Yep, halfway through the month... some days things seem to be working, some days... not so much. These last two days, I've just slept a LOT -- I don't know if I'm just lazy or if life is just too much right now. And of course, the 12th-16th always marks the anniversary and I relive those first worst days... 21 months tomorrow since dh's funeral. I don't DWELL on this constantly throughout the day, but I'm still AWARE, if that makes any sense.
I guess I need to adjust my sails.
It is 22 degrees here, Twins, and sunny. For some reason that makes it worse -- it LOOKS so nice outside, and then you go out and WHEW -- the cold takes your breath away! 22 should be the low for tonight, but Saturday it is supposed to be 20 and Monday 15!!! I am so glad I am no longer teaching school!
And even at 22 degrees, the humidity is 81%. How does that work? The app says 0% cloud cover, and there's nothing on the radar.
Today -- dmom woke me up (it was almost 11:00 a.m.) to tell me she has now lost (?) her laptop. Some time ago, she lost (?) a very nice tablecloth. Over a year ago, she noticed that my grandfather's shotgun was not where it was supposed to be anymore.
So... It's very perplexing.
She has had the same housekeeper for at least 10 years, and she has a man who mows the yard and does handyman jobs sometimes -- but neither of these are in the house without her except on rare occasions -- especially rare occasions for the handyman. She has never had any reason to mistrust either of them. BUT... the handyman brought two younger guys with him to paint three rooms recently. One of them she knew, but the other was a stranger. She left these two guys in the house (with the handyman) while she went with me to get the memory bears. When she got back, she was pretty sure that someone had moved some items in her bathroom -- which was not being painted -- but she didn't notice anything missing.
Also -- the roofers were there not too long ago, and I can't remember if she closed the garage door and locked everything up when she and I left them there while she went to a doctor's appointment.
I can believe the tablecloth is misplaced somewhere in that house... and the gun? I'm still not sure my uncle didn't mistakenly take it when he took some of my paternal grandfather's guns home with him. (Dmom is pretty certain she made sure he did not take it, however.)
But the laptop? It would have been sitting on an ottoman or chair in the sunroom, where she spends 90% of her time.
Any thoughts on this? DDIL is all upset about it now and wants to go out there tomorrow and search with DS. I went out there today, and I could not find it -- I looked under the ottoman and chair, but I did not look under the couch, which ddil asked about. I can't imagine how it would have gotten UNDER the couch, but if it was somewhere we COULD imagine, we'd have it in hand, right?
I also spent part of my morning trying to make sure all was correct with a couple of spam emails I got -- one from DirectTV, wanting to auto-renew my MLB subscription for this spring. Nope... called them and told them I didn't want it. The other was supposed to be from the Geek Squad but the email address looked suspicious, nothing resembling Best Buy or the Geek Squad. I don't remember when I last even used the Geek Squad, but it has probably been 20 years or more! So I'm ignoring that. It says I have already been charged, so I'm just watching my credit card account and my bank app.
The rest of my day was pretty calm, but I did vacuum the kids' room -- at least I hit the middle.
The best part of my day was having stew from the Labor Day picnic. I am so glad I saved that stew in single serving portions.
The snow sounds beautiful, Cathy.
Sixteen appointments in 10 days IS a LOT, LadyM. I'm surprised about DS not being able to go alone. I remember going to my family doctor alone after I could drive. I know I went alone before I was 18.
I am sooo glad DD loves her bedroom!!!
I had to look up yarn chicken too!
Tomorrow, my plan is to do some zone work in the laundry room, and then dgd will be spending the night. I also need to get a baby gift wrapped (bagged) and write a note inside the Little Golden Book that takes the place of the card. The baby shower is Saturday.
Hope you all have a great start to the weekend!