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Eldering; and a personal note....
Thanks to all of you who sent birthday wishes to George; he was pleased and grateful to have them, and so was I.
We had a wonderful time yesterday... George had the rock lobster tail at the Red Lobster, with a fancy baked potato and a salad; I had the grilled tilapia, and wild rice pilaff, and steamed vegetables, and a salad. We had planned to have dessert -- we always do; and then by the time we'd eaten our lunches there was no way we could eat dessert -- that also happens every time. [One reliable side-effect of eldering is a steady decline in the amount of food you can eat and the amount of liquid you can drink.] Someday we are going to go to the Red Lobster and have only dessert.
We spent a couple of hours at the Barnes & Noble -- which did not have copies of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense in the store, no, and because of the useful information you've been sending I wasn't surprised by that. But it had a lot of other interesting things, and we enjoyed ourselves. We had stashed our little dog at the vet's for the day, which meant we didn't have to hurry home, and George found some birthday-present items to buy.
By the time George and I were in our mid-sixties, the problem of what on earth to get him for his birthday, and for our wedding anniversary, had become impossible. I'd spend the year pleading with him to tell me what he'd like to have, and he was never able to come up with anything I could afford. [He'd like to have a helicopter, but my budget won't stretch to one of those.] He had the same problem finding gifts for me. We already had everything we wanted that either of us could afford. And so we set up a new system for our anniversary and for both of our birthdays: We board the dog for the day, go to the city, eat a fandangous price-is-no-object dinner at the Red Lobster [less pricey for elders than for the young; see above], and then we go to Barnes & Noble for the birthday person to pick out his or her own birthday gift(s). This way we each get one or more gifts we really want, nobody has to wrap anything, and we enjoy ourselves enormously. Problem solved. |