kvetching up

Das Gravy Boot. Technical Difficulties, Pls Stand By. Entry 3.    4:40 Glitchy app today. I have posted 3x and the first two went *poof.*  Jenny is not doing well. She ate a full meal last night, but lost it all later.  Today, she has been barely functional. I did get her to Macy's Furniture Store, but it was all she could do to walk the store. She has been in repose the rest of the day. We went to Macy's trying to find a sideboard.  We looked elsewhere, but eventually settled on Ikea--it was an emergency. Our house does not have space to display all of our Christmas gifts. Ikea had one we could order and pick up curbside. Nothing special, but it will do in a pinch..  We have 10 bins, and several boxes of things, 31 years of accumulated junk. Given Jenny's ill-health, everything and everyone is going all-out to make this holiday memorable. It's more for the kids than Jenny, if you think about it. So Abby, in her stubbornness and lack of faith in my mechanic...

Entry 1   9:25 a.m. Yesterday, Abby and I spent the afternoon together again. This is good because, for the second day in a row, we were out. We went to Old Burien, a place that I have regrettably neglected. Abby said it reminded her of a downtown on a small island. She is thinking Vashon, I would wager, where she has spent some time. We shopped for Advent and Christmas gifts for her mother and Leiney. Most everything was closed. It was Sunday. Even so, we did hit two great shops in the 1/3 mile stretch, a bookstore and some gift shop which I was skeptical about, but am happy to say helped us almost complete my Advent shopping.  Abby was hilarious the whole time, and actually laughed at a terrible pun I made. She never, and really it's understandable, laughs at my puns. But she had a  deep genuine laugh. So, when I can make the teenager laugh, I feel successful.  Typical teenager that Abby is, she was not dressed for the cold. As she has done since she was about...