Reflections of My Life

Sonny is picking me up in a little while to take me shopping. That is why I did not attempt to go for a walk today. Instead I did my laundry. I have a new rule about laundry..........if there are 3 nightgowns or 3 pairs of panties in the dirty clothes it is time to do the laundry (and NO excuses allowed!). Well, I did that today. Now I am changing my rule from 3 to 2. Smaller loads are so much nicer to do!

I had to rewrite my grocery list. I had too much meat on it and that goes in the freezer. Since hot weather is here now, I need to keep room in there for ice cube trays and the ice cream container (that goes inside of the ice cream maker). I like ice cubes! When I lived at my house there were no ice cubes since 1999. So now I appreciate them and use them all the time. I don't care if people say that it is not good for you to drink ice cold beverages or not. I drink them anyway.

If I had room for a small freezer in here, I would be tempted to get one. Just no place to put one unless I got rid of the cedar chest or the bookcase. Both pieces I use and need. My friend across the hall has a big freezer that is very old. She checks it daily to make sure it hasn't quit on her yet. And my friend who lives under me has a very small chest freezer, which would be more like what I would want (if I had room for it). It is not that I need a lot of food but it would be nice to get those deals you get by buying larger packages (of meat especially......keto you know).

The temperature is 82 right now so I am dreading going outside. My feet swell up even worse in hot weather. I might go soak them real quick right now before I have to leave.

I hope you all have a super day and stay cool!
 

Today I had to take it easy. Not only did my feet swell up but my knees (especially one) have been painful all day. I just remembered when writing this that I bought Tylenol yesterday so took a couple. I hardly ever use it even though this is the one my doctor recommended. The 8 hour one for Arthritis. It does help but I do not like to take any type of medication unless it is really bad.

It is my father's birthday today. He would have turned 103. Hard to believe he has been gone for ten years this August.

I wanted to work on the area above my kitchen cupboards today but I was in shape to be going up and down on a stool and a chair. So I will wait on doing that. The lights came today from Amazon so I am anxious to get that taken care of but there is really no reason to hurry.

82 degrees here today. Too hot for me. I walked out to the dumpster and came right back. I am not a summer person anymore.
 
katlupe said:
Today I had to take it easy. Not only did my feet swell up but my knees (especially one) have been painful all day. I just remembered when writing this that I bought Tylenol yesterday so took a couple. I hardly ever use it even though this is the one my doctor recommended. The 8 hour one for Arthritis. It does help but I do not like to take any type of medication unless it is really bad.

It is my father's birthday today. He would have turned 103. Hard to believe he has been gone for ten years this August.

I wanted to work on the area above my kitchen cupboards today but I was in shape to be going up and down on a stool and a chair. So I will wait on doing that. The lights came today from Amazon so I am anxious to get that taken care of but there is really no reason to hurry.

82 degrees here today. Too hot for me. I walked out to the dumpster and came right back. I am not a summer person anymore.
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Sorry about your feet. Hope they'll be better tomorrow.

Good for you not climbing with your fairy lights. Best to wait.

We were over 70 today, but you were 82! Yes, that's too warm for me, too. I have my standing fan on. Trying to stave off putting on the central AC.

Stay cool!
 

So as I said earlier in the what are you doing today thread.......I did manage to take all the vases........27 of them off the top of the kitchen cupboards. I was nervous about doing this as my knees have been really giving me some pain. More than my share I think! I stepped up on the stool then from that onto the chair. I was careful to position in so it was safe and I could hold onto the counter if need be. When I got to the area above the refrigerator, I was already resolved in my mind that I would not be able to take those last 2 or 3 vases down. I knew I could not reach over the refrigerator to the top of the cupboard to take them down.

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I had one idea, use my picker upper thingy to take a hold of the last two vases...........from the floor, didn't even have to stand on the stool. Yes! I did it! I am sad that I am unable to clean the books that I have up there to put under the vases to raise them up higher than the ledge on the top. But can't do it. These are books I was going to get rid of but instead use them like this now. I was very proud of myself that I did this. I had unlocked my door and kept my phone nearby at all times.

Now I have washed all the vases and Christmas bulbs (I put them inside some of the translucent vases). I might not go any further with this project until Monday so I can recover. Though I do not hurt from doing this right now. I put the vases on my table for now. My table is where my computer is and is also where I eat. It is the advantage of using a regular kitchen table for my computer because I can wash it off or dry stuff on it. Water does not harm it.

The cupboard looks so empty without the sparkle of my vases and fairy lights. The new lights came yesterday (yes, in one day from Amazon!) so I can't wait to get it all up again.
 
As you all know, my adult son is disabled and I have to take care of his bills and all (with his money). Well, his air conditioner broke and he threw it out. I am lucky it lasted 4 years I guess. He is tough on things. So I was going to have to start researching and looking for one to order. I told Sonny (my bf) and not ten minutes later he calls me and says he ordered one for him from Lowes and will pick it up tomorrow. How nice is that? My son cannot take the heat at all. He came here last night and looked terrible. He said nothing was wrong, just hot. I sure got lucky with Sonny. I didn't even ask him to do it for me. Earlier today he order these chew sticks that Rabbit likes when I said there were only three left.
 
