KateP's musings

I decided to get two extra-large coffees from DD so that I can stay up as long as I can to accomplish something other than putting food in my gut. As soon as NCIS is over I have some letters to attend to.   I hope to work on it as long as possible.   As it is I had to block a guy who contacted me at least three times today. I decided to call Sis late this afternoon since I hadn’t heard from her all day not even by text. I had a feeling she was pissed at me for something.   However that wasn’t the case.   She had been working on her insurance project today and yesterday.   She was also getting ready for an online meeting. I was very unsuccessful at getting a hold of the Infusion center for the Corvid19 prescreening questions they are supposed to ask before my arrival.   Well I guess they will have to ask them at the door. My infusion is from 8 to 10.   I am debating whether or not to take my laptop to work on the letters and to do the crossword puzz...

Today I managed to sleep in for a Sunday morning.   I usually get up by 5:30 but today I got up at 6.   Of course the morning routine was the same.   I am just having some tea right now and then do some writing again.   The writing.   I managed to get one letter written yesterday.   It took me most of the day.   Its two pages.   I did also watch TV, and do some sleeping as well.   I also was grazing.   I finally had some dinner around 5 it was pizza and it may have been too much as I was not feeling well for the rest of the night. This morning after having some tea I ended up getting sick to my stomach. Despite the fact I wasn’t feeling well I did sleep pretty well.   The kitties were curled up with each other at my feet and then did their night time ritual. Getting up and walking the house and then coming back to bed for a bit. Sky has been watching the birds outside the window and he is making noises and getting fr...

It is just a little before 11 and I am still in my jammies.   I got up just before 6 and fed the cats and then fell back to sleep on the couch for an hour.   My original plan was to get out early and go to church but now I will be going at 4:30.   I am not skipping it no way no how. Been surfing the net, and finishing last night’s entry and posting it. I got tired.   Updated my checkbook, answered some emails, and called the nursing home to tell them I wasn’t coming in today. I started looking at some outfits on Blair.com and saw a couple I wanted Liz’s opinion so I called her but alas she wasn’t feeling and out cold.   So I told (more like agreed) she could call me much later.   I have been trying really hard to honor her request on not calling daily and have been doing pretty well.    Actually now that I think of it she hasn’t called since our financial hour last week.   I guess I don’t have to feel guilty about calling her than. ...

Among the many things I was trying to do today was to activate my new Credit union debit card and I think I tried three times and had to take a break from it. I will try again later when I am a little focused.   The other was to gain access to the credit Card site.  Still not there yet.  When I run into roadblocks of any kind I need to step away and breath and regain thoughts and refocus.  I will try again later and be victorious. I made lamb chops for lunch.  I didn't realize there was four in them so I cooked them all.  I probably could have put the other two away.  I reasoned they were small in size and would be filling.  Not necessarily the truth. I also couldn't choose vegetables.  I ended up cooking them up in a skillet w/olive oil and it splattered and I now have a burn.  I had some chips and salsa. Now I have to think about dinner.  Not for at least a few hours.  I think I may make spaghetti.  I don't want to o...

Well I guess we are not going to be getting any major problems with the storm.   Just a lot of clouds for today and tonight.   According to the weather page its partly cloudy all I see is sun.   Its 51 degrees out but its 65 in the house so I am not turning up the heat unless the temperatures drop radically.   I guess we are supposed to get into the 70’s in the middle of the week and then back down to mid-60.   No actual rain but maybe clouds. I am guessing other states were not so lucky.   The beginning of the weekend the news had videos of flooding and damage in many communities.   Not sure how long recovery will be for them. Throughout the weekend I heard from Jim via text and phone.   We were keeping tabs on each other with the storm.   We did fine.   He shared pictures of his cat either playing or hiding from the storm.   Not unlike my own babes.   He mentioned that the salt water came up to the house.   The...

Since it is a rainy Saturday it is and has been a quiet and low key day.   I managed to stay in bed until six.   When Sky was very persistent in getting me up. Since I have been up I fed the cats, watched TV, had some pizza (the rest actually) and did some laundry and hung up the stuff that was sitting here on the couch for a few days.   Working on some files too. The groceries were delivered and put away and I had the Greek Oikos yogurt and it’s pretty good.   I think I will get these again.   I have some ideas at what I will be having for dinner too. I have to say overall I am feeling better than last night.   My hand took some time stop hurting.   If I used it the wrong way or turned it the wrong way it would hurt.   The pain has subsided now. The afternoon will be working on files and letters and finishing the laundry and hanging stuff up.

