{"id":67775,"date":"2023-03-06T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=67775"},"modified":"2023-03-28T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:10:22","slug":"monday-and-more-rain-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=67775","title":{"rendered":"Monday And More Rain Is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Memory:<\/strong>\u00a0 Too Much Sugar Makes A Young Man Sick! I worked during every vacation at Dad’s dime store.\u00a0 It was not Dad’s, but he was the VP & General Manager, and his boss, Ralph, and he were inseparable.\u00a0 The stores were Ralph’s 5, 10, & 25 Cent Stores.<\/p>\n

Easter was no exception.\u00a0 My job on Easter was to make up Easter baskets, and I worked alone in the store’s basement on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles.\u00a0 It was spooky to be there alone, but I did it anyway.<\/p>\n

I loved making the baskets, filling them with green excelsior, and arranging small toys and lots of chocolate bunnies, peeps, and jelly beans.\u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes I would hide candy in the paper we used to raise the level in the basket!<\/p>\n

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One slight problem: I had a sweet tooth and ate a load of candy one day.\u00a0 By lunchtime, I was on a sugar high.\u00a0 Dad and Ralph came to get me and went to lunch; things seemed to settle down.\u00a0 I did look a little red, black, yellow, purple, orange, tan, and everything in between.\u00a0 Back to work, a jelly bean for someone and a jelly bean for me.\u00a0 I did that all afternoon.<\/p>\n

By 5:00 pm, quitting time, my ten-year-old tummy was a tad out of sorts.\u00a0 I was so sick that night that my parents thought the doctors should be called.\u00a0 Then I told them what I had done.\u00a0 No doctor, just a night of being sicker than a dog.<\/p>\n

The next day, I returned to my job, but no sugar entered my body for weeks after that!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I woke up with great fear as my BP was 116\/70, which is back to “my normal”; what if I have to give up wine?\u00a0 OMG, what will I do?\u00a0 I guess I will do what I do every New Year’s Eve.\u00a0 Have the barkeep mix me a diet coke with 7-Up and let it sit for a few minutes while the bubbles dissipate; a mock bourbon and seven!\u00a0 I love to watch people get tipsy and can act the same but stay stober.\u00a0 I go to the new cardiologist on Friday and have pages of BP readings on an Excel spreadsheet!<\/p>\n

My doctor just prescribed me another blood pressure medication.\u00a0 It was a tough pill to swallow.<\/h3>\n

The melodic voice of my angel pierced the room, or was it an announcement from Alexa to the entire house?; “Scout needs to go potty.”\u00a0 I jumped up, tore off the covers, covered up my babydoll jammies (I didn’t want to frighten Scout or Mary), lept over a tall building, and ran faster than a speed locomotive to lead Scout to the great green potty.<\/p>\n

To my surprise, he went through the door, looked back at me,\u00a0 and barked, “Fooled ya!”\u00a0 He laid down on his outside bed and did not tinkle!\u00a0 I was still trying to catch my breath!<\/p>\n

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I reminded him that I do not get mad; I get even!<\/p><\/div>\n

Today is planned to be slow.\u00a0 We called PT and told them the doctor was sick.\u00a0 Can I write an excuse?\u00a0 Dear PT Guru, Mary can’t come out and play today because she has a tummy ache in her head!\u00a0 That should do it, and I will write it with crayolas, so they know it is me!<\/p>\n

The doorbell rang, and I got our latest delivery from Amazon; I think I overachieved!<\/p>\n

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Mary will be munching on those for a long time!<\/p><\/div>\n

Mary was down and out all day, so I used the time to work in the office, clean up some websites, and attempt to fix the watering system in the garden.\u00a0 I went to Home Depot to get some parts, but they did not have what I needed, so Amazon, here I come.<\/p>\n

I fixed another gourmet meal of Chicken Soup with noodles and fresh sliced mushrooms; thank you to Lipton.\u00a0 I went to the market earlier and got her extra pulp orange juice and a package of rookies that one has to bake.\u00a0 Feed a cold, starve a fever!<\/p>\n

While I was cooking, it came to me… A poem about my cooking!\u00a0 I almost sound like Shakespeare!<\/p>\n

Double, double toil and trouble;
\nFire burn and caldron bubble.
\nFillet of a fenny snake,
\nIn the caldron boil and bake;
\nEye of newt and toe of frog,
\nWool of bat and tongue of dog,
\nAdder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
\nLizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
\nFor a charm of powerful trouble,
\nLike a hell-broth boil and bubble.
\nDouble, double toil and trouble;
\nFire burn and caldron bubble.
\nCool it with a baboon’s blood,
\nThen the charm is firm and good.<\/div>\n

We watched TV until 11:00 pm, and I crashed; Mary was still enthralled in a movie.\u00a0 Tomorrow is another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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