Busy last day

I really have not done well this Wednesday. For one thing I let the wash get away from me and didn't fold it as soon as I brought it in from the washroom. Usually I will fold as soon as I get in but today I was busy with my arm bike and trying to work out. This was also the day that one of my home health people came in to do some cleaning in the house apartment. So I ended up spending time visiting with her while she was cleaning the apartment. So I didn't get my clothes folded today that hardly ever happens and on top of that it's 9:07 p.m. and I'm just now writing my blog. Again, that hardly ever happens. Oh I remember, I also had to go to the market to pick up a few things before the weather turns bad tomorrow and by bad I mean cold and wet possibly even snow. I wanted to make sure I had the things that I use every day in stock so I won't have to go out for the next couple days if I don't want to. I had to get a bottle of orange juice since I wasted a whole bottle or half a bottle this morning when I tipped over are the container of of orange juice slipped out of my hands Hit the Floor fell inside and basically emptied half of the container onto the floor. I'll bet at least $3 worth so it's over to the market again to pick up at least 89 Oz of the orange juice to use when the juice was able to salvage this morning got into the bottle. Luckily it was the first half of the bottle that tipped over so I still had about half of the bottle left which I refilled the first bottle. That also left me though no juice at all once I finish that small fresh bottle so I wanted to make sure I had a new container of juice. I'm really getting into drinking fresh orange juice everyday that in my concoction so I had to get some cans of the sliced pickled peppers. So this afternoon after I worked out and finished cleaning the apartment with Gloria my cleaning person I went over to the market and got about six cans of the sliced pickled peppers a bottle of juice and some cucumbers and tomatoes to slice up into the concoction which I really enjoy. So far I have not had any somatic issues with as much of the concoction as I eat each day. Now however I've got I think about everything that I'm going to need here at the apartment. I've got milk, Juice enough eggs I believe then of course what I have in the container of pickled peppers and other vegetables that I have in my refrigerator in the big fat. I do have a couple bananas but I don't have any other fresh fruit. I may or I could rely on canned fruit I have lots of that in the fresh package of cottage cheese. I think I'm okay I could do some cooking I could enjoy the next couple days Springs coming.. 

Memories

I had lunch today at a place called the Shanghai Restaurant it's in downtown Salt Lake it is one of the favorite places of Dianne`s and mine. Diane and I both worked downtown Salt Lake in the Shanghai was on the way home. They say they're Chinese but I think it's more Vietnamese with a Chinese influence whatever it is it's very tasty and today that's where I decide to have lunch even though I knew I would be flooded by memories of Diane and myself and the family. I found dining by myself today was a bit of a struggle. I don't know what's happening to me but I can barely be out in public on my own and not have to be asking strangers for assistance every couple hours to replace my feet on my foot pedals. This is a real sucky thing. I don't know if I'm sitting weird in my chair which I must be because I can feel myself being pulled to the right side where my foot turns under and then I basically start sliding out of the chair fortunately I have my safety build on and my restraint which keeps me from sliding completely out of the chair but still I'm tired of having to ask people would you replace my foot on the foot pedal please. Fortunately people are willing to help but still kind of embarrassing and sometimes humiliating. Like today I was at the library killing time before my meeting downtown and my foot was off the foot pedal again and Not only was the foot off the pedal my foot was out of my shoe and I had to ask them to put my foot back in my shoe. Luckily the young guy didn't have much of a problem and fortunately he had heavy duty rubber gloves to protect you from my cooties or maybe I was being protected from his regardless I did get my foot eventually back on the foot pad and scooted back on the chair. I want to blame the foot padding in the Box it's all scrumpled up because it's been torn up. Theoretically I'm getting another foot box with more padding and hopefully it's not the same kind of padding that I destroyed with this box. I think that's the issue I'm having right now I just got to figure out a way to keep my feet in my shoes on the foot box.

I got my Shanghai Restaurant standby which was broccoli and beef and egg roll. Their egg rolls are gigantic not the little regular Chinese egg roll but these large Vietnamese spring rolls with a great carrot dipping sauce. Too much for one meal at least for me so I had the Box up what was left over which is quite a lot and I brought home for dinner only to find I still have enough rice and broccoli for another meal. The meal for lunch was $27 which I think is horrendous for a lunch even at the Shanghai. But it's been a long time since I've been there it was great to taste the flavors and the memories I'm sure it'll be some time before I have them again…

Moody Monday

Another night of fairly decent sleep this is great I can't believe how much one can appreciate a good night's sleep after a couple nights of just horrible sleep or attempts at sleep. My respiratory congestion seems to have completely vanished which is great. I'm feeling energized and excited to be awake and doing stuff. I spent the day pretty much working around the apartment. I did go over to the market to pick up a loaf of bread. I wanted to make sure I had everything I needed in case I wanted to put together a sandwich or something. Oddly I didn't use the bread once I got it however it's nice to have in the refrigerator. I had to do this once that I looked at the loaf of bread that I thought I was going to be able to use for breakfast this morning but it was basically going green quickly. I essentially had my concoction for breakfast and that was fine enough. Later on I had cheese and crackers for a mid-morning snack. I worked out on the arm bike for an hour got my workout in which I felt pretty good about listening to NPR and enjoying the morning. I did have a visitor early on which was Alan my wheelchair mechanic he had to come over and tighten up my left arm rest which was basically falling off and vexed me all weekend long. The armrest is in place again and the screws are in place that's tight I hope for a while. We're now just waiting to see if the insurance will pay for another armrest. I don't really need one I don't even think I really need one but it's nice to have something to put my arm on but I can get by without it if I have to. At least I know what to expect and not have to worry about losing the armrest again if it isn't replaced. My biggest hindrance then is just to make sure that all the screws are tightened or else I lose the arm again. Other than that I spend a good part of the day finishing up getting the kid letters printed and enveloped and stuffed with money for those who get it. I took a break in the afternoon or early evening to watch the Utah Jazz get beat I couldn't stand it finally and turned it off in the middle of the last quarter it was obvious that the Jazz had no chance. I guess you can give him a break since they're on the road and this is just one of the many games are going to play. The night they played in Brooklyn tomorrow they play in New York that sounds a little confusing that's what they said. Would be interested to see how they do tomorrow. The days are nice nicer than they should be. I called my contact at the private nonprofit and we will have a meeting tomorrow and I should be able to get in and out without incident I'm counting on it. So I'm looking forward to my trip into the city tomorrow and then enjoying the rest of the month now that the letters are written and sent out 

