Daily Notes for Friday, February 6th.....Sunshine, not AS cold. Groceries... No Library.

 Bugs.

Grocery shopping was good- my refill inhaler is generic and looks third world country -ish.  But was $33 instead of ten times that.  The person packing our groceries did a "terrible" job... I got double the number of oranges....the ones at my store are very very good. And Chocolate graham crackers.

They had raspberry filled donuts but had heavily covered them in powdered sugar...I like them naked. I did not buy any,,,,,

I shredded some more paper....but haven't transferred it to the clear plastic Garbage Collection Day Bag as yet. (need three hands)  The little Stationary Area @ the grocery store had just what I wanted... Washable Watercolors in the old school rectangular 8 color set.  With the cheap paint brush....I'll use the nice brushes  I own.  I'm Gonna PAINT.  On index cards.  Not here- if I spill water on the keyboard-- NOT GOOD.

It's too late to send Valentines.....I missed the send date.   But might have a few left over ones to send out to locals.  I like getting holiday cards and assume others do as well...I might be wrong. I AM wrong.

Olympic Curling....I catch a match when I can... when I am not reading.... yesterday (and today's) book is Crazy For You by Jennifer Crusie.   I read it many years ago....this time around I'm older, sadder and not really enjoying the book as much.  I'm identifying with the male characters more than the female.  Feel they are being treated poorly.

My coffee has been reheated too many times- so I will switch over to TEA...with extra sugar or husband's leftover Turbanado Sugar....unless I dumped it??????.  You all have a great day!!!! Don't watch the news.

Another post with no image

It's cold here in the house- I can't image how cold it would be if I went outside.

I am worried about the mother out there wandering in Arizona .......I'm her age but don't have a heart issue or take important meds.....but wandering around, lost in the dark and the cold....I can feel that...I can be afraid of that.......this will not end well.....I HOPE I am wrong.

Another book has gotten itself off the "in transit" list and into the Library.    Waiting for pickup... I shredded more paper....I have a large bag filled with paper that needs to be shredded.....we (daughter) has been emptying drawers and files.  She holds it up and I say yes or no....so I AM helping. She has appointments and will get here when she gets here.....Son has gone out for lunch....while I was having breakfast oatmeal......None of us are on the same schedule.

The shredding reminds me of Lipman's book about Trump in the White House- first time...tearing up every document.  And the staff having to paste them all back together...

Today I am reading Fast Women.   It's like a cross between Perry Mason and Sex in the City. Sort of- I haven't watched much Sex in the City- I just am reminded of the dynamics of it. The clothes, the drinking, and the sex.  Fast Women has that plus a Murder.  Well, more than one. And the guy brings Chinese Food when he visits.....I have been wanting Chinese food since husband died.   Years. Two plus of them.

That's it......I need to check the temp in here...or add more layers.... it's 30 degrees with bright sun outside. Lots of deep snow everywhere.   It was 63 in here- I hadn't turned it up to 66......my fault.  

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.