It had been a difficult week for both of us. I had been to the radiation oncologist and was one step closer to getting my boob barbecued.
Deborah's week had been equally difficult. Life has been sending her curves for a while now, and every time she gets a foothold and feels as though she is beginning to move forward, something knocks her down. This time the something was enough to make her feel hopeless for a bit, before she righted herself and decided to plunge forward.
So there we were, watching the Perseid meteor shower on the peak night in August when they were shooting across the sky leaving long trails, talking about a lot of different things. It brought to mind a favorite song about one of my favorite artists and that song ran through my mind while we lay there star gazing.
The talking included a couple glasses of wine, so that may explain why our conversation ambled along about these subjects:
Nocturnal cow mooing. We thought it was a romantic time of the month for cows, and the meteors were putting them in the mood. One cow in particular bawled her way across the pasture from where we sat, mooing loudly from one end to the other. Occasionally another couple of cows would chime in.
Tiger chuffing. Not to be mistaken with roaring. Deb said it was a sign of her lack of a social life, that the last thing she searched for on her iPhone was tiger chuffing. It was replaced by cow mooing, which is when we discovered it wasn't cow sex going on, but one cow trying to find the herd. Which totally burst our romantic notion about cows. I was irritated at this point by the cow screaming across the road, so I.....
Stirred the cows up with my iPhone flashlight. I know, totally mean of me, and I paid for it by being flogged by a million bugs rushing at the light and up my nose, in my eyes and ears, and...well you get the idea. Deb also was eaten alive while Googling cow mooing.
Our California road trip. Possibly the best road trip of our lives. While we reminisced about the trip, we also talked about our own insignificance in the scheme of the universe, watching the sky light up with orange meteors shooting past in the sky overhead. Then things deteriorated again when we decided to move our lounge chairs to face the house because it seemed like the meteors were coming from there. That was when....
I peed my pants trying to get up off the lounge chair to move it. I hadn't been to yoga in a couple months due to recouping from surgeries, so my abdominal muscles were jello, and so were my legs, which led to the above. After we got settled down, we realized that the meteors were actually more visible in the direction we had just turned from, and somehow I made it up off the lounge, then Deb said something, I laughed, and peed my pants again. Just a little. At that point, we started to laugh and talked about....
Estrogen levels and how they affect homicidal behavior. I had just been taken off all estrogen, given a tablet to block my body absorbing any estrogen it might try to produce on its own, and told that the pill would probably give me hot flashes. By a doctor who was smiling so kindly at me when he said it that I thought seriously about slapping him. Just for a second. Which means this ain't gonna be good, if I felt like that while I had estrogen still floating around. About this time a leaf blew off the tree and hit Deb's shoulder, and she screamed loudly. Which made a cow start mooing again and made us....
Laugh at shadows, more bugs, and leaves. About that time we were sipping the last of our wine, and didn't notice Steve slip out and say something in his booming deep voice. I jumped and screamed and so did Deb. I thought a cow had gotten loose, circled around behind us and was about to charge us. I invited Steve to join us, but he said no, he was going back to bed, which caused me to wonder out loud why the *#&$ he had bothered coming out at all. Except I knew why.
He wanted to make me scream and pee my pants.
Because he is evil that way.
Thanks Deb, my Wretched Daughter, for being there to watch stars with me. Let's do it again kiddo. Same time, next year.
(This post is in response to two prompts on Friday Reflections, how I deal with anxiety, and reflecting on my favorite song. Somehow, this week, they were both tied together.)
...life is good. ~cat
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