Love and Sex at the Nursing Home
It's Mimi Sensuelle's first day at the Loving Hearts nursing home. She just finished eating dinner and is going outside for some evening air.
Apres Dessert
Mimi made her way down the corridor to the lobby of Loving Hearts Care Center using her wheelchair as a walker. She went around a couple of couches and then through a glass door out to the smoking area. Mimi wasn't a smoker but she liked the terrace and positioned herself upwind of whoever was puffing on a cancer stick.
It was a lovely evening and the water fountain sparkled in the last light of day. No one was smoking and Mimi luxuriated in the early evening air. She closed her eyes and listened to the fountain. She didn't realize she had dozed til she was awakened by laughter.
"Hey, Chiquita. Are you resting up so you have lots of sweet energy for me?"
"No. That was just an appetizer for the great big, yummy sleep I will be engaged with in a blink or two."
"What about me?"
"Good question. I have a date with the sleep fairy tonight. You're not in the picture."
"Yet."
"Ah. An optimist. Or an opportunist."
"No, just a man with a dream and a plan."
"What's the plan?"
"Keep putting myself in your face til you kiss me."
"Well, dream on. Maybe you'll see me tomorrow."
"Oh, I will. And maybe you'll see me in your dreams."
"Goodnight Rinaldo."
"Good night, princess.
"You mean queen."
" Yes. Goodnight Queen of the Night."
"That's more like it."
First Morning
Ahhhhhhh. Mimi savored her first cup of coffee of the day. She was in the dining hall/community room enjoying cookies and coffee, courtesy of Molly, the jovial mamacita who oversaw Morning Coffee and Conversation. Molly's sweetness extended beyond baked goods and caffeine. She let everyone who entered her room know that they were welcome and wanted. She had a sparkling wit and genuinely appreciated her charges.
"Good morning everyone. Please turn your chair towards me and let's do a few minutes of exercise."
"Okay. Sit up straight and extend your arms over your head..."
Molly led the group through a series of 10 simple exercises that got everyone's blood pumping and left them feeling energized and wide awake,
Uh-oh. Here Comes Trouble
Just as Molly finished leading the chair exercises, Rinaldo entered the community room and made a beeline for the empty chair next to Mimi.