Field Notes- Sunday January 15th. Did not EVEN buy a Lottery Ticket. Over a Billion Dollars. Wow.

 The Furnace is chugging away.  The San Francisco game was very good.  The second game not so much. I stopped watching after only 15 minutes.  The camera work.  

So......It's cold and DISMAL today.  The whatever it is on my neck under my chin- won't dry up and won't go away.  I thought it was because of my wool sweater--no.  Its like an aways wet itchy I don't know what. I've had things like this before.  Usually stress related when I worked at LLBean.  I had to take steroids to get rid of it after Bean..  Could be about tomorrow's 8am (yes) dental appointment.  There is lots of stress on my part.  I have Calamine Lotion on it.  Trying to DRY the wet areas. And it ITCHES,  but I do NOT touch it......... Dental is only from 8 to 9am.  So..by the Time I write to you tomorrow it will be OVER.

I had rice with peas and butter.  Yesterday.  Then Potato chips.  40% less salt.  Today I have the prepared MeatLoaf dinner with vegetables and mashed potatoes. I had forgotten I bought it.  I usually microwave the potatoes and vegetable (broccoli and carrots) and pan fry the cooked meatloaf to crisp it up a bit. I always enjoy meatloaf.  I used to actually make meatloaf.  Now I don't.

I don't do a lot of things I used to do.  Like iron all our clothing. ALL.  Now it's NONE. I even ironed pillow cases.  I did not iron socks.  I watched a guy iron socks while on a Cruise Ship once.  It's was a wonderful experience visiting the laundry room.  An older (than me) woman and I strolled around the ship looking at everything.  Smiling at everyone we made eye contact with while saying things to each other quietly.  It was marvelous.  It was her 40th wedding anniversary.  I spent most of the cruise with her as my husband had abandoned me as soon as we set foot on the boat.  Her husband was napping.

Really.  We all saw him at dinner and the entertainment after.  And that was it.  My husband showed up for dinner.  And that was it for him.  I saw him once as he walked past me on the outside deck.....He was surprised to see me (!!!) and sat down for 5 minutes, ordered me a drink and then off he went.... 

At one dinner I had some loose thread on my sparkly evening dress....and the waiter gently held my hand and extended my arm and then flicked a lighter and burned off the threads.  My husband did not LIKE that at all.  The Waiter and I smiled at each other- it was the best part of the cruise.