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Indian Summer
Oct. 8th, 2021 01:07 pmCat owner Joan Webb left yesterday for Guelph to spend five days over Thanksgiving with her son and I made a plan, 8, 12, 6 and 11 I would go in and do for him. Best laid plans.
Okay, slept in and ended up creeping down hall in pajamas to feed Mozart at 8:45am...sigh
Amazon did an update on Kindle and wiped out all my books. Twenty-four hours and still counting but interrupted for 4 hours yesterday when power went off in the area including the street lights.
Just made pot of tea. Still working on getting all my books downloaded from Amazon cloud onto my Kindle..so frustrating but this is the first time it has happened since I got my first Kindle back in????have to check when...June 2021...isn't is great that every book, all 1268 of them, that I have bought from Amazon is still listed on site so I can SEE WHERE ALL MY MONEY HAS GONE.
Bea's daughter took Bea's car and her personal walker to visit Barrie Manor yesterday and did a test run of getting Bea to the car and into it and it worked so they are feeling much more confident about bringing her home on Saturday.
I broiled a can of turkey spam with mayo on top till a lot of the fat was cooked away and it actually tasted really good. So next time I will do the same thing and try mustard. I am soooo adventurous when it comes to cooking. Today I am roasting a head of cauliflower with olive oil and covered in turmeric (fasting the weekend and this cauliflower needs to be USED UP..isn't that a cute way of describing eating.
I have been going through drawers and sorting to unload stuff or at least tidy...yesterday it was my card drawer. It was just like the manual drawer...sorted and got rid of 1/3 of them. So many keepers. At least the drawer is now organized and neat.
Next is the t-shirt drawer...all those old Starsky & Hutch and Pros t-shirts that are only good for the rag bag (I really wish textiles were recyclable). I must bite the bullet and unload them. I still have an unworn X-Files TER/MA tee shirt (I will try to take a photo and send it to Elizabeth Maner) with Ned&Leny lovers sleeping.
I tried to start keeping a journal for Brandon (one of the things that bothered me a lot after my mother died was there was no hand written record of anything - not even a grocery list - none of her life experiences, her thoughts or feelings written down) well the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I have given up and today started transcribing what I had written to him (or a precis thereof) into my actual big journal that I hadn't written in since 2016. I will give him the Tardis notebook as is for Christmas. The problem is...I do all my journal writing on line in about four different places and I write to four friends (Lois, Elizabeth, Karen Rae Travers and Elvie) with whatever my grasshopper mind throws up and that counts as a life journal of sorts. There is never a shortage of things to do. Judging by my Live Journal I am not very good at keeping even those up to date.
About feeling older....went to pick up two packages (not heavy but awkward) when a younger (just retired) neighbour offer to help me by carrying the heaviest one and though I accepted all I thought was..oh my god...I have become that person. I offer to help my older neighbours and in my mind I am thinking I am younger and stronger and should help these..well you get the picture...whaaaaaaaa.
Well new eating pad did not do anything for aching arm and neither did CBD oil. Turns out I should probably have been using ice packs. I was thinking that when winter comes and I do not put the heat on...I can put it over me feet...cause if my feet are toasty the rest of me is warm.
I would not want to bring children into the world that is coming especially not seeing how difficult it is for the most recent generation.
I spent a good part of this week (once I stopped scrubbing walls, painting tile grout on floor and shower stall of bathroom, washing windows and mirrors etc.) changing text files into mobi (I downloaded Mobipocket Create) to transfer to Kindle via USB and IT WORKED. I've got so many of my favourite X-Files stories now on my tiny unit to take with me anywhere...NOW TO GO SOMEWHERE :-)
Have lost 56 pounds so far since April 3, 2021. Brandon has cataract surgery appointment for 11:15 am on October 12th. I booked a taxi for 8:00am. Not wanting to wish my life away and trying to live one day at a time...I can't wait for October 20th to know the surgery went well and he is over the danger point and the eye works.
Ordered myself a Remarkable2 on September 28th, today I wrote to say where the hell is it. I got confirmation of sale on September 28 and then nada...no shipping information or anything. I also have not heard anything about a shipping date for The Loving Reaper book I ordered on August 15th.
Sent out a bunch of e-card today ..birthday to Dana who I have not heard from in forever. Hello card to Norman..who I have not heard from in forever. Thanksgiving cards to Lois, Elizabeth, KarenTravers and Elvis (also wrote them long letters). I reread Wendy's snarky mean email from June 29th that was a reply to my complaining email on her birthday. Zero dark thirty and ghosting her...well who is ghosting whom? Heard absolutely NOTHING from the bitch ever since. She is the one who claims she is too busy for my mundane emails and begrudges the time spent in composing replies.
