Just checking in -- I've had a pretty good day.
Took dmom to the pulmonologist -- she assured me that she could get herself to this doctor and the one tomorrow on her own, but she said that she does enjoy spending time with me, and right now, I guess I need all the distraction I can get, so I don't mind driving her over there. It's about 30 minutes each way for me, and these doctors are always on time and get her in and out pretty quick. She IS concerned about her foot to the point that she is seriously considering having a toe amputated.

I don't know WHAT to tell her in this regard... the doctor actually presented it as an option, and now she is in such pain that she is thinking about it. You know how your fingers look when you cross your fingers for good luck? Well -- that is exactly how her 2nd and 3rd toes do. One is completely crossed over the other. It puts a big limit on what shoes she can wear, and makes it very painful to walk. I don't know how she walks at all.
After I got her home, I went to
-- Wmart...
-- the drug store...

they left out one of my prescriptions! --
-- the hardware store, where I found out that (1) they will not have the bulb for my oven in stock until Thursday and that (2) this probably doesn't matter because I cannot get the bulb in anyway. I broke off the end of the bulb in the socket. After being in this oven for 39 years, it apparently just did not want to come out. I did not realize it had broken, because I thought it was just made differently than a regular light bulb. Sigh. DS said the man who is supposed to come back and fix my ceiling can probably manage the light bulb also.
-- paid electric bill
-- home, put away groceries... then to
-- the auto place where my brakes had been repaired. Owner advised I go back to transmission man re: transmission issue -- it "jerks" a bit when it changes gear the first time. I got home, and saw that I am 2 months past the 12 month warranty, AND approximately 1000 miles over the 12,000 mile warranty. Isn't that always the way of it? It has done this since he first fixed it -- BUT he said it would, for a WHILE, and then it would do right. Well. It never actually did "right." AND he kept it forever while he was working on it, and I felt he charged too much. I believe I will just live with it. I wonder if those ads on tv for the car repair places -- you know, where you pay something per month and they supposably take care of all repairs -- I wonder if those things are just scams are if they are really worth it.
Anyway -- ds & family took me to pick up the car, then they went on to eat and I came home, stopped and got myself a stuffed bbq potato and cheese sticks, and made some orange/grapefruit/cherry salad. Gave ds half of it when he came back for his truck. We felt "cheated"

because dmom forgot the cherries in this, one of our traditional Christmas dishes.
I also let ds and ddil convince me that the sweatshirt dniece got me for Christmas is not too tight, that the XL might look too baggy. I can wear the sweatshirt over a thin turtleneck and they do not think it looks tight. I might feel slightly more comfortable in the XL, but it might put me into the style of my late dmil who only wore mu-mus.
I have filed a few papers also, Nancy! That is using the term loosely. I put them in the drawer where dh stored all the stuff for taxes. I need to start getting that stuff together, I guess, but I am just not putting anything else on myself until I get the results of the biopsy. I just can't deal with anything else that requires me to focus and think and use brain power.
Nothing magical, but I've made it through. I have the Sunday School Ladies praying for me now and my pest control lady. She is coming Thursday, and the house may be in worse shape than she has ever seen it, but I can't help it. Getting past Wednesday is the best I can do right now.
Hope you all have a great day tomorrow!