Today was another wonderful day and I am going to pretend I am on Central time so I get this posted on the 28th. Last night I went to a restaurant in Hendersonville NC with the intent of having Pho for the first time. It never occurred to me that something that full of vegetables would be made with meat stock. The restaurant did not have any vegetable stock so I was not able to have Pho. I had a lovely Thai seafood eggplant dish which did not really penetrate my diminished taste but I was told by others who tasted it that it was delicious.
Today I picked up my dear friend, KJ to take her to Spartanburg for the Over the Edge fundraising event tomorrow. She suggested we go to one of her favorite restaurants for Pho – so we did and they had vegetable stock. I tasted enough to really enjoy it. I am truly not sure why I had not had Pho before.
Tonight we had a wonderful evening socializing at the Piedmont Club with a very interesting group of people from across the US gathered for the fundraising event. It was almost as if we stepped back in time to pre Covid. The Piedmont Club has wonderful ambience and food. One wall was full of pictures of all of the club presidents which were not unexpectedly all white males which. I appreciated that the 2020 president had his picture taken in a black mask.
I have been reflecting the past day or so about the fact that I am just plain happy. I expected to feel relief at getting out of a situation that was so uncomfortable for me, but I expected to feel some sense of guilt at having left with things left undone. But I don’t feel guilt.
Aside from eating to much tonight, I am feeling great!!
Tamara Unleashed 