Going back to downloading books, fortunately, I can do two things at once so I am not sitting focused on Kindle for hours at a time but first I better check the oven. (another chore that needs doing next...clean that damned oven....can't wait to try Barkeeper's Friend on that sucker)
Okay, slept in and ended up creeping down hall in pajamas to feed Mozart at 8:45am...sigh
Amazon did an update on Kindle and wiped out all my books. Twenty-four hours and still counting but interrupted for 4 hours yesterday when power went off in the area including the street lights.
Just made pot of tea. Still working on getting all my books downloaded from Amazon cloud onto my Kindle..so frustrating but this is the first time it has happened since I got my first Kindle back in????have to check when...June 2021...isn't is great that every book, all 1268 of them, that I have bought from Amazon is still listed on site so I can SEE WHERE ALL MY MONEY HAS GONE.
Bea's daughter took Bea's car and her personal walker to visit Barrie Manor yesterday and did a test run of getting Bea to the car and into it and it worked so they are feeling much more confident about bringing her home on Saturday.
I broiled a can of turkey spam with mayo on top till a lot of the fat was cooked away and it actually tasted really good. So next time I will do the same thing and try mustard. I am soooo adventurous when it comes to cooking. Today I am roasting a head of cauliflower with olive oil and covered in turmeric (fasting the weekend and this cauliflower needs to be USED UP..isn't that a cute way of describing eating.
I have been going through drawers and sorting to unload stuff or at least tidy...yesterday it was my card drawer. It was just like the manual drawer...sorted and got rid of 1/3 of them. So many keepers. At least the drawer is now organized and neat.
Next is the t-shirt drawer...all those old Starsky & Hutch and Pros t-shirts that are only good for the rag bag (I really wish textiles were recyclable). I must bite the bullet and unload them. I still have an unworn X-Files TER/MA tee shirt (I will try to take a photo and send it to Elizabeth Maner) with Ned&Leny lovers sleeping.
I tried to start keeping a journal for Brandon (one of the things that bothered me a lot after my mother died was there was no hand written record of anything - not even a grocery list - none of her life experiences, her thoughts or feelings written down) well the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I have given up and today started transcribing what I had written to him (or a precis thereof) into my actual big journal that I hadn't written in since 2016. I will give him the Tardis notebook as is for Christmas. The problem is...I do all my journal writing on line in about four different places and I write to four friends (Lois, Elizabeth, Karen Rae Travers and Elvie) with whatever my grasshopper mind throws up and that counts as a life journal of sorts. There is never a shortage of things to do. Judging by my Live Journal I am not very good at keeping even those up to date.
About feeling older....went to pick up two packages (not heavy but awkward) when a younger (just retired) neighbour offer to help me by carrying the heaviest one and though I accepted all I thought was..oh my god...I have become that person. I offer to help my older neighbours and in my mind I am thinking I am younger and stronger and should help these..well you get the picture...whaaaaaaaa.
Well new eating pad did not do anything for aching arm and neither did CBD oil. Turns out I should probably have been using ice packs. I was thinking that when winter comes and I do not put the heat on...I can put it over me feet...cause if my feet are toasty the rest of me is warm.
I would not want to bring children into the world that is coming especially not seeing how difficult it is for the most recent generation.
I spent a good part of this week (once I stopped scrubbing walls, painting tile grout on floor and shower stall of bathroom, washing windows and mirrors etc.) changing text files into mobi (I downloaded Mobipocket Create) to transfer to Kindle via USB and IT WORKED. I've got so many of my favourite X-Files stories now on my tiny unit to take with me anywhere...NOW TO GO SOMEWHERE :-)
Have lost 56 pounds so far since April 3, 2021. Brandon has cataract surgery appointment for 11:15 am on October 12th. I booked a taxi for 8:00am. Not wanting to wish my life away and trying to live one day at a time...I can't wait for October 20th to know the surgery went well and he is over the danger point and the eye works.
Ordered myself a Remarkable2 on September 28th, today I wrote to say where the hell is it. I got confirmation of sale on September 28 and then nada...no shipping information or anything. I also have not heard anything about a shipping date for The Loving Reaper book I ordered on August 15th.
Sent out a bunch of e-card today ..birthday to Dana who I have not heard from in forever. Hello card to Norman..who I have not heard from in forever. Thanksgiving cards to Lois, Elizabeth, KarenTravers and Elvis (also wrote them long letters). I reread Wendy's snarky mean email from June 29th that was a reply to my complaining email on her birthday. Zero dark thirty and ghosting her...well who is ghosting whom? Heard absolutely NOTHING from the bitch ever since. She is the one who claims she is too busy for my mundane emails and begrudges the time spent in composing replies.
Going back to downloading books, fortunately, I can do two things at once so I am not sitting focused on Kindle for hours at a time but first I better check the oven. (another chore that needs doing next...clean that damned oven....can't wait to try Barkeeper's Friend on that sucker)
