If You Knew Sushi

We're enjoying a 21st birthday weekend Lalapalooza - eating out every night.  Tonight was massive amounts of sushi!  Five different sushi rolls with fried calamari and tempura.  Grateful to a former girlfriend of H.'s who broadened his palate to include sushi.  When I offered the weekend food-fest as part of his birthday celebration, I pictured way too many burgers - but when I suggested Japanese (thinking he would want chicken teriyaki), he was fine with a selection of rolls.  He's fond of California Roll but I broadened his palate a little by getting rolls that included unagi.  Tastes just like chicken and as long as it has the sweet sauce on it, it's something he can handle.

We've ordered his request of ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins - chocolate cake and chocolate frosting with cookie dough ice cream.  We got a small one for just the three of us. With the extra room in the freezers, we can store it for a few days and I'm sure he will eat it.

An on-call nurse is due any minute for a dressing change on the PICC line.  It was just changed yesterday but the dressing is open and the antibiotic patch is no longer over the PICC entrance. He's heading out to boat tomorrow with a group of friends and he can't have that open while he's out and about.  I feel bad about the on-call nurse driving from Modesto but oh well - that's what on-call means.

I worked today and made progress.  Little by little and one by one, things get crossed off the list of things needing to be done.  Still much to do and I brought a little bit home to work on in between episodes of Scandal.  J. has church in the morning and I'm glad H. has plans 'cuz I would feel guilty leaving him alone on his birthday.  He'll be entertained and busy for most of the day so I can keep on plowing through.

H. helped a friend last night and left some items on the kitchen counter that had me flipping pissed off this morning.  He is a good friend - a faithful and true friend.  The kind of friend people call when they are in 'trouble' and need someone to talk to.  I feel he gives too much sometimes - his kind heart won't let him just say 'no' when someone requests to come over in the middle of the night 'cuz they need someone to talk to.  He took the cigarettes and lighter away from the friend who had just told him she was pregnant.  She and her boyfriend were arguing - she isn't sure what to do and he wants to have the baby.  H. said 'well for now, since you don't know, you shouldn't be smoking'.  So she handed them over and he left them on the counter this morning.

There was one small stupid thing he DID do that he regrets and I reamed him for that big time.  Reminded him that his body is fighting and putting strain on it by ingesting stupid things for no reason other than it was offered so he said yes is just dumb.  He's not dumb.

21 tomorrow and he's still kind of not bright at times.