Daily Notes- Tuesday, January 6th. Bill Paying.....Sunshine and 25 degrees.

 1.  No image today.... daughter took down the tabletop Christmas Tree... I now have a glass vase with fake flowers and sock monkeys where the tree was....

2.  My Very Very nice German full length navy dress coat is on its way to the dry cleaner.  Will come home clean and dust free and in a protective bag.  I recall wearing the coat to Women's Club meetings (in Germany). I was also carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase.  Which is VINTAGE LV now and in the closet. I'm also Vintage and Not in the Closet.

3.  Now I wear 25 cent mended faded LLBean corduroy pants (much looser these days), a thermal shirt and an acrylic pullover. And wool socks and men's slippers....men's are so much better than the women's variety.  Less pink.

4.  I've had my oatmeal and a banana so far today- coffee is still too hot to drink.  I am going to stop typing and have an 8 ounce glass of water and my vitamin pills.  I have to do things as soon as I recall them...  done.

5.  Annual doctor's visit coming up...I can see it in the rearview mirror.   Blood work and shots- no idea what shots but I always get at least two...one in each arm.. I already had my COVID and Flu... shots at the grocery store. 

6.  Worked on the old quilt....most of the shredded strips are brown fabric...weird.  I have very little in the color brown in the Quilt room....  so I am using pale pink.  And I have little of that color also. But more than enough for this quilt....repair.  I am using the fabric wrong side up to look as faded as the original looks.

7.  I wrote two checks and Son is walking out to the mailbox by the road with them.... I've stopped watching the news...watching a mentally ill person in charge of things.... not good for MY mental health. I wonder if there is a White House Betting Pool...on when the big bloated guy nods off permanently.

8.  Reading- still- the Night The Lights Went Out.  It's slow going...everyone is dressing up for a party/dance /social event.  The cheating husband is now reconsidering his bad choices.....coming by and asking the ex to have dinner with him and their two kids....she said no.  Didn't want the two children to have false hope.  The Carpenter is a much better choice these days.  The scary stuff in the woods is getting closer to the house every day.

9..Various women (in the book) have made chocolate chip cookies (not needing the recipe) and I DO HAVE EVERYTHING here to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies.... I even have the cheat sheet to tell me HOW the oven works. No one wants cookies.

10...About a DOZEN British Soccer games in the TiVo... ready to watch. Also perhaps a half dozen Antique's Roadshow....also recorded.  49 episodes of Law and Order ready to go also.  

But I am reading and mending......

Daily Notes for Monday, January 5th....16 degrees and LOTS of Sunshine.

Art- Bette Ridgeway.  

I tore one of her works out of a magazine a long time ago and taped it to the wall in my bedroom.. I look at it every morning....so looked her up and found four more images....of her work. The one on my wall is blue.

I also found, while sorting and tossing paper etc (Danish Death Cleaning)- a newspaper article with an interview with ME after a gardening class lecture. I was described as "spunky"..........been awhile since I was "spunky".... these days I'm mostly bored, tired, crabby, angry, or sleepy.  Typical of most people my age. Boomers......

I've eaten my way thru all the available leftover Christmas food.  Next up is "cooking".  We had pizza yesterday. Always great...while watching football.  I watched two games- possibly a third one that I didn't really pay attention to.......just watched...there was some recorded British Soccer with VERY unsportsmanlike behavior.  Yellow cards but not the Red one I expected to see...after the full body knock down one guy gave the Goalie.

My bowl of oatmeal was quite good- I got the proportions of oats, water and time in the microwave just right.  Nice.  

I'm considering making real coffee (in the Future)--not instant...but knowing the limits of my new older attention span.....not going to be my best idea.... I have several French Press in the dish closet...my friend and I would eat lunch in the Little Bistro...and coffee arrived in single person French Press...I loved it....the Bistro closed- no more French Press or Black Bean Bisque.  They could make more cash catering weddings. Follow the Money and not your Heart..???? never really a good choice long term.

I made Several Really Bad Life Choices...I still regret each and every one of them.......to this day.  I'd love a do-over.  Like the ones in my romance books. Perhaps why I read them???????

 

Daily Notes- Sunday, January 4th. overcast, zero sunshine 14 degrees

Okay, I figured out the curser placement... it wanted center yet again...I did not.  Chair was taken out of my paper collection and trimmed down...  I have more...but all the same chair as this one...

1.  Well, I did some first aid on myself....some ointment, then a sterile gaze pad and then tape.  All from husband's Heart Surgery Box of Supplies.  I did need to cross the hallway for scissors for the tape. I have this itchy swollen patch of skin over my breastbone.... Which in 11 days the doctor will examine. See what it's all about.  I'll just be keeping it covered.

2.   I keep thinking I see people walking around outside...at 14 degrees I don't think it's a great idea.

3.   Soccer yesterday....everyone looks exhausted... ready for the season to be over.  I think I saw someone punch another player yesterday but was too lazy to rewind and see if I actually did see that.  No Hands!!!

4.   We have now gone from a Republic to a Dictatorship...taking over other countries..etc.. When is Congress going to Shut Him Down???  I want to type something else here but it could get me arrested. Like everyone else ......and I do have to keep the itchy spot bandage dry and clean.

5.  So that's it...Soccer to watch and possibly some Football.  And the Sunday Pizza.  I didn't find my favorite screw top wine at the grocery (again) so I'll have lemonade.  I have wine with corks but...I'm OLD and not much good at getting corks out of wine bottles.  Never was..and would feel kinda strange walking around to neighbors and asking them to open my wine bottles....  I can hear it now..".that old woman is coming up the drive with another bottle of wine....."

6.  Well the Sunday Paper won't read itself....
 

Oksy...took awhile to get this up and working....Saturday, January 3rd....sunshine and snow.

Here we are and I can't get the text to start over to the left...It happens and I have no idea why or how to make it stop.  Yesterday turned out to be a great day....

1.  I found the squares I was looking for...I had tucked them in a plastic tub for "safe keeping." and they were really safe...from me finding them...

2.  I watched two movies Pretty Woman and after than Sweet Home Alabama?  Pretty Woman is always in my recorded box...But Sweet Home wasn't..  Reading the credits Richard Gere actually was playing the piano and wrote the music he was playing.... I also got the name of the opera from the credits and chose to believe--until proven wrong --that I have a disc with that opera.

3.   I have several British Soccer Matches to watch today as I sew one piece of cloth to another... I sorted a stack of pages I had ripped from magazines...when the library had magazines in the lobby we could "feel free to take home". I don't think anyone is publishing magazines anymore.  If they are..I don't see them.

4. The big truck that picks up green buckets of compostable garbage from the neighbors is driving past...they empty the weekly bucket in an open trailer...lots of green buckets on the truck...in return ...I think...you get a bucket of compost...freshly composted???  I do have two large squares out back- using wooden pallets...and both are full of compost...no where for it to go as yet.....  weeds and plants sometimes start growing in the Spring...I uproot them and let them "compost"... One year I had many many worms... I try not to repeat that year.  I know worms are a good sign but..not a Fan.

5. Well. I am going to stop typing and start watching tv.  Do some hand sewing...  ignore the uneven margins.