A Weird Week

Last week was a weird week for me.

Perhaps it was due to the heat wave or the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia.

Thursday morning at 2 A.M. (i.e,, the middle of the night), my phone rang. My son, whom I have only talked with once in 10 months was calling. A bat had gotten in their apartment and he had shut himself off in a room to keep the bat out but he didn't want to stay (guess he was afraid the bat would get in his room). So he arrive at my place at 2:30 A.M. (i.e., the middle of the night), in tears, accompanied by a policeman who had spotted him walking. It was the first time in 10 months I have seen him (my son).

On Friday evening, I retrieved a voice message from my sister Carol in Clevo. She had a bat in her house Thursday night. Wow! Talk about coincidence. What are the odds?

Then there was a batty neighbor. Friday night/Saturday morning (at 1:30 A.M. (i.e., the middle of the night) I heard light knocking on my door and my neighbor from down the hall softly call. I ignored it and she went away but I was unable to get back to sleep because I was wondering if something was wrong-like the building on fire or something.

I ran into her again Saturday afternoon at the grocery store and she wouldn't leave me alone. I told her husband wouldn't approve. I took a different way home to avoid her. Now if you saw her, it would be obvious that she is not altogether. But today, she was way more out of it. Between 10 and 11 pm (i.e., nighttime), she was banging on my door calling for me like a dog in heat. Except I don't like her except as a neighbor (and barely at that). Even when I told her that if she didn't stop I would have to call the cops, she returned a couple more times. I was scared. What a weirdo.

I usually do my laundry Sunday afternoon and Peggy makes an appearance because she has to do a load of laundry every day or else..... And she is not content with one wash cycle-it has to be two in order to rinse out the soap. If only she was that particular about her facial hair. So, I was anxious today for fear of another possible encounter. So I kept out of the laundry room as much as possible. Didn't see her at all. Perhaps her husband realized her meds weren't working or all the booze was missing or both.

Monday, a long time internet acquaintance, the mother of six children under the age of 10, announced she divorced her husband. Thank God she lives in another state. Very sad. I could see it coming when she abandoned Catholicism and took up activist atheism.

I also visited the cemetery twice this week. Look for posts coming on my Cedar Hill Cemetery tours/walks.

Despite the lack of sleep, Wednesday night, Thursday proved to be an interesting day. I got to visit the unfinished minor league baseball stadium in town. The most astonishing thing on Thursday was passing a quiz to get continuing education credits for a webinar that I pretty much slept through. In order to get credit, a score of 8 correct answers of 10 questions  (i.e., 80%) was required. Somehow I did that, first try. I was astonished.

On Tuesday, I received a note from another sister (KAT) who responded to an article about pain management at hospice that I had sent her. She announced that "pro-life is a hot button topic that I have simply agree to disagree, as it is, to me, too charged." She does not want to narrow choices for others. Well, how nice. On the other hand, I live to keep things narrowly focused, like I want to LIVE. Please don't pull the plug on me or pull the feeding tube and let me starve to death over a week or two. I'm not that broad minded. Oh, and stay away from Mom, I kinda want her around a bit longer.

Strange days are these. Most peculiar,

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Written Sunday 31 July 2016.