Daily Notes minus Images. Wednesday, February 4th. Waiting for the Medicare Phone Call. So I can hang up on her.

I can't blame anyone but myself for the lack of an image up top....the iPhone is right here...I could take a picture but..of what?   Snow?  My Socks?  Life here in my house-- very very dull.  My socks are so boring.  I think they are all brown.  I could take a picture of the old phone next to my bed.......

I got out of bed MUCH earlier than usual...way before the morning phone call from Medicare...so I am expecting the phone to ring at any moment now.... Or NOT and that would be a real delight.

I finally remembered to get the temperature  here in the house up to 66 from 60....Bit (ha) chilly in here. When my routine gets just one thing out of order- it's a real free for all.... one book arrived at Library from somewhere else and a few more are in "transit".  I have to let daughter know so she can go pick them up... she is now "in charge of me".  Son has furloughed himself. Sort of a Mom Vacation.

I ate graham crackers while watching Will Smith on Pole to Pole.   It's great that he shows FEAR doing some of that stuff... like swimming under very thick ice. The camera man or woman is in front of him so they are even braver...as those cameras are heavy.  The under water stuff was too scary so I moved on to something less........and it was SO Not the News.

I am going to try and order Lipman's Farce on Trump in the White House.  Remember when I was reading ti and the gal was having to tape all the government papers back together because Trumps tears them all up after finishing reading them?????  Melania ends the book in a huge van holding ALL the White House valuables....heading toward Maine and then Canada and then Greenland?????????

I shoved paper into the shredder....it was therapeutic.  But then I got tired of it...not all that exciting. And read the paper and tried to do the Suduko...Son actually finished the Jumble I gave him...and left it for me to look at.

Finished Bet Me.....I have to choose between Fast Women and Anyone But You for today... Fast Women is very Perry Mason (but with sex and take out food). ..... I've told daughter to buy copies of all the Crusie books for me...even the ONE book I don't like but usually read anyway.

New call: wanting to speak to "the person in charge of the electric bill"l......I said I don't know.......(I pay it but am not in charge of it).  She will call back....later....  I will still be the only person answering the phone.
 

Daily Notes- Tuesday, February third. Sunshine- still lots of snow. 26 degrees

 

Image I added to my wall calendar... This is how it feels after I read the newspaper or watch the news.

1.   I slept well....added water to my bed hair this morning and now it looks curly. white, and okay.

2.  Daughter brought me another pull over zip neck acrylic top....I think it was once mine... and now it's mine again...lighter than the ones I am wearing now....so- more for Spring...when it arrives.

3.  I slept well and my Groundhog Day phone call arrived right on time....I said hello and then hung up. It's a robo call so no one is actually on the phone.   But it's sort of like an extremely annoying alarm clock.

4.  I will be happy when..(they stop calling).I was going to type menopause instead of medicare for the phone call ID...Which is now making me laugh..... Today's book.... I still have 100 pages in Bet Me and then I have to decide on Anyone But You (again) or Fast Women (even more again).  Daughter went to the Library to see what's what.....one additional book did arrived.but after she had left the library.

5.  Daughter and I looked for the silverware....we found other items...a cutting tool to make ribbons of vegetables like sweet potato....and another that did some different cutting...all had Goodwill stickers... this is from the TIME when I wandered around in Goodwill looking for something...anything to buy...I was suffering from Depression......I know that NOW...  The very very lowest of points in my Life...well, other than the months I slept all day, every day....in Germany....before the Women's Club came and hustled me out of the house.  

6. I suffered from Depression almost as soon as our furniture came off the moving van from Chicago. Years of being SO depressed.......I just didn't want to wake up in the morning..... I made it out alive...but I had help- someone came to the house and rang the doorbell until I came to the door....told me to get dressed and we went to lunch.  Saved my Life......No one was coming to save me here in Maine...I had to save myself 30 plus years ago....and will manage to stay afloat now.... because I am refusing to watch the news on tv......makes me cry.

Daily Notes- Monday February 2nd....No clue as to what happened with the Ground Hog.

 No image either....

Daughter is here cleaning out a file cabinet.....moving paper into folders etc.  We plan to look for the missing box of silverware.   Someday. She's in the Attic-- might be today.

I have a growing pile of things to gently place in the shredding machine.  We can recycle shredded material if it's in a clear plastic bag.  I was NOT gentle with my former shredding machine....Not at all. and this one belongs to my daughter..  I think.

Well, I have a book to finish reading....and possibly read the last page and then turn back to the first page if NO Library Books are available.  To pick up.   I could also read the Bodyguard.  Center is the author.

I am warm enough....I have SOUP.  Not watching anything but British Soccer. Politics??....gag me. 

It snowed in Florida...in Georgia....but NOT in Maine...they warned us about Global Warming... I watched that house slip into the water......wow.  I recall cold days while living in South Florida.....Needing a warm coat but not owning one.  Needing the coat inside the HOUSE.

We've got snow piled up higher than I can recall.....3 or 4 feet of it up against the front porch.  Bright Sun not melting anything.

Daily Notes for Sunday February First. Still Cold, Still covered in Snow....

 No image- I don't have anything to share today...

1...Cold here in Maine with Bright Sunshine. 19 degrees.

2...Reading Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie,  I have several other books by this author ordered from other Libraries... They are all listed as "in transit" but that's been a week or more....possibly two weeks...possibly three weeks...perhaps the interlibrary system has collapsed??????   Something has gone wrong ....very very wrong.  This happened once before when a contract with the delivery system couldn't be finalized.   Daughter might be recruited to find and buy them instead.

3.  I had to check last night before I went to bed- to see if I had purchased enough food for the week. I have four and possibly 5 servings of soup...I purchased two, one serving containers of soup...ones I like but not enough to have a whole pot of it waiting to be eaten and I also have ham and cheese fro roll ups..  Today we make PIZZA.  

4.  I didn't buy things to make a salad.  And I am hoping the oatmeal lasts until Friday.  But I do have cream of wheat.  So, I do have breakfast back up.   I worry about breakfast more than any other meal..

5.  I did remember to buy very very beautiful heavy oranges....  four of them... Six days until I can buy more.  I did not buy any bananas...my mistake.

6.  Wrote checks for things.  Everything is so expensive now...Trump really makes a mess of things when he's in office.  He was pretty shady paying his bills when he owned a business.....now he's running OUR business the same way.......  I haven't watched any news shows so I haven't seen him lately- the last time he was reclining on his desk- looked like his back had collapsed on him.   His chin was on the desk top. 

Well, almost. On the desktop.  Son fact checks me.....which is a good thing.... Keeps me on the straight and narrow......I do fabricate.

So that's that......We have more snow on the ground than I have seen in quite a few years- perhaps ten... So the grass under the snow is getting well hydrated...and will perhaps be green??????? this year.  What a THRILL that would be.......Snowdrops have overtaken the top of the tall glass container they are in. Nice and green and sturdy.... one Amaryllis has three leaves now.... a thorny cutting from the woman who was cutting my hair- has roots and several tiny red flowers.  I'm thinking of looking to see if I have sand to mix with potting soil so it can transfer to a clay pot.