Sleepy Sunday

 I spent another weird night with severe congestion I guess in my chest. I worry myself not knowing exactly what's going on but thinking it's just basically the Goomba that I've had all week. I don't know if it's the medication I'm taking the cough medicine that's doing it or whatever but it's getting kind of old. I just wake up after sleep in a couple hours and I've got rails in my chest so bad I can't get back to sleep. Every time I exhale it sounds like a freight train leaving my chest or my mouth and then when I don't breathe I can still wheezing out somewhere. I woke up a little bit before 4:00 a.m. today and watch the clock click for an hour. I tried to will myself back to sleep but it just wasn't working finally at 6:00 a.m. I got myself up because I then only had 2 hours to go before I had to meet my son at the restaurant for breakfast. What I find most odd is that even though I must be sleep deprived I tend to be getting along to the day okay. Today I got a little dicey around noon or little after I was really tired and tried to nap a little bit by laying back in my chair or propping myself against The Doors and hoping I would nod out. This kind of worked and after I had some coffee and put myself back together I was okay for the rest of the day pretty much. I don't know if I was trying to interact with anybody that might be another case but I was able to go to breakfast with Mark with no problems we had a pretty good conversation enjoyed our company and then I came home and pretty much hung out for the rest of the day in my apartment only stopping once to check the mail. Usually I wouldn't even have done it check in the mail today. I only did it because my brother gets so concerned anytime he sends me money whether it's for Christmas or for my birthday he's got to make sure that I go down and check the mail and let him know as soon as that money gets here. I think he has so little faith in the US Postal Service. But today I did check the mail and sure enough the card was there and so was the cash. There's nothing like cold hard currency to make one feel solid and solvent. 5 $20 bills and I'm set for the month I'll bet you.

Following breakfast I spent the majority of the day in the apartment dictating my monthly letters. This to me seems to be a appropriate use of my Sunday time. I was surprised to see that so much of the month is already passed there's just a few days left in January so I guess I'm right online if I can get the letters printed now and in the envelopes I should be okay for February. February is a short month so I'll be doing this again sooner than I think.

Lucky find

My upstairs neighbor, Irene, finally passed this last week. She was in her early 90s and she was ready to go. Irene was one of the first people I met when I moved into this joint and she was a bit crotchy and irritable and really kind of tired of living All Things Considered. She even made comments about how depressed she would be sometimes when she woke up and realize she had another day of living to go through. She was highly involved with the goings on here at the facility. Pretty much ran the Thursday morning coffee group as well as making the coffee and making sure the refreshments are out and everything was taken care of. She was always walking around the building day or night sometimes I think she was up all night walking around. But, she finally got her wish and now she's gone. She really didn't have anyone to mourn for her one son who was somewhat distant all the other family members she outlived. It's the way that she wanted it though she didn't want a lot done at her passing. Interesting however that a lot of her stuff from her apartment has been showing up at the giving table edging out what food might be there. Lots of dishes and plates and glasses and comforters a few dish rags a lot of other weird stuff that is someone accumulates over a lifetime that nobody else wants but you can't quite just throw it away. I went back a couple of times and each time I went there was more stuff there so it must have been an all-day project for the family that was left to clean out the apartment. I was surprised and I'm kind of excited finally to see this microwavable safe warm up vessel. I've been looking for these for a long time and have not been quite sure how to go about finding them. Diane had a number of these over the years at our place there on utahna I really enjoyed them as far as warming up stuff but they would finally drop at one point or another and break and they would be gone. This one I grabbed however and realizing for the first time there was riding on the back of the device and and it was the actual name of the company that made these microwavable safe warming devices. I don't see a lot of new ones being made but there's a quite a few of used ones on eBay being offered which I might consider purchasing two or three more of the vessels. They really are quite nice for warming up dinners and food and stuff like that. Again it's like welcoming home an old friend.

I cooked a roast tonight so that I'd have dinner tonight as well as easy eating tomorrow over the Sabbath. I will not have to cook anything. I'm still letting the roast cool down so I can throw into a gallon bag along with the taters and the onions that I cooked with the meat. I wish I'd had some carrots that would have given the dish a little more color and round it out the flavor. I'm kind of excited now however to be able to use this new covered dish for heating up the leftovers of this roast. I like it when Saturday night winds up on an up note… 

Problem solved

I don't know what it is but I just cannot seem to shake this cold that's been hammering me for the last week or so. It's got me down to the point where I don't feel like I want to go in and have the doc look at me but if I don't get any better, soon I'm going to start considering such an alternative. It's not really tearing me down like in bed or anything but it's just I'm coughing and my nose is running again tonight and just bugs me hopefully just hopefully tomorrow will be better. I haven't been out for just for a long long time and that's not so bad either. There's nothing I really would want to be doing maybe go to a movie or something maybe doing some shopping from the market but still I've been doing okay no problems here I'm feeding myself and doing a pretty good job at it if you can tell. Luckily the sore throat is gone and for the most part the cough is gone but the same time I'm really utilizing the cough medicine the kids got me a couple weeks ago it's really been working well.

Of course today is Friday that means Melissa is over for the routine. It's great whenever she comes over she looks for things around the apartment that need to be worked on or fixed or whatever and I've been complaining for a couple days now about not having access to the flat screen or a TV of some sorts. And today as we were speaking she says well what about that one in your room she meant the screen that Billy left me. It's one that's been in my room that my son is indicated that it's old technology and probably wouldn't work too well as a flat screen but it always worked good for her she just went to a new flat screen before she died. And I said well probably doesn't work anyway and that actually run into it with my power chair trying to get something once or twice I figured it was junk but sure enough I was totally surprised but all of a sudden I heard television noises coming from the other room and sure enough Melissa had figured out how to hook the screen up to the computer or whatever she did she got it working. And it does not work totally super well it works good enough to get me Network which means I can watch the ball game for the rest of the season I finally figured out how to reach the streaming channels but I can't get auditory out of them so yeah like Netflix and Prime and the others right now I can't figure out how to get the noise on the volume up. The network viewing works just fine but so far I haven't been able to figure out that aspect maybe Marc Anthony and Melissa can figure that part out it's amazing. There are some pretty significant cracks in the screen or lines on the screen where I ran into it with the foot of my chair but still it's enough that would still prohibit me from going out and purchasing a new screen. I should since I've had such an issue with this one but my method operandi is that if it's doable use it. Now it's about time that I crash I want to try to get up and take in coffee tomorrow morning…

Screenless

 

It's Wednesday evening and I'm suffering a little withdrawal I think my flat screen is finally given up. I have this flat screen that I basically use as a television set. It took to my computer as well so I can stream onto my screen as well. Dianne got this for me when I went through in my first operation so it's going to be stuck in my bed for a while in the upstairs bedroom. So I've had it for a number of years I don't know exactly how many I don't know how long these screens are supposed to last. But the one I have has been messing up for the last couple months. When I turn the screen on a light goes on in the bottom of the screen like a signal light of something quite bright followed by a second light and then another image comes on to the screen which basically allows me to start either go to the television stations or go to my computer selections whether it's Amazon music or Netflix or whatever. It's worked pretty good over the years I've kind of enjoyed it but the last few months however it has not immediately come on when I hit the button sometimes at first I just hit the button once or twice and then the image would appear on the screen and I'd be able to go on my way then later I would have to go through this procedure of hitting the power button on four or five or six times maybe as many as 20 times before that image would come on and that should have been a signal to me right there and then to start looking at getting another flat screen. I doubt it's worthwhile trying to figure out what's wrong with the screen as opposed to picking up another one. I of course did not do that for a host of reasons most of being how am I going to get it from here to there there to here or whatever. If I had the real courage I would just order it in and have the driver guy drop it off at the front door that's what I should do but for some reason I want to try to get this screen to work again if I can or somebody else to come and Rescue Me. Of course put in a call to my son Marc Anthony but he's got his own life can't drop everything and run over here just because I can't get my jazz game on the flat screen and that's tomorrow night anyway hopefully I will have this resolved one way or the other by then.

