Quiet Tuesday

Got up this morning, looked down to the bottom of the staircase for the dog and got ready to wave if she was looking up.  I did that almost every morning, and almost every morning, although less often toward the end, she would look up at me and raise her ears.  Toward the end she was asleep most of the time, I think.  I hope it was sleep, anyway.

If I ever wanted to hide from people in my house, it would have been a tough job.  Everywhere I went, downstairs at least, Nugget followed.  Bathroom?  She'd pick me up just outside the door as I came out.  Kitchen?  She would make the rounds to see if I had dropped anything tasty, and then settle down in the middle of the kitchen floor.  If I left the house and no one else was home, she would wait just by the door for me to return.  When I went upstairs to work or sleep, she would usually settle at the foot of the stairs until I came downstairs.  It's just how things were. 

I am off in a bit to go to my office and take care of some administrative stuff and pick up my part-time gig.  My boss took it over for most of September and almost all of October but now we are back to sharing the load.  I was going to make chicken soup for dinner but I think my fabulous husband is going to take over those duties for today.I don't think I mentioned that I hurt my back while we were on our cruise last month.  Yup, woke up the second day of the cruise and could hardly move.  This lasted until...well, it's still going on.  But it is much, much better at this point, at least.  I even went to see a doctor (well, nurse practitioner) about it, and she gave me steroids and muscle relaxers and painkillers and the advice that it takes about three weeks to clear up.  Three weeks was this past Sunday and, all in all, it has mostly cleared up.  Not 100%, but I would say 80%.  We take what we can get.While I was on hiatus from the blog, I read a lot and was generally not on the computer as much unless I was researching something (like the cruise).  I'll bet I've read 20 or 30 books in the last few months.  I still have more in my "to be read" stack, too.

Hmmm, photo time.  I have many photos other than cruise photos, but while I am on that subject, here are a few more...  It's windy way up at the highest point on the ship.  Pretty much all the time.  Dancing at dinner. 
  Our waiter, James.  From Jamaica.  Ya mon.  The night before the formal dinner, he advised us that the following night was formal night but that over the years it has gotten more casual and that we should just wear what we wanted, and it would be okay and not to worry about it if we didn't bring formal outfits, just to come to dinner and not miss it because the featured main course was lobster tail.  I just smiled at him.  When he saw the girls in their finery he stopped short and his response was a most eloquent "Wow."  He made the formal dinners a lot of fun each night.  Other than when he saw the girls all dressed up, he was never at a loss for a snappy comeback.  My favorite was the last night, when P decided to mess with him a little (after he had teased her first), hold up her water glass, and insist that he refill it and not his assistant.  "She is my enemy," he said in his Jamaican accent. 
  The pier at Cozumel.  Apparently the week before we were there, a strong wind blew up out of nowhere and caused one cruise ship to briefly smack into another.  I kind of wish I could have seen that. 

It's 10:32 in the morning, and I suppose that means it's time for me get my errands out of the way.  Thanks for the nice comments about Nugget yesterday.  She sure was a good dog.

 

Comments

[B.]

Mom! More Cruise photos, please!

:)

[olaf garbe]

This Photos are so beautiful, many thanks an best wishes to you
F.´s Dad