The last thing I put in my fridge: my son’s heart medication.
Since he turned twenty, Alex has decided he wants to be more independent. Which, of course, makes sense for a twenty-year-old.
He’s been washing my dishes, and he’s kinda getting good at it. I only have to re-wash half of them. He’s been getting his own tube feeds ready, and he’s even been making my coffee at night so I can just come downstairs and turn it on in the morning. It’s quite lovely, actually.
But he also wants to draw his own meds up into the syringes, and I won’t let him. Which makes him disappointed.
Because the fact is, he has not much aptitude for measurements. I watched him make my coffee tonight, insisted on being there, and sure enough, he lost count on his way to four scoops. He insisted that since he lost count, he should start again–without taking out what he’d already put in. I might have ended up with coffee I could stand my spoon up in.
Do I trust he’ll do the same with his heart medication? Absolutely. His independence is an overdose waiting to happen.
So if I come back online one of these mornings with my hair standing on end, it might just be the supercharged java.
Seriously thinking about getting a safe for my fridge, though. To put his heart meds in.
The human brain is amazing: I’ve gone from “coffee hurts because it gives me heartburn” to “heartburn is comforting because it means I have my coffee.”
Also, it’s fall! And I went for a walk down by the waterfront today.
Photo: The sun beginning to set on a calm turtle pond, with a red-roofed gazebo in the background and a willow tree’s branches turning yellow in the foreground.
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I make a lot of difficult decisions in the course of a workday. It’s a hazard of the job of an editor. (Please don’t look at the word choices in this post and judge me for them. This exercise doesn’t allow me to edit!) Commas used to give me a hard time, once upon a time. Now I can look at a sentence and say, usually, in a split second whether or not it needs one and where. Still, it’s a critical decision.
But then there are the days in which I have no choices more pressing upon my brain than how many things I can carry from the fridge to the counter in one trip. I have it down to a science on the way to breakfast.
Grab the margarine and the milk.
Put the margarine on the counter beside my coffee cup, pour the coffee, and put in the milk.
Carry the milk back to the fridge, put it in and take out the marmalade.
Simple. I have three things and only two trips.
BUT …
(There has to be a “but.”)
On the way from breakfast, I have a conundrum.
Here, let me draw you a diagram of my kitchen, so you’ve got a visual.
Okay, there we go. There are maybe (a big maybe) two steps from the fridge to the coffeemaker, and if you’re standing between the counter (yes, it is that colour green EXACTLY) and the table, there’s no step. It’s just basically a swivel and you’re there.
Okay, where was I?
Okay. So. I’ve got my coffee (I just have to walk around the island and grab everything I’ve taken out of the fridge from the other side and put it on the table) and I sit at the table and drink my coffee and eat my breakfast. I have three things on the table–my mug, the margarine, and the marmalade.
When I’ve finished my breakfast, I have to do two things: put the margarine and the marmalade back in the fridge, put the mug on the counter close to the coffeemaker, and get my last cup of coffee for the morning.
But I have 3 (count ’em–THREE) things to carry from the table to the counter (or the fridge), and only two hands!!!!
It’s a conundrum … a multitasking conundrum!!!!!
Do I do the opposite of what I did before breakfast: put everything on the counter and then go around, get the milk out of the fridge and pour my coffee, then put everything back? NO! That means two trips to the fridge!
Or, do I put just the coffee on the counter, go back to the table, carry the margarine and the marmalade directly to the fridge, grab the milk, go back to the counter, pour the coffee, then go back to the fridge to put the milk away? I’m still taking two trips to the fridge!!!
I go through this scenario EVERY SINGLE DAY and it DRIVES ME MAD!!
One mug holds twelve ounces and the other holds eight. Can you guess which one cost $1.25 from the dollar store and which cost $36.00 with shipping?
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