Yay, I got the Jane Austen Pride shirt. And white shorts to go with it. It's chilly this morning, though, so I'm wearing cleaning sweats.

I'm still mulling over how to get the large ceramic pots to Illinois. Now I'm thinking that I could put them in storage and pick them up when I come back to get the interior of the house painted and take them in ( Read more... )

Mimi wants something, but I don't know what. I gave her some dry food, but that wasn't it (but she'll eat it anyway). Does she want me to go back to sleep? Good luck with that, Mimi.

Went through Mom's messages on her answering machine and deleted some of them so that people can leave messages.

I'm looking at the more expensive trips that I want ( Read more... )

I had intended to shower when I got up in the morning, but I overslept. And I didn't shower during lunch because I napped. I threw on my makeup because I had a Zoom meeting for which I turned on my video. I needed to run to Dollar Tree and Walmart, and I just combed my hair and did it. No one backed away from me, so I guess that I was okay :)

I ( Read more... )

I found a chart to use to determine if I will have any money taken out of Social Security due to my pension. But I haven't done the calculations yet.

I made fish and chips tonight for dinner, and it was delicious. But the smoke alarm was going crazy. And I have food for three more meals!

Took a nap and slept through until 2:30 AM. Woke up to Zara ( Read more... )

The rain has started. It's going to rain on and off all day.

Italian went well. Mimi joined in at the beginning. We talked about animals that bring good luck in Italy. Now it's storming.

I want to take a nap, but my pension fund is having a meeting. I want to hear their update. I found out that only half of the pension liabilities are covered by ( Read more... )

My dad said to take a lump sum from my pension and buy an annuity from a reputable company. He had a pension from United Airlines, but the company went bankrupt, so he got only a fraction of the pension. My pension is through the State of Illinois, not the University, so it's worth worrying about.

I read an article about how airlines are trying to ( Read more... )

I got my pictures downloaded from LJ Scrapbook. I need to rename them and upload them to Flickr, but I can do that at my leisure.

I lay down for a while this morning because of a headache. My boss sent me a nice note about it. I still have the headache now that I've gotten up, but I took a shower and feel better.

I had a meeting at 3 that I was ( Read more... )

Comcast was down when I first woke up this morning, but luckily, it was up by the time that I started work. (I'm working from home today.)

I ran out at 4 PM to get receipts from my eye doctor and dentist for my Flexible Spending Account. The eye doctor wasn't sure how to print an itemized receipt but said that she would call the main office and ( Read more... )

Well, crud. I keep forgetting to ask my mower guy to mow, and it's supposed to rain tomorrow.

I finally found a map of Greece that I like.

Found another article encouraging people to retire in Portugal. I do want to go there sometime. I'm looking at a solo traveler package from Go Ahead Tours, with an extension in Lisbon. They also have tours to ( Read more... )

I kind of want a map of Greece too, to go with my map of Italy. I learned the geography of Italy by staring at my map. I installed an app to learn the Greek alphabet.

Italian went well. My teacher asked me if I had studied Italian before starting the class, which is a good sign. We're going to study past tense next week, which is new and not ( Read more... )