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19 Nov 2016  Welcome
to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we
will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a
theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those
weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit
other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any
rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and
here is today's meme! Saturday 9: Cabaret (1972) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here. 1) In this song, Liza Minnelli encourages you to put down "the knitting, the book and the broom." Which of those three were you most recently doing: knitting, reading or housework?
Definitely reading.
You'd be hard pressed to find me doing the other two. I just came back
from spending 5 hours with my mother, who has dementia. She used to be
such an upbeat person, but she very definitely looks at the downside of life
these days. Not really. We have been
invited to a wedding in Las Vegas in December, but I just found out how much
it will cost for a wedding with no reception and I am re-thinking plans now,
much as I have looked forward to this wedding for months. Not really.
We used to call Walt's old co-worker and good friend "Uncle Dave" for the
kids, but we haven't seen him in years and the kids haven't seen them since
they were adults, so I think that moniker has gone by the wayside now. Only once. The morning after
Paul was born, I hemorrhaged and then, when the nurses took me to the
bathroom, I fainted twice because I'd lost so much blood. That's the
only time My friend Kathleen and I ate at Olive Garden in Sacramento once a month for about 15 years, until she retired, then we switched restaurants to Cafe Italia Davis, because I'd been driving to Sacramento all those years and she figured it was her turn. We always had the same thing at Olive Garden -- a bowl of soup and their salad, with bread sticks. A cheap lunch! Now our monthly lunches are more expensive, but our choices more varied. 7) People are often surprised when they learn Liza is good friends with Gene Simmons -- the KISS member with the long tongue. Tell us about one of your good friends. I mention Kathleen above. I met her back in the 1970s, when we were both in La Leche League and both nursing our babies. She ran a group in Sacramento and I ran a group in Davis and we worked together to plan a national conference. As our kids got older we sort of drifted apart. She went on to become a childbirth instructor and then head of a women's health department of a local hospital. I didn't see her for a long time, but our paths intersected through PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Once again, she lead a group in Sacramento and I led a group in Davis and we met again as we were preparing a mixed event, and we attended a few gay pride events together. She has a daughter who has given her two grandchildren; and a gay son, who is married to his husband and living in England -- the two men have weathered a lot of storms until it became legal for them to marry and they have been together for a long time. I introduced her to my friend Steve Schalchlin, who came and performed at a Service of Remembrance for AIDS victims in Sacramento. Some 20 years ago, we decided that we
never saw enough of each other and we decided to start having lunch together
once a month, a promise we have kept all these years. We don't see
each other, usually, during the rest of the month, though she has discovered
The Lamplighters and we recently met her and a friend for lunch before a
Lamplighters show. We have supported each other through many personal
and family crises and have spent a lot of time discussing politics. In
two weeks we will meet for our next lunch and post mortem on the election.
I expect it to be a depressing lunch! Not right now.
I almost always have yogurt in the fridge, but I'm out at the moment.
I don't like apple juice, though, so unless I'm buying it for a recipe, I
never have that. I've eaten with
both and I prefer someone who won't shut up. I hate those awkward
silences and I'm good at tuning out conversation I'm not interested in
(besides, someone who won't shut up is more interested in what he is saying
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