KateP's musings

Dear Debra:     Just wanted to thank you again for tonight.  Thank you for so many things.  I wanted to share with you something I hope will guide me these next several days.  So many things came through my head as I was driving home tonight. How can I best react to things?  Without getting angry or exasperated?  The first was to breath.  TAke it as it was meant and don’t find offense (many things we have spoken of).  I was listening to an NPR interview with a musician who was named best artist of 2018.  The woman whom i never heard of was pointing out how she is so much a perfectionist and when things don’t go the way she wants she feels like  a failure, or a disappointment.  So many things i have related to and sometimes that is so dangerous when we listen to interviews. We find ourselves aligning with them.  Anyway the point of this rambling is that I  have thought a lot of things for this week....

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 ...

Good Morning! I am leaving in 15 minutes with Dave to meet Mary and her sons at the restaurant for lunch and then go to the Orchard. I suspect we will also do the Corn Maze. That should be fun. Not really but what the hay. Hey everyone I am back. It has been a long day. Dave didn’t get here until around 11:15 and we had to wait a bit because Mary was still at church. I told Dave they should have said this originally. I mean I could have done bingo if I tried and also went to church. I was going to go at 8:30 but by the time it came time I didn’t. We started off at 11:30 and headed to the Meeting place while we were driving Mary called and said she would not be getting there until 1. So we made a few side stops. (Now that I am writing this so late I can’t remember what order they were.) They were Dunkin Doughnuts, Vinnie’s garden shop they all didn’t take very long. Mary and the kids were just ordering when got there (we had no trouble finding it). It was in a lovely place on Route 66. ...

I am finding myself falling back into old and bad habits. At home I haven’t made my bed in what seems like days. I am leaving clothes on the floor. I am letting the clothes pile up in the laundry basket and in the blue room in where I do my ironing. I am eating food I shouldn’t be. I am also getting online when I should be working and using the credit card when I shouldn’t be either. As I think about it I get a little agitated. I don’t want to incur high bill for the credit card because I was doing so well. When I eat certain foods I end up gaining the weight I have lost (I have lost some in the last few weeks) and the aches and pains that come when I have salt or something.

I can't believe how fast this week is going by. I remember every time I went to visit Nanny before she went into the nursing home (and even then) she would comment on how fast the week went by. I have always noticed it but it gets more prevalent as I get older. Things at work are fine. Right now just working on the campus mail that came through. i should be finished with it shortly. Overall post office mail is light. If that's the case I can get to some letter writing if it is all possible.