► While I don't want to go out tomorrow, I've resigned myself to my fate. I just hope that we can be in and out of the electric company and the pension office quickly. Every time I go to the pension offices I feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable and unsettled, so the less amount of time I need to be there the better.

► Given how difficult it was ( Read more... )

► Can't say that I'm surprised, but Dean forgot to pick up my parcel at the postal depot. In fact, she forgot to take the notice card with her. She assures me she'll get it after work on Monday. I hope so ( Read more... )

► Yesterday certainly was a full day, if I may say so. From the apartment to Michael's and PetSmart on the North end of town, on to my grandmother's on the West end, then downtown to the bank and comic book shop, back to my grandmother's, then up around to Bulk Barn on down to Walmart and finally Food Basics before finally heading back to the ( Read more... )

► On Sunday I was talking to Dad on the phone when he invited Dean and I to the condo for dinner Wednesday. Since it's two days before out regular weekly outing, and since I'm now a slave to my neurosis, I've been anxious and queasy worrying about going. That said, I still intend to go. I'm just getting increasingly frustrated with how much I've ( Read more... )

► When Dad arrived at the apartment yesterday to pick me up, I handed him his Columbo DVD sets. I had borrowed them early in the winter and have had them since then because of all the packing and space issues as Dad and Clare moved to their new condo. Dad looked at the bag with the DVDs for a minute or two then handed them back to me. "Keep them ( Read more... )

► There was a bit of a surprise waiting for us when Dad drove me back to the apartment after shopping. My apartment building is at the end of a dead end avenue, and access was blocked off my several water department trucks blocking the street as workers had torn up the yard at the corner and were pumping water out of some huge pipe. Dad ended up ( Read more... )

► I heard from John this morning and it seems the Darryl Banks Hawkwoman commission is a go! Woo hoo!

► If I have a heart attack anytime soon it'll be because of Stormy jumping up on the stove and standing on the hot element. Heard a shout earlier and went to check and found that Dean had started to boil a pot of hot water. She turned away to ( Read more... )

► Today has been a long day. That's not to say it's been bad, but it's been long. Last night I couldn't sleep because of my nerves, worrying about my therapy appointment this morning, and bad chest pains from indigestion. The heat and humidity hasn't helped matters either. It wasn't too bad, I suppose, since my anxiety plateaued around 6:00am ( Read more... )

► I think I may have been pushing the bonding with Stormy too much. The first 2 weeks with her were fine and very enjoyable, but he seems to be slowly pulling away as he gets more comfortable in the apartment. The first two nights he slept on my bed with me, at one point sleeping on my chest for a couple of hours while I watched a movie. That's ( Read more... )

► Living with a cat for 2 weeks has been interesting, to say the least. Dogs are so easy to read, but cats seem to be naturally enigmatic ( Read more... )