KateP's musings

  My friend Lisa arrived a couple minutes after 1:30.   The sun was shining and warmer than I was expecting it to be.   I met her outside as I could see her driving up the driveway.   We came back into the house and I began showing her around.   First showed her Tiger who didn’t run away.    I showed her where sky was (he was under the blankets but also didn’t come out or run away.   We took a walk around and showed her the rest of the condos.   For the next two hours we talked about a lot of things.   I shared some stuff about the family.   Stuff like the family dynamics etc.   I told her how Liz is treating me at times.   We had lunch around 2:30 and within that hour the sky turned dark, windy, and It began to thunder and rain. So around 3:30 Lisa Left for home.   It was lovely time.   We promised to do it again and to keep in touch.   She messaged me and said she was home safely and that was just befo...

  Good Morning everyone, its 42 degrees and sunny at the moment but will be changing later today as we are supposed to get rain, high winds, and perhaps hale.   As I just said to my brother via text that’s just great.   I am having a friend come for visit for lunch. This week has been a fairly busy and somewhat wild week.   I was ending up not writing anything because I was too tired and pretty much going to bed early for most of the week.   I say most but there were   a few nights I tried to stay up late and work. Last Sunday Sis and I had a rather uncomfortable discussion about finances.   She was insisting she look at them and I kept setting boundaries.   She came to the conclusion I was hiding stuff.   That I haven’t been doing as I promised getting the credit card balances down or staying on the budget.   That I must be “lying” about things to Debra or don’t tell Debra the whole story.   She qualified that statement with “N...

  Sometime after lunch I got the results of my test.   I checked in before I got the email alerting me they were posted.   These and all medical tests never can be in layman’s terms.   The gist is I basically don’t have it.   As usual they caution you about still taking precautions and stuff like that. So I let Liz know, and the girls from the group know.   I hadn’t told J&J but I will another time.    Now the coffee visit with Liz is on for tomorrow.   So I did the grocery shopping this evening. I took the time to order more litter.   I tried to change the item to a different brand but I was doing something wrong.   I was rushing through it and it was aggravating me. Gillion just offered a Christmas/Holiday Movie night at her house in December.    It’s the first weekend of December.   Oh I wonder if I could bake something for that weekend.   It will be a week after Thanksgiving and I may have only the ...

  Yesterday was J’s 71st birthday.   Now ask me if I did anything for his birthday?   That would be a    Whopping no.   What a wonderful sister I am.   I sent an ecard during the day; I did send him a text message.   I sent him HB on FB.   Several of my remote colleagues from administration including ML, MR, and the Clinical Operations team and credentialing all came in to clear out their desks.   This means the move is more real each day.   I caught up with a few of them.   TB became a Daddy in the past year or two. I guess he and his staff is moving to the building when we move upstairs.   Around 2:30 we got an alert there was a Bomb Threat on Campus.   Several buildings on the other side of town closer to the med school were evacuated because they may have had bombs in them.   Around quarter of five we then get message from the shuttle system saying the schedules and routes were altered because of the ...

  I haven’t done one of these in a long time. 1.         I am thankful for my family.   2.       I am thankful for my kitties.   3.       I am Thankful for my job 4.       I am thankful for my home 5.       I am thankful for my friends 6.       I am thankful my health   is status quo 7.       I am thankful for the community service groups I am in. I just couldn’t’ make time to write at all yesterday but that’s not a bad thing either.   I had a good time at the party on election night.   I didn’t get home until after 10 and went to bed by 11.   The reason it took me longer to get home I was admiring the area around the Housatonic river.   There is a brewery there and it’s literally on the riverbanks and has a marina nearby for the locals (I think).   ...

  Today is the day where we vote in or reelect people running our local municipalities At least here in Connecticut that’s what’s going here; I can’t begin to think of the other states. I tried to look it up but I don’t have the time to research it.    I got up early and headed to my new Poll location and got to meet some of the candidates from the 5 th district.   I have seen the ones who are on the DTC at the zoom meetings and such but that’s it.   A few of the other Republicans I knew of from Awards night at the High Schools.   Anyway, going in was easy and voting wasn’t bad either.   I thought there would be an issue with my license because it still had my old address on the front and the new one on the back but there wasn’t.   Members of the DTC party will be meeting at    Bridge House in Devon.   It will also have zoom connections as well.   I wasn’t going to go there but made a commitment to attend so I will go after...