Thursday, March 10, 2022

 Thursday, March 10, 2022

 

   I was tired before my bedtime. I fell asleep while watching a video. By the time I went to bed, I wasn’t that tired. I was wide awake again by 11:30 pm. I was also in pain. I spent the rest of the night dozing and dealing with the discomfort. I think the work with the acupuncturist created this situation. It’s a pattern. On the way to healing, there are bumps in the road. Despite my nighttime problems, my morning walk went just fine. 

   My upcoming week looks empty of activity. It’s spring break for students. Parents have canceled appointments for the week. The lack of activity scares me. I’m an extrovert; I thrive on contact with others. I understand introverts are exhausted by that contact and consider extroverts predatory. The best is a fellow extrovert who loves to get to know more about people for the sheer pleasure of the connection. That’s a win-win situation. 

   Yvette had her Thursday driveway yoga class. It felt so good to stretch. I saw a difference in what I could do. It was an improvement. Right after the class, I drove to town to pick up B, who dropped off a car BBB automotive. We are usually JAWS people, but Edwin is booked up the gazoo. He recommended BBB to B, as did several others. He called when I was close telling me he was standing in front of the Mercedes-Benz dealership. Really? I don’t remember seeing one on Kaiwi Street. I pulled over to call. It was half a block away from where I’d stopped. He thanked me for picking him up. I loved doing it because I didn’t have enough to do.

     I asked adolescent D if he was interested in working on the Driver’s Manual in preparation for taking his test. He said yes. Plenty of multi-syllable words are in the text, giving us opportunities to practice the Six-Step procedure and repeated words challenging his memory. I observed the following problems: he continues to try to blend multi-syllable words before identifying each syllable, he reverses what appears to be the letters, but his problem is auditory, not visual, and he sometimes skips function words. D told me a reason for this that I had never considered before; he said he is so focused on the next big word that he misses the little ones. We managed to get through the first two. I expect to go through each item starting with the first.

     Later I called HLM to prepay for the gravestone engraving. Veronica said she required a down payment. I told her I wanted to pay for the whole thing now. I always have preferred to pay ahead. Now, even more so, since the world is about to tilt off its axis. 

     My lifetime here in America is the best life of any human being ever.   That’s even more true of the world after my sister’s birth. I was born in 1940. The US had just recovered from the Depression, but we entered WWII on the side of the Allies.   My sister was born between VE Day, May 8, 1945, and VJ Day, August 15, and September 2, 1945, on June 13, 1945. Life in the USA has been easier than anywhere else worldwide for this period. That’s 77 years of relative ease- for folks like us. We lived the best life of anyone ever.