Postby Elizabeth » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:36 pm
Good afternoon! I have been AWOL from our village since Thursday. It has been just crazy. Friday, I was feeling mopey, so I treated myself to a belly dance show. My goodness those were amazing dancers! Saturday was the usual cat clinic and knit/crochet group, then CHAOS! Dropped the cats back at home and set them up for my trip out of town. The only time I could squeeze in getting shoes was between that and a party. Whenever my feet and knees start to hurt, I have to replace them, and I needed good ones for Sunday. I had to leave the graduation party at 9 pm (it was breaking up anyway) and hit the highway to arrive at friend's house at 10.
My visit to friend N was not for fun and games, it was to help her get ready for a move. She is the one who thought she was common law married only to find out that NM does not recognize it. After almost three years of non-payment the bank wants her out of the house they shared. (The mortgage was in his name only, she owes them $0). It was mild on the hoarding scale, but there was a LOT of clutter, junk, trash (but not the smelly kind), places where a cat with a UTI had gone, things that her husband had collected before he died. The situation was all surfaces covered and only paths through the house. However, the stuff alongside the paths was not stacked to the ceiling, just a single layer. We made one room into a staging area for next week's yard sale, and two closets cleared out, then assigned to contain only keeper items. Much of it really just needs to be put in the yard sale, then donated if it doesn't sell. Of course, I cannot make that decision for someone else, but I can get things out of the top of the closet so her bad hip isn't plagued as much. I got home too late to continue the momentum and attack my sewing room.
This morning, I had a doctor's appointment, basically to sign paperwork. It was too early to get labwork done, so I must do that later in the week. At payroll, I have processed the cube and had a useful meeting. Tonight, I pack up Briggs to hand off to the cat coordinator for his vet trip tomorrow. I will be eating dinner with coordinator and her husband.
In answer to cat's question on Thursday, my tax "problem" is that my investments made more money than expected. In the short term, an immediate, large expenditure. In the long term, a good thing.
I recommend the Artemis Fowl series and Harry Potter to LadyMaverick's DGD7. AF appeals to both children and adults, same as HP. She may also like Nancy Drew. I liked those, but my DD only rated them ok. For the puppies, you can also fill undesired holes with canine output products. Our first husky soon discovered that any hole near the fence got that treatment, but holes underneath the bedroom window did not.
Harmony has my sympathy with the friend(?) who won't listen to what SHE should do to fix a problem, but expects them to fix it for her. I went through this with the xBFF. After several years of expensive "home improvements" like new cabinet and drawer pulls, fancy landscaping, swamp cooler for the chicken coop, etc, etc, the ignored roof failed spectacularly. Her roof is not my responsibility.