Daily Notes on a Damp Cloudy Day In May--- We are expecting RAIN.

 I've forgotten their name yet again.   Wow....I must be really worse off than I think I am.

I have European Tournament Soccer at 3pm on CBS. (Lilies of the Valley?).  I wrote checks for two bills.  There was no mail in the box- so mail could have come already- I'll wait and before soccer go get the two envelopes out of the mailbox until tomorrow. I washed dishes that were in the sink...Son has gone out to eat lunch.

I ate quite a bit yesterday...nothing that looked like a meal...just something and then something else.  I've forgotten what it's like to sit at the table with someone and eat together.... all that is left today is some bread to toast and enough ham and cheese for a flour tortilla roll up.   I'm trying to stay away from the cookies and the two ice cream bars in the freezer.   

I have one of those weird recipes that arrive in my computer mailbox...I now recall how to turn the oven on- so I could BAKE something...but it all seems like "too much trouble".  This is what old people are like.  Not wanting to do anything more complicated than microwave cooking- or toaster oven. Or crackers in a box.  No wonder we end up in a Care Facility...........

Nice chat with cross the street neighbor...HE DID SEE Tru Green drive NEXT DOOR and do the treatment....so, a witness.  His wife was weeding and sitting on what looked like a padded tall skateboard with four nice sized wheels.....saves on the knees....but not sure I could get up OFF something that rolled. My center of gravity is not where it should be, in my humble opinion...and never has been. All of my 76 years I have fallen down QUITE a LOT. And it is always a surprise.

I was thinking about college this morning (trying not to have to get out of bed too early)   (I fell down a lot in college). and typing....realized I could have typed....could have gone to the college book store and got a fresh ribbon and some carbon paper and regular typing paper for the typewriter I OWNED.  I could have practiced and actually made spending money typing papers.....this is the sort of thing that occupies my BRAIN.  Re-writing my LIFE.  So many possible course corrections and improvements.  Easily done. If I just could think straight back then...but I couldn't. Not then.  

I know myself- I would also have corrected and improved the papers I typed for other people.  It's how my brain is wired...... which is annoying to every one around me.

But none of that happened--THEN--...it did happen later in Life.  When I typed and proofed papers for publications. Somehow, I knew how to type- which has always mystified me. Previous Life????

Any Way.....Son has gone out for lunch.  I have just polished off my large bowl of oatmeal and am here typing and then on the couch reading....Get Lucky or Bright Side of Disaster.  Kathleen Center.  Yesterday was The Lost Husband. Same author....tomorrow is Library and I haven't ordered any thing.  Sigh. Which usually translates to having NOTHING to read.  But I can raid the Bookcase here at home.  Fall Back.

Or the two Linda Howard Books I like reading.... I am on the cusp of another "Austen" read alike marathon.....I have what I need here in the bookcase.  I wrote Lilies of the Valley on the desk calendar for tomorrow when I forget yet again.  Well, perhaps Bones is on BBC right now.  First Season.  Getting to know the characters...... and then European Soccer Championship Game. At 3pm.