KateP's musings

I managed to get up at 5:30 and do the morning routine and then get ready for work.   For a brief moment I was going to make it to the shuttle then decided to get in early as I am leaving early today. Hopefully this afternoon the medical Equipment supply guy will be at my house at 3 and take everything back.   I have been in contact with Lincare who called me earlier this week to close the account.   The funny thing is during the week another facemask arrived at the door.   So hopefully no more will come and I won’t be getting anymore bills. Unfortunately, I have a feeling I will be getting them.   I tried to read up on Lincare and customer reviews were not good.   Just like J&L Medical customer reviews.   People were still getting billed when they didn’t get the equipment or, returned etc.   The young woman who was helping me was quite nice even after the third call yesterday. After that I have a Dermatology appoint...

It is ten in the morning (or close to it) and it feels like I barely want to do anything. The regular Sunday morning routine happened and I went back to bed until maybe 8 (it’s a blur now).   I finally got up and had some coffee started the laundry going again.   I have made the bed, straightened up the night table by my bed, and have things ready to be thrown out (when I get back up there with a bag).   I still need to straighten out one of the dresser tops.   The one in front of my bed looks better than it has in months. The kitties have been prowling around here and I can hear Sky wanting to go up in the attic.   Can we say no?   Maybe they will start taking their naps and I can do more letters in the computer/old bedroom.   I hate to admit this but I think I am over feeding Tiger…she is becoming a porker.   I am starting to feel guilty. I also signed up for two more swaps on Summer’s group.   I am not sure if I did the right thi...

  I had a lovely time with Mama Joanie yesterday.   After each of us had some things in the morning to do we had to change the meeting/lunch date time to 1 pm.   This allowed me to get my car register for this year.   I made a call to Nardelli’s Deli on Route 67 and ordered us each a sandwich.   Mama’s was Tuna mine was Eggplant Parmigiana I left here just about 12:15.   The GPS was taking its sweet time warming up (I really hate that thing) and once it got going it had me drive to Racebrook Road and then to Route 34.   I knew I could have gone two other ways but I still followed it. I was sure I was going to be late when I got caught behind a dump truck for like 8 miles.   I was going crazy.   I finally decided to go around it and picked up speed a little.   I got to the exit I needed and was surprised how quickly I got to Oxford.   I found Nardelli’s quickly (I must have put the wrong number in to GPS because it wasn’t w...

Dear Mom, Happy Friday!  Its been a pretty busy day and I am just going to take it easy tonight.  I know most Friday nights I do anyway but tonight I just might write letters and update stuff on the computer. I got a lot done at work and managed to get a new piece of furniture.  its a wooden cabinet/slots for me to sort mail into.  The shelves have to still be put in but that is going to be done next week.  The cabinet came from Compliance department and it outlived its usefulness. It was a little hectic in my office for a short time as they moved one or two things out and moved the other back in. As I was planning my time at the breast cancer selling activity I emailed Liz to see what time she wanted me at the house to go to Chris and Jessicas for the party.  We are not leaving until after 1 so I can stay until 1 there.   Once we had that figured out Liz extended an invitation  if my Thanksgiving plans with Jim somehow fall thro...

August 1, 2013 Dear Friends, Happy Thursday!  I hope you all had a pleasant one.  The weather was overcast and rainy in the late day.  It wasn’t too bad as I headed to the dentist for the implant installation. I want to wish everyone who is celebrating a birthday to a great one.  May you have many incredible memories.  That should cover all the birthdays I know I will be missing today and this week.  We are having pizza on Friday for two people on the team.. Despite being a little stiff this morning (not sure why as I have been taking my meds regularly).  The morning seemed to pass quickly.  I finished yesterday’s mail when today’s came early and light.That enabled me to work on the stuff I couldn’t get to yesterday. The implant installation didn’t go as planned.  They were not fitting the way he wanted them so he is sending them back and molding them together.  This will take two weeks.  I had warned Mom before I left th...

