Reflections of My Life

Tomorrow I am going to the furniture store to buy a recliner. Yesterday I worked on making room for one in the spot where I have my rocking chair. I will move that to a different spot today and see how it looks. Not that it matters, not like I do any entertaining. Usually if someone stops in (neighbors in my building) they sit at my table because that is where I usually am. With a recliner I can sit to watch videos without having to go lay down on the bed. I have never been one to lay in bed much except at night. I did also buy a wedge for the bed though, so I can put my legs up there too.

Not only is there the COVID-19 to watch out for but now there is rabbit virus. I have always gone out for a ride in the state lands and pick various wild food that is rabbit safe for Rabbit. Now due to the wild rabbits having this virus or carrying it, doing that is not safe. Even from someone's yard. I am going to try to start a couple dandelion plants as house plants. See how that works. And some herbs like cilantro, basil and parsley. He loves those! I have an aero garden and it worked. But I shut it down for a few months and when I tried to use it again the digital part did not work. I tried everything they said on their website and Amazon but I could not get it to work again. I might use it for the light again and just shut it down manually. I will see about that. It gave me enough salad greens for Rabbit and me. I bought it when I first moved here, as I was going through withdraw from leaving my garden.

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As you can see the light is very bright and is on for hours. So I had to put it in the corner of my entrance and at night I put a cardboard box around it to block the light. It does not get hot. The lights are LED. I need to figure it out. Maybe today I will bring it back up here.


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I decided against setting up the aero garden after all. It is too bright and it takes up the whole top of my bookcase and I have my dolls (from my childhood) there and don't want to move them. My, that was a long sentence!

The last few days I had cut back my time on the computer. Except for working on my family tree and writing my blog. My boyfriend, Sonny has been banned from Facebook for 30 days, so that helps. I decided to try one of those adult coloring books. I watched a video on YouTube about the process of coloring relieves stress and is actually good for you. Especially if you are listening to music at the same time. I played a YouTube video of instrumental acoustic guitar and instrumental Spanish guitar music............and it was VERY soothing and peaceful. Rabbit even seemed to enjoy the music and it put him to sleep. He loves music or even the sound of videos with people talking. Maybe it is too quiet in here. He startles quickly over loud or sudden noises. Especially the sound of bags rattling when you open them. He jumps and shakes his head. I think it may hurt his ears since he hears tiny sounds louder than I do.

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Don't mind his fur, he is still molting. This picture is after I brushed him and you can't even tell that he was brushed. But he is sure soft!
 
Today, Sonny took me to my nail appointment. Rick, my manicurist got good news while he was doing my nails. His first grandchild was born. A baby girl. He was very emotional, happy and excited. He did an exceptional job on my nails, though he is always good.

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Excuse my old lady hands, not much I can about those.
 

RadishRose said:
Purple and green are having a fight in my head.
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I am so into colors, but purple and pink are usually my favorite......but I love turquoise and orange too. I obviously love green, after all I live in NY state and it is SO green. All my FB friends are adding colorful things to my timeline because they know I will like it. I have a Pinterest board that is multi colors and that is what I really I love.
 
Monday I was doing two loads of laundry downstairs in the laundry room. I normally do one load at a time so I do not hog all the washing machines. There are only 4. Sometimes I am doing the laundry and just don't feel like doing that second load and dealing with folding it for some reason or other. Monday though, I was doing both. When the first one finished, I put the second one in the washer and took the washed laundry upstairs to hang in my shower to dry. The second load had sheets and towels so I dried it in the dryer downstairs. There was a man I do not know (and he does not speak to anyone even if they speak to him, he is new and lives upstairs on the 3rd floor) doing his laundry and he sits at a table doing word search books while waiting for his laundry. When I came down to get my stuff out of the dryer, he was gone. I folded it up and went to the elevator...........IT WOULD NOT WORK! Kept opening and closing and the buzzer kept going off! I had used it a bunch of times already! I would rather be stranded upstairs in my apartment rather than on the lower level.

I called emergency maintenance on my phone and was put on hold. It is a service. I called our manager and left a message. I did not know at the time that we got a new manager finally (our old one, was fired last Nov. I was sad about that because she did a great job but turns out she went over budget). The new manager was in her office with another resident and came out and then called our maintenance man on his phone. He came and did some stuff and got it going but said to wait for the elevator repair man who had to drive from Syracuse so would be at least an hour wait. He said if we took it that we might get stuck in it. But I really wanted to get back to my apartment.

