KateP's musings

I am hoping my previous entries made enough sense as I was trying to combine them for each of the days and it was not working out.   I made notes to myself so I would remember certain things by the end of the day when I wrote them.   Unfortunately I started to write them all a few days later. Today I took off and made 2 dozen of the Almond Joy Cookies found on three different Pinterest sites.   The one I did was the simplest one.   I have to still make 3 more I believe.   I have three trays that arrived from Amazon the other day and I probably will need to get a couple of more. I checked the ones I have in a container and they don’t seem like they are hardened.   I hope it doesn’t turn into mush.    I have been getting a lot of support from FB friends and allies.   Around 3 I made some more realizing I will need to get more coconut now.   The 2 dozen cookies I made around 3 seem a little more firm and the others feel like a bi...

I have tried to write entries several times this week but every time I got side tracked.   I got diverted by important stuff like medical Appointments, work, and sleep.        I would like to tell you I was doing what I was tasked to do for ever.   I haven’t done any clearing out of anything.   I have been too tired at night and by the time I got home this weekend I was exhausted.      I have only been to the gym twice this past week and was supposed to go today.   I had every intention of going today until I saw the class was at 9:30 and I thought it was too early.    I have no idea why there wasn’t an 11:30 class but I definitely am going tomorrow.        I didn’t get to go to the coffee talk session as it was cancelled although it looks like people went?   My first thought was if they are starting to play games I will reconsider going to that.      ...

The rain we had overnight ended just before daybreak.   The sun has been shining ever since.   It's about 50 degrees both here and back home.   I Didn’t bother to turn on the heat today.   Not sure if Mama is right about wasting oil by turning it up and down all the time.   I did a quick check and it seems to confirm her view. I heard from Mama overnight.   She answered a text of mine about food and she later asked if I needed the pen pal letters from 2006.   I have tried to explain to her that people who pen pal keep old letters for whatever reason (not sure if they eventually throw them out) but she either isn’t understanding it or not interested.   I sort of told her among some of our conversations about people not listening to me about things and this is just one of many things.   People are going to do what they want no matter what.   This reasoning annoys the crap out of me because my logic is “if they tell me what to do...

I was just thinking I have the last two days’ worth of entries to finish writing and post   I wrote a couple early to prepare but I put it off because I was at work and didn’t want to when I got home last night.   It will be like that for this entry I am sure.   I have some letters to write both in my pen pal world and family.   It’s been a while since heard from nephew James and I haven’t said much to his sister Emily about the move.   One moment I have a hard time figuring out what to say.   When I realized I could cut and paste what I wrote to her brothers it came pretty quickly.   Its done. I still haven’t been doing any decluttering at night but now that I have part of Friday off I will.   I am hoping to get some done during the weekend in between the activities.   I can’t give into the fatigue from the exercising and early mornings. The ladies guild board meeting went okay and short.   Small group and of ...

As the wind seemed to be dying down I have wondered if we have ever had nonstop rain like you see on TV.   I don’t remember the last time we had nonstop rain.    I know that it has rained for hours and would stop for a period of time and sometimes start up but I don’t recall it going on for days. I also remember pretending the house was a houseboat.   I would imagine the river would get larger (as it has over the years) and it would reach to the houses.   Never having to leave it and being able to drive it to the next destination.   I may have had a fertile imagination. I just looked up houseboats.   They can be pretty expensive I think.   Some are usually docked (or moored) at one location.   I have so many questions floating around in my head.   It would be interesting what life is like on a houseboat. I talked with Jim last night.   He is fine.   He didn’t have any power earlier in the day because of the nor’eas...

The Sun is now shining.  The streets and sidewalks have all been shoveled or dug out.  It took me awhile to get the snow off the car and even then it's not all off.  I ended up driving slowly (the ice wasn’t completely off the windshields either) back home.   When I got home Neighbor Don was using his snow blower and so I just parked in front of the house. The kitties were waiting for me when I got here.  It looked like they were fed regular food last night so I gave them kibble this morning.  Spent equal time with each of them.  Of course Sky wanted to go downstairs, and up in the attic.  He nearly knocked the chair down with his tail.  I fixed it though (for now).  Right now though they are both in my old bedroom sleeping under the bed. I have managed to do laundry, print up the letter to Missy in California, eat some food, and watch TV.  When I get home tonight I will put the clothes on hangers that I have gathered. ...

Good Morning!   Let me first welcome all those who have stopped by to visit.   Please make yourselves at home and enjoy the readings.   I Hope I have entertained you, made you think about things and just relaxed. You should have seen the beautiful sunrise this morning.   It was so bright then it got cloudy.   I never have the camera around when I need or want to take a picture.   According to the weather reports it is supposed to be rainy for most if not all of the day. Today will be pretty much like it was yesterday.   After Jim left for PA yesterday I spent most of the day surfing the net.   I did do some laundry and cooked some chicken for dinner. I will be going to Liz’s to drop off Claudia’s (Jim’s ex) gift to her and Nelson. I also have to get a card for the Christening ceremony tomorrow.   My dress is ready to be worn. Other than that I will be trying to write my pen pals and pay some bills.   I need to take care o...

