Monday, March 15, 2004
Some Things I Do
I finished Gamian’s “Coroline” and “The Wolves In The Walls,” children’s books, but interesting in style. Also Mitch Albom’s “The Five People You Meet In Heaven.”
A favorite short story writer of mine lives about 20 miles from here in Montrose, Michigan. He is Doug Allyn and he appears in the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Just read his “Secondhand Heart.”
I am behind in my Reader’s Digest Select Books by two issues now but I vowed that after Jay couldn’t read them any more I wasn’t going to buy them and not read them. I discuss the stories, but he hasn’t expressed a desire to have me read one to him yet. Could be that my reading the newspaper to him daily puts him to sleep so he figures it is a waste of time.
Well the Free Cell games stand at at #18801. I usually play this when he watches (listens) to cooking shows. Sometimes on Discovery some World War II feature catches his interest and I sneak to the Free Cell Screen!!
I have purchased “The DaVinci Code” by Dan Brown, “Blow Fly” by Patricia Cornwell, and “The Dark Tower V” by Stephen King. But the trouble with Dark Tower is I have to go back and read the other four because I forgot the story line.
The majority of the reading is done waiting in Doctor’s offices. I found that the most relaxing way to pass the time.
Surprise For Momma
Yesterday morning the person I lovingly call ‘the blind guy’ helped me make breakfast. Not a big deal you say—au contraire—for years he was the breakfast chef in this house on the weekends. Sweet Thing used to say no one fried an egg like her Daddy. I have missed the helping hand and the unusual dishes he would come up with. So when you go from salting his meal because he can’t see the plate to his having enough vision to pull poached eggs out of the water and on to a plate. That is one very big deal around here. He even buttered raisin toast that morning.
Sometimes I think that maybe the vision will return, at least for a while. One can only hope!