Happy 2006!

[susandennis]

I was right.  While I was asleep, apparently, 2006 got a good start.  Whew. 

I called Mom this morning.  Yesterday her voice sounded sluggish and like it was coming from kind of under water.  She made sense but slow sense.  Today she sounded like she was pumped with happy drugs.  It was nearly funny.  Her voice was crisp and clear.  She said she was out of breath because she had just been across the room.  She said "I thought they were going to let me go home today."  "But, Mom, you are going to have surgery tomorrow."  "Well, yeah, I found that out!" and she giggled!  She did not sound worried or sad or frustrated or bored.  She sounded delighted and happy.  She said she'd call me back when she got her breath back.  She has no way to call me. (She could have the nurse's desk call me in an emergency but I'm not sure she knows that.)
 But I love that she thinks she can. And honestly, having her sound so chipper really made my day.

I have nothing that has to be done today - nice.

Well, I need to get out of bed and plug this laptop back into the mother ship so it can get rejuiced.  'Sok, tho, I need more coffee anyway.  Life of Riley... (now, there's an old reference for you! and for the record, I was too young to remember the Jackie Gleason episodes...)

Comments

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

I remember The Life of Riley. We never missed it. But, like you, I don't remember Gleason, only Bendix. I can still envision him lying in the hammock. and saying, "What a revoltin' development this is!"

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I remember the show (Bendix only) -- just. I see that Gleason was in the 1949-50 season only, and we got our first TV set in the summer of '50 (and I wouldn't have been watching such a show in 1950 anyway). For me, Jackie Gleason == Ralph Kramden.