KateP's musings

It has been 30 years since my Dad passed away from a myriad of illnesses.  Most prevalent was (to my memory) kidney failure, but he had a host of other issues.  Lupus, High Cholesterol, a plastic aorta that was rupturing.  He spent the last few months of 1988 in the hospital.  Stressful beyond belief.  For everyone.  I think of him a lot but don’t go to the cemetery much. I have many memories of him as well as pictures around that brings on memories.  He was buried two days before my Mother’s and Brother’s Birthday and my Brother’s wedding anniversary. When his anniversary comes up I don’t usually post to social Media.  The memory usually is different for both Jim and Liz.  I am pretty sure the next time I see Liz she will bring up events that happened around then and how she felt victimized.  Jim might be a little more understanding and reflect on how he behaved. So today was another day of single digit temperatures in the mornin...

The snow was lovely this morning.   The streets were already plowed and the sidewalks looked like they were plowed.   The temps got into the mid-40s and snow was melting all morning.   It will continue until the temps drop to thirty overnight.     The snow will be gone by Wednesday according to the weather reports.   The rain tomorrow should help it if it doesn’t get really cold.   It looks like we will have rain for most of the week. It’s funny when I saw the report that we could see snow well into spring.   I figured it was for the entire country.   I should have read further.   I bet it was for the mountains in the Midwest to West coast.   Maybe we won’t get any more snow.   Over the years we have had snow well into April.   I think I saw a Golden Eagle today.   It was spotted in the Marsh over the Oyster River out back by the stores.   It flew over to the beach and back over the house.   I...

I had been playing solitaire online on a new free website called World of Solitaire and I got a message around 9:15 from Peapod letting me know they would be arriving soon.   The driver did an excellent job.   Even without reading the instructions.   He parked out front and had everything.   WE talked about the driveways. I sent an email to Debra to let her know how the weekend was going.   I also wanted to let her know the payment for Friday’s session should be arriving to her by the end of the week.   I also had let her know that I have an appointment at 5 the same day of our session. Well I signed up for two swaps…they are due by September 30 th .   Kasi explained the partners haven’t been assigned and not enough people signed up yet. After a several week absence from the neighborhood I saw Mr. Fox.   I had been talking to Don and Kim and her daughter and we looked over towards the sewer station property he was just standing there ...

I got a call from Sis last night on the way home from her meetings and she had driven by the street and so she decided to call me. She wanted to know how I was doing and I asked if she had gotten my texts. She said no.  It turns out I have been sending text messages to the house landline!  HEADDESK!  We talked about getting a new cable provider as she is tired of the one we all seem to have.  She encouraged me to take a look at it as well.  It is Frontier.  I don’t remember the price she quoted me for her but it might be a little more for me.  She wanted me to look at some package that I currently have and see if it is good idea.  Everyone around here has been shocked at the prices Comcast has raised. The meeting went very well.  It was quite busy from the get go.  The girls were all given a job to do.  Some of them had to put the final touches on the bird houses and the rest had to fill out their intro cards for the fashio...

IT was much cooler last night and it felt good.  It continued to be beautiful all day.  It is in the mid 70’s and will get into the 80’s but it won’t be as humid as it has been for the last few days. After the storm yesterday afternoon the moon was out and it looked like a full moon to me.  Tonight is actually the real full Moon. Work was good.  In the morning before my appointment worked on refund checks and managed to work on the mail until I left for my Lupus appointment.  Some people are moving to new cubicles, LT is moving to the back of the aisle and MS is moving into her spot.  I love MS!  She is great and now won’t have to travel far to get the returned refund checks off my desk! One of the Admins Dr. B sent out an email about the results of the “survey” about the new work stations at our new location.  Some of the suggestions that people made will be considered and some will not (no kidding). The appointment went well.  ...

July 18, 2013 Dear Friends, I just got home about thirty minutes ago from the convention.  It was a good one as good as it could be.  There was a mention of Bobcats in a couple of speeches.  I had no idea what they were talking about....until I came home and read this .  Apparently there was a sighting of one in the northern part of the town  (I have yet to read it but OMG!).  I have heard of Bobcats being up north in the Litchfield County but never here. It is still pretty hot and sticky.  It is 86 degrees right now.  Mom is downstairs getting things ready for the lunchtime meeting tomorrow.  She is planning on having salad.  I am not sure what else but that’s it for now.  If she needs me to do something I hope she asks.  In the meantime I am going to get ready for bed. Tomorrow is going to be a very hectic day.  Everything going on at once (all afternoon).  I may not get on until late Friday night. Kate ...

I am glad it is Friday.  i have been busy today.   I managed to work on some of the readdress and the lock box (and that was weird too).  The bank that handles our lock box must have had new people working on it because they had opened and stapled the documents and the envelopes together.  It was time consuming to unstaple everything.We had spoken to them about it when we first contracted with them and it has been fine until today.  JB said she would speak to them about it. I met with Debra and we spoke about the holidays and how I respond to things when I feel being judged and criticized and find a way of dealing with it.  it was interesting. When I got back to the office I finished opening the post office mail.  I think the way I did it today took too much time to do it.  It also didn’t help to be online either.  I basically would open a small batch at time sort them and then date them and open the rest.  I should ha...