I told you, remember?
😉
Saturday Night Fever has been my personal posting project for 2021. (Click the badge for more info.) I posted every week this year until The Big Health Scare, but have decided to try to ‘come back’, so to speak, and finish out the December Saturdays.
Feel free to join me — while it lasts; two to go! — and since next Saturday is Christmas, I’ll save my “Merry ……….” wishes til then.
I mentioned recently that my return to blogging after a month of non-posting was a follow-on from my return home from Arizona.
I know this is not exactly a travel blog — [insert guffaw, here] — but I thought it might be fun to show you some photos from my trip. For some of you it will be old hat; at least one couple who blogs in my ‘genre’ lives in the desert, I know. For others, though, perhaps it will be a little peak into a place you’ve never been but want to go (KD, who recently got roasted but{t} not by the sun, says it’s on his bucket list), or – if nothing else – it might bring a tiny ray of sunshine to the wintry cold misery my northern-hemisphere readers are probably enduring.
SO
In the coldest month of the year, when the days are getting ever-darker and the drear just.will.not.STOP, here is some light and warmth:
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Hey y’all. It’s been a minute.
Things have been… happening(?)… here; when it rains, it pours. The whole “let’s go to the emergency room” thing with my husband turned into some follow-up stuff, not all of which is finished yet, but the general gist is: he needs to eat better and exercise more. Considering how much we’ve been through with his health and how active he tends to be despite all those challenges, this came as somewhat of a surprise. He does like his junk food, but a couch potato he is NOT.
So, okay.
: shrug :
Exercising where we live is reasonably do-able in the summer(ish) months, but this time of year it sorta sucks. Taking walks and going for hikes does not exactly appeal when the typical weather is “downpour du jour, with 70 mph winds for dessert.”
(We had major wind and rain in mid-November, which knocked out our power and severely cut my ability to work — which totally sucks because it strains our budget big time when those checks-I-couldn’t-work-for would have been coming in [read: NOW] — but we were fortunate. A lot of people in our area lost a lot more than just income during the storms so far, and the worst is yet to come.)
It is a *bit* easier to exercise in hike/walk fashion when the weather is gorgeous, however. Which is was last week in Arizona.
So remember that whole “We’re going on a cruise to Hawaii!” thing that turned out — three days prior to departure — to be cancelled due to the shut-down of the world at the beginning of COVID? Well, we never got our money back from the airline. What we got was the ability to reassign our flight to a different location (basically a flight credit but they didn’t call it that at the time). Those re-assigned tickets? We’ve been trying to use them for over a year! But due to continual personal setbacks and non-stop, ever-changing governmental restrictions on travel, we’ve not been able to. Until now.
Thus, Arizona.
Really…
Continue readingMy morning started with the not-awake-but-cognizant recognition of my husband’s creaky steps running a circuit between the bedroom and bathroom and back again; his “Are you awake?” hit my ears shortly after 5:00am, and even though I wasn’t awake yet — not quite, anyway — that fact was irrelevant, because “I think I should go to the hospital” is – from years of practice – an action I can accommodate in my sleep.
He was cleared of all the major indices. I can tell you what it’s NOT.
It’s NOT a myocardial infarction, it’s NOT a collapsed lung, it’s NOT COVID.
It’s not “we need to admit him.”
But it’s also not “we know what happened” or “here is some medication.”
It’s “call your cardiologist on Monday” and, more than anything, it’s a little bit scary and a whole lot exhausting — mostly for him.
So he’s sleeping off the stress and I’m burying myself in a book and we’ll just Deal With ItTM in the same way we deal with everything else.
Meanwhile, it has occurred to me that it’s Saturday. Which means that tonight it’s Saturday Night Fever.
And while this is often a more fun, fleshy, funny, or foto-graphic space…
I’m just not there right now.
But when I set this weekly posting project up for myself, I wanted it to be a way of maintaining a posting schedule, if for no other reason that just to check in.
So this is me, checking in.
I assume you’ll understand, though, if – after this – I choose to check out for a little while.
I’ll see you when I see you.