I feel so sorry for Soula and Kevin right now.  They are still waiting.  Not much has changed.  Soula’s cervix is still only dilated about 1 cm and her contractions, which are lasting about 1 minute, are about 3 minutes apart.  Kevin sounded exhausted when I talked with him a few minutes ago and he […]

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Just spoke with Kevin (11 am, Saturday).  Soula will have the baby either today or tomorrow.  They have given her something to cause her cervix to dilate.  This medication takes up to 24 hours to work and it started at 10 pm last night.  She has begun having contractions that are about 3 min apart, but […]

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Soula is in the hospital.  She went for her doctor’s appointment today and they sent her to the hospital.  As of now she is being monitored closely (baby heart rate monitor plus all the normal equipment they hook you up to in the hospital) and I expect some kind of a decision will be made […]

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It’s Thursday and I feel as though the week has flown by and I’ve gotten very little done at home or at work.  Oh, I’ve accomplished a few big projects at work, but I have sooo much remaining to do between now and next week before I leave for a week off.  It’s hard to […]

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Vanessa spent part of yesterday and last night here.  She came into the LA area to visit with family as well as to attend a business meeting today.  I invited her to sleep over here and leave Pixel (her dog) to hang out with Murphy while she ran around for all her appointments.  I wound […]

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As I looked at the windows in the family room today, I decided they (along with the curtains) needed cleaning.  Washing the windows and curtains didn’t seem like too daunting a task, so I took town all 14 panels and started a load of wash holding half of the curtains.  Then I began washing the […]

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Chrysoula has developed high blood pressure.  On Tuesday she went for her regular doctor’s appointment and they noted her blood pressure was elevated.  When it was still high today she went to the birth clinic and had blood/urine tests done.  The results are that she needs to take it easy and keep herself hydrated.  The […]

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Yesterday was Mata’s memorial service.  It seems like all this happened so long ago, yet it also still seems unreal.  The service was a very nice, traditional Jewish memorial.  The rabbi, whom Mata and Ken had known for 35 years, had an absolutely beautiful voice and sang quite a few Jewish hymns.  After the service […]

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Vanessa came over for dinner (nice big green salad full of fresh-picked tomatoes from my garden!) last night–a welcome respite from a week filled with shock, stress and tears.  We sat around talking for hours after dinner.  She needed a break from a work project and the noise of the city and I needed a break […]

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After a day of on and off tears, contacting lots of friends and family, talking with Mata’s family and trying to get the payroll done at work (please, no mistakes), I am drained…and still in a state of shock. Mata should not have died today.  She was not ready…and I am not ready to say […]

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My dear friend, Mata Plumb, passed away early this morning.

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My friend, Mata, is in the hospital.  She’s been there since June 26 when she went in for back surgery to repair disks that had collapsed and fused together.  She was supposed to be there for about 2 weeks.  Things started to go bad when she developed an e-coli infection in the incision.  They had […]

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I had tons and tons of plans for this weekend, so how come they didn’t all get done? Last week was totally exhuasting at work.  Not sure if it had to do with side effects from the tetanus shot I got last Monday or just a busy week.  Whatever, I got home on Friday and […]

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Got a call tonight from the woman who took over for me with the private client for whom I worked for 3 years.  Not surprisingly her computer crashed.  And, of course, she had no backup for all her data.  She upgraded to a new computer and can’t find any of the data on her old […]

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On Saturday I went to my friend, Mata’s, house to help her family get it ready for her return home from the hospital.  Her daughter let me in the front door and I saw their cat sitting on the floor to the side of me.  Mata’s daughter started to lead me back to the family […]

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…and sooo grateful I don’t have to get up at 7 am tomorrow morning!  What a grueling week this has been.  I have lots I want to do at home this weekend, but at least I don’t have to get up early, put on makeup, do my hair, and drive to work…and then deal with […]

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That’s how long I have until my next week of vacation begins.  I hope the time goes by quickly ’cause being back at work is exhausting already.  While my new assistant is doing a relatively good job, I am finding I still need to do a lot of overseeing of his work.  He has no […]

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…and what a day it’s been! Finished up cleaning and moving furniture in the family room and it looks spectacular!  I can’t believe how huge it looks.  How I ever managed to squeeze so much into that room is amazing.  The only new piece of furniture I’ve brought in is the v-shaped desk that I […]

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I finally finished all the painting and cleaning of my new office today.  Then Patrick came over after work and set up my new desk…and then he moved my computer and all the peripherals and got them set up in the new space…and then he moved the tv and all the electronic equipment to a […]

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Patrick and Veronica (and Floyd, their pitbull) showed up around noon today for some swimming and hanging out around the pool.  They went to the beach earlier, but it was cloudy and chilly, so they figured it would be nicer in my backyard.  I finally got into the pool for the first time this year.  […]

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