The Weekend

Saturday:

 My mother and aunt both have Covid now. Dave and I dropped off some supplies for my mother on Friday but otherwise I've just been texting daily to see how she's doing. I need to text my aunt, too, but I haven't done it. I'll do it right now. 

Okay, that's done. 

Dave was out all day, first to go for a grocery pick up with my brother then to visit his mother. While he was gone I did a few chores, little ones, and watched part of the director's cut of Amadeus on Prime. (I loved this movie when I was in high school. I probably saw it a dozen times in the theater when it was first released and many more times in the decade after, but it has been many years since I've seen it.)

I have a long list of things that I want to do but I am having trouble finding the energy or inspiration to do them. For example, one of the gifts I got from Dave on my birthday was a new cutting table for my sewing area. He put it together and I moved it into my sewing area, but I had to move a bunch of stuff to fit it in there--and now all the stuff I moved is just piled awkwardly around, waiting for me to rearrange and refit everything into new places.

I also haven't sewn anything in awhile.

For dinner tonight we had a quick chopped salad (cucumber, red pepper, carrots, red cabbage, red onions, radishes, romaine lettuce, garbanzo beans, feta, sunflower seeds, pepitas, and a quick non-fat ranch dressing). While we ate, we watched an episode of Taskmaster. This season has Frankie Boyle and Mae Martin (the only two whom I recognize). Mae Martin has a series on Netflix called Feel Good (which also stars another Taskmaster contestant Charlotte Ritchie). It's a decent enough series, penned mainly by her, semi-autobiographical, about addiction and PTSD, some of it.

I've also been watching episodes of Dharma & Greg still. I'm amazed at how well that show has held up. I wasn't a regular viewer when it was on the first time--maybe I would catch an episode here and there--but I don't know how many more episodes I'll watch. Dharma as a character gets more and more annoying as you go. Probably easier to take her flakiness when you only come into contact with it every week or less. When you run a bunch of episodes together, flaky piles on flaky until she's just annoying.

It rained a bit tonight. We went out after dark and came across several frogs in the road. Twice, Dave jumped out of the car to make sure that frogs got across the road safely. We have the frogs in our pond, too. They're usually pretty low-key except in spring, their mating season. In spring, they scream every few minutes all night until they attract a mate. 

Sunday:

I don't know what I was going on about yesterday.

When I got up this morning, Dave and Gray Kitty were cuddling together on the sofa. Gray Kitty jumped down immediately and came over to me to beg for treats. When he was done with his treats, he went back to cuddling with Dave. He can be a very cute cat when he wants to be. Recently, we've been talking about getting him a kitten. We have more space in this house, so maybe we can even get two kittens.

Today ended up being a driving day. We went out to run an errand and I texted my mother to see how she was doing. Her covid symptoms have gotten better but her hip has been bugging her so she said she wanted to get a walker. We have Dave's mother's old walker in the garage, so we came home and got it and then took it back to my mom along with a burger. (She had wanted enchiladas, but the place she wanted them from was closed.

On the way home, we went by Sonic for fizzy drinks and then we came home and had leftovers for dinner: the salad I made last night and a vegetarian breakfast casserole and tofu scramble that Dave had made for brunch. After dinner we hung some photos and shredded some paper stuff from 2007. The shredded paper will go into Dave's compost bin. 

I'm anxious because I have to go back to the hospital for more tests tomorrow. Not that I'm sleeping anyway, but at least now I have a reason not to be sleeping.