Tuesday, January 3, 2017 @ 10:31 am
Good morning. This is us and we’re atom again though 2-3
days later. It will take us a while
until this becomes regular. Today we’ll the
last 2-3 days we’ve had a cold. It’s
been on the difficult side because we were still entertaining. First the New Year’s Eve party with Rich’s
friends and then the kid’s New Year’s party.
Yesterday was a bust – full sleeping and the only thing keeping us up
now is the contractors coming in for their first day with the kitchen. I just called Rich and he did indeed forget
our Dayquil, so we’re on Nyquil and don’t expect to stay up much later. We’ll probably lay down in the sitting room –
that way we’re out of the way, but still more accessible than if we’d gone to
bed proper. The assistant is already
coughing – so we don’t want to be blamed for that. That’s important, right?
So, I suppose we
should start with the parties? Both were
very nice, but totally different. What
stayed the same was that Rich is an excellent host. He did very good at the first event, and then
we utilized the same food at the second event.
Worked out fine. Hmm, did we
finish the strawberry cake yet? Think
there were two big pieces left last night that Rich and I were going to split,
but we fell asleep. Hmmm, wondering now,
but the guys are in the kitchen and the fridge is moved out. Shoot.
The first couple
to arrive was Jack and Eileen, that was very nice because I was out of touch
with them. There was a lot to talk
about, then came Melanie and Doug, and then Last Bob and Marcia. Marcia hasn’t been around abit so we were
glad to catch up with her too. The most
amazing part was that this time the guys primarily stayed off at their own side
of space and the women took over the table.
Eventually things became more mixed up and the men joined in, but the
women held onto their chairs. Hehe….
Much more interesting talking to women than to men IF you are a woman!
The night went
well and I think that it was midnight was a little distraction to the rest of
the conversation. We all counted down and miraculously stayed up to smooch our “smoochiface.” That
was very nice J
Everyone was gone
by 1 am and we helped Rich close up the house, but we fell asleep while he was
still clearing up the dishes. And, then
when he was sleeping in the next morning, we emptied the dishwasher – so in an
extended way we helped. It went fine –
THOUGH Rich did most of the work. We
were an assistant type.
Joe
and Cari came over around 2-2:30 pm I think … not very sure because we weren’t
watching the time closely. The work was
done and that was all that had to happen.
We (meaning mostly Rich) left it very neat the night before. He’s TERRIFIC for parties!
They
of course brought Alex our grandson who was playing very shy. That’s his norm around us, we give him
space. He held on to his Mama, and then
eventually got down and discovered the magnets on the fridge … he had a very
good time playing with them. Then we got
him four small plastic cups we were using to serve and I placed them on a small
high chair about his chest high and I put one of the magnets in the cup. He seemed to get that right away. From that point on he took pieces on and off
and in and out of the cups. After a
while he was going through lessons with Rich as to taking off the sheet of
paper under the magnets. He couldn’t
quite figure out the magnets were to hold the paper. Rich helped him a few times walking him
through it. I don’t know if he got to
understanding that before it was time to take a nap.
After
he was put down – the rest of us had something to eat and then we were talking,
mostly lead by Cari, but this time Joe didn’t fade away. And, he got into a conversation
with us about the fact he had gotten a side-job he hadn’t even talked
about. He is a substitute teacher
K-8. It was SUPER! He told us all about some of his experiences
and we found ourselves very wrapped around the conversation. We were delighted that he was having a good
time with the job and he could figure out kids so well – mostly from his
experience teaching young kids discipline and respect through the dojo.
It’s
a good fit!
There
was one more “episode” with the suckers.
After Alex’ nap there was the discovery that he LOVED suckers AND we
happened to have them leftover from Isa.
So, we brought them over and he picked a nice red one. Cari held him for a while, and then she gave
him over to his father who also had a sucker. They licked and slobbered and licked and
slobbered to their heart’s content?
Us? We were having a silent panic
attack! OH, my gosh he’s dripping! When Alex finally had his last crunch, we
pushed overly eagerly the washcloth. Cari
thought we were funny and asked if we were ready to have Alex over yet and we
obviously said, “NO!” Shee! We did our best not to complain or interrupt,
but in our heart – we’re an Oscar Felix!
What
a lightweight we are! *sigh*
Hmm should go by
here noticing that the guys work a lot harder, but the sure do talk a lot. We’ve been invited to talk as well a couple
of times, but we’d rather them concentrate and us to stay out of things while
they are in their mode. It’s fine and we
have soft music background which turned out to be more renaissance music. Find to me – maybe baroque. Is that one in the same, or a bit
different? Lot of oboe and bassoon. Hmm, it’s almost lunch time – already 11
am. Rich left a sandwich for me, we will
turn off the music and watch come CNN, but maybe not for another half
hour. We’ve learned to just do what we
do – though we stick closer to the project.
My hands are
getting a little tired, that might be the Nyquil. Rich sounded shaken when we called to ask
about the medicine – he had skipped that stop and gone onto the next one in
Chicago … we were a little hurt to be forgotten, but we didn’t want to make a
big deal of it either. We’ll take our
regular 11/11:30 am medicine soon – 11:04 now.
By that time with food and medicine we’ll be totally wiped out. I wonder what happened to the siding
guys? Maybe we’ll call Rich and he’s had
some message.
@12:43 pm
We’re back again. We left a bit ago and had lunch, took
medicine, watched some afternoon news and then took a little bit of a nap. We may or may not have had some cookies and
candies after we woke up – not much mind you!
We talked to the
siding lady contact before the nap … she said if it didn’t rain – the guys
would be here in the afternoon. BUT, it
is raining, so we’re thinking, no they wouldn’t be coming. She also said the siding is in, except one
set so that they’d be putting up the first and then coming back for the other
like a week later – it is on backorder.
So that’s that of that … maybe we’ll see them over tomorrow. Probably should check the weather.
Hmm, seems that
the rain was only near the noon hour and it’s now 12:51 pm. Maybe we’re coming out of it then. It looks like tomorrow and later in the week
will be colder. Yup yup best to do it
today the rest of the week and next week will be worse. Just forgot too that Dr. Marvin will be
calling in in about 7 -8 minutes. Should
get ready for that. I think we’re going
to take our phone into the sewing room with Dakota. In the room, they are still taking down
walls. The guys must have stayed for
lunch while we were sleeping. I think
they were sitting in the kitchen behind our view on the couch. We’ll see how those things go, but they are
sticking close to work routines. I think
it always takes longer to do things than they project.
@2:26 pm
It’s a little
later. We have talked to Dr. Marvin –
for about 15 minutes. And we’ve seen to
our construction projects. This is the
kitchen contractors first day and they are tearing things up so that the
electrician can come in and do his work.
They are taking away some of the damage with the walls that are coming
down. They’ve also covered things though
we eventually went in and brought the cookies and candies out – yes save the
deliciables! There’s been some light
chatter about things … We’ve got on CNN and that always brings up
conversations. These guys were both
republican’s naturally. So I’m getting
some heck. But, they have to learn both
the good AND the bad of their candidate.
Thinking neither CNN advocates.
In the meantime,
we also went out to check on the siding guys.
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