Awoke this morning to Tickle Me Elmo laughing his fool head off. The Grands aged 5 and 8 find him hilarious. They came and snuggled while watching a little Netflix and then we had breakfast and played Little Big Planet. Sawyer has really improved and it is so much more fun with three players. There …
Spent the better part of my day completing the installation of my clothesline. I uninstalled a section of the porch railing and mostly installed the new swinging gate which works brilliantly and allows me to access the line easily. I then hung clothes!! Next I put together the trellis arch and gate for the front …
As I had amassed vacation and banked time and realize most of it will go to the tax man, I have been using it up as I approach my last days of work on the firm payroll. This morning I took care of my obligations, made plans for Monday and then took the better part …
Home made red wine. I know better. Stick with top shelf on the rocks but no… At risk of oversharing as a Chatty Cathie I will once again keep it short. I have much to be grateful for today as I met with a firm client at the office and trained her in QB online, …
I may have gotten down on myself today. I may have done a little inward whining. I may have wished the weather would be different as the barometer hurts my brain. I may have discovered a mistake at work and felt it was the end of the world. I may have been offered a tentative …
I sit down at the end of the night and I think nothing much has really happened, I worked, I did a few chores, I watched TV. It’s not true though. When I review my photos for the day I see that Josh, the new manny showed up with 5 kids in tow and they …
The most I can say about today is that it was the opposite of yesterday. Where there was torrential rain, there now was heavy heat. I kept taking breaks from work to get outside in the breeze if I could find it. Diane and tag-a -longs came with the pick-up truck to help take my …
My machine worked last night which was a blessing. I still woke up early but made myself go back to sleep. My plan for the day was to be sure the pool was full and good and cover it, and install my clothesline pole that I had ordered through Home Depot. I bought the clothesline …
I let Gene sleep in until his Pere (what they call their Granddad) arrived with the tools we needed for the day. While he was outside being sure how everything worked I heard ‘Are you okay??’ and went rushing out to see what had happened. Bill (Pere, aka my first husband) had tripped over a …
4:04 am I awake with a start as my CPAP machine suddenly cuts out. I can’t seem to focus enough to figure out why, so I cast it aside and eventually fall back asleep. In the morning I read that it says the tube is blocked. It is not but I take it all apart …
I think. I cut the cord officially today and am as of July 1st self-employed again. The day started with a lovely client, Stacy dropping off squash plants, lettuce and rhubarb. I moved the pool off the grass to assess what needs to be done and found my spray nozzle under it! After that I …
I have been hiding a terrible act of waste. Those who care about these things know that I am trying to do my part to save the world. I recycle, reuse, & repurpose everything (if you watched yesterday’s post you would have seen my ‘yardart’ which was mocked). I compost garden waste, just got my …
I was sitting up late one Sunday night on Salt Spring Island and decided I missed theatre and extra work so I searched Auditions and coming across a new show that was being cast, decided to apply. The very next day I received a request for an audition tape and made one of my commute, …
Today I don’t feel like doing anythingI just wanna lay in my bedDon’t feel like picking up my phoneSo leave a message at the tone‘Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything Oh yeah, Bruno, I feel ya. Or maybe a little Elton.. And I guess that’s why they call it the bluesTime on my …
I believe I may finally have hit the age where I can’t lose too much sleep. Dear Emmy, due to my forgetting to limit liquids after dinner, peed the bed just after midnight and then awoke starving and thirsty at 4:04 am. A snack and settled again in my bed so that at 6 I …
And on the 84th day it became just a diary. I don’t think I could keep calling it my Covid-19 blog once I started putting a toe out into the world and letting it come in to mine. At some point along the way I think I became a hermit rather than an isolator. I …
I had a lot ruminating today about Black Lives Matter but I am worn out and need to give the subject full attention. I will, randomly, soon.
Today was tough, I am not going to sugar coat it. I think I am doing okay and then a wave of heavy settles in. I have to concentrate that much harder and I check and recheck myself. And then I make a mistake. Rarely do I make one I can’t fix and I am …
so, I slept better with the machine but woke up with terrible foreboding, as if the string of loss was not over. I suspect it is really stress due to the fact I am about to make a huge life change, again, that will likely bring my income level down. That comes part and parcel …
