Friday Mom’s purchase was scheduled to close. At the last minute, she got an urgent message. <\/p>\n
“The sellers are out of town! We have to wait till Monday.”<\/p>\n
So today Mom was relieved to get a message saying that all is well and she is now the proud owner of a condo in Belltown, a dream she had cherished since moving to Seattle.<\/p>\n
“I’m still nervous about the whole condo idea,” she says. “But our ceiling is leaking and we will have to move sooner or later. At least we got a good interest rate and we are in a nice place.”<\/p>\n
Even better: that nice Dr. Clare said my pancreatitis is better. However, she wants me to eat the bland diet for another two weeks. Yuk. Bland is not beautiful. I never thought I’d miss my ordinary food but this stuff is tasteless.<\/p>\n
Worst of all, I can’t go to the park with my Aunt Sara. Too many tempting things for me to eat, mostly unmentionable in a blog censored by the mom. So I”m totally bored and forced to eat tasteless food. What a life. <\/p>\n
“It’s your own fault, Gracie,” the mom says unsympathetically. “You get your pointy little nose into everything.”<\/p>\n
Uh oh. Time for another pain pill. I need a nap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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