August 25, 2007

• Don’t you find, when it’s been a long time in between posts, that you feel like you should have big news?  It’s like calling up a friend you haven’t talked to in ages and trying to think where to start when they ask what you’ve been up to.  Lots of times I look back over the months and feel productive but not this time. 

  Actually, that’s not true.  I lost 12 pounds and gained a new dance partner.  That should read the other way around.  Unfortunately, I am not attracted to him but he is kind and intelligent and he likes to walk my dog with me so we do that along with the dancing. 

  My Spanish threesome is now a twosome.  Jerry dropped out, but Kay and I have plugged along without him. We will join a new class in the fall, hopefully learning enough this summer to fit in with the more advanced class.

  I successfully navigated a weekend with the married man and his friends, without doing anything I’m ashamed of.  We all had a wonderful time and are already looking forward to next year.  My heart aches, though, at the thought of all those months of distance. 

  My daughters and I have been extremely close this summer.  I’m not sure why and it hasn’t all been rosy but they each have been calling much more often and the two who live here I see probably once a week.

  I’m still playing music every Monday morning and have become much more comfortable with them.  My music class Wed night will resume in the fall but I haven’t decided whether I’ll take it again.

  My stock buddy dumped me once he started sleeping with his girlfriend.  Rather, he said I shouldn’t come to dinner anymore but that we could still talk on the phone.  I told him I didn’t think he should be calling me if his girlfriend didn’t know about it.  Funny how I can talk to a married man but tell him he should fess up to this woman.  Anyway, he finally told her and now we are talking again.  Good thing since I don’t know what the hell to do about the market.  I liquidated my IRA Friday and will stay in cash until I can figure out what’s going on.  My other acct, where most of the money is, I’m keeping everything as the capitol gain would be too much if I sold.  It’s such old stock.  So, that consumes most of my time, listening to CNBC, trying to figure out why the tape is up when I know in my gut that things are really bad.  I believe someone is artificially juicing the market.  Believe me, that’s not something I’ve heard anywhere.  I don’t even know who or how but something’s not right about a day like today.

  I had a dinner party for the sister who was at loose ends a while back [read living in a woman's shelter].  She’s moving to Berlin.  You should have seen her.  She looked fantastic; very chic.  She’s been living in an apartment, working at a great job, using all her skills with web design and foreign language.  She wants to get her masters in Russian.  I was walking past my mother, taking plates into the dining room, when she (mother) announced, “incidentally, I love all of you.” 

  You can probably tell I haven’t been writing, unless you count the many notes I jot down each day about what the analysts are saying.  It’s all a bunch of words I’ve never heard before so I read it to Sam and he tries to make sense of it.  Between the two of us we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s going on.  We just don’t know what to do about it.

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