Monday and Exercises

I had a bad night. My legs ached and feet cramped and so when I got up to go to the bathroom at 3:30AM, I took my thyroid med and also an Aleve.  That helped but I still got up at 4:00AM.

I went on to exercise class after I watered my flowers and let Missy out for awhile with me while it was still relatively cool.

Afterward, I paid my rent at the bank and went to buy some yogurt at Brahms to eat for supper until I leave Saturday for camp. That reminds me, I need to make a list for packing. Maybe I should do that while I am thinking about it. So, more later...

I got my list made and printed off and then went over to Stan's so he could work over my hearing aid. He put new filters in it and cleaned it all up. Then I came home and made up some lunch.  I had Schwan's chicken and rice with broccoli. Pretty good for frozen food! Then I had one of my ice cream bars for dessert.

This afternoon, I may run the sweeper. I never did finish my apartment last week. So more even later...

I did go to Walmart and get a few important things this morning too but I did not get the vacuuming finished.  Missy was asleep on my bed all afternoon. More later...it is time for the news.

After the news I watched a couple of episodes of "Cheers" and then just turned off the TV. It's almost 8:00 and I need to stay up until the kids next door bring me their key. The plumbers will be here in the morning and Bob will be here to let them in and they will need to get into the apartment next door too to fix the plumbing.  Rick and Carmen are moving into their house this evening.  I will need to leave them a note before I can go to bed. I got up at 4:00AM this morning  so I hope I can do that. Missy has been in on my bed most of the day. I am a little concerned about her. She usually comes in to watch TV with me in the evening. I hope this isn't a bad sign.

Sunday and Church and a Cookout

I slept fairly well last night. I did get up at 4:00AM but that's not all that unusual when I go to bed at 9:00PM. Scott called last evening to tell me about a movie he had watched and recommended to me. I forget the name right now as I am having a senior moment.That happens a lot anymore.

Missy is in on my bed napping again. That old cat sleeps most of the time.

I got myself and Missy ready for the day. I fed myself and her and got dressed for church...wearing jeans because as soon as the service is over, we will go out to my kids' for the cookout. I didn't want to wear my good clothes for that.

I have read the paper and done the crossword puzzle.

It's 7:40AM now and I will call Phyllis at 8:00AM to tell her I will drive. Bob is picking up Joanne at 10:15 and they may want to leave the cookout sooner then Phyllis and me. So I decided to drive.

I worked over my potato salad this morning. It was just too bland. I added some more pickles and mustard. It's better now.

When I get home from the cookout, I will do the newsletters I send out to those who miss church.

More later...

We had a very good service and a nice crowd. Then we all went out to John and Leslie's and had the cookout with a lot of great food. After those who wanted to swim were finished, Leslie served the homemade ice cream. It was delicious! Everyone came out there and Rick and Carmen even brought four guests.

Rick and Carmen will be moving on Tuesday. I will miss them as my neighbors. I haven't a clue who will move in next door next.

There will be no local serves next Sunday since many of us will be at our family camp. I will leave a sign on the door in case someone comes to go to church.

I got the newsletter finished and ready for the mailman tomorrow. The others went out in e-mail. I think everyone had a great time.

It's almost time for 60 Minutes and if I can get reception, I want to watch that.

So, more later....

I watched 60 Minutes and then I took my bath and Missy and I watched "I Can Only Imagine" on Amazon Prime. After that, we both went to bed.

Saturday and a Scorcher

I slept until 5:00 this morning and only woke up twice to go to the bathroom. And I took another Aleve. My arm is not hurting now. That stuff is miraculous. I got myself ready for the day and fed myself and Missy. It was only about 80 degrees this morning so I took her out for about an hour. I watered my flowers and cleaned the weeds out and later played some solitaire on my phone.  Finally I brought her back in. She was very cooperative this morning...no trouble to speak of at all. She went almost down to Maureen's at one time when I was busy and I did have to go tell her to come back.I clap my hands at her. She hissed and spit at me but she gets the message......but what else is new?? From then on she was fine. She is in on my bed taking a nap now.

It's supposed to get up in the high 90's today..... again.

