I post about every 7 to 10 days and it's always a lengthy and informative essay about what I'm up to. Jeri (Elderjane) also does the same. We are the ones keeping up the tradition. Join us.
I think you can take heart. Military air cover for Biden is in place and Secret Service agents are already assigned to him. This is a sure sign that he will prevail. He is leading in the remaining states and only Alaska is staying red. Biden will get Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania. He only needs Pennsylvania. Trump needs all of them. He won't get them.
I've been dealing with debilitating physical issues but buying into a new treatment seems to be helping I am drinking a glass of tart cherry juice every morning. I am beginning to see results. Other than being a drag ass, I am grinding my teeth over the election. Ridding ourselves of the Orange Porker is key to my well being.
The pieces I like best are beyond me now. The Waldstein (Beethoven) I am not young enough to get it. It would take years and my hands are compromised and I go to bed with a turmeric compress every night to revive my thumbs. I studied the Brahms-Handel variations and got it to 60-70 percent and got distracted and did other things, so bringing it back would be major. Anyway these are not pieces that the average listener accesses easily. For entertainment at parties, if I am asked, I play Chopin -- the Harp Etude, the Revolutionary Etude, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Black Key Etude. I keep these up to date always -- they are good for my hands. Right now, I have realized I'm in a rut, so I am reviewing the Beethoven sonatas -the Pathetique, the Appassionata. the Tempest. the Moonlight (all movements) -- these I can succeed with but it will take a year of daily attention. And of course, there is the Liszt Harp etude -- I had it to 75% when I stopped working on it. Life just took over. Add another year for the Liszt.
I am happy to miss this.
Apparently Laura has fallen in love with New York. Can't blame her. Didn't she go to get into the fashion industry? Has she succeeded in that? My friend, the fashion exec is stil a good contact, if she's interested.
I told Ed about Laura's rental and he said $28,000 a year is cheap. Going rate for a studio, $6,000 a month. Just think, my first year in New York, 1957, I got an apartment in Little Italy for $17 a month and gave it up to marry Jay and move in with him. Our 2,000 sq, ft, loft in lower Manhattan, started at $125 a month in 1959, crept up to $700 and they were stopped there because improvements were mandatory if they wanted to raise the rent. Florida is nowhere near as good to its seniors as New York City. By the time new owners took over, they wouldn't give me a lease. They couldn't raise the rent unless they made costly improvements and they couldn't evict me. I was protected, grandfathered in. In Florida, developers bought land with trailers - evicted everyone. Those with new trailers were able to relocate. Those with older trailers were homeless. That would never happen in NYC. They had to abandon their project when they learned they would have to install an entire sewer system. But the poor who were evicted were still homeless.
You won't be sorry you adopted the dog I think he would have been put down if no one took him. Yes, $28,000 is a lot. Just think, my very first 6th floor walk up in Little Italy in 1957, was $17 a month. And I gave it up because, a month after meeting Jay, we got married and I moved in with him.
When I lived in New York City, cold was 18 and lower. 40 was easy. I remember my face freezing over one sub zero day as I walked north on Broadway. Adopt the dog already. Jose needs company and Ted will be cheered.
Re. your ailing friend, if her daughter is generally abusive, you can report the situation to Department of Children and Families, who oversee abuses. Or check in your area for an elder abuse hot line. Yes, the lack of social contact is draining, but Ed and I managed to have dinner out last night as it was our wedding anniversary and my birthday. We took Sol with us -- it went well. xx, T
Know exactly what you're going through. We gutted and remodeled our kitchen 5 years ago. The living room was full of boxes for two months. But it will look great at the end. You must post photo of finished kitchen, yes?
I once saw a friend's cat (visiting) who looked into a tall mirror and slowly turned around with a quick twist at the end to catch the intruder. I don't know if the kitty knew he was looking at himself.
lovely post. In our are (SW Florida) people are wearing masks. I even see joggers wearing masks. THey're ignoring the president and our Republican governor. Your sci fi retrospective was interesting. I don't know if you are aware (I have written about it) that in the 50s and sixties, I knew, through my first husband, all the sci fi greats of the era. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon (my husband's roomie before I married him), William Tenn (Phil Klass's pen name. And I never met him, but L. Ron Hubbard was friends with my husband. The list is longer but these are the names at the top. Clarke always called when he was in New York and we'd have dinner.
Ed criticizes my cooking too -- thinks the chicken "is raw", eats a certain meal for years and suddenly wants to know why. I say, "yeah, I understood, good help is hard to get."
I access my ju ju on your behalf. Good news that the new med is helping Ted. I have recently experienced some depression, an anomaly in my life. I am using a personal system of talking to my unconscious mind and it is helping. Yeah, I'm odd.
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