Day 30

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Day 30

Sunday, September 21, 2014

With a nearly whole day to myself, I got a lot accomplished.  The “hidden” corner in my room is organized .. still has boxes; but not as many, and I know pretty much what’s there.  The pile in the middle of the floor is gone.  And even better, my (2^nd) closet now works better.  There are still things to deal with.  I have narrowed the “desky” stuff down to a small pile, but I still have to go through it.

I also got the secretary desk *done* (unpacked things for the shelves, and tucked what I decided not to use right now into drawers).  I went through the boxes of fall and Halloween stuff and put things out.  I wasn’t going to do that; but realized that I always push getting Christmas out early.  So it seemed only fair to DN to put this stuff out early since it’s what she enjoys so much.  Except the things in windows .. they still have to wait another week I think.

TGF and her friend never called, emailed, showed up or anything.  That’s no surprise; and it was only the friend saying “maybe” anyway.  Funny, though, how people who claim to care so much about me suddenly can’t be bothered to make any effort to get in touch; especially ones who owe me money.  Well, lesson learned I guess.  Never ever trust anyone.

By early afternoon I was done with cleaning and organizing and stuff, and really tired.  I spent the rest of the afternoon just rocking and watching SVU reruns.

Around 6:00ish (I think, didn’t really pay close attention) DN and BF got here.  They brought some groceries (including a rotisserie chicken, because once DN decided the one she’d gotten earlier wasn’t “as good”, apparently it is to be thrown out and not used for anything).  I do finally have a laundry room key of my own! Yay!  Also BF tried very hard to get my remote working. They pulled up programming directions on line to use .. he could get it to turn the TV off and on (but it took a long time to do that), but nothing else will work.  I have never been able to find the receipt, so I guess on payday I’ll just have to buy another one.  It won’t be one that expensive for sure, no point.  The bigger buttons don’t really help; on the next one I’ll just use some of my tiny cork dots to mark the buttons I need to use.

DN did not, after all, cook.  I suppose I could have insisted since she’d said she would.  And if I had, she would have cooked .. but she’d also have been grumpy about it and I just didn’t think it was worth it.  So, we had chicken sandwiches.  BF had gone on home .. and some other friend of hers came by and visited for awhile in the evening.  He sure seems to come over a lot; but apparently he never asks her out or anything.  He must live close by .. seems to just come and sit and talk, watch TV, for an hour or so … filling in time between classes or something.

Also BF hooked my monitor (TV) back to the computer, it had come loose.  But, when I turned everything off last night I hit the wrong button (more cork needed) to turn off the monitor.  So this morning I can’t get it to come back on .. gave up and for now am back to just the laptop.  I think I have to come up with a better arrangement for using it before I can use the big monitor and keyboard. 

I’m almost afraid to say this or that will happen today, because it seems like nothing happens the way I think it’s going to any more.  But in about half an hour (and it’s only barely beginning to be daylight) BIL is picking us up for church. DN, of course, isn’t up yet.  I got up around 6:00 to shower .. but was awake long before that.  The guys upstairs were up and clomping around by 4:00 … they left the building (also talking loudly) at 4:45; and about 10 minutes later came back.  Within 20 minutes all was quiet again .. but I was awake and no hope of going back to sleep!  So I got my coffee started and cleaned up in the kitchen before getting a shower. 

I guess I better go on and finish putting myself together so I’ll be ready when he gets here.