KateP's musings

The sun was playing hide and seek with the world today (at least this part of the world).  It was predicting clouds for the  afternoon.  I am still not sure what will happen tomorrow for the hike.  I will see what it's like in the morning and what messages we get from Jan as well. I don’t know when it started to rain last night.  I think it was fine when I left the office and headed to Chipotle's restaurant for dinner.  Then to my session with Debra.  As the night progressed the thunder and lightning came.  We had gone to bed semi early because I didn’t see anything on TV.  The kitties were with me for a while until the thunder got loud.  Sky left and I am thinking he went under the bed.  Tiger stayed with me for a while but not sure where she went to for the night.  For all I know they may have curled up next to the wardrobe in the spare room where I found them before I left for the gym. As the day drew to a close I hea...

I have been putting off writing because I haven’t written all week.  THe other reason is by the time  get home or have any time to myself i don’t have a lot of time to write or I got tired and head to bed. Easter was great for me personally..I ended up having dinner with my sister and her family and we got into conversations that probably should have been left unsaid. I did received a text message from sis the next apologizing for the things she said or the manner.  I still will maintain she will never accept responsibility in any issues she is having with her siblings.  I managed to get to see my newest Great Nephew who had just turned two months old that Sunday.  His brother J was testing his parents tolerance level because for the very first time in I think forever I heard my nephew A raise his voice to his son.  J is can be very difficult to people around him.  I am told he loves his brother.  I am wondering if he will be a troubled ch...

Good Morning and Blessings to everyone on this most joyous day.  This morning will be semi quiet for me but later today I will be heading to my Sister’s first for coffee and social (they are having dinner around 1) and then to the nursing home for my bingo session with the group.  I got this schedule earlier this month when I contacted N to confirm my schedule.  I have already let Sis know that this was going to be in place before I left for home from LV. Liz invited me yesterday via text.  So I accepted with the codicil that we move it to 12 for coffee.   This morning hasn’t been all that different then any other Sundays.  I got up at my regular 5:30 and did the normal routine.  The kitties ate and I went back to sleep for a bit.  Since then the kitties have disappeared in the house. I suspect they are still in the cellar (since I opened the door to let them down) and haven’t come back up even when I called them. Well I stand corrected. ...

I never made it to the store yesterday.  I tried to shop on Wal*Mart online nearly ordered $125 of groceries.  Unfortunately the only two places that you can order groceries are in Naugatuck and New Haven.  Neither is convenient for me.  They don’t deliver to my area and I would have to drive 46 minutes to get to naugatuck and 18 minutes to the New Haven Location.Of course both S&S and Shoprite are both pretty much 12 minutes from here .  I know that when the Big Y comes to town n the other side of town it won’t be convenient either unless I was there for something.  How far would you travel to get groceries?  Oh and the local ADams (IGA) is expensive and I am not liking the reviews.    Why am I looking at other options?  Stop and Shop is in their ninth day of a strike.  IT's been on the news daily.  Social Media members all have their views on it.  Some are for the strike and some do not understand it.  They ...

I am not sure if I should be saying Happy Good Friday to you all or not.  I probably have in the past.  Today thought it may not be appropriate.  I do wish you all the best of the holiday blessings for those who celebrate.  Some of us get the day off and some don’t.  I remember over the years that Mom would make sure we went to either late afternoon mass or the stations of the Cross.  I don’t remember the last time I was at either of them in the last ten years.    I do remember that after today we could have meat on Fridays.  Today I made plans to get to the gym.  Late yesterday afternoon I had an upset stomach and decided on the way home to not go anywhere and my point is I wasn't feeling that well this morning and slept in.   The  classes are done for the day but I can do cardio on the treadmill and cycle. At some point today I was heading to the store for groceries.  It had been recommended that I go ea...

This Week has and continues to fly by faster than any other short week.  I had a few doctor’s appointments, meetups, gym visits and lots of exercise.   In the end I kept running out of time and energy. Last weekend’s activities went well.  I met up with my niece and she gave me the most delicious Oreo cookie cake to bring to the bake sale.  Saturday afternoon after some quick shopping i made one of the cheesecakes.  I decided making the one was too much stress.   THe bake and Flower sale went very well.  I was able to catch up with LG President Laurie.  We have a couple of other things coming up that I may have to rethink about attending. The Meetup hike in Manchester was great and challenging.  It is the Case Mountain Case Pond is just off 384 highway.   Owned by a Paper Mill company and his family.  The views were beautiful.  The people were great there were about 6 of us. Work has been busy i was re...

Today I head home. My flight is at 12:20 so we are leaving here around 10 for the airport.  I will bring home with me the memories of the last two weeks of the sights,sounds, people. I have crossed paths with. I hope to come back again next year and see the things we missed.  Like the Hoover dam and maybe find better hikes. I also go home with a renewed sense of purpose to maybe change some things in my life that need adjustment. I love the fact my boarding pass is now on my phone.  I thought I would need to have a special app for it and I don't. I understand I will be heading home to cold and rain.  A Nor'easter is heading off the coast of CT. Hopefully this will not adversely affect the drive home from the airport.  I am pretty sure I will be ready to see my cats. I haven't been away from them this long before.  It definitely be funny to see what happens.

Today is my last full day of my adventures in Las Vegas.  I wasn't expecting much except to prepare for the flight home tomorrow. That changed after last night's meet up. We were invited to another game Mexican train at Einstein bagels at 1.  It will be in likelihood our dinner as well. We will be leaving here around 10 and have to get a check up for one of the cars first.   Then tonight last minute laundry. I will also print out the boarding pass and then bed for me.  I haven't been sleeping all that well lately. As a matter of fact I wrote this at 4 in the morning.  I had an alarm set for seven so I could get my walk in before the day started. I woke up late. I received my schedule for Bingo this month.  I am doing Bingo at 10:30 in the morning on the 7th and my regular time on Easter Sunday.  Which means whatever plans I did have got boggled. It was about that time I also got my appointment confirmations for this week for the infusion a...

1.         I am thankful for my family warts and all.   Everyone seems to be doing well.  THey are either working, returning from vacation, taking care of business.. 2.        I am thankful for my kitties.   They are doing well and cuddly.   3.         I am thankful for my job.  Had my annual review it was positive. 4.         I am thankful for the Medical profession that keeps me on the road to good health . See Debra tomorrow.  Results from Biopsy done last week are benign.  Been fairly regular at the gym this week. Have a hike on Sunday with new group. 5.         I am thankful for my neighbors .   Everyone is settling in. 6.         I am thankful for my home.   7.       ...