Thankful Thursday

 

1.      I am thankful for my family warts and all.  Jim had his 70th birthday today.  I sent him birthday greetings in the form of a text and birthday card.

2.      I am thankful for my kitties.  They have been getting into mischief lately.  I am trying to break them of the habit of eating and drinking human food left out.  (or in the sink as in some cases).

3.      I am thankful for my job.  Been busy with Scanning, and daily routine.  There was a cyber-attack alert last week for the University.  Knock on wood haven’t gotten caught up in all that yet.  Contract negotiations continue.  We have an EMP next week.

4.      I am thankful for the house/condo.  I am hoping it won’t be too much longer before I can move to the condo.  Still haven’t heard about the closing dates.  Anxious to change over all the things that need to be changed before going over to condo.  We did request a down payment check from “Him”.    Keeping up with the house technically.  Cleaning night tonight.

5.      I am thankful for the Medical profession that keeps me on the road to good/better health.  I am sure I don’t have to tell you I haven’t been to the gym in weeks still.  I haven’t walked much except for the one hike.  I have my infusion in two weeks and I see Debra weekly.  Other than its quiet this month.

6.      I am thankful for my friends.  I had to miss this week’s meetup.  I understand it was at someone’s home instead of Panera Rose’s.  There is a Friendsgiving celebration the weekend I am at my brother’s.  I have written a few of my pen pals since last week.  I have talked with Mama.  I am hoping to get an email off to Dr. T.

7.      I am thankful for the organizations I belong to. I had to miss this week’s board meeting for the lady’s guild and I am probably going to miss the mass next Tuesday.  I did some volunteering on election day for the DTC.  I missed the DTC meeting last week. 

8.      I am thankful for my neighbors. They are okay

9.      I am thankful for the weather.  We had some rain recently.  Temperatures got very chilly, but we are back in the 60’s this week.

10.                I am thankful for those who choose to protect and serve our country. Enough said.

11.               11. I am thankful for those who are in the healthcare caring for those who have been affected by this Virus.

 

Oy Vey

 

I must be in some kind of void because I have been told more than once since the election that has been fraudulent election practices.   I haven’t heard much on TV.  OF course any news of the election I turn it off.  It was told to me by a co-worker and it had to do with pens, ballots being destroyed.   She acknowledged it is hard to know what to believe.  She says Biden could be winning fair and square.  I said just because one person is being stupid doesn’t mean we should taint the entire party.  One could argue many different theories. 

Someone on next door made a report to the federal authorities that there were some fraudulent activities going on in West Haven.  He wanted anyone else to provide proof as well.  Why do people have to be suspicious?

ON my way home I called one of the three Amigos because I saw a conversation that I wasn’t sure about.  MAlling’s husband has been having chest pains and was going to get it checked out tonight.  Despite all that Ann was upset by fact that MAlling is a hardcore Trumpet.  She couldn’t believe or understand her reasoning for it after all the stuff Trump has said, done and behaved.

I just realized I hadn’t paid the AARP bill yet, and I just found the November UI statement in my email from last month.  I have to take better care of that.  So now both of those will be paid by the next pay period.  I put some money in the saving; got gas this morning and I will be going grocery shopping tonight.

My plans to meet up with LisaC on Saturday drastically changed this afternoon Lisa wasn’t feeling well and had to back out.  I hadn’t thought about when she would come over until last night.  Actually it’s okay as I need to limit my interaction with people outside of the house until thanksgiving.

I got a disturbing phone call yesterday robo call telling me my identity had been compromised.  I hung up quickly told MC about it and she said it sounds like fraud.  I checked all my accounts and I was going to check ss but that is a hassle to look online. 

Oh I got a letter today from Catlady in LV.  I am very excited about that.  I think I sent her two letters last month.  I will be writing her tomorrow as I have the cleaning, and shopping to do.

Did I mention that we received notification last week of a cyber-attack at work?  They want us to use the Duo program on all of our devices for protection and we had to give our alternate email and phone number to our admin staff.  I overheard a couple of people talking about it and they were not happy with the prospect of sharing their alternate email and phone number with their colleagues.  If they are worried about privacy or whatever they may want to take their info off of whitepages.com

So I went grocery shopping tonight.  I got a lot of stuff (and again could have done without the frosting) but I got fish, pork chops, vegetables, mostly everything on my list.  The whole thing took about half hour and I was home sometime after 5.  It cost me just over $31 and change.  I should be set for the next ten days I hope.  I would like to find the pork chop recipes that came through the email recently.

When I got home, I put the groceries away, fed the cats, and fed me.  I was really hoping that I would do cleaning but all I managed to do is laundry.  The house cleaning can be done tomorrow and Saturday.   I grew tired.

I did call my former colleague and friend Lee Ann and we chatted for about 20 minutes tonight.  I told her about the events of the past summer that have lead up to the moving and condo finding/buying.  We talked about the family, and not once did I really ask about her family.  That didn’t seem right to me.  We talked about work.  Who was in the office and wasn’t and there were a lot of people I left out.

Now that the laundry is almost done I can get to bed.  I got tired suddenly.