Wednesday was our 48th wedding anniversary! It still seems unreal after all this time. Not sure why I didn’t think I would be married this long to the same man – my parents were married almost 60 years. Eddie’s parents were married about the same number of years, so we come from great examples. It doesn’t seem that long, it is as if our marriage is broken into chapters. The earlier the chapter, the more it feels I read it in a book or someone told me about it. Yet I have photos of those years and as I look back at myself, I see myself differently. More kindly than I felt at the time.
We decided to try a new Chinese restaurant in Southcenter. They have Dim Sum and Eddie was delighted with the page of greens. We tried a few things and had enough to bring home. I kinda wish I had ordered the dumplings, maybe next time. It was different and except for the noise, we enjoyed it. We have become sticks-in-mud lately, more homebodies that going and doing all the time.
I find myself looking in the mirror but all I see is someone’s grandmother hiding my own face. Where did she come from? Will she ever go away? I don’t feel old, more about 30 or so, ready to start my life now that I have finally grown up. I’m glad I have copies of my journal for the years I wrote it – maybe time to go back and read it again. I remember several people saying what an interesting life I had – if you just read the journal. There was a whole lot I didn’t put in, too depressing.
Would yu believe we had 2 days in the low 70’s with sun and warmth. It went back to rain again by Friday and we won’t really see sun until mid-week or later. Even so, the flowers are blooming, the lilacs are out, the Rhodos, azaleas – all kinds of blossoms. We have what looks like white and pink snow on the ground because the flowering fruit trees are losing petals as the leaves come out. We have little nubs on the branches of the fig tree – not many leaves yet. I haven’t been out to check the fruit trees, though we have lots of blossoms on the blueberries. A little more sun and warmth will help tremendously.
The downstairs bathroom is done. Eddie is waiting until tomorrow to use it because he wants to be sure the shower door has curd. He could use it now if he wants. Now it needs to be furnished – we have some brown towels and I gave him my bathmats. Then we found Soft Scrub, toilet brush, squeegee and glass cleaner – the door is transparent glass. We need to check for new towels and mats, plus waste basket.
I have my car back – we picked it up on Monday afternoon. I’m so glad to have it back, that stupid Kia Optima has the emergency brake right where I need room to get my foot out so I can leave the car. Otherwise it’s fine but I much prefer my own car. It feels so good, so familiar – I know where things are in it – none of this trying to figure out what happened to something in a strange car.
I had a wonderful show on Tuesday with Jamie and Diane Osborne – they were a delight to interview. This week I have a good friend Diane Kolb as my guest. She is the Executive Director of Children’s Country Home for medically fragile children. All my shows are in the archives at 1150kknw.com – just look for my show in the list.
We sold our lot in Ocean Shores, Monday we need to have our signatures notarized and send back the title papers. We haven’t really made a profit on it, but now we don’t have property taxes, club dues that keep going up and sewer fees. The whole point of buying it was to have a piece of Washington State while we weren’t living here. Now it really isn’t necessary, it has become an expense we don’t need at this point in our lives. We hope to be getting the check soon, it goes into our house fund .
It has been interesting having Eddie home most of them. He keeps forgetting I didn’t retire, he gives me that hurt “How dare you leave me” look. Then he wants to know when I will be home. He has been working contacts and seeing what is possible – it takes time and he wants it settled right now. Sometimes being a scenic route is better than a point A to B by the shortest route. He likes to be doing, accomplishing things and making a difference; I doubt he will ever be happy sitting and watching tv. The difference this time is he didn’t have something to go into as he left the previous job. There are a couple of good possibilities, but it takes patience and that’s hard for him.
You could call this a weekly round-up of my life. I have a project or two in the works, not quite ready to talk about them yet. I haven’t taken much in the way of pictures of the flowers. However, my sisters Ellen and Candy have been sending lovely photos. I think they are both a bit warmer than here.
Gift of RA 
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