I know there are prompts today, but I wanted to talk about the very busy day I’ve had on the phone today.

It all started this morning with a long-awaited Facetime call between Stephanie and me. We talked for an hour as I showed her around and covered lots of ground. Yet as I hung up I realized there was so much more I wanted to tell her, and I bet the feeling was mutual.

I wanted to tell her about the cards I got for Rayven and the significance of them. Where we will go to get a little something to send along with those cards. I’d have told her how hard playing Mahjong is and how I’ve been practicing online to get better. Sometimes we get lost or excited and talk over each other, and in my rush to tell her everything, forgetting how hard it is for her to hear, I wonder what she might have missed, or did I talk so much that she didn’t get to tell me everything.

Then Julie called to tell me she was home and we also had a ton to talk about. She has been gone a month and all that entailed, and then she experienced a nightmare of a homecoming. They had a hard time getting out one of their doors, because the kids had locked the top lock when they left. Her yard was not mowed as promised and Wes had to do that straight away. She went to get her dog and accidentally hit the curb of the median causing a flat tire, and then got stopped for speeding! Poor thing. She managed to not get a ticket but only because the officer heard her story and took pity on her.

I had all kinds the f things to tell her too, so we were on the phone about 45 min. I heard the status of her son’s recovery after his motorcycle accident that interrupted their first outing as retirees. I learned they had a great time despite all that and went a ton of places before heading back home.

Last night, I FaceTimed with my youngest son, Christopher and “took his temperature” and found he sounds healthy enough, though still stressed out. He’s trying to take care of a lot of moving parts right now, but as Dave says, he’s working through his process. I didn’t time the call but it wasn’t near long enough. We hung up and immediately, I was thinking of all I forgot to ask or tell him. I do that often with him though, because we could literally talk for hours if we had the time.

Finally, as I hung up with Julie, I saw that Josh (the middle boy) had called so I called him back. Our conversations are usually about funny, sometimes inane stuff, with a little of whats going on stuck in there somewhere. They are doing good. Amazon is treating them well, but they still need better lodging and a vehicle, both of which they are working on, same as Chris.

He called to ask if his Dad had a favorite snack he took on the boat (when he had one) and I said sunflower seeds. Well, working at Amazon, they stock some weird stuff as you probably can imagine. They sell everything you know. 😂 So what struck him funny, was that someone would need a plastic, waterproof sub sandwich holder. He’s like, “Who plans to take a sub sandwich out on the boat with them? Lol!” That was clean and funny, but what he told me next was not. They have to stock sex toys. And I don’t mean the plain Jane kind either. The kind that speak to the depravity of our society, and he is no angel but this shocked him. I will let you use your own imagination but I had never even heard of some of this sick stuff. When I said they sell everything, I wasn’t kidding. I usually hang up from talking to him with such a mixed bag of feelings. Mainly because he rarely talks about what you’d call everyday stuff. So I’m left thinking “how is he really, how close are they to achieving their goals, are they going nuts in a hotel with pets, and why can’t he ever talk about anything real?”

Thats unfair, I guess he does sort of touch on reality when he talks about things like what they cooked in their air-fryer, or if they got a day off and went to do something special, or what the weather is doing. Everything else is a free-for-all, baby.

So now that I’ve talked my ear off and yours, I’m going to go relax with some Mahjong practice and get some much-needed water!