Porcupine

Morgan and I made it to my sisters, Carrie's to see my mom.

I brought my mom a silhouette of Morgan I had made at Disneyland. You know that place on Main Street that has this woman who has been there 40 years and cuts the black paper? She did a great job on Morgan who sat in my lap and held really still. My mom really liked it. She told me to make copies of it to mail to all my friends. I told her it was our special thing and only she and I would have one.

After this is when she said to me "When I croak what do you want besides the light?" she didn't mean THE LIGHT she meant a lamp that was her mom's. I really didn't know what to say as I have never really thought about it. I told her I wanted the Swarovski crystal porcupine that was my Dad's second wife's. How my mom even ended up with it is a mystery to me. I remember Gloria bringing it home from a cruise she went on after my dad made his transition. Morgan likes the porcupine though. As prickly and dangerous as it looks. I then told her the bracelet I bought her in Ireland and the chinese man I bought her at cost plus. She said fine.
What do you say to something like "What do you want when I croak? I guess what I wanted to say is "Can you use a better word other than croak?"

Carrie later made fun of me about wanting the porcupine. Sisters.

It really wasn't hard leaving my mom. I thought it would be, you know tears and everything. It wasn't like that thought. I feel like crying now.

We made it home in 2 hours and I was even able to re-start Emperors New Groove in the car using the remote, which was good because I didn't want to get off the fwy. Morgan didn't mind re-watching it so the two of us were happy.

Mark is telling me the Olympics are on and I told him I watched it at Carrie's.

My hands still smell like the soap I used at Carrie's which smells really bad so I am going to wash my hands and go to sleep.

Feb.11th