Notes - Owen / everyday world /

14 January 15

         You had a late lunch at Smashburgers and Carol is buying birthday cards for Owen and Brennan before heading to AAA to check on travel destinations. Today is Owen’s birthday but his party is Sunday. Up to Kim and Paul’s Sunday morning and return on Monday morning or after lunch. – Amorella       

15 January 15  

Late morning. You are sitting in front of the Grand Oriental off Fields-Ertel Road waiting on Rich G. for lunch this bright, sunny and cool Winter day. Carol had breakfast at First Watch with her long-time retired Blue Ash Elementary colleagues and friends, Ann and Marietta earlier. Kim sent a note earlier saying she has the condo for the sixteenth of May through the thirtieth. You are both surprised and delighted as she waited almost too long. Craig and Alta called last night and you are postponing your trip to Yellowstone National Park for a year because you were too late looking for places to stay. Instead, they will be in Chicago in May and you are going up and both of you will get hotel rooms in the city and do the sights once again. The last time you four were in Chicago it was for Eric and Mary Kay’s wedding and before that it was in the seventies when the four of you drove up in Craig’s new Audi in the seventies to see the King Tut exhibit. The plan for the next trip beyond Chicago will either be Yellowstone or Yosemite. – Amorella

         You had a good lunch and conversation with Rich and Dave. Bill was busy with a customer and couldn’t make it . You worked on Grandma Eight and realized you had to return to the raw manuscript to make this work. – Amorella

         2100 hours. This has been part of the problem – too many drafts since the original so now it should move faster as far as the Grandma segments go.

         Tonight you had the best of the best as far as you two are concerned – Papa John’s half works, half veggie made by Homer himself. You watched last night’s “Mysteries of Laura” and episode one of “House of Cards” on Netflix. This is the first Netflix show you have both watched together – Carol has reservations and will watch the second episode to see if she can get a better handle on all the characters. You like the set up and the acting better than you thought you would, plus, no commercials.

         2106 hours. I was getting really bored with “Revenge” – we dropped it a few weeks ago. I think this story is going to be so much better. We are both a little surprised with the explicit sex scenes but we’ll get a handle it.

         Cultural shock, boy, that’s all it is. – Amorella

         2110 hours. This reminds me when we traveled from Brazil in 1972 and the stewardesses on Braniff Airlines wore such short skirts. It’s funny, on the beaches in Rio almost anything was acceptable – very, very tiny bikinis at the time but not so much so on the street, and back in Sao Paulo it was a work-a-day world. Women and men did not wear shorts most anywhere in public. Watching commercial television and the few BBC productions did not allow for much if any nudity. When we saw Gone Girl recently I didn’t think much about the nudity while at the theatre, just on TV. Funny how this is.

         You live in a small everyday world, orndorff. This is your life and you like it this way. All for tonight boy. Post. - Amorella