Muthuh!Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there.
Breakfast and a bouquet of flowers here so far today, with king crab legs on the menu (for later -- not breakfast) as they're one of wife Ari's favorites. That's mainly for her, though, as the rest of us are indifferent to them. A crock pot of beef stew I made up last night has been simmering its way to full flavor overnight, and will make for an easy serve yourself meal for us as we move through this busy day.
I have a trip out later for, among other things, a visit to my mother. She was transferred to a physical rehab facility back on the sixth, and it's tough going between the hip replacement having gone in on a leg where the knee's shot -- which was what precipitated the femur-fracturing fall the week before -- and trying to sort out the interaction of other conditions and meds.
Whip-cracking and parental assist on some late-year school projects, including an outline for the Great Depression and a three dimensional model of the Globe Theater, is also on the schedule... and there's no shortage of housework and items for me I'd like to do before another work week commences, so I'd best get going.
Oh, before I go -- a question about Mother's Day advertising.
Am I the only one who finds himself offended by a trend in Mother's Day advertising, where they start off with something ostensibly genuine, personal and priceless - a look back at home-made cards made by kids for their moms, or one ad where the kids perform an original song for mom - and then shift to some piece of jewelry or some other gauche item. Part of this is just my long-standing problem with the diamond = eternal love scam. Open up the diamond industry's vaults and high quality diamonds would be ridiculously common -- it's a ridiculously artificial market. Also, it's yet another item that tries to establish an economic standard for human emotion and depth of feeling. It smacks of exploitation... and almost prostitution, in that it commercializes something basic to humanity. We see plenty of this crap heading in for Christmas and always for Valentine's Day, but it's struck me as especially thick this year.
Well, off into the rest of the day!
Comments
Glad Ari is having a nice day and you are a prince for making that happen. Flowers and crab...it don't get much bedda dan dat!
As for the advertisements you mention, I'm very pleased I haven't seen them. Some of my most precious gifts have been homemade and they could never be trumped by diamonds.
I hope the situation with your mom turns out for the best.
SGF-
Pictures on your blog or it didn't happen.