{"id":10269,"date":"2015-05-11T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2015-05-13T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T00:42:28","slug":"the-monday-after-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/the-monday-after-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monday after Mothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[113] = {\"timeout\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":1,\"speed\":\"\",\"nowrap\":1}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper113\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-nav113\" class=\"slideshow-nav\">\n\t<a class=\"pause\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Pause<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"play\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"restart\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript: 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data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momsday5-338x450.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"450\" width=\"338\" alt=\"Slide 6\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow-next slideshow-content not-first\">\n\t\t<a class=\"slideshow-next\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bleedingheartsm-338x450.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"450\" width=\"338\" alt=\"Slide 7\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div><\/div><!--#slideshow-wrapper-->\n<p>I had a pretty good Mother&#8217;s Day. The only one of my kids who was here was my &#8220;daughter in law&#8221;, John&#8217;s girlfriend, Megan. But both John and Al called, and my first foster daughter, Kaylah, posted a really nice mom&#8217;s day message on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I worked till about 9:30 on Saturday night, grading in one of my online courses, so I wouldn&#8217;t have to do any work work on Sunday &#8211; and I really kept it to a few emails and reading John&#8217;s thesis paper.<\/p>\n<p>We had bacon and egg pizza and rhubarb almond coffee cake and berries for breakfast. Putting sticks of rhubarb on top of the cake looks good, but they get a little thready, and they slide off when you cut into the cake with your fork.<\/p>\n<p>I did laundry, but I haven&#8217;t folded any of it yet. I went for a little bike ride and bought fizzy water. I got a new pannier last week, so I&#8217;m still kind of checking it out, throwing heavy things, like six packs of fizzy or beer, into it. On Saturday we went to the farmers&#8217; market and my rear tire went flat on the way home. I made it home, just. It was actually probably my comeuppance for being a really bad girlfriend. Mark got me a new iPhone 6 for early Mothers Day &#8211; we went an picked it on Friday afternoon. Right before my tire went flat, I said, &#8220;You know I love the iPhone and thanks so much, but what I really wanted for Mothers Day was for you to clean the chain on my bike, and adjust the derailleurs&#8221;. &#8220;Oh just take it in&#8221;, he said, in exasperation. I thought, since I&#8217;d made it home, I might be able to make it to the bike shop, so I pumped up the tire, but only got two blocks by the time it was flat. I walked my bike home, and shoved it in the car, and took it to be repaired. A couple of hours and $21.50 and it was smooth riding again, no crunchy gears, and Mark didn&#8217;t have to do it. Although when I went out Sunday I kept hallucinating the tire going flat again, but I think it was just bumpy roads.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_10280\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10280\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10280\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier-400x261.jpg\" alt=\"Marked down, and I bought it with my REI patronage rebate - so free. I had to pay shipping, because they wouldn't do in-store pickup for this - but it still cost less than $35 even with the shipping added\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier-400x261.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier-650x425.jpg 650w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier-900x588.jpg 900w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pannier.jpg 983w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marked down, and I bought it with my REI patronage rebate &#8211; so free. I had to pay shipping, because they wouldn&#8217;t do in-store pickup for this &#8211; but it still cost less than $35 even with the shipping added<\/p><\/div>I walked to Union South to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paddington_%28film%29\">Paddington Bear<\/a>, which was really quite fun. Lots of 19th century mechanized contraptions. And bleeding hearts (above) on the way there.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home, I settled I to watch TV. I drank 2 bottles of porter, and about 2 fingers of whiskey, and watched Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and the first episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/WiMovie\/80017537\">Grace and Frankie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up on Monday realizing that I&#8217;d left a load of laundry in the dryer &#8211; it was OK &#8211; and I hadn&#8217;t paid bills &#8211; and I just felt kind of cruddy, maybe because of drinking my dinner. Or because my seemingly perpetual sinus infection or allergies, or whatever is making my head hurt so much. I was going to go out for a walk but it was cold and rainy. I paid bills instead, and puttered, and then by the time I was ready to leave it was so rainy I took the bus.<\/p>\n<p>I took a midday break and went to look for myself in <a href=\"http:\/\/us8.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=a43281fa3930713756a385086&#038;id=a8b65e4be9&#038;e=8a3df3eb5e\">Occupy Discovery<\/a> &#8211; an art installation where one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/art.wisc.edu\/art\/people\/faculty-staff\">UW Art faculty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/faisalabduallah.com\/\">Faisal Abdu&#8217;Allah<\/a>, had photographed people &#8211; or had them send in their own images &#8211; holding up 11&#215;17 sheets of paper with the slogans of their choice. I found myself but it only added to my general malaise of the day. I thought I was having a good hair day when I got my picture taken back in April, and I tried to compose my features, not clamp my lips together. But I still looked pained, old lady grooves around my mouth, droopy and pouchy. He printed the photos B&amp;W which didn&#8217;t help me, either &#8211; I think I still have good color, but that was taken out in the B&amp;W. I tried to make up for it by practicing selfies. I&#8217;m still really bad at it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10286\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10286\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bathroom with backdrop of drying clothes\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathroom with backdrop of drying clothes &#8211; those old lady grooves around the mouth are showing<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10285\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10285\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie2-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"Me in the kitchen on Tuesday morning\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie2-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/momdayselfie2.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me in the kitchen (happier?) on Tuesday morning<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a pretty good Mother&#8217;s Day. The only one of my kids who was here was my &#8220;daughter in law&#8221;, John&#8217;s girlfriend, Megan. But both John and Al called, and my first foster daughter, Kaylah, posted a really nice mom&#8217;s day message on Facebook. I worked till about 9:30 on Saturday night, grading in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,71,116,354,178],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bicycling","tag-brunch","tag-mothers-day","tag-selfies","tag-sunday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}