A Moment of Silence

In recent years, the hubby and I and my mom and her husband have gone up to Ptown almost every year and usually off-season. We love the quiet, the beauty, and the feeling of having the town to ourselves.

Because it's the off-season, most of the restaurants in town are closed, particularly the breakfast places, and so that's how we discovered the Post Office Cafe (which my husband swears makes the world's best pancakes) and its spirited manager Dixie. During a typical weeklong stay, we eat at the Post Office five of the seven days. Exchanging banter with Dixie has become one of the highlights of our trips and one of the things we looked forward to each year.

And so, we were very saddened this weekend to learn that Dixie tragically died from a fall a couple of weeks ago.

If you Google "Dixie" and "Provincetown," you'll get a sense of how well-known and loved he was. And there are certainly many others who knew him better and longer than we did. But I couldn't let the death of the only person who ever called me "bitch" and got away with it go unremarked.

Dixie, we'll miss you. P-town is a little bit emptier.

Time to Get Back on the Wagon

As I feared, all that New England Clam Chowder and my other culinary indulgences this weekend caught up with me. I gained 3lbs, or one of these:



Hopefully, a week of strict point-counting will put me back on track. Stay tuned...

Wow.

"Pixie dust" may help re-grow vet's finger

Weirdness!

There are lots of stories and highlights from the weekend ("meat sweats" comes to mind as an example), but the element most sticking out in my head at the moment is the cult coffee shop we went to in Hyannis.

Some quick context-setting: this trip was my brother's first time to the Cape since high school and so part of the weekend was spent re-visiting all the old haunts and doing the whole "memory lane" thing. One of his fondest memories was getting rollwiches from the Box Lunch. Since we didn't make it there on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, we decided to make a small detour on the way off the Cape in Hyannis. Which we did. But, perplexingly, the Box Lunch in Hyannis was closed for Memorial Day (we expected a sandwich place in a tourist town to be open for the launch of the tourist season, but alas). So, before we got back in the car for the long trip home, I decided to grab an iced coffee and innocently walked into Common Grounds.

There was definitely a weird vibe in the place, but things didn't actually click for me until I went to use the restroom and noticed the wallpaper. You know that wallpaper they have that looks like old newspaper articles? Well, this was that kind of wallpaper, but instead of showing advertisements for the health tonics and men's shoes, it was articles about "Yahshua" the son of God.

The weird-weird part about all this is that my husband's uncle actually belonged to one of these cults about 20 years ago and worked in a coffee shop like this one, which he was telling us all about when he came to visit last week. (Oh Anonymous Commenter, is this actually the same cult?)

Disclaimer: In all fairness, the Twelve Tribes of Israel doesn't think they are a cult.

Quick Update Before I Blow Town...

First of all, my mom had a follow-up procedure yesterday that seems (fingers crossed) to have made a huge, positive difference in her pain level.

Second, I stage-managed my first show! And actually got paid!

So, now that my mom is hopefully on the mend and I my weekends and evenings have freed up a bit, by rights I should be blogging regularly again, but first I'm headin' out of town to one of my favorite places in the world: the Cape.

See ya next week!

I Did It!

I reached my 10% weight-loss goal!

Need Something To Do Tonight?

Come check out "Janey Miller's World Tour" at Manhattan Theatre Source.

Curtain at 8pm
Tickets $15
177 MacDougal St.
New York, NY

Only 2 shows left! (Tonight and tomorrow.)

For more info, or to buy tickets online, go to: www.theatresource.org

Yo, Nice Segue...

Ok, so I realized that my second-to-last post was a semi-dire sounding one about my mom and my only since was a little upbeat tidbit about my weight loss. Am I really that shallow and self-centered? Hopefully not.

Mom-wise, there's just not a lot to tell...yet. The short version of the story is that she's had a long-standing (14 years!) chronic pain issue that suddenly got much worse. We took her for some heavy-hitting second opinions last week at Columbia-Presbyterian and Johns Hopkins and got some advice about how to move forward. Now we're in limbo while trying to get a procedure scheduled at C-P and it's going to take several weeks to implement the medication switch that Johns Hopkins recommended, so we're in a "wait and see" period. I'll keep ya posted.

Cult Update

Well, today was the last week of my first 17-week session as a member of WeightWatchers at Work and I'm happy to report that I lost another 2.6 lbs since my last weigh-in 2 weeks ago, or, apparently, one of these:


I am, of course, re-upping for the next session, so stay tuned for further updates.

I love my cult!

Where Have I Been?

...wow...blog silence...weird.

Sorry, loyal reader(s?), the simple truth is that my mom was in the hospital last week and I didn't feel like blogging about it, and blogging about anything else seemed trivial in comparison. She's out now but the issue that sent her in remains unresolved. We're working on getting her in to see some specialists this week and so I hope to have some really good news to report here soon.

Other than that, I'm just trying to keep all the balls in the air.

I promise to write more soon.