Lunch, Doctor, New Meds, Hurt Cat, and Missing Mom

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Wow, what a day! I actually peopled today!!!! The good part of that was having lunch with @JoyDorsey at one of the great local barbecue places called Mark’s Feed Store. We had a great time chatting, laughing, and annoying the server (okay, I did that part). After lunch I went to the VA hospital for a scheduled appointment, where I had to “people” some more. Ick. Thankfully, not too many people: mostly the doctor and the intern. They’re giving me some new medications, including a new inhaler. I love the one I’m on, but I fully understand that they have to be reasonable with the money they spend, and if there’s an inhaler that will do the job the same as the one I have, AND is a hundred dollars cheaper, then they go for it! If I were paying for that inhaler, you bet I’d want the cheapest one as well! When I came home there was a black cat in the front yard. I meowed at it. It meowed back. We had a conversation like that for a few seconds. I don’t know what I said to it (I’m not fluent in cat language), but I could see its face had been poked a few dozen times by something (another cat? A squirrel? Who knows?). I put my hand out, and it backed away but didn’t run away. I went to the back yard and it followed, so I got it a can of cat food (I don’t have any cats, but I keep a few cans in the house for the neighborhood cats who make themselves at home in my back yard) and some water. My mail today contained a super sweet Christmas card and note from @TheSojourner . What a sweetheart! It warmed my heart. Today’s the anniversary of my mom’s passing. It cast a little bit of a sad shadow on the day, but she made me promise her that I wouldn’t sit around, moping about her once she was gone. I miss her, but I’m thankful that we went out and created a lot of memories so I wouldn’t have to sit around, moping after she’d gone. And as I told Joy, I said in her eulogy at church, “I haven’t ‘lost’ my mother, I know exactly where she is!” I’ll get back to the music countdowns tomorrow. I keep a list, so I know where I left off. Y’all have a great evening!