Adam added Z is for Zip, which is what students at Univ of Akron are. not sure what a Zip is. though i do recall that Zippy won the national mascot competition recently. so it will be ready for publication soon. keep the suggestions coming. multiple entries per letter still welcome.
thank you Charlie for reattaching the cover for the cold air return. he can reach the screws while standing on the floor. omg. something that would not ever have occurred to me. like when Adam replaced the lamps in the bathroom and took down the fixture while standing. me, i climb up on the counter. ah well.
as a result of the large clean out done by elinor and audrey, the larder is pretty empty. i was looking for a chicken sausage. not in freezer. too bad. i was looking forward to sausage and red cabbage. so i had half a can of italian wedding soup, which was one of Linda's favorites. i think i'll supplement it with a piece of toast and jelly. still not eating a lot.
ketzl spent a good deal of time outside in a box in the sunshine. i trimmed a lot of vines while talking on the phone (free weekend minutes). he's out for a nighttime romp. we had a nice walk this afternoon. he actually "got" what a walk is about, for a short time.
i still can't figure out how to turn off the alarm on the phone base in the bedroom. and when i think i've changed the time of the alarm, it still reverts to just before 7 AM. i think. i'll keep at it.
tissue alert maybe
so i figured out that i'm not crying every day. or maybe i am and just not realizing it. it hit me on thursday: November 13. 7 months. somehow that hit me much more than 6 months in October. i guess because 7 months is the beginning of the 2nd half of the first year. yargh. that feels really strange. that in less than 5 months, i will be saying it has been one year...ok ok ok don't rush it. not there yet. but somehow being on the 2nd half really hit me.
from the back cover of "Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process," by Nancy O'Connor. the words are in the shape of a butterfly, which is partly what attracted me to the book. "Life and grief go hand in hand. The process of grieving is the way we release old ways of thinking and feeling to make room for new ones. Endings and beginnings: birth and death, starts and finishes: these are the unavoidable rhythms and cycles that make life a totally dynamic ever-changing process."
i'll bring these books back to group tomorrow and get new ones. the alphabet one has a good premise. each letter has something and then ends with an affirmation: i can, or i will. a lot of it is about accepting help from others. i do my best.
elinor was in LA this weekend. she said the smoke was really bad. not a good time to go out for a walk.
daph and kevin went to the SF rally yesterday and said it was amazing.
Garrison Keillor's article from Nov 12...
Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation. It isn't gloating, it's satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a flashing grin and a buoyancy that comes from working out in the gym every morning. He spoke in a genuine voice, not senatorial at all. He relished campaigning. He accepted adulation gracefully. He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them. He was elegant, unaffected, utterly American, and now (Wow) suddenly America is cool.
Chicago is cool. Chicago!!!
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnist/chi-oped1112keillornov12,0,4283187.column
sorry i'm not literate yet.
it will be a busy week. time to retrieve the cat and head to bed.