It is about 82 degrees and I could feel it...I opened some windows. At least there is a breeze.  I am still not going out there though. The kitties are enjoying their day.  After they came out of my old bedroom they went downstairs for awhile.  It amazes me that I didn't notice them until I saw them sitting on the cellar stairs.  I think Tiger is there now and Sky was doing this: . Good news the TV in the living room is working normally again.  It must have not been plugged all the way.  I have the music channels on right now.  They are called Music Choice Channels.  I guess Optimum customers have it.  There doesn't seem to be any videos just music. I finished one letter to Claudia in AZ but I just have to print it out and mail it. I have a few other letters I need to finish as well. I talked with Liz this morning.  She has been busy with Double the Nelsons.  Nelson #1 is adjusting to being home but got a visit from N...

December 14, 2013 Dear Friends      It is after 8 and it is still snowing.  There was indeed a lull in the snow fall earlier today and Mom took the opportunity to go out and do a few errands.  While she did that I managed to shovel the sidewalks.  A lot of good that was considering its all covered again.  I will have to do it again tomorrow.     Other than laundry, the sidewalks, and attempted to help with dinner I haven’t done much.    I did start letter to the kids but haven’t gotten far.  Mom took a nap this afternoon after she took some antihistamine.    Now I think she is watching TV or the TV is watching her.     As most of you have noticed today was the 1 year anniversary of the Newtown Shooting.  Many places around the country marked in many different ways.    As we remember that tragic day a horrible and deadly replay happened  in Colorado yesterday....

November 8, 2013 Dear Friends: What a day.  I had a wonderful sleep and got up for ironing, surfing, and getting out on time for work.  The morning went well until I went to the bank.  I had forgotten to take my id with me and so I couldn’t get money out for the dinner.  Happily MS is giving me until Monday to get.  She knows I want to go to the dinner next week.  Joel B stopped by later in the day to find out if was resolved.  I have a feeling she had something to do with it. The rest of the day was fine.  I managed to get the daily stuff done at a fairly decent time and worked on re-address mail.  I didn’t get as much as i would have liked but I have a feeling I will on Monday as its a holiday. I had lunch with Mama Dottie today. It was fun.  We talked about the holidays, work, and family stuff.  We hadn’t done this in a long while and it was great not having to do it in the office.   Speaking of the holidays our t...

It’s a good thing I am taking the time to go through some emails.   I found some that needed to be addressed.   For example my neighbor Sylvia responded to the Blizzard survey that I sent out and wanted me to pass along to our neighbors the email she sent to the borough in regards to the recent storm.   Apparently someone complained that her sidewalk wasn’t cleared off to borough regulations.   She also was annoyed she hadn’t been getting the emails (well that’s the impression I am getting).     I talked about it with Mom she feels that our neighbor is being negative.   Mom also believes that we shouldn’t complain because this storm was unusual.   Anyway, I emailed Sylvia BCC my other two neighbors and relating the fact that many others may not have gotten borough emails because they are not signed up to the emailing list.    I can’t even remember when I signed up or how I signed up.    I did point out that now th...

I got up around 7. Spent time online and then got ready to feed Junior and see the pups next door. The weather was so different then last night. It was much cooler and of course brighter. Mom was reading the paper when I came down. She saved the obituary for Mr. Oliver. I left shortly after 8 to feed kitty and have some cookies. Apparently I left them out and some of them were stale. I made sure I put them away before I left. At least I think I did. After cleaning out the litter box and feeding the kitty I had a visit from missy who was waiting at the door for me. I could hear Junior meowing. I looked and there she was. I spent time with the dogs and then headed out to Mediplex. Since it was really very early for me to go to Mediplex I stopped at the Dunkin Doughnuts and got some hot chocolate and a doughnut. I drove to Mediplex and turned on the lights and started getting stuff out. Then Mr. Merly told me there was no bingo. I looked at the calend...

Well Friday night is now turning into a blur. We had pizza for dinner and it rained a little that night. Saturday I got ready for the reception. I did some ironing and some laundry and went card shopping for birthdays and get well cards. We got there a little after 2 and we sat with Bob and Liz, and Nelson and Chris and Rich. Ethel was home sick with a migraine. THose really suck. We had a good time. The food was a bit of disappointment to Mom and Liz. I enjoyed it. I even ran into some high school classmates of mine who knew the heberts. We got home by 6 or so. Sunday I went to bingo, church, and to the store to get a gift for Emily. I had put a call into Claudia to see what I could get her and she called back on Saturday with a list. I decided to get a gift card. I did some letter writing. I got one letter written just need to print out and mail it. Mom made me a peach cake and we had hamburgers for dinner. Liz and Nel came over and gave me a pair of earrings. Uncle R...

