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MORNING STAR • OCTOBER 25 - 31, 2007
Did I eat or do laundry? I don’t know — it’s all a blur In the days leading up to my daughter’s recent wedding, I don’t YNN ARKS think that I ate much. I’m not sure — the week before In the days leading the Saturday wedding is all kind of up to the wedding, I a blur. But I don’t recall preparing any meals and I can’t remember also paid no attention any Chinese takeout, our standard to the diminishing food in emergencies. state of our household I do remember several pieces of pizza, including one during my toilet paper. nephews’ soccer games. That night, I also had a bowl of nachos, a dered what force it was that was making Snickers and a bag of M&Ms. It was all the pile in it grow. delicious, a clue that perhaps I hadn’t eaten recently. Now, much of the clothing that our Another clue — throughout the week, I daughter needs, including several pairs consistently woke up in the morning hunof socks and her best pair of jeans, is gry, immediately ready for whatever 1,200 miles away from where she is livbreakfast was at hand. Sometimes, I reing. Sounds like her dad and I will have member, I made time for my standard to visit. bowl of oatmeal; other times, when I had In the days leading up to the wedding, I too much to do or, late in the week, after also paid no attention to the diminishing the milk ran out, I pushed the hunger off state of our household toilet paper. So that until lunchtime. And yet another clue — when I cleaned about an hour before the wedding, just 60 out the refrigerator Monday, I found food minutes before 70 people were set to arthat I know had been in there, neglected, rive at our house, the downstairs bathroom for a month or more: a small eggplant, was completely out and the upstairs bathbarely recognizable. A couple of cucumroom had only a half roll. And there were bers, still holding their shape but the consistency of soft mud. And a bowl of water- no reserves in the house. I did what women, married and unmarmelon and cantaloupe pieces. When were ried, young and old, have done for cenwatermelons and cantaloupes last in the turies: I turned to my mother. She arrived markets? In the days leading up to the wedding, I about 30 minutes later, carrying a plastic didn’t pay any attention to the laundry. So bag with four rolls of toilet paper in it. that when the big day arrived, we were all Hallelujah! lucky to be able to find undergarments to No food, no clothes and no toilet paper. wear. On the same Monday that I cleaned Small sacrifices that we were willing to out the refrigerator, I did seven loads of make to ensure a lovely wedding ceremolaundry. There are two yet to do — I had ny and celebration. to stop when I ran out of laundry soap. And now, things are back to what passSurprisingly, my daughter, who has es for normal in our house. Last night for supposedly packed and moved out, had as much clothing in those seven loads as dinner, we actually ate vegetables. My did her parents. For a week or more, she husband had a clean shirt to wear to work had been complaining that she had noththis morning. And I plan to buy a package ing to wear. of toilet paper today. As it turned out, instead of putting her Of course, it’s quiet around here. Even dirty laundry in the basket for clothing the mockingbirds and crickets, both of that needed washed, she was throwing it which have been very vocal in this warm in a basket that I had set aside for clothing fall, seem subdued. that needed ironed. Sometimes, when I I’m wondering what the days following zipped past the ironing basket on my way to one wedding chore or another, I wonmy daughter’s recent wedding will be like.
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