Sat 28 Jan 2012

Saturday Morning Rendezvous with: 2 Dieters in One Home: Conversations with My Cat!

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As you may know, Cece’s cat Jellybean was very sick and was diagnosed with a UTI and also severe “stubborn” diabetes. This requires that JB eat special food for diabetics and also get 2 shots of insulin per day. Needless to say, Cece does not have a happy cat…although she is much more healthy than she had been!

Previous to her illness, Jellybean was ” a chirper.”  She was a cat who chirped like a bird!  But since the dieting, she has been fully meowing all the  time!  She follows Cece everyone she goes…and when she nears the kitchen, JB trots up on her heels and starts her discussion:

JB:  “Mewo, meow meOW!” (I am hungry and I want my food)

cece:  “I know you are hungry!  But you have diabetes now and have to be on a diet! You have to lose weight like your mother.”

JB:  Meow! (I want more)

Cece: I know you want more.  I am hungry too, but we are both losing weight!  Good for us!

JB:  Mewo,  mewo!  (I want ot eat now! I am very hungry!”

Cece:  I know, but we have to warm up your insulin…otherwise when I give you your shot, it will be too cold going in.

JB:  MEEEow!

Cece:  I know it is hard to wait.

Post Script: Jellybean was in the hospital all day on Friday and her blood sugars were normal and she is now down almost 2 pounds since middle December! Cece was given a high 5 by the Dr. and told she is a good mother even though it is hard keeping her on her diet and giving the shots. So there is much improvement. Now she has to watch for low blood sugar: disorientation,moodiness, seizures and have honey water on hand….just like you would for a person. Diabetes is a serious illness!

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The Saturday Morning Rendezvous will be a place to stop in and meet up on a weekend morning. Have a cup of tea or coffee, a special breakfast, and relax and catch up from the week’s fast pace. The Two Whos will focus Saturday’s content on physical wellness , food and fitness of all types. Come back and rendezvous with us! See you next Saturday! Thanks for visiting

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Fri 27 Jan 2012

Watch YouTube or Write? A Blogger Ponders…..

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Yun is burning the  mid night oil.  Yun has promised Cece to do some serious writing.  The Two Whos’  blog readership has increased by ten fold from two years ago, and we plan to keep at it until…

We have no plan to quit, more or fewer readers are not the deciding factor.  The deciding factor is that we have things we want to write about, and we are having lots fun doing it.   But life can get in our way…or life such as we know it….. YouTube!

This Friday evening, Yun wants to be ‘normal’ a bit before get into the blog: watching YouTube while eating dinner (she does not have TV reception- remember the blog about her TV drama?”).     You see, eating and watching TV or YouTube do not go together often in Yun’s dictionary.

But today, after the shopping for red, she wants to be different, be normal for once.  A plate in hand, she is eating and watching Bill Mahr’s Real Time.  The guy’s sharp mind, critical thinking and sharp tongue is what  impresses her greatly.  So, she watches one after another.  Before she knows it, it is 10:30pm, way past  her bed time.  Yet, she has not written a word for the blog!

“Damn you YouTube!”  But Yun is determined to deliver her promise, even if she has to burn some mid night oil.   Burning mid night oil is no stranger to Yun….numerous occasions through her adult life have called her to do so, from graduate school to demanding corporation, from parties to motherhood.

So she makes a cup of tea and  opens her  blog folder on her computer.   It is pitch dark outside, the house is quiet except for the sound of the water running in the fish tank.  The cats are curled up on the chairs in the kitchen, keeping Yun company.   Yun wonders if her children are sound asleep at their father’s house.  A tint of sadness creeps in.  But not for long.  Tonight, her role right here and right now is a that of a blogger, and here and now, the most important thing to do is write.

Yun is burning the midnight oil, thanks to  YouTube.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

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Wed 25 Jan 2012

Mid-Week Symphony with: Freeze this Moment of Love!

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Yun wonders, “How large is one’s love? She can not know for sure. She only knows that her love for her children can only be contained by the universe, and she figures that her parents must feel the same way. After all, where does one learn what love is and how to love if not from their parents?

Freeze This Moment

We were sitting on your rooftop
Staring at the skies
The sun was dipping lower
I looked into your eyes
You saw what I was feeling
I know you felt it too
We wanted time to just stand still
Then forever there’d be me and you
Why can’t we freeze this moment?
Return to it in time
Stay together through the years
Proclaim I’m yours and you are mine
So let us freeze this moment
Store it safely away
Even if we leave this place
We’ll return to it someday

- Jenna Todd -

Bye for Now” from The Two Whos
About The Mid-Week Symphony: Since Wednesday is the middle of the week, we have decided to take a moment and have a bit of down time from the writing. Each Wednesday, we would like to bring you a symphony of ideas, a harmony of thoughts, beauty, and all things that make the fullness of life

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Mon 23 Jan 2012

Freezing Love like Left Overs!

