My Dear Madel;
How is every little thing with you and your family? What's Diesel going to be doing this summer, anything? Swimming again?
Howz the job going? I hope you have someone who gives you positive input and validation, either at work or among your friends/family. It can be a very lonely world when no one takes the trouble to tell you that they appreciate you and the work you do.
Which, of course, leads right into HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Adam invited me over to his new house today after church, for a Mother's Day gathering with the kids and your mom. I hope I can make it. Sarah is supposed to come pick me up this afternoon, but I've been having lots of stomach problems this week and am waiting to see if the bowl of boiled rice I had for b'fast is going to cause me any problems or not.
I finally figured out how to attend the temple without having to worry about my bladder. I go first thing in the morning, before I take my water pill, and I don't eat/drink anything before going. That way I can last through a whole session. I went four times last week. My plan is to go every Wed,Thurs, and Friday from now on. Mondays the temple is closed and on Tuesdays I go to the Utah County Commissioners meeting in the morning and then write a poem about it, which I email to them and their assistants. Plus I usually give the opening prayer, which I write out ahead of time as a poem. There are 3 county commissioners, and 2 of them love my poems -- the third guy won't even look at me.
I've also been exercising at the Rec Center pool every day as well. I just paid for a year's membership -- using the money I've earned from doing blog rewrites for Adam. I quit doing his rewrites this past week because I am finally getting the urge to write another novel -- so I'll need lots of time for that. I'll tell you more about it when it is better formed in my mind.
Your mother called me last week, trying to sell me insurance. I guess she is doing okay at it. Sarah tells me she made a thousand dollars last week on commission. Not bad!
We had a pleasant phone conversation. I told her I already had insurance through AARP, but she thought I ought to have some more and that I should name her as beneficiary. (Nothing your mother says can surprise me anymore . . . ) I replied that she will be getting my Social Security when I die anyways. She didn't know that, she said, but seemed real happy to hear about it.
The highlight of the last week for me was having Sarah's family and Andy & Gin over for dinner on Tuesday. I made a pork curry and steamed some sticky rice -- I bought a special sticky rice cooker because Ohen just loves sticky rice (and so do I). The rice turned out good, so it'll be a Grandpa Tim specialty from now on. Virginia is not eating much of anything because she can't keep it down cuz of being pregnant. But she liked the sticky rice, too.
It was very pleasant for me to sit back and just listen to my kids talking to each other; it is something I could do forever.
Looking back, that meal was about the only human interaction I've had all week with anyone. Otherwise I pretty much stick to myself, reading and writing. Being a writer shouldn't be such a lonely life; I know Adrienne is very sociable. But I seem to have lost that knack. Right now my best friends are books. That's kind of how things were back when I was a teenager, so I guess I am already entering my Second Childhood!
Well, my stomach is starting to gurgle like a storm drain during the monsoon, so I'll have to cut things short here and hope all is peachy keen at your end.
Love, Dad.
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