Dear Debra:     Oh My God!  It is after 8 and the temperature are in the 80s .  I can’t deal with this.  OF course you would wonder why I am still in jeans!  I don’t wear shorts that often and the only pair I have are used for sleeping.  Yes I said sleeping.     As expected I didn‘t do very much.  The laundry was done by late afternoon, Mom went to church and  when she came home we had a couple of visitors and a late dinner. Our friend Tessa brought over stuffed tomatoes to go with our dinner so stayed for a short visit.  While Mom made our burgers Ethel stopped by for a visit and then ended up having dinner with us.     Mom sent me an email from the Lawyer who will be a trustee for me and the house and in that email he suggested to Mom that another lawyer we know will be a back-up trustee.  Anyway he suggested that we meet and have a talk.  As I read it I couldn’t help but get the feeling he ...

Dear Debra: It is now several hours since our last face to face session. I already miss you. The afternoon went by without incident. I made a concerted effort to stay away from Diva. It was rather easy as she had the rest of the afternoon off but I get the feeling she knows that everyone and I do mean EVERYONE dislikes her. Well probably not everyone I can probably and safely say there are others who just shake their heads and ignore her. The work volume was pretty good. I was able to finish it before leaving the office. I do have the readdress mail. That seems to be never ending and grows a little each day. However, it will never grow to the point in which it makes me anxious, crazy again. I have made several promises to get help if it does. I have to admit when ever I come to our sessions my whole schedule goes south. Its not that I am blaming you it’s just something I recognize. It’s an observation more than anything. I know I probably told you that I had plans to keep ...

Well it is after 6:30 and I have been home since 5. I have had dinner and will be getting ready for tomorrow. I really should have been paying attention to the work today. I did the work but it is not completely done. I have to still open today’s lockbox and sort it. Through out the day I spent time on line and ate a lot of candy. By the end of the day my attention span was non existent and I had to push myself. Gayle caught me chatting with someone at least 8 times. I didn’t leave the office until 4:30 or so. I made sure I called Debra around 3 because I wasn’t feeling that well. My knee was hurting and I had a headache. I will have to make it up to her very soon. I really got annoyed with some ding bat who posted to the snail-mail-pals list yesterday in a very obnoxious threatening way about getting invites to groups. She threatened the entire group saying she would report anyone and make sure they won’t be able to create groups ever again. Well several people including m...

Mom came home around 6 last night just as the sky grew dark. She told me it was a lot of fun watching the bidding for one door going for $3,000. She even had an opportunity to speak to the artist. Apparently the artist painted all the bridges from North Street down the Wepawaug River. It isn’t a big river and I don’t even know where it starts but I know it goes out to the Harbor by the Library. She said the dress code varied from well dressed to short and short. She says the Former Miss Connecticut Heidy Voight who was the mistress of ceremony introduced her as the Milford Living treasure and not as chairperson of Bridges. I told her that will probably be the way she will be introduced for the rest of her life. She argued that her “term” as living treasure would be up soon. Mom did tell me she saw a baby deer on the side of the road on New Haven Avenue. We both felt bad. That was about the time I told her I would have loved to see a deer in our back yard but it isn’t going to ...

Good Morning it is after 7 am and it is a sunny morning. I will be leaving shortly to feed the kitty. Mom is just getting up now. She is going to a meeting in East Haven and I am not sure how long that will be for. Around 9 I started getting into the “rid of papers” that I have here. One of them was the file on Linda Bohanon. She was a pal who had died in April. I just realized I haven’t written a number of pals. My list is getting longer. The rest of the day I did a lot of the pen pal stuff which annoyed Mom. She asked me at dinner what kind of progress I was making. I could feel the blood boiling because it’s not her place to tell me what to do. From the time she left for the meeting and after I fed the cat I did some work but not a whole lot. She said she would help me as much as I needed but I still don’t think it’s a good idea.

