No pain! Yay! My tooth is not hurting at all today. I can eat and chew whatever I want and no pain! I trust this will continue and the root canal worked.
I went to Emporia around 3:00 this afternoon. Made a stop at Bluestem to get some S hooks to hang up the chicken feeder, dog food, heat lamp base and lamps and some cottonseed hulls for the nesting boxes in the chicken coop. They had the type of dog food I needed so I got three bags. I am so grateful they load the heavy stuff into the car from the back dock for me. I can easily unload them but struggle to load them.
Went through the car wash on my way downtown to go to the Chiropractor. V Road is so muddy I’m not sure it does much good but the car looks nice while I am in town at least.
Had to wait about 10 minutes at the Chiropractor. He did his thing on me and then I headed to the coordinator of the tax program’s house to pick up some testing material I needed. I got that picked up and then headed to Walmart to pickup my grocery order.
I had gotten a text from Walmart around 2:00 letting me know the stock levels of the dog food I had ordered was low and ask what I might want to substitute for it. I chose no substitutions and picked some up from Bluestem. They had it in stock so now I have 5 bags of dog food. That will last a month or so. Everything else I ordered was in stock so I was good to go home.
Came home and got things unloaded and the chicken chores done. The girls gave me 20 eggs today. I’m grateful I changed into my muck boots as it is one icky, muddy mess both in the coop and on the path down. One of the things I picked up at Bluestem was some S hooks. I use them to hang the feeder on a chain that hangs down. The feeder doesn’t work well unless it is hanging. The chickens sometimes have a party and get wild and knock the feeder off the S hooks. The hook then gets covered in the muck in the pen. I got a couple extras to have on hand. When I went to hang them up in the feed door of the coop, I discovered I still had one. I thought I had looked a couple days ago for it but hadn’t seen it. Have plenty of them now!
I’m fixing Jason a tuna noodle casserole for his dinner tonight. Good comfort food for a rainy, icky day.
Tomorrow I am going to a Celebration of Life service at 1:00 for a dear friend’s husband. I don’t think I have anything else I need to do in Emporia tomorrow. I took care of all my errands today.
The KU Research program called today and got me scheduled for my first exercise class and orientation for February 12. I got put into the one class I was hoping not to be put into. This class is a core strengthening class that uses stretch bands, yoga, etc. I wanted to be in either the strength class or conditioning class or the class that combined those two.
I asked the lady that called today if I can do strength and conditioning on my own. She gave me an interesting answer. Their preference is no but I can continue whatever I have been doing. However, she said if I take off the Fitbit they will never know about it. Don’t ask – don’t tell! I’ll see what happens. I really want to get fit enough to do a walking trip later this year or next year and I’m not sure core strength will do it for me.
The Universe works in mysterious ways and I know it has my back so evidently the class I was put into is the class that will benefit me the most. She said the class helps with fall prevention and balance. Haven’t had an issue with either. The class may do more for me than I think it will.
The research program is trying to determine if it makes a difference what type of exercise people do to help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s. They randomly put you in one of four groups – one is core strength, one is conditioning, one is strength training and one is a combination of conditioning and strength. I don’t want to throw off their results but I also don’t want to wait a year before I start conditioning training. Maybe core training will provide what I need enough to do a hard walk in the mountains. We shall see.
At least now I have a start date for the exercise program. It has taken me months to get to this point. I think I had my first interview back in July last year. Feels good to have gotten to this point and I trust this program will have some good results for me.
I sent an email to my insurance adjuster asking him if he was OK. I had sent him the invoice for the windows on January 5 and a follow-up email ten days later and hadn’t heard from him. He responded today that he had gotten swamped with people that had frozen pipe water damage and he promised to get me some money the first of the week. We shall see if he does so. At least I heard back from him this time.
If weather permits the window guys are coming Monday to install the last two windows. It will be good to have that project done. The weather strip they ordered for the window that had snow blow in is still not here but they said they would come install it another day.
I have to take my car in to get the oil changed Monday morning. It is overdue for an oil change. Wednesday a friend is coming over to do her advanced directives. I’m looking forward to that session. Thursday I am getting my hair cut and going to the Chiropractor. Next Saturday I have another Celebration of Life Service to go to as well as one on Sunday afternoon. Sounds like it is going to be a busy week.
It might be a good thing I am having to get out several days next week. That will help ease me into getting out more when I started exercising and doing taxes. Not sure when the tax thing starts and I’m not sure what days and evening that happens. Good thing I am retired and it doesn’t matter!
I rescheduled the Advanced Directives workshop that I had to cancel a week or so ago due to icy weather. The new one is scheduled for February 10. Trusting the weather will cooperate this time and I can hold it as scheduled. The cost is $25 and will give you a good start on completing the forms required to document your final wishes. I am a notary so can take care of that if you get that far.
Feel like I move up a step or two on the consciousness ladder today. It is amazing how much easier things are when you are pain free. Even going to town didn’t bring me down today.
Grateful I am pain free today, grateful the research program gave me a start date today, and grateful I got my errands taken care of today.