Cloudy and Blue

Hey there.

Wow, what a post. I totally feel caught up! Thanks. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to chat this weekend...

For three weeks I've been a lazy bum, mainly sitting by the pool. As you know it's a place I can unplug and de-stress and this year it seems more important than ever to have that place. I focus on applying my 30 SPF lotion and keeping cool in the water and reading--alternating between my current novel and several magazines I keep in my bag-- and don't think much about D, and my uncle, and now W...

I hate to to tell you of this first in a post, but while you were away W saw a neurologist about some hopefully harmless but troubling symptoms he was having and left with a diagnosis of early stage Parkinson's. (Gosh I can't even type that without crying! I guess saying it in any form--verbal or written--is still too much.) It actually explains a host of things beyond the symptoms he went to check out, that I or he would never have connected. It sucks, Amanda. That's all I can say. It just sucks. His mom is not doing well, in late stages of colon cancer, he still can't find a job, and now this...ugh...But on a lighter note, when the hell did I get old enough to have a boyfriend with Parkinson's?...

It's a rainy day today: my sign to get busy with some house projects. D arrives in two weeks and my upstairs is a disaster. I have a dozen projects I've started that got as far as the...floor. It seriously looks like a tornado went through. So anyway, I guess I should get on the busy end of a Bloody Mary and head upstairs with some garbage bags.

Talk to you next week.

Love you,
Barb

PS Sorry to hear about K's sister...sounds like you all are being a good support system, just as I would expect.
PPS How's J's sister doing?