The next question I really have to wrestle down is do you want to see if I can find just a used flat screen somewhere there seems to be a lot available off of KSL Marketplace or classifieds and some of them are almost giveaway type situations. Or do I want to go to a real vendor and purchase something with a warranty and all that kind of stuff? It's certainly something I don't really relish getting into with no control over transportation and all that stuff. So in the meantime I'll just fight the withdrawal shakes and keep from looking at the screen every 3 or 4 minutes wishing that magically it would erupt into I'm working eyeball on the world...

Tedious Tuesday

 I am sitting here patiently waiting for the IMC driver to come here to pick up my power chair for some minor pieces of work. I'm in my backup chair which seems to be working fairly decently today but I've been someone under the weather never had not really a chance to use the chair in a real life setting to see how well it performs on the tarmac for any relatively large distance traveling. I somewhat skeptical as to whether this chair will hold up for any significant distances but at the same time I also know this is my backup chair and should not have to meet those long distance requirements as my regular chair will. I just been notified by my tablet that the window has started between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. pick up. I'm really hoping they'll come fairly early cuz I still have to do my arm bike workout which will take 60 minutes. Luckily or unlikely I'm still somewhat incapacitated with this cold that I have- - and thank God it's not covid I took the test last night and it tested negative- - my granddaughter and semigrandson-in-law brought over dinner last night which included two bottles of cough medicine one for the night and one for the day. I can't believe how much I slept last night I slept from 11:00 to 7:00 it's never ever happens but I think it's the NyQuil or whatever cough medicine they got me which was basically over the counter stuff but it's all expensive. I had my home health person yesterday find my bottle of cough medicine but my granddaughter was horrified when she saw that it was like 6 years past expiration  date or the used by date. I don't necessarily feel all that better for the extra couple hours sleep that I got but I think that's due to the nature of the illness I am currently suffering. When my neighbor Janet gave me one of her covid test boxes I didn't say anything just graciously accepted the test. Reading through I noticed that there's a lot of hand functions needed for the test especially squeezing little bitty packets of fluid into the little bitty bottle provided as well as swabbing my nose five six times each way. Fortunately my granddaughter who is studying to be a nurse jumped on the challenge and administered the test. I'm totally impressed that we were able to get this thing done and at least alleviate me from that stress of not knowing if I have covered or not. My granddaughter is a true blessing that's all I can say.

I had to call and cancel my attendance at the Advisory board meeting this morning at assist, ink which I hated to do but no choice the way that I feel I really didn't want to go driving around this cold weather feeling this way and possibly getting worse. Andreas was pretty understanding and I appreciate that as well. Luckily because the kids were here last night they brought over Pizza as well as a meatball sub from Subway and of course they got the 12-in sandwich. I have both in the refrigerator and should last me a couple days now it's just a matter of getting through this illness getting back to my old self.

Partial Post

I'm just exhausted this illness / flu or whatever is just kicking my butt. I know this almost sounds like covid in fact my neighbor upstairs Janet sent down a covid test pack today indicated she has many. Why that is so? I don't know. I know that it does not surprise me. Anyway it was almost like here you go take this covid test before you start telling the world about how sick you are. I didn't think twice about the issue of threw it on the table and then what about my daily routine. Melissa, my helper person, was pretty much an eventful today though she's always helpful as far as sweeping the floors as well as attend to me and my diverse disability needs. Today she made my bed like change the sheets and generally got the other power chair, my backup chair ready to go, so they can come and pick up the chair tomorrow and get the work done. I'm not sure what they can do but we'll see. I've been in this chair now all day- I'm in the backup chair- - and I don't know if I related this into the blog but they indicated that they could not find the the motors that would match up with my regular chair that I've turned into the backup chair and they went on to say that they're going to have to do some specialized work on that the chair. So the chair that I have as a backup chair was not my old chair which I really wanted but they said they couldn't find the motors that would fit those motor needs that I have. I cannot believe they can't find a motor that would fit on that share all the motors they have there at the ucat building. I'm not going to worry about the situation much however this chair is the backup chair and the reason I liked it so much was that it was actually my chair but now I've got this other thing which is similar to the other chairs but it's not it. I just have to be careful when I do the transfer in the mornings to make sure I have elevated the foot plate for the night before that way my feet go into that little box by the foot box  5y feet abruptly stop and I'm able to use that blocking as it means a transferring without putting myself at too much risk. I didn't do all that the last time I transferred and laid on the floor couple weeks ago. Now I'm over stressed on the transfers. The rest of the morning I worked on a puzzle, word puzzle, I need to get a hold of the puzzle folks to get another bunch of puzzles. .

More Kleenex please!

 I hate being sick! Last night when I rolled into bed I was shocked when I realized that pooped a little bit. Fortunately for me I had a lot of bed savers you know mattress pads usually blue I was able to isolate and contain most of the poop to the point where I was able to basically sleep through the night. I was pleased when I got up in the morning to realize that the efforts had taken to mitigate just this kind of a situation that paid off but I'm still afraid that I was going to poop and I wasn't sure how to go about taking care of that except for maybe contacting Marc Anthony or maybe Melissa if I had to. I still wasn't feeling that good and did not sleep that well in fact I was impressed at 6:30 a.m. to get an email from Mark or a text and wanted to know if I was going to go to breakfast I told him my situation and needs and he said that he would come over and assist me getting on to the toilet which you did. I would really like to have gone to breakfast but still not feeling secure as well as just sickly feeling nose running and the cough beginning. After being cleaned me up and dressed me and such my son took off to do his commitments for the day and I pretty much hung around the apartment watching TV. I know that's a sad statement but with Netflix and Disney I'm certainly blessed at the point of having something I can lay back in my chair and watch to get the time passed.

