Dear Friends

October 28, 2013

Dear Friends:

Hey how are you all?  I hope the last half of your weekend was great.  Mine turned out okay but the morning and mid afternoon was a bit stressful.  While at bingo I had to fill a delightful incident report out when I saw Bernie’s foot bleeding. 

We had to use the second floor dining room yesterday because there was an event going on in the main dining room w/extra tables from the recreation room.  It was hot, crowded and when Bernie was moving his chair his shoe came off.  So I had to fill it out.  The nurse there was giving me an attitude.

When I got I had lunch and then Mom and I got into it as the time approached to leave for the play at Parson’s.  We snapped at each other (she thought I was mumbling under my breath and I was but not being nasty).  It was tense on the way there but once we were with the others and saw the play it was fine.

What was the play you ask?  It was Laurelton Hall’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar.  Yes there were boys in the cast and they all did a superb job.  For some (the seniors) it was the last play for them.  They honored the director and the Teachers it was held at the Parson’s Complex in town.  The School is trying to also raise funds for their Visual Arts center that’s on the grounds.  When my sister Liz attended it probably was a run down barn today its being renovated or planned on being renovated. 

The play ended around 4 and we headed home.  We stopped at Trader Joe’s to pick up milk and some ice cream.  We had dinner and the rest of the night I did some laundry (ended up leaving it in the dryer until morning).  I spent time watching TV and then headed to bed.

My Monday was a little stressful too. I was having problems with the lamp shade being intertwined with the funny light bulb and the bulb ended up breaking.  I cleaned it up as much as I could expect to clean it when I got home but happily Olivia cleaned my room.

I had a lot of mail and some of it was campus mail that I sent out that was returned to me with no real reason for them being returned.  It was rally irritating me and by then I was getting a headache.  At some point the headache seem to dissipate until I left to go home.  The rest of the day was fine.  I managed to get the mail done and get a lot of the re-address done.

When I got home Neighbor Don was coming to our house to help Mom with the some tape machine.  They were hearing Kristina’s voice and exactly what the problem was not sure.  I let them take care of it.  I came upstairs and relaxed

I also checked my room and found it had been cleaned.  The desk is still in disarray and so was the dresser but I will fix them (some day). 

Mom’s stomach was giving her problems today and all she had to eat was cereal.  She spent the day running some errands, getting blood work done and I think that’s about it.  Now she is watching TV.  She made my dinner for me.   So everything seems to be okay otherwise.

I heard from James last night.  He says it’s gotten colder there but its been nice.  He had a whole lot of tests last week and feels he did okay (do any guys really say if they did great?) He is hoping they come up for Thanksgiving this year so that will be the time they see us.  I haven’t heard from the girls (don’t really expect to either).

I really should be finishing up the minutes from Thursday’s 4^th District meeting but I don’t want to yet.  It’s been a long day and I want to relax.

Apparently a number of people took a “quiz” on Facebook and if you got it wrong you had to change your profile picture to a giraffe.  You should see the variety of choices all my friends have made.

Well there are a couple of emails I need to answer (the livingwells2 “how was your weekend” and the Journal writing check in roll call post).  I missed those last night. I have to be sure I set up documents for these for next month.  I am already setting next month’s folder up.

I have to admit it was beautiful day today.  It was a bit breezy but still nice.  The rest of the week is supposed to partly to mostly cloudy and maybe some rain for Halloween night.  There is a frost advisory for Milford tonight and probably for the rest of the week.  I need to pull out more coats if it is going to get colder.

Well that's it from here I hope all of you are well.  For all my UK friends, followers and readers my thoughts and prayers are with you as you ride out this storm, I have a long memory as this is the year anniversary of Super Storm Sandy last year.

Good Night.

Dear Friends

October 12, 2013

Dear Friends:

Well I finally heard from Nephew James this afternoon.  At first the tone seemed like a chastising for using his old email address (it was the only one I had for him) but I remembered something his father said about letting hurt feelings get in the way of the relationship.  He told me a little about his class schedule being different each day.  He is having a great time and likes it.  He also says he isn’t great at soccer but he and his team mates are having fun.  Of course I wrote him back thanking him for the update on the email address and I also passed it along to Mom.

The rest of the day I just hung out watching TV (and Mike griped about that) and did stuff online.  I took a nap and got a few things paid.  Just as Mom was coming home I went to the card shop and got some birthday cards for the birthday party.  I even have one for Mr. Luca who is turning one next week.

We had a very good dinner tonight all vegetables.  Zucchini, corn, Brussels sprouts, and Squash it was really delicious.  I really like have meals like that. I cleaned the kitchen while Mom waited for Jim’s call back.

Jim called tonight.  I didn’t get a chance to talk with him but I found out earlier today he has a different phone and number because he is in a disagreement with his provider.    That story prompted me to make sure my phone bill was paid so that’s what I did this afternoon.

I think I am going to go to bed though.  Like I have said probably a lot this week tomorrow is going to be a long day.

Have a great night.

Kate

Dear Friends

September 21,  2013

Dear Friends:

It is Saturday night  the pups had their mid afternoon walk after I had a ten minute snooze fest. We stopped to see the Grandparents downstairs and they were watching TV and reading.  I sat with Ruth for a bit and she was telling me about the book she was reading. It was one of Jane Austen's books earliest editions.  It was one I haven’t read. (then again I haven’t really read any of hers).  I let the dogs stay down if they felt like it They both came up after about 15 minutes.

Around 5:30 or so I took off for the cat and fed her.  I stopped at Stop and Shop and got a salad and some fruit cups.  I fed the dogs and I had my salad and then called Mom.  I chatted with her and then took the guys for a walk.  The wind was pretty strong.  We stopped at the grandparents and they shared the flying saucer with me :)  Packy is still downstairs and Preston is in the other room.

I got a Blair Academy google alert this afternoon and immediately thought of James.  It was a sports report of their soccer team I think they lost to the other school.  Apparently the team did well in Soccer against another school last week.  So what does this have to do with James.  I still don’t know if James joined any teams yet or not. I haven’t heard from him yet either.  I may have said he is supposed to go home this weekend I believe.

We are supposed to get a really big rain storm later on tonight.  You could see it in the clouds and the wind was picking up again.  I am really hoping the boys do not want to go out again tonight.

I do actually want to get to bed by 9 I have to get up really early for church and the rest of the activities.  I was going to do laundry but don’t want to be bothered.  I do have to stay awake long enough for packy to come back up.  I don’t want to lock him up for anything.