1. I had fun with the whirlwind today.
My bebopping around began with a drive to Osburn where I donated the clothes and bedding I cleared out of the closet yesterday to St. Vincent's and I stopped at Capparelli's Espresso stand for a latte for the drive to CdA.
I glided into CdA and went to Supercuts where I was the only customer. Robin went right to work and had me out the door in under fifteen minutes.
2. I decided, just to do something different, to blast up to Petco and check out the cat food situation. All I was looking for, really, was variety and that's just what I found, so I bought two thirty-two packs of wet food. Each pack had four varieties of styles, some fish, some meat.
I probably care more about this variety idea than Copper does, but I had fun thinking it matters to him!
I then sat in the Petco parking lot for a while and read a riveting email from Scott Shirk. I had written him a kind of long email thanking him for giving me the book A Month in the Country, one of his touchstone books, and I told him about working my way through the Leah Sottile list of book recommendations.
Scott's response made me very happy -- he told me about reading he's been doing, his recent plunge into the music of King Crimson, and he sent me two gorgeous pictures, one of Cate (his wife) with their daughter Aarabella and one of Arabella alone, and, whether or not he intended to, made me wish I were going to New York City soon -- and to Brooklyn, where he and Cate and Arabella live.
Scott and I have done some awesome roaming in Manhattan and it's been twelve years since I visited the Shirk family's residence in Brooklyn.
Immune system willing, I'm ready to be leavin' on a jet plane and get back to New York (and Washington, D. C.) again as soon as possible!
3. I indulged in a really fun shopping trip to Costco. (No sarcasm. I always have a blast in Costco.)
Once I gassed up the Camry, I made sure that we'd be set for the next couple of months or more with ground beef, chicken wings, shrimp. try tip steaks, dishwasher pods, oatmeal, olive oil, paper towels, and maybe some other things. I also took care of making purchases so that Debbie and I are all set to make our Sunday family dinner contributions.
I popped into Pilgrim's Market after Costco to buy more Cravens Earth and Sky ground coffee and snagged a morning glory muffin out of the bakery case. On my way to the freeway, I snuck into Union Roasters and treated myself to a latte for the road.
Whew!
Pre-transplant, this was exactly the kind of trip to CdA that I used to enjoy topping off with delicious craft beer at any one of CdA's fine breweries and tap rooms.
But, for now, I'm abstaining.
Maybe I'm being too cautious, but so what!
I want the medications I take twice a day to keep my body from rejecting my new kidney to work and if there's even only an outside chance that alcohol could interact poorly with those medications, you'll find me on the wagon!
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