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It is a hectic morning even with Yun’s new mommy cloning strategy   First kid comes downstairs, the math practice, daily fruits and breakfast…  then comes down the second child, same routine at a slightly later time…. then the drive to school bus stop, and a drive to the other boy’s school….

When Yun comes back from the morning rush, she feels hungry.  “Now, what should I eat?”  she wonders,  as she opens the frig.  No much ready to eat food.  She opens the freezer, a big smile comes to her.  There are mountains of dumplings and egg rolls, there are even frozen left over cooked bitter melons and meat, and several dishes.  Some in containers, and some in zip-lock bags!  Yun takes one out, reheats it on the stove, a yummy brunch is served!

From the left over food, she wanders if there is such a thing as left over love.  You see, when her parents were here visiting, they did everything they could to make she  and her children’s lives  good and well.  They cooked, cleaned and sewed, mostly, they cooked!  That explains why the deep freezer in the garage is full of frozen dumpling and egg rolls!    What to do with the left over food after each meal?  “Freeze them so you can eat them later.”   So,  they always make sure there are plenty left overs!

They have so much love that Yun and the kids can not receive them all in the short two weeks.  So, along with the frozen food, they freeze the love that is released and received days and weeks after they have left the house.  Their presence is everywhere, so is their love.

How large is one’s love?  Yun can not know for sure.  She only knows that her love for her children can only be contained by the universe, and she figures that her parents must feel the same way.  After all, where does one learn what love is and how to love if not from their parents?

So, Yun  looks at the frig and freezer, feeling very blessed to be so loved.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

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Sat 21 Jan 2012

In Memorium: Tom Hendricks Part 2

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The day had come.  Cece got dressed and put her make up on,being careful to put enough on because she knew she would cry most of it off.  She took a large packet of tissues from her cycling stash and put them in her jacket pocket.    She is a crier and knew she would.  She had the directions to the wine bar and knew where to park legally.  She was off.

She wondered what it would be like to be at a wake.  She had never been to one before, but a wake was perfect for Tom, who loved to tell a good story and who  was a wine connoisseur!

As she arrived, they were just beginning.  She looked around and the place was packed.  The family had rented the Zinc Wine Bar for several hours for this wake.  The bar was open.  At one point, Tom’s son asked every one to raise their hands if they knew Tom from cycling and about 90% of hands went up.  That is when Cece started to cry.

Where had those tissues gone? She cried as she heard the stories about how Tom knew everyone and everyone knew him.  He was that type of person who never knew a stranger.  She cried as she heard about how he was not the best student and failed many a test with a zero…and we all wondered how the man got his PhD in engineering…but he did.

We saw photos or marriage, family, kids and grand kids and we all knew how important they were to him…

We saw all the cycling pics and then saw how he taught all his kids and grand kids to ride that bike and we remembered how he taught all of us to ride that bike too!

And Cece remembered that oh so hot day when the team was climbing up through the canyon and up into oak Flats.  For Cece a 3.5 hour climb straight up….and how Tom was at the top with watermelon to soothe our parched throats and to put salve on our wounds.

 

She remembered a lot of moments with Tom and as she watched the beautiful slide show she just sobbed and wiped her tears…..

Many were missing from this memorial.  People Cece thought for sure would be there were not…but people do not like to attend these things…it is so hard and they avoid it.  But she wishes they had been there to hear a part of Tom’s life that the cycling community had little idea about….the man who wanted to live life big…who would not be stopped , who did the things he enjoyed despite Dr’s orders…the man who loved to be on the move on 2 wheels.

The liquor and food flowed on the house and the stories and tall tales grew bigger and bigger and the laughter rose up … and we all agreed, that this is just how Tom would have wanted it! As one friend said, “I’m not surprised that it was the best gathering of its type that I’ve ever been to. Tom knew how to live and how to let us say goodbye, too.”

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

The Saturday Morning Rendezvous will be a place to stop in and meet up on a weekend morning. Have a cup of tea or coffee, a special breakfast, and relax and catch up from the week’s fast pace. The Two Whos will focus Saturday’s content on physical wellness , food and fitness of all types. Come back and rendezvous with us! See you next Saturday! Thanks for visiting

 

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