words to describe the trip
family
snow
difficult
long
over
things i’m thankful for
well, new to me, anyhow.
i flew to la friday to pick up what used to be my brother’s car, and which was my father’s car before that. on the way down i sat next to a guy who worked as part of the stage design team for madonna. he said they’d had to fly to sjc to spend two hours sorting out some weight problems with the lighting. actually, he only said the two ours part, the rest i sorted out based on what he was talking to his co workers about.
la was just like pretty anywhere else with my family. we painte a wall in bro’s new place, watched a move (d.v.code) and ate out. i napped while bro and dad painted the wall since i didn’t know to bring painting clothes.
then, sunday am dad and i got in the car super early and drove up to sf where we met my realtor and looked at property. then we met sp guy for lunch and i dropped dad at the airport. after working out with ‘b’, during which i was in an even worse mood that usual, i met up with sp guy again and we went to see ‘hedge’ since it didn’t seem it would require a huge amount of mental or physical energy.
my cat was very glad to see me come home, and immediately dripped two spots of drool on my leg as a reward for returning. love that galahad.
again: new car! new car!
today is grandpa’s birthday. he would have been 86. wow, grandma was a cradle robber! he was just really lucky that no one else got to her first.
(she was engaged twice before marrying my grandfather, but grandpa’s engagement was the only one that took.)
mom said that when grandpa was sick in the hospital, she asked him to please send her a sign if there is a heaven and he gets there before her. she said what she wanted was for, wherever she was, please make it rain on his birthday.
(her original idea had to do with just one video conference, please. she changed to the rain, though, because she thought this would be really easy for him to do.)
the past couple days have been warm and sunny. yet, this morning when she left to take my dad to the airport as they pulled out of the garage it started to rain. it rained the whole way from barberton to cleaveland.
mom asked her brother, ‘what do you think?’
and he said, ‘i can tell you i’m glad it rained.’
me, too.
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um… so my dad’s coming into town ‘in a few weeks’. while he’s visiting for the weekend he’s going to maybe help me buy a house.
i don’t know if it can happen that fast. i don’t know if there’s anything in our price range that’s livable.
but i might be a homeowner within a month.
*gulp*
