Monthly Archives: July 2017

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Champagne in the cellar

July 14, 2016 Thursday

8:46AM Phil
Good morning! Hope your day is good!

9:11AM Sassy
Good morning kid! Here’s to a superb Thursday!

9:23AM Sassy
I’m getting out early to take Hubby to a doctor’s appointment. Whee!

4:45PM Sassy
Early dinner at Shanghai Gate in Allston!  So so good…cheese rolls, pork dumplings, Lion’s head meatball and yu shiang pork with Chinese bread.

4:50PM Sassy
Check out this spectacular well-written article about a writer looking for the man who saved his parents in WWII and finding so much more. The Atlantic has been producing a lot of great reads lately.


https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/champagne-in-the-cellar/490376/

6:07PM Sassy
I had the most creamy butter pecan ice cream in a chocolate dipped sugar cone with sprinkles! Also got a lick of Hubby’s blueberry pancakes and syrup ice cream – so maple!

7:16PM Phil
enjoy!

7:18PM Sassy
Had a grand time! He’s lost 60 lbs – so proud of him.

We had a great Chinese late lunch then hung out in Davis Square eating ice cream while he hunted Pokemon. Hee hee

Home now naked in bed semi-napping.

7:23PM Phil
sounds like a good day!

7:24PM Sassy
You chilling?

8:09PM Phil
Enjoying a Cuban cigar and a nice glass of wine

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Back in touch

July 13, 2016 Wednesday

8:55AM Sassy
Good morning!

9:18AM Phil
Good morning! Teleworking today which is always nice.

Looked at my phone to find multiple messages from The Beach Gal. Just a “how goes it” but out of the blue. I knew it was coming, I felt it and then there it was. Before I opened the message, I knew who it was from. Weird.

Hope your day is grand!

9:44AM Sassy
Wow! Hope she’s okay.

Did you see the bear photo Sis posted on my wall? There was a bear strolling the streets in our hometown!

9:56AM Phil
I saw that bear! Holy cow!

Well the Beach Gal has a new better job that she loves. She commented that life was hard for her but she was doing ok. The husband is not the sharpest rock and his illiterate brother lives with them and it’s an issue. I’d like nothing more than for her to wake up happy every single day but she suffers from depression and anxiety and she drinks too much with the meds she takes and I have little doubt cocaine is still a part of her life. I will always love her to death and I will help if I can but not much I can do about this one.

How was your dinner with Kris? I hope it was a pleasant thing.

A bear in the street in town, what would we have done if we had seen that?

1:11PM Sassy
Wow! Interesting that Kris and now The Beach Gal are back in touch. Good that she can say she’s okay and thought to tell you.

I wonder where the bears live around home? Couldn’t believe the Google car photographed the church nearby with a funeral going on!

1:12PM Sassy
Kris and I had a grand time. It was so great to catch up on his news over dinner, then roll around a hotel room for five hours!

I was surprised how I am not fretting about whether or not I see him again. I had 11 questions I wanted him to answer, and he worked most of it into conversation. I only had to actually ask two things!  He seems mostly over his mid-life crisis.

1:15PM Sassy
I asked why he appeared after all this time?

He was thinking of marrying his gf after about a year with her, so he told her why he got divorced (bought the motorcycle on the sly, then caught cheating with me).  She seemed fine with that at the time.  Two days later she called to say she didn’t want to see him again.

He figured if he was in trouble for being with me, he might as well be with me! But I haven’t heard a word from him since. Which is fine.

1:36PM Phil
Wow! I’m glad you enjoyed the time anyway. Quite the story! I’m sure I have not heard the last of The Beach Gal but I have no desire to go back there in any way. Took me a long time to be right again and I’m pretty happy where I am.

1:41PM Sassy
Yeah… sad but likely for the best. I don’t want to get back on the roller coaster with Kris either. I do like to hear his news now and then but I hope I can stick that.

6:03PM Sassy
I took a vocabulary quiz…

https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

Top .01%?  That is… what’s the word? Hmm…

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Yuk and yuk

July 12, 2016 Tuesday

8:17AM Sassy
Good morning kid

9:17AM Phil
Good morning! Happy Tuesday!

