Random: has anyone seen the play Good People ?

Yes! I saw it at Steppenwolf and it was wonderful. [link]

Could those meteor sightings be centered in Grover's Mill, N.J.?

Heh.

My father's been scarily pro-active preparing for a physical and mental downturn in our parents' lives. He finally gave up putting me in control of his money--between living in the US and working in the financial industry the hurdles were too high--but it took him more than a year of trying to say "Okay, your sister's on the account, and we've talked about it so there will be no problem for you to get the money."

THE FUCK??? He's also clear that he doesn't want me to move home if anything happens, but I think my mother's infirmity with the cancer (she's better about both now) made him more aware, and he's scoping making their house more accessible, with handrails and the like. I don't know what actual care he's planning for, but I'm ashamed at how relieved I am he's doing all this. Living this far away does make me feel guilty--my sister wanted to spend her sabbatical in New Zealand, and my mom was "that far?" and now her plans are downgraded to antipodean vacationing instead.

I was about to blame my eagerness to move into a retirement community to the fact that I'm a single renter!

Hah--I think it's because I'm an extrovert. When I was going off to college my grandmother was (very sadly/angrily) moving into a retirement/nursing home, and I was like "but grandma, these are the two times in life we'll move into a place with lots of people our own age/stage in life, be around them all the time, and get to make lots of new friends, there's always new people coming in!"

She was not amused.

I recently compared living in my neighborhood to living in the dorms, just we have whole houses to ourselves and an adult sense of space. Which...it's true. I could and have knocked on any door pleading a need and have gotten help. We have gotten messy drunk together. But we also do grownup versions of dorm stuff like cleaning the freaking leaves and snow. A slew of us largely-single females have joked about this block turning into a defacto functional retirement community if we all stay put and stick to our habits.

I don't know what actual care he's planning for, but I'm ashamed at how relieved I am he's doing all this.

Well, at least he's planning. Since my folks didn't plan at ALL, which has made my life... difficult.

I had two leftover cupcakes, and I ate one. Do I save the second one for tomorrow, when it will still be tasty, but a bit more stale?

Do I save the second one for tomorrow, when it will still be tasty, but a bit more stale?

There's a theory that a single cupcake, left alone overnight, will get lonely and depressed and thus deteriorate faster.

Random: has anyone seen the play Good People ?

I saw it at the Alliance in January. The unpleasant landlady was too unpleasant for me.

I'm sorry you're having to deal with all this, Consuela. As my mother keeps saying, "It's hell to get old."

A friend's parents lived in a retirement community that had a concierge to make reservations and a limo to take you to the event.

So Emmett's team lost their second game in a row, again by one run. It was a well played, tense game with both great plays (we turned three double plays, all of them professional grade) and grievous mistakes (we got picked off three times! Twice for Emmett's good friend Avery).

This was a big game against a big rival and there was a pleasing turnout in the crowd, including Emmett's godparents, teachers from the school and Emmett's "uhm-friend" who both EM and I finally met. (She's very cute.)

Emmett played excellent defense and went 0-2 but that really doesn't tell the story as he had excellent ABs. In his first at-bat he got to a full count and fouled off six pitches before the umpire rang him up on a pitch both inside and high. It was Emmett's first strikeout of the season, in the 8th game. His second at-bat he drove in a run with a ground-out, making the game 3-2 (where it stayed for the rest of the game, and in his last ups he drew a walk.

This team is *almost* ready to put it all together.

What's the last atypical thing you did?

Today I wore AN OUTFIT: vintage pink dress and matching coat (thank you, Kat), Fluevogs, vintage yellow hat with a low crown and a flat bow, hair up in a chignon (so the hat would sit right).

At the kids' school they do a big to-do in March for the 2nd grade moms called the Women's Day Tea. It was really a sweet event. Lovely cakes and little tea sandwiches, and there were readings and a song, and Isaac got to read a quote from Ann Landers: "In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."

I saw it In NYC, and Frances McDorman KILLED in the lead role. such a good play.