Something Weird

I got a message sometime today from My cousin Jeremy through twitter saying someone posted a nasty blog about me.  I signed out to twitter saw the message and tried to access the link but was knocked out of twitter and had to confirm the log on.  So I went to the facebook and sent a message to Jeremy asking if he sent me one through twitter.  I don’t feel comfortable clicking on the link if screws this up.  This being the computer.  I tried doing a search but couldn’t find anything under any of my usernames to the sites.  

I heard from Jeremy and he says yes he has one but doesn’t use it.  So I told him it might have been hacked.  A few seconds later he sent me another one saying it was hacked.  I am really glad that i checked it out.

I got to the nursing home after 9:30.  I kept procrastinating this morning from getting up and doing some chores, to getting ready for bingo.  Somehow I managed to start bingo on time and finish on time.  However, I didn’t leave the facility on time.  I cleaned up from Bingo and chatted with Claudia.  I was late for mass.

When I miss the readings sometimes I try and read the readings of the day.  Sometimes its better to see from the homily what was being said but It also helps me to get back into reading the bible.  I go through periods in which I try to read and then even longer periods where I don’t.

The weather changed for part of the day.  it was sunny for most of the morning and early afternoon and then at some point the clouds rolled in.  It is in the mid 70’s and I think humid. I put the ceiling fan because it got stuffy in the room.  WHen i got back from the meeting it was sprinkling for a very short time.

Mom  got back from a wake for the parent of a Bridges Colleague around 6.  She left a little after 4 when she got back from the store. I was getting concerned because I didn’t know what we were going to do about dinner.  She made me a fish filet sandwich.

I was late for the meeting so I quickly sat down and started writing.  We discussed the budget, the summer activities and the fall activities, and of course the officers responsibilities and duties.  I did sign up for hosting a couple of meetings in the winter/spring time for 2014.

Now that I am home for the night its time for me to take the Alka-seltzer plus med because I am still fighting something.  My throat was irritated earlier today and now the sniffles.

should be getting ready

I feel as though I should be getting ready for the dance now.  Mike and Roberta will be here by 7:30 (or shortly after that ) to pick me up to go to Meriden.  I have just to iron my black pants I will be wearing with the blue top that Cousin Donna gave me last week.  I hope it fits!  I am having doubts right now.  It is sleeveless as well.  I will wear my windbreaker jacket as there isn’t anything else to go with it.

I have been writing up the minutes to Thursday’s minutes and have sent them off to Chairman Phil to approve or revise.  It has been a rather long time since I got them out this quickly.  There have been periods of time where I would get them out quickly and there have been times where it was weeks or not at all.

I have also been watching the NCIS Ziva David Marathon on USA.  I am not sure how USA network picked these episodes but I am glad they did.  Some of them I will have to miss obviously..  But I will leave that for my NCIS blogs.

I wrote a long email to James this morning and later find out he won’t see it until he gets home sunday.  He is away at Boy Scouts with his Dad.  After I sent him the email I realized I should be emailing the girls as well.  All of them being teenagers I shouldn’t expect a reply anytime soon.

Mom asked me to help her read over the Mayor’s Youth Award nominations with her.  I couldn’t decide which ones were the best.  They all seemed like wonderful candidates.  I Have more to look over but that will be for later.

I think I better have dinner as my stomach is rumbling-again.

Another Busy Week

It looks like this week will be busy for me. I have few meetings this week to attend. The beginning of the week will be my session with Debra that was this afternoon and then tomorrow night is a Board Meeting for the Woman’s club meeting. At the end of the week is the 4th District meeting and I am hoping to God it’s short.

I got a call from Telka yesterday to see if I could attend the meeting and to make calls to the other officers. I did that shortly after our discussion. We talked about how our current girl’s club president is going to be graduating this coming year and that it was a good idea to have a Co president who will know the ropes and what is expected. Apparently we have a number of people graduating this year. This board meeting will probably discuss what the officers and committee should expect this coming year and how to get the others involved. I also expect that we are discussing the ice cream social for next week. That reminds me I need to get a thank you note to the young woman who hosted the party light show last spring.

Then at the end of the week I have the 4th District at Mike & Tessa’s home. I really have to get those minutes written up or I am toast. Not just by the chairpersons (and I don’t think they will be so bad but ah Mom might be a little harder on me)

Now here is something that is bothering me. Last night I posted my status on my facebook page and then one of my nieces replied and then both of them. Facebook Kathleen Phelan. I am certain it was on my wall and it finished this morning. I was trying to be light and nothing serious until Emily started being fresh.

The second thing that hurt today was this. These pictures were taken the day of the triple birthday party. I may have told you they sang to all the august birthdays. Tell me if you can see them and tell me if you notice something rather odd.

I told Mom about it and at first dismissed it especially when I told her the same thing happened at the bridal shower back in June. She said well if you felt hurt then…

Anyway, I managed the rest of the day to be low key. I wasn’t able to finish the bad address tally but I can finish that tomorrow.

