10/8/2023

 

Weekly Update 10/8/2023

After an amazing vacation in UK and France, I spent a week trying to get back to The Way Things Should Be. I had a ton of mail to go through, and a ton of laundry to attack. I had to do my end-of-month check book balances. (I fear the next VISA reconciliation because I don’t have receipts for everything, and I don’t know how the conversion from pounds to dollars will work). I had to grocery shop. I went to City Hall to volunteer, I attended a CMA meeting, I went to a book club meeting, and I went to GM for more training. I even began to read a book for Book Club. I met the Green Square ladies on Friday, but there’s sad news there: Helen’s house has sold, and she expects to be be moved back to NJ by the end of the month. I will miss her terribly.

My hearing aids stopped working while I was in UK, and I was pretty irate. So I had an appointment Wednesday and got that cleared up. Seems they were full of ear wax again. Really? I’d cleaned them when they first stopped working, but I guess I didn’t do it well enough. I was shown a new way to remove the wax, but it takes a youtube video and an auto mechanic. I’m really disappointed in these. On the plus side, really got the hang of using my phone to charge purchases when I was in UK. Look at me! - advancing right into the 21^st century!

I also tried my best to get back into my walking routine. In addition to when I had to be downtown, and walked from where the parking was free to where I needed to be, I walked around the neighborhood twice this week. My swimming days are behind me, and I’m going to have to find another way to keep moving.

It took me two full days to load the photos I’d taken on vacation, but I’ve got them pretty much organized now. I couldn’t find them on “the cloud” (worthless piece of shit) and when I attached the cable, less than a third loaded. I needed to email them from my phone to myself and then save them from the laptop email program. There must be an easier way, but I can’t find it.

I’m getting ready for fall. I took the colored leaves and flowers to John and Dessie’s graves and replaced the faded and ugly red, white and blue carnations. I put away most of the Buffalo Bills stuff and got out my Halloween stuff to decorate inside the apartment and on the front door. The horrible loss on Sunday morning made it easy for me to pack the things away. It seems that they either play tremendously well, or the completely collapse. It’s breaking my heart.

Saturday, I went downtown because Plant Riverside is celebrating Octoberfest for all of this month. I wasn’t there for too long, but I did listen to a lame oomp-pah band, and I got the most wonderful bratwurst, loaded with cheese/beer sauce, grilled onion, and red cabbage. It wasn’t as good as anything Dave made for me while I was visiting,but it was very good.

Adrian and Annie are growing by leaps and bounds. They are so adorable!