Short Day today

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 appointment in the center of town.  I am not worried and feel everything should be in order.  I don’t think I had to do anything for this appointment but while am there I will go to the blood lab next door and get the bloodwork done for Dr. Sonia.



 I was quite pleased to find an email from my pen pal Karyn in Colorado yesterday.  She seems to be having the same kind of weather that we are here in CT.  She did tell me the Golden Corral in her area closed a while back.  I had told her the news that the only one in CT closed last week.  I managed to write a longer email to her and told her about work, the weather, and Halloween.  Like everything else I have to update her files as well.



Mamma R is on the east coast right now and is with family.  She got in mid-morning yesterday.  For a moment I panicked.  I thought she would be heading here first and the house is certainly not ready for guests.  Then I realized she said the 13th so I have a couple of days.

Slow Sunday

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 thing.  I did speak to one of her admins “Kasi” and she said they haven’t been paired up and if it gets to be too much I can delete the comments. 

Well the bells are going off so I better get going.  I have bingo at 2 and have to be there by 1:30.  I will go to church later. 

A Lovely Day

 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 where it said it was) and picked up the order and included two parfaits.  A short time later I made it to Joanie’s.

When I arrived I called her to ask her where I should park (she sublets a basement apartment from a family (not hers) so as I was trying to back out I hit a tree.  No damage to either.  I realized I could go forward and pull up and around to her car.

 She met me at the door and we greeted each other and I told her of my experience with the tree.  We sat down and began our lunch and for the next 3 and half hours we talked and laughed.  We talked about work and we acknowledged it isn’t easy to chat there.  She didn’t know the latest gossip so I caught her up on that. 

It was nearly 4:30 when I left.  We made tentative plans to do this sort of thing again.  I got home by 5 and was tired and hungry.  The kitties were happy to see me-pretty much.

I sat down and ate the rest of my sandwich and watched TV for a little while.  After doing a few things I came upstairs and ended up in bed and sky fell asleep at my elbow.

I woke up after 10 I knew it was as the lights were out.  I did my nightly constitutional and came back.  I was able to go back to sleep for a while but did get up a few times.

This morning was early I managed to get up at 6 and feed the cats and have some coffee.  About mid-morning I got messages from my Facebook family telling me that they were getting friend request messages.  In other words I was hacked so I changed the password and posted messages.  One of my cousins was contacted and asked for his phone number and gave it to him. It should be okay now.  I am really angry this happened. 

I managed to finish a letter to my pal Pam in Ok.  It is two pages long.  I have a few more to do and catch up on laundry and other things.

Dear Mom

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 through.  She also reiterated about Christmas and said there may be a possibility the kids may not make it from South Carolina if the weather is bad.  I reminded her that she had invited me on some level (and she remembered too) to the Christmas stuff as well.  I also told her I hadn’t really thought that far ahead about Christmas. She also says she didn’t want jim to be alone but it wasn’t her job to make that an issue.  I may have told her he is doing the AA marathon but I would ask the next time I spoke with him.  I guess she wanted me to know that her feelings would not be hurt if I didn’t spend the holidays with her.

I actually did hear from Jim today.  First via text promising me copies of the pictures he took of us when he and Emily were here at the end of september.  Good to his word I found them in my inbox.  Here they are:  

Of course I will post them to Facebook if he wants me to.

The weather was absolutely beautiful today.  I wasn’t really able to be out in it and enjoy it except for walking to the car.  I actually don’t go outside much unless for meetings or errands.  It was in the 70’s and its going to drop ten degrees or so.  Tomorrow and the rest of the weekend is supposed to be pretty nice.  I heard and read that by the middle of next week we may have a few days of rain.  It maybe time to bring out the heavier coats.

I received a lovely letter from Amoreattea today.  I still have to write her from her last letter last week.  I have been really not keeping up with the writing these last few weeks.

Well I am going to go some stuff.  I will come back later and say good night...

Love ya.

Kate

Dear Friends

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 that I may not be up to having dinner tonight because of the activity.    i was really hoping this would be finished by now but it will soon.

There has been a two inch red spot on my where the infusion was put in.  Its warm and tender (not in a good way).  I asked Denise about it she suggested I call the doctor but Mom says she got the same thing when she had it done.  So I don’t know what to do about that.  My legs had been bothering me all afternoon too.          sigh

I called Mom and told her the news.  She informed me that we had no water and that we needed to go out tonight because our friend Gayle lost her mother.  I had to take another route home into West Haven and then walk from there.  I chatted with the construction crew who had to stand around until the water main pipe was repaired.  Some guy was taking pictures of it.  I have no idea why but I thought he was really a mess.  

