May 20 through 23
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chochiyo_samaThursday, May 20
I didn't do much of note today. I turned my roasted chicken into a chicken and rice hotdish. Then I put the New York strip steak into my small round roaster with some olive oil and cleaned and sliced up a vidalia onion and 8 ounces of white button mushrooms and baked it. It was very tender and delicious, and the mushrooms and onions gave it a wonderful flavor. I ate about half of that then put the rest in a plastic leftover box for another day.
I spoke to Lily today. She picked me up a box of quart and a box of gallon ziplock bags when she was at Fleet Farm. She gave me the good news that Roger, her son, had sold Jerry's motor cycle for $2,400 dollars. I am encouraging her to use some of that money to buy herself a new mattress and box spring. Her bed is as hard as a rock, and it is hurting her hip to try to sleep on it. All day the pain runs down her leg. I think a softer mattress might help.
She also told me that she found an envelope in one of her drawers that she was cleaning--in it were two $100 bills. She has no memory of putting them away like that. But she was glad to find them. She said she was going to use that money to buy flowers for her cemetery pots.
My shoulder has been bothering me a lot lately--it's been hurting so much at night that it is hard for me to sleep. This morning, I took one of the oxy pills I had left over from my stay in the hospital. I don't know that it helped a lot--mostly it just made me sleepy.
That's about it for today.
Friday, May 21
I had planned to work on my office all day, but I had promised to take my mother to the swamp to see if the swans had hatched out their babies yet. Lily had asked if she could have my Shopper, so I stopped and got my mail on my way to pick up Mom. I stopped at Lily's house and gave her the shopper. She gave me the ziplock bags she had picked up for me at Fleet Farm yesterday and showed me the flowers she had bought at Fleet Farm and Hilltop Nursery.
I picked up mom next and we drove to the swamp where no swans were visible. I suppose they were in their nest deep in the tall weeds. We drove around the back roads so she could see her friend Jody's progress on her garden. She happened to be in her garden, planting tomatoes.
I stopped the car and honked my horn at her. She didn't recognize me, but I called to her that I had my mom in the car. She hollered back for me to pull into the driveway. She was so excited to see someone. We talked for about 20 minutes with her, and she went and collected some asparagus for mom. Mom was willing to share it with me, but I have 4 ears of sweet corn and both cauliflower and broccoli in the refrigerator that needs to be cooked and eaten.
From there, we went to the cemetery in Geneva. There were lots of people there putting pots of plants on the graves. We just drove through; we didn't stop or do anything there. Mom returned the plastic storage box I had given her banana cake in a few days ago. In it was a $100 bill to repay me for the stuff I had bought for her from the Schwan's man and something else that I had paid for her.
My two prescriptions had been delivered to me via FedEx and were sitting on the breezeway steps.
When I got home, I cleaned the litterboxes and carried my stuff into the kitchen. I had a big bag of mail. I had given Lily three or four of the catalogs that had come. She likes to look through them, and I didn't want to be tempted by anything in them. I did keep two of the clothing catalogs as I could use some new underwear. I won't order anything till Wednesday next week as that is when my social security will drop into my account.
I paid the four bills that were in my mail, recycled the junk mail, and opened my packages with pleasure. I got a lovely little package from Minoan Miss with adorable little magnets and some tasty treats too! I also got four little outfits I had purchased from Etsy for some of my dolls as well as a few vintage patterns for the Tammy dolls and my Chatty Cathy dolls.
While I was working on my mail, I could hear a lawn mower very close to my house. I checked it out, and it was Tyrone, mowing my lawn! I gave him his $25 and asked if he could come over in a couple days and drag my recycling out to the curb. He agreed to do it. He is such a kind young man.
I ate leftover chicken and rice, a big bowl of watermelon, and some Schwan's cheese cake for supper. I did the few diry dishes that I had and settled into my recliner to watch some stuff off my DVR.
I ended up staying up till nearly three in the morning. I was working on some stuff on my computer and going through the list of 1000 books on Goodreads. I don't know why some of those books were on there--some were pure crap. I made a list of the ones I could remember reading. There were a couple on the list that I think I read, but since I could remember nothing about them, I did not include them on the list.
My former colleague, Peter Jacobsen had challenged me to go through it. He had only read abot 145 of the books, but I had read 248--a lot fewer than I thought I would have read as I read A LOT of books.
I had a facebook message that my former student Stephanie Balange's dad had received the book I mailed back to him. I wish I had been able to finish it, but I just couldn't focus on it while trying to read it, and he had another person who wanted to read it.
I'm glad it made it safely back to him again.
Saturday, May 23
It rained a lot in the night. It was supposed to rain most of the day, but it cleared up in the afternoon and evening. My crabapple tree is almost in full bloom and is just lovely. I was afraid that the rain might knock all the blossoms off the tree, but it was a gentle rain, so they have been able to hang on. The lilac bush is also within fractions of an inch from bursting into full bloom.
I have spent the day watching stuff on my DVR and deleting it. That's about it.
I ate leftover chicken and rice and the last of the New York strip and mushrooms and onions today. Before I go to bed, I might eat another piece of that cheese cake. Or maybe not. We'll see if I get the munchies later.
