Reflections of My Life

Well, the neighbor did report his missing picture to the police. I do not think it was stolen. It was put away before they decorated for Christmas. I told them about what I saw on my pictures. Then they looked in the closet. A bunch of pictures in there.

My other neighbor had the police here also to assist her son's girlfriend in moving out of her apartment. There was a lot of fighting going on in there and she was a nervous wreck. The girlfriend took more than a few carts of her stuff out while the 3 policemen stood there and watched. Keeping guard on them I think. Anyway........that was enough excitement for me for one day.
 
I started my morning off by placing a grocery delivery order. Prices are coming down. Seems like every time I shop they are down even more. Since I got that UHC benefit card I am not having any problem buying groceries. It is too good to be true. That is why I make sure to use it up each month. Just in case they stop it. I can buy extra to put in the freezer or cupboards.

After that is delivered I will try to squeeze into the laundry room. One washer is down and now the good (newest) dryer is also. Sometimes when things go wrong down there I believe it is a user error. The day I was down there and the guy from upstairs was doing his laundry...........he PACKED two washers full! After the washer stopped and he started to take out his clothes he said some of them were still dry! So what does that tell you? Too much. I never load the washers more than half full. Otherwise your laundry comes out wrinkled. That is one of the washers that is out of order right now.

Does not look like the sun will be out anytime soon this morning. Maybe this afternoon. I do like the feel of spring in the air.
 

Yesterday did turn out to be a beautiful day. Had my window open all day. I did not do the laundry but I went outside to the dumpster and then sat in the sun for awhile. It felt good. Nobody was out there but me. I like the silence of being outside and only hearing the birds. Since there is a parking lot next to us I mainly hear delivery trucks in the morning. Of course the garbage truck too. It is loud when it pulls in to our dumpster.

Today I am going to make sure to go across the hall to visit my friend. We have missed each other lately. I usually run into her at the elevator but need to spend more time than that with her. Not doing laundry today because it is normally a very busy day down there on Saturday. Hopefully I will get down there tomorrow.
 
We had a week of nicer weather and now it's chilly again. I can't wait to be able to leave the door open all day. Fresh air, and I won't have to get up a hundred times to let the cats in and out. Look forward to hanging laundry on the line to dry. Kat, I don't say much, but I come here to read what you're up to every day 😁❤️
 
What a dreary, gray spring morning it is today! Once spring hits I want sunshine, birds singing and flowers peeking out from underground. Not today. It is very windy too. But I suppose March is supposed to be windy. So I have been catching up on the Bird Tricks YT channel I have watched forever. I will never own a bird but I enjoy watching their channel. So different from any other channel.

 
katlupe said:
First day of Spring! Sun is shining and it looks like a nice day!

I love the new look of my kitchen since I cleaned off the counters. Space! I love it!

Just a few minutes ago, one of my neighbors came to my door to show me that someone stole the pictures off the wall. Not all of them are gone but one that he bought at an art gallery is. He said he is going to report it to the manager and the police (he loves an excuse to contact the police). Well, I can't be sure when I last saw his picture.

So I pulled up my recent pictures and on January 11th those pictures were not there. Then I checked on December, no not there then either. Maybe they were taken down for Christmas decorations. Found them on September 12th. Yes, probably were taken down for the Christmas decorations to be put up. Likely in the closet on the hall right now.
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I'm only laughing because I do the same thing!!!!

Just yesterday, I asked Dio if he knew where to 2 decorations were, that are kept on top of the microwave. In the winter I keep a cloth over the microwave and I've just recently put that cloth away for the summer. Dio said that the last time he saw those 2 decorations was the day that I took the cloth off. I have NO idea what I did with them!! 😂🙃😅
 
katlupe said:
What a dreary, gray spring morning it is today! Once spring hits I want sunshine, birds singing and flowers peeking out from underground. Not today. It is very windy too. But I suppose March is supposed to be windy. So I have been catching up on the Bird Tricks YT channel I have watched forever. I will never own a bird but I enjoy watching their channel. So different from any other channel.

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Wow! That's so interesting! I love birds! 💕
 
Once again the guy down the hall stopped me at the elevator. Asks me how can I stand it here? I told him I like it and would not want to live anywhere else. He says it is okay if you like being secluded (living in the center of downtown! Our county's county seat!). I told him again (for the hundredth time) that is not an assisted living. It is an apartment building with people renting apartments in it. Just like if you had a house. You would not expect someone to come entertain you.

I think it is hard for men who do not have things to do. Maybe women too but it seems like women are busy doing things inside their apartments. Like cleaning, cooking, some type of hobby, etc. Nice weather is coming. Soon there will be activities in the parks. For me, I don't have enough hours in the day to do everything I intended on doing. Of course I have Rabbit and he takes some time out of my day. Not an awful lot though. Come to think of it, I will recommend that guy get a dog or a cat. That would give him someone to take care of.

Another thing is that he could take it on himself to set up some kind of activity downstairs in the community room. Anyone can do that. Put a notice on top of the mailboxes. But no, he wants someone one else to do the planning and making the refreshments. Not me! I am done volunteering for those things.

