The Prince & the Pepper

I have spent the winter months, thus far, feeling poorly from a strenuous tussle with pneumonia. I was so listless & inert over the holidays that my family considered decorating me. Since mid-November I have felt disassociated from the world because it moved at a pace that I could not match. The man I've been dating has been working non-stop, so I have felt rather distanced from him as well. I have been in Ohio, where my doctor "Little Jimmy" practices, & he has been state-hopping because of his job. We speak every night on the phone, but it is very difficult to get a hot phone conversation going when one of the parties is wheezing & coughing, & both are exhausted. Needless to say, I have also been feeling a tad depressed & powerless.

Saturday night all that sadness disappeared when a Prince came to town & rescued me from my melancholia. He arrived bearing fresh fruit, flowers & 2 loaves of amazing bread called Limpa. (I'll bet Olivia's heard of that) He also brought movies, games & barks of white chocolate. His job had him working in Canton, Ohio briefly, so he requested a 3-day leave because of a sick friend. Just when I (the sick friend) thought he couldn't possibly do any more to make my world better, he suggested we go to see Dream Girls. He offered to get a wheelchair, portable oxygen, an iron lung, an air lift.....anything it took to get me into that cinema to see that particular show. I didn't need any of that; I went in under my own steam. I've waited 20 years for that musical to be made into a movie, so my body found enough auxilliary adrenaline to get my peppertail from the car to the Cineplex. (my review is in the next post)

I laughed, I cried, I was outraged, I sang along....I had a wonderful time. It was better than CATS. (but then everything is) My companion was elevated to Prince status that evening because, although he absolutely hates musicals, he sat there beside me watching.....& then listened to me chatter about it for the next several hours. I consider his behavior nothing short of noble.