April 7 through 13
Apr. 14th, 2022 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chochiyo_samaSo, of course, I have fallen behind in my entries again. For the most part, I will be making these entries brief. Only really significant things will be expanded on. I am sure no one really cares what I ate for lunch.
Thursday, April 7
I worked on the laundry. I also gathered the bedroom, bathroom, and living room garbage and took it out to the bin. Then I cleaned the three breezeway litterboxes and tossed the scooping’s in the bin too. Peaches and I shared some very nice snuggles while watching it snow. The snow did not amount to anything, but it was very pretty as it fell. Pretty much, it melted upon touching the ground.
When Peaches got tired of cuddling, I washed the dishes. There were quite a few of them. I also got my grocery order called in to Lekberg’s.
Not a terribly exciting day, but at least I accomplished a few things.
Friday, April 8
Sawyer and William are adapting well to their new home. Sawyer is already very affectionate and cuddly. William wants petting but doesn’t want to snuggle yet. They love to play and wrestle with each other. I have a whole box of cat toys that they enjoy “killing.” It is so cute to see them prancing across the house with a toy mouse hanging out of their mouths. They are climbing all over everything, especially things that are high. They are knocking everything off the shelves, so I have to pack up a lot of my breakable knick-knacks before they are shattered like my little fox candy dish.
I cleaned the laundry room litterbox, got the stuff ready for my tax preparer and got the envelope ready to mail, finished the bank paperwork for my local bank’s savings account, and called the credit union to find out if I had received a third stimulus check. My tax preparer said I was entitled to one and that she would apply for it for me if I had not already received it. I remembered getting the first two but that’s it. I was right. I never received the third one. It would have been direct deposited if I did.
Jack came over to drag my garbage and recycling bins to the curb, check the air pressure in my tires, and bring me my mail. He also brought me the four jars of jelly Mom had picked up for me at her church’s fun raiser for Ukraine. He had taken her to her eye doctor appointment earlier today. The sole benefit of having a flat tire. Someone else takes mom to her appointment.
While Jack was still here, Ross stopped with my grocery order, so that is taken care of. The three of us had a nice chat. Ross didn’t stay long, and Jack left shortly after. He took my outgoing mail with him to mail it, so I can stop thinking about that.
I called Joni to wish her a happy birthday. She is feeling better, and the orphaned kittens are doing well, getting fat. They have adapted well to being bottle fed. It is sad that sweet little Paris had to die. She was such a sweet and loving little kitty.
Saturday, April 9
Jack stopped by again today. I had ordered refills of my test strips and lancets for my blood glucose monitor, and they will not send them by mail, claiming that the temperature would render the test strips useless. I asked if he’d pick them up for me when he went in to buy groceries, and he did. He also picked me up a couple of bags of kitten food for the monsters. He had stopped to grab my mail out of the mail box too, and I had quite a bit of mail again. Not many bills—just a lot of catalogs and junk mail.
Happily, the new doll clothes patterns I ordered arrived with this batch of mail. I feel like sewing doll clothes again, but I will not allow myself to sew until I get this house back in order. I am so tired of living in chaos. Sometimes I feel like it would be fine if a tornado sucked everything out and blew it away. But, I would miss all my dolls and fabric.
And the cats! I would not want to lose the cats!
Sunday, April 10
Deann was gone to Connecticut to a wedding this weekend, so there was no Zoom meeting. I didn’t do much. It was a lovely day. The highlight of my day was watching Shenandoah, an old movie starring Jimmy Stewart set during the Civil War. There wasn’t much else happening at my house today.
I watched the cats raise hell all day and cuddled them when they collapsed of exhaustion. They are both sleeping in my bed with me at night now. I knew it was only a matter of time.
Monday, April 11
I did another load of laundry, cleaned the laundry room litterbox, and filled the pop fridge in the kitchen.
Joni is feeling much better, eating and mostly keeping it down, and has decided to take a break from strict veganism so she can get over the malnutrition. She will be doing a vegetarian diet instead. The orphan kittens are gaining weight and strength so it looks like they are going to make it.
Rhonda is in Texas helping Lily pack her stuff and clean the trailer. Lily thinks they will be back in Ellendale by Friday.
