Today’s Business: 2010-12-24
Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
Log
05:00 AM: I’m up temporarily. Mom requires assistance.
05:30 AM: I helped her with all she required, and she’s now in bed. I’m back to bed for a while longer. Back later.
09:00 AM: I’m up again. Now, working the DJ Gig: 2010-12-31 project, and adding more 2010 music to the library. Today, I’m converting all September, 2010 music. I’ll tag these files once all m4a files for 2010 have been converted to mp4.
10:00 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds. She’s up and about now, buzzing around in the kitchen.
01:30 PM: Carried more old boxes and junk out of the attic and out to the burn pile and garbage cans.
02:00 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunchtime meds. Mom’s not feeling well; cramps in stomach. She seems to be getting worse as the day progresses. If she does not turn around soon, she may have to go to the hospital.
03:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless on the DVR.
03:15 PM: Mom’s friend, Mary Kay, stopped by. She said that Mom does not look well. Mom is debating about whether to visit the hospital because she does not want to “ruin” Christmas for the rest of us by introducing any needless drama into this day. But we told her that if she’s hurting, that no one expects her to suffer just so we can have a good holiday time.
04:00 PM: We decided to call for 911 assistance.
04:30 PM: Mom’s on her way to the hospital to have them do a workup on her blood and other systems. Hopefully they’ll figure out what’s wrong quickly. I packed up all of Mom’s daily meds and gave them to the ambulance driver. The doctors will need these at the hospital so that they can continue her daily medicine schedule — just in case they don’t have all of Mom’s meds in stock.
04:40 PM: Headed up to sister Jojo’s house for the first part of our progressive dinner.
06:15 PM: Jojo served pre-meal snacks, including sweet & sour meatballs, crackers with feta cheese dip, and pop et al. Yum! Now, we’re traveling over Brush Mountain to sister Diane’s place. She’s serving us salads of multiple varieties.
07:15 PM: Now, we’re walking a couple houses up the mountain to sister Christine’s house, where we’ll enjoy the main course of our progressive dinner: lasagna.
08:30 PM: Now leaving with sister Mary Ann and her family, bound for Mom’s house (here), to get the dessert portion of the progressive meal ready.
09:00 PM: Now that some other folks have arrived, sister Mary Ann, her husband, and I are leaving for the hospital to visit Mom. Back later.
10:10 PM: We visited Mom and we’ve now returned home. All the guests are still here.
12:15 AM: All guests have now left and I’m cleaning up the kitchen. [Emmy] is keeping me company while I work. All wine glasses have now been hand washed and put away, along with the eggnog cups.
12:30 AM: Decided to look into a Netflix membership so we can watch the movie: It’s A Wonderful Life.
01:00 AM: Acquired my Netflix membership and successfully registered Mom’s Internet-ready television as a streaming device.
01:30 AM: Unfortunately, Netflix does not offer the It’s A Wonderful Life movie as an instantly viewable download. They only have it on DVD at this time. So in order to receive the DVD in the mail sometime next week, I must upgrade my Netflix membership to include DVDs. I’ll probably do that tomorrow.
02:00 AM: Worked the DJ Gig: 2010-12-31 throughout the evening when I could get away from the party, preparing more music for tagging and eventual addition to my music library.
02:05 AM: To bed with us. More tomorrow. Merry Christmas and good night. Bye!
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.