I’m looking forward to being back in bed tonight — but only because it will mean that the last couple days are done.

Tonight, especially, will be challenging. I’ve worked with this client before and I really like him, but he has significant cognitive impairment. Meaning, he’s basically totally not there. But he’s completely mobile, so you have to watch him like a hawk…

But it is beautiful, how his daughter pays for round-the-clock care for him, so that he can remain at home. (His cognitive impairment was early-onset, so he’s actually several years younger than me — and strong.)

I could have turned it down — I’m going to be filling in for someone else tonight — but I didn’t have the heart to, since he’s so nice.

And then last evening’s shift was an eye-opener that I wasn’t expecting.

I was with that new-ish client that I really like, who lives in that huge and beautiful split-level home in the hills behind Bryn Du Mansion , where you need a map to find the bathroom…

I haven’t been with her in just about a month and she has gone WAY downhill. Cognitively, I mean. I was totally unprepared for the change.

But again, she is someone whose daughter and son-in-law take such good care of her that it just melts your heart — the amount of palpable love in that beautiful home. It just blows me away. I am sensitive to energy, and every single room in that enormous home just overwhelms me with love.

However.

She has turned a corner that she’s not coming back from so it is disheartening to see.

I will be glad when I’m back here tonight, in the safety and “cognitively-functioning” haven of my cozy-cat-filled home in the Hinterlands.

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Here’s this!!!

From Keith’s page on Instagram!!

He and Patti went somewhere!! Yay!

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And THIS opened, and I really wanted to see it, but YES!! — it is at the movie theater that is one-hour away from me (each way). Well, that’s the closest theater it’s at, anyway…

Keanu’s new movie, “Good Fortune”:

I would really love to see it in the theater, and I was hoping it would be at the AMC which is only 30 miles from me. But I don’t know if I will have any time this month to make that 2-hr drive just to see a movie. We’ll see.

“Good Fortune” trailer:

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Okay, Phil’s Q&A was great last night! (Well, I listened to it this morning, after breakfast.)

It reminded me of the old Phil, where he wasn’t aiming so much at the newcomers. I really enjoyed it and felt I learned some very, very interesting little things.

I especially liked the tiny little tidbit connected to this:

The Replay (direct link has more control over the ads):

Q&A – October 10th, 2025 (1 hr 41 mins):

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So, I did take my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man on a “very little” road trip (10 miles) to get my new glasses yesterday!!

I love my new glasses, gang. It’s like they’re barely there, and they have a wider lens so I feel like I can see everything. What a great feeling. Especially when I’m driving (which is always).

And the weather was just stunning yesterday. Really feeling and looking like October now, which is my favorite month of the year. So even though it was a really short drive, and no sake or vodka martinis were involved, we had a really great time.

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I think that might be it for now, gang. I need to get ready to get back over to my favorite 95-year-old Japanese’s man’s house! Get his coffee started and his breakfast ready!

I am planning on having lunch HERE, though, between shifts!

The Subway, where I would always have lunch before going to see my adorable client, Molly, who passed away in late January. (Which means, she will be “dining” with me, in spirit.)

Tomorrow, I have my shift with the retired minister and his lovely cat & wife. Which means I will have the whole morning to myself, to get some more reading/editing done on The Curse of Our Profound Disorder — getting ever closer to finishing it!!

Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I’m gonna leave you with this again.

Only because I got out of bed, singing it to all the many cats this morning and they really seemed to enjoy it!

Mostly, I’m dreaming of a day when my Saturdays can be my own again. With or without “the friend”.

“Come Saturday Morning,” by The Sandpipers. 1969. Enjoy, gang.

“Come Saturday Morning”

Come Saturday mornin’
I’m goin’ away with my friend
We’ll Saturday-spend
‘Til the end of the day

Just I and my friend
We’ll travel for miles
In our Saturday smiles
And then we’ll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday’s gone

Come Saturday mornin’
Come Saturday morn

Come Saturday mornin’
I’m goin’ away with my friend
We’ll Saturday-laugh
More than half of the day

Just I and my friend (My friend)
Dressed up in our rings
And our Saturday things (Saturday)
And then we’ll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday’s gone

Come Saturday mornin’
Come Saturday mornin’

Come Saturday mornin’ (Saturday)

Just I and my friend (My friend)
We’ll travel for miles
In our Saturday smiles (Saturday)
And then we’ll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday’s gone

Come Saturday mornin’
Come Saturday morn
Come Saturday mornin’
Come Saturday morn
Come Saturday mornin’

c- 1969 Fred Karlin, Dory Previn