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catnip
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Date: July 21, 2017 03:57AM
After almost everyone went home, I was tired and achy. An old injury to my low back has gone arthritic on me, and flares up painfully almost every day.
We bought a hot tub to help with this, and it is GREAT at relaxing muscles and reducing pain. I need narcotic painkillers sometimes, but sparingly, and I keep very precise about how much I have taken and when I took it. Some days, I can get by without any, so my doctor trusts me with the narcotics. I use them as a last resort, but at times, they are all that works.
Anyway, fairly late in the evening, my oldest son and my youngest daughter (41 and 31, respectively) were hanging around. My daughter asked if there was any "old people" music I wanted to listen to, and I mentioned Herman's Hermits, whom I have always enjoyed. She pulled up several of their songs via her phone, on You Tube.
We pulled out some Chateau Ste. Michelle - something sweet and white, I don't remember exactly, and I donned my swimsuit and got in the hot tub. It was very late, stars were out, and the hot tub felt great. And hanging with two of my kids, whose sense of humor is fairly raunchy, like their mother's - it was like Heaven.
We sipped the wine, enjoyed the hot tub, gossiped, laughed, and had a wonderful time, just being together. Totally digging Herman and the Hermits, loving the presence of my kids and the therapeutic effect of the hot tub - it was almost surrealistic. But incredibly wonderful. (DH was exhausted and had gone to bed hours before.)
I could smell the intoxicating fragrances of summer flowers, and it just added to the ambience. Great impromptu time!! Unexpected joyfulness like this is kind of like stumbling across jewels. Your life has suddenly become much richer.
A warm summer evening, two of my kids, a great party earlier, wine, music, and a hot tub - it was HEAVEN!!
Carpe Diem, indeed!