Yesterday and Today
Feb. 11th, 2025 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseAfter being released from the emergency room, I found a hotel for the night. I slept late -- checked out on time, but I was glad I found a hotel with noon checkout rather than 11 a.m. -- and then drove for 40 minutes to a Jewish Deli just outside of Charlotte.
[n.b., Savannah, GA hosts the oldest continuous Jewish congregation in the U.S., Mickve Israel, but doesn't have a single real Deli. I've been craving Matzoh ball soup for months. Finding out that there was a decent deli in Charlotte meant the world. For the record, there is an older synagogue in Rhode Island, but they fizzled out and reconstituted rather than existing continuously.]
They had Cel-Ray soda. The turkey reuben was made with a turkey pastrami. There was good old-fashioned cucumber salad to go with it. I got two quarts of Matzoh ball soup to go. They had sturgeon by the pound. Next time, I'm getting sturgeon. Or kippered salmon.
I was later than I'd hoped getting home, mostly because my GPS told me to keep left when I needed a right lane exit at the Talmadge bridge in Savannah, but it was otherwise uneventful. I took a break at the two hour mark. It was pretty good.
Today has mostly been spent in bed. I know I should exercise. I know I should write or open boxes or do anything, but I mostly slept. I had a little phone argument with Sis. She doesn't want to put in solar power because she felt it didn't do anything for them in CA. I pointed out that Dad would have gotten the tax credit; this time she will. I also pointed out that they were never without power in CA. We've already had 9 days sans electricity and with hurricane season and tornados on the rise, I think this is necessary. I'm also worried about what tariffs with Canada will do to the oil supply. Keep fingers crossed on this.
It's been rough emotionally for the past year. Mom died on a Saturday, but it was just before 29 February, so everything is offset by two days instead of just one.
Last year, on February 15, the Thursday before her death, a dear friend of hers, the only one who could come and whom Mom wanted to see, came to visit. She and her SO went in and talked with Mom in the morning and let me have a long walk that I desperately needed. They came back in the afternoon, but Mom was non-verbal. Still understanding what was going on. They asked about her time as a stewardess and she squeezed their hand when United was mentioned. They'd brought us a lovely coffee cake, too.
This year, on Thursday, the four of us are going out to dinner at a restaurant Mom liked. It's not exactly a year, but it feels like it because it's the Thursday again. They've been to visit family in Florida. On the way down, they stopped at Beaufort National Cemetery and found Mom and Dad's grave. We're a stop on the way back.
[n.b., Savannah, GA hosts the oldest continuous Jewish congregation in the U.S., Mickve Israel, but doesn't have a single real Deli. I've been craving Matzoh ball soup for months. Finding out that there was a decent deli in Charlotte meant the world. For the record, there is an older synagogue in Rhode Island, but they fizzled out and reconstituted rather than existing continuously.]
They had Cel-Ray soda. The turkey reuben was made with a turkey pastrami. There was good old-fashioned cucumber salad to go with it. I got two quarts of Matzoh ball soup to go. They had sturgeon by the pound. Next time, I'm getting sturgeon. Or kippered salmon.
I was later than I'd hoped getting home, mostly because my GPS told me to keep left when I needed a right lane exit at the Talmadge bridge in Savannah, but it was otherwise uneventful. I took a break at the two hour mark. It was pretty good.
Today has mostly been spent in bed. I know I should exercise. I know I should write or open boxes or do anything, but I mostly slept. I had a little phone argument with Sis. She doesn't want to put in solar power because she felt it didn't do anything for them in CA. I pointed out that Dad would have gotten the tax credit; this time she will. I also pointed out that they were never without power in CA. We've already had 9 days sans electricity and with hurricane season and tornados on the rise, I think this is necessary. I'm also worried about what tariffs with Canada will do to the oil supply. Keep fingers crossed on this.
It's been rough emotionally for the past year. Mom died on a Saturday, but it was just before 29 February, so everything is offset by two days instead of just one.
Last year, on February 15, the Thursday before her death, a dear friend of hers, the only one who could come and whom Mom wanted to see, came to visit. She and her SO went in and talked with Mom in the morning and let me have a long walk that I desperately needed. They came back in the afternoon, but Mom was non-verbal. Still understanding what was going on. They asked about her time as a stewardess and she squeezed their hand when United was mentioned. They'd brought us a lovely coffee cake, too.
This year, on Thursday, the four of us are going out to dinner at a restaurant Mom liked. It's not exactly a year, but it feels like it because it's the Thursday again. They've been to visit family in Florida. On the way down, they stopped at Beaufort National Cemetery and found Mom and Dad's grave. We're a stop on the way back.
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Date: 2025-02-11 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-11 11:53 pm (UTC)Glad you made it home.
Date: 2025-02-12 07:13 pm (UTC)I figure a major medical scare like this counts as a prescription for "lounge around and take it easy for at least a week".
Re: Glad you made it home.
Date: 2025-02-12 11:53 pm (UTC)