Ayn's Multiple World

Sunday before seeing the boys

Good morning, this is me. We just got out of the shower. Whoo! Feels good! It's already late on Sunday morning and I don't think we're going to have to much to say before we get going. We'd gotten up earlier, and waited just for a while, and then we fell asleep on the couch. I'm not sure why this is a trend, but it seems that we're going in that direction. Rich finally woke us up about 9 am and we watched the rest of his Sunday morning show with him, but it took us a while longer to take off our mask. We seemed to be in a nice zone where we were comfortable and breathing and not putting too much stress on any of our systems.

Rich kept pushing us to get up and then he added to that flora by making eggs on tortillas with the left over chili from last night. It was very good, though I might have eaten it too fast. Little lump in the bottom of my stomach. *Sigh*

Now we are listening to the leftovers from last night's CNN. Rich is in the kitchen on his computer taking his test. We've called Maury to confirm when today's event is. I'm not sure if you remember or we told you, but today we're going to Maury's to celebrate his birthday. We're going to check with our banking situation to see where the bottom line of that is. If I could sneek Maury some money I will, but I don't think we're going to be able to do ... Hmm, maybe we can ... it says we have $1720 in the account and the Balley's has been taken out. We know we've got $900 also coming out for the rent and we need to do $450 with the car ... That would leave $250 in the account. I just need then for insurance and gas and it's getting close to getting the next payment. Hmm, seems good then I think we can skimp by. We will then give Maury a check ... I really want him to have it. We'll make some sacrifices. Ok, good good. Let's move on and remember to breath as well.

Feeling better about that already. Good girl!

We'll still have to concentrate on some banking. We'll try that again tomorrow since we have a day off. Ok, let's move on don't want to get a little weird with this. It's like guts poker. Always robbing Peter to Pay Paul. Shhh, ok ... slipping over to safe ground?

Last night was a pretty good night. We were reading when Rich came home and we continued to do that as he unwound making dinner. He also made little apple pies! WOOHOO!!

AHA! Took a minute to wrap up the bars we made yesterday. Maury likes the chocolate peanut butter oatmeal bars that we make ... he's got the recipe, but asked when we asked if there was something that we can do. I hope that it was something special in that he knows that we don't usually cook anymore, so that we would do it for him ... that's the real birthday present. When we talked to him last night he hadn't started on the dinner, but it is him that is going to be making most of the dinner. I think he asked Lauren for a dessert too ... otherwise everything is from him. He says that he hasn't made the meatballs that he thinks of as holiday for a year now.

He teased me when I called to check on time saying that he wasn't able to do it and that he had to go to Jewel for them. We were gullible and felt bad for him because we knew it was going to be a late night, but then after we told him it would be ok, then he told us the truth. Felt a little sheepish, but then gotta sigh with relief ... I'm glad it's turning out to be the kind of dinner Maury is happy with. He did say that he went to bed for a few hours and then woke up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. I feel bad about that, but he seems to imply that's the kind of thing that he does and that it's going to be ok. You know. Still the mother and I worry about lots of stuff.

Rich helped with the bars by hanging around the kitchen and convincing me on stuff like even though the recipe says melt the frosting in a double boiler that we can substitute microwave. Those kind of things we're not up to date with, but for the most part we went into it strong and got through it withoug too much regression. It's a very simple recipe, but it felt very strange that Rich was letting me lead in the kitchen. There is no doubt he would be happy if I did more of that, but it would be a transition. He really is the one who stays in charge. He was making sure the extra garbage and dirty dishes were getting to the dishwasher, and then he started the dishwasher again today. Wow! Two days in a row!

We did test out the dessert when we woke up in the wee hours of the night. Let's not tell Rich about that part though, hmm? We only ate now this last shot the crumbs left in the cake pan. I'm pretty proud they turned out though hehe it seems they takes pretty much like brown sugar, chocolate and peanut butter. I hope that it will be ok. Ok, shhhh it's just a small token on the day ... let's move on dears, K?

Ok, anything else about last night? Hmm, think there was some separation, but I'm not sure how that works out. I think we were on the other couch - eaten dinner there, and Rich had to PUSH us to coming over and being friendly with some massaging. Well, ok, he didn't have to push too hard. We watched a show I didn't think much of and then we watched an old B class movie before going to bed. He gets real tired as we are glorifying in our fudgicles. But, he for the most part is very patient with us. I don't think he appreciates that those few moments with us, the fudgicles, and Rich is a wondeful feeling. One of our best!

There's not a lot of time left ... we should be leaving in 20 minutes. I just called into him to remind him of the time. I hope he's done with the test and was just doing some other stuff. He's getting up now.

WooHOO!!! He's in the shower now and we're dressed and ready. He teased that we didn't give him enough time, but HE knew when we were leaving. As it turned out he was working on something else and didn't get to his test. *Sigh* Sounds like I get more TV choice watching when we get home. I would like to do some reading too. I really, really had a good time with that last night. I was getting into the words and thoughts expressed. There wasn't too much I wasn't understanding, so that meant that it was well written. I think though that it is slow. But, if we get into it as a lifelong challenge ... it's better that we understand. After we get more of a scaffolding done with it we'll be able to retain more information on the first run through.

I really look forward to getting back into it. I don't think other than writing, I feel more at home then with a book, pen and piece of paper in front of me. We are always taking notes and we have a lot of sheets of paper that we can be using up. WOOHOO!!

Hmm, I must be in a good woohooey mood. Maybe because we are getting to go see the boys and our granddaughters. Maury had invited Bob and his girl, but they will be doing something else. I'm kind of glad about that. So, it will just be Maury, his girls, Alex and Joe and Us. I don't think that Alex has met Rich yet, but we explained he was like ALL THREE of the boys best friend so he really did have a special place in our heart. I hope Maury isn't so tired though that Alex takes over all the conversation. Sometimes those guys can go pretty fast.

AHA! We just got ahold of Thom. We told him that we were all meeting at Maury's place in a little bit so if he wanted to call he could get all of us at the same time. I don't know if he will or not ... he said that he has to get a lot of errands done and that it had been a long week. He sounds so-so ok, it was a real short conversation. I reminded him we'd invited Alexis, but she had to work. We also said that Lauren would have to work too, but we did this on a day that we could favor Maury's schedule and today was the day he had off. We'll have to work more around arrangements on off-days toward the holidays so that we can include everyone.

AHA! Rich is out of the shower. Just a few moments left now. I slipped my machines into the pockets - am wearing the purple striped shirt and jean dress and so all there is left is to put on my jacket. Maybe there won't be too much to say until after the event. I'm sure pretty bubbly about it.

I don't know how Rich is going to do ... I don't have him quite placed at the table or couches as in I don't know where he will be most comfortable ... In truth I see him helping Maury out in the kitchen, but I think Maury is going to have things in hand. Rich is not usually the type to sit around talking ... he's more a kitchen person. I hope he's going to feel comfortable with the situation. This is a first in meeting up with the kids AND Rich in one of the homes. You know my thoughts on wanting to do something here, but I don't know how hard that would be on Rich. First off is the cooking part, and the second part is that my family is not his family, so I don't know if meeting my guys will make him feel more lonely for his guys. We'll soon see.

Well, better get going ... I think he's almost dressed. He had to slow down to take a phone call. Probably one of his kids. I hope he'll feel comfortable. We'll have to be careful not to put him on the spot. Right? BE GOOD NOW!

posted by Ann Marie @ 11/10/2008 09:00:00 AM Comments: 0