Day 44

Day 44

Sunday, May 11, 2014

This day was almost as quiet as the day before was busy.  During the morning I did a little straightening up … but with just myself here, the house rarely needs much.  I did have a stroke of luck and got that cat shut into the bedroom. 

Most of the day I just sat and waited.  I’d had an email from DS (might have been sent late Saturday night) saying they’d come visit  and what time would be good.  I replied they could come as soon as they wanted (although I knew he’d be sleeping late).  They didn’t get here until a little after 5:00.  Well, any visit at all is better than none.  There’s no point being disappointed they didn’t come earlier, because I know DS’s habits; plus, DIL is in CA with her family, so not home to remind him to get up!  Anyway, late or not, I loved having them come visit.

The first thing .. well, after cuddling the babies … was to try to get the cat out of the house.  We started with a very elaborate plan:  DGS held the front door open, and DS and DGD were to “block” the hall entrance (no door) and try to scare the cat into running towards the door.  The first issue with the plan came when I opened the door.  Instead of running right out, the silly cat hid.  So then DGD had to come in to help me locate the cat to chase it out the door.  And then .. it caught DS off guard and got past him!  All the other rooms were closed off (the cat would normally bolt for the kitchen/den).  And by then the cat was probably in a panic.  He may have tried to head for a window in the den .. he knocked a lamp over.  But DGS got to the door quickly and held it open while DS and DGD kept flapping hands at the cat to keep him running.  As near as I can figure (I was too far away to see exactly what happened) the cat jumped onto a little table and then jumped toward the door.  He hit the door as “spring-boarded” off it .. onto the porch and hit the ground running.  And just like that, he was out of the house!  How I wish I’d been able to video that little escapade!!

Once things calmed down, we sat and visited awhile.The kids caught me up on some of their goings-on (although they tend to forget that I don’t already know what’s happening in their lives).  DS expanded a lot on the status of his garden.

At one point we walked in the yard a bit to survey the “damage”, and see how the peach trees are doing .. they are loaded with tiny green fuzzy peaches! 

As it got a little later, DS asked what I wanted to do about supper … cook, go out, get take out, etc.  I deferred to the kids, who requested Wendy’s.  OK by me. J  So they all went and got burgers and fries and brought them back to the house.

We ate and watched Food Network until way too late (for them at least, being a work and school night).  They headed home about 10:00 (and DS called that they were home a little before midnight).

I’ll admit, it was hard not to have at least a very small pity-party as I sat here alone most of the day.  I didn’t get any cards at all; but then, I don’t very often anyway.  I doubt DIL did, unless they have something for her for when she gets home.  At least he came to visit, and DSS called … and that’s as good as it gets and better than it used to be.  DH never acknowledged Mother’s Day .. because I’m not his mother.

Even though I didn’t get soundly to sleep until after DS called, I still woke a little before 6:30.  I refuse to mop or vacuum again already just because I’m awake; and I did laundry yesterday.  I guess I will go on and get showered and dressed, feed the cats, and then just pull one of the boxes of *stuff* off the hall shelf and start digging through it.  I don’t like going through paperwork that I can’t read; but I doubt there’s much there that’s very important (it’s been well over a year since the last time DH handled his own mail and squirrelled anything away).  And there’s a lot of medical junk that needs to be sorted.  I’ll probably just throw away most of it, since I don’t know what it is or how old it is (lots of various tubes of something or other).  I’ll probably put together a small box of what I think will actually (potentially) be useful to keep at home; maybe put together a box of things TGF can use (with a house full of boys, one can Always use bandaids!!!); and throw away the rest. 

I don’t know what to do about the cameras.  I know my niece won’t want all of them (there’s dozens of cameras that probably don’t work at all).  DSS thinks I should put them all – as a collection – on Craig’s List.  That would be fine if I was able to do that on my own, but I can’t see well enough to tackle that; and TGF seems to have a problem listing anything.  Well, I don’t have to do that today anyway.  Perhaps today will be a good day to tackle the medical junk.  Or … it might be a day to just watch TV and not do anything!  I’ll just have to wait and see how the day goes.  Since I have no choice but live alone (and truthfully, I really do not want to live with anyone, especially not in someone else’s home!), I might as well enjoy one of the “perks”, which is that I can do what I want whenever I want.  I don’t have to please anyone but myself. 

Well, and the cats.  They are very demanding.