Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family this week. It's been a week of going places, really.
As for me, I went not too far; a friend of mine took me out for an upper endoscopy, which was an interesting experience (not that I remember much about it). While my nurse was hooking me up to the heart monitor, she looked a bit startled and then asked, "Are you a runner, by any chance?" I said yes, and asked why. She said, "well, then your low heart rate is a good kind of low heart rate." What was my heart rate, I asked? 43. So, that was kind of neat to know.
I-daughter went to a knitting retreat. Did you know there are such things? Well, now you do.
K-daughter nearly electrocuted herself at her job this week, but fortunately what could have been fairly dangerous merely provided an incredibly good scare and a life-long lesson on double-checking that the power is truly off. She also writes,
I made a full rotary damper for our unit this week. I'm the only one fully making these systems right now, since my other co workers are working on upgrading our machines. I made a few mistakes this week, and order of assembly has beeN changed many times, but I'm proud of myself for making a fully functional damper unit AND with our new fan installation :)
And speaking of being face-to-face with N-son, my husband came back from Paris, hung around here for a day or so, and then went out to visit N-son, bring another round of meds, and start talking about spending money stuff. The visit went well, and my guy sent a long email full of updates. I've excerpted a bunch of that letter here:
N-son is doing great! Really. He is happier than I have seen him in, well, ever.
When we went out to dinner, he talked. Usually when we eat together it is difficult for me to get him to talk. He was telling me about his counselors. He has an academic counselor he sees every day and a personal counselor he sees on Wednesdays.
N-son meditates now. He likes it. He plays basketball on the intramural team. They have games every Thursday.
N-son likes his roommate A-man and has some things in common with him. A-man is adopted from Russia. A-man is a NASCAR fan. When N-son comes home next, or on my next visit, he wants the Dale Earnhardt tapestry for the wall in his room! A-man takes N-son to the town. A-man can drive and his family has some kind of ceramics business. So A-man occasionally drives a U-Haul truck. He and N-son ride around town in a U-Haul. N-son loves that amid the cars and SUVs in the parking lot, A-man parks a moving van.
N-son has two personal days he has not used. He is going to ask to take them Thursday and Friday, February 21 & 22, to come home for the Black History Month Dinner weekend. I bought the ticket, and can change if necessary. He hopes to go to [the rescue mission] on Friday to see [his mentor there] and others.
He says he plans to go year-round which will have him finishing up in the Spring of 2020. He said he misses Mom's cooking! He seems very happy overall and likes the school. As we walked the long hall to his room he greeted several kids along the hallway. When we were in N-son's room a kid from across the hall came over and introduced himself and said he looks out for N-son because N-son is new.
I am soooooooooo happy for N-son. It is wonderful to see him be one of the cool kids.
Love
What else? On the "going places" motif, my husband has made it a regular habit to walk me to my office in the morning and then bike back. The snow and ice that roared in this past week made the bike part of his routine impractical, so he's been walking both ways. A friend saw us walking to school late this week and thought we were so cute together she took our picture. (I'm holding a decoration for the upcoming Chinese New Year.)And, that's the news from our family, which continues to be prosperous in places to go and things to do. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
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