I told Debra about the events of the past week. She told me that I do have a lot love for my family and I only want it returned. I felt a little better by the time the session was over. That is until I discovered I didn’t have my ID holder with almost everything in it. I went back to the office to find it and was unsuccessful. I called Debra and after a little bit of telephone tag she found it and has left it at the front desk of her building and I will get it at lunch time tomorrow.

I am kind of tired now. I think I will go read some forums and emails and then go to bed…

I have a hard time

When I work on Saturdays until 2 I find it so hard to even do the things that are important. For example I have laundry to do and cleaning to do and of course that ongoing Quicken accounts project I can’t seem to get over.

I have been home nearly an hour and half and all I managed to do is watch TV, eat some cereal, do some browsing on the net. I did straighten the blue room as Mom asked before she left for church.

Mom spent the day cleaning out the refrigerator and the oven and probably the paperwork that she wanted to do but she as usual felt she didn’t get a lot done and she got exhausted. She tells me that she got sick during the night but did get some sleep.

I managed to wake up early this morning even though I had a late night. I stayed in bed for a while longer but got up by 6 and showered and dressed by 7:30. I did get a little agitated with the speed of this computer and printer. I managed to get really excellent directions.

I left here shortly before 7:30. I wasn’t quite if I passed it so I stopped at the Dixwell Avenue Mutual Housing community (or street) and asked for directions. A Big Thank you to the gentlemen who was very helpful he gave me wonderful instructions and we talked briefly about the 5 year old community.

I got to the church and parked in the parking lot next to it. The funeral home staff and of course Stephanie’s mother were the only ones in tVarick Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church. I really felt foolish because I figured Stephanie and her family would be there. They were not but would be closer to the service.
As soon as I paid my respects and signed the guest book I headed to the office. After saying hello and signing in I started working. I put some music on and did some web browsing while working. I think I started to do that probably around 10. Annette C gave me her second cup of coffee from DD. I was even surprised she was there.

A few of the women went to the service and came back to work. Terry told me that the place was packed. She was unable to see Stephanie or get a chance to speak with her but felt Stephanie would know that all of us were there.

I talked with Liz and Nelson tonight. WE talked about the benefits of getting Triple A and we agreed that it would be beneficial. We made tentative plans to get together after church for Tea tomorrow.

Jim called yesterday. I didn’t get a chance to talk with him except to say hi. Mom says he was having “down day” but she didn’t get into it. I just let it go.

It’s been a few days since Mom talked with Bob but apparently Diane came into town last weekend from the tour. She injured her foot some how and was talking sometime to let it heal. I am going to check her twitter and blog to see if she has updated.

The weather is going to change for a little bit more around here. We are supposed to get some rain for the next couple of days and then it’s supposed to snow all next weekend.


Happily the California weather is taking a break. They had been getting almost two weeks of rain and it was causing flooding and mudslides. In some of the stories they had gotten snow.

Alright I want to watch some NCIS on line and then work on the minutes from last Thursday meeting. I promised to get them out by tonight.

End of a Stressful Week

It is almost 10:30 and 30 degrees out and I am exhausted. It has been a very stressful week for me. As many of you know we had the storm and the funeral for our friend Mary on Wednesday. So that day was pretty intense. It would be more intense when I got home that night when I received news about Jim. I will explain in a moment but first I wanted to tell you about Monday.

On Monday Mom called me at work asking me about a letter I received from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I tried to explain it to her on the phone but she just was so frightened and scared and angry that she couldn’t hear me. She ended up hanging up on me. When I got home that night the argument continued but after some coaching from Debra during the session I managed to keep my cool during the whole time. By the end of the night things seemed to be calmer.

After dealing with the Funeral and getting to work in the bad weather on Wednesday. I found out that Jim was in a crisis. He has been drinking and drugging and lost a great deal of money and was really bad. He called a friend from FRA who in turn called Liz and asked her to come down ASAP. She had been there the last few days trying to make arrangements and to get Jim into a program by this weekend. He wouldn’t let her or Nelson in the first day and now she has the POA to help him with the finances. He promised Liz that he would go into a program this weekend.

Yesterday after rushing around to get the minutes done for the 4th District Mom objected and criticized the way I wrote them and she was insisting I go to Tessa last night during or before the meeting and tell her I wish to redo them. I told her I would but decided not to. I was furious that once again Mom felt it necessary to dictate or control a situation. I told Claire C about the minutes and that I want to resign. She told me not to that just because Mom didn’t like the minutes? I did want to tell her it was also because she couldn’t keep her damn mouth shut last week. Anyway by the time the meeting went over (It was a long meeting) I told her not to say anything. I did however tell Pat C what happened and how Mom said terrible things to me Monday and that “everyone things she is so wonderful”. I am not sure if that will get back to her or not. However, when I got here I acted as though nothing was wrong and I spoke to her courteously and respectfully.

Today wasn’t bad. Mom had heard from Liz and was a bit more relieved but her heart was still aching over the trouble that Jim was in. She was exhausted and I have been too. I fell asleep around 8 tonight and now that it is getting to be 11 I am still tired but not sure if I will be sleeping.