I just got home from the hospital, after a nine day stay for Graves’ Disease, water retention, erratic heartbeat, severe anemia, etc. – I was just a mess, obviously. Now my nearly 88 year-old is catering to my every need, pushing food on me and showering love on me. I doubt she is up to this effort, and worry about her.
Jeff's Life List
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1. Make People Understand that Many Adoptees have no Interest at all in Finding Their "Real" Parents
6 entries . 20 cheers1 person -
2. write a novel
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3. Record interesting dreams
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4. Keep Sherlock Safe
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5. Extol the virtues of left-handedness!
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6. make a list of authors/books I want to read
4 entries . 6 cheers2 people -
7. Get People to Read Olaf Stapledon
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8. Read Cormac McCarthy's "The Orchard Keeper"
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9. Read Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree"
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10. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
1 entry . 6 cheers1,251 people -
11. read Ulysses
12 cheers318 people -
12. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
3 cheers321 people -
13. Examine my tv habits.
1 entry . 5 cheers1 person -
14. Help Razz51 Have More Fun on Her Birthday April 3rd
1 entry . 2 cheers1 person -
15. write haikus, not just on Fridays
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16. Survive interactions with my sister for as long as we both live
3 entries . 4 cheers1 person -
17. read the Bible, the whole thing.
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18. fall in love
1 entry . 17 cheers27,009 people
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May December 11 be the start of all things getting better and better, starting with your daughter’s illness and proceeding through all sorts of birthday fun.



