KateP's musings

  The calm before the storm is now, according to my weather app it is 7 degrees out at this moment.   I'm glad I'm not leaving for Guilford until 11.   I can do a few things before then.   The storm is expected to begin around 8 a.m. tomorrow and continue through Monday night.    The weather reports are all over the place.   Snow ranges from 2 inches to nearly 2 feet.    I honestly doubt we'll get more than a foot of snow here, if we get any at all.   If Monday's weather is bad, I'll stay home, but I'll decide in the morning. Last night I went to the store again and now I wish I remembered everything when I went to Aldis the night before.   I could have just gone to Aldi's since it was next door.    I was going to get onions and Potatoes but realized I don’t need them this weekend. I've prepared a few things, including making sauce in a crockpot.    It will be ready by 4 p.m. this afternoon. Meeting the gir...

    It’s a beautiful day.   The weather is cool and sunny, with temperatures expected to remain in the 80s for the rest of the day. Currently, there has not been any rain.    I haven’t been up that long.   I woke up at my usual time.   Fed the furball who is probably back in bed. I did a few text chats and will do some more shortly.   Then I need to get ready for the grocery delivery.   I have already had a change in the items.   I hope I saved money today.    Today is Mama Roberta’s Birthday.   I will probably call her later today before the meetup like I usually do.   I have been texting during the week.   The previous occasion I sent her a message was Monday.    She was scheduled for a doctor's appointment.    I recall she learns today. I heard from her around 11 and she is nervous.   I sent her prayers and good thoughts to face this. The rest of the day will probably stick c...

  Right about this time (4:45 Eastern) I would be either on my way or waiting for the others to arrive at our weekly Meetup at the diner in Guilford.   Unfortunately, everyone had other things they needed to do.   So, they will have it next week.   I hope.   I won’t be there though.   The next time I will see them is Mother’s Day weekend for the two Brunches each day.   One is at Gouviea Vineyards and the other will be at Faith’s home. Right now, it seems that Gil and Faith are working on the Book Club event.   It looks like Gil worked on it for most of the night last night and now faith is having a little bit of a probable adding a person. Today was pretty good.    I got all my work done before noon.   I had lunch from the Orchids café   Down the Street.   Then for the rest of the day I did some clearing out of emails, updating calendars. I got home at 4:30 and checked on Sky in the spare room.   I fed him and...

  This was post was going to be the last Thankful Thursday Post of 2021 but I didn’t do many of those this year either.   Needless to say I am thankful. I ended up not doing much for the day except going to the store and picking up the prescription and some milk and a container of frosting. I did some things around here and then got ready for the meetup.   Man it was stressful getting there.   It was raining but my vision was somewhat blurry and it felt like I was seeing things in three d.   For some reason Google maps didn’t take me straight to the diner.   It took me near Stephanie’s house (I clicked on Guilford link and it was in the middle of nowhere. Well at least for that area.    I was getting stressed.   I finally got to the dinner after 5:30.   PaulaJ, Gillion, Stephanie, and Jackie were there.   I told them what happened when I told Stephanie that I think I was near her house. Eventually Cyn and Steph’s Mom arrived a...

I am not sure why but at some point this evening I got tired.   I had been preparing for the coffee talk, took care of the garbage and tried to do some union calls. Late this afternoon I heard from NewEgg.com and they indicated the seller had sent me a message that it will now be June 3, 2020.   I don’t remember seeing that date on their email but with my luck and my penchant for not reading the email completely through.   So it will now be a week from today. I finally cleaned off the counter next to the sink and closer to the cellar.   I got rid of old teas and the others I put in canisters that can hold the tea. I put some of my meds and all the vitamins and supplements into a basket.   My hope is to not have that place look so cluttered. I also put some stuff into a box. For example I put the mini coffeemaker (the kind that is brewing) and a bunch of other stuff from the back room into the box as well.   There is more but I have to look thr...

We Got email today from Human Resources extending the work from home deadline to June 1, 2020.   I will have to find many things to do in that time.   I haven’t started the ones I wanted to do yet. I received a call from the Hematologist and the INR number went down further.   So I have to stop the shot and take a 1 ½ Tabs tonight.   I lost my temper because she acted as though he told me to stop the shots.   There has got to be better communication because he didn’t say that I had to stop this week.    I thought he said eventually.     I can’t have salads for now until the INR level is a therapeutic level. I ordered wings for tonight and they came at 5 so I knew they would need to be reheated so I put them in the micro and reheated s the time for the coffee talk approached.   While I waited I took care of the garbage. I was the second person to arrive in the chat.   G was getting ready and as everyone arrived some had...

I have been home from the walk about 2 hours.   It was great.   I arrived after Joan had been waiting and then Susan and then Jen.   We walked along the beach front communities of Point beach, Bayshore, and Point Look out Road.   Areas that I drive through but not really looked around and the houses are beautiful and a couple of times reminded of California coast line.   The views into Long Island sound were peaceful and so beautiful.   The weather was awesome for it.   At times I lagged behind but tried to keep up as much as possible as they discussions were about the event that Joan is planning in May, and just of the mental health system that is in need of repair.   We finished by quarter of ten and as you can see it’s over an hour.   Since I did the walk I didn’t go to the gym as of yet.   Not sure I am going to but I will see. I came home made some coffee did a little more laundry and at noon made steak and vegetables ag...