This was a very boring weekend. Not completely unproductive, but did nothing to really write about. Yesterday I washed the towels, put away some laundry (this is after many, many weeks of living out of the laundry basket), put dishes in dishwasher, washed some pots, and threw away some recycling. I also filled my garbage can outside. That is not something I usually do, but it does mean that I cleaned out something. The house doesn't look any better than Friday, OK, maybe the sink, but there is still so much crap around here.
Today wasn't much better. I did my laundry after two weeks, paid bills, ran the dishwasher, and sherded some mail. I just wish that my kitchen table looked like I had made some space on it. If I do keep it up for a week, maybe then I will feel better about it.
That's about it for today or rather what I feel like writing about. Hopefully I will feel more like it tomorrow.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Happy Halloween and Recovery
Happy Halloween! This is my favorite holiday. I love seeing the little kids in their costumes. I take the day off of work so I don't miss any of them. This year I didn't have my first Trick'r'Treater until after 4:00 PM! It was one little girl with her mother. She said they were they only ones out then. They really didn't start coming until around 5:00 PM this year. Some old neighbors came back into the neighborhood. They are Mexican and came with a van of other kids. We usually have them coming from other neighborhoods since it is not safe for them to go around their own areas. The second van just left. It was good seeing them again.
Why is it that you don't realize how sick you are until you start to feel better? My older nephew is getting married in December (he is way to young, but more on that later) and my cousin B and I are giving a shower this Saturday. I am making the favors. It is not much, just scented hand sanitizer. I went back to work on Monday and by the end of the day I was exhausted, but wanted to get everything picked up and vote. I managed to get the favors, Halloween candy, and lunch for the rest of the week. I just couldn't do any more, so on Tuesday I went to vote and pick up the bags and ribbon for the favors. I still have to get the shower card. I can do that after my chiropractor appointment since I am going to the mall to have my nails done. These are things that I used to be able to do in one night. I am sure that I will be back to normal soon.
I have given up getting anything done around the house this week. Once I get my nails done, I don't do anything to ruin them for a couple of days and I do want them to look good for the shower.
There's always next week.
I don't see any more kids around, but I will keep everything out for another half hour and then close up for the night. I will have some candy left over to take to work. Spoke to soon, just got a group of teenage boys. I don't mind the older kids coming. When I was in 7th grade I had a friend over on Halloween since it was a Friday. My cousin, who was in 5th grade, wanted to go Trick'r'Treating. We were just going to go to the door with her and not actually participate. We were given candy at the first two houses and asked were our costumes were. We went back to my house to put some makeup on and went back out. The next house we went to the guy said we were to old to be Trick'rTreating. You just can't win sometimes. Well I wrote for the full half hour and now have everything locked up.
My thoughts and prayers do go out to all the people on the east coast. I can't imagine what they are going through. The longest I was without electricity was 20 hours. I was able to shower before it went out and drive to work, once the lightening stopped. I was smart enough not to try to open the garage door with the metal on it when it was lightening. I went to KFC and got dinner for my neighbors and myself. I was not stuck in my house with no way out.
Good night.
Why is it that you don't realize how sick you are until you start to feel better? My older nephew is getting married in December (he is way to young, but more on that later) and my cousin B and I are giving a shower this Saturday. I am making the favors. It is not much, just scented hand sanitizer. I went back to work on Monday and by the end of the day I was exhausted, but wanted to get everything picked up and vote. I managed to get the favors, Halloween candy, and lunch for the rest of the week. I just couldn't do any more, so on Tuesday I went to vote and pick up the bags and ribbon for the favors. I still have to get the shower card. I can do that after my chiropractor appointment since I am going to the mall to have my nails done. These are things that I used to be able to do in one night. I am sure that I will be back to normal soon.
I have given up getting anything done around the house this week. Once I get my nails done, I don't do anything to ruin them for a couple of days and I do want them to look good for the shower.
There's always next week.
I don't see any more kids around, but I will keep everything out for another half hour and then close up for the night. I will have some candy left over to take to work. Spoke to soon, just got a group of teenage boys. I don't mind the older kids coming. When I was in 7th grade I had a friend over on Halloween since it was a Friday. My cousin, who was in 5th grade, wanted to go Trick'r'Treating. We were just going to go to the door with her and not actually participate. We were given candy at the first two houses and asked were our costumes were. We went back to my house to put some makeup on and went back out. The next house we went to the guy said we were to old to be Trick'rTreating. You just can't win sometimes. Well I wrote for the full half hour and now have everything locked up.