It is now after 6:30 we have had dinner but still no water.  It really is going to be a lot more time before we have it back on.  So we are not going to the services.  There will be another one tomorrow.

OH I got some emails from Dr. T.  It was an activities reminder for events and meetings that are coming up in the next month.  i Have to make calls to members and remind them of  them.

I got a letter from J Viers today.  Its the second one in two weeks.  I don’t know why she has started mailing them when we have been emailing each other for a while now.  Her other one is somewhere under this massive pile of papers.  I will have to write her soon.

Since we are not going I think I am going to watch TV for a while and then hit the sack.

TTYL,

Kate

Dear Debra

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 is ‘laying down the law” so to speak and putting me in my place.

I have an issue that has risen.  There is this woman who I have been corresponding with as a pen pal.  Awhile back I asked that we stop writing for awhile.  Then some time ago we started emailing and we have been semi-regularly.  Twice this week she sent me Snail mail. I just emailed her last week.  I don’t know if Mom will    

Appreciate this or not.  Should I tell her to go back to email?  She used to send me various holiday cards quarterly.  I just don’t know why she thought it was okay to do this.  Every so often I send email updates to her as the newsletters I used to do.      I guess there is nothing I can do about it.  There is nothing harmful about these but it is frustrating.

I am kind of tired so maybe I should just go to bed.                     

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 working on my room tonight but as U expected I am now tired. It is far too hot and it’s been a fairly long day so I probably will put it off until Friday.



The rain storm that was predicted for this afternoon did come. It stopped just as I was heading to the bus stop and then started up when I got home. I was glad because I didn’t have my rain jacket.



When I got home I found Mom making a cake for tomorrow nights district meeting. She needed to run to the store before she went out to the opera with her Opera Buddy Stella. She told me how her day went and it sounded like fun. She did a site visit for Area Agency on Aging over on Sylvan Avenue. She was impressed with it.



I recently picked up CS Lewis’s Book “The Magician’s Nephew” Book 1 of the Chronicles of Narnia. I have gone through two and a half chapters already and find it very interesting. Its funny I never knew that was the first book of the Series. I always thought “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” was the first book. That’s probably because My English Teach in High School jumped to that one.



We are still figuring out a way to catch the latest Woodchuck. It apparently walked into the trap we have out back but not far enough to spring the door and it turned around and came out again. Mom was thinking about putting peanut butter out again and I reminded her that the first time we did that every freaking critter ate it and got trapped in the trap.



Earlier this week I contacted a member of the pen pal groups I moderate and asked if she was interested in the envelope of Friendship Books I have and she said yes. So I will be sending them to Canada this week. I think she lives in St Johnsbury. I have been trying to rid of them now for a while. When circumstances change I will get new Friendship books. When I start up again I plan on having a blog about it.





Well it is getting to be dinner time and I am hungry. I will close out for now. Have a great day and be safe in this weather.



Me

A long Day

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 myself responded that she should go to the individuals and not bring it to the group. She was more obnoxious this morning. I told her that she ever threatened me again her ass would be in jail. She whined later that we should give her some slack because she was pregnant. She left the group by early afternoon.

I did join another pen pal group it was based on one that closed unceremoniously in the last year. I also made a comment when people comment that it was wrong for the owner to not tell anyone and give it to others within the group. I told them an owner can do what ever they wanted.

So you can see that I was online far too much today. I can’t tomorrow. I can’t be late for the poll standing.

I am also feeling very stupid for two reasons. The letter that Claudia sent to Mom and my ID holder that holds my license, Work ID, and my Health insurance card are all still at work. I couldn’t put my hands on either of those and I am mostly likely going to need them tomorrow.

I am all set for the flu shot. I walked with Marlene S to Harkness Hall and got it done. It was free and to all employees.

It really didn’t take too long but it did throw my schedule off a touch. I just have to finish the lockbox from today.

Well I think I am going to try and get some letters written or at least printed. Then I can mail them tomorrow.

Mom had a great time last night

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 happen. Mom said it could happen some time.

While she was at the auction I spent the time working on the one pen pal file mixed in with surfing the net and watching TV. I also made some phone calls to Patrick and to Liz. Neither of them made fun of me which was nice. They all were glad I wasn’t hurt.

Around 5 I had the chicken and rice for dinner. I didn’t eat all of it because there was much more to it then I thought. I put the rest in a container and offered it to Mom but she said no that she would find something else. I think she ended up having a hot dog or two.

I am happy to report that I had only a miner headache and just a little bit of muscle pull but no major aches as I did Saturday. I did take the ibuprofen and before going to bed I put a little Ben Gay on the back of the leg.

