Pleasing words for an early September day

cadre
seredipity

(Too lazy to see if I've posted these before. Sorry.)

In other news, I'm taking tomorrow off to visit MC and her girls (and husband! He counts, too!). Haven't even had time to get excited until just now.

Also, I caved and made a doctor appointment for Monday to get the insistent pain in my abdomen checked out. As soon as I made the appointment, the pain started to fade, as psychosomatic pains are wont to do. Still, it's time to find out what's going on. Hopefully, my mini-vacation will cure what ails me. That or a big chocolate milkshake.

Ahhh, milkshakes. They're a distant, but powerful, memory. When I was a kid, my mom made me a chocolate milkshake every day after school. If you find that appalling in this age of rampant child obesity (and I cringe a little when I think about it), let me at least point out that I was a scrawny little kid. But since I'm not that any more, I've cut down on the milkshakes.

But someone mentioned milkshakes today and I had to stop in my tracks and savor the memory, it was so palpable. I felt like a borg downloading my distant past as a human. Yes. I would like a milkshake right now. Chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup, please.