Reflections of My Life

My new aide was here and just left. She is nice, an older lady. One thing I really liked is that she has a Long Island accent and that made me comfortable with her right off. Sounds like my first MIL who I loved. Anyway it was hard to find stuff for her to do but I did. I had her mop the kitchen and bathroom floors. Then clean the toilet and the removable seat. After that we went down to the laundry room and I showed her how I wash my laundry. Cold water, shake the clothes out when you take them out of the washer and hang them off the side of the basket to bring them upstairs. She helped me hang them on my shower. Then she took my garbage out to the dumpster on her way out.
 

katlupe said:
My new aide was here and just left. She is nice, an older lady. One thing I really liked is that she has a Long Island accent and that made me comfortable with her right off. Sounds like my first MIL who I loved. Anyway it was hard to find stuff for her to do but I did. I had her mop the kitchen and bathroom floors. Then clean the toilet and the removable seat. After that we went down to the laundry room and I showed her how I wash my laundry. Cold water, shake the clothes out when you take them out of the washer and hang them off the side of the basket to bring them upstairs. She helped me hang them on my shower. Then she took my garbage out to the dumpster on her way out.
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Sound like things went well!

Now is the time to tackle your storage unit, wash the windows, and organize the closets!

Try to stay ahead of her with a little honey-do list!
 

I had this crazy idea that I could put most of my favorite CDs on the MP3 player. I could not. Not enough room. I bought one of those sd cards to add more storage (like it says you can on their information).......did not add any more. So I bought a 2nd MP3 player and can't even figure out how to play the song I want to play. It plays what it wants. I think it is best to just use the first one when I go out and want music. Take off all the albums that are not awesome.

I was able to add CDs to my external hard drive though with my new external DVD/CD device. It works and also has a hub so I can use it for other things as well. Feels flimsy but was only thirty dollars. Since I am the only one using it I am not worried about it. I am careful.
 
Took care of my son's money and rent. Sonny came upstairs for awhile with me and now has left. He had an appointment to get his car inspected. I am so glad when I get those things done with for the month. Now I pay my son's bills online and mine too.

I am cooking chicken for my supper right now. I have moved my meals up to an earlier time. I hate eating after dark. It takes some adjusting but I was not getting enough protein in. So this will help.

Now I am going to clean my bunny boy's cage and then work on my story some more. I can not believe this story was written in 2010 and I hadn't touched it since then.
 
No matter what kind of obstacles get in your path a person has to find their way around them. Life is not a piece of cake for sure. When I lived on my homestead, I had a lot of physical work to do. In the hot summers I was outside working in my garden. So many things were out of my control. Moving here I had to give up many things that were a part of my life. My garden and storing food for the winter was a big part of it. Now I am going to experiment with freezing some low carb vegetables. Broccoli will be the first one since I got $25.00 worth of the farmers' market coupons. I need to see about doing that.

I figure now that I am using an aide, I will have time to do some things I have wanted to do but did not. Cleaning out the storage locker is at the top of the list. She can help me with that. I keep reminding myself to accept help from others instead of being rigid in how and what I do. Maybe today I will remove some of the empty boxes myself. I showed her how to do my laundry so possibly that is a job she can do. She did a good job in the bathroom. Looked clean!

Even though I have a small freezer I can store food in it more efficiently than I do. Need to organize it better. I think I might do that today. A good thing about living alone is that I do not need a lot of food storage. Just enough for the winter is key for me. Meat and vegetables. Some dairy.
 
Fortunately vegetables are very easy to freeze and last a long time. I have 2/3rds of one of my freezers filled with veggies. if things get tough financially, or if for any reason you can't get out then having a store of frozen veggies means you can make a good low fat protein filled meal..

You're right to get your new Aide to do the jobs that will free up your time.. The Bathroom is always a bugbear when you're not fully able.. as is the bed changing.., and dusting high surfaces.. . Make the most of her .. and enjoy your time to do other things..
 
Raining today. Looks like one of those all day rains. I don't mind. Here I can enjoy rain. Before I moved here with my husband he hated any weather except hot and sunny. Good match weren't we? Haha

Today I am going to file a bunch of papers that piled up. Either in the file cabinet or the garbage can. Planning on (not saying I will get this done today or not) vacuuming. Then I want try to make some room in the freezer for storing some vegetables that I can get at the Farmer's Market.

Going to try making a tuna melt using the Stuffler, putting the tuna and cheese inside the stuffler. No bread. Very few carbs. Anytime I feel like a sandwich I can make one of those.

Really dark outside this morning. I will have to raise the blinds up on both windows. I cannot stand it dark during the day. Too depressing! When everyone is up I will put music on and liven the place up. I cannot stand it to have a depressed feeling to it.

Have a good day everyone!
 
