s t r a n g e cousin susan

(in order of occurrence, not goodness)

1. Received the results back from my recent blood test; mine cholesterol dropped almost forty points overall since June. My LDL is down almost twenty, all due to the eighteen to twenty-one miles I was walking every week. No medication at all, except niacin because I haven’t been able to afford any prescription cholesterol medicines.

2. I was cut loose from work at 1pm this afternoon for the long weekend. Nice! In related news, I was able to get more done in the five hours I was at work today than I normally get done in a regular eight-hour day because three of my four managers were not in.

3. When I got home, instead of taking a walk, as I’d planned, I crawled into my pajamas and took a three-hour nap. I’m just getting up now and have a pie to bake and some (more) Carly Simon to listen to. Boys in the Trees was my very first Carly Simon album – and indeed, one of the first full albums I remember owning, along with Olivia Newton-John’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2; Whammy by The B-52s, and The Wild Heart by Stevie Nicks. Even as a wee lass, my music was all over the place. Nothing’s changed.

My Auntie Judi bought BITT for me when I was thirteen or so and I listened a hole right into the tape.

Carly Simon!