Greetings my readers and friends!   Its Thursday night and a lot quieter weather-wise than last night.   I had no idea it was the remnants of the hurricane from earlier this week.   I just figured it was a weather pattern that came from the western part of the country.   There were quite a number of spots of flooding near the house.   Luckily we personally kept dry.   I had to pick up the garbage can with the garbage in a couple of times before it was picked up this morning. As the title of the entry says I tried to write this three times today.   Each time was cut short because of time.   I had to leave for work, go back to work, or head out for errands. Work continued to be busy and I managed to get a lot done but still have more to do as far as the readdress mail.   At least it’s down to one bin.   Most of October dates.   My intention as has been all week is to go in early and start early.   Today I got early but ...

Today started out with a really messy weather. By mid morning we had gotten a thunder and lightening storm but no major damage like Mardi got up in her area. The sun came out again for a short time and then by the time I left Debra’s the sky started opening up again. I thought I heard some thunder a short time ago but nothing continuous. Today was Diva’s return. She kept mostly to herself at least that’s what I thought. I found out later she was talking often to “P” (the woman who has been doing her job these last several months). . This concerns me because if “P” over hears me. “P” was assigned to help me with the mail. I had her do the readdress mail (the tedious stuff she called it). When I first was giving her instructions on what to do-she kept saying oh I know what to do I was a “senior Admin”. That’s great so what did she ask me if she could batch all the interoffice stuff together? The way I wanted her to do it was. Condense all the mail going to say one particular...

In the last few visits to blogspot or Blogger, I would check out the various profiles to check out the blogs and the first ten were profiles of guys. It was more of profiles instead of actual lists of blogs. I am so not interested in dating is this what Blogger is becoming? If it is I really don’t want it. It took me a while to find other members blogs. When I search I want to know about their lives or their interests. I don’t necessarily want to see just photo blogs I want to see writing and granted I have seen some with both. I don’t necessarily want re-hash of articles or full on political believes because I just know I won’t be able to change their minds and they won’t be able to change mine. I want to know what makes them happy and what makes them sad or their emotional sides. I want to know how they resolve or make it through the day. I also need to remember to open myself to new ideas. Over on Livejournal many changes are going on there as well. Just recently admin...

Well it is now after 12 Mom is making stuffed peppers and I am bopping between my NCIS fandom forums, watching TV, and trying to motivate myself to do laundry. The snow is coming down hard and fast. The temperature is 19 degrees. It is supposed to end later tonight (I am really hoping it doesn’t it). The cable guy came out to see the phones. The phone jack wasn’t in the wall. Trying to get Mom to check the phones was frustrating. She finally got it. Now all is well. It must have been knocked out some time last weekend. Only one phone was ringing the others were not but still registering on the TV. We were trying to figure out how it came out I figured someone (either Mom or Mike) knocked it out-very easy to do. Mom got some bad news today. A friend’s husband from the bible study group she is part of past away this morning from Cancer. I am sure the funeral arrangements are for early next week. I don’t think Mom is going out to lunch with Martha today. I think it would be w...

WELL WE GOT SOME SNOW THIS MORNING BUT NOT MUCH.  There are predictions there is going to be more snow over night.  Personally I am getting tired of it.  Yes I realize where I live and that I can expect more all the way up to April.  I have to wonder if this is how the Midwest deals with it all.? Shortly before Noon the little girl who had been missing since Sunday Morning was found.  She was at friends home (at one point she was found at an abandoned farm stand on Prindle hill Road) Near Pez Candy Factory.   http://www.newhavenregister.com/articles/2011/03/23/news/doc4d8a0dc3e00dc646842495.txt According to reports she had been bullied on her school bus.   All I know is thank God she is alive and safe but I suspect she will be in a world of hurt for the next 20 years.    My Hygienist called today and said there was an opening for 5:15 so I was able to get in and get them cleaned.  I spent the rest of the evening watching NCIS an...

As the 8 pm hour arrives on another Saturday night I have once again been laxed on my writing this week. I just finished another brief entry from Tuesday and posted it. I did post to my Lupus journal. The week was busy with work did OT a few nights and did some OT today as well. I have caught up with the daily work and now doing the readdress mail which seems to be ongoing. IACUC will be moving next week and I still have a lot of their mail on my desk. This week was supposed to be the week Yale went paperless for our pay stubs but there was some snafus that caused a problem with access so we got our final pay stub yesterday but I was able to access the online version. They wanted us to get trained to navigate around it and I don’t see the need. Next week we are having a bridal shower for Miss Stacey M I still need to contribute to that. I understand there was a private one today for some co workers. I can’t believe she is actually getting married. WTG girl! There is a Membersh...

