► That's a bit of a relief. My aunt and maternal grandmother stopped by yesterday afternoon. They couldn't stay long, and my grandmother couldn't manage the steep staircase to get to my apartment so it wasn't a long visit. My grandmother gave me envelops, one for myself and one for my sister. She's apparently giving each grandchild a few hundred ( Read more... )

► My cat Stormy's feeding routine is as follows: a bit of dry food around 7:00am, 1 can of wet food around 4:00pm, and then another bit of dry food in the evening around 10:00pm. Dean was the one who fed Stormy the canned meal yesterday and the day before. Both times he barely touched it. I wasn't sure what to expect when I fed him today, ( Read more... )

► Now that's nice. Earlier this afternoon I opened out front door to put some things in the blue box, which we keep on the front landing and I saw that someone had hung a flyer on the stairwell railing. It's an advance notice warning that they'll be doing maintenance on the watermain and cutting off our water. Presumably for the maintenance and ( 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... )

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► 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... )

► Early this morning I discovered why the apartment has been so stiflingly hot and muggy the past few days despite the air conditioner having been on all this time. It turns out that when the air conditioner was turned on on Thursday and readjusted, the dial for function setting didn't properly click over from high fan to high cold. It was just ( Read more... )

► We've gained a modicum of space in the apartment today. Dad and my brother Darren both stopped by after 5:00pm this afternoon, Darren finally taking Dad's old big screen TV and stand which had been eating up a large section of the dining section of the kitchen. Dad will be taking the bicycle he bought from me later this week, and then we'll ( Read more... )

► Today was a very stressful and exhausting day. Without getting too deep into the details, things with Dean kinda came to a bit of a head in regards to her missing so much work the past couple of months and a meeting scheduled for Thursday. There was some massive panicking and despair on her part. I made some phone calls, she talked to some ( Read more... )