A relative of one of Ed’s wards, happy with his work on this case, sent us 8 filet mignon. We invited Nadine and Mickey, good friends from up the street, and had dinner Sunday night.

I made baked eggplant slices with feta cheese, and my standard Greek-style salad. And I made mashed potatoes because Mickey likes them. Ed loves potatoes too but he will eat them just boiled and I do that every night. Ed bought an ice cream cake for dessert.

Nadine, who is very techie, then helped me restore my iPod. She explained why I couldn’t get it to sync, and, of course, I didn’t understand anything she said, but I am happy that it is working, and I don’t know how I could have solved it on the phone with a techie. She was awesome.

I was still able to use the iPod for the meditation tape on it because it is helping me sleep and its brain wave patterns interfere with the syndrome that causes panic. It has been a lifesaver. But now I can go back to listening to NPR podcasts when I walk.

Meanwhile, I have to run the dishwasher twice – it’s amazing how many dishes get used up with just one other couple as guests.

In honor of being a hostess, I wore a long skirt. My closet is full of stuff I no longer wear but will not give up. More on this when I go through it that I keep promising myself I will do.

And Ed continues to add to his wardrobe and there is no more storage left for him so he hangs his stuff on closet door knobs and I slither these items into the closet and it is a chore.

When he got back from his court appearance this morning, he said he had won. One of his wards is a former ranger – he was so awesome, they named an airfield after him. Ed says John Wayne should be wearing pajamas with this guy’s picture on them. Anyway, he has chronic pneumonia, has lost cognition, is a shadow of his former self, had been on the verge of divorcing his wife, who is a predator, when he started to fail. So she cleaned out his accounts and was trying to kill him by feeding him, although medical orders said he should have nothing by mouth because he couldn’t swallow. Ed banned her from visits unless supervised, so he started to get better – which told Ed she was poisoning him. Her lawyer quit because he finally realized she was a felon and he didn’t want any part of this and the judge said Ed now has the right to sue her to recover several hundred thousand dollars that found its way into her hands. He can use the money to improve the quality of the guy’s care and to benefit his children when he goes. Also she was trying to have Ed removed as guardian and that did not work.

I am pleased Ed had a successful court appearance because when things don’t go well for him, he is despondent.

xx, Teal