Well the humidity has dropped considerably and it is very nice out. As I was telling one of my co-workers a short time ago that I was really expecting it to rain last night because the breeze/wind was really blowing hard last night. Well maybe this afternoon it will. Well I woke up around 5 but stayed in bed until 6 and ironed my clothes, watched TV, and got online for a short time. Then I got the rest of the garbage out as I was leaving. Mom got up for a bathroom run but she went back to bed. When I called her later on in the morning she said she didn’t fall asleep until 4 this morning. I wrote the PA kids this morning. It was a two page letter and I figured it was easier to cut and paste their names. Well I have been home since before 4:30. Mom was still with the “Knitwits”. She didn’t get home until after 5. She says they didn’t leave the restaurant until 4 and of course traffic was bad (actually it was heavy summer traffic) on I-95. I watched Charmed and had Gnocchi and potato s...

Hey all it is after 11 in the morning. It is a beautiful day here and it was 57 I imagine it is closer to 60 and by the end of the day it will closer to 70 degrees. I have opened the window to the bedroom to let in some fresh air. I got my hair done but I am a little annoyed with the woman. First off she was running late and she forgot she had me at 10 am. I had to go back at 10:30. The next appointment is on May 31 but I am going to change it because of the wedding, and the awards ceremony. When I got home Mom was still working in her office. She has been updating the address list for the invitee list for the ceremony. She said she had paper work to do. I did some laundry and wrote more of my letter to Kelly and I read the two letters I got from Vicki Butler in Illinois and Shirley Burdett. I will be updating their files shortly. Donny next door is putting up an antenna for Mom so that we don’t get so much static on the radio downstairs. Mom went out to get additional attachm...

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all doing well. The sun is shining and as expected the wind is strong. I heard from Mardi this morning. I posted to her journal yesterday and asked her about the weather. I had asked her a more pertinent question then the weather but she said that she was expecting snow showers today. It feels good to be home on a Friday instead of working. I do love my job (especially when things are going well) but I haven’t really had a vacation in quite some time. Yes I know I took that trip to PA but I was busy concentrating on driving. I do have to admit the drive was beautiful. Anyway, I have got laundry going and now will be writing some letters and then going shopping later. Well it is now several hours and I am here waiting on Rich and his plumber friend to come and check out the bathroom plumbing. Mom and I decided that perhaps it would be better in case he came earlier then what they agreed on the other day. I have been watching a little of t...

It is 10 of 7 and I am not quite ready for work. I got up around 5:30 and showered. It was a quick shower as the water turned cold quickly. I laid across the bed for a bit after the shower and then when I realized it was after 6 I got up and got Mom up. I have been surfing the net and wrote a letter to Debra. I won’t mail it until the weekend though. As I mentioned yesterday Mom has an early morning breakfast (I think she said it’s a legislative breakfast) to attend so I got her up after 6 and now she is in the shower. She will be leaving once she is all ready. She has the other meeting at dinner time so won’t be home for that. I haven’t heard from the two ladies that I sent pen pal inquiries to but it is still early. I have their files all set up. I hope they answer. One is from Iowa and the other I think is from MA. Well it is 7 am and I need to get going… Hey everyone thought I would pop in. I decided to print out all the entries I have written for the past two weeks for the Current...

Hey all it is just before midnight and I was heading to bed. Today was a very long day. I got to work at a good time but jumped right into work. I did make a few stops on the internet highway but managed to get stuff going. I finished Friday’s mail and sorted it and delivered it as well as Thursday. I wasn’t able to open today’s lockbox but I did get the post office started. One of the reasons for that was because I had so much individual readdress mail to get delivered that I spent a good part of the day doing it. I was having a hard time concentrating on the bad addresses too. I did manage to make calls for the club. I got a hold of the Beth El shelter and scheduled a dinner for February 7th but as I thought about it and when I got an email from Telka realized it wasn’t a good date. She suggested that I make it for March between the 13th and 20th. I will have to call him back tomorrow. I am still waiting on the ARC person to call me back and set up the club to sponsor a blood drive. ...

I made it to the dentist office in pretty good time. I just had to review the paperwork on file and sign it. I went in saw the hygienist. They have a new “toy” in the shape of a new tooth cleaner. It uses water. Then I had an exam from Dr. Chris. I have to go in again on the 15th to fend off a small cavity. My next appointment is in July. It was after 5:30 when I left. When I got home I checked the mail and started on Dinner. Mom had left me soup but didn’t want it. I threw some hot dogs in the micro and had them. Watched TV and made a couple of calls. I have printed out the letters for Jennie. I hope she won’t mind if I bring them first thing in the morning. I just got to busy and tired this afternoon. I am going to check the emails and some forums.