My thoughts and prayers do go out to all the people on the east coast. I can't imagine what they are going through. The longest I was without electricity was 20 hours. I was able to shower before it went out and drive to work, once the lightening stopped. I was smart enough not to try to open the garage door with the metal on it when it was lightening. I went to KFC and got dinner for my neighbors and myself. I was not stuck in my house with no way out.
Good night.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sick
OK, I did not get anything accomplished last week. My excuse was that I was sick. After the eye doctor appointment on Tuesday, I got an awful pain on my right side. I thought I was getting a bladder infection. I had one a couple of years ago and it started in the same way, with a pain on my side. This did not feel exactly the same in that I wasn't running to the bathroom and just dripping out and walking made it feel better. I was up wandering around the house at 3:15 in the morning. At that stage I knew I wouldn't make it to work. I was having a strange, stabbing pain in my abdomen for three days and a lot of time in the bathroom. Anyway I do feel better today. Back to work tomorrow.
I have my list of things to do tomorrow. Voting and shopping are on the top of the list. I do love early voting. At least I don't have to wonder were to go in a large gym as they have a bunch of different precincts in one place and even the people running it don't know were the correct precinct is. This way I will go into one room and just concentrate on voting.
It is after 10:30 and I have to get to bed so I will let you know what I accomplish tomorrow.
Good Night!
I have my list of things to do tomorrow. Voting and shopping are on the top of the list. I do love early voting. At least I don't have to wonder were to go in a large gym as they have a bunch of different precincts in one place and even the people running it don't know were the correct precinct is. This way I will go into one room and just concentrate on voting.
It is after 10:30 and I have to get to bed so I will let you know what I accomplish tomorrow.
Good Night!
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Life Back to Normal
Since the beginning of September I have been working many hours and neglecting both myself and the house. Every room in my house is dirty and I know that my next doctor appointment on November 8th will not be good. My A1C will be high. I will have to convince my doctor again that I should not go on more medication and still try to do this by eating better. This year I am not buying the Halloween candy until closer to Halloween, so I won't be tempted to eat it and bring it into work on Thursday. I will be taking Halloween off as usual. I have been doing this for many years now. I also have to start cooking dinner and bringing my lunch to work. I need to go grocery shopping once a week after checking to see what I need and not just walking through the store picking up things randomly. Also need to drink more water.
The house needs some major TLC. Yesterday and today was a little more normal than the past few weeks. I washed and dried the towels on Saturday. When my mother was alive I also did her laundry on Saturday. Today I did all my wash and am running the dishwasher. The towels are sitting in the basket to be folded and my laundry is in the dryer and the rest hanging to dry. I also have everything ready to balance my check book and pay my bills. This is what I used to do on the weekends and it makes me feel like I am getting some control back over my life.
I need to do something every evening when I come in from work so I can do some major cleaning on the weekend. This includes going through the mail that is stacking up on the buffet and the kitchen table.
Once I feel that the house is more under control I can start exercising.
I am going to have to see how this all works out. Hopefully I will keep up this blog to track my progress.
The house needs some major TLC. Yesterday and today was a little more normal than the past few weeks. I washed and dried the towels on Saturday. When my mother was alive I also did her laundry on Saturday. Today I did all my wash and am running the dishwasher. The towels are sitting in the basket to be folded and my laundry is in the dryer and the rest hanging to dry. I also have everything ready to balance my check book and pay my bills. This is what I used to do on the weekends and it makes me feel like I am getting some control back over my life.
I need to do something every evening when I come in from work so I can do some major cleaning on the weekend. This includes going through the mail that is stacking up on the buffet and the kitchen table.
Once I feel that the house is more under control I can start exercising.
I am going to have to see how this all works out. Hopefully I will keep up this blog to track my progress.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Heat Wave
It is hot in Chicago. At one point it was 105 at 2:00 PM. Then the rain came and it went down to 80, but very humid. Right now it is 95 and the heat index is 101. My A/C is set at 75, but it is 77 in the house. It is comfortable, but the A/C is running constantly which is pushing up my electric bill. I am on the budget, but it will hit at the end of the year unless I can "conserve" some place else. (Wear my underwear two days in a row to cut down on laundry?) Luckily I have gas appliances and not electric.
My bathroom sink and bathtub were draining very slowly. I took the day off to have the plumber come and rod them out. I usually have a repair man come in the morning and then go into work, or have them call me and run home to meet them. When I have them come in the morning and plan to go into work later, they come late and I only get about 3 1/2 hours of work in. Since I took the whole day off, he came around 9:00 and was gone before 9:30. At least I had the rest of the day to myself.
