New Year's day 2021

 

 

Dear Debra:

                Happy 2021!  It is after midnight and I can hear fireworks being shot off somewhere in the distance.  They were being shot off earlier too.    Let’s hope this year is better and healthier than last year.  Admittedly despite the pandemic there were some good moments among the bad ones. 

                Despite my rant on Wednesday the rest of that day ended up not being too bad.  I did some cooking, called Mama Roberta, and received my stimulus check!  I texted Liz about it but she noticed she didn’t get hers.  I wasn’t even expecting one.

                Anyway, Liz suggested we go shopping yesterday for the appliances I would need or want and we would give the receipts to Cheryl who will be meeting with him on Sunday.  We also would be pricing the furniture I would need.   So that’s what we did.  We got a new micro, toaster oven,  a humidifier, a new Keurig (Mine died yesterday morning).  We didn’t get to go to Bob’s discount as Liz got over tired.  I was already fighting a headache.  Bob’s Furniture was also closing early for the holiday.  So we will go on Saturday and price the furniture and let Bob know.  As I understand it he will give me the money to purchase them.  As I write this I am not really holding my breath.  He really is making us jump through hoops to get the money.  Liz feels he is being highly inappropriate.  Making Cheryl come and speak to him.

                I don’t know if I told you that I finally sent the audit request to the lawyer, the law firm, and the person we thought Lawyer was grooming to be the trustee if Lawyer didn’t want to do it.  Well she sent me a totally useless email.    I even told Liz yesterday that the woman was totally useless.  As Liz says she wasn’t an intern or whatever.  She was a lawyer.  The woman did say she would sent the request on to Bob (duh don’t you think I did that).  Liz told me that she replied to her thanking her for the information and that was mistakenly under the impression that she was going to be the next trustee.  I am glad I won’t be having this woman as a trustee.    We will be making preparations for retaining a lawyer to get rid of trustee/lawyer.

So the rest of the afternoon and evening, I reorganized the kitchen to find spaces for the newly acquired appliances, and tried setting up the Vick humidifier but I am just not getting the instructions to set up.  I also reorganized the office/guest room.  I had to move stuff around and did some vacuuming.    At the end of the night the boxes I had in the middle of the kitchen were taken to the trash hut.  I did some laundry before the weekend started.

The cats spent their date sleeping, eating, chasing each other and begging for food.  Sky scared the socks off of me.  I found him on the ledge above the cabinets.  He must have jumped up from the counters on to the top of the refrigerator and then walked along that space.    This just reinforces my fear of them getting into the attic.  They hadn’t up to this point but after last night I am certainly not taking the chance.

My plans for the rest of today will be to clean the house.  I have been leaving a trail of crumbs and I don’t want to get back into the habit of doing that.  I also notice what I can only guess is from the inside of the spring mattress under the bed.  I am guessing princess Tiger did it.  Something my sister reminded me to do.  IF and when the mattress comes I will need to spray it with that deterrent before we place it on the bed frame. 

I also am thinking I want to clean out the car before starting back to work next week.  Get rid of papers, wash or clean the seats etc.  I need to get gas really soon. 

I have some thank you notes to write and a sympathy card to send to the family of one of my journaling group friends.  He died on Christmas day from covid.

As I mentioned earlier Saturday Liz and I will go price the furniture that is needed to buy.  After that I am not sure what I am doing.

Right now my legs are starting to get numb.  So I am going to sleep for several hours.

 

It is now after 8 am.  I managed to sleep until 5:30 this morning.  I did actually ignore the alarms but got up when the cats started getting impatient.  I fed them and went back to bed. Unfortunately the alarms were still going off and I figured it would stop on its own.  Note to self:  don’t do that on Monday.

Usually most mornings I watch TV but decided to catch up on blog writing, and cull the emails I have still left in the inboxes.  The cats of course are under the covers or sitting on top of the covers.  I am not sure how long I will be sitting here but as I mentioned earlier I want to do some things.

I think I will have to get to the outdoor chores early as the weather is going to change some point today.  It’s going to have some sun this morning and by the end of the day the clouds are moving in and rain coming in tonight. The weekend will be rainy. 

Well I will check in with you later…..

New Year's afternoon got quiet

 

Dear Debra:

It is now 2 in the afternoon.  I have Law & Order on the Bounce channel. At the sane tune I have Classical Music on the local Public Radio Station.

My early morning project of cleaning the car seats was an utter failure.  I used diluted Resolve and all it did was to clean it for a short time.  The stains were still there.  So Liz’s suggestion to use carpet cleaning and upholstery cleaning was not a good one.  I wonder if the service department can do something about at the Honda place.  I am supposed to get the car serviced this month.

I had some lunch, and snacks and trying hard to not graze or head off to the store and get a cake or sweets but it’s getting harder and harder.  I did have some more food by the time I was going to bed.

I spent the rest of the day either surfing the web or sleeping or watching TV.  I had a visit from a neighbor who was passing out Cat calendars and of course I got one.  We had a lovely visit. 

The cats got up around 3:30 and were hungry.  I put off feeding them for as long as I could.  They sounded like they were dying. For the rest of the night they were quiet and either sleeping on the couch with me or on the bed.

Now that it is 10 and I am heading to bed.  Its been raining for the last few hours now.  I didn’t hear it even start.  I was watching the Smithsonian channel’s Train shows.  I actually fell asleep myself.  I was glad that I had taken a shower before falling asleep.

I don’t know what’s up but I am a little stiff in the legs and it hurts I have taken some Tylenol and hopefully it will be okay.

I think some sleep is in order.

Good night.