KateP's musings

I knew I would have a hard time getting to sleep last night.  I tried to get some sleep. Unfortunately all the coffee I had yesterday kept me awake.  I also knew I would be drinking it all day today.  I managed to get Tiger to come up to sleep with us. I had heard her meowing but she never came up so I went to find her.  She was on the couch sleeping so I tried to pick her up.  She didn’t want to be held.  So I put her down and called her and she ended up following me.  She had cuddled up with Sky and stayed there until 4.  Several times they looked at me wondering why I was awake and bothering them.  I could feel them and hear them grooming themselves which only meant they would be getting up soon.   I was chatting with R from work via IM who apparently is another one who stays up late and yet seems to function well at work.  Her philosophy is basically put her earbuds on and work and drink caffeine.  We talked for abo...

As I was sitting at work yesterday working on  the mail my thoughts were drifting to Macungie where my nephew was sitting through his graduation ceremonies.  I wondered if they were indoors because of the rain.  It was pretty likely that was the case there are venues that big for it.  I was having flashbacks to the day I met him.  He was just two when Jim and Claudia brought him home and he had a limp for a while.  He was shy at first but by the fourth time I saw him I think we grew close.  Over the years I watched him grow he was a smart young man.  Any time they came for a visit he always helped Mom make breakfast.  As he got older he didn’t do it as much.   As he got older and his parents divorced he spent a lot of time with his father.  He also had his friends and his sports but he made sure he spent time with Jim.  That might change now that he will be attending Blair Academy in the fall.  I spoke t...

I haven’t written since Tuesday night.  Yesterday now seems like it was very busy for me.  I was late again and had very little sleep.  So anything I wrote probably sound or read like gibberish. I was able to get the mail done in a fairly timely manner and was able to work on other things.  After Work I headed to the store and bought the veggie basket for last night’s meeting.  When I finished with that I went home.   When I arrived Mom was still at one of her meetings and would come home a little while later.  This allowed me to have a bite to eat and relax until it was time to leave for the meeting.  It also allowed me to read/write some more to Jeannette.  It is turning into a 4 page letter (its pretty much the font I used).  I will send as an attachment first. I left the house a little after 6.  I had  already called Roberta and she said she would be there by 7. Telka was just preparing for the meeting. ...

Shortly before 1 am Mom came running out of her room into the bathroom and got sick. I suspect it was the creamed turkey dinner we had. It may have been rich. I don’t know if this has anything with her gall bladder or not. Liz asked me about it some time ago. I couldn’t give her an answer and I am not sure mom did either. Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep last night. I am going to have to get lots of coffee just to keep awake. The 5 and half cups yesterday is what caused me to not sleep to begin with. Mom says Olivia is coming today. The room will be back in some kind of order this week. It allows me to concentrate on other things such as my laundry and other things that I can work on. Okay I just had a frightening experience. I checked my account and for some reason there is no account history and its all zeroes. I haven’t done anything with it since last night. Ok. I am not going to panic much. I am sure it will be back up by 6 am. It better be. I better get ba...

Dear Debra: It is nearly 8 in the morning and I have been out of bed a short time. Enough time to start the laundry and have a cup of coffee, and get some emails read. It is a beautiful sunny morning. It was a cool 65 degrees but it’s expected to get into the 70’s. The percentages regarding the humidity confuse me. I don’t know if 65% is bad, good, or horrible. Does that mean its going to rain? Mom is in her office on the computer. She has ordered tickets for tomorrow’s performance but had difficulties with it. I don’t know how to do that because I rarely if ever order tickets on line. She is going to call the box office later and see what the problem is. I asked her what she was planning on doing and she basically said grocery shopping and her ironing. That will also include what ever comes up. She doesn’t have real solid plans I guess. But neither do I. I just got another batch of emails from the Lupus support email group I have been a part of for a while now. I just...

I woke up early this morning and did a bathroom run when I noticed something in the trap (yes it has been there abut a week now) so I went down and looked at through some binoculars and saw that it was a opossum. I decided I wasn’t going to do it. That is until I saw it become agitated. I got my sneakers on and went out and found a small opossum. It didn’t go into its protection mode (playing dead it just looked at me). I talked with it and opened the door and it ran for the bushes and to the marsh. I went to look up about opossums and found out “they play opossum” only as last resort they would rather run and or be left alone. Since I have been up I printed up my previous entry, surfed the web, and made coffee. I think I am going to look at Jessica’s Baby Shower registry and see where the IL Monticello is located. We haven’t sent our RSVP yet and pretty much don’t have to until next month. It looks like a nice place. It was renovated recently. The pictures look lovely but I will ...

After releasing the second of two raccoons this week from the trap and having enough coffee to make LJ Gibbs proud I was bold enough to take on a fellow passenger who was being less then gentlemanly. H got on at Cedar Street near the Psychiatric Hospital and was trying to scam the bus driver by getting out of paying the fare. She wasn’t having any of it. She told him to get out of her personal space and sit down. He did but started swearing and talking and I finally told him to watch his mouth. He got mouthy with me but not too loudly. The guy sitting next to him got up and sat across from him (he wasn’t interested in hearing him either) and all the while the bus driver was listening and told him to stop or she would call the police. He was dropping a lot of F bombs and saying his father worked on the buses for the 37 years etc. When he told me he was having a bad day I looked at him and said I am sorry you are having a bad day but I don’t want to hear it. In one of the moment...

