1. I'm slow.
Today I worked to get the kitchen spiffed up by clearing counters and much of the kitchen table, taking care of dishes, sweeping, accounting for my many bottles of pills that I've taken in the past and am not taking now, and so on.
I realized that being slow doing these sorts of things also means that it helps me get them done by staying home.
I'm lousy at rushing.
So, today, knowing that I wouldn't be leaving the house, I slowly and at a relaxed pace, with no rushing, finished a lot of tasks around the house and enjoyed doing them.
Slowly.
2. I was happy, however, to be interrupted by visits from both Carol and Christy.
Carol dealt with Copper's litter box -- this is so huge since I'm forbidden from doing it.
Christy dropped off an indescribably delicious meatloaf she just finished cooking.
She made two loaves and gave one of them to me.
She found a recipe for a meatloaf without any tomato product in it and it was so delicious that it was all I could do not to scarf the entire thing in one sitting.
I restrained myself and look forward to continuing to enjoy this meatloaf over the next couple of days.
3. After dinner and a little more clean up, I thought I'd watch more episodes of Poker Face.
But, the episode I watched this evening was so intense, I just needed to sit/lie with it for the rest of the evening.
It's crucial to the ongoing storyline of Poker Face to know that, at least so far, every new episode begins with Charlie Cale in a different location working a new job.
In this episode, she's employed somewhere as a janitor in a retirement home.
In this blog, I wrote, after seeing the movie Conclave, how much I enjoy seeing older actors work.
This episode featured two legendary longtime veterans of stage, screen, and television: S. Ephatha Merkerson and Judith Light -- and, come to think of it, a third, K Callan.
I don't want to give any plot details away about this episode.
I'll just say that it made me laugh, scared me, so much I was shaking, thanks in large part to the brilliant acting of Merkerson and Light. And Callan.
In addition, my growing affection for Natasha Lyonne's work as Charlie Cale increased, as did my affection for Charlie Cale herself.
I'm sure that after a good night's sleep, helped along by my having watched about thirty minutes or so of The Big Lebowski before I dozed off, I'll be ready for episode 6 of Poker Face on New Year's Day!
(It also helped me settle down, before watching the Dude, to sit up with Gibbs for over an hour to help calm his excitement. In front of our house, on the south side of Big Cameron Avenue, two law enforcement officers with the blue and red lights of their two cars flashing the whole time, processed an arrest [I assume] and one of the officers stayed with the pickup of the perpetrator, whom I never saw, until a tow truck arrived to take it away. I put Gibbs on his leash and sat up with him so he'd stop manic barking. Once the officers and the tow truck left, Gibbs was fine and quiet for the rest of the night. Copper was unmoved by all of this.)
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