I mostly ate my concoction since I put a lot of extra vegetables didn't last night it was just fine this morning when I try the concoction after it had chilled all night. I did eat some chicken noodle soup with crackers at some point time during the day as well as picked at other items that are nearby from potato chips to pretzels I did have a banana which was pretty good and a couple glasses of orange juice. I should have had some yogurt and I still might before I go to bed. The biggest issue I'm complaining about tonight is I'm coughing and my nose is running. Hopefully I'll be able to roll into bed tonight without any issues though I'm going to replenish all the pads that I used. I would hate the fact that I had another incident tonight especially after today where sitting on the toilet for a long time I produce some fairly decent amounts. So I don't know what's going on with me or if I'm going to another stage in my progression through this life I don't know it's just really frustrating.

So they plan tomorrow, actually for the next coming week, is to take it easy keep a low profile and try to drink as much juice and other liquids as possible. I hope perhaps I'll be well enough that I'm able to take the bus into assist, ink, Tuesday. I'm really highly believing this tube will pass at least the illness. I think it was covid or something other like that my symptoms would be a lot Grimmer. We'll just have to see

Symptomatic

I think it was sometime yesterday that I realized I must be coming down with something my throat felt a little scratchy but I kind of ignored the symptoms at first but does the date progressed I'll be in the field more and more under the weather. My last evening I had pretty much made the decision I wasn't going to go to the coffee meet up with my friend Janet this morning. Then I realize I got a call from her or a text from her indicating that she was not going to the coffee shop either. I had seen her earlier in the week around Thursday or something that she wasn't feeling very well and she looked like she was struggling a little bit. So I don't know if it's something everyone's getting here at the apartment complex or what. My symptomology was so significant during the night that I got very little sleep but I did like to get up at 7:00 a.m. anyway and plow through the day which I pretty much did. The only productive thing I did all day was add a few more vegetables and the item is to my concoction. I still had coffee from yesterday and between the vegetable concoction and other items running around the refrigerator I pretty much just pissed all day long. I watched movies on Netflix probably more than I should have and I binged a series which is kind of stupid but rather entertaining. This evening I contacted Mark Anthony or he contacted me we texted about what to do about tomorrow. I'm wondering if I get some sleep go to bed and get some sleep at maybe by tomorrow morning I'll feel a lot better enough to run over for some breakfast and socialization with the family. We'll have to see. Tonight I watched the Jazz lose again and feeling pretty rugged ragged. I don't know I'm not probably drinking enough so I had a popsicle at some point and now I'm just tired and they're probably need to get some sleep. I don't know if I'm going to go to breakfast tomorrow I would like to even if it was weary some for me I can still go to the breakfast and then come home and just lay around all day.

5 I don't know if you can tell but I am dictating this posting tonight on my tablet which I think has a much better speech to text capability then the system I have on my computer. I tried using it for the last couple days just because it's there and I was by the computer after Jasmine cleaned off the tray. I found it really difficult to use the software it just doesn't listen to my voice and Prince a lot of the stuff I dictate to it which is a shame cuz I like being hooked up to it and talking into the microphone but just never seems to work anyway. One can certainly tell the difference well it's not muchBut I am sick and that's going to be my excuse

Looking Shifty

 

I was surprised last week when I realized I was short on quarters were awash when I realized that I was out of my stash of roles of quarters. Kind of pride myself on being ready for much as I can or the vacuum control. I don't think this is particularly a problem but maybe I have some issues with control problems. Anyway it was time to get to my banking facility to go roles. A couple of years ago I sort of got yelled at by the local market kept asking for quarters. They suggested I go to my bank or significance amounts of rters which took part in the brain trying to do that since.

Thank goodness the cold supercold weather has moved on and today temperatures got up in the 50s which may be an outside not Half—bad so you know I figured I would go out and get some bus time logged. I have too branches of my credit union went on the same street which the boss runs every 15 minutes for this way tell you quite a trip on transit you branch is around the corner actually and is serviced by a bus route that Runs every 30 minutes.. I really didn't mind the long bus trip so I went up town about 30 blocks. I guess I should also include the fact that I had my own person and on my new shoes today and I don't know how wise that was. My feet has been challenged pain all day which I'm telling myself is just par for the course For new shoes. I sure hope it does not take me long to break these things in the up side Is that my shoes and stay on my feet all day long. I really like my credit union. My Credit union is one of those upscale operations for everyone dresses down and looks cool wearing loafers, nice James and overall sparkles.Admittedly, this is not my regular branch, The branch I went to today. There was a little wait ,as I sat in line.. The wait was not too bad eventually the teller called me up and I told him what I needed. The teller looked at me strangely as if he was going to a difficult time fulfilling my request. 4 Roles of Quarters. I had already supplied my bank account number and Code word and a $50 bill which would my friends gave me for Christmas. Manuel, which was the name of the teller, informed me that the credit union really was a person more than 2 roles of Quarters (I felt things were getting really weird Really quickly . I assured this teller the other branches of never had a problem.. After this Small confrontations The teller did this weird operation on my $50 bill 1^st folding the currency to different times and then holding the currency Up to the light looking for something that he actually took the currency and through a machine that I suppose much for counterfeit currencies. Eventually, I got my quarters and got. Shortly before the next busI just wanted to get home as quickly as I could before the Secret Service showed up inquiring about my $50 bill and how it gotIt…

Granddaughter Blessings

 

My granddaughter actually stop by the apartment today. I'm just so impressed. She has recently started community college not far from my apartment and has talked about stopping by the place when she is on class to visit and possibly assist should I need any assistance. This granddaughter usually has Sunday breakfast with me and her dad at local restaurant. Like I said, she talked about stopping by today she did and what a great experience! Not only did we have great visit but she help me clean my table off tape up a package to return to Amazon and order the correct item which was really beginning to intimidate me. It was great. Let me tackled by workstation computer cable. I still have unopened Christmas cards piled high. She took charge of that mass only organizing the pile as well as cleaning off the table.top given me the freedom and will finally go through the Christmas cards and get rid of the ones I don't want to make bookmarks out of the others.Jasmine even took the package to return to drop it off the Amazon station from the apartment. Incredibly Jasmine was able to do all this in the space of 45 minutes I was totally blown away. My granddaughter confided in me that she has Thursday classes which cancer treatments midmorning that she would be willing to stop by to spruce up the apartment. This would be incredible. Will try next week and see what happens.

Remember last night, yesterday in my blog, I was grousing about local basketball team NBA canceling the game at our facility because of the snow – –? Well I was totally wrong. One of the coaches on the other team died the night before a local restaurant! Was counsel in respect of the coaches passing. I have to admit I'm a little taken aback they would do such a thing – – that's a good sign right? Maybe there is some humanity and national sports and it's not all about money. The game is now rescheduled luckily for me there is another game tonight the challenge now is to keep the: coach alive until tipoff.

