A normal day - mostly

Today was actually quite wonderful.

Nothing special happened. We woke up - he had no voice - I mean literally none. He watched cartoons and I went back to sleep.

I awoke around 10 ( I haven't been sleeping so well so I was able to sleep in). I made him tea as his throat was hurting. I got dressed and walked down to the 7-11 to get him NY Times and me a coffee.

He got himself dressed, took his paper and went down to his local haunt to have some tea and do the crossword puzzle.

I took that time to do the dished and start housework. I have a long list of things that still need doing and now that we know his belongings are in storage I have a LOT more work ahead of me.

I managed to procrastinate just enough to put up the lovely template you see here.... Sadly it took me from Saturday evening into today to complete.

I had a lovely Chat with Mrs Jackson. We talked for a long time.

I finally saw pictures of his ex-wife too. She is not what I expected. Not at all. I had very little descriptive information other than hair, eye and skin tone. She was lovely and though we are complete opposites ( she's tall, I'm not, she's dark, I'm blond, she's blue eyed, mine are hazel green, she's fair skinned, I'm medium toned.) She's heavier than I am, but I see a kinship in her eyes. Knowing hte information that I do about her, we probably would be friends. I see a lot of things in her that I suspected were there.

Meanwhile - I am reasonably sure he saw the whore today, though he was only gone about an hour or two. And I want you all to know that I don't care. I mention it onl because this is a big turning point for me - because I honestly am OK with it. I don't even know why. Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I am more trusting. Maybe I believe in things more. Maybe it just doesn't matter now. Whatever the reason, I'm not promising that I am completely past it, but I"m getting there.

And no I'm not calling her by her real name. I've come to enjoy her nickname and I don't think I WANT to change it. Not just yet anyway.

On the work front. He has canceled his gigs through July. He can't run the risk of not being able to perform and it's not fair to the restaurants and bars to hold them hostage til the day of waiting to find out if they will have live music that night.

The Band wrote a fan friendly note to their mailing list that was really touching. I want to hug Charlie to be honest. He's a good boy and did a beautiful and supportive job with Jon.

He posted a blog note on his myspace page as well.

During this time, I was still cleaning off my desk, doing a "thinning of the herd" on my books, and I took the leaf out of the dining room table and cleared off the crap and finished the dishes.

We watched to Baseball games ( we won both! ) a boxing match that I am still unclear how that guy won. We ate dinner. I skimmed magazines. I web searched for photo storage boxes ( we have millions of pictures - its sad really).

The house is shaping up slowly but surely. He felt pretty good today which helped me get a lot done. I am buying the makings for beef stew for him and we'll see how that goes.....

stay tuned....