9:19PM Sassy
Blood tests now then work

9:23AM Phil
Yuk and yuk!

6:26PM Sassy
Another delicious dinner at All Seasons Table in Malden. Enjoyed the wonton soup, oysters, seafood scallion pancake and honey ribs!

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Gloucester ho

July 11, 2016 Monday

12:12PM Sassy
Good morning!

1:40PM Phil
Good afternoon!

1:41PM Sassy
How are you this fine Monday?

2:00PM Phil
Tired, love my day

2:18PM Sassy
How come?

2:21PM Phil
Training, and a lot to do. Monday is supposed to be my day off but I can’t pull that off

2:47PM Sassy
Training new coworkers?  Or you learning?

I’m going to the beach!  Gloucester ho!

4:20PM Phil
Enjoy

4:54PM Sassy
Gloucester inlet at high tide and Nichols Candy House

Gloucester inlet
Grass in the parking lot 
The houseboat!
The chocolate kitchen
Candy! 
5:02PM Sassy
Lobsta Land late lunch!
Just off the highway! 
The marsh (the view from our table)
Lobster chowder
Coconut shrimp appetizer
Hubby’s BLT and fries
My paella- mussels, clams, salmon, shrimp, kielbasa and lobster 
in the most delicious broth with peas and rice. So so tasty!
6:38PM Sassy
A perfect evening at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester
Beauty
Bass Rocks Road
The tidal pool with the beach beyond
Red berries 
Beach roses
The bridge to the beach
Shadow Sassy
Twin lights 
High tide 
Seaweed
Surfers!
Nesting area
Salt Island. 
Note the gaggle of surfers in wet suits in the ocean
Beach volleyball bros
Bye bye beach
Herons and a cormorant! Wowsers
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Always be

July 10, 2016 Sunday

“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
Anaïs Nin

Pierre Bonnard – Woman Putting on Her Stockings,1895

from Ravenous Butterflies on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ravenous.butterflies/photos/a.302520943198556.70818.120492754734710/991137157670261/?type=3&theater

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New sushi place

July 9, 2016 Saturday

9:32AM Sassy
Good morning kid!

10:32 AM Phil
Good morning!

6:17PM Sassy
At the grand opening of a new sushi place – Le’s! They have a big menu with Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes

 Wonton soup
 Miso soup
 Gyoza
 Beef pad thai
 Tamago (egg) nigiri
Volcano roll with spicy scallops – Avocado, cucumber, 
real crabmeat topped with a baked spicy scallop mix, 
drizzled with teriyaki sauce, scallions and red tobiko
 Exterior

7:31PM Sassy
Summer flowers on my way home

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Brett replies!

July 8, 2016 Friday
From: Brett
To: Sassy
Date: Fri July 8, 2016 1:37 PM
RE: A week
Sassy,
Hope your week was great.  I’ll be slaving away again this weekend, working on my projects…thinking of you.
brett
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It worked!  Hooray!  Not sure why just a few words from him makes my day, but it definitely does!  


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Tommy time

July 8, 2016 Friday

1:37PM Sassy
Happy Friday!

2:23 PM Sassy
Happy Friday!

5:52PM Phil
Happy Friday, my brother popped in!

5:57PM Sassy
Wow! How’s he like your new place?

6:02 PM Phil
Loves it

8:23 PM Sassy
I stopped to smell the flowers

8:58PM Sassy
Is he headed to the beach?

11:00PM Phil
Nah, hanging here for a couple days

11:01 PM Sassy
Yay!
Wife too? Any kids?

11:21 PM Phil
His wife is here too

11:24 PM Sassy
Nice!

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Reaching out to Brett

July 7, 2016 Thursday
From: Sassy
To: Brett
Date: Thu Jul 7 2016 11:55 PM
Subject: A week
Hiya Brett!  
Thinking of you. Remembering. Smiling. 
Hope you’ve had a great week.  
-Sassy

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I had a very strong urge to hear from Brett more often, so I decided to try short messages once a week, not requiring a lot of writing from him. Maybe I’ll be more likely to get a response?  Keep your fingers crossed!