I have written numerous times regarding the coffee social which is held here at the apartment complex, every Thursday morning. For one reason or another the population of the coffee group is decreased significantly over the last year. Whatever the reason is causing consternation to some of the participants would like to see more FOLKS attending. I think part of the problem is been a number of the older participants and just die and had a number of new folks will be the units are still acclimating program/apartments. There's been some discussion about changing the name “coffee social” to something other than copy which is a forbidden luxury to many of the apartment residents due to religious affiliations. I think it's a storm in a teacup or should I say “coffee cup…

Snow day

 Forecasters the last couple of days indicated the day would be a fairly light snow day and granted we don't have huge drifts of snow piling up but I have to report that significant amount of snow has fallen today. If there is a silver lining to there prophesying it might be that a warm front is supposed to come through later on today ushering in Rain instead of snow. If that's the case then perhaps a lot of the snow will evaporate as the warm rain melts it down and allows me to access sidewalks as well as bus systems in my neighborhood. If the snow was not bad enough it also seems that the local construction teams whether state city or county of woken up and are now busily tearing up segments of sidewalk all around my apartment complex making it almost impossible to get to some bus stops and in some cases the transit authority has closed the bus stops in this area. That just means I have to do some more focused searches for relatively close bus lines. This, of course, is doable but I have to confess that I might be getting a bit lazy and that I don't want to have to spend my time and body being exposed to cold and are wet weather just to have to travel a couple more blocks to get to a bus stop I shouldn't have to do that and I'm guess I'm saying that I won't. Not that local Transit Authority cares about my little monkey paw clenched fist raised in angst hanks against them. The real challenge will be for me as the city Cruise man there street cleaning machines, snow plows, and start going up and down the streets piling all the snow into the curb cuts as well as the markets and every place else that I have to go to. That's where the real challenge will be in because that snow pile will eventually turn to ice which will basically extend the inability to use sidewalks and then extension bus stops.

Snow day equals sign no

It's kind of weird but when I was watching the afternoon or the news at noon they reported breaking news that this evening's NBA game has been canceled/postponed due to the weather. Somehow this doesn't make a whole lot of sense since Monday's night game was accompanied by significant amount of snow and they went ahead and had the game anyway now they're canceling tonight's game theoretically because of snow. Cuz by tonight I think a lot of the snow is going to be gone. Public transit should be working just fine everything from the local bus routes to the light rail going back and forth I don't see why that would be an issue. Maybe it's a national thing maybe the airports are closed where they're originating from but I think they're coming in from Denver cuz I think it's the Denver Nuggets tonight This doesn't surprise me nothing does anymore. Maybe I'll have more time to enjoy my Steve King before tumbling off to sleep …

Bamboozled

 

I get so frustrated at myself as well as people on the internet or the place where you're trying to buy stuff and they do the old Razzle Dazzle and before you know it you've got something you didn't really want and you still have to get what you want. Case in point I somehow ran out of this non-stick material that I use made by outfit called Dyson and it's really good for wrapping on my sticks wrapping on the ends of my sticks this non-stick material that allows me to do all kinds of things as far as reaching things and making things they don't slip off of when I'm trying to do something especially like pushing shoes off and all that kind of stuff that I use all the time. Anyway earlier last week I needed are realized I was basically out of the material and I need to order in some more so I did this search and I found what I thought was this Dyson material and I ordered it and it came in today and of course it's nothing like what I ordered it's two rolls of black material that's really not adhesive or sticky or anything and will not work for what I need it for now I've got to figure out how to get it back to where I got it and hopefully get the what I did want which may cost a little bit more. It's just why I never buy very much stuff off the internet because it's never what they say it is they're just bamboozlers.Grrr 

It was frightfully cold this morning so cold that I was a little spooked about going into my meeting today downtown Salt Lake. I would have to be out in the elements a significant amount of time to catch the bus. Luckily I called just after work started at 8:00 a.m. this morning and we decided that we wouldn't have a meeting today and just have the meeting next week which I'm sure it will be cold and snowy or something but today I had to reprieve and I was able to just hang out and enjoy the day. I did go next door to the market though and got a few things when it's warmed up a little bit this afternoon. The sun was out it was a beautiful sunshiny day and even if it wasn't all that warm it felt warm because you had the illusion of heat from the Sun. Maybe that's just drinking in the vitamin D who knows? I had to pick up some fresh vegetables and fruit at the market and ended up spending like $37 I can't believe how much I spend on a daily basis lately. There really must be something wrong with me between going to the market and spending and trying to buy stuff off the internet I'm beginning to worry myself a little bit. I'm in no trouble really money-wise as far as ordering this stuff but I need to really begin to watch myself I probably could get into trouble we're very easily.

Floored!

Cannot believe that I am actually rearranging my day so that I can watch a basketball game this afternoon / evening. That's right Utah Jazz we playing basketball tonight I don't really remember who they're playing against but I'm interested in watching the whole thing and not having to sweat having to do a posting this evening after the game or during the game. Interesting the way my interests are changing. It's a cold day this Martin Luther King Day, course it's a Federal holiday that means there's no mail and staff are not here and that's okay not a big deal to me but still it's a holiday so things are just a bit more slow. My Day begin somewhat challenging to say the least

I actually slept fairly well getting up or trying to get up at 6:00 a.m. after waking up at 5:00 a.m. and just sort of laying in bed watching the clock turn. I don't know how it happened I'm still trying to put this all together in my mind but as I finally decided to get up and make the turn on the bed to switch my legs over to the foot pad or foot box of the power chair something happened and I slipped a little bit and slid over between the chair and the bed and usually that's not a problem. What I think happened was that last night I failed to tip the foot box up as an angle that allows my feet to be trapped so they don't slide off. So what happened this morning as I tried to make the transfers I slid in between the crack of the chair in the bed and my feet couldn't get purchase on the foot box and I begin to slide down on the chair I tried to regulate the problem by actuating the the chair or the Box that tilts the bed up or down and that only sort of made the problem worse then on top of that I lost the control box completely which hardly ever happens. Now I have a number of sticks on my bed that I could have reached up and pulled the alarm box with that would have notified either the person on staff here the resident advisor or in worst case scenario to the local authorities usually the fire department I didn't want to do that for the reason that I don't want to have a number of visits for the fire department for fear of losing my Independence I'm being forced to long-term care. Anyway little bit by little bit I lost my sticks and I slept more and more between the bed and the chair at one time I tried to actuate the chair tilted it up hoping that my hip would catch the bed Rising but it didn't do any good it was just too much too much I would fall between it and eventually sliding down completely to hit the floor my leg was actually turned in a real precarious situation at first and finally I was able to get that squared away of course I tried to get to my cell phone and that didn't work at was plugged in and usually I can pull the cord in it will stay plugged in but it fell off and on the floor. Once I was on the floor I was able to reach one of my sticks and I was able to pull the cell phone over to me and I was able to call my home health person Melissa. It took a while to get a hold of her and I was on the floor for about an hour and a half I think. She eventually picked up the phone and came right over and got me up and got me going but I really have to confess that this is shaking me up a little bit and makes me want to be careful that I do a better job and maintaining my equipment for the transfers. I hope I'm not going to do a new phase of dependency that would be horrible. Still with the help of Melissa getting me totally off the floor back into my chair or whoever it might be it's still to everybody's favorite to keep me out of long-term care and into my own living scenarios. The images I have posted today are taken from me laying on the floor between the bed and the power chair… 

