Allie's Blog IV: Revenge of Allie's Blog

[imallie]

I remember when first coming out many would say "congratulations" which was nice but really its tough to sum it up in only a word or 2 how as how to respond. Someone this close, I would think a phone call would have been more personal but its an uncomfortable subject for many to speak about.
So glad all is going well Allie
Hugs Gina

A phone call, Gina? For this generation? You gotta do a whole lot better than a late-in-life surprise gender announcement to merit using their phones as a, you know, "actual phone" 😂

For example, when our son was in college, one evening we saw one of our cell phones ring and it was from him - we laughed "this has to be something serious!" And it was - he was calling to tell us that his kneecap was on the side of his knee. He was a javelin thrower on the track team, and at practice he'd just dislocated his knee, and he was calling us from the back of the trainer's flatbed truck as they were carting him off to the training room.

Even so, we speculated it was not a text because the ride was a bit too bumpy to type, and he begrudgingly made the call.

So yeah... texts are their phone calls. I've made peace with that long ago.

But also, thank you, things are going swimmingly. As well as I could have hoped. The best part is that I'm now making some headway through the manual.

Still probably on page 36 out of 1,000.. but it's nice to be turning some pages again.

[imallie]

After the chaos (albeit necessary, affirming, and a whole other bunch of positive but exhausting things..) of the last two Saturdays, very happy to have a quintessential Spring Saturday today!

Wife and I had to do work outside in advance of the pool opening next week. So we did our best to get some of the wet leaves off the cover (everything we don't get off will end up IN the pool when they open it, and I'll have to deal with it then)... plus we had to turn on the outside water for the pool store folks to use, which means setting up the outside shower which is always an adventure (did we put that gizmo in the right way so "hot" is hot and "cold" is cold? Why are we so bad at that when it's a 50/50 chance by definition!)

And now we're getting ready to drive up to see the boy, who is taking his mom out (and I get to tag along) for an early Mother's Day lunch at this Cambodian restaurant he's been wanting us to try. There's a large Cambodian population in his district, and supposedly this place is the best, most authentic representation of Khmer food. He says it's great, we've never had it, so we are all for it!

Oh and the little nice thing - before we went outside to work, I was going to grab a baseball cap and my wife instead handed me one of her old hats, it's a salmon color hat from the Breakers resort. "Try this," she said. So I did.

Anyway, a nice Saturday (assuming, we like Cambodian food - which I'm sure we will!)

Happy weekend everyone!

Love,
Allie