I had to get new lenses for my glasses this week. It had been years since they were updated...if ever. In fact, the frames are no longer being made.  I take my contacts out in the evening before my bath and wear my glasses until I got to bed. Just those lenses were $340. I have the invisible bifocal. That may be what drove up the price.  I will pick them up after I get home from camp. I leave the 7th for our family camp and will be gone a week. That's something else that has gone up. I go each year and last year it was $150. for the week. This year it is $225. And my auto insurance is due this next month too...on the 17th. There's always something!

I noticed my kitchen clock had stopped so I climbed up to take it down and change out the battery. Then I started my potato salad for tomorrow's cookout at John and Leslie's house after church. I have it chilling in the frig now. I hope it turns out well. It's been a while since I have made it.

More later...

I went over to the Dollar General store  and bought some freezer bags for Missy's litter contents.  I set one on a window sill and use it to pick up her wet litter. That works. When the bag is full I put it in the trash. I flush her bowel stuff. :) (I couldn't spell feases)

Rick and Carmen move next Tuesday into the house they bought here. I have no idea what sort of new neighbor I will get next door. These kids have been so neat! I am badly spoiled. Etta is having an auction on Monday. It was her house they bought.

I couldn't think of anything to have for my lunch. I just had an ice cream bar. Maybe I will think of something later.

More even later...

I watched a special about the life of Johnny Carson this afternoon. It was on Amazon Prime. It was very interesting. My Bob always liked to watch his show when he came home from work when he was working the evening shift.  At the time, I couldn't understand why. Maybe it was because I had two kids 23 months apart and another three years apart from the second one and was always tired. Who knows.

It's a little after three and I guess I will eat my last Yogurt.

So more even later...

Missy and I watched a couple of episodes of "Cheers" and afterward went on to bed at 9:00. .

Friday and Another Hot Day

It's supposed to be another scorcher today. However I slept fairly well. My right arm was hurting again and so I got up at 4:30. I took Aleve yesterday morning and it was fine all day but I can't just keep taking Aleve. It's not good for the kidneys.

I bribed Missy to get off the bed so I could finish making it. I offered her treats early. Then I filled her water bowl and her food bowl and came on back to dress and get myself ready for the day. I don't have a plan for today. I do need to go to Walmart and get some more treats and the ingredients for my potato salad for Sunday's cookout at John and Leslie's after church. But that can wait until later.

Yesterday afternoon I worked on the sermon I am to give on the 22nd of July. I will be gone to church camp from July 7th until the 13th so I wanted to get it done early. I'm really not all that happy with it but maybe I can polish it up some at the last minute. At least it's roughed out.

More later...

I took Missy out as soon as it got light. Unfortunately, she was not as well behaved as she usually has been and I had to pick her up and bring her back in the house four times before she finally decided to behave herself. She snarled and hissed at me all the way back in. Early morning is the only time she can go out today because we are under an extreme heat advisory. Now she is lying in the sunshine in the living room doorway. It's cool in the apartment. It's now hot outside.

So, more even later....

My beautician is going to give up her job so I am looking for a new one in Coffeyville. I may use the one Leslie used to go to (Toni) before she went back to Douglas, the one in Bartlesville.

I stopped by that shop before coming home from Utopia. Karan had asked Colleen and me to go there with her after exercise class. Right now, I need to get myself some lunch. So more later...

I spent the afternoon  cleaning. After 5:00 I turned on the TV to watch the news. Then I took my bath and watched an episode or two of "Cheers" on Amazon Prime. At 8:45 Missy and I went to bed. 

Thursday and a Free Day

I slept very well last night. I did get up at 4:30 but had had good sleep. I got myself ready for the day, fed myself and Missy and then while it was relatively cool, I took her out while I watered my flowers, and dead headed them. Later...much later, she was ready to come in and she ate something, drank some water and curled up on my bed for a nap.

I watched the news and ate a couple of cookies.

I have nothing planned for today. I still have not vacuumed the bedroom or finished dusting so I may get that done today. Missy did wet on the bathmat under her litter box this morning .....just barely missing the litter box a little. Still I put the mat in the washer and when I have more in there, I will wash it. I still have another mat I can use if and when it happens again.

More later...

Bob came over for a little while and asked me to meet him for lunch at the Kansas Buffet. Joanne is meeting and having lunch with some of her woman friends. So I decided to go. We met at 11:30 and had lunch. It was pretty good.

He had been to the dentist and had some questions for me. I had worked seven years as a chair side assistant.  He has a third molar that needs to come out. It is non functional and has cavities in it.

