Another very good but too short weekend
Mar. 20th, 2006 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zestfiveP and I had planned to go to the film festival
And now I'm back at work.
Friday night's film was titled "Unveiled" which was very good but the challenge was the subtitles. It was in german and the subtitles were white and often behind light backgrounds. I did enjoy it. We met up with K but as usual ran a little late so I could mostly just introduce her and then it started. Afterwards, we stopped for quick late night eats at Taco Bell.
Saturday I had lots of plans for laundry, cleaning and etc but it didn't pan out. She got a phone call from a friend of hers who lives in Iowa. She knows she's sick but the phone call detailed more sick. Apparently, J's immune system is shot due to various cancer treatments and has built up a tolerance to any kind of antibiotic. I think she has a systemic yeast infection among other things and possible AIDS diagnosis. P didn't need this right now, she just lost D and it appears that J will be next. I think it's also really hard on P because I've come to realize that she's very sensitive and really absorbs other people's energy. If someone is being snarky even if it's not towards her, she'll pick up on it and it makes her uncomfortable. With all this sadness and death(including the L word!) it's been hard on her but she'll never let you see it. It's hard trying to find the right balance between supporting her so she can work through what's she's feeling and letting her avoid her feelings (which I think she's more comfortable with doing). I believe the plan is for P to go to Iowa sometime this week for what could be her last visit.
We did eventually go pick up R (albeit, an hour late). We planned to do a little browsing in shops before dinner and the last night of the film festival. After a little consulting with a phone book(with map) we made it to the craft shop that P wanted to see. We talked about doing that and a bookstore but never made it to the bookstore. Supper at my favorite non-chain mexican place before zooming off to the film festival. We made it by the skin of our teeth and unfortunately couldn't all sit together. The first film was a short titled "Who's on Top" which was interesting but I wanted it to go more in depth and I liked the black and white scenes within the storyline. 2nd film was "Sir: Just a Normal Guy" which was really good. It was a F2M film starting at the begining of his transition moving forward about a year I think. I was amazed at how candid that Jay was with his thoughts and feelings and came off very grounded. Watching this, I wanted to talk with R a little more about his experience, although felt that he might want his privacy, especially with his mom there. I think if it was the last film of the night, it might have been a bigger discussion topic on the way home but I didn't know how to start it. There was a break, I ran into a few more people I knew which was nice. After the intermission, we returned to find people in our seats, I guess we should have left our coats in them but I thought it was rude that they didn't even move when we explained they were ours. Fortunately, we did find a couple close by but there were in the crowd and it was really hot in the theatre by then. I still didn't get to sit by P which was so nice the night before. Next was "Cheer Dorothy, Cheer" which was a very campy rendition of the Wizard of Oz in the cheerleader mode done by a rainbow of men in cheerleading skirts. Normally I'd think it was kinda dumb but they were quite entertaining. Last film was "Dorian Blues", this was also good but it seemed that they jammed so much into the one film that I was itching for it to be done. This could have been because it was SO warm in the theatre and I had been sitting too long or the fact that it took us through this guy's life from age 17 to about 22 as it relates to coming out, therapy, being kicked out of the house by his Dad, first experiences, going to college, first relationship, brother relationships, family dynamics and etc, it was just too much for my overheated brain at that point. Can you say cognitative overload?
Sunday we intended to go to church but didn't get going soon enough which I was okay with. It took us about 2 more hours to actually leave the house and eventually went to lunch at the Wilde Roast Cafe. Nice. Had to get R back for work. I enjoy spending time with him, he's quiet mostly. I hope he wants to go geocaching with us once it warms up. After dropping him off, we stopped to visit M (P's cat whom she loves but doesn't get to see nearly as much as she would like). I had hopped that we'd make it to coffee with the WCG but were too late. Home for dinner, cleaning a little of the kitchen and I hoped that P would be able to start working on getting pictures printed to take with her when she went to see J. They went on a trip last summer but P hasn't gotten around to getting the pictures to her yet. She was re-formatting her computer and it still didn't have everything up and running yet. She'll do the rest at work today. Supper was porkchops, rosemary scalloped potatoes, corn and breadsticks. YUM. After supper a nice conversation about fears before we took off for the 2nd to the last episode of the L word. Love hanging out with that crew but it's really hard to start the week of sleep deprived.
