Random Notes from the Sandwich Life
1. I must have been frazzled this weekend as I totally forgot it was the one year anniversary of our party with Kane Welch Kaplin. I guess tonight Ernie and I will have to curl up, drink a toast to them, drink a toast to us, and then watch some of the video clips from it....
2. The boys made birthday cards for my mother yesterday and brought them over. I saw them when I stopped by after work and they are hysterical. Leo's is very neat and and very simple....although there are a few little dots that I think are decoration. It says 'Happy Birthday Grandma' and 'I hope you have a good day.' Owen's is in brilliant red and rather chaotic looking. It has a picture of her in her wheelchair accompanied by several people and a birthday cake. It says 'Happy Birthday to Polly' and then it says, 'clap, clap, clap, clap.' They totally cracked me up..... My mother and I had a nice time chatting and having part of a nice bottle of wine that Ernie had brought over. I told her my stories about talking about sex and God and the like with the boys and we giggled a lot.
3. Ernie had his chemo infusion today. Relatively painless. I read a GREAT issue of Fine Gardening (August 2009) and he did a crossword puzzle---and we chatted to someone we knew that was there as well. Social life in the Cancer Center.....huh....
4. Ernie has noted that while normally I am a pretty patient driver-----I figure if someone cuts in front of me then it must mean a whole lot more to them than it does me-----but I am just the opposite in parking garages. I grumble, I swear, I throw my hands it the air..... Why is that?
5. Then I started thinking about all the hospital parking garages I've had experience with.....I could remember them all pretty vividly.....Edwards Hospital and Central DuPage for my parents, Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Provena for Ernie's parents, Emory in Atlanta and AnMed in South Carolina for Judi and of course Carle for my parents, my sister and my husband.........SOOOOOO many parking garages....
6. I don't think I ever posted this picture Owen took of his Indiana Jones Lego.....he was rather taken with it....as I was.....
7. And a few other recent pictures....
I planted some lemon verbena next the front walk to the alley so I can pull a leaf in the morning to smell as I walk to the car....
8. David Olney tonight....at Ustream at 6:00 CST. He's saying he's going to 'up his game.' Hmmmmm. It's so nice to have something to look forward to.....