I came home and finished my Readers Digest and then made up some blueberry muffins and fixed myself a cup of green tea to have with the muffin.

Juanita called to say I had left my calculator there. I missed it this morning when I wanted to use it and couldn't find it.  I will pick it up on Tuesday when I get my hair done again. 

It was beastly hot all day and I could not take Missy out again. The humidity was awful! I will take her out for awhile in the morning after it gets light,

I watched some "Nature" with Missy on Amazon Prime TV. She loves that show and we just watched one we had already seen but she was just glued to the set. Then I took my bath and watched an episode of Cheers and then Missy and I went on to bed at 9:00PM.

Wednesday and Hair Day Then Juanita's Bank Statement

I slept much better without the foam pad under the mattress pad.  Still I awoke twice in the night to go to the bathroom and once when Missy came in with her little "mew" to tell me she had used the litter box and wanted me to clean it up. So I did. I know I spoil this old cat but I am not sure how long I will have her. She is, after all, 15 years old.

I will go to Independence earlier today. Kathy has me scheduled at 8:00 today and it is my color and cut day.  Afterward, I will go out to Juanita's and balance her bank statement. Then I will come on back home for lunch. I still have the rest of my fried ravioli from Sunday. I will warm that up in the microwave.

Right now, I will go have my breakfast. I am dressed and ready for the day. So more later...

I did leave to go up to Independence at 7:15 and after I got my hair done, I went over to Juanita's and balanced her checkbook. Then I wrote two checks for her and delivered them while I was up there.

When I got home I warmed up the fried ravioli I had saved from Sunday's lunch and ate that for my lunch.  Then I went up to the senior center and played Skip Bo for two hours. There were only four of us there but we had fun. I took my ice cream bars to serve for dessert.

When I got home it was very, very hot. I just stayed in the apartment as much as Missy wanted to go outside.  It was just too hot for either of us.

About 5:15, I gave her her treats  and I ate some yogurt. After I had my bath at 8:00 we laid down together on the sofa and watched some "Frazier" and "Cheers" episodes on Amazon Prime.

At 9:30, we both went in to bed.

Tuesday and not a Hair Day.

Tomorrow at 8:00, I will get my hair cut and done in Independence. Afterward I will go over to Juanita's and balance her checkbook. Usually I go on Tuesdays to get my hair done but Kathy forgot I would be gone last week and filled the time on Tuesday this week. She will work me in Wednesday.

I slept pretty well last night but decided to wash my sheets and the other laundry this morning and while at it, I decided to take the foam pad out from under my mattress pad and see if the bed will be more comfortable that way. I will offer it to Kenny, next door. Dr. Sandu has a lot of furnished rentals that he uses for the refinery "turn around" workers. This has been under my mattress pad all these years and is clean.

I don't have a plan for today. I may finish the vacuuming I didn't get done yesterday...my bedroom and the dining room. Right now, Missy is patiently waiting for her breakfast so I will get back to this later...

Both she and I had our breakfast and then we went outside to take care of my flowerbeds. She wandered about and ate some grass. Finally, we came back in and she went in and crawled up on my bed and took a nap. While she was asleep,  Bob came over and he stayed a n hour and we visited and caught up on one another's news.

I also asked him if he would mind taking care of Missy if I decided to go to church camp in July. It is scheduled for July7th through the 13th. He said that would be no problem. I may go then. There are no local services on July 8th. Bob's birthday is July 12th so I don't know if he would come over to the campgrounds and bring Joanne that Sunday or not. I will ask him though.

I will call Nancy and see if she is busy today. We might go to Bartlesville. I need to take my glasses over to Dr. Birch's to have the lenses updated.

So, more later....

I took my glasses over to Caney to Dr. Birth's office to have new lenses put in them. They had never been updated all these years.  I dropped by Nancy's but she was not home. I went on to Bartlesville anyhow and ate lunch at McCalister's. Then I went to Famous Footwear and bought a pair of sale navy blue sandals.  Also, I found a summer purse at Goodys on sale from $63.00 to $21. and change.  Then I bought gas and came on back home.

I got home just before the storm hit. It thundered and lightning and rained hard for an hour and I sat out on the carport and enjoyed the storm.then came on in and watched some episodes of "Cheers" and "Frazier" before taking my bath and going on to bed. Missy soon joined me.