by LaChefski@go.com

I've delayed typing this one because initially it's pretty frightening -- the days-of-week talk started fast and furious, and it's hard to make the call on what day is when. So we do the best we can!

Day # 1 -- I'll call this Tuesday and try to explain later. In bed, Karen dreads having to get up. She makes an effort, and greets Eli and Jessie in the kitchen. The larder is awfully bare, and Karen reminds them about "pizza night tonight?" She then remembers E has to work -- 4-11PM, s ays he. Rick arrives and asks K if Jessie can come to his house Thursday instead of Friday, as he and Lily were thinking of going somewhere. He adds that Jake is taking the girls (I take this to mean Friday). Karen had hoped to take Jessie shopping, but Jess recommends going Thursday, then she can stay "both nights and we can have pizza night Friday." Got that?

At her doctor's, Karen discusses her meds and the side effects. She wants to remember what it felt like when things matte

Probably around midday, Rick stops by the house and surprises Eli, who is home because he got fired "3 weeks ago...and two days." Well, I'm pretty sure it was more than 3 weeks, more like six weeks, but nevermind. At school, foxy Jessie agrees to have sex with a young gent, "but it has to be today," she adds. This does not fit his schedule. Katie gives Jess a Billie Holiday CD. Eli goes by his mom's, and Karen confronts him, losing control, and tells him to get out of the house.

Sometime later, Karen is lost in thought as Judy taps on her car window. She has tried to reach Karen "three times since yesterday," and invites her friend over for dinner Friday night. Karen says "Great," and says she has to go get Jessie.

It's dark (gets dark early in Chicago) as Karen drives the girls, dropping Katie at her (Katie's) house. Jess is not happy to hear that her mom may have kicked her brother out. A little later, she overhears her mom crying in her room, then asks if she, Jessie, can go to Starbucks to work on a report. Her mom says, "Be back by 9PM!"

Day # 2, Wednesday --- As Rick and Lily leave the house for work, he wonders how he should be handling his ex-wife's depression. Lily advises, "Give her *time,* Rick." At school later that day, Jess tells Katie she has to go shopping with her mom, who is depressed. Eli arrives at Lily's, and she says "Hello" instead of "Hi," and puts him to work slicing a zucchini. When he understands her caution, she tells him he's "very wise this afternoon."

Karen and Jessie shop. [ I know, it's Wednesday, but see below ] Karen urges a blouse on Jessie, and almost faints with dizziness. That night, Eli comes to pick up Jess because Karen has dinner with a client. He expresses that his mom should go to hell, even more of a dagger to Karen's heart. A little while later, dinner finishes at Lily's, and Rick has a talk with his daughter. He tells her he won't let anything bad happen to her mom.

Day # 3, Thursday --- Rick visits Karen at her office to let her know Jessie's worried about her. Some time later, Karen has a beneficial, animated session with her doctor, who gives her some homework. Back in the attic, Katie and Jess listen to Billie Holiday. Katie sets the stage -- "It's 2AM, the lights are low.." and Jess joins in the singing. Walking down the street, Karen happily, thoughtfully applies herself to her homework. She is involved in this when she steps into the street and is hit by a car.

Rick phones Lily, who calls Jessie, who screams for Eli.

Later, Karen is in the ER, and soon the doctor gives Rick&Co the grim report of her injuries -- "but at least you have her." He informs them that she will be in the hospital for a while. Rick and Lily plan, Lily saying that she'll call Jake to take the girls for the night.

At dinner later, Rick says it's nice of Jake to take the girls. Lily offers to check on his kids -- E's gone to Coop's, so Lily coaxes Jess into having some eggplant-less vege casserole.

Day # 4 --- Jess hurries through the store looking for that blouse -- ("It was here the other day" ), which Katie locates. Rick sits with Karen, they talk, and he later drops Jessie off for a visit. She wants to do her homework there, so she takes off her coat to reveal the blouse to her mom. Karen thinks of the three things she most loves.

One thing that threw me -- Jessie recommending they go shopping on Thursday. If they really shopped on Thursday, then the accident was Friday. Lily's daughters were already scheduled to go to Jake's then, so she wouldn't have had to call him for this favor, and Rick wouldn't have said it was nice of Jake to take them

This way, the night of the accident is a Thursday, a time when Lily WOULD have to ask Jake for a favor.

Just my observations,

Sue

Order. Order
This episode was originally planned as 313.

What's in a name?
Gardenia (previously called Gardenias II) was originally called "Pictures."
-- Divorced_Again

~when Jessie finds out about her mom she slips down the wall and drops the phone very much like Karen did when Jessie couldn't go ice skating with her in Taking Sides -- ladypink244

~ when Karen has her accident she asks if she can rest now and says it feels so good to rest, to me this seemed like a connection with her black and white in Taking Sides when before she drowned she felt a moment of bliss -- ladypink244