Mutiny on Redwood Road

FRIDAY, MAY 08, 2009 Today I needed to pick Jayden and Bailey up from school. Judy and I were also going to the new 5:40 p.m. Star Trek movie at Jordan Commons. Time was tight so it was decided that I would take the kids to Niki’s so the four kids, Jayden, Bailey, Alexa and Gavin could play and I could rush off to the show. Corey would pick them up there. The traffic on Redwood Road was horrible and it looked like there wouldn’t be time to go to Niki’s. I called Corey and told him I was going to drop his two off at his work instead. I had a mutiny on my hands. Jayden and Bailey threw a tantrum; yelling and semi-cussing. Luckily the traffic picked up a little before we reached Bangerter and I decided we could make it on time after all. The storm was abated and I now longer feared for my life.

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP & TETHERBALL

MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009 Today Niki called and said Alexa wanted me to go to their house. Niki had homemade chicken noodle soup. My watch was still on Arizona time so I didn’t get to their house until oneish. The chicken noodle soup was delicious. We visited for just a little while before I rushed off. Corey had called while I was on my way to Niki’s house and asked if I could pick Jayden and Bailey up after school. I picked them up and took them to their house. Sometimes they walk. It is near their house but Corey doesn’t want them their alone. We weren’t home long when they said they wanted to go back to the school and play on the playground. Bailey announced that she was going to make a lunch, or was it a picnic. She got two individual sized thermal lunch boxes. She put two oranges and two bananas in one and a plastic carton of strawberries and a butter knife in the other. She also grabbed three paper plates. When we got to the school Jayden saw two of his friends one a cute girl about four inches taller than him and quite the athlete. He ran off to play football with them while Bailey and I played tetherball and ate the fruit. She beat me at tetherball twice! Bailey, you’re a good cook!

MISS SAIGON

TUESDAY, MAY 05, 2009 Yesterday evening at about 5:30 I picked Judy up from her work.We ate dinner at the Market Street Grill by the U of U. After dinner we saw Miss Saigon at the Pioneer Memorial Theater at the “U.” It was a good show. The actors were wonderful albeit the theme was prostitution in Saigon during the Vietnam War and Bangkok afterwards. There was smoking and some profanity and death including one suicide, but it was well done and I didn’t find it too offensive though I prepared myself emotionally before hand. The reviews in today’s Deseret News were favorable.

PURPLE GEL CAPS

SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2009 Thursday night/Friday morning, I woke up after midnight (I think) from the following dream. I dreamt that my mother came to visit me from the dead. She was wearing a lavender dress and looked to be about seventy years old though in really good condition. She was about my height and had curly white hair. As in most of my dreams, there was no verbal communication but there was understanding between the two of us. I “asked” her if it was ok for me to touch her. Since she was dead I wasn’t sure if that was proper or even possible. Was she still just a spirit or might she possibly be resurrected etc? She “said” that it was ok to touch her and I gave her a big hug. The part about whether she was resurrected or not was not answered though I was able to feel her. She was carrying a plastic box about the same color as her dress though lighter in shade. It had no lid. It was perhaps six inches by six inches square and about two inches tall. It was divided into four or sixes compartments and in the upper left compartment there were about twenty fairly large, dark purple gel caps. I got the impression that each one represented one year of the rest of my life as if she was telling me I would live to be about eighty-five years of age. If it were to be exactly one year for each capsule it would mean I would die on the first of May 2029. Disappointing; I was planning to live to the age of one hundred and twenty or thereabouts. Of course I would want to be in good health and have the finances to take care of myself. Time will tell. Often my dreams or impressions come true though, like this one I won’t know until a future date.

WICKED and then some

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009 Yesterday, Judy and I flew to San Francisco and saw Wicked at the Orpheum Theater on Market Street. I enjoyed it a lot though I couldn’t understand what they were saying a couple of times at the beginning. Between that and wanting to relate it to the surprise ending, I would like to see the start of it again. We stayed at the Parc 55 Hotel which wasn’t too far away but just far enough and cool and windy enough that Judy decided to take the taxi to and from. Before the show we went to a large nearby mall and looked around. We also went to Macy’s and Crate and Barrel. We ate at the restaurant in the hotel. Expensive but, oh well! We tried to come home on a seven something flight this morning but the earlier flight canceled and everyone was “protected” on our flight so we ended up on the ten o five flight. At least on that one we got first class seats. The earlier one didn’t have a first class section.

EGGS-STRAVAGANZA

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009 A few days ago when Niki had the flue, I was taking care of Alexa and Gavin so she (Niki) could get some sleep. I was making scrambled eggs to feed the kids. Two and a half year old Alexa was at the island counter on a chair next to me and when she saw me crack open the first egg she asked if she could do it. I told her yes and she carefully cracked open one egg and handed it to me to finish opening and drop its contents into a bowl. She did this three or four times, each time as perfectly as I would have done it. I had some cheese to mix into the eggs but Alexa ate most of it before it made it to the frying pan.

BUSY DAY

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009 Judy flew to Minneapolis this afternoon to see her mother. She is coming home Sunday morning. To facilitate this, I drove her to work this morning, babysat Alexa and Gavin while Greg and Niki went to Greg’s great-aunt’s funeral then drove back downtown, got Judy and took her to the airport. When Niki told her she was leaving, Alexa threw a fit. I even suggested perhaps she should take her with, but they weren’t gone long when Alexa announced, “I’m not sad now” or was it “I’m happy now!” (I forget which.) At any rate she was good the whole time her parents were gone. She fell asleep twenty minutes or so before they came home. Gavin didn’t wake up until 11:40 or so. Niki was sure he would be awake around 11:00. He was happy-smiley the whole time. I fed them Mac & Cheese though Alexa decided she wanted cottage cheese instead and ate a good helping of it. Gavin didn’t eat a whole lot. This evening I did an hour in the neighborhood pool, the first time I have done any exercise to speak of for a month or so, thanks to bad weather, my being out of town a lot and sometimes just not getting around to it.