Is it Day #1? Day #2? Both? Probably... sort of. I mean, it's the second date I've been here, but I just arrived 24 hours ago. And man, am I feeling things. Sleep wasn't awful, but it wasn't great, either. I woke up several times, once, with my heart pounding, fell back asleep, then ended up getting up for the day seemingly just after 9am. That's ( Read more... )

I really need to be getting to bed. I just wanted to mention that I had a really good visit with my Dad tonight. I got there later than expected, but spent over two and a half hours with him. We watched quite a bit of John Wick 2, inadvertantly, but also went for a walk (he was slower than usual, but did well), and I was thrilled that I could share ( Read more... )

Oh, man. I spent about two hours with my Dad, about two hours ago. In and of itself, it was a good visit (my fifth day in a row seeing him), we watched a bit of Tropic Thunder, reviewed Nobody's Fool (he especially liked certain parts of it), talked a little about the hearings, talked about Helen Mirren, but, he seems in rougher shape than he did ( Read more... )

I got in a little while ago. Man, it's freaking cold outside. I think it's going to get down to the teens tonight, a record low, I believe. Oof. The rest of my day went pretty okay. My Dad and I just watched "Nobody's Fool" from 1994. It turns 25 this year. I didn't know so very much about it, other than people thought well of it, and Paul Newman ( Read more... )

I think I'm a bit of a better place mentally/emotionally, than I was a few days ago. I was able to see my Dad the last three days in a row, and we had three really good visits. We talked about all sorts of stuff. He's proud of how much I've been doing and getting done around the house. He did fall a few days ago, but thankfully not badly. His hand ( Read more... )

::Yawn:: Oof. I'm up. I don't want to be, but I am. Sleep was the poorest I've gotten in quite a while, unfortunately. I suppose it wasn't helped by the movie night that got out at like midnight thirty. I had meant for it to end around 10:10, but most people got there later than expected, and then for the first time in some time - we all just ended ( Read more... )

Well, this is an eventful time. While I was in the middle of an aisle in Walmart tonight, I got an email from the big company (on my old phone), offering me twice as much as they did last week (keeping in mind, last week was an abbreviated work week, nonetheless). Twice as much... who am I? I got them to double their offer, that's kind of bananas. ( Read more... )

Sooo... I have finally arrived at my destination. Did I mention I was going on a trip? Hmmm, maybe I did not. Either way, I spent all day yesterday getting ready for it, then getting ready for it more, today. Though, unfortunately, I ended up accidentally picking a town that was not as convenient for Alicia to visit - d'oh. Lesson learned. ( Read more... )

On Friday, Alicia came over around noon, picked me up and we straight up headed out on an adventure. There are some waterfalls in a forest on the other side of the river that neither of us had ever seen before. They're really not all that well-documented, people can't even agree on what they're called, but I definitely wanted to see them for the ( Read more... )

Man, I really need to start writing more. At the moment, my Dad is on his way to the wound care center on the bus. It's nice to think that he's still able to make use of it, interact with other people, challenge his mind a bit with getting out of his element, and it gives me a little downtime in the middle of the day, too. I just needed to help him ( Read more... )