We heard the elevator coming down.......it was Dottie, the lady who lives across the hall from me! She is 94 and pretty active and lively. She got something from her storage area and then asked if I wanted to ride up with her that she was not waiting. So I did. She told me earlier that morning, she was stuck in it for over an hour! If I had known anything was wrong with it I would not have taken it to the laundry room to begin with. We got back upstairs okay. The elevator man arrived and was working on it the rest of the afternoon. Working good now.

At least I got my laundry done and met the new manager. Not a total waste.

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Just catching up with everyone's posts. Referring back to your bunny....my brother worked at Long Beach City College in CA for a number of years. Sadly, people began dumping their unwanted bunnies (probably many of them post-Easter :cry: ) on the campus many years back. At one time it was reported that there were nearly 400 bunnies running around. One particular bunny, a beautiful black and white spotted guy, caught my brother's eye when the bunny always seemed to be hanging around the exit door when my brother left work. Fearing for the bunny's safety with all the coyotes and hawks about, he told himself that if the bunny was still hanging around the next evening, he would bring him home. And so he did. My brother lived in apartments after being discharged from the Navy but finally bought his own condo, so he'd never had pets of his own after leaving home. He was so devoted and attached to that bunny! Bunny (that was his name) lived a happy 11 years with Brad.
 
deesierra said:
Just catching up with everyone's posts. Referring back to your bunny....my brother worked at Long Beach City College in CA for a number of years. Sadly, people began dumping their unwanted bunnies (probably many of them post-Easter :cry: ) on the campus many years back. At one time it was reported that there were nearly 400 bunnies running around. One particular bunny, a beautiful black and white spotted guy, caught my brother's eye when the bunny always seemed to be hanging around the exit door when my brother left work. Fearing for the bunny's safety with all the coyotes and hawks about, he told himself that if the bunny was still hanging around the next evening, he would bring him home. And so he did. My brother lived in apartments after being discharged from the Navy but finally bought his own condo, so he'd never had pets of his own after leaving home. He was so devoted and attached to that bunny! Bunny (that was his name) lived a happy 11 years with Brad.
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Oh what a sweet brother you have! It is horrible how many get dumped off and people think they can live on their own. I'd rather have my rabbit put to sleep by a vet than dump him off.
 
One thing about living in an apartment building is that you get to know your neighbors and then they might move or pass away. I have only lived here two years and three months and nine people are not here anymore and one more is in the process of moving. I can handle it pretty good because I don't do too much outside of our group activities with anyone else. I am closer friends with some than others. The misconception about senior living apartment complexes is that it is one step away from a nursing home. Well, that can be anywhere and actually any age. I took care of people of all ages in nursing homes.

Another thing is that you will not get along with every single person for some reason or other. That is just the way of people. So I keep my distance and get to know people slowly over time. I am probably more involved with the internet than anyone in this building. Some have Facebook accounts but that is mainly to keep in contact with their families. They don't do much on a computer. I have only recently started limiting my time on social media but not the computer. I still write my original blog (used to have 4) but don't sell on Amazon or eBay any longer.

I have tried to simplify my life as much as I can. The Office of the Aging is a big help to me in that department. They have so much information for finding how I can do things on my own. Still working on stuff though. I like to take one item or project and concentrate on it until I have it done or under control. Then on to the next one on my list.
 
katlupe said:
Oh what a sweet brother you have! It is horrible how many get dumped off and people think they can live on their own. I'd rather have my rabbit put to sleep by a vet than dump him off.
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Yes my brother is an awesome human being. I'm happy to share that Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah stepped in, along with many local rescue groups, to capture as many bunnies as possible from the LBCC campus and get them spayed or neutered and then find them loving homes.
 
I am not having a good week. I hurt my back somehow, don't know how. So for two days I could hardly do much. Finally yesterday it let up and I was able to clean my apartment up. I had neglected it for those two days. I did a lot of things due to the fact that I turned my computer off. I do not get much done with that luring me away from my chores.

Then yesterday late afternoon, my son sends me a message on messenger that he just got home from the ER (words that make me freak out! Big Time!). He said he was on his bicycle by the store and then he woke up in the ER with IV's on him! He said he got overheated and that he don't know what happened or where his bike was. I found out the police have his bike until he can get it today. They said he had a seizure. I have worried about this so much because back in 2015 he stopped taking his medication for it. So now I have to work on this problem and somehow get him back to a doctor and on it again. He has a phobia of anything medical. It is so stressful getting him in to a doctor because he will just not show up for his appointment. Or sitting the waiting room, he will suddenly bolt. Like a wild animal.

Looks like another rainy day in NY today. Many are out of power. Or were. I am fortunate here because I have never been out of power since I moved here. Maybe because I am downtown.
 
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