Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Day 46

Day 46

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

I’m getting a little better, I think, at “ordinary” days.  The days I see or talk to someone are better; but the days I don’t are maybe a tiny bit less stressful.  I’m having to learn to be by myself, do for myself, at the same time as having to relearn how to do things I can no longer see well enough to do the way I used to.  (for example, learning where to touch my finger to the Kindle to start listening to a book, instead of picking up a book to read).    That’s a bad example.  There are lots of every day things no one ever thinks about until it’s a problem.  I love earrings, and have a lot .. but it’s getting extremely hard to tell them apart, especially the colors.  And try sometime to close your eyes and get toothpaste on a brush! 
Anyway, Tuesday was not a bad day.  In the morning I got a brief spurt of ambition and did a little bit of rearranging.  It was beginning to really annoy me that the sewing/computer room was so cluttered; and I thought there’s no reason I can’t use a corner of the front room to put stuff until I can go through it or figure out where it needs to be.  It helped a lot just getting a small pile of extra *stuff* out of here.  It’s frustrating to not be able to move forward with getting things back in place where I want them; but in part I have to wait until DSS finishes getting things out, plus DS has to get a chair.  And I will also be calling Habitat again, but I don’t know when’ maybe the last week in May.
By a little before noon it had gotten hot enough to slow down.  During the afternoon my SIL called, and we had a long chat.  Then I listened to my book until evening news came on.

One of my favorite shows, NCIS, had a very sad story line (as well as leaving the story unfinished to wait for next season!).  It caught me really off guard.

Today is eye doctor day.  So of course, I had a bad night.  I woke around 3:00, and just couldn’t get back to sleep.  My one foot and knee were achy, and I was restless, couldn’t get comfortable.  I got up, made a cup of hot chocolate, and turned on the TV.  I was still awake when the local news came on at 4:30; but sometime after that I dozed off until about 6:00.  Since TGF is coming over when she takes the kids to school, I went on and got up and showered and dressed.  But I’m still really draggy.  And, she’s bringing her 17 y/o son with us.  DSS doesn’t want him left at the house alone (he tends to “plunder”).  I’m not sure about him being here all morning … afraid he’ll eat up my meager supply of food!!  Nothing I can do about it … when you’re stuck being completely dependent on other people, you are also stuck with their “rules”.

Between lack of sleep, stressing about finances, vaguely uncomfortable about having “the kid” along all day … it’s going to be a really long day I think

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