I forgot till I read what I wrote earlier that I had planned on making a Stuffler with tuna and cheese today! Guess I will have to wait and do it tomorrow. Now I am making cheeseburgers instead. The frozen ones. They are good and quick.
 
We have clouds here today Kat, probably coming from your rain. Last night the sky just opened up and poured a deluge! I haven't seen lightening like that nor heard thunder that loud in years!

I actually don't mind a cloudy day. Weirdly, sometimes I prefer them.
 
RadishRose said:
We have clouds here today Kat, probably coming from your rain. Last night the sky just opened up and poured a deluge! I haven't seen lightening like that nor heard thunder that loud in years!

I actually don't mind a cloudy day. Weirdly, sometimes I prefer them.
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It rained all day! I loved it! Sonny says it is supposed to rain tomorrow too. He is taking me to Walmart so I will be out in it. I don't mind...........
 
Aunt Bea said:
kat,

Would your aide be able to help with things like blanching and freezing vegetables so you don’t have to spend too much time on your feet?

I would definitely ask!

Also, things like scheduling water deliver and other packages on days when she is with you.
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I will have to see about that. Not sure I want her doing the food for me. I like doing that.

The water delivery I will have to check what day it is to be delivered. Only thing is he is not consistent on the time. They schedule it for one time and it doesn't show up till the next day.

I am finding things she can do. I will try to keep her working.
 
MarciKS said:
i don't spend much time on facebook anymore. it's too toxic.
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I am banned right now so can't go there. I think it is toxic too but not anything to do with the people. It is people who control it. I just wish I could get my friends and family to leave and go to a private forum but shoot most of them don't know how to go anywhere but fakebook. I have been hating it for a long time now. This time off...........is the BEST time I have had in a long time! This is the only social media or forum I have gone to. Not even going to my keto or rabbit forum. Just too busy.
 
katlupe said:
I am banned right now so can't go there. I think it is toxic too but not anything to do with the people. It is people who control it. I just wish I could get my friends and family to leave and go to a private forum but shoot most of them don't know how to go anywhere but fakebook. I have been hating it for a long time now. This time off...........is the BEST time I have had in a long time! This is the only social media or forum I have gone to. Not even going to my keto or rabbit forum. Just too busy.
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how on earth did you get banned from facebook? i find this so hard to believe. lol!
 
MarciKS said:
how on earth did you get banned from facebook? i find this so hard to believe. lol!
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You won't believe this! ha ha

My friend posts videos every day of the wild critters that come to her three feeding trays and water she puts out daily. Well there are these two rabbits who come to it every night. This one looked right into the camera like he was at a photographer's studio. I commented "Head Shot". But as you know, I love rabbits or all animals (except bears and owls) so I was talking about a shot with a camera. fakebook said I was inciting violence toward animals. They even reviewed it a second time and then said because I wanted them to review it instead of 24 hours I was banned for 30 days.
 
I worked on my story a lot since I found it. I started this back in 2010 and it just sat in my old external hard drive since then. Now that I took it out and started reading it, I am back into it. Is it weird that my own writing from my imagination can bring tears to my eyes for my characters? I am enjoying writing it and can't see it ending any time soon. Maybe I will just write it for myself until I die or something.

As soon as I got up this morning, my little bunny boy was running circles around me. I sat at the table to wait for the coffee and he ran under the table, around my chair, under the walker and back under the table. Then he changes directions in the middle of running and goes the other way. I guess he shows me that he is happy I got up at 3:30 AM and that he is in good shape.

He has had his spring mix and is eagerly waiting for me to get up to get that 2nd cup of coffee because that is when I get his chunk of banana. He can't wait for that! Nobody can eat a banana in my apartment without sharing............that's a house rule!
 
katlupe said:
You won't believe this! ha ha

My friend posts videos every day of the wild critters that come to her three feeding trays and water she puts out daily. Well there are these two rabbits who come to it every night. This one looked right into the camera like he was at a photographer's studio. I commented "Head Shot". But as you know, I love rabbits or all animals (except bears and owls) so I was talking about a shot with a camera. fakebook said I was inciting violence toward animals. They even reviewed it a second time and then said because I wanted them to review it instead of 24 hours I was banned for 30 days.
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facebook is so stupid. ever since they started with this algorithm crap it's been downhill ever since. i used to get banned from gaming streams for chatting too much. if i said lol too many times or hi too many times it was considered spam and i would get banned from the stream chat for anywhere from 2 hrs. to the next day. if you post anything they disagree with they take it down before it even gets seen.
 
