It’s my sister’s last day here, so she was trying to fit in a lot of crap into one day.
- First she made a quick trip to the yarn store “Lint” with Mrs. Harris,
- then a trip downtown to Nordstrom’s, Moonstruck Chocolatier, and Kitchen Kaboodle with the Slabs,
- then dinner with family friends at the Japanese restaurant “Ikenohana,”
- and finally dessert with her friend Wendy.
Unfortunately, she got a migraine headache just before dinner and had to sleep in the car instead of eating. Her dessert trip was also canceled.
After we got home, my father wandered around the house aimlessly, threatening to wake my sister to see if she was OK. So instead of going to my friend Darrell’s final birthday party (he’s decided that 29 is old enough) I had to stay home and run interference.
I hope she’s feeling better since she’s on a plane back for home tomorrow.
I guess my grandmother in Japan is now bedridden and has some form of inoperable cancer. Surgery is mainly not an option because she’s 98. Last year at this time, she was still taking care of her garden, even though she lost her sight years ago.
Now she doesn’t worry about much, but does still make requests for what she wants to eat. It doesn’t matter to my grandmother who comes or goes. She didn’t ask about my aunt, when my mother took over the caretaking duties for the two weeks she was there. But my grandmother still had food requests. I’m happy she still has something to look forward to.
I’m the last unmarried grandchild and it looks like that won’t change.