As I suspected The Big E Blog posted an entry. It sounds like they had a good season entertainment wise but I am not sure how they did economically though. I hope they continue to blog for next year. I think we can expect the blog to start in July of 2009.

The rest of the night I worked on the pen pal files and updated my journal files as well. I took a shower because I was feeling a little sweaty. I tried to go to bed by 9. I didn’t fall asleep until way after that. I slept with the window open and it felt pretty good.

There was a little dicey moment on one of the lists. You see Rhonda G was sending out invitations to groups she apparently opened and one girl brought it to Liz Crasten’s list and asked Rhonda (not by name) to stop sending them. One of the moderators named Rebecca said she would handle it. Laura Lee also commented on it and I sent her an email saying that Sara (the complain tent) should have dealt with it privately. I also posted that all she had to do was delete them. I had been getting them but she wants participation in swaps and I am just not going to do that. I went back on line just before 10 and there was one more response another person was confirming Rhonda’s Identity.


Today I see Debra a little after 4. I will tell her about my accident on Wednesday. I will tell her how the week went and what the next week will bring.

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.

September 5, 2008

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 cleaning and watching some TV and answering emails. It was about five when I went to feed Junior but she was no where to be found. I hope she will be there in the AM.

When I came home I relaxed a bit and then we had dinner. Mom grilled steak for steak sandwiches and had home made eggplant recipe from the paper yesterday. It was pretty good.

After dinner I started back with the cleaning and emptied out some stuff and checked emails. I talked with Aunt Betty. She is doing well but she thought she was talking to my cousin Kathleen.

It was about 7 when I got a call from Dave. His father was found dead this morning. He died in his sleep. Dave was in Florida on one of his trips and came back tonight. (He was working). His sisters got some call from neighbors and the youngest one went and checked in on him and found him dead...

Now that I have finished the closet I am tired and going to bed. See you all in the morning.
.

July 31, 2008

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.

Thankful for Today

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 communities. From what I understand these programs help clients that need it to survive in the communities. Apparently there isn’t any funding and the providers were promised funding. I guess Speaker James Amann will be starting up a task force to find ways for non profits to not have to come and ask for funding every year. Mom was up there until 12 and came home by 1.

She said she didn’t do very much. She made a cake and fresh tomato sauce with the remaining yet slightly wilted tomatoes. We had rigatoni with pork loin. It was delicious. I have had two pieces of cake so far and now I am staying up here instead of going down again. Now she has fallen asleep in front of the TV.

Kim D came over and gave us the heads up that Susan F flaked on her and Sean for parking in her driveway and they were being nice about it until she got loud. Kim wanted us to know just in case mom’s car got tagged for being parked in the wrong direction. I can’t explain it but apparently it’s an ordinance that on one side of the street you have to be facing the opposite direction of the street?

I had my letter to Vicki Sampson returned because the address was not good. Luckily there was a new one also on it so I printed out a new envelope and will mail it tomorrow. I haven’t been up to writing any one else tonight. Maybe over the weekend I will be there.

Okay the Beautiful harm and Garden emails are deleted.

I see I got two emails from Aunt Betty in Texas back in march and February. The one in February was clearly political. It was comparing taxes during the two different administrations. Something tells me Aunt Betty is a Republican. I will have to ask Mom about it. The one in March is a Novena. I don’t do those very often.

Easter 2008

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 recanted that one.

When we got back the ladies sat out back and chatted until an old neighbor of Ann’s from Grassland Road stopped by. It was just a little after that Lorraine left. We said goodbye to her and both Mom and I had the impression that Lorraine didn’t want to see Billy. Apparently she was a little annoyed that Billy wants her to come back up here to pick up Ann. She also didn’t like some of the other Alternatives (like taking a train). Ann is nearly 90 years old.

By the time Lorraine had left my foot was getting a little achy. I decided to sit and watch TV for a bit. When I got bored I came back here and wrote some more letters and updated the files.

I don’t remember what time Billy came but he looked good and we talked about the political climate, the religious climate, and the budgets of both Connecticut and Massachusetts.

I can’t remember what time they all left but after that Mom did some cooking and I went to the post office. I was also going to the card shop but I never made it. I haven’t gotten a card for Mom.

I had dinner around 6 Mom did some work on the computer and then around 7:30 she went to Easter Vigil mass at St Agnes. Apparently they had the fire alarm go off twice. Mom didn’t come home until 9:30 or so.

Shortly after Mom left for church Liz and Nelson stopped by with a plant for mom. I made the mistake of telling Liz that I tripped yesterday. She was making assumptions that my illness (lupus) is at fault or something is at fault. It really pissed me off too. They didn’t stay long because she was tired and had to get to bed for work tomorrow.


