Renewal

Tomorrow my wife will be home. As in semi-all day home, I know there will be things that will pull her away, but nothing like today (I hope). Yesterday she was preparing for a meeting of her kids conversation school that will take place Friday and today she was with a number fellow teachers from that same school for some kind of eating party. I spent a lot of her time away sleeping, like suspended animation when you want to wake up to a better future. It doesn’t help with my word count, I can tell you that. I’ll have to ramp it up soon. At least I know I can do that, I have ramped up many times before. 

Right now I am enjoying my first can of Dr. Pepper since the one that gave me hiccups for a couple weeks straight. But I don’t know, if you go by the verb “enjoying” this would be my first Dr. Pepper since I went into the hospital for the first fucking time in May. See, I didn’t have my taste last time I was out, and let tell you, it is nice to taste things again. Like last night’s sushi. Again same as the Dr. Pepper—when I last had it the first time out there was only the taste of freezer. Hmmm, freezer. This time I could enjoy the fattiness of the maguro or the salmon, the sticky pungency of the squid, the high price flavor of the crab. Nice to have that human experience back. What I was obviously craving in the hospital, bulking up a lot of my blog words with thoughts of food. Thoughts of taste. Come to think of it, I also had the same cold pasta dish as I did the first time I got out and couldn’t eat because it had no taste. It wasn’t great today, needed more karashi mustard, but it sure had taste. So I guess today is a whole taste renewal thing. I’ll take that.