Internet Magic

I was really ready to wake up to snow apocalypse this morning by the way that the weather guys have been talking all week but fortunately when I got out and headed towards the restaurant it was a nice almost spring like morning. We need to come during the night and melted all the snow that I was somewhat intimidated by. It's all gone even though later in the day there was more snow it was too warm for it to really do anything significant which is good for me anyway. There's more snow of course called for by Tuesday and we're supposed to have a meeting on Tuesday but I don't think there's going to be much of it to be honest with you. It's okay we had lots of snow in the mountains which means that our water year I think will be okay if we get that far. I don't know what else is going to happen calamitous wise it's going to get super dry super hot. I guess I'm going to take the good and the bad it's all going to be here. I know that sounds dismal but it's just the way that it is more or less.

I was awake by 5:00 a.m. pretty much laid around the bed till almost 6:00 getting up about 5 minutes before the hour make sure I got shaved and then dressed and had everything ready to go by 7:30. Marc Anthony texted to let me know that he was running behind can I give him a half an hour of course I could so I worked on my puzzle book for a while took my medications and tried to increase my fluid intake for the morning before I took off to the restaurant. There were a couple of issues I was a little spooked by me. When the plows had gone through and pushed all the snow to the side of course they left it right in the driveways and if nobody had driven through the driveway the snow was still piled up there. There's a place I like to cross the street midway between here and the restaurant which Cuts straight across the street I was afraid I was not going to make it because while the snow the cloud pushed over to the side of the driveway and nobody had come during the night to pound down that ice but I plowed through it pretty good I didn't want to try coming back though so I went the long way. It was just Mark and I this morning for breakfast. My granddaughter has started the Community College not far from my apartment complex and really got herself tired out this week between reading for class and work she opted not to come to breakfast. We missed her but I'm going to look to see if I can have lunch with her sometime during this coming week. But aside from my trip to the restaurant I came home and just pretty much hibernated the rest of the day. I did call a few people on the phone and on the texting phone on my laptop or tablet. But that's been about it I didn't watch one movie kind of and of course the news feeds in the regular time slots of four five and six local national news and that's been my Sunday. Not bad the weekend will stress and a few minutes with friends thanks to the magic of the internet 

Entropy

The day was not as cold as I anticipated particularly from the information I've been receiving from the local weather people in the news. I will not say the day was warm but it wasn't terribly freezing either. I had coffee this morning with my friend Janet from upstairs and we made it over to the coffee shop without any problems except for the snow that had fallen and had not been scraped or dozed out of the way. It was a little rough in spots for me and I'm not sure what's going to happen tonight. They had talked about a giant snow storm coming in but now it's like snow coming in for a while then after midnight some kind of a warming trend is coming in and the snow will turn to rain and I don't know what that will do to the snow it's already down on the ground and is turned to ice. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised tomorrow when I go to breakfast and we'll be able to not have to deal with ice flows. That looks like barring the warming trend ice floes will be here for some time if we get any more snow.

I used the good weather or the warmer weather to hit the market after I got back from the coffee shop. Went down and picked up a few things I thought that I needed before the holiday which is Monday. I'm sure the markets will be open on Monday but just to be sure I wanted to make sure I had juice in the house as well some of the other items I felt that I needed. I cooked this morning which I really enjoyed cooking sausage and eggs and toast. It was so good breakfast more than that I enjoyed being in the kitchen messing things up a little bit and that I did. Now I've got my frying pan soaking and pretty sure I'll be okay but till Monday when I can get up early enough to wash dishes before my health gets here and have hot coffee ready for her and maybe something for her to have for breakfast. I'm quite fortunate that she takes tips as food which is great.

The apartment is entropine more than I would like. I'm trying to keep ahead of the entropy but it's a losing battle. I may have to get a hold of Gloria soon to see if she needs wash money and she always comes over and does a pretty good job of cleaning things up at least enough to tell I can get by for another couple weeks. I'm a messy person I always have been a messy person and I think it's just me there's nothing I can do about it- - that's probably stinking thinking but still that's what I think- - I realized it early on when I couldn't keep the inside to my desk clean in early grade school when we are finally allowed to keep things in our desks. My bedroom is always been messy my folks always gave me leeway on that it seems but certainly has followed me all my days. I might try to pick up a little bit tonight before I go to bed. Currently watching the Utah Jazz play I'm totally surprised they're sort of a head right now but I don't know how long that's going to last. They have been doing good I have to admit the last couple games I'm amazed I'm going to have to stop down playing them as much as I have been lately 

Game Nght

Another quiet day to where I didn't do a whole lot except just hang around the apartment Spruce it up a little bit and try to stay warm. Today wasn't terribly cold but it certainly looked that way and felt that way off and on. In fact I left the apartment complex just once or twice to take garbage out to the dumpster. I probably should have made a dash to the market but I just didn't feel motivated to that point since I have everything I need pretty much right now except for orange juice. I need another container of orange juice to get through the next couple days. I may have enough juice to get through till Monday Martin Luther King Day but it depends on how much snow in the next couple days that we get that I replenish the drink or not. If the snow is not really too bad and the cold is not too freezing I might make a dash over to the market. Either that or talk somebody here who's going to the market to pick something up for me. I have my jalapenos and cucumber and Tomatoes too get me through. So why go out if I don't need to?

Friday night and I'm spending the evening watching the Jazz game and it looks like they're on their way to win another game which totally shocks me. I really had to change my feelings about this ball team as being a loser team to really becoming quite proficient at sinking those balls into the Nets. I hate to relate this I really do but I've gotten to have some sort of a relationship with these on screen athletes. Last night I had a dream that two of them were my friends and we were doing something together I'm not sure what I can remember at this point but they were there in my dream I'm thinking about them that much which kind of blows me away. I cannot believe I'm not easily influenced. I would not say these ball players are my heroes but I think a couple of them would make good friends especially for getting things down from high places. 