I placed a grocery order this morning so that will be coming sometime between 11 and 1. Not sure what else this day has in store for me.
 
So for the last year I have struggling to get in enough protein. A woman my age, going on 73, should make sure to eat enough good quality protein. Even though I eat keto, or more like "ketovore" I do not always get enough protein. I hadn't been eating much dairy. Just some heavy cream in my coffee and butter with my meats. Sometimes a piece of cheese on the burgers. Today I bought Fage whole milk yogurt. It only has 5 total carbs (which come from the sugar in milk). It is so good! I am going to love this!

The other dairy item I bought is Good Culture cottage cheese. That has 3 total carbs (which also come from the sugar in the milk). With spring here I am looking forward to adding these to my meals. This is the problem with intermittent fasting. If you have your eating window open only so many hours there is not enough time to eat the amount of protein I need. I thought about it and figured I will make the protein a priority.

Now I am also back to tracking my macros. Need to keep track to see how I do. Keto isn't a diet to lose weight but a lifestyle for your health. You cannot go off it or there goes your health. I need to do this as part of my plan to be able to go up and down the stairs. When I see my doctor I am going to talk to her about maybe getting some physical therapy for help in doing the stairs. The Lymphedema clinic is too far to go back to my therapist. This is how I need to do it.
 
Some P.T. might help, as you said, Katlupe. Keep us posted on that.
If you could get stronger, and perhaps improve balance too,
from both the additional protein and the physical therapy,
then I think that would make the stairs easier, and you might feel a lot more confident about them, too. And add to overall health.
 
I always hate when I go out into the world of my apartment building and find out people are fighting again. Maybe that is why I only go down to the mailboxes if I am expecting a delivery or have mail in the mailbox. I try not to take sides so am careful not to say anything that would make it look like I am on anyone's side.

My apartment is on the back of the building which is sunny all day. So I try to play music or watch videos that are upbeat and positive. Not getting caught up in the bad moods that often affect our building. Our manager asked me about having a cleansing of the building to get rid of the negative energy here. Personally I don't think it is the building but the people. Always finding fault with others, the building or Norwich. If you look for it that is what you will find.

Today I have a long list of things to do. I can FINALLY call Jeff on his phone! He is within reach for me again. If I need him I can call him (as long as he keeps the phone on). So whatever I did on that computer of his, it must have worked once it found the WiFi. I am not sure because it is working for him. I haven't even gone back up there. I was going to call a tech to come from Spectrum. Now I don't think I have to.
 
I am back in my apartment after spending two hours in the laundry room. I only use one washer (as I told you before) at a time so as not to use more than my share. Good thing too because it was busy. Only 4 washers and 5 dryers (and they are all working presently). So I did one wash and put it in the dryer. Then did the other. I stayed down there so I would not have to have extra trips on the elevator. I colored in my coloring book and listened to the oldies radio show on my transistor radio.

On the way back to my apartment the elevator was acting up. Scared me! It stopped once. I think on the first floor. I pressed the two button and it went on up. It opened on my floor. I said a prayer because I know the only thing that keeps that thing going is my prayers.

Earlier I made two batches of keto replacement shakes to have for ice cream tomorrow and the next day. It is pretty nice to be able to eat a whole pint of ice cream for one meal. Especially if it tastes so good! I made one of pumpkin caramel and one of chocolate malt. My two favorites right now. I only have about 6 chocolate malts left and they are still out of stock. I placed an order this morning but had to get other flavors till they get the chocolate malt back. I keep putting pressure on Chris (Bair, the owner of Keto Chow).
 
I never like to mention it but yesterday Rabbit had a bad day. At 11 years old, he is considered an old bunny. To me he will always be my baby bunny boy. I was worried about him all day because he was not peeing in his litter box. Maybe he did it on his rug? I did not know. He kept going back to the litter box but after I had cleaned it (it was wet like normal then) was not wet at all.

I prayed and prayed before I went to sleep. Put him in God's hands. This morning............his litter box was really wet! He was hopping around like normal. Keeping an eye on him. I am not ready to lose him yet. Sleepy time now!

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When my grocery delivery arrived this morning, I watched as the delivery guy was carrying the bags to our building. All of a sudden a bag broke and my son's cans of chunky soups went rolling around on the blacktop! It was a new delivery guy and my first thought is it is his first day and probably does not know what he is doing. He came in with my bags and I told him to pile them on my walker (that is how they usually do it). He said no, I will bring them right up to your apartment. So he got on the elevator with me and another person going up and put them right on my kitchen counter!

Now I could have gotten mad that he dropped them all over driveway but I didn't. There were a couple things about this incident that sticks in my mind. First is when Walmart sent me the "passcode" it was the same numbers as my address when I lived in St. Petersburg in 1994-96. I considered that a good omen. 2nd is that not one of those soup cans got a dent in it. The 3rd is if I had been mean or nasty toward that guy he might not have offered to carry my groceries upstairs for me. I really appreciated it.
 

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