KateP's musings

  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 ...

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 have no idea what my original entry for today was going to be but here it will be mixed in I am sure.     The numbness from the tooth extraction wore off just as I was going to bed.   My tooth was hurting a little then and a lot this morning.   I did take Tylenol and it’s a dull throb now.       I called the oral surgeon’s office and still must register online.   I am not anxious to do it now while at work.   Something tells me my schedule for next week will be changing a little more. I sent Liz a message and told her the results of last night. I haven’t heard from her yet.     This morning was fine.   The kitties went right upstairs to the cooler part of the house.   Sky has been lying in the hallway a lot and I found Tiger on my old bed (her regular spot).   I am going to have to go and get some of their canned food.   All I have is the blue buffalo no grain one.   It’s been there fo...

I thought for sure I would be getting my schedule for next week but as you well know I got the word earlier this week and it will NOT be sporadic like I originally thought.   My plan is to go in as early as possible everyday so I can get as much done as possible.   I have most of my laundry done but some of them need to be ironed before I wear them.   I also got foods for lunch at least for the first few days.   I don’t want to order food at lunch or get stuff from the vending machines.    I think we all know I will anyway. We already have a lot of Union Activities (okay so may be 3 or 4) in the next few weeks.   We have a med school committee meeting (Not sure if is actually just committee or it’s a membership meeting) next week and some other ally meeting.   I made a promise to attend or participate in activities for the union and wouldn’t you know it I have a few conflicts already. So I went to the gym last night and did some cardio befor...

We did our normal routine this morning and I decided to lay down for at least an hour.   JOC and I were supposed to go for a walk at 8:30 and while I was showering and getting ready she sent me a text.   Telling me she would have to bale.   So I have been slow on moving and resorting to watching TV again. It is overcast right now and 70 degrees out and it feels nice.   The forecast is calling for showers today.   My front yard looks great or at least better but the back yard not so much. I may have said this but I would much prefer that Mother Nature do the work instead of me hauling the hose all over the place.   Besides that our water authority (which is the water company) is asking the residents of the city not to water the lawns right now.   The water has been brown in some areas. Supervisor Bob sent out an email to the staff recalling us to work on Monday.   He did say some of us will be moved around to follow social distancing requiremen...

It is Friday again and it’s Humid.   It is overcast right now and it is expected to start raining around 1 and go for the rest of the day into the night.   If you have been following me for a while now I love weekend nights like that.   I am hoping more rain will revive the lawn a little more.   This is the beginning of the holiday weekend.   People are getting their yards done and preparing for the limited parties they may have this weekend.   Unfortunately right now feels like any other weekend to me.   I wonder if this is how retirees feel.    Well My hope is that this time next week I will be back in my office doing the job I have been doing for 18 years (I have been at the University for 28 years).   I still have a couple of things to do before I go back (classes and review).     I have been avoiding the emails like the plague.   I have until Wednesday to do them. I had been missing my friend siduri’s posting...

Sunday was a fairly busy day despite the thunderstorm in the afternoon.   The Exercise class went well and we had fun there were six of us and I believe I did better than I did on Saturday.   I would later sign up for classes for today unfortunately I didn’t attend them.   Alex’s was full by the time I signed up but later found out two openings opened and I saw them too late.   I will have to check the schedule for tomorrow. After the class I headed to Shop Rite and went grocery shopping.   It took me an hour but I ended up spending more than I was planning on it.   I also added last minute items such as Salmon filets.   I hadn’t seen them for the last few weeks that I have been.   I also got peanut butter to snack on.   I got more creamer and sweetener because both were low.   I did manage to get paper towels and s’more baby wipes but I couldn’t get the Lysol wipes.   I managed to get more frozen vegetables and salad fixings that...

Good Morning.   It’s almost 7:30 in the morning and the sun is shining and it is 69 degrees.   I really thought I would be waking up to rain but no it’s coming after 1 this afternoon.   It’s supposedly going to last until 10 tonight.   I am glad because this will allow me to go to the grocery store right after my exercise class and I can be home before it starts. I forgot to mention I got my other coffee order that was late and never delivered.   My hope is that this will keep me going for the time being.   I still have the two boxes left of Dunkin pods (I opened the second one yesterday).   Both deliveries had a total of 96 k-pods.    I thought I was going to be getting one of my amazon deliveries (the wipes) yesterday because they wrote me and said it was coming and I am just so tired of the BS from them.   I will have to check the supplies in the cellar before going out this morning. I was able to cancel Paige’s class when an op...

Well I made it to class and did the best that I could.   It was SGT which means having partners,   I thought I was going to die but the most important thing to remember is to keep moving.   Luckily the weather held out for us to work out outside.   Everyone was saying it was going to start raining by 11. Meh. Alex let me know that he would be leaving at 11:30 so we would not be having our session today. So the next session will be Tuesday.   I promised I would walk when I got home.   We had a discussion after I used the in-body and that was highly disappointing.   What did I expect?   I had too many wings, I still swig the creamer and probably put too much in my coffee.    Not getting enough exercise.   My plan to go to the gym every day has been less than stellar.    So when I got home got some more water and went to the bathroom and took off for a walk. The walk was about an hour.   I ran into a classmate of min...

i can’t believe its Friday again.   This entire week flew by and I don’t know if I got a lot done or not. I remember sometihng Mom told me many years ago that I can’t just exist in the world I have to be doing something.   I guess that’s why every other day I get to feeling guilty that all I did is sit and didn’t do much. My plan to go to sleep early last night never saw the light of night.   I did try but I wanted to finish ysterday’s babble of an entry. A part of me focused on committing to the gym.   That met with mixed results.   I knew I would fall back into the old ways.   Skip classes, eat things I wasn’t really supposed and make up for it some other way.   I did get some walking in as well. i set the alarm for 4 this time so I would be getting up in time to feed the cats and leave for the 6 am class. I slept through the alarms but managed to get up and go and even the cats got fed. I am thinking i did a lot of writing WHETHER IT was i...