I got up around 6:30 and watched TV until 9 Mom started to bug me about the cleaning. I also was talking to my pal Janet about some pen pal stuff. When Mom found out she got really upset. It really annoyed me because she has these ideas on what pen paling is or isn’t. I told her I wouldn’t be giving out my number and quite frankly she does have a point. She basically feels I shouldn’t be calling people I will never lay eyes on. I had my appointment with Debra today. I was a little bit late because of traffic of course but I also left the house late too. I told her of the events in the last few days and about my birthday after the session I went to the bank to get money because I parked in the parking garage (and that was outrageous too). The ride home was uneventful. When I got home the yard had been mowed and the thing is it was just done before my birthday. Mom is a little anxious about that. She also did some shopping while I was out. The rest of the afternoon I was clea...

It is after 10 am in the morning I have been doing the work, and surfing the net. A wonderful thing has occurred. The discussion about stipulations on pen pals is going strong again and it is wonderful because the general consensus is “there shouldn’t be any stipulations”. It started yesterday or the day before. I love it and feel better every time I see positive stuff about it. Mom has been without a car since I think Tuesday night. It has been in the shop getting repairs and Mom’s afraid it will be expensive. Today she was home and the last I heard trained on how to sand stuff. Maureen M’s Husband has been painting the kitchen, Dining room, and the front porch for the last few days. Last night I wrote letters to a pen pal and updated some fiels. Tonight I have a meeting and then I have to make sure the blue room is in order. Mom says Ann is coming up this weekend.

Hey everyone it is 8 at night on Thursday. I am still clearing out my mailbox and making sure I don’t lose stuff that’s important. I am going to try and go to bed in about 2 hours. Last night was a long one because I wasn’t feeling good and slept for two hours and then got up and got on the computer until 2 or 3. Today went really well. I managed to get a lot done. When I mentioned it to Patti she said to me it is a sense of accomplishment. All that’s really left now is the Connecticare redirects and the bulk mail. The regular mail and the charts are included in that chore. Melinda G came by for a visit. She is in town for a visit with all of her friends. I think her family is all in Arizona with her. She looked awesome. I hope to see her again soon. Mom had a legislative breakfast with all the state representatives and her fellow Mental Health Clinic colleagues. They were discussing funding for programs for those patients who are coming out of the hospital and into the c...

Good morning and Happy Easter everyone. I was just heading to bed and thought I would write a quick entry. I can’t seem to sleep so I have been watching Van Helsing and the Ten Commandments. Yesterday was a pretty good day. I spent the morning doing a little of the laundry and spending most of the morning doing letters. Mom went and had her hearing aids adjusted. I have a feeling just as the Dr. told her that these hearing aids will not do it for her. Lorraine and Aunt Ann arrived her just about 12:30 quarter of 1. We went out to lunch to Kimberly Diner over by the police station. Mom had an omelet and Lorraine had waffle with sausage, I had a cheeseburger w/ lettuce and Tomato. Anne had French toast. Mom made comment when I was ordering and I told her not to do it. She would also bring it up later when they left. “Oh you shouldn’t have gotten such a big lunch’. When someone else is paying for it you shouldn’t get an expensive meal (it was $6). When she heard that she rec...

Good morning! It is after 8 on chilly sunny Sunday. I have been up for a while now. I got the papers so Mom wouldn’t have to go out and I cleaned up the sink (she must not have been feeling well last night she rarely leaves stuff like that). Mom’s back is bothering her again. She walked down the stairs gingerly and very slowly. When I finished the sink I told her to call me if she wanted me to do something for her. She says she has an appointment to see the Doctor tomorrow but she is not sure if she will keep it. She has a bunch of meetings to attend that she can’t get out of. The way I see it is if she is driving and something happens she won’t be going to the meetings anyway. Then again she was driving fine yesterday it was the whole getting in and out of the car that was uncomfortable. I got an email from Telka a couple of days ago that I just saw yesterday. She defended her thesis and it was accepted. She is now Telka diFate PhD. She will be graduating on May 10, 2008. ...

