katesthoughts | Will Keep Trying

Today I will try again to get the Taxes done before going to bed. However that’s not what is foremost on my mind right now.

Late yesterday afternoon my sister sent me an email inviting me to a cousin chat via zoom with the paternal side of the family. It was organized by my cousin Judy (my Aunt rosemary’s middle daughter) I was so excited to get the invitation and I forwarded it to Jim. I got an a text from Liz and she thinks its around 4:30. Now I am thinking what have I done? I am nervous as the house isn’t exactly neat. In between playing words with friends and checking emails I am trying to go around and straighten the house.

I haven’t seen most of my cousins since the last family wedding. I don’t know if I will see my Aunt Patty’s sons (both of their parents died about the time Mom died) and one of the boys wives also died. I never got to their funerals. I don’t remember the last time saw the Texas branch. My cousin Tom and his family live in CA. I haven’t seen his sisters in years.

So many thoughts are going through my head. A part of me is anxious to run through the house and straighten up the house in case they want to see what it looks like. The other part of me is asking who cares. Is this a way for my sister to see what the house looks like without actually coming in to see it? I am going around trying to straighten things as I see them. IF I have to I will probably shove stuff into cabinets. It feels like the times my parents would come home from vacation and I would run around the house to make sure it was taken care of.

I decided to cancel the class at 10. I will take another walk later. I took one last night before the rain shower came through. It actually started just as I was heading home from my walk. It was not even a mile but I managed to get about 4000 steps. It’s not quite the 10k but I will do better today I hope. It’s not starting out like that. I have either forgotten the phone somewhere or I was having the battery charged.

I was pretty good about tracking my food like Alex asked me to but I was still hungry by the time I went to bed. He says not to worry about the calories just yet but I looked and I still had 400 plus calories I could have had.

I made more beef patties and used a basic meatloaf recipe. This time I had three patties to freeze and used one for dinner last night. No veggies this time. Not sure what I will make tonight. I think the chicken would be a good thing.

I did end up making a snack of a patty and some vegetables (that could be considered lunch) earlier this morning.

I heard from Jim this morning. He and his lady had a visit from said Lady’s daughter recently and both have been exposed to Corvid. The daughter was wearing a mask while in person but her boyfriend had been tested positive. The daughter is exhibiting symptoms. Jim says it’s been a week already since he was exposed. The best I could do was “keep an eye on symptoms”.

I am trying to organize an update files this afternoon. I finished with one of the files under bills. Now I will work it some more. As usual there are so many that are mixed in with the search parameters that you can’t delete them yet because they belong to other files you might want.

I will keep trying. Now there is 35 minutes until the family zoom connection. I am a little nervous.