I spent more time online and did a little ranting here. I went downstairs and watched more TV. I think it was nearly 10 when I tried to go to sleep but couldn’t so I watched more TV.

Mom just went to bed. I should too.

February 24, 2008

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. I will be getting her a card and sending it off to her this week.

I think I will jot off a note to Debra. She won’t get it until probably five minutes before I get there on Tuesday.

Well now that it is almost 9 I thought I would finish this entry. I am really tired so I don’t know if I will write a long entry.

Well it is getting to be 9 and I wanted to pop in before going to bed.

The day went pretty well. I got to bingo at decent time and got to visit with the residents. Virgie was there for second week in a row and it looks like she will be there next week. I read the article that Frances sent me in her letter. The one entitled ‘seniors’ and ‘senior travel’. I do admit the session seemed to drag at one point and I was anxious to get home.

After Bingo I went to church. I was later than I thought. I have to fix clock in my car. It is so way off on the time. I sat in the side of the vestibule/alter. After communion I went to Costco.

The lines were out to the road. It seems a woman locked herself out of her PT cruiser. It caused quite a back up. I had to wait for about 5 minutes and it took maybe another five to get the gas. I was home by quarter of 1.

The rest of the afternoon Mom and I did our own thing. I had lunch, watched TV, surfed the net and wrote some letters. I didn’t really write that many. I even continued to empty my mail box.

I helped Mom prepare dinner. It was the corned beef and vegetables. While she prepared the corned beef I got the vegetables ready. We ended up eating around 5:30. After dinner I watched more TV and wrote a letter of introduction. I am going to bed now.

The Nor Easter

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 today.

Well I am going to see how many more of the cards and ecards I can send out before getting ready for Bingo.

It is now after 11 at night. I am heading to bed. Today was a good day. It was still wet windy rainy and at times snowy and icy. I did get a couple more ecards written and updated the pen pal files but in other resepcts didn’t get all that much done again. As far as Christmas cards are concerned.

I think I left here after 9 and headed to Mediplex. I got to Mediplex and started setting up for the bingo and coffee. I decided that the residents could have their coffee while playing.

While I was setting up the nursing supervisor called and said that a group called and said they wouldn’t be doing the singing. Then Natalie got a call from Dottie Brower. I was surprised. She was taken aback when she found out it was me. I was civil to her but business like. When Natalie came in I gave her the messages.

Bingo went exceedingly well. Sam had ot be spoken to once by Natalie and he behaved the rest of the time. We started the games by 10:20 and played until 11:30. I called Telka to check to see if we were still going to delivery (I wasn’t sure). I let Natalie know that I called and I would call her back to let her know either way.

Driving home wasn’t bad at all. I got home talked with Telka and then relaxed for a bit and then discovered the house was cold. I couldn’t do anything about it at that point. I worked on the Christmas/Pen pal stuff. But the computer was going slow.

As I was leaving I couldn’t find things and I was getting frustrated a lot. I did manage to find stuff and left for the nursing home. On the way there passed Mom on the road. She had been in Madison. I stopped at Dunkin for some hot chocolate and then headed to Mediplex.

The girls were there and helping Telka unload the car. We got set up and put our coats away and took some pictures. It was nearly 1:30 when we started and two hours later we finished. We stopped and talked with some of the residents and had pictures taken. When we finished I came home.

It was almost 4. Mom was still home. Her party had been cancelled. She said we didn’t have heat for a bit. Thee was some device that oil tanker installer put on so if it leaked it would turn off. Well apparently air got into it and switched it off. It was taken care off and it was much warmer in the house.

Mom decided to do some shopping and I took a nap. After my nap I tried to wrk on the computer and watched TV.

Mom came home around 5 and we got dinner of cheeseburgers. They were not the greatest. WE watched TV and then I came upstairs to do some more Christmas cards and stuff but instead took a bath and watched TV.

Now I am going to bed.

I am exhausted

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 showed the letter to Mom and she asked me who he was. I explained to her who he was. WE discussed about informing Aetna. Then I rethought it over and don’t think I have to.

After I ate brunch I went back to working on some more pen pal/holiday cards before I left for the nursing home. I got there after 12:30 and Telka was having the residents brought down and the lunch room cleared out. PJ was there and in my eyes being difficult and rude. We were scheduled for one pm and she was telling us oh no…you will have to start 1:30 the dining room needs to be cleared out and cleaned up.

