Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Mom household.
We began the week ringing out the old year at a friend's home (although we wimped out and returned to our own home in time to see the ball descend, yell greetings to the new year, and to collapse in our beds).
My granddaughter A-child is learning to love Ferdinand, a book that has been a favorite in our family since my my father was a kid. In fact, I have a very well-loved version of the book with my father's name written in cursive, although I read to A-child from a newer (yet to get its share of loving) copy of the book.
N-son returned to school, such as it was; the cold and snow caused several two-hour delays and even one entirely cancelled day. The snow and cold haven't caused him as much anguish as his dead phone has, however, and we are ending the week with attempts to resurrect an older phone and/or purchase a new one. (Late-breaking update: successful on both counts!)
My husband got to go protest in front of Comcast, one of Senator Toomey's big supporters, rallying for a reinstatement of Net Neutrality.
As for me, the theme of the week has mostly been health-and-well-being. On Tuesday, I got to give blood (whoop!), and on Wednesday I got my two cracked fillings fixed (yay? ouch?). And today I set a personal record for coldest outdoor run (4 degrees, warming to 5 degrees by the end). It was so much fun!
But the biggest health adventure wasn't directly my own. One of my good friends, at a party I hosted on Friday night, suddenly had a seizure. I've never seen a seizure before, so when it happened, all of a sudden, I was seeing something that reminded me of the characters in Sci-Fi movies who are about to have alien beings burst from their bodies. Fortunately, I had other friends there who had calmer heads than I, and who got my friend to the floor and on her side, and who remembered to time the seizure. I called 911, who came by and evaluated my friend as she slowly (to me) recovered.
The whole event brought into sharp focus both how incredibly vulnerable we are in our health, but also how resilient we can be; after a few minutes my friend was back to consciousness; it took another 10 minutes to become reoriented (remember what year it was and be able to sit up again), and soon after that the EMTs left and we resumed the party (a little more somber than before, but surprisingly okay). My friend slept well last night and is doing fine today. I'm so grateful.
This weekend we're preparing for my up-coming trip to the big math meetings in San Diego. No cold-weather running records for me next week!
And that's the news from the Miser Family, which continues to be prosperous (and fortunately, resiliently healthy) in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
We began the week ringing out the old year at a friend's home (although we wimped out and returned to our own home in time to see the ball descend, yell greetings to the new year, and to collapse in our beds).
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| My father's copy of Ferdinand, and his great-granddaughter's copy, too. |
N-son returned to school, such as it was; the cold and snow caused several two-hour delays and even one entirely cancelled day. The snow and cold haven't caused him as much anguish as his dead phone has, however, and we are ending the week with attempts to resurrect an older phone and/or purchase a new one. (Late-breaking update: successful on both counts!)
My husband got to go protest in front of Comcast, one of Senator Toomey's big supporters, rallying for a reinstatement of Net Neutrality.
As for me, the theme of the week has mostly been health-and-well-being. On Tuesday, I got to give blood (whoop!), and on Wednesday I got my two cracked fillings fixed (yay? ouch?). And today I set a personal record for coldest outdoor run (4 degrees, warming to 5 degrees by the end). It was so much fun!
But the biggest health adventure wasn't directly my own. One of my good friends, at a party I hosted on Friday night, suddenly had a seizure. I've never seen a seizure before, so when it happened, all of a sudden, I was seeing something that reminded me of the characters in Sci-Fi movies who are about to have alien beings burst from their bodies. Fortunately, I had other friends there who had calmer heads than I, and who got my friend to the floor and on her side, and who remembered to time the seizure. I called 911, who came by and evaluated my friend as she slowly (to me) recovered.
The whole event brought into sharp focus both how incredibly vulnerable we are in our health, but also how resilient we can be; after a few minutes my friend was back to consciousness; it took another 10 minutes to become reoriented (remember what year it was and be able to sit up again), and soon after that the EMTs left and we resumed the party (a little more somber than before, but surprisingly okay). My friend slept well last night and is doing fine today. I'm so grateful.
This weekend we're preparing for my up-coming trip to the big math meetings in San Diego. No cold-weather running records for me next week!
And that's the news from the Miser Family, which continues to be prosperous (and fortunately, resiliently healthy) in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
Enjoy San Diego, that's my hometown! Wish I were going there as well, winter here in MN has been brutal.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I get to go be where there's nice weather AND nice math! I'm looking forward to it.
DeleteSan Diego to MN is indeed a weather move that comes with a bit of adjustment, I'd have to say!