Day Eighty-two

It's been an intensely emotional week. First the news about my grandmother. Then the Rabbi's son passed last night (he's been sick for a while, it wasn't unexpected, but still so difficult). Finally, I spent the evening with a friend who recently lost a beloved pet and is very much in mourning.

I was thinking today that so many souls are leaving all at once. I wonder if it portends some huge shift that's coming. Something is about to happen, I just hope it shifts in a positive direction -- though the fact that so many are leaving doesn't really portend a positive shift. I shall do as I always do for such things -- hold on for the ride.

This morning I had an apple for breakfast. I've missed apples. It's the day before payday and -- having not received the money I expected last week -- the cupboard is quite bare. Mike had a couple apples on hand so I decided to try it out. I seem to be doing fine with it. In fact, the allergies that I've been dealing with all week actually seem to be doing better today.

Then I had left over pinwheel for lunch. It was still good the second day. Mmmm.

Finally, I knew I was working late this evening, and I planned to just eat a late dinner. But in between massage patients, at about 6:30, I was absolutely starving and I knew the next one would be intense (the friend who lost the pet), so I made a pit stop at Sprouts for a lettuce wrap. What I ordered was a turkey lettuce wrap with cucumber, pickle, sunflower seeds, and a touch of yellow mustard. Apparently the person making it had some trouble with the lettuce wrap concept because what I got was this:

What you can't tell from this picture is that the lettuce underneath is not cut up at all. It's large lettuce leaves laid in the bowl with all the stuffing laid on top. Oh well . . .  it tasted good (once I figured out how to eat it) and it filled me up with no reactions. What more could I want for $3.99?