Mind you, the weather is dreary not the company.

Yesterday, I went with my 87-year-old grandmother for senior aerobics.  We joined 5 other women and the teacher for a rousing 45 minutes of movement.  It was great to see my grandmother kicking butt with women 20 years younger than her.  I enjoyed being there with her, but I have to admit there was a part of me that felt like I was in a movie.

The exercise room is located at the county health department.  It looks like it is used for meetings, classes and this exercise class.  The walls are sea-foam green painted cinderblock, and it’s carpeted in blue.  The room was filled with cheap foil blue and white snow flake decorations and a Christmas tree was in the corner.  And here I am a single 42-year-old woman marching in time with my grandmother and a handful of seniors to a crappy video of a woman who has frighteningly penciled in eyebrows.  The woman on the video marches us a mile and moves us side to side.  And I think to myself, “What am I doing here?  This is too depressing if this is my life at 42.  However, then I snap out of it and think how great it is to be here with my grandmother and support her being healthy and in-shape in her late eighties.  Not too bad, and something to be grateful for.  Funny how you can go back and forth from despair to grateful.

Grammy and I headed to Evanville, IN after class – about a two-hour drive to do some shoe shopping.  Actually, I stand corrected; we went to Kentucky.  So really Kentucky is where people in the know go to get shoes.  Unfortunately, we were uninspired and left empty-handed.  So to make the trip worth while, we had the early bird dinner at Yen’s Chinese Restaurant in Evansville.  Even at 4:30 p.m., dinner was delicious and I have leftovers to look forward to today.

Last night we arrived tired after driving all the way back through sloppy weather.  My grandmother’s dog Ginger was thrilled to see us and wouldn’t leave our sides once we settled down to watch Nutcracker wars on TV.   A piece of leftover birthday cake, the Nutcracker, and whoof, time for bed.  Hey, it’s kind of nice taking it slow.

Today is another dark, cloudy day, and we expect rain this afternoon.  So we are doing indoor chores today, and right now we are both just hanging out on the computers.

I have one more day at the farm and then journey continues onward to PA.

Missing all of you back in LA, and my friends along the way.

As ever,

K. Quinn