorrow.  I have to make sure I have Triscuit's fountain cleaned so that I can be sure it will work while I am gone and set up her food stuffs for the woman who offered to come in every day to feed her.  Oh, and make sure the garbage is taken out before I leave!

Triscuit very sensibly decided that she was going to stay out of the way and simply keep an eye on me.  

Unfortunately, we have a major nor'easter rolling in tomorrow morning, although fortunately it will be just rain due to our unusually warm temperatures for this time of year.  I have already received one warning that there may be flight delays on Monday, so we'll see how that pans out

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In exactly one month

Image
Today is the 6th day of the 32nd week, the 9th day of the 8th month, the 222nd day of 2024, and: Book Lovers Day Independence Day - Singapore from Malaysia in 1965 International Coworking Day International Day of the World's Indigenous People - a stray thought....   if my greatgrandparents had stayed in Ireland and Wales, and I had been born there, would I be considered indigenous?  After all, both countries had robust cultures when the English arrived.....    National Hand Holding Day National Passion Fruit Day National Polka Day National Rice Pudding Day National Veep Day - because on this day in 1974, for the first time a President of the US resigned and a Vice President stepped up Shop Online for Groceries Day and Voyager I is 46 Yrs 11 Mos 04 Days and 15,239,227,724 mi / 24,525,167,308 km / 163.94061756 AU from the Earth Quote of the day : " As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time ." ~...
Read more

sleepless nights

Image
 Today is the 1st day of the 30th week, the 21st day of the 7th month, the 203rd day of 2024, and: Anne Hutchinson Day Invite an Alien to Live with You Day Lake Superior Day Legal Drinking Age Day Lowest Recorded Temperature Day -  -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983 National Be Someone Day National Ice Cream Day National Junk Food Day National Lamington Day National Tug-of-War Tournament Day No Pet Store Puppies Day - buying any pet from one of those ubiquitous mall pet stores is just not a good idea   Take a Monkey to Lunch Day - altho it celebrates primates, the original purpose of the day was to commemorate the Scopes Monkey Trial   which concluded on this day 99 years ago the M oon is full as of 6:19 AM EDT - the Buck Moon, AKA Thunder Moon; the Hay or Mead Moon; Guru Purnima; Asalha Puja (aka Dharma Day or Esala Poya); and the start of Vassa. and Voyager I is Quote of the day: “ No civilized person goes to bed the same day h...
Read more

day 65 - Panda

Image
Today is the 2nd day of the 10th week, the 6th day of the 3rd month, the 65th day of 2023 Last year it was a Sunday, and it was miserable.  My poor little Panda had been very ill - problems with eating and eliminating had resulted in her losing over half her weight in just three months.   I kept taking her back and we kept trying different things - even putting her thru the RadioCat operation he previous month so that she could go off the y/d diet.   Nothing seemed to help, and Panda had gotten what the vet called a "kitty cocktail" shot on Friday afternoon, a Hail Mary  concoction of antibiotics [in case there is an intestinal infection], steroids [in case of inflammation], hydration, soothers, and an appetite stimulant.    She was okay on Saturday, enjoyed her sunbeam and even ate a bit - but that night the drugs wore off and we had a very bad night indeed as she was obviously in pain, and kept retreating to her hidey hole under the secretary....
Read more