When I went to bed last night I knew that I would be in trouble. I managed to get some sleep but it was a light sleep. I heard Mom go to bed before Midnight. When I got up for a bathroom run I decided to get on the computer again. I have already updated my health blog and my password directory. I made a few passes at the various forums I visit daily and prevented myself from exploding at one arrogant little prick for the responses he got in regards to huge assumption/question about SM. I heard from Jim last night he called me around 6. I didn’t realize it until I looked at the phone a short time ago. Anyway he ahs a cold (again), did I mention he left a message for us on Saturday that the skin cancer on his face is ‘pre-cancerous’? I was thinking since the 2012 Lenten Season begins tomorrow and the way I have been feeling emotionally that maybe it would be a good idea if I started reading the bible again. I have done it from time to time in the past and it has brought some...

I am so tired! I didn’t sleep very well last night. I know it’s because of the coffee, diet soda, and the decaffeinated tea. This morning I got some coffee and this afternoon I had some decaffeinated coffee. I have also been eating little pieces of candy to keep myself from becoming ravenous (it just isn’t working). My hunger pains left mid afternoon. I know that I will be scoffing up the cookies when I get to Roberta’s later on. I will probably ruin my idnner. Although I am thinking the spaghetti will do fine. Mom won’t want to eat when she gets home either. The rest of the day went by with out incident. I did not get to finish all of the readdress/personal mail but I can do that tomorrow. Well it is after 10 and I was in bed trying to sleep but couldn’t. My session with Debra went pretty well. She had gotten both pieces of mail that I sent her. I read the letter and parts of the journal entries from earlier this month. She asked me what I ended up doing about the situation and I ...

Happy First Day of spring! Today was pretty windy and a little overcast but the sun was out by the time I left work today. Tonight the wind continues and it will tomorrow. I have to say I would prefer the wind over what has been happening in the Midwest. Floods are from Texas to Ohio and even Pennsylvania. We had gotten rain yesterday but it was gone by nightfall. My work week ended today. In the last couple of days had no problems and have been on top of things. I got rid of all the old bulk mail and still have the most recent to do. I will do that middle of next week. I am not sure what to expect for volume on Monday. I have been telling everyone it really shouldn’t be bad. Jocelyn came by for her stuff yesterday. Annette and I put it on carts and in the wagon and brought it down to her. She was not that talkative and in a real rush. We hugged and I told her how sorry I was. I think it made her uncomfortable. I was glad to see she had someone help her. Terry and Nia...

I seem to be running late today. I woke up around 5 turned over and went back to sleep until 6:50. I showered and dressed and got online. As I was leaving I ran into Kim and puppy Finnegan Dolan. As usual he bounced all over me. He was also in Sylvia’s garden. Kim had to go and get him. I got to work just at 8. Delivered some mail and picked it up then started the chart delivery. A number of charts were delivered that I did not order. Two of them were to Janet Colavolpe but she ordered them for her other office. After that I did the personal mail from yesterday and then finished the lock box from yesterday. After that the US mail came and it was light in volume. I got right to the lockbox for today. I will be finished with it by the time I go to Debra’s. I called Mom this morning but I guess she had already left for her appointment with the Hearing Aid Doctor. I hope he can adjust them for her where she can hear everything she needs and wants to. I don’t know if she is going right to h...

I am at work and would rather be home. I went to the Inauguration last night and it was very nice. I went to the reception in the BOE room. It was very crowded. The refreshments were very nice all kinds of pastry. I had one and it got all over me. I went to shake the new school superintendent’s hand and I was really embarrassed. I stayed until 9:00 or so. I was home a short time later. Mom came home around 9:30. I told her about the evening and I also told her it wasn’t in City Hall but Parson’s Complex. She was surprised. The whole incident with the whipped cream on my hand bothered me for the rest of the night. I would think about it and get embarrassed all over again. It took me a while to get to sleep. I ended up waking up around 2 or 3. It wasn’t just because of the incident but I started sniffling and had this urge to sneeze. I still do actually. I didn’t get back to sleep until my alarm went off at 5. I am so not feeling well. I did start a letter to Jeanette last night. We had ...

It is now after 12:30. I have been listening to one of the Native American radio stations on the internet radio. The song is Bear in Danger by Mary Youngblood. It is really cool. I was hoping it would soothe me into sleep but it hasn't. I knew I should have not had the coffee so late in the day yesterday. That coffee is what is keeping me up right now. Now I am trying to think of things that will get me to sleep. I probably could write up last night's minutes. Well I managed to fall asleep after 2 this morning. I had a great sleep. I stayed in bed until 6:10 and got up emptied the garbage, emptied the dehumidifier, showered and dressed for work. Mom was up when I left for work. Today is absolutely beautiful. The sun is shining and there is a cool breeze. I had no trouble getting to work. Unfortunately can't say the same for others in the Groton New London area. There was a truck accident bright and early this morning. I have been following my to do list pretty closely. I ma...