More Points Toward My Crown in Heaven

[mallorys_camera]

Cheerful client email this morning affirming that payment for Remunerations rendered is in the mail!

Said payment will have enough zeros to put a sizeable dent in the credit card I charged all the California stuff to.

In the end, it’s always about money, isn’t it?

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In the middle of my tromp yesterday, I began feeling—not sick, exactly. But sort of as if my vision was tunneling & greying out. Very weird! So, I immediately turned around, only completing three miles of the five I'd intended.

And then, when I got back to the car, the temperature gauge informed me that it was very hot—like 88°!! And I hadn’t really felt it! It had been a startlingly sunny day, and I’d been out without water or any kind of hat!

So, some kind of heat exhaustion?

Anyway, I won’t tromp today.

It’s a beautiful day (though the weather oracles tell me it will cloud up in a couple of hours), so I shall garden.

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Also, I don’t know what got into me to volunteer to hostess a birthday party for L tomorrow.

The guest list has now risen to ten.

And since L has a doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon—the doctor’s appointment that will finally render the inescapable verdict: Yes, you have dementia and to which her neglectful son has finally been roused to accompany her—it has now become a dinner party rather than an afternoon tea party.

So, a fuck-all lot of work.

Oh, well, I tell myself. She’s not a bad person. And it’s probably the last time she’ll get to celebrate her birthday in this little house she loves.

I’m doing three kinds of tacos—shrimp, pork, & mushroom.

More points toward your crown in heaven, I tell myself.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Wow, that is a lot of work! Good luck with all the cooking/preparing tomorrow! I hope at least it ends up providing good company and conversation.

[mallorys_camera]

Honestly, I can't believe that I put myself up for this. 😥