I didn't feel like I should work on putting my vases back up on top of the cupboards today. Knees hurt. But I could not stand them sitting on the table taking up my space. So I went to work and got them all back up. It was up and down on the stool and chair and reaching up to do this. Now I am almost all done. I will do the lights tomorrow or the next day.

I miss those lights because at night it looks beautiful with just the lights on. I changed the placing of the vases around. Last time I did not put two colors together. This time I placed each color together. I like the way it looks! This is one of those jobs that I could not someone else do for me. I like things a certain way and have to move it around a bit before I am happy with it.
 
Sliverfox said:
kat,, reading your post about your vases,,make me look at the plates, bottles that reside on top of my cupboards.

They really need washed,,,'maybe' I can get energy enough to take them down to wash them. :unsure:
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Living in a small apartment I figure I have to enhance those spots that are normally either cluttered with things you don't use much. Or just left plain with no sparkle in sight. When I moved in the first thing I did was add color in this all white studio by using colorful curtains. And you know that is the first thing people mention when coming here for the first time. I belong to an outrageous decorating group on fakebook and came up with my own ideas seeing how others had decorated.

My vases are cheap all bought at thrift stores. Some for less than a dollar. I don't buy them anymore because I filled my spot. The fairy lights though............took it to a whole other level!
 
I was weak today and ate Chinese food. It is my favorite food of all and hard to pass it up. Ice cream for dessert. I figured if I was eating the other stuff I may as well have the ice cream too. At the store though I did not buy a bunch of junk food which is something I used to do once I had some high carb food.

Sonny and I came back here and watched some episodes of the The Waltons. Then he went home and found the same channel on his television so he could watch them too.

It was good to go somewhere this afternoon or else I would have been tempted to work on the fairy lights. I hope to do that tomorrow or the next day. It is just that I can't wait to see how it looks once it is all done. Then on to other projects.
 
I had thunderstorms here yesterday and today. I used to be deathly afraid of them at my house. I don't know if it was due to living in the forest surrounded by trees but lightning seemed to be intense there. One time we saw a bolt of it right in our house and it just enforced the feeling of fear in me. Because of that fear in my past, I still unplug all my electrical things as soon as I hear a rumble of thunder. Sometimes it doesn't last or even get near here but I don't care. I can't afford to replace all my stuff.

That last storm we had which was not thunder and lightning but wind, took out our power caused a couple of people (that I know of) to lose their modems and I think someone lost a television. It was due to the power surge. As soon as I knew the power was out I unplugged everything. Just a habit that I think I will keep.

Thursday is my water delivery and I am down to half a gallon, not counting the cold water in the refrigerator. I changed my order to three cases of the one gallon bottles. I drink a lot more water now and then make ice cubes, ice tea and Keto Chow. If Sonny comes over before that I could ask him to bring me a couple more gallons to get me through till Thursday. But I don't want him to make a special trip. I suppose I could walk to the Service Pharmacy and I think they would have water of some kind there. I will see.

Everything is so much nicer here again since that manager was fired. I think tomorrow we are having Bingo again. We haven't gotten back to the potluck suppers but nobody has pushed for them. I am not because I can't eat the food. So even if they have them I will probably not be going. I have to stay out of the Chinese restaurant too.
 
The finished project from the last few days. Cleaned and arranged differently this time. Brand new string of fairy lights. They looked beautiful last night when it was dark. It was a big job and took me the whole week-end and yesterday to do it. Little steps. In this picture you don't see the ends which is blues on one side and reds on the other.


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katlupe said:
So as I said earlier in the what are you doing today thread.......I did manage to take all the vases........27 of them off the top of the kitchen cupboards. I was nervous about doing this as my knees have been really giving me some pain. More than my share I think! I stepped up on the stool then from that onto the chair. I was careful to position in so it was safe and I could hold onto the counter if need be. When I got to the area above the refrigerator, I was already resolved in my mind that I would not be able to take those last 2 or 3 vases down. I knew I could not reach over the refrigerator to the top of the cupboard to take them down.

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I had one idea, use my picker upper thingy to take a hold of the last two vases...........from the floor, didn't even have to stand on the stool. Yes! I did it! I am sad that I am unable to clean the books that I have up there to put under the vases to raise them up higher than the ledge on the top. But can't do it. These are books I was going to get rid of but instead use them like this now. I was very proud of myself that I did this. I had unlocked my door and kept my phone nearby at all times.

Now I have washed all the vases and Christmas bulbs (I put them inside some of the translucent vases). I might not go any further with this project until Monday so I can recover. Though I do not hurt from doing this right now. I put the vases on my table for now. My table is where my computer is and is also where I eat. It is the advantage of using a regular kitchen table for my computer because I can wash it off or dry stuff on it. Water does not harm it.

The cupboard looks so empty without the sparkle of my vases and fairy lights. The new lights came yesterday (yes, in one day from Amazon!) so I can't wait to get it all up again.
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Love the vases, Kat……& they’d sure look good with my carpet😉
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