Day 26

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Day 26

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

It’s ridiculous how busy I am for someone with “nothing to do”.  And it’s a little frustrating that it’s been over a week since I’ve had time and energy to get back to tackling boxes.  Obviously there’s nothing tucked away in a box that I can’t live without .. that doesn’t mean I don’t want things sorted.  Maybe some of it will go back to storage; maybe some even tossed or donated (though it seems I have a bit of a problem donating things).

Yesterday morning, once I got myself moving (which seems to be getting more of a challenge, even though I am working on getting more exercise into my life), I did laundry.  Because when it adds up too much it gets too heavy, I ended up making 4 trips; but it got done.  In between I cleaned the litterbox, did the dishes (including DN’s breakfast dishes .. clearly this “plan” needs some adjustment), took trash and recycling down.  When I was done with laundry, I got it ALL put away and worked on a little bit of general straightening.

The lady who cleans house came by around mid afternoon.  Oh, and the ReStore guy had called in the morning to see if he could go by the house for the donations.  He never called back, so I have no idea if he was able to pick up anything or not.  I did find out later in the day that TGF was sick over the weekend and did not go get the trash as she had promised.  Apparently DSS couldn’t be bothered either.  It’s embarrassing and humiliating that the landloards will reclaim their property and have to deal with trash; but nothing I can do about it now

While I was finishing the laundry, DN got a friend to give her a ride to the cable office to pick up a new remote.  But it didn’t work either.  My “take” is that TW deliberately blocks customers from having “extra” things going on.  OK, maybe not .. but it seems extreme to me that she is determined to have cable AND Amazon AND Netflix AND Wii AND a VCR AND a DVD player.  I’m satisfied with just my TV … though I admit I wouldn’t mind having my DVD player hooked up.  I’m a bit scared to try to get that done .. it would involve yet another remote to deal with!!

Later in the afternoon we walked to the drugstore for a few things.  And for exercise since going up and down the stairs 4 times earlier didn’t count.

When the BF got off work he came by to see if he could get the TV/remote working.  The only thing he could do was get her “universal” to get TV on.  So she just took that back to her room and the living room TV is temporarily “dead”. 

The original plan for the week was to go to the grocery store tomorrow to take advantage of senior discounts.  Well, cable trumps that of course.  The TW guy is coming … AGAIN .. to try to get the TV/remote/whatever working correctly.  So we go to the grocery store today.  Tonight the plan is to go to the church for supper .. if it doesn’t get too rainy to walk the 2 blocks to the bus stop we’ll need.

Tomorrow a lady is coming to talk to me about blind services and see what I need and what they can help with.  That, at least, is encouraging.  Tomorrow night DS/BIL are coming to deal with hanging up things and such.  We still don’t have any curtains, which is a disappointment to me.  But DN vetoes sheer white, which is all I have (because very early on she had said she already had all the curtains we would need and I let go of most of my extra ones).  So maybe we’ll just get curtain rods up and get curtains later on when we can find some we both like and can afford.

It’s after 8:00.  I’ve been awake since 4:00.  For a few nights I slept really good .. I don’t know why I’ve gone back to waking so early, but not liking it!  DN has only just woke up .. and only because her phone rang.  I have no idea when we’ll go shopping, so guess I better go on and be ready.