More Snow's forecast overnight and early tomorrow morning. I doubt there will be as much snow as they say there's going to be they're never really is. Hopefully, there will not be enough snow to prevent me from going over for early morning coffee on Saturday with Janet and whoever else shows up. The last couple weeks it's just me and Janet and that's okay allows our gossip to be a bit more widespread I'm sure. They have more snow forecast for Saturday night into Sunday supposed to be a more juicy storm they say but I don't know for sure if I believe that we'll have to see how much snowfalls and if it's enough to prevent me from going to breakfast on Sunday morning with the kids if that's what they want to do. I suppose that the snow was significant I could just have Mark follow me over to the restaurant to make sure that I got there and Back Again. It's been a quiet Friday night watching the game and taking the garbage out and lining the bags in the garbage cans so I was a little productive and sometimes that's all it gets…

Enough!

Do you ever have one of those nights when you think you're all ready for sleep in bed don't seem to go that way. Last night was that night for me. I knew I had to empty my bladder and I tried to empty my bladder before I went to bed, truly I did the best that I could but when I finally landed in bed it still felt that my bladder was kind of full but that couldn't be because I just drained it even though I didn't drain a whole lot I still felt I had enough to get with you tonight well that was not the case. Probably around 1:30 I was awakened by feelings of a tight bladder in a subtle urge to urinate. Thinking that I had a pretty empty bladder I figured I could just trick myself in the falling back to sleep and not waking up until later in the evening morning or whatever that was silly thinking. I think I may have dozed here and there but around 2:30 or something a.m. I decided I'd better just go ahead and cath, drain the bladder and try to a salvage as much sleep as I can from the night. I think I drained about 300 cc's which isn't too bad and I did go back to sleep probably until 5:00 a.m. which isn't too bad I knew I could make it through the day though. I forced myself to stay in bed till another 6:30 a.m. then finally getting up. It's Thursday so you know I have coffee social today. I really did not feel much like attending lack of sleep being probably the foremost reason but I had other reasons as well but I ended up getting up and dressed except for my shoes- since I had no reason to go anywhere today because of snow and because it's so cold- - I had a quick breakfast then the coffee social. It was better attended than it had been for the last couple days strange things are happening and who knows what's going to happen to the little group of coffee Drinkers and non coffee drinkers. That was pretty much it for the day except for I did have a board meeting at 4:30 p.m.. luckily I did not have to leave the property since they are able to stream the event. The board meeting was pretty low-key and lasted an hour and that was enough.

Dinner was kind of fun I cooked one of those little steaks I gotten from Omaha Steak and then I also cooked two of the burgers came with the order so I had or have tons of protein now I also cooked this giant potato so I had half of a potato and one of the hamburger patties and a slice of steak for dinner that was pretty good it was enough anyway. I have enough protein for another dinner or lunch and still have stew and the rest of the roast I made on Sunday. Sometimes I feel a little guilty for eating so well but really sometimes I just have enough…

Squalls

 It's a little after 4:00 p.m. I'm sitting in my bedroom slash utility room looking out the window and the snow is just started. Luckily I'm not out and about doing anything significant I can stay cooped up in the apartment for as long as I want. Weather forecasters have also indicated that very cold air is going to come in behind this fast moving Squall are snowstorm and that doesn't really excite me too much either but it is winter and I guess we need to be thankful for all the moisture we can get. I've just finished folding my wash away I still have to put some elements of the wash away but the wash is done. Now I am dictating my post for today much earlier than I usually do just because I don't want to have the stress of having to post as I watch the Utah Jazz this evening play their basketball game with Denver. I'm kind of embarrassed to even write this but that's where I sent to as far as priorities.

While speaking of priorities I must confess that I didn't attend my former employers funeral today nor did I dial in through streaming. Honestly, I tried I really really tried. Like most broadcasts like this the usually have a a page that precedes the streaming event that allows the individual to get set up so that when the event is streamed it shows on the screen and they can then be part of the event. On today's screen it says that the event has not started yet. So I don't know what happened with the mortuary that was hosting the funeral which it looks like they are the ones responsible for streaming the event but they never streamed the funeral of as near as I can see. I waited for almost the whole hour for the streaming to begin and it never did. I wish I could feel somewhat upset about the whole situation but it's kind of a whole hum thing that I tried and I can say that I tried if it ever gets to that point if people asking did I attend the funeral. Or Why didn't I dial in. I think it's kind of weird that the mortuary didn't broadcast the whole thing and I might ask that Genie person if she knows anything about what happened. In all honesty I could have semi dressed up and jumped the bus and gone down to the funeral but quite frankly it's way cold and that wasn't sure when the snow storm is supposed to come in at least according to the different forecasters. Quite frankly I don't know who I would produce heroic efforts with to attend their funeral at this point. There's a couple that I probably would but seriously there's a lot to be said about Let the dead bury the dead. I know that sounds like a mega cop out and it is I guess but just seems like a lot of effort to do at the end of the road. I'm sure at my passing it'll be very little involvement of folks that I associated with up to that point except of course with family and even that with immediate family. I'm just glad it's all over now for the time being until the next one passes and I just hope it's not me…

Tuesday Tales

 Today was cold but not as cold as I thought it would be. I wasn't feeling all that well when I retired last evening and read only till about 11:00 then turned off the light. I hardly ever go to bed this early the result was waking up very early like 3:30 a.m. and then dozing until I finally got up around 6:30 a.m. but I was a little groggy when I got up but after a few minutes I sort of kicked in and I've been good all day actually. But I said earlier the day was cold and in fact there's supposed to be major snow today starting in the afternoon. Of course, my big issue was was it going to catch me and snow on me coming home from my assist meeting. And yes they had an assist me today and I was the only one who showed up from the volunteers. It's not surprising it's just the way that it is. We went through quite a bit of requests for service I signed a lot of documents and hardly a legible hand but I don't think they really care just as long as they got something and it looks like a signature. I visited with the staff a little bit then scrub down a a breakfast burrito that saved for me from their staff meeting which was okay I'd tasted better but it was free and it saved me from having to go to the Taco Time. But, I was kind of surprised because today was a Payday from assist they give us a stipend every other month every couple months not very much 50 60 bucks and it's it's nice it's helpful so I booked ass over to the bank as soon as I got out of the assist meeting put $6 in the bank and $50 in my pocket. Which I'll put in my money book. Like I said it's not much but it's nice to know the appreciate you that much.

Actually by the time I finished with assist, ink in the bank I was surprised at how well the day are nice the day looked so I had the best person dropped me off at the college then backed tracked and stopped at the market to get cucumbers tomatoes in a couple cans of peppers even though I still have some in the closet I wanted to make sure I still had ample Supply if I get snowed in. It was nice to get home turn up the heat and spend the rest of the day goofing around the apartment. Since I got the ingredients for my concoction after I turned on the news on the computer screen I went in and chopped up some tomatoes green cucumbers actually just one cucumber and a can of sliced jalapenos peppers. I think I have everything I need so I don't have to leave the apartment for a couple days if that's what it's going to be they keep talking about how cold and how snowy it's going to get but it kind of think it's not going to be that way. It's 10:00 now and I haven't seen a whole lot of snow and they're supposed to be the front moving right in. Oh well it doesn't matter as long as I can get around and I've got the food I need I'm okay

Freezing Monday

It's so cold outside that all I want to do is just sit inside and veg. Luckily the apartments relatively clean and swept up this morning and having to clean floor can really give the illusion of overall cleanliness. It was a pretty good session this morning no blood at all which is refreshing since the last couple of sessions have been bloody messes literally. I've got a steak thawing out that I can use to hopefully generate more blood cells but overall I think I'm doing pretty decent. Today I just went up front twice wants to check the mail which is really checking to see if there's any cans of food available and two to be seen and let me know if anything is going on I need to be aware of. There wasn't any mail to speak of except just regular stuff and trash mail.

