May 23, 2007
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Friends coming to visit
Friends of ours from Savannah, Georgia called today to let us know they were coming to visit us for the Memorial Day weekend. Both are fun and interesting. She is a psychiatrist that specializes in the anger issues that many handicapped adults have and the problems they face in society. He is a mechanical engineer with a zest for learning new things all the time and a perfectionist in everything he does. He’s tried (and learned) many different things in his life and had several companies that he dissolved once he had mastered them (figure out that one !) I guess it comes from having a wife that was making so much money that he was free to try almost anything without worrying about paying bills, unlike most other people. It makes for many enjoyable conversations when sitting around the deck. Especially since we’ve known him for so many years and know that he isn’t talking through his hat.
She got a special award from the state of Georgia for her work and is asked by the Governor to address many gatherings if her schedule allows. One of the first things she does is get rid of many of the drugs that her people have been on because she says they don’t solve the issues these people face but merely make them more *manageable* which she finds unacceptable. It’s very demanding work for her but she loves it.
She and her husband are looking forward to being able to retire, however, and recently purchased a second home about a half hour away from us. It’s a brand new, smaller home (well, smaller than the huge home they now live in) on a beautiful lake south of us. The yard is small, which makes HIM happy but has the big, new and high tech kitchen that SHE insists on having. They make friends easily and love to entertain so they both should have a lot of fun when she no longer has to work six days a week most weeks. Her having the whole memorial weekend off is a rare treat and I am looking forward to spending the time with her.
The husband is MY hubby’s friend for many years. They both got their AC Contractors licenses together and even considered going into business together at one time. However, it didn’t work out since WE stayed in Florida and HE moved to New York due to his (at the time) wife becoming ill. Since the hubby doesn’t make friends easily, it’s a treat that he has someone around other than me to talk to for a while.
I’m updating this because I can’t stay asleep with the Beast moaning and groaning every time he moves in bed. His leg is still very stiff and sore even though he did try to rest it today. He DID spend time watering his new grass twice, however, and did it by hand so he had to stand up and walk around more than I thought he should. He’s too stubborn to listen to me so I just watched and worried.
I had to break down and take half a pain pill today because, unlike most other days, I could not get the muscles in my back to relax. Making dinner was a real chore and made me break out in a sweat a couple times. But I got through it and went to bed early.
Now the bad thing about going to bed early is that you tend to get up early because of it. You would think that while trying to heal you might actually use the extra time available for some therapeutic rest. It doesn’t work that way. If I go to bed between 9pm and 10 pm, I wake up around 6am and can’t return to sleep. It doesn’t help that the sun is usually up by that time so I think that has a lot to do with it.
Since the Beast was watching the basketball playoffs, I hit the sack around 8pm figuring that I might be able to get a couple hours of decent sleep before he joined me in bed. No such luck. I was exhausted and, I think, overtired so I lay there for almost two hours before drifting off. I MIGHT have gotten an hours rest before the Beast climbed noisily into bed moaning and groaning loud enough to wake me as he got settled. If I wasn’t expecting company, I might have actually gone and slept in the guest room. I just don’t want to have to put another set of fresh linens on so I will be heading back to our room shortly and give it another try.
On a worrisome note, I changed the nectar in the hummingbird feeder a couple days ago and noticed that we weren’t getting any hummingbirds. I really got concerned because we are used to seeing them feeding almost constantly. I finally went over and gave it a shake and realized it’s been *vapor=locked* I guess is how you describe it. I got lots of air bubbles until I finally felt and saw the nectar reach the flowers. I just hope they find out it’s *working* again.
Our friends are going to want to go out to eat at least once while they are here (and we will probably make the trip to their new home to see how the finishing work is going) so both the Beast and I need to be in halfway decent shape by this weekend. Pray for us because we don’t want to be wet blankets for this. There is nothing worse than being in pain while having company. It makes them feel like they are intruding and you feel like a bad host or hostess.
Have a great day everyone.