The weather people have been forecasting some pretty scary weather for tomorrow night.
Tuesday, April 12
I continued working on the laundry. I cleaned the litterboxes in the breezeway. When Peaches was the only cat, I cleaned the litterboxes every Friday. Now that I have Sawyer and William, I need to clean those boxes every other day—I actually should clean them DAILY. These monsters are peeing/pooping machines. If there was a market value on their excrement, I would be rolling in cash.
I am flirting with malnutrition myself. I don’t eat all day until evening—sometimes not till 9 pm. I am experiencing dizziness and other weird effects that I suspect are caused by low blood sugar. I need to do better. I was so hungry tonight that I was literally “hangry.” I baked two Schwan’s chicken kievs and ate them BOTH. I also made a box of garlic and herb pasta roni and ate about half of that. I felt so much better after eating those things. I still have two more chicken kievs in the freezer for another day. Hopefully I will just eat them one at a time next time.
Jack stopped over to haul the garbage and recycling bins back to the house. I was thankful as severe storms with high winds, possible hail, and some risk of tornadoes are forecast for tonight. The wind has been crazy all day. Just south of Faribault, seven semis were blown over on their sides, blocking traffic for miles. It took four hours for the road to get cleared out and traffic to flow again—and that was just the preamble to the severe weather!
On his way out, Jack took the bag of recycling I tied off today out to the now empty bin. I checked outside to see if my prescription had been delivered yet. Of course not. I suppose I will have to call again. They always forget to mail my prescriptions. Assholes.
However, the Amazon box that I THINK Mary sent me was out there. I haven’t opened it yet.
I watched the weather channel all evening. I watched the storms moving up through Iowa on radar. Before the severe stuff arrived, there was wild wind and a downpour that sounded like I lived under a waterfall. There might have been some hail too. It sounded like it. Then there was distant thunder and flickering lightning in the distance. Soon all hell broke loose, but it was just thunder and lightning. REALLY LOUD thunder and really EXTREME lightning. The cats were freaked out and hid.
There were several tornado warnings, but none for my area. The closest one was about 45 minutes from here. The small town of Taopi which is near Austin got hammered. Every single home in the tow suffered some damage and about half of them were completely destroyed. Two people were injured badly enough to be hospitalized, but no one was killed. Thank goodness.
It is amazing how bad the town was hit. There is video in the above link.
It could just as easily have been us in Ellendale. I am glad it wasn’t us, but I am sorry that town had to deal with it.
Wednesday, April 13
The biggest accomplishment I had today was to take a good, hot shower. I feel so much better now.
Tammy called today and we had a good chat about how stressed out she is and how frustrated she is with all the shit she is having to deal with. She has been very worried and anxious about Joni. Also, she is sick of all the “Poor Kim” drama. She had talked to Mom earlier and got to hear the latest drama going on in Kim’s life. Apparently, Kim visited Mom on Saturday and “cried all day, she’s SOOOOOO worried!” (Quoting my mother.)
Apparently, the town house that Kim and her spawn live in shares a wall with another unit. Recently, the neighbor has been pounding on the wall at 3 am and waking Kim up. Of course, Kim could not possibly go over to the neighbor’s house to find out WHY she is pounding on the wall at 3 am like a normal person. Instead, she called the landlord to complain. Turns out the neighbors are the landlord’s daughter and granddaughter. So, Kim, with her usual level of paranoia and persecution complex, is SURE that she will be evicted and does not understand why these people are “out to get her and her boys.”
Both Tammy and Joni had calls from Mom telling them all about this drama, and both of them responded in the same way. They asked if the spawn were screaming and swearing and howling during their marathon all night video game playing sessions the way the did when they lived at my house. Mom immediately became outraged and defended the precious man-babies, declaring that they NEVER did that—that it was all a big LIE that I made up.
Both of them confronted her on that, telling her that they KNEW it was no lie as they had called and HEARD the spawn cursing and screaming as they played their stupid games.
