Still kinda in holiday mode here... I just can't bring myself to get "started" until we return from Atlanta after the game Monday.
Tuesday will be the first day of my new year, and I have high hopes... but until then, I'm just sorta in a survival-holding pattern, LOL.
I would love to have Christmas all put away before we go, and start fresh next week... but OTOH, I don't really feel like rushing it and Friday is really my only opportunity. I'll probably leave it up until the 8th, and take it down while watching the national championship game w/dh. I think that's when they play. That will only be two days past Epiphany... and dh will have me out of town at a basketball game THAT day, too.
Today was good though:
-- dropped off pants at the alterations lady and can y'all believe, she called before 4:00 pm and already had them ready to pick up!
-- bank
-- post office
-- other bank, where savings had come due
-- car dealer, ordered SUV -- looks like price will be within dh's self-imposed limit!
-- stopped by dmom's and got my cookie container & some left over cookies that are kinda getting dry & crumbly -- I don't think anyone sealed up the Tupperware since Monday ... wish my cookies were fresh like Nancy's...
-- cleaners
-- allergy shots -- working towards getting back to a Sunday schedule with this, after they had me off the shots so long. Also working back up to regular dose.
-- doing laundry -- dryer is STILL screeching in a completely horrible way -- maybe dh will consider calling the man now, rather than waiting till the thing burns itself up or something... * sheesh *
-- supper, s/s kitchen
-- and worked in a long nap, too (Fitbit says I only slept 5 hrs and 35 min last night). Ha! Just checked -- Fitbit did give me credit for my nap, which was almost 2 hours long. Guess I needed it!)
Last night, I got my calendars all filled in for the new year, and my cards set up for January.
Dee -- my dmom started getting pedicures every month or so. Her nails are TERRIBLE. She loves getting the pedicure and apparently there is no pain. I think they soak her feet, maybe use paraffin wax treatment? She loves it.
So sorry about the fires and all involved -- victims and firefighters.
Hope
Mr. Dee feels better soon! Lots of flu seems to be going around here. I certainly hope dmom's shot protects her. (Of course I don't want it either, but as long as I don't have to run back and forth taking care of her, I can manage whatever dh & I have to deal with.)
Florida sounds wonderful,
blessed! I asked dbro, who was still walking around in short sleeves today (30s here) if he had forgotten that he didn't live there anymore. He said he LOVED it now that he was in Atlanta, that the heat was just too much in Florida.
THREE degrees??? Oh my goodness... BRRRRR...
Kathryn --
-31 and y'all were WALKING??? Oh my goodness, you Northerners are a hardy bunch...
Just checking -- it's a "feels like" -1 for ds & family tonight at ddil's parents' home. Here, we're enjoying a toasty 26 (feels like 17, so they say on the weather app.)
Taco soup sounds so good,
Rose! I am so glad you are finally getting a break from the school-day routine!
Mmmmm.... and that lasagna sounds delicious, too,
LadyM!
We had ham and cheese sandwiches for supper. And will probably have them tomorrow, as well. And possibly Friday.
DH is determined to eat all the ham possible before we leave, so as not to waste it. He said the stuff in the freezer would stay frozen "forever," but this baked ham wouldn't be good by the time we return from our weekend trip, so we need to use it up.
Maybe I should go buy salads or something for some variety with it tomorrow.
My head hurts from all the thinking.
(((
Harmony)))
But DH is so frustrated. They appear to have lost all his bookmarks. He had a lot of them, technical information, where to find parts for engines, stuff that will take a year to recreate even if he can. I wish he would just let it go and deal with it as best he can. I'm tired of hearing about it all. I did work all evening on the problem and got nowhere.
(((More Hugs))) I have BTDT. The only thing worse than being frustrated with a computer is trying to help a dh who is frustrated with a computer. ((((BIG HUGS)))
Did I tell y'all about dmom "losing" a large picture of herself? Probably 16x20, picture of herself at approx 7 years old. Last she remembers, it was hanging on the wall in her "little" bedroom. (Used to be dbro's bedroom.) Now it's gone, nail is still there, and she cannot find it ANYWHERE. She has even checked at her other house/dgm's house and except for two closets which are painted shut, she hasn't found it there. Hard to imagine she would have carried it out there even before the painting started, anyway. Hard to believe she carried it out there at all. She thinks she must be losing her mind, LOL. It is kinda concerning... no one can imagine where on earth it could be.
She seems to have managed Christmas fairly well... but her teeth are still driving her nuts... and she went without them most of the night last night and did not have them in today when I stopped out there. THAT drives ME nuts. I know that is superficial and kinda mean of me, but I am NOT ready for my mother to take on this toothless-street person look. I told her today, if they cannot offer her any better solutions, she should just go ahead and do implants for the front top/bottom. She agrees -- she managed to eat quite well while waiting to have the top teeth pulled -- now she eats better without them than she does with them -- but it not exactly her preference. Good gracious...
Oh well... things could be worse. Things could be sooo sooo much worse.
Gotta go take care of last load of laundry -- in preparation for IRONING tomorrow. I plan to snuggle in with a book tonight, and tomorrow, y'all will see me when I reach the top of Mt. Ironmore! Hope you all have a great night!
PS -- waving to ALL whom I missed -- just replying through topic review window and I'm sure I've missed cuop with a lot of happenings today. I'll read more after I take care of the laundry!