Tikatu's Travels Through Time

Was driving back from taking the kids to school and happened to catch this flash of pink out of the corner of my eye. I looked again and saw this lady sitting down in her driveway wearing what looked to be her nightgown. My first thought was, "I don't think she really means to be sitting there like that. I'd better check it out."

So I parked the van at home and walked down the block to where this lady was. She was sitting there, unable to get up, and feeling rather cold. Her arm and leg were pretty badly scraped. She told me that she had fallen down the stairs of her house (cement steps) and that she had driven her daughter to work and when she got out of the car, she fell again. I tried to help her up, but it was no good. She said her tailbone hurt.

I put my jacket over her legs so warm them and so she would feel more modest, then walked back down to my house as fast as I could, and brought the van up, and with it, my cell phone. I asked her if I could call her daughter, and she said, no, her daughter was at work. So I called EMS instead. An ambulance came within 10 minutes (if she wasn't breathing well or something they would have been faster I think). They got her onto a gurney and took her to the hospital. I'm going to check down there in a day or so to see how she is. The neat thing was that she trusted me enough to ask me to get her housecoat out of her house and lock it up for her, which I did.

Saw my parents this afternoon and went out to dinner with them this evening. They had a wonderful time on the cruise and visiting Nassau and Jeanne the storm didn't affect them at all. They got Kennedy Space Center t-shirts for the kids, but got them a bit too small for the girl and boy #1. So boy #1 got his sister's and they're going to buy her a local one instead. Boy #2 almost ended up with two, but the smaller of the two fit him well so the other is going to his younger girl cousin, who is actually bigger than he is though she's six months younger.

The muses have been quiet, which is good I guess. Except for Turnabout, which is preying on my mind. I'm going to try and tackle it tomorrow and get Chapter 11 finished.

... so today will have to do. It's raining here to beat the band. I think that the vestiges of Frances finally arrived today and are pouring down outside. The girl is not feeling well; said she felt nauseous this morning, so I kept her home. She's really not one to fake such things and I'd much rather have her at home to rest and barf than have to go out to the school to get her because she's barfed all over herself there. Note: she hasn't produced yet....

Spent Labor Day at my bro's and SIL's house. It was nice if you don't count the grill nearly blowing up on us. Flames were shooting out the bottom, melting a couple of knobs and heading down the hose toward the propane tank. Fortunately, I think my husband finally woke up and smelled the Dr. Pepper and told bro what was happening and they were able to turn it off at the tank. SIL made brownies and fudge sauce: chocolate overload! Mmmmmm. It was a good day all around: I woke up yesterday to four review bots in my mailbox, two for Mr. Sunshine and two for Turnabout. Makes me want to write more on Turnabout. Trying to get a plot together for a one-shot Parker fic, too, in answer to my own challenge at fanfics.org.

Found out for the first time that the folks are flying down on Thursday, which doesn't give me much time to clean house. We got some stuff done in the living room on Sunday, but there's a awful lot more to do. I've been working in the bathroom and folding clothes so far this morning. Just taking a break now before plunging in again. I'll be glad to see them; I think they'll be amazed at how big the kids have gotten, especially the girl.

Be back later if I can.