Another life lesson learned. This day had long been planned out with a blueprint for a perfect day. The Husband & I were to have arrived in Seattle yesterday evening to have a dinner with our dear friends & Best Men at our wedding- Ken & Eiric at The Pink Door, one of Seattle’s coolest & most original dining experiences, of which the Husband & Eiric are alumni staff. Today we were going to have breakfast with my dear friend of 25+ years (I sang at her wedding)- LJSM, then the plan was to kick around our former home city before attending a concert by The Pet Shop Boys at the Moore Theatre. PSB have been major influence in my life & we have never seen them live. It would be amazingly fun to be back in Seattle, spend time with friends & I thought there was the groundwork for a possibly romantic evening after the concert (I mean what makes me hornier than the music of the PSB?).
Everything started to unravel on Friday evening when I was informed that my wonderful assistant manager-R was newly diagnosed with Shingles & was down for the count. He was not just in horrifying pain, but besides medication for the illness, he was on pain killers to get him through the agony. My 2nd & equally fine assistant manager was moving this weekend & I had witness her stress grow during the week as the weekend approached with truck rentals etc… I watched as my carefully laid plans started to slip away. I realized that the trip would have to be scrapped & that I would have to work a 14 hour day on Saturday & a 10 hour day on Sunday to keep the store running & doing what we do better than anybody in Portland. I was smothered in sadness at loosing what was as close to a 30th anniversary weekend as possible under the “new austerity program”. But, I had to man up & continue on my journey. I did have an inner dialogue about what song could best describe how I was feeling, because when I am dealing with melancholy…I like to wallow:
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