Every evening when
I type the date on my blog post, I wonder where the month of November has gone.
How can we be halfway through already, with Thanksgiving a week away? I do NOT want
to hear how many shopping days are left until Christmas. Have you done your
shopping? I’ve got a good start on mine—all online ordering, since it’s hard
for me to get out and shop, and I never was a good shopper anyway. Bless
Amazon.
Worked long and
hard today on the neighborhood newsletter but it’s the kind of work I enjoy—tracking
down details, checking on facts, rearranging words and punctuation. For me,
that’s fun. In one article there was a reference to a Miss Maberry. From
context I could tell she grew up in our neighborhood in the 1920s, but she just
seemed to hang there in space. It was an article reprinted from years ago, so
the original author was not available to question. I asked a friend who’s an
author/historian/archivist/researcher, and she soon came up with fascinating
information on Miss Maberry, who apparently lived in her parents’ house all her
life, a single lady. That kind of little stuff really excites me.
Tomorrow, back to
editing the next novel. I’ve been dillydallying because my editor can’t look at
it until January. But a conversation with dinner pal Betty tonight plus a
reminder from my webmaster made me realize I have a lot to do between now and
January 1 and I better get to it.
Betty and I took
Jacob with us and went to a reception that Jordan’s new company gave to welcome
her tonight. We only planned to stay fifteen minutes. She introduced us as only
staying five minutes—is there a message there? Just kidding. We had both
dressed carefully to make her proud, and we were so impressed with both the
office space and the people. Lots of sincere greetings, a beautiful space with
a lot of wood decorating it, a kitchen that was to-die-for and chefs from a cruise
company at work in the kitchen. Bonus: good wine.
The office is
U-shaped and wraps around a patio that is all wooden deck, with lights in the
trees. The party drifted through the offices but was centered on the deck. Really
classy event, and I’m so proud of my baby child and so happy for her.
We went to a local
restaurant having a lobster festival, and I had a lobster roll—good, the meat
tender (sometimes it’s not when you’re far from the ocean and it’s been frozen
and cooked too long). Betty, who cannot resist shrimp just because I can’t have
them, had lobster/shrimp Newburg. Jacob had cheese pizza, and we brought a
whole lot of it home.
Nice, now,
well-fed and socialized, to be home in jammies and at my desk. Jacob is
supposed to be doing his homework. I can see that he just turned off the TV, so
maybe that’s a step in the right direction.
The world seems to
be in its place. Okay, we won’t talk about tax plans and health care bills
though I can’t help giggling: 45 cut the advertising budget and enrollment time
for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, as a way of killing it. A record
number of people have already signed up. Anyone believe in karma?
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