Merry Christmas
December 25, 2020
Dear Debra:
Good Morning and Merry Christmas! It is nearly 7 in the morning and I have been up or awake since the normal 5:30. The normal routine has been completed and now the cats are beside me at either end of the bed. Tiger is on a pillow beside me and Sky is under the covers at the foot of the bed.
As it was predicted it’s raining. It’s been raining since early yesterday evening. It has washed away most if not all the snow from last week’s storm. Some neighborhoods in town lost power. Happily I am not one of them and neither is the complex.
I have been surfing the net and avoiding the one thing I haven’t looked at in what seems like days. I haven’t gone over my budget. I want to update it before the year ends and I start the next year. I have a feeling once the new year starts Liz, who has made it known to me she wants to be the trustee, will want to check my budget and she will criticize the way I have been doing it. I really don’t want to hear it or have it.
This morning besides updating and making sure bills get paid, I will be finishing some housecleaning that I started with yesterday. I didn’t finish it because I was getting tired and fighting another headache. I can’t complain about the house cleaning there are not that many rooms here. It’s the Livingroom that is left. The office is still a mess so that’s not going to be a factor just yet.
I am expected around 1 at Liz’s and it will be quiet dinner. The menu will be Ham, and sides, and dessert and a card game and puzzles. We are not exchanging gifts or so I have been told. As it is Liz has spent a lot of time with me at the expense of her own holiday preparations. She has repeatedly told me that they are not in the Christmas spirit this year.
So Christmas Eve Day was spent doing some house cleaning, TV watching, and getting a hold of the plumber. So I set up an appointment for Monday morning at 9 am. I will need to go to the bank over the weekend. When I spoke to Frank he did say not to use Raps plumbing and heating that they are not good.
Liz had done a search or something for their website and sent it to me. I had heard of them and seen their ads but didn’t really think much of it. When I called to tell her about the appointment she conceded to the President’s experience with them. So for now that’s a good thing. Although I just read some of the google reviews and there were only two negative/critical reviews.
I also called my 2 of my three remaining aunts. They were both short (the conversations). Actually my call to Aunt Betty may have been a little longer. When she starts to criticize what the Governor of CT does or says I have to roll my eyes. What he plans, or decisions he makes for our state doesn’t affect her all the way in TX. I wasn’t able to speak to my Aunt Rosemary. Her phone was busy.
I had a late dinner from McDonalds. I didn’t feel like cooking and I still had the headache. It was a double cheeseburger, Fries and a shake. I had spilled a little of the shake on my rug but it’s cleaned up. The cats thought they could have my dinner.
I went to bed early and took no time at all to fall asleep.
Well I am going to close for now. I Hope you and your family are having a wonderful day….