KateP's musings

  It is after 2 in the morning and I am sitting here because I couldn’t sleep.   I think I Had one of those pericardial events in my shoulder again.   It hurt like the dickens.   I couldn’t get comfortable and I put a heating pad on and I took some Tylenol a little while ago.   It feels better but that’s because I am sitting up as opposed to lying down on the pillows.   I am going to try and get back to sleep because I will be getting up in about 3 or 4 hours. I also had a panic moment when I came down to check on the cats.   Tiger was sleeping now she is preening herself but for fair amount of time I couldn’t find Sky.   I looked in his normal places.   I even thought he was under the bed.   He wasn’t.   I came down again and found him on a tote filled with Towels.   I walked by him at least once before I saw him on that. I picked him up and hugged him and put him back.   I think he may have travelled again.   The ...

November 6, 2013 Dear Friends: What a busy couple of days.  My day started  yesterday at 5:30 and i managed to get up and get ready for work and do my civic duty all before 7 am.  It was chilly but I managed to greet my friends standing at the polls and get in and vote.  I was back on the road by 7:10 and had no trouble getting into the city.  I even got to see a doe.  It caught my eye at an unexpected place. Throughout the day I was busy working and didn’t feel any aches and pains and if I started to I managed to take some tylenol.  After work i headed back to Milford stopped at Dunkin and got coffee and then headed to the polling place.   On the way there two emergency vehicles were swinging on to a street that I was passing. I would later find out there was a house fire and a fatality.  I recognize the last name from somewhere but this was sad.  My companions could smell the smoke and hear the sirens.   I s...

November 3, 2013 Dear Friends: Good Sunday  to you.    Did you set your clocks back?  Did you get that extra hour of sleep?  I still woke up my normal time and I thought it was daylight when it hit 7. I didn’t do  very much except moving those damn emails around and into the various folders I have.   I watched TV and then got ready for bingo.  Mom was reading the paper when I got downstairs.  She told me she found it chilly this morning and she wasn’t kidding. I stopped at the D&D and got breakfast and then headed to the nursing home where I found Angela serving coffee to some of the residents.  She was kind enough to by me a muffin that I graciously accepted.  Around 10 I started setting up for bingo.  I ended up with 14 players today and it went really well.  Despite some bickering between Dorothy and Leah and Julia.  Spears were shooting from Dorothy’s eyes towards Julia.  I have come to the conc...

I have been home an hour and half now and I am more tired than I was when I arrived at Debra’s office. The noise level at first was so blaring and annoying that I had to turn down the radio. Besides that Mom couldn’t hear me which in of itself is annoying. I ended up stuttering. She kept pushing me to say what I wanted. That to me is no help. I told her to give me a moment. We had our dinner. I had the left over lamb shank stew and she had eggs. We talked about Election Day tomorrow. I told her I was going to vote when I got home from work tomorrow because I would end up missing the bus if I went early in the morning. I asked if she wanted to go to the headquarters or if she had planned on t and she said yes. I told her I would take her once I finished voting. She says she has to go to a meeting and a wake. She will see what the day unfolds. The wake is of an old family friend (Tim W) that knew my Dad while both were in the program and was a friend of Jim’s. Apparently he was ...

Its after 10 am on Friday morning and I got here alittle after 8. It is still raining and I suspect it will be until lunch time. One of the scanners (the newbie/probie) is having problems with her machine and has come to Joanie for help and Joanie can’t help her. Annette, Gayle and the IT guy isn’t here yet. According to the news reports Susan Bysiewicz is supposed to make the final (I hope) ballot count in Bridgeport. Unfortunately I have heard some really bad stories about DM from a woman whose family has worked for him personally. I hope we as a party and as a state won’t be sorry for this. Gayle came in around 10:30 and the Jack from GoFor came by quarter of. I was still working on yesterday’s mail as well as surfing for a bit. Not something that’s good to do but if I think I am getting too much I will stop after lunch and correct it. Is there a machine that you work with that makes you crazy? I have this mail opener that is industrial size and it doesn’t always open th...

