What are you doing today?

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NorthernLight said:
Yesterday I washed my car at the car wash, and bought some liquid car wax. In the evening I waxed the roof and the hood. I started there, because even though we have fabulously fresh air here, there is a lot of fine dust and it covers surfaces quickly.

This morning I waxed one side of the car, and the front bumper. This evening I'll do the other side and the back.

I have a small car, but I knew I'd have to break the task into 3 parts. I also need to vacuum my living room and do some paperwork, so I might skip my exercises today.

One funny thing about getting older is, I can still do almost everything, but not very much in one day. It's not even physical tiredness. More of a mental overwhelm. Hard to explain, but I think some of you understand!
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I worry about this myself. How my stamina will be, even in a few years.
 

Marie5656 said:
Better. Still doing my exercises and they help keep the muscles strong. I will always need my walker...but I find I need it most for balance..which has never been great. I am walking more...go with a friend from the building when she walks her dog around the block. My walker has a seat, so I can stop and sit if I get tired.
But no real pain any more. I am glad I did the surgery,
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may I ask a personal question... how do you feel about knowing you'll always need a walker, when you're only in your 60's..
 
hollydolly said:
may I ask a personal question... how do you feel about knowing you'll always need a walker, when you're only in your 60's..
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I got the walker last year so long before my hip issue. I actually am fine about it as it gives me a better sense of balance and reduces my fear of a fall. I got it before I felt I actually needed it..and it was the best decision I made.
I have two, actually. The one I use every day, and my walker for the car. Both fold up, but I find it too hard to lift my daily one into my car.
So, if there is one thing I do not like, is switching to the car one...as I like and feel safe with my daily one.
I have a close friend with cerebral palsy...she is in a wheel chair every day, and used to be able to walk some with someone standing behind here holding her. She does not feel sorry for herself. But my feeling is, if ALL I will need for the rest of my life is this..I will feel blessed
If you want to know more feel free to ask. My suggestion from my experience is to get one like mine with a seat. If I get tired I can rest easily
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Well. The truck didn't leave us a pallet last night. It left us three pallets. Three. That's a lotta pallets and resulted in a lotta work. I stayed an extra hour.

Boy howdy, that extra hour just does me in! Six hours is fine, and I'm regenerated after just 30 minutes at home. Seven hours? I've been resting all afternoon.

Tomorrow's a day off. Yippee.

The local weather prognosticators got it wrong once again. They've been loud and dramatic for a week yammering on and on about how bad our weather will be as a result of the hurricane. Now that it's here and probably not going to affect us much, they seem almost disappointed.

At first, it was supposed to be nasty, cold and raining starting tomorrow and lasting through Sunday. Then it changed to nasty, cold and raining starting tomorrow night and lasting through Sunday, then all of the above except starting Friday morning through Sunday, then starting Friday night, etc., then Saturday morning, blah, blah, blah. Now we may have rain Saturday night and Sunday. And the wind? Early on the prediction was for 50mph wind. That got less and less. Now we'll probably have wind speed of about 10 mph.

Pffft.

All I know for sure is that it's darned cold here. 70F was our high temp today.
 
It's just after 10.30am.. it's sunny but chilly at 52 degrees... Already had 2 deliveries today.. Postie rang with a big parcel and made some jokes about not getting it through the letterbox.. and then 10 minutes later rang again, out of breath where he'd rushed back because he'd found a little parcel at the bottom of his bag for me which he'd missed the first time round.. .

I discovered that my front door had been Bird bombed, so at 9am I was out scrubbing the hardened poop off my door *ugh*... :sick:

Just had brunch of cinnamon and raisin Hot X Buns ... and shortly I'm going to get changed and go out... meet up with my friend for coffee in the next town .. we were going to meet up tomorrow but it;s forecast for torrential rain.. so today is preferable.. :)
 
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Besides being too early to decide what I'm gonna do today, it's too cold in here to decide. How cold is it? It's so cold that I've fired up my heater and am waiting for the inside temp to reach 75 before getting dressed.

The Mexican Potato Soup is going to be made today since I'm off today and the dire weather prediction for the weekend has been cancelled. And because it's cold, and I want comfort food.
 
Have dental procedure at 10 a.m. On 9/18 i broke a tooth--right at gumline. Dentist removing the rest today. i haven't experienced any pain from it, but the gum is trying to close up on it already and too little left to do false tooth (it would likely break soon too, they don't make'm like the they used to). Probably heading toward dentures soon but i'm not going partials then a few years from now need full. Even tho they claim partials support remaining teeth. Really i did try Dentures about 15 yrs ago---they promptly broke one of my remaining teeth.

For some reason i'm feeling more anxious than i usually do---and i've had angled wisdom teeth removed, more than one root canal and one tooth that abcessed in my late 20's early 30's. i like and trust my dentist. Keep a good thought for me. Maybe it's just the cumulative effect of a lot of challenges the last couple of weeks. Car Headlight lens broke, Dealer won't sell just the lens---had to buy whole assembly. Daughter and switched out. More complicated than had to be due to how crammed modern engines are, but we did it in one morning. Only needed some male muscle to unplug main power cord to the assembly (enlisted handyman where DD works, he's kind of friend and has helped us before), even he had to struggle a bit. But shoot we had her grabbing the part attached to original assembly and me grabbing the part from engine---we couldn't pry it apart. So appreciated the 5 minutes he gave us.

Won't go into other stuff now. Just feeling weird, anxious---something i rarely am.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly You're in the tropics again compared to us. Temp here is 48F. OMG! It's (almost) too cold to drink my coffee on the patio.

Dunno what I'm going to do today. It's too early to decide.
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turned out to be really sunny here @Georgiagranny albeit only temps in the 50's.. I was able to go out without a coat. One of these days where altho' it's cold outside the sun was making the inside of the car very hot... ..
Last night was freezing through the night tho', I woke up a couple of times feeling cold .. so tonight I'm going to have to put a Duvet on the bed ..


Today my friend and I met up in nearby larger town.. had lunch at the coffee house and a mooch around the shops.. bought a few things.. .. then when I got home the sun was still shining , so I grabbed the lawnmower and cut the lawns before we get the torrential rain forecast for tomorrow..

Got a delivery of an item I bought on Ebay, an electrical item which was described as new by the seller, and clearly was far from new. I've been a member of Ebay buying and selling for 25 years with 100 % FB ... never had this happen. I immdiately contacted the seller, saying this item was desribed as new and is clearly not, and they said.. I promise you it's nearly new , I just changed the plug, for a different one... What ?.. for what reason would you do that ?.. anyway my own fault I'm always careful about buying from sellers with high Fb and this one had lowish FB on only 70 sales.. so now I've had to open a resolution request with Ebay.. how very irritating!!
 
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