yiyiyi

the gram is home. her blood pressure medication has been switched– it was the culprit that was making her so dizzy and contributed to her last two falls.

getting old seems hard. i'm lucky to have an example of how to age with grace, and how to stay good natured. when i turn 88 i hope i'll think of my gram every time i kvetch and turn it off so i can be like her.

we get to go to rabbi joey's for dinner tonight. i'm pleased. he has known me since i was little. one of his daughters, who is 15 now, is the first baby i can remember holding (she has a brave mom to let a 7 year old hold her).

so it appears that i'll be moving to L.A. while it is not my favorite city in the world, it has its upsides. namely the people– it will be nice to already have friends. i think tripp especially will need other people once i move in. it will be good to have family close by, too, and to be a short and relatively inexpensive plane flight from my portland family.

it seems anticlimatic though. LA. after this wait. still, i'm not sorry i've had the time off. its been rough on tripp to not have me around, but it'll be a treasure to look back and have had so much family time (both in LA and portland), and have gotten to go to Japan, and have gotten to really thoroughly chill out before entering the big scary world.