I just finished writing and posting yesterday’s entry on the web and now I am trying to get to sleep so I can be ready for one of the most important mid-term elections. Today we will be voting on a new Governor, LT Governor, State Representatives and State Legislators as well as Federal Legislators that will go on to Federal offices and represent us in Congress and the House. I hope to get to the polls by 7 this morning so that I can be at work fairly early to get the rest of my work day completed. After work I will be splitting my time between to polling locations. The first one will be at the West Shore Recreation Center on Benham Avenue. Then from 6 to 8 I will be at Harborside School standing for Beverly Streit-Kafalas. I asked Mom if she wouldn’t mind if I didn’t go to Headquarters after the polls close and she said she is fine with it. She also suggested and urged me not to over do it while standing at the polls. If I get tired or get cold I should come home and rest. All...

As I made my way to the car this morning I found it covered in frost. It didn’t take long for it to defrost and by the time I was on the highway it was completely gone. The sun rise made for some a difficult ride. Happily nothing happened. I made it to the office on time. Most of the day was very cold. I know this because most everyone who went out told me. I found out myself walking to Debra’s office. Today a number of people seemed to be in a bad space. They were not feeling well, they were cranky and overwhelmed. I know I was beginning to find myself overwhelmed when a couple of people asked me about the mail that was there. I knew I had to at least attempt to get it out of the office. I did a little of it before going to Debra’s. I still have to finish the lockbox and the postage tally for today. Claudia promised to have the mail job document for me by tomorrow. I was having problems getting it made myself. By the time I left for Debra’s my leg/knee was giving me tro...

Well today is going to be a very long day. I am planning on being out of the house this morning by 6 so I can vote in the Democratic Primary then I am going to work until 6 tonight and then from 6:30 until 8 I will be standing at the polls passing out literature. They call it Poll standing. Now many of you will probably say “oh you can give out literature at the polls” I am doing what I am told. I think you can up until a certain point. I will be doing that until the polls close at 8. Then I am heading home to catch any part of NCIS. The following is an unpaid and probably unsolicited advertisement for politics: I seriously urge you to go and make your voices heard in your local elections if you are in a state with a primary election happening PLEASE do not pass this opportunity up to have your voice heard. I f you do not like the way things are being done be among the voices that can make change. Yesterday was a pretty good day for a Monday. I managed to get the daily...

Monday November 2: I got up bright an early and got ready for work and got the car over to the garage all by 7. Happily it was someone else there instead of the guy from yesterday. I explained to the guy what happened and I think he understood. The only thing is the thermostat didn’t do anything on the way over. He said he would have Frank call me. The car was fixed later that day. Election Day 2009: Was a royal disappointment for us in Milford. The Republican incumbent for mayor retained his job and a number of our candidates lost their seats and some never made it. It was a sad day indeed. Work has been overall stressful. I had been doing OT trying to get the office back into shape. Last Saturday both Gayle and I worked on it and now it is beautiful. More tasks have been added (collection letters) and after a few days Gayle doesn’t want to have any of us (me especially) do it. Considering we have so much filing and scanning to be done. There have been a lot of budget con...

Today is/was Jim’s 58th Birthday. Unfortunately I haven’t done anything for it. No e-card, no snail mail card, and of course no phone call. I am not sure what I feel but I will send him something maybe tomorrow. I have no idea if Mom did or not. It has been quite a hectic couple of weeks for her and she is concerned and a little bit annoyed with him with his choices. Yes I know it’s his choice but she is a Mom and is worried about him. Last night was awesome. Before I left work we picked our secret Santa and I got Lucinda G. Unfortunately I have to guess at what she wants because she didn’t write it on the list. We were not supposed to tell anyone but I managed to tell Cami and Liz. They rolled their eyes. When I left it was shortly before 4 but I managed to get to the polling place before my appointed time and got in and got to vote. I personally didn’t have any problems but I would later find out that there was a fire alarm that morning. There was one while I was there as ...

Well the polls closed at 8 pm. Kerry didn’t win but she was class act as she spoke at Headquarters tonight. Now Richetelli will have to deal with a democratic majority on the aldermanic board. The Democratic Party won all the boards. Connecticut Bob had a great report and of course you can check out Vote 2007 Connecticut Election Returns also one Milford voter was 109 years old and that was so cool. Mom won her position as Constable with the second highest amount of votes. She was highly surprised and I was just plain proud. I might call Jim and Liz and Bob tomorrow. The day started for me at 5:45 am. I got up showered, had breakfast of yogurt, made my lunch and watched a little bit of Angel I was dressed and ready to go to the polls by 7. It was raining as expected. A short time later I arrived to the polling place at Foran High. Kerri and her son were just leaving to stand at other polls through out the day. Kerri’s Mom, husband Brian and daughter Emily, and father st...