I didn't do much of note today. I turned my roasted chicken into a chicken and rice hotdish. Then I put the New York strip steak into my small round roaster with some olive oil and cleaned and sliced up a vidalia onion and 8 ounces of white button mushrooms and baked it. It was very tender and delicious, and the mushrooms and onions gave it a wonderful flavor. I ate about half of that then put the rest in a plastic leftover box for another day.
I spoke to Lily today. She picked me up a box of quart and a box of gallon ziplock bags when she was at Fleet Farm. She gave me the good news that Roger, her son, had sold Jerry's motor cycle for $2,400 dollars. I am encouraging her to use some of that money to buy herself a new mattress and box spring. Her bed is as hard as a rock, and it is hurting her hip to try to sleep on it. All day the pain runs down her leg. I think a softer mattress might help.
She also told me that she found an envelope in one of her drawers that she was cleaning--in it were two $100 bills. She has no memory of putting them away like that. But she was glad to find them. She said she was going to use that money to buy flowers for her cemetery pots.
My shoulder has been bothering me a lot lately--it's been hurting so much at night that it is hard for me to sleep. This morning, I took one of the oxy pills I had left over from my stay in the hospital. I don't know that it helped a lot--mostly it just made me sleepy.
That's about it for today.
Friday, May 21
I had planned to work on my office all day, but I had promised to take my mother to the swamp to see if the swans had hatched out their babies yet. Lily had asked if she could have my Shopper, so I stopped and got my mail on my way to pick up Mom. I stopped at Lily's house and gave her the shopper. She gave me the ziplock bags she had picked up for me at Fleet Farm yesterday and showed me the flowers she had bought at Fleet Farm and Hilltop Nursery.
I picked up mom next and we drove to the swamp where no swans were visible. I suppose they were in their nest deep in the tall weeds. We drove around the back roads so she could see her friend Jody's progress on her garden. She happened to be in her garden, planting tomatoes.
I stopped the car and honked my horn at her. She didn't recognize me, but I called to her that I had my mom in the car. She hollered back for me to pull into the driveway. She was so excited to see someone. We talked for about 20 minutes with her, and she went and collected some asparagus for mom. Mom was willing to share it with me, but I have 4 ears of sweet corn and both cauliflower and broccoli in the refrigerator that needs to be cooked and eaten.
From there, we went to the cemetery in Geneva. There were lots of people there putting pots of plants on the graves. We just drove through; we didn't stop or do anything there. Mom returned the plastic storage box I had given her banana cake in a few days ago. In it was a $100 bill to repay me for the stuff I had bought for her from the Schwan's man and something else that I had paid for her.
My two prescriptions had been delivered to me via FedEx and were sitting on the breezeway steps.
When I got home, I cleaned the litterboxes and carried my stuff into the kitchen. I had a big bag of mail. I had given Lily three or four of the catalogs that had come. She likes to look through them, and I didn't want to be tempted by anything in them. I did keep two of the clothing catalogs as I could use some new underwear. I won't order anything till Wednesday next week as that is when my social security will drop into my account.
I paid the four bills that were in my mail, recycled the junk mail, and opened my packages with pleasure. I got a lovely little package from Minoan Miss with adorable little magnets and some tasty treats too! I also got four little outfits I had purchased from Etsy for some of my dolls as well as a few vintage patterns for the Tammy dolls and my Chatty Cathy dolls.
While I was working on my mail, I could hear a lawn mower very close to my house. I checked it out, and it was Tyrone, mowing my lawn! I gave him his $25 and asked if he could come over in a couple days and drag my recycling out to the curb. He agreed to do it. He is such a kind young man.
I ate leftover chicken and rice, a big bowl of watermelon, and some Schwan's cheese cake for supper. I did the few diry dishes that I had and settled into my recliner to watch some stuff off my DVR.
I ended up staying up till nearly three in the morning. I was working on some stuff on my computer and going through the list of 1000 books on Goodreads. I don't know why some of those books were on there--some were pure crap. I made a list of the ones I could remember reading. There were a couple on the list that I think I read, but since I could remember nothing about them, I did not include them on the list.
My former colleague, Peter Jacobsen had challenged me to go through it. He had only read abot 145 of the books, but I had read 248--a lot fewer than I thought I would have read as I read A LOT of books.
I had a facebook message that my former student Stephanie Balange's dad had received the book I mailed back to him. I wish I had been able to finish it, but I just couldn't focus on it while trying to read it, and he had another person who wanted to read it.
I'm glad it made it safely back to him again.
Saturday, May 23
It rained a lot in the night. It was supposed to rain most of the day, but it cleared up in the afternoon and evening. My crabapple tree is almost in full bloom and is just lovely. I was afraid that the rain might knock all the blossoms off the tree, but it was a gentle rain, so they have been able to hang on. The lilac bush is also within fractions of an inch from bursting into full bloom.
I have spent the day watching stuff on my DVR and deleting it. That's about it.
I ate leftover chicken and rice and the last of the New York strip and mushrooms and onions today. Before I go to bed, I might eat another piece of that cheese cake. Or maybe not. We'll see if I get the munchies later.