Mine certainly went astray today.While in town, I decided to go help dmom with the heater and the bracelet. Kinda failed at both of those -- could find no control labeled for "fan," even though I was actually lying flat on the floor looking at the controls. It's no wonder she didn't get down there! She decided she might need to call the gas company and let them come look at it. They sell the gas log heaters so they should be able to figure out what is the problem.
And the bracelet -- she had managed to get it unclasped herself (and it IS a tricky sort of clasp), but I did show her how to use the little bracelet helper I gave her for Christmas last year. It's just a cheap little thing that helps you hold the bracelet in place while freeing up the opposite hand to attach the end.
BUT... after all that, she asked me to file a stack of papers she had on her desk, and to write a couple checks for her. I also took her garbage out.
She and I looked for the Christmas ornaments I mentioned a while back -- the ones she bought for dgrands over the years -- but this was a futile effort.
While searching, however, I pointed at a file cabinet in what used to be my room, and said, "Is this where your life insurance and important papers is?" She said no, she doesn't have life insurance, but she showed me where her living will and regular will are, and I am assuming that she has enough money in the bank to be buried. I mean, I know at one time she had more than enough, and my name is on all her bank accounts now.
Blessed -- she lives 10-15 minutes away. (It's about 8.5 miles.)
Oh -- BTW -- DS did call my dmom earlier today, but she told him the man who mows her yard and misc handyman had been by looking for work, so she let him take down the wreaths. He put them in what used to be my playhouse, and the bows are still on them, and dmom wants to get out there and take the bows off and store them separately -- which makes me nervous -- but I cannot police dmom's every move.
* I told her I wasn't planning to need any of this any time soon, but I thought I probably should know where important things are!
She has a good bit of money in stocks and an IRA, etc, and I am sure when the time comes, I will need to talk with her accountant and my dbil the lawyer to figure out a lot of these things.
After I left dmom's house, I decided to go to Next Town to eat at one of my favorite hamburger places -- Freddy's. (Ddil's brother had posted about this being one of his favorite spots today on FB and it made me want one.) THEN I went to Krispy Kreme (because DS had mentioned they were going there tonight to get report card rewards.) I have been very susceptible to the power of suggestion today.
Finally home, put away two loads of laundry and have the towels folded and waiting to be put away. I also watched the Madea Christmas movie, which I had put on the DVR. I had seen it before but didn't remember till it started.
I kinda dread tomorrow morning -- it's going to be cold and rainy, and I am supposed to go to chair yoga at 10:00 a.m. Ugh. I may have to pass on that.
I also am supposed to start back with the class I am teaching on Wednesday nights tomorrow. Not looking forward to that, either. And ddil is hoping that the pastor will come back to my class because she (a) is signed up to teach the young adult class and (b) does NOT want the pastor hanging around in them. She says the pastor will take over despite ddil teaching and the class has dropped from around 12 participants to 5 on a good night.
Anyway, I'm not excited about having to get out in the cold weather tomorrow.
Our pastor was a great youth leader. DDIL says she treats them like teenagers, and they are all out of college now and all but one are married, so some of the lesson topics just don't apply anymore. She also wants to send them on a date night activity, but she has been talking about this forever. And it just occurs to me -- what's she going to do with the unmarried young man? Sigh.