She did not call me on this crap. This is a good thing as I have had about all I can stand of “poor Kim” and her pweshus boys. That’s another issue Joni and Tammy both confronted her on. They said, “Stop calling them BOYS. They are grown MEN. Kyle is in his mid thirties and Lucas is pushing thirty. Mom also claimed that the boys couldn’t have been yelling because “they were working.” Well, Lucas is DONE with work at midnight, and Kyle works in the afternoon. They both sleep late and stay up till the wee hours playing their stupid games. Also, both work part time. Lucas doesn’t even work HALF time. I think Kyle does, but I do not clutter up my brain with their schedules.
I am sure that the wall pounding is a direct result of their disrespectful noisiness in the middle of the night. But I am sure that somehow, some convoluted way, that *I* am to blame for the neighbor and the landlord hating them. I am such a powerful bitch, apparently.
In other news, Lily and Rhonda have cleaned the trailer, packed the car, taken a box of stuff that would not fit in the SUV to the UPS store to be shipped to Minnesota, and were in on their way north on I35 when they called to tell me what they were doing. Lily did manage to leave her house and post office keys in the trailer. Sigh.
I told her to tell her friends Ed and Amy to stop by the trailer when the new owner moves in and bring the keys with them when they come up in mid May. I can give Lily my copy of her house key and she still has Jerry’s PO key at her home.
I am so thankful that the trailer/Texas drama is DONE. It was mentally exhausting me to hear all of that drama constantly too.
Now I am caught up with my DreamWidth entries again. Ugh. I hope I don’t allow myself to fall so far behind again.
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Date: 2022-04-15 08:56 am (UTC)Both sleeping in the bed with you? How long did that take? A week? And how does Queen Peach feel about that?
You need to get that stair chair installed so that if you have to get down in the basement to shelter you can.
Thank goodness Texas is over. There is no more trailer so Lily has no reason to go down there again as she has no place to stay (unless one of her asshole friends invites her to stay with them for the entire time. Geesh.) Now to get Bert to go over her finances in one syllable words in a way she can understand so she knows she can afford to live in that senior community. I'm still shocked she went down there this year after what happened the last time.
I think these one week synopsis are working out pretty well. You take notes and so can easily do a week at a time in tiny daily bites.
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Date: 2022-04-20 11:46 pm (UTC)I asked if that was ALWAYS or just during the pandemic. Of course, she didn't bother to ask. I assured her that chances are these rules just apply during the pandemic as everyone who lives there is elderly and most of them have a variety of health issues that make them vulnerable to an opportunistic virus. I advised her to call the management and asked, but of course she will not do that.
She and Rhonda also looked at some senior living places in Owatonna which are closer to us in Ellendale--that would make it more convenient for me to visit her and also for her to continue with her "Red Hat Club," her Bible study, her swim classes, and her Wednesday supper and card club. The downside is that I don't think those facilities are as nice as the one in Rochester. I don't think any of them have a pool.
I would go to the place where the best options were available, and a pool with daily pool exercise options would carry a TON of weight.
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Date: 2022-04-21 12:46 am (UTC)Now, would she use the pool? If so, that's where she should go. But if she won't use it and all those groups are more important to her, than being closer is better.
I suspect that pool and amenities policy barring guests is just because of the pandemic. You'll have to call to find out as she won't. It's probably a good idea too, as you can get the correct info on how much it costs for a cat as that $500 a month doesn't sound right at all. You can also ask a few questions for yourself for maybe some time in the future.
Then the next step is to get Bert to go over your finances and show her that she can afford it.
I do think her going with Rhonda to just look is a step in the right direction.
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Date: 2022-04-22 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-22 08:20 am (UTC)She is foolish to even consider a place that does not have a pool. If it's an indoor pool and heated that clinches it. No pool should be her deal breaker.
Gee, if you end up living there, maybe I should forget about Carlsbad and look into that place. It would probably be cheaper and the dogs would be gone by then. Or I can adopt a little one from a local shelter. I think the pool at Carlsbad is only outdoors and not sure about a heater but I would guess it has one. If it weren't for the dogs I would probably be calling them now if I don't get my license back.
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Date: 2022-04-15 08:58 am (UTC)Life has been.............. complicated to say the least.
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Date: 2022-04-20 11:26 pm (UTC)I don't know that my recent entries are very good for others to read anyhow. Mostly this is what I do rather than go to a therapist. Ha.
I hope things get smoother for you. Complexity is seldom fun unless it's a jigsaw puzzle.