MarciKS said:
facebook is so stupid. ever since they started with this algorithm crap it's been downhill ever since. i used to get banned from gaming streams for chatting too much. if i said lol too many times or hi too many times it was considered spam and i would get banned from the stream chat for anywhere from 2 hrs. to the next day. if you post anything they disagree with they take it down before it even gets seen.
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A keto group I follow on YouTube and fakebook kept getting censored on fb due to using the word "fat". Not making fun of fat people since it is a group about losing weight. They were talking about the fact that on keto you eat "fat". Fat, protein and carbs. fakebook kept censoring the group. They started their own website on Mighty Networks. Doing quite well there.
 
Yesterday Sonny and I went to Walmart. For some reason it was really busy. No heavy cream. The two employees that I spoke to said they have no idea why there was none on the truck or even on the list of what was coming in. I had to go to Price Chopper for some. I need it in my coffee! The good news is that the large store brand eggs went down from $3.16 to $2.32 a carton. I got four! Not taking a chance of them going back up. I use eggs since it is my favorite food and a big part of the keto food plan.

Today after breakfast, I am making keto coleslaw and keto yogurt. Now I am sorry that we did not go to the farmers' market as we had planned. I just could not go anywhere after Walmart. I could barely walk after I came home and put my groceries away. Friday we have hair appointments so will try to go there then.

Now I am going to start cooking my breakfast. Not getting enough food in by doing intermittent fasting. So I will forget about that for the time being. Just so I am done with all food by six in the evening.
 
Never got the coleslaw made but the yogurt is still in the IP. For some reason I am really tired today. Every time I attempt to take a little nap someone calls me or someone comes to my door. I am just not made to nap like everyone else does. It is just as well, probably why I fall asleep as soon as I turn off the light.

Saturday and Sunday is Colorscape again. Sonny will bring his scooter up on Sunday to hang out with me. There will be 3 stages of constant entertainment. Artists will set up booths through out the Colorscape for people to look at and purchase their work. I expect to see a lot of people here. Last year it was very crowded and we had a good time. All types of food vendors but they are expensive and not as good as you expect it to be. At least for me it wasn't.

My apartment is just across the street so I can drive around a bit on Jazzy and then come back home. After awhile I can go back out if I want. They said rain or shine so I will see. I have a poncho that will completely cover Jazzy so I don't get it all wet. But if it rains I doubt I will be going out in it.
 
When I moved here four years ago I brought credit card debt with me. My husband had a good SSD check and then when he turned 65, it became his regular check. SS. It would have been easy to live on out there but he spent money we did not have using credit. Once he had a bunch of credit cards and loans he had me get some. Not as many as he had. Then when I was eligible for my SS I took over paying my own. I took our names off each other credit cards. I had a very small check since I never worked at jobs that made a lot of money. Then when I was able to get Medicare I signed up for part B even though I had to pay $134. a month out of my check. He did not want me to sign up for it. Well of course, he had the VA for health insurance and I had nothing. I figured they would be carting me off to jail for not having anything but they never did. I wanted it in case of an emergency.

It was in my head for about ten years to leave him and my home. I am not saying that we did not have good times. There are a lot of good memories but I had to decide if they were worth staying for or not. No, I was so miserable. Sorry....didn't mean to get sidetracked. I had all this debt when I moved here. Plus a very small check. My goal became to pay off debt and I am pleased to say that I have been doing well with that. Even though I did purchase the batteries for Jazzy a couple of months ago using a card. I considered that an emergency since it is what I use for getting to the stores.

A good share of my check goes for these credit cards and one loan. I am never late. I always pay more than minimum. If there is something I want to buy, I save up for it over a few months time. Many times by the time I saved up the money for it, I change my mind and don't want or need it. Within the next four months, I will have paid off my credit union loan (they are already sending me notices to get a new one with a fifty dollar coupon off!) and that is my biggest payment. Within that same time period, I will have another credit card paid off also.

I am using the "snowball" method on the others. So all the money I paid monthly on the two I paid off will go toward those. It will be a relief to me to get them down and gone. If I could sell anything from my storage locker and put that money onto this debt I will or would. Once the loan is gone though, I will be able to add enough money on these other cards to make a difference. I have removed them all from Amazon, Netrition and Walmart online. I did not set up an emergency fund because if I have cash in a bank account then it affects all the help I get. I think they do not want you to pay off your debt. In my eyes that would be stealing and my credit score was a factor for this subsidized living here. So the money I would have used for auto expenses is basically what I use to pay these off.

I know I did not make the right choices in life or in men. But not going to worry about that now. I see the light at the end of the tunnel today.
 
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Yesterday I took a walk in the two parks across the street. The tent people were setting up the tents for ColorScape 2022. There were people working on setting up two more stages. The park across the street, East Park has a permanent stage already. Today will be a big day of preparing for the week-end. The street will be blocked off but probably not until tomorrow. There is a big tent set up in front of my apartment building but the other side where the Art Council is. They usually give art lessons through out the week end to children there. Lots of food vendor trucks will be here too. Too expensive for cheap food for me.

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