They're actually feeling a little pensive perhaps a little ill don't know if I've got a sore throat coming on or exactly what or I'm just overreacting to the cold weather. All I know is I'm watching the weather closely and they're supposed to be another storm coming in tomorrow. With that in mind I called the the office to find out if there would be a meeting tomorrow there seems to be which means that, with my luck, the storm will come in just as the meeting ends and I'll be coming home and driving snow. I can hope for the best and just go through with it since they're seems to be a meeting. Hopefully I can keep him focused can we get the meeting one and done I can get out on the road and get home as quickly as I can to hibernate for the rest of the storm. I don't really have to go out for the rest of the week except possibly Saturday for breakfast or coffee with Janet and breakfast with Mark and the kids the following Sunday. There are going to be a number of storms in between then and now and I think I'll just basically be hunkering down in the apartment plan on the internet reading working out and trying to keep the apartment relatively clean. However there is a funeral planned for Wednesday for Deborah. Again feeling the way that I'm feeling right now I'm not going to go into this the funeral if anything I'm going to watch it on live stream I'm not even too enthused about doing that but it seems like I should. The real reason I really would have gone to the funeral person would have been if my fellow work folks would have been there mainly Julie and Kim. Kim I know we'll be there of course but he'll be an official director type role and I doubt if Julie's going to go she might I mean she's got Kevin to take care of her so that would make sense. Since I don't have anyone to take care of me I think I'm just going to stream it and enjoy being out of the cold. I think the funeral's going to be where she lives was at down about 6,500 Redwood Road. I might even get to bed early tonight to see if I can get a little extra sleep for my trip tomorrow and make sure I bundle up top and bottom ellipsis 

Brrrrr

It's gotten really cold and did I mention that it snowed last night? It really snowed last night couple of inches this morning which was not a problem as far as going to the restaurant and back. It was a little dicey coming back but going was in the problem. There was driving snow however which made the trip a little uncomfortable but not too bad. I even took a blanket for my legs which I hardly ever do. I can see now the temperature is dropping significantly and I need to be careful. I think there's enough snow with just Fallen now that it's going to make it difficult to get around next couple of weeks particularly if more snow adds to what's already out there we may be talking problems and disability Transit until late February early March. Aside from funerals this week and possibly my assist meeting I don't think I have to be out too much and the funerals I think I can actually stream if I really am worried about getting out in the cold and ice.

I visited with Diane today who is now living in Arizona and one of the reasons that she did go to Arizona is because she was convinced that the climate was more temperate and a good place to be if you're senior and have limited income. Today the temperatures drop to almost freezing in her little community and everyone shocked for this kind of weather and temperatures to be around Arizona. Of course everyone's screaming blow a warming and by everyone I mean me. Why do people feel so confused or surprised. They've been talking about it forever the seasons they are a changing I would not be surprised if Arizona didn't see snow by the end of the week. Of course, this isn't going to last forever this is just a blip in the weather forecasters predictions but I think they know in their heart of hearts something's changed or something's changing and it's going to be pretty significant. I've been kind of impressed at how quickly the whole community is learning to roll with the weather punches. I think they're even going to be able to get on top of this change and by taking positive actions will be able to maybe dodge the bullet for the most part at least middle classes on up low income is another issue and it's going to bequite sad. I just experienced a major spasm. Luckily, I was strapped into my power chair and I didn't really go anywhere except to slide down in the chair significantly but because the safety belts are the lap belt was on I came out of it okay eas. except wondered if I was ever going to Catch My Breath Again. I may have to start upping my dosage of Baclofen to see if that would have any impact on the severity of the spasms I seem to be going through primarily because of the cold weather. 

Saturday's sadness

Winter is finally here and all its ferocity. No snow today to speak of That's supposed to come tomorrow morning just before I head out for breakfast no doubt. But it's cold just the same. I went to the market just to pick up a few things that I thought I needed for my meal to get me through till Monday morning most notably horseradish. I did however meet with Janet over at coffee we had a good discussion and enjoyed each other's company for a little bit before we split up for the weekend. My shopping was not very extensive but still, I'm probably doing a lot more impulse shopping that I need to be doing. That's okay I count as my Recreation. I came back home and worked on revitalizing my pot of vegetables that I eat out of every day mainly Peppers that are sliced with all the other stuff like tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, kernel corn and French cut peas. I used both regular tomatoes and I bought some cans of tomato pieces which I find work pretty good for this concoction. I hope it's okay for me to eat as much of it as I am doesn't seem to be hurting me too much if anything. Other than that I pretty much spent the day close to home watching the screen a little bit and just enjoying my space. I think I like to cook more than I like to eat so that gives me a lot of stuff that I don't know what I'm going to do with I guess I could freeze it but maybe eat it at another time but still that's a problem it seems to be developing. At least I'm cooking it could be a lot more expensive if I wasn't like if I was going out all the time for pizza, burgers etc etc.

Sadly I noted in Facebook there's a posting from Wendy the daughter of my next door neighbors when I lived on Murray that her mother had passed away. Her name was Lanae and she was a pretty good neighbor All Things Considered. She and I got along pretty well. Of course I spent more time with Al her husband than I did with Renee but Renee was always around it seemed like. I'm surprised that she is still alive I thought she passed years ago too bad I didn't get over to visit with her more during the Summers. Diane and I were both totally overwhelmed and impressed at how much work Renee did on her yard. I always figured she hated living next to us cuz our yard was such a mess compared to hers. She really did anything to correct our slovenly yard but every once in awhile she would do something that bordered on irritation with us anyway. Overall, however she was a good neighbor we enjoyed her presence. As I said I didn't do a whole lot today only put two miles on my power chair- - which isn't too bad really. I made contact with the granddaughter as well as Marc Anthony and it looks like we will be doing breakfast tomorrow as usual which will be great for us for me to see the kids the only thing I'm concerned about is the amount of snow it's supposed to fall tonight. It won't be too bad tomorrow because it'll be Virgin Snow and therefore easy for my chair to get through it's only after the snow's been there for a while and freezes that the trauma of winter sets in. Either way it's going to be an interesting if not delightful day I can hardly wait