Tuesday, March 13th 2007
Yesterday was a pretty monumental day and now that I’ve shook off the hangover and finished my work I thought I would write about it.
These past few weeks have been kind of emotional for me. I’m certainly grateful for having emotions and I do believe in exercising them on a regular basic. So I’m not complaining. Just stating a fact. One of the things that has been weighing heavy on my heart lately is the loss of a very important friendship. It’s absolutely akin to the breakup of a long-term romance.
So I was kind of hoping that I could find someone to have breakfast with me. I dropped my son of at school a little after 7:30 and proceeded to see if I could find anyone awake and available to meet. I know. Seven-thirty is and ungodly time to call. But hey, I was up. I figured I couldn’t be the only one.
Well I eventually gave up and went home. I was listen to the CD Essence by Lucinda Williams. There is a song on the album called “Are You Down?” which gave me just the inspiration I needed to work on this song that has been tumbling around in my brain for the past year and a half. Both the songs are about moving on after a breakup. It’s amazing how this current breakup has got me back in touch with my feelings about previous breakups. Once I got home it probably took me less than 20 minutes to rip out two more verses and complete the song. Something felt very significant about completing that song. Like I wasn’t ready to finish it before yesterday. But now I am completely ready to move on.
Then at noon I had my pre-op physical. Friday I’m having surgery on my eye. It’s basically just cosmetic surgery but under general anesthetic it’s going to be painful so I’ll be pretty hopped up on narcotics for a while. Anyway, they did an EKG and a blood draw and I’m proud to report that not only do I have blood but I have a heart to pump it.
Then I picked up my daughter from school. It was such a gorgeous day that we came home and she immediately changed into a t-shirt and skort. I took my lunch and my guitar and we went outside. She had fun running around and I ate and played and sang.
When my son got home we went over to my parents. They live only a couple miles away but have been in Mexico since January. It was great to see them and so much to catch up on. Have I mentioned that my dad makes a mean Tanqueray and tonic. Well he does. We went out for diner where I suppose I could have continued with the T&T’s but opted for a beer instead. I was driving after all.
But once I got home I headed back into the T&T’s. Various people stopped by that evening and kept me entertained and drinking until after midnight when I finally got to bed.
There is certainly more I could say but that’s about all the typing I want to do and about all you need to know. I’m sure you’ll ask if you want more details.
These past few weeks have been kind of emotional for me. I’m certainly grateful for having emotions and I do believe in exercising them on a regular basic. So I’m not complaining. Just stating a fact. One of the things that has been weighing heavy on my heart lately is the loss of a very important friendship. It’s absolutely akin to the breakup of a long-term romance.
So I was kind of hoping that I could find someone to have breakfast with me. I dropped my son of at school a little after 7:30 and proceeded to see if I could find anyone awake and available to meet. I know. Seven-thirty is and ungodly time to call. But hey, I was up. I figured I couldn’t be the only one.
Well I eventually gave up and went home. I was listen to the CD Essence by Lucinda Williams. There is a song on the album called “Are You Down?” which gave me just the inspiration I needed to work on this song that has been tumbling around in my brain for the past year and a half. Both the songs are about moving on after a breakup. It’s amazing how this current breakup has got me back in touch with my feelings about previous breakups. Once I got home it probably took me less than 20 minutes to rip out two more verses and complete the song. Something felt very significant about completing that song. Like I wasn’t ready to finish it before yesterday. But now I am completely ready to move on.
Then at noon I had my pre-op physical. Friday I’m having surgery on my eye. It’s basically just cosmetic surgery but under general anesthetic it’s going to be painful so I’ll be pretty hopped up on narcotics for a while. Anyway, they did an EKG and a blood draw and I’m proud to report that not only do I have blood but I have a heart to pump it.
Then I picked up my daughter from school. It was such a gorgeous day that we came home and she immediately changed into a t-shirt and skort. I took my lunch and my guitar and we went outside. She had fun running around and I ate and played and sang.
When my son got home we went over to my parents. They live only a couple miles away but have been in Mexico since January. It was great to see them and so much to catch up on. Have I mentioned that my dad makes a mean Tanqueray and tonic. Well he does. We went out for diner where I suppose I could have continued with the T&T’s but opted for a beer instead. I was driving after all.
But once I got home I headed back into the T&T’s. Various people stopped by that evening and kept me entertained and drinking until after midnight when I finally got to bed.
There is certainly more I could say but that’s about all the typing I want to do and about all you need to know. I’m sure you’ll ask if you want more details.