KateP's musings

  Today is my Birthday.  For years I think about my birthdays sometimes months in advance and think about what is going on in my life, where I am living, what my health is going to be like and eventually closer to death.  In the past it would  wake me up in the middle of the night hyperventilating.  I didn’t do it this year.  I just went to bed tired. Last Night and today I have been receiving lots of Birthday wishes, via FB, email, Messenger.  Makes me feel good.  Dave and I will have our annual Birthday dinner on Wednesday.  Junior and the kids stopped by with cupcakes that some of us ate right up. Yesterday I went to the open house for this condo at Noon with Liz.  It met with mixed reactions.  I didn’t like the mailboxes that were out (they looked beat up), Liz thought the outside was tired.  The views of LI Sound were beautiful. Large Living room small kitchen new appliances, parking is out back and has a door for it....

  Well I managed to get a couple of hours sleep this morning and then got up and fed the   titans and then took another nap until 6:30.   Then I got ready for work but ended up leaving really late.   Got to work exactly   at 8.     I was relieved to learn everyone from work seems to have come out okay.   AC lost power but expected it to be back on by mid-morning.   VanessaT and she were comparing horror stories from the same town.   A few others waited until the storm passed before heading out.      Unfortunately I can’t say the same about Cheryl and Mike.   They have no power in their part of North Haven (it was hit pretty hard) so we can’t go looking at Condos this weekend after all.   I had sent her a few emails last night making initial plans and after chatting with Liz via email and text I contacted Cheryl and told her how sorry I was.     Next weekend is supposed to be better weather-...

  It’s been so long since I last actually posted any of my blog entries this week.   I keep saying I will go back over them and finish them and then post but then more time goes by and gets away from me. The house and condo situation :   Well Liz and I have been making a lot of progress with clearing out project.   We managed to get the cellar cleaned out with the help of a friend of hers and of my BIL.   Made several trips to goodwill and made a trip to the dump.   Some of the things that are left will be going to friends and family.   In the weekend coming up I believe we will be working on the Attic and then bedrooms, and then office and then finally the kitchen and dining room.   Jim will be speaking to “He who will not be named” by Labor Day and apprising him of the progress.   I am told that Liz suggested that Jim also discuss perhaps begin the process of having “he who will not be named (the lawyer)” removed as the trustee and perh...

  Well when we last met I discussed the past week’s activities and the plans for yesterday I went to meet with Alex for our second to last session (Tuesday will be the final one) he tells me I still have two more weeks I can do the classes.   He will also be discussing with the gym manager about allowing me to “cash in” if you will my points that I have collected over the years and possibly get two months of free classes.   In the mean time I will attend class until the end of the month.   I told him all the things I ate this week (well except the brownie) and why I hadn’t made it to the gym.   We discussed grocery budgets and the best foods.   He did say to have rice but not the minute rice but uncle Bens.   We discussed what would be good and just what to do with diet and the choices. After wards I headed home.   I still had about an hour or so before Liz came over.   We talked earlier via text.   She needed to come later (and I ...

  I must begin this entry with an apology for the symphony of chirping crickets lately.   I have been going through some challenging times since Tropical storm Isaias.   The day after it hit I noticed the gutter needed repair and so I called my lawyer/Trustee (if you have been following me for while it was set up long before Mom died) to let him know it needed to be fixed.   He didn’t see it but came and surveyed the property and started a bullying campaign to reissue the whole “we need to put the house on the market” .   We argued and by the end of the conversation he hung up on me.   He sent me a very insulting voice mail by the end of that same week after my brother spoke to him.     My family and I met at the beginning of the week with my therapist to discuss what could be done but came to the conclusion that it isn’t worth fighting him.   We are not giving in but I cannot afford to manage this big house. My brother spoke to him and got...

Somehow my afternoon after 12 pm, whizzed by me. We did our normal routine at the beginning of the day and I fell back to sleep for a bit and then spent time on the laptop. I was surfing the net and chatting with a pen pal who was having a hard day.   Missy lost a dear friend of hers of 19 years to Corvid19 and it was difficult.   He did a lot of stuff for her and she was just sharing the things he did for her.   She shared news about her mom that I didn’t know and it was fairly tough. I went to the gym this morning and did the class.   We had it outside despite the clouds above.   We were just waiting for the rain to start it didn’t come until we were already gone. I never got the water bottle that I left there on Thursday.   I checked yesterday and again today and it wasn’t there.   I thought she found it for me.   Either she lied or someone threw it away.   It belonged to RH from the DTC.   I did manage to go to rite-Aid yeste...

I received a message from Alex last night asking if I could come in before the 8:30 class and it was like a message from the heavens.   I have signed up for the setback card game meetup for this afternoon.   I wanted to be able to go and not be late.   So I left after 7:30 and had my session with Alex and had class with him. I made the promise to not miss a day at the gym because of no reason.   So I have to be at the gym as much as possible (short of the infusions or death).   I am already scheduled for tomorrow.   As soon as I am able to register for Monday’s and Tuesday’s classes I will). The weather is beautiful right now.   It is not too hot or humid.   It was very cool this morning that we got to work outside for class.   It is 87 now and looks sunny to me.   I will probably not go to any of the meetups that were scheduled for today.   Unfortunately we may be getting severe thunderstorms for tomorrow.   The latest Hur...