We went out on Friday night to celebrate my mother’s 84th birthday. My mother is stunning and doing very well, but we all cooed over Anita, Ginny’s baby girl who is not only a cutie, but did super well at dinner.
It was also a nice celebration because my dad found out that morning that he didn’t have eyeball cancer. I guess at a regular eye checkup a few weeks ago, the regular eye doctor found something “weird” and declared it eyeball cancer and sent dad to the eye cancer specialist. It was a tense two week wait for that appointment as my father settled on the fact that he did have eyeball cancer was going to die from it and spent the two weeks trying to teach my mother how to pay the bills (I’m sure she has forgotten already, as I would have as well), but the eyeball cancer specialist was totally like – that is NOT eyeball cancer which made my mother’s birthday party much more like a celebration. He went to Johns Hopkins again yesterday to another eyeball specialist who also declared it NOT cancer. Whew. Anyways, I also want to give huge props to my parents for taking Uber everywhere. They took an Uber to the appointment in McLean Va and then again to Baltimore for the JHU appointment. They are basically Ubering everywhere that is outside their neighborhood – to which I give a big high-five too. Good job! I don’t have to kill my entire day by driving them around and nor do they have to do driving that is stressful to everyone.
I’m still decluttering – I’m almost done. It’s like everything, the last 10% is takes forever. I found so many fun pictures. When we were so young.
Jeremy went to visit his parents and Alan up in PA taking our electric car and Elka with him. The electric car did fine, Elka seemed a bit pissed – we needed to board her for about 8 hours during the day on Sunday and it was sub optimal, but she’s still alive. Jeremy did lots of socializing which involved music performances and lunches and dinners. All good.
I, on the other hand, stayed at home. Eliana worked both days hanging out with Edda – so I got to go to a Neighborhood of MD meeting, sing in choir, swim. And I also got to go to the Action Auction celebration at night where I won 6 hours of handyman tasks (which I won in a live auction) and I won the raffle for the best parking spot in the lot (which I feel sometimes silly about because I’m within walking distance of the church). I’m on a raffle winning streak. I won a raffle from Camp Hill a few months ago which has a bird house and a beautiful mosaic which I forgot to ask Jeremy to pick up and just yesterday, I won another raffle from JCC which includes bagels, a manicure and golf!
Sunday morning I sang with my friends. Lots of fun.
