- Texas — Our big, new bed.
- Pretending that the Harry Potter movies are actually musicals.
- Sherlock Holmes, my dear readers.
- Everything I need is provided for me by a handsome, young male nurse.
- Peanut has the hiccups 3 or 4 times a day.
- Chocolate chips.
- Frankie keeps my feet nice and toasty.
- I don’t have to clean bathrooms.
- When I leave the house once a week I notice all the things that have changed. This week everything was flowering.
- Taking a shower feels like a miniature vacation in a tropical paradise.
~Mrs.
For the last two weeks I’ve been assigned to bed rest. Mr. is doing his best to keep up with my demands, and when I need something I just ask and it appears.
On Tuesday, while he was down the hall in his office I tried to yell for him but he didn’t hear me. Naturally, I picked up my cell phone and called him.
Me: Hi. How are things?
Mr.: Fine.
Me: I was wondering if I could get a refill on a few things?
Mr.: What? I’m sorry I can’t hear you.
Me: I was wondering if I could get a refill on a few things?
Mr.: The reception is bad here. What do you need?
Me: The reception is bad? You’re 20 feet away from me.
Mr.: What?
At first I questioned why he didn’t just get up and walk down the hall to talk to me. And then I wondered if maybe I wasn’t being too demanding.
Sherlock Holmes line I would most like to use in conversation in my lifetime:
“I must apologize for calling so late, and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.”
From: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem.
~Mrs.