I’m still in a funk about my back, but I’ve told myself that today is the last day I’m allowed to have a pity party about it. One of my besties dragged me out of the house last night and we went to dinner. And by dragged, I mean she said, “You are not bailing on me. Get in the shower and take a vicodin. I’m picking you up at 6:30.”
It helped. A lot. It didn’t hurt that I got to whine and the waiter presented us with carbohydrates, wine and chocolate. Dinner was awesome. Until my friend leaned across the table and slapped my arm. Which then made me jerk in surprise and whack my fingers on the table.
“What the–”
She sputtered, “I’m so sorry. It’s a knee jerk reaction. Mosquito.”
I looked down at my arm. There was a black blob and blood. Gross.
I wiped it away with my napkin. My brain was still processing and I felt the need to state the obvious. “There’s blood.”
She was giggling, I think still surprised. “Honey, that’s yours. And on that note, let’s go. I have a wet wipe in the car.”
That’s what friends are for, right? To get you buzzed, hit you and then offer you a wet wipe to clear away the blood.
And On That Note
One of my daughter’s classmate’s mom posted on Facebook about needing a dog crate to use while they foster a dog they’d found wandering the streets, I presume with no collar and no micro-chip. We still had an extra-large crate from when we had a large dog. Toby weighed nearly 70 pounds. (She passed away last summer at the age of 14.) Eddie weighs 12 pounds. He doesn’t qualify for large dog status. Although, he thinks he does. but that’s another story altogether.
I told the mom she could have ours. It looked like this, except older, dirtier and with some rust on the corners:
Imagine a chihuahua/miniature-dachsund camped out in there. It was silly. Plus, now that he’s out of his puppy stage and I’m home most of the time, we don’t use it. (He used to drag trash, socks, the kids’ toys and dish towels in there. He must have thought we couldn’t, you know, see through the walls.)
That is the big decluttering action for now. Not monumental, but it did take up a lot of space and it’s one less thing.