3/20/2022

 

Weekly Update 03/20/2022

All week I was pretty much preparing for Lisa’s visit. I got a haircut and pedi on Monday. The pedi is fine, the haircut is too short. I cleaned all week, but I did it in little spurts – one day the floors, one day the bathrooms, TWO days the porch. The pine dust on the floor, carpet and furniture was unbelievable. I needed to bring the furniture in and hose it down in the shower, but it looks ever so much better now. I got the car washed. I did not shop too much for groceries, because we’ll be eating out a lot.

On Tuesday, I met with the Pooler Library book club in person at the library for the first time ever. Faces that I had only seen on the screen at a zoom meeting were right there in the same room. It was great. The discussion was good, and I think that’s because we all read the same book. I have high hopes that now that we we can meet in person again, this book club might be more enjoyable for me.

The forecast for Wednesday was 100% rain all day long. I rather dreaded going to DH, because with all the new construction, and the questions about how and where to begin the tour, I wasn’t sure if I would be soaking wet for most of the day. But it only sprinkled briefly for one tour, and the others were fine. Some day soon, this will all be familiar again, and I’ll know exactly what I need to do. But for an old person like me, all change is difficult.

Thursday was St Patrick’s Day. I wanted to avoid downtown. I like that the City is enthusiastic about welcoming the Irish, but I don’t need to be a part of it. Many people have Irish flags hanging from their porches, and all the fountains are filled with green water. This was the first time in three years that the parade has been held, and everyone looked forward to it – except me. The best I could do was to wear a green shirt.

And then, and then…

Lisa arrived about 12:30 Friday afternoon. Man, it was good to see her! She let herself in the gate (I’d given her the code), and I didn’t even know she was here until I had a knock at the door. We had a little time for her to settle in and visit, but the rental car she drove from Florida needed to be returned to the airport. After that we drove downtown, but had no time to get out and walk. We just went past some of the biggest changes since she went away like the Power Plant district, past her old house on East Broad Street, around Forsyth Park, and then went back out to Pooler to pickup take away food and get Kay. The three of us spent a nice evening just being together again.

Saturday, we started off with Story Time With Great Grannie. I read a couple of books to Adrian, and Lisa got to see how absolutely adorable he is. Because we had tickets for the evening performance of Mama Mia at the Savannah Theater, we picked up Kay in the afternoon. We went to eat at Tequila Town, a favorite restaurant. We stopped quickly at The Rail bar, but didn’t stay for too long. The people watching near City Market was excellent. We all enjoyed the musical very much, and it was wonderful! We danced and sang, and just had a great time.

Sunday we met Kay for breakfast (and Bloody Mary’s) at a restaurant in Pooler. But that was it. I needed to take a nap, and that left Lisa with an opportunity to read her book. We watched another video and played some Rummikub. Lisa, my personal IT guy, helped me with loading photos on the pc and updating itunes. She put the Mama Mia cast recording on my phone. Because my car doesn’t have a cd player, this is the only way we’ll be able to sing along with Abba as we drive around this week.

The week ahead is going to be full and amazing.