Quiet Day

Many thanks to all hat and earring contributors. I have lots of choices now, many colors to wear, many styles to choose from. I feel very warm and loved.

It’s a very quiet day. I’m taking it slowly because I have no choice in the matter. My energy is quite low and I sleep a lot. I’d like to exercise more, but it sounds very complicated right now. Everything sounds complicated. I remember that I used to feel pretty good. I hope that will happen again. I truly dread this next round of chemo, but I keep assuring myself that I have the power to refuse it if my doctor won’t reduce it to a tolerable level. I have no desire to land in the hospital again. Twice was enough.

On another topic, last night was fun. Glen came over and brought some DVDs. We watched the Lake House, which was a very slow moving chick flick. I like chick flicks as a rule, but I could have used a car chase or a sword fight after that one. We made it a pajama party. Of course, every day is a pajama day for me, but Glen wore pajamas in solidarity. David wore pajamas because he never bothered putting on clothes all day.

David cooked a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for Christmas Eve dinner, but that was our only concession to Christmas this year. Usually David puts up a tree, but thought it was too much work this year. The dinner was great, however, and afterwards we trooped upstairs to see the second feature, Little Miss Sunshine. Although many of us had seen it before, it was delightful to see it again. It manages to combine wonderful slapstick with an ongoing Proust vs. Nietzsche theme. And it was encouraging to see a dysfunctional family pull together in support of their youngest member without losing any of their dysfunctionality.

Jasper called today. He had yesterday off entirely and today as well. He says the play is a mess at this point, but Michael Preston assured him that every Karamazov project was as torturous as this one. Paul wrote a four hour play that they are trying to cut down to a two and a half hour play. Jasper says they will just have time to block it and do tech before the previews but no time to do any sort of fine tuning. Still, Jasper is enjoying the process of rehearsal. He’s the young guy so it falls to him to do all the fighting and dancing and lugging things around.

Gavi spent the last week writing music with his friend Yuri for their band The Planets. Yuri goes to school in Bellingham and Emily, the other member, goes to school at BYU in Idaho. It’s not like they get together a lot, but it always seems to be fruitful when they do. Gavi is also in a couple of other bands, Funk Shui and Danish Modern.