Before he came I had the bathroom clean and had vacuumed the living room. Of course, after he left I had to wash the sink, bathtub, and toilet again. I also used a wet swifter to clean the kitchen floor that could be seen when entering the bathroom. The kitchen table is full of papers that are piled (I like to recycle, but I don't do it very often), the floor needs to be swept and moped, and there were pans and dishes in the sink, not to mention the crap that was on the counter. The plumber, of course, had to come in the back door. I opened the front door and when he had to get anything out of the truck I had him go out the front. After he was through, he wrote up the bill on the counter in the kitchen!
Before I go to bed tonight, I will have the dishes in the dishwasher and wash up the pans. Then all I have to do is dust the living room and wash the kitchen and bathroom floor. Since they are predicting 102 for tomorrow, I probably won't go grocery shopping (no A/C in the car), but the heat also tires me out by the time I get home and I don't feel like doing anything. It looks like the rest of the house won't get clean until the weekend.
One other thing. Since yesterday was the 4th of July, I can understand the fireworks being shot off. It lasted until around 1:30 in the morning. The thing I don't understand is why someone would start shooting them off at 4:45 AM and then again at 6:00 AM.
Oh well, I have to get up and go to work tomorrow. I worked Monday, until 1:00 PM on Tuesday, and then working on Friday. Needless to say, no matter how much I get done this week, it still seems like a wasted week.
My bathroom sink and bathtub were draining very slowly. I took the day off to have the plumber come and rod them out. I usually have a repair man come in the morning and then go into work, or have them call me and run home to meet them. When I have them come in the morning and plan to go into work later, they come late and I only get about 3 1/2 hours of work in. Since I took the whole day off, he came around 9:00 and was gone before 9:30. At least I had the rest of the day to myself.
Before he came I had the bathroom clean and had vacuumed the living room. Of course, after he left I had to wash the sink, bathtub, and toilet again. I also used a wet swifter to clean the kitchen floor that could be seen when entering the bathroom. The kitchen table is full of papers that are piled (I like to recycle, but I don't do it very often), the floor needs to be swept and moped, and there were pans and dishes in the sink, not to mention the crap that was on the counter. The plumber, of course, had to come in the back door. I opened the front door and when he had to get anything out of the truck I had him go out the front. After he was through, he wrote up the bill on the counter in the kitchen!
Before I go to bed tonight, I will have the dishes in the dishwasher and wash up the pans. Then all I have to do is dust the living room and wash the kitchen and bathroom floor. Since they are predicting 102 for tomorrow, I probably won't go grocery shopping (no A/C in the car), but the heat also tires me out by the time I get home and I don't feel like doing anything. It looks like the rest of the house won't get clean until the weekend.
One other thing. Since yesterday was the 4th of July, I can understand the fireworks being shot off. It lasted until around 1:30 in the morning. The thing I don't understand is why someone would start shooting them off at 4:45 AM and then again at 6:00 AM.
Oh well, I have to get up and go to work tomorrow. I worked Monday, until 1:00 PM on Tuesday, and then working on Friday. Needless to say, no matter how much I get done this week, it still seems like a wasted week.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Homeowner
It's official. I now own my home. My brother picked up the paperwork from the lawyer yesterday. I am not the sole owner. My brother is on it, too. But I am the one living in the house, paying the bills, and responsible for the upkeep. It is scary not only having this responsibility but the fact that my mother's name is no longer on the house. Her name is still on all the bills except for the gas bill that some moron put their name on my address. It took me three months to realize this and I paid it all along so there was no problem with the gas, but I did have to put my name on the bill since they wanted to speak to my mother to put her name back on. I guess I have to move on to a new phase and accept home ownership. Wish me luck.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
A Start
It was 3 years ago on March 1st that my mother died. Today I cleaned out her stuff from the medicine cabinet in the bathroom and the linen closest. All except for her face powder that I could not throw away. I don't think that holding on to one item is so bad. There was a few other things that I kept, but those are things I will use now that I know they are there. I just wish I had taken out stock in Band-Aids. I must have about 10 boxes. It seems that my mother and I both use to buy them and then forget they were in the back of the linen closest. I don't know if I will ever use them all!
This is a start. I now know that I can get rid of my mother's stuff and not have a melt down. I hope that this is the same when I go through the stuff in her bedroom. Oh, I know there probably be some tears shed and there will be somethings that I will not be able to give away, but I know that I will get through it. I now just have to get my self motivated, but that is another story.
This is a start. I now know that I can get rid of my mother's stuff and not have a melt down. I hope that this is the same when I go through the stuff in her bedroom. Oh, I know there probably be some tears shed and there will be somethings that I will not be able to give away, but I know that I will get through it. I now just have to get my self motivated, but that is another story.
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