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Three things for Sunday
1. Family visit. It was good. My mom continues to slip, but her PCP has found a combination of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds that appears to be helping her enjoy herself. She's much less stressed than she's been. It was nice to see my aunt, down from Canada, and my sister and BIL. We will be seeing them next week for Linnea's annual birthday camping trip!
2. Sweet moment yesterday: Linnea gave a small flute concert (mainly Sinatra, to my aunt's delight), and then she shared her faves playlists. Which contains Humperdinck (WTF is that name? I mean, aside from that ass in Princess Bride), Roy Orbison, Sinatra, Glen Campbell, and a few others that delighted my mother, aunt, and BIL (who is my mom's age). What was sweet? Linnea played Sixteen Tons (which I guess is by Tennessee Ford, news to me), and aunt, MIL, and BIL all started singing along with her. It was lovely. I think sis has video, I'll post if it I can. The funny thing? Linnea said, after they were done "I have an old soul", LOL. But I cannot say how happy they were, ya know?
3. Drove my aunt up to Vancouver today. The border wait was long northbound, not quite as bad southbound. I planned in advance, and brought some skim milk with me, so was able, oh bliss, to have a large cup of steeped tea from Tim Horton's. I love that tea, and because of the 2#$#3$#~~~~!!! pandemic, it had been waaay too long. In good news, our new enhanced driver's licenses worked to get us across the border and back (I brought passports just in case).
2. Sweet moment yesterday: Linnea gave a small flute concert (mainly Sinatra, to my aunt's delight), and then she shared her faves playlists. Which contains Humperdinck (WTF is that name? I mean, aside from that ass in Princess Bride), Roy Orbison, Sinatra, Glen Campbell, and a few others that delighted my mother, aunt, and BIL (who is my mom's age). What was sweet? Linnea played Sixteen Tons (which I guess is by Tennessee Ford, news to me), and aunt, MIL, and BIL all started singing along with her. It was lovely. I think sis has video, I'll post if it I can. The funny thing? Linnea said, after they were done "I have an old soul", LOL. But I cannot say how happy they were, ya know?
3. Drove my aunt up to Vancouver today. The border wait was long northbound, not quite as bad southbound. I planned in advance, and brought some skim milk with me, so was able, oh bliss, to have a large cup of steeped tea from Tim Horton's. I love that tea, and because of the 2#$#3$#~~~~!!! pandemic, it had been waaay too long. In good news, our new enhanced driver's licenses worked to get us across the border and back (I brought passports just in case).
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About those enhanced DLs: We went to Ontario for a Canada Day event. One of our group is a young 20-something who was traveling with her dad. She completed her ArriveCAN thing using her driver's license, so assumed it was acceptable ID. She then accidentally forgot her passport in Ann Arbor before going to her parents' house, told her dad "it's okay, I have the enhanced ID" and he thought "I'm impressed, I've been meaning to do that myself." They got to the border and she found out ... nope. But the Canadian border guard was in a good enough mood that he let her in. And while hearing this story I was thinking how I only knew all these intricacies because of one of your blog posts :^) (And her plan was that if the US didn't let her back in with her ReadID and passport-photo-emailed-by-BF, she would wait in Tim Horton's while her dad did a round trip to A2 for her passport.)