The Sing-a-long went very well. The girls did well despite the fact they did annoy me when I asked htem per Telka to help take the residents back. They just stared at me like assholes. I tried to tell Telka this and she said “they haven’t done it before”. BS. Yeah they have.

Actually I think this was just one more thing that was agitating me because all day long things bothered me and got me annoyed. I even hurt my thumb. I caught it in the door to my desk and it started to bleed.

When I came home Mom was wrapping some gifts for her parties and getting ready for her dinner date with her friend Martha. I just worked on the pen pal/Christmas stuff and watched TV.

Now I am going to bed.

A Windy Saturday

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.

I woke up really early today

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 it today if I don’t keep on the net too much.

Oh cool we can dress up on Wednesday! Tony D just gave me a flyer for us with the announcement. I have no idea what I am going to dress up as. I may not be able to with this short notice.

Well it is quarter of 12 and I am back working at the lockbox. The post office mail was very light and there was no more mail for me in the cashier’s office. This is a good thing. That means I can do as much as I can to get this place in order.

Well I went out at lunch time and got some peanut butter, candy (for Ann and Gayle), hot pockets, a pasta dish and a couple of Cadbury Eggs for Christmas. I had one hot pocket and gave the other one to Jocelyn.

I have already done the charts for tomorrow. I have ordered 14 charts which is a good thing considering this week is month end. I hope that I get a small amount or none.

I saw the post man for downstairs and he says there is a lot of mail down there for me. Aw pooh. I don’t want to get it today. I will get it first thing tomorrow.

I talked with Mom a couple of times today. The first time she told me I forgot her plants outside. She wanted me to bring them in before they got destroyed by the cold. Neither of us counted on the frost happening. I told her I would do it when I got home. She had errands to run and then she would get ready for the meeting tonight. When I called the second time she was still doing errands. She was also trying to figure out what I was going to have dinner. She will have a plat for me to nuke when I get home.

Well it is nearly 8 pm and I am in my pajamas. I have been watching Little People Big World and I tell you that little Jake really needs to get slapped. I know his father is “a little person” but that kid still needs to maintain some freaking respect.

Mom is at the Bridges Annual Meeting. She left here a little after 5 and she looked awesome. She always does when she goes out. I had dinner of ham and potatoes and made a sandwich out of it. I also had some pita chips and more bread. I also had some potato chips too.

I have gotten another email from Joe and he told me he would put my address and looking only for female pen pals. I was going to ask him if there will be a fee but I didn’t feel comfortable about asking.

I was looking over my mail today and among them was some TIAA-Cref updates, the AARP Credit card statement, and a DMV emissions late fee letter. I will get that out tomorrow. I probably could get the Registration payment out too but I don’t want to yet.

Mom came home around 9 from the meeting. She sent it went very well. She has a new gavel and will leave it here. It is made of wood. She says that Beverly Streit-Kefalas was there and taking pictures.

Mom also made mention that Beverly wants to meet with the both of us to discuss “the future” when Mom isn’t around. If I sit here long enough I will freak but I asked Mom if she had some concerns right now and she said no. I asked her about thinking that the Bercury’s were her lawyers and she said no that Beverly has done her will. At this point there is no reason for me to panic or get overwhelmed.

Well I have updated one calendar for birthdays. I can do the others tomorrow. Two of them are for relatives for tomorrow. They are my Cousin Shelley and our Uncle Ray. I hope they have a great time.

Oh no. Liz C in NY lost her job again. She says she was laid off. It is after 6 days. They said she didn’t have enough experience in the job they originally hired her for so they moved her to another position.

Well it is getting late and I am getting tired. I think its time I hit the sack….see you tomorrow.

Today Whizzed on by

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 it was still chilly. I was pretty cold all day for that matter. I was glad to be going home when I did.

After work I went to the post office and got the money order for the phone bill and then came home. I did have a little incident I nearly drove into the other lane and some bitch beeped at me and got rude. I was really annoyed. I was really glad to be going home.

When I got home Mom was dressed for a meeting she was going to at 5. Our pork chop dinner was in the oven and I would be eating later on and she would eat when she got home.

While I was waiting for dinner I read Val Anna Sutherland’s letter. It is very cool. She is an actress/teacher and is married to a man 30 years older than she is (she is 52). She has been pen paling since she was 12.

I watched Charmed and had my dinner. Afterwards I got online for a bit and then back downstairs to watch Jurassic Park. Mom came home by 8. I had the kitchen cleared up by then.

I got a message via Mom from Emily today. I sent her a quick one and will get one to Jamie and Kristina soon. She is really cute. I guess Mom sent her an email and Emily was replying.

Well I have to get to bed. I have a long day tomorrow and I need my sleep.