Good Morning everyone! Just as I was going to bed last night the Nor Easter came through and brought wind, rain, and ice but not a lot of snow. I was just watching Channel 8 news and snow must have fallen for places like Meriden because the plows were out there. Actually one just left here ten minutes ago. The wind is still going strong right now. Mom is downstairs about to have her meds and her coffee and is waiting on her newspapers. They haven’t come yet. Later on this morning she will be going to Madison to Mass at the Mercy Center and then going to Hamden for the Knitwit Club party. That party won’t be starting until about 4. I heard from Aunt Rosemary last night. She sent a thank you for the e-card I sent. They are all fine. The kids are all coming home for Christmas. She says it’s the only time they get to see each other. She really loves to see Chloe. I sent her an email while writing this entry. I told her what we were doing for the Christmas and what we are doing ...

Evening everyone, it is almost 11 pm and I am just about to hit the sack. Mom went about 45 minutes ago. It has been a very long day for both of us. I went to bed at about 3 am this morning and slept for nearly four hours. I got up again and worked on pen pal and Christmas related projects. I left here for my errands and hair appointment around 9. I made it to the bank, post office, hair salon, gas station, card store all in record time. I was back by 11 am and having brunch. Mom was doing her thing and later went out for awhile. I got a lot of mail today. I got pen pal letters, holiday cards, and a letter from Dr Oscar Hills. He was letting me know that he could no longer just renew prescriptions without seeing me on regular basis. In the past he would meet for patients who were “stable”. Because of regulations he can no long do that and will be implementing a new appointment. The 15 minute Medication Check. He will see me ever three months for 15 minutes at $125! I show...

Hey everyone it is after 10:30 on this windy and partially cloudy December 1st. I have been up a few hours now. I have started laundry, written in my Pen Pal Blog made replies to The American Pen Pal Club . I also answered some of my group emails. I have started a letter to Lisa F in TN. I am hoping I can write a few more letters before going out to the Holiday show at Parson’s Complex for Beth El. The show starts @ 7:30 and will be for an hour and half. WTNH-Channel 8 Anchor Ted Koppy will be Master of Ceremony. I can’t help but think of Ted Koppel when I hear this guys’ name. He is very good at his job so I am looking forward to seeing him. Last year a local radio DJ was the host (I can’t think of his name now). Well I have to get going. I just realized I need to go to the bank and get some money out for tonight and gifts.

Good Morning, I couldn’t sleep anymore so I decided to get up and get online. I received an email from a guy who has a pen pal blog. I told him I was interested in participating and having a newsletter. He had written me back on Saturday twice. I had missed both of them. I felt terrible. I sent him my address but I really hope I am not getting myself into trouble. The newsletter will start in December. I did make a request I would answer women only. I hope he understands. Well I have been here nearly two hours. I was a little late leaving the house. We had some serious frost over night and it took a few minutes to defrost the car. When I drove by the New Haven Register their clock read 39 degrees. Whoa. I got to the office by 10 after 8 Lou from GoFor was here and left me the charts. I had about 11 charts to deliver and it took an hour. After that I came back and started working on the lockbox. I sorted and delivered Fridays. Then I worked on today’s. I suspect I will be able to finish...

Wow today went by fast. I got up at 10 of 7 and had to rush around to get ready for work. I managed to leave the house at 7:30. I got to the garage at a decent hour and to the office on time. Started the day off with making copies for Ann and then the charts came and did those. After that was done I started on readdress mail and then the lockbox. Some how I didn’t get it all done (of course the real reason was the fact I was online today). At lunch time I went to the bank and on the way there ran into Lou from Gofor Courier Service. He thought I was crazy for walking from George Street to there. I told him I do it frequently. After the bank I came back and started working on the charts and the rest of the mail. Some of us were able to get left over sandwiches. Marianne Dess-Santoro was there and I hope I didn’t make a fool of myself. I walked backwards right into Jocelyn while telling Marianne I am not supposed to be eating chips. The sun was out for most of the afternoon but...