Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Too much to do

 



This has been a monstrously long day and it's not over yet. I had another strange night waking up very early like 3:00 in the morning and then stressing out about either I'm going to pee or I'm not and finally I do and I never really get back to any usual or good sleep then finally getting up at 6:00 a.m. to start my day. I'm learning that Wednesdays are hump days for a reason for me it's always the day that I wash clothes. It just makes sense. Fortunate for me my home health care person has started the process for me by taking him down to the laundry and then starting the wash and throwing it into the dryer before she leaves leaving me only having to pull the clothes out then drag him back to the room/ apartment to fold and hang clothes as you can see from the image I still have that to do this evening. I think I can get it all done worst case scenario is I take the clothes not yet folded and put them back in the basket and finish the job tomorrow which I'm sure I'm going to have time. I also have to do my arm bike for an hour which I did today and then something different my old home health care person Gloria still stays in contact with me and she comes over to visit and talk about her life every once in a while and I provide her quarters and some dollar bills to clean up a little bit. Gloria does a great job I wish I just had her coming in once a week but we've never gotten to that point. Luckily she needs money couple times a month at least it seems and that's just enough to get me by.


Today Gloria came over pretty late in the afternoon which is okay. She started in cleaning things up a little bit here and there then got focused on the refrigerator which is bad bad shape. For the most part I'll let her throw away anything she wants but I've got to be careful cuz she would get rid of everything if I wasn't real close and paying attention today she said she would make a bread pudding that's what I had. I didn't think I could ever do anything like that or have anything like that done with just stuff laying around your kitchen and the refrigerator. Turned into quite a scavenger job. I love bread pudding actually I think I talked about it before about the fact that we lived on the farm and every time one of the cattle came fresh we had tons of extra milk and that's what my mom used a lot in the bread pudding. The dead Bread on top of the refrigerator and the milk and whatever person uses. For today it was walnuts raisins two or three different kinds of bread that was hanging around the bread bowl and all kinds of things out of the refrigerator eggs and I forget what else Gloria threw in there what a magician. When she was cleaning out the refrigerator she found this container of ricotta cheese which I've had in there for years literally. She convinced me that cheese doesn't go bad and she wanted to use it so she also made spaghetti from a roll of sausage Jimmy dean, macaroni it took us forever to find the ricotta, tomato sauce and who knows what else. I've never seen it done like this before she threw all the all the ingredients into a container like an 8x8 bake pan cake pan or whatever color the whole shooting match with aluminum foil and threw it in the oven the cook along with the bread pudding. She spent a long time here doing this project probably way worth more than the 25 bucks I paid her. But she seemed happy and I was happy the stuff was still cooking in the oven when she left now I've tasted the bread pudding and it's great I'm not sure about the spaghetti that's still in the lower level and I can't get it I'm so I'm having to wait for the concoction to cool off to the point where I can handle it and threw it in the refrigerator and maybe taste it for sure tomorrow. What I did taste now is it seemed a little watery and I'm sure you have to do some more mixing things up a little bit but please to get the ricotta cheese used and now they're refrigerator plus some of the other stuff. Turned out to be a pretty long afternoon but had some great visit time with my friend a clean refrigerator and kitchen floor and spaghetti and bread pudding for the rest of the week doesn't get better than that

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