This has been a day I have spent on technology. Some days it goes easy and some days not so much. This has been a not so much easy day.
I finally got the wish list from the Director of the Detention Center. I tried setting up a wish list on Amazon on my iPad. I couldn’t make that work. I switched to my desktop and finally figured it out.
Then I got another wish list from the Detention Center and had to add items. It took me a hot minute or two or three to figure out how to do that.
I put a notice on one Facebook group about the wish list and referred them to the new page I set up Love in Action. Some could find the new page and some could not. It took me a long time to figure out how to link the two accounts. Dang, this stuff is hard sometimes.
Then I needed to pay Nicole my portion of our trip to India. My Venmo page does not have an Add Funds button. It would not allow me to pay Nicole. Nicole requested funds and it went through that way. Things that make me scream and cuss! I struggle when things work the way they are intended to work and when they don’t work I don’t know how to fix them. I still haven’t figured out why I can’t pay someone.
I think I made all of this harder than it needed to be by my ignorance.
The second email with the second wish list I got from the Detention Center told me they needed more stamps. I had gone to the post office this morning to mail something so I had to go back and got 300 stamps for the Detention Center. I took the stamps up to the Detention Center and got to talk to the lady that did the passing out of the note cards and envelopes. She said the project went over extremely well and that most every detainee took advantage of it. It lightened the mood in the Center.
I’m grateful I got the two lists and as soon as I published them people started ordering things off of them. Three different people have ordered things already and they just got put up.
I got a phone call from the doctor’s office that I am going to about my prolapse. The doctor I am to see is going to be gone the week in October that my appointment was scheduled for. They asked if I could come the end of August instead. Of course I said yes. Wonder why that appointment wasn’t available when I called a month ago? The things that make me go WTF? I struggled to get on their app and find the address of the appointment. I finally figured that all out. Not an easy day for me with technology.
Someone stopped by with a donation of stamps and cards for the Detention Center project. I took their postcard stamps and regular stamps to the Detention Center when I dropped off the stamps I had purchased for them. It is going to keep me busy buying stamps each week as they