This morning it was hard for P to get up for work, I totally understand. I got up when she left hoping that I'd leave for work early so I could come home early but it didn't work out that way. I was early for work if you can count 5 minutes instead of the usual skin of my teeth arrival time.
Saturday I had lots of plans for laundry, cleaning and etc but it didn't pan out. She got a phone call from a friend of hers who lives in Iowa. She knows she's sick but the phone call detailed more sick. Apparently, J's immune system is shot due to various cancer treatments and has built up a tolerance to any kind of antibiotic. I think she has a systemic yeast infection among other things and possible AIDS diagnosis. P didn't need this right now, she just lost D and it appears that J will be next. I think it's also really hard on P because I've come to realize that she's very sensitive and really absorbs other people's energy. If someone is being snarky even if it's not towards her, she'll pick up on it and it makes her uncomfortable. With all this sadness and death(including the L word!) it's been hard on her but she'll never let you see it. It's hard trying to find the right balance between supporting her so she can work through what's she's feeling and letting her avoid her feelings (which I think she's more comfortable with doing). I believe the plan is for P to go to Iowa sometime this week for what could be her last visit.
We did eventually go pick up R (albeit, an hour late). We planned to do a little browsing in shops before dinner and the last night of the film festival. After a little consulting with a phone book(with map) we made it to the craft shop that P wanted to see. We talked about doing that and a bookstore but never made it to the bookstore. Supper at my favorite non-chain mexican place before zooming off to the film festival. We made it by the skin of our teeth and unfortunately couldn't all sit together. The first film was a short titled "Who's on Top" which was interesting but I wanted it to go more in depth and I liked the black and white scenes within the storyline. 2nd film was "Sir: Just a Normal Guy" which was really good. It was a F2M film starting at the begining of his transition moving forward about a year I think. I was amazed at how candid that Jay was with his thoughts and feelings and came off very grounded. Watching this, I wanted to talk with R a little more about his experience, although felt that he might want his privacy, especially with his mom there. I think if it was the last film of the night, it might have been a bigger discussion topic on the way home but I didn't know how to start it. There was a break, I ran into a few more people I knew which was nice. After the intermission, we returned to find people in our seats, I guess we should have left our coats in them but I thought it was rude that they didn't even move when we explained they were ours. Fortunately, we did find a couple close by but there were in the crowd and it was really hot in the theatre by then. I still didn't get to sit by P which was so nice the night before. Next was "Cheer Dorothy, Cheer" which was a very campy rendition of the Wizard of Oz in the cheerleader mode done by a rainbow of men in cheerleading skirts. Normally I'd think it was kinda dumb but they were quite entertaining. Last film was "Dorian Blues", this was also good but it seemed that they jammed so much into the one film that I was itching for it to be done. This could have been because it was SO warm in the theatre and I had been sitting too long or the fact that it took us through this guy's life from age 17 to about 22 as it relates to coming out, therapy, being kicked out of the house by his Dad, first experiences, going to college, first relationship, brother relationships, family dynamics and etc, it was just too much for my overheated brain at that point. Can you say cognitative overload?
Sunday we intended to go to church but didn't get going soon enough which I was okay with. It took us about 2 more hours to actually leave the house and eventually went to lunch at the Wilde Roast Cafe. Nice. Had to get R back for work. I enjoy spending time with him, he's quiet mostly. I hope he wants to go geocaching with us once it warms up. After dropping him off, we stopped to visit M (P's cat whom she loves but doesn't get to see nearly as much as she would like). I had hopped that we'd make it to coffee with the WCG but were too late. Home for dinner, cleaning a little of the kitchen and I hoped that P would be able to start working on getting pictures printed to take with her when she went to see J. They went on a trip last summer but P hasn't gotten around to getting the pictures to her yet. She was re-formatting her computer and it still didn't have everything up and running yet. She'll do the rest at work today. Supper was porkchops, rosemary scalloped potatoes, corn and breadsticks. YUM. After supper a nice conversation about fears before we took off for the 2nd to the last episode of the L word. Love hanging out with that crew but it's really hard to start the week of sleep deprived.
This morning it was hard for P to get up for work, I totally understand. I got up when she left hoping that I'd leave for work early so I could come home early but it didn't work out that way. I was early for work if you can count 5 minutes instead of the usual skin of my teeth arrival time.
And now I'm back at work.
