Location: Lakeview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Date: Wednesday, October 08, 2014; 6:30-8:00 pm
 |
| Halloween Time at Lakeview Nursing |
With my long night, if this had
been any other project, I would probably have cancelled. But with so few of these sessions left, there
was no way I was missing this. I arrived
at Lakeview Nursing to see that our room had been decorated for Halloween. Everyone else had already assembled,
including Jim, Larry, Jack and Elmer.
Gwyn was there with 2 other volunteers and then Fran arrived as
well. This was the quorum that we would
have today. We were going to
start researching our last issue but everyone was quite relaxed and people were
in a mood to chat, well at least I was.
One of the volunteers paired up with Jack to go through the ‘Chase’ book while
I joined another guy in front of Gwyn’s computer. We started discussing the book Jim was
reading called, “From New York to Dallas”. It was described as a “Sci-fi cop thriller” which was of course set in the future. Jim was enjoying it and Larry had as well. I
asked Elmer if he had read it and he said that he was currently reading a
non-fiction book called “Discovery of
France”, which while sounding like wine tour stops, was actually about
France in the 1800’s. He told me that he
had grown up in France since his dad was on an army base there and he
had moved to the US only in his teens.
He said that he was also reading a book called “Hardboiled”, which was a book on movie quotes from all the “noir” movies of old. He then proceeded to quote a few lines which
had us in splits.
Gwyn wanted us to research some
of the topics that we had discussed last time, such as the ‘Sadie Hawkins Day’. We
looked at the history and found out that it was based on a ‘Li’l Abner’ comic strip.
Elmer talked about some female character in the strip, which he
described as “buxom blonde with twirls”. We looked her up and sure enough, she was as
described. Trust Elmer to remember
something like this. Gwyn told us how
all the girls in their school had to ask guys out for this dance back in 5th
grade. It was a rule meaning that the girls had to do it! While we were discussing this, Elmer, who
was quite active tonight, started singing “The
Lizzy Borden” song, something that I had never heard of. He said that this was a woman who was tried
for murder back in the 1800’s and what this had to do with our discussion on ‘Sadie Hawkins Day’, I failed to
understand. But hey, any time Elmer starts singing, I will take it.
We then moved to Thanksgiving and
I mentioned the blurb that we had inserted last year, about the President pardoning a
couple of Turkeys. I said that we should have some other trivia which was fun like this one. Since I had walked in the parade
last year, Gwyn suggested we do something with the balloons. We researched the history of parade balloons
in NYC and Chicago and found that this was a really old tradition. Next, Gwyn took over the writing of the
sports section and Larry and Jim vented freely on the way the ‘Bears’ season was progressing. Jim continued his rant by throwing a few jabs
at his hated ‘Cubs’, whom he called “The AA club on Clark Street”. Larry then talked about his restaurant review
of ‘Penny’s Noodles’ where he had
recently gone for lunch, which he described as good, but expensive. I asked him whatever happened to his claim
that he could do the “Bacon challenge”
at ‘Paddy Longs’ and that led us all
to have another discussion on that.
While all of us had been goofing off, Jack and his volunteer had made
quite headway in the ‘Chase’ book. The time was up and I left with only 2 more
sessions remaining. Hopefully the ‘Game Night’ that is being planned is
as good as this one.
*All the client's names have been changed in order to respect their privacy
No comments:
Post a Comment