Volume 18 - Day 187/178, 2026 - Monday

Callie is feeling better, I really am at a loss about what could have caused her the discomfort. She puked one more time after my post yesterday, and not since then. She is perkier and playing with Oliver, so I think she has gotten over whatever it was. I tried to blame it on the cottage cheese, not really sure that could have been it, but I will lay off that for a while. Paulina made some rice this afternoon, so I put some of that on their food tonight, and so far, so good. I picked Marian up about 11:30 this morning, and we drove in to Austin, with a stop at Upper Crust. I have cinnamon rolls for a couple days, and carrot cake for about a week. Life is good. Then we headed off to the blood bank, and donated platelets. Paulina joined us, but she was declined, not sure why. I know for a fact, Paulina eats a lot better than I do, so I am not sure why she was declined. It is terrible, to me anyway, when you are declined, because you are trying to do something good. I have been declined once since I started donating, and it was because my iron level was too low. I found out today that red wine will help your iron level, so... Whatever. I have nothing planned for tomorrow except the ROMEO breakfast. I will argue more with the insurance company whose name shall not be said, but it rhymes with State Farm. They sent me an estimate for the damage to my Buzz (caused by a gentleman rear-ending me), that is $1K less that the estimate I got from the VW dealer. I am not through with that! UGH!