Details, Details
I swear, more of today was taken up with figuring out the schedule between Christmas and mid-January than anything else.
Well, it didn’t help that I woke up with a horrible headache and the shivering chills, and maldigestion, so that I was certain I had come down with some deathly flu, even though I’ve had every flu shot known to man. Anyway, after a long sleep-in, turning on the heat in the apartment, some Advil, caffeine, calories, and a shower, I felt much better. I’m forced to conclude that, as the maldigestion has been going on for a few days, the dehydration caused by that, in combination with, er, last night’s really very modest glass of gin, created the unhappy problem.
Be that as it may. So I turned my attention to trying to figure out how to organize picking up, driving around, and visiting with my aunt from Italy (and her Very Large Suitcase); Christmas at my mom’s; Jay and the Child visiting; me going to Portland for the start of chemo; my aunt renting a small cabin at Sea Ranch after Christmas; a holiday get-together with a separate branch of the family; and about fourteen other smaller pieces of the puzzle that we fit in as best we could. Between a handwritten day-by-day flow chart, two phone calls with Jay, and three with my mom, I think we’ve got it. Whew.
So now it’s 7pm, and that’s my biggest accomplishment of the day…I’ll be off to the airport in a bit to pick up Mark, whose flight is delayed, alas, which will make it a very late night indeed. Good thing I slept in! 
Maybe I’ll write tomorrow. I remember writing. I think I kinda liked it.