stuff in flux

So this morning the thought was "maybe Wednesday," now it seems like "likely late this afternoon" that my dad will get home from the hospital.

That's good, of course, but...I don't deal well with changing, shifting plans where you can't, well, PLAN.

(Dinner tonight: I was going to make macaroni and cheese and heat up some sweet potato cubes; there's not a lot else in the house (and we are getting low on milk). That won't work so well if he's coming home....so maybe I make a quick run, if they get home early enough, and get the planned filet mignons, I don't know).

But anyway: this is probably the last real-time post for a while.

I'm set to go back on the 12th (arriving home on the 13th) and I am hoping very hard that the trip goes smoothly. I've already paid the bills that will come due before I get home (the city water bill, that was an adventure to get paid)


NO. Mom just called back - they want another day to intensively treat the asthma (which has cropped up in part because of the humidity and smoke from the Canadian wildfires BUT ALSO LIKELY BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN GIVING HIM REGULAR NEBULIZERS LIKE HE DOES AT HOME).

So, argh. I guess it is mac and cheese for me tonight.