A Sunday Meme; Easter Sunday; Cell phone technophobe

I know it's not Sunday, but I'm going to start this entry with a meme from Sunday Stealing. Lazy of me, I know, but it will probably get me through until my baclofen takes effect on my painful and jumpy legs.


Sunday Stealing: The Green Meme

1. What is your current obsession? Waiting for Spring!

2. What’s a good coffee place? Bertolino's Coffee, either on 23rd/Union, or on 40th/Orchard in Tacoma.

3. Who was the last person that you hugged? DH, of course. But before that, it was my SIL last Saturday.

4. Do you nap a lot? Depends. In the summer when it's warm - yes. When I go and do too much - yes. Otherwise, not so much.

5. Tonight, what’s for dinner? Lentil and vegetable soup with rice that DH made awhile ago. (Frozen leftovers.) Yummy.

6. What was the last thing that you bought? A box of a dozen bars of sandalwood soap for $4.50 in Chinatown on Saturday.

7. What is your favorite weather? Oh, Sunny and 73 degrees with a very light breeze.

8. Tell us something about one blogger who you think will play this week? Um - nothing comes to me.

9. If you were given a free house that was fully furnished, where in the world would you like it to be? Somewhere with the weather in #7, with a nice view of the sunset and water.

10. Name three things that you could not live without. Food, Water, Love.

11. What would you like in your hands right now? One of my cats.

12. What’s one of your guilty pleasures? Chocolate Mousse - homemade the right way.

13. What would you change or eliminate about yourself? About 35 pounds.

14. As a child, what type of career did you want? A nun; a concert pianist; a writer.

15. What are you missing right now? HEAT. The warmth of Spring. Will it ever come? I'm tired of the cold. Really, I am. Enough already!

16. What are you currently reading? Blogs, Magazines -- O, Better Homes and Gardens, and Family Circle. Been slackin' in the reading department.

17. What do you fear the most? Becoming a widow.

18. What’s the best movie that you’ve seen recently? My House in Umbria.

19. What’s your favorite book from the past year? The Winding Ways Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverelli

20. Is there a comfort food from your childhood that you still enjoy? Mom's Spaghetti, or her pies.

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So then, Easter Sunday was pleasantly spent at my cousin's in North Tacoma. So far, she is managing quite well with her macular degeneration. She has had her first treatment which consisted of numbing her eye with a Q-tip wet with anesthetic (she had to sit there with the Q-tip sitting on her eye with her eyelid gently holding it in place). Are you squirming yet? There's more. The treatment is a shot right into the eyeball. I know. I get shivers just thinking about it. The nurse told her that the "average" patient requires ten such treatments before noticable results are observed. So we shall have to wait and see if it works.

We had a bone-in ham and a rib roast for dinner, with all the fixin's, and brownies and a banana cream pie for dessert. She served some wine, a ? Shiraz from California - it was a dry, full-bodied red, and the best wine I've had in a very long time. DH liked it too - but if I found it and brought a bottle home, he said he wouldn't drink any, so it would probably go bad before I could finish it. [I might just do it anyway, though.]

Since I had just gotten my new cell phone, I asked my younger cousin (next generation - 1st cousin once removed) who is 20 to help me figure it out. The directions that come with it are woefully inadequate. Lots of info on how to add minutes, or go online, but very little on how to make basic calls versus text messages, and how to send pictures. Technology - Arghh! I will need to sit down with someone and have them show me. I must say, I love the camera feature. Once I get some, I'll post current pics of my kitties for y'all. On that note, I'll say

Good Night, TTYL and Be Well