2025 Life Logs, Day 107: Topsy Turvy
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Weather: Sunny; High Temp 55, Low 37 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
By 8:45 am this morning, I had done my morning back exercises and had taken Shadow for his morning walk. I took a deep breath and thought that I had a whole day before me with the only pressing thing I needed to do was to finish reading a few pages of the book for my Friday morning “Beyond the White House” course. This week’s chapter focused on John Quincy Adams, son of the second US President, US Senator, US Secretary of State, sixth US President, and then member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts 1831 until his death in 1848. At 8:45 am, I was imaging sitting down with a cup of tea and reading for a bit. But that is not what happened. The day with nothing to do went topsy turvy. I spent my entire morning texting, emailing, and talking on the phone about my sister who was hospitalized yesterday. By the end of the day today, she was doing fine and might go home tomorrow. But because I am my sister’s legally appointed health care proxy and literally oversee her daily life from afar (she is in North Carolina), there was an entire morning of texts, emails, and phone calls required in dealing with things. I did get to do my required reading in the afternoon, but that relaxed day just didn’t happen.
My day did end with a bit of fun. Heather invited me to join the family for dinner at Liam Maguire’s Iris Pub on Main Street where we listened to Thursday night live jazz as we ate. Ollie’s saxophone private teacher and Jonah’s high school band director were playing with the group tonight. Both are fabulous musicians and role models. So at least my day ended on a high note.
