Hello Fellow Travelers!
My revered Mo-In-Law reached a milestone (39!), and we celebrated at an Italian/Swiss Alpine restaurant in Burlingame last night (Stella Alpina Osteria) and it was awesome! When a good Italian restaurant proclaims their gnocchi appetizer to be"heavenly pillows", I'm all in! Gnocchi all day long! Few places can accurately describe their gnocchi as "pillow-like" in any way, shape or form but Stella Alpina's were really light! And, as one of my in-laws commented, "You just wanted to bathe in that sauce!"
After a sumptuous meal it was gift time (and a lengthy "cake hour", naturally) where I took a particular interest in our selection of the present for the "birthday girl". She always receives a ton of great "swag" on her birthdays and this one was no exception! We gave my Patient Spouse's mother a laptop computer. The PS will hook it up for her this week.. She has friends and family all over the world and social media is all her grandchildren use to communicate anymore, but those are not the perfectly valid reasons behind my suggestion we go shopping online to BestBuy.com.
My only means of communication these days is via the computer. Only by using a keyboard am I able to correspond on any level. Fortunately, we live in an age, (and a state) where communicating exclusively using a computer is not only "normal" it's actually preferred.
Since Removal of the brain tumor (and no, I'll never get tired of saying that! Ever! Ha-ha!) in 2011 I can't walk or speak. But I can complain. A lot! Like, "Shaddup Your Yap Already!", complaining! Like they say, "Go big or go home!" At least I think they say that, don't they? Well, they should. And just who exactly are "they", anyway?
My point is (and yes, there is, in fact, a point here someplace!) that I've been happily carping about something pretty much my entire life! Now I complain globally using a laptop computer! And offer unsolicited commentary to unsuspecting travelers
The door that seemed nailed shut has given way to a new open window on the world. And everyone can travel everywhere, through this gem-colored, window, together. This is a gift I have been given, this POV, and I'm very grateful for it. Is this "gift" as cool as "Pope" bobblehead? No! It is a great way to communicate with loved ones in real time, though,
I don't "Tweet" or "Facebook" or even "Text" . ( Another "casualty of cancer"? Penmanship! I can recite "The Gettysburg Address" but I can't write my own signature! Yet!) And, online, it rarely matters anyway! Only people matter. Rose knows this.
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No, it doesn't matter what spiritual leaning you ascribe to, a Pope Francis bobblehead just makes you smile! A very special friend sent this to me because she knew it would crack me up (thank you, Marjorie!).
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My revered Mo-In-Law reached a milestone (39!), and we celebrated at an Italian/Swiss Alpine restaurant in Burlingame last night (Stella Alpina Osteria) and it was awesome! When a good Italian restaurant proclaims their gnocchi appetizer to be"heavenly pillows", I'm all in! Gnocchi all day long! Few places can accurately describe their gnocchi as "pillow-like" in any way, shape or form but Stella Alpina's were really light! And, as one of my in-laws commented, "You just wanted to bathe in that sauce!"
After a sumptuous meal it was gift time (and a lengthy "cake hour", naturally) where I took a particular interest in our selection of the present for the "birthday girl". She always receives a ton of great "swag" on her birthdays and this one was no exception! We gave my Patient Spouse's mother a laptop computer. The PS will hook it up for her this week.. She has friends and family all over the world and social media is all her grandchildren use to communicate anymore, but those are not the perfectly valid reasons behind my suggestion we go shopping online to BestBuy.com.
My only means of communication these days is via the computer. Only by using a keyboard am I able to correspond on any level. Fortunately, we live in an age, (and a state) where communicating exclusively using a computer is not only "normal" it's actually preferred.
Since Removal of the brain tumor (and no, I'll never get tired of saying that! Ever! Ha-ha!) in 2011 I can't walk or speak. But I can complain. A lot! Like, "Shaddup Your Yap Already!", complaining! Like they say, "Go big or go home!" At least I think they say that, don't they? Well, they should. And just who exactly are "they", anyway?
My point is (and yes, there is, in fact, a point here someplace!) that I've been happily carping about something pretty much my entire life! Now I complain globally using a laptop computer! And offer unsolicited commentary to unsuspecting travelers
The door that seemed nailed shut has given way to a new open window on the world. And everyone can travel everywhere, through this gem-colored, window, together. This is a gift I have been given, this POV, and I'm very grateful for it. Is this "gift" as cool as "Pope" bobblehead? No! It is a great way to communicate with loved ones in real time, though,
I don't "Tweet" or "Facebook" or even "Text" . ( Another "casualty of cancer"? Penmanship! I can recite "The Gettysburg Address" but I can't write my own signature! Yet!) And, online, it rarely matters anyway! Only people matter. Rose knows this.
We need your bobble head, my wife's niece Marissa loved to have her birthdays
ReplyDeleteand celebrations at Buca di Beppo's Pope Room, where they have a Pope bust icon, but it's still Pope Benedict!