I'm Just Visiting This Planet

So here it is, the day after tax day, my taxes are filed (as of Monday, hey, it's a day early) and all I have to figure out is how I'm going to pay the $200+ I owe the feds because the refund from the state always comes much later. Aunt Mary seems to be doing okay (although I haven't heard from her so I should check), Anne's mom is, well, Anne's mom, and life at work is life at work. I'm enjoying this spectacular spring day and I'll work out on the porch this afternoon, finishing the last of the papers I need to mark (although if they are sent electronically are they still papers? Hey, we still talk about records even though no one makes vinyl anymore!)

Holy Week-again! With Easter coming so early it feels like we just did this. I really like it when Easter and Passover are so far apart, and I really don't like it when Easter and Passover are so far apart. I like it because then I can focus on each holiday separately-I don't have to "worry" about the first or second night seder falling on holy Thursday. I don't like it because when the two "holy days" fall together I can really feel the connection between them. Isn't it so human to never be satisfied!

Boy am I tired! Between turning the clocks ahead and working so hard I'm really beat. I don't remember "spring ahead" doing this to me before, but maybe that's because I don't remember anything anymore. I had a very intense day in the city yesterday and that really wore me out. Nothing like the day I had last week, when a building collapsed and I had an adventure getting home, but still, catching the 9:11 and getting home around 10 PM makes for a long day. I know that there are folks who do this all the time, but I'm not one of them! And now, after I do a few million things, I'll get to spend next week on house chores-it's my spring break. We're thinking of taking a road trip-I need to be in Denver from July 28 until August 1, so we might be "westward ho!"

I spent yesterday at Winthrop Hospital with Aunt Mary. She had a port put in for her chemotherapy (which started at 8:30 this morning) and I read Love in the Time of Cholera for my book group. I left the house at 9:45, drove the 40 miles or so to pick her up, spent the day mostly reading, eating and waiting, then drove her home. We had dinner together and then I drove to my book group meeting. It's hard not to worry about who'll take care of me when I'm 82. Gini keeps saying don't look at Joe or Michael, and I understand-everyone has their own lives. I guess I have two choices-stay really, really healthy or find the lesbian old age home (soon!) so that I'll have a community of friends to care for me. I never thought I'd be 60, never thought my mother would die, or my dad would get old, or my sister would become a grandmother. It's not that I thought these things wouldn't happen, it's more like I never thought about them. As my friend Nancy Amy ...

Well here's what 60 looks like (at least the way I'm doing 60): I'm not really 60 until the 25th, but the party was Saturday night, and a good time was had by all (at least I hope so-I had a blast!)

So here it is, 2008. How did that happen? We sat down and worked out a set of, well not exactly New Year's Resolutions, but things that we want to do in 2008. Like spend more time together, take more vacations, stuff like that. But the highlight of the new year (so far!) is the new outfit I bought today at Chico's for our 60/60 party (which - I can hardly believe - is this Saturday!). Pictures to follow (for sure!). I wish us all peace, health and happiness in 2008.

Here it is, December 19th. Two final projects down, one final exam to go. And all I want to do is sit here and "play" with my beautiful new 17" iMac-the resolution is astounding, it's lightening fast, and it makes my 6 year old iMac look like an antique-although that one is not being retired, exactly. It's going downstairs in the home office to become the "accounting" machine for the house.