I haven’t been home very long from church and bingo. I left her a little after 9 and got to West River just before 9:30 and chatted with Nancy and started the coffee. One of the topics was that one of the residents Mrs. G was actively dying. Her family was in the private dining room across the hall from the recreation room. I have often seen Mrs. G rolling around the halls in her wheel chair and she was the roommate of one of my bingo players. Bingo went well we had a full house once again and of course the girls from the girls club came and helped. I really love having them. It gives me more time to relax a little bit. That doesn’t mean I don’t watch over the players and help out when needed. At least if the residents need to go potty there is someone to help out. After I said goodbye and put away the bingo stuff (everything else was pretty much put away) I went to Church at St Mary’s. As usual I was late. The homily was basically about giving control over to God for our liv...

It is another beautiful day. Yes I said a cloudy, rainy day is beautiful. Actually it is sleeting right now and has been for about 20 minutes. The day started out pretty sunny and that was at 8:30 this morning. Around 11 it changed to cloudy and then rainy. According to the weather forecast for today it is going to be like this for the entire day. The entire week is supposed to be cloudy with showers. That’s okay. I have only a few meetings to attend and will be home most nights. Well it is now after 10 and I am heading to bed. I spent part of the afternoon working on my taxes. I was really nervous because I used that 2007 H&R Block Tax cut and I am not sure I really did it right. But I will find out. I also watched TV for a bit. I can’t begin to tell you what I watched. I would say the usual staples for Saturday and Saturday night. . I went to 5:30 mass this evening because tomorrow is going to be busy and I certainly didn’t want to go to church at 4:30 tomorrow afte...

Hey everyone! It is after 2:30 on this very windy Saturday. I have been spending most of the day trying to update pen pal files, get rid of emails and record them on the different files I have. I know that sounds a little anal but it helps me to keep organized. It is a running record of stuff I get for things (or need to know) for bills and all the other things I am involved with. It’s also a way of condensing stuff. Hey I heard from my new pen pal Shelley. It turns out I have written her before. It’s really funny too. She was already listed in my address book from a long time ago. I recently found her ad in the Inky trails E newsletter . I didn’t know it was her at the time until she gave me her address this morning. I sent her an email letting her know we were pen pals or about to be pen pals before. Mom is out getting some greeting cards. She is going out to dinner with the gang at Mercy Center because it is Father Whitson’s Birthday today. Mom is bringing her famous Grandma’s cake...

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. ...

It is almost 11 pm. I was just heading to bed. Today was a good day despite the fact that mom drove me to distraction. As you remember I set up an appointment to me with a TIAA Cref representative to go over and review my retirement and any other possible programs. Mom wanted to come. Today was that appointment. It was for 2 pm and the final meeting place was to be the patient services confidentiality room in Shirley’s area. Joel told me about it around Noon time. I called Mom around 1:30 a half hour before she was to arrive and told her the update. I had called the security desk and told Mike to call me when she arrived. When it got to be 2 pm the representative came and I took him to the office we would be using. Mom hadn’t arrived. She arrived at 2:05 pm. She was waiting on me to come and get her. She was just about to go and put the coin in the meter. I waited for her and while I was waiting Marianne walked by me. Now I had come down a little earlier to see if Mom ar...

Good Morning. The sun is shining and coming through the trees in the backyard. It makes the yard and marsh look pretty. Mom is downstairs reading the paper and we were just talking about our cold, the room and board, and the cold air coming through the air conditioner. It is now after 8 pm Saturday night Mom is getting into her pajamas and going to watch the debate from New Hampshire. I am just starting to fizzle out. I have not been doing very much today. I sent the laundry through and then watched TV and spent time online. I got the insufficient fund notice from Webster today Mom just looked at me. She didn’t say anything but I think she has had an attitude about it. She is claiming she was tired. I have not really liked her attitude today but didn’t get into it with her. When I would talk to her it would be clear and distinctly and loud enough to hear me. Yet she still said what? Well we just got word tonight that the DTC caucus is for Jan 15th at 7:30. I have to be ther...

It is after 12:30 Wednesday afternoon. I have been here since 8:10. I am not really feeling well. I think I am getting my monthly very early. I have seen some spotting and I told Mom. Not sure she liked hearing that considering she isn’t feeling well either. She says there is mail waiting for me. I really hope that it isn’t return mail. I managed to finish opening and sorting the rejections I now have to do the individual and readdress mail but that will have to wait until tomorrow. I started to do the bad addresses but all I could do is the ones for Monday and Tuesday. We all know there wasn’t a lot there. I guess I am just trying to get as much as I can do and putting off for tomorrow what could be done today. Many people have left already. Everyone else will leave at 4. I will be heading to Debra’s. After that I am going home. I did manage to make a schedule for me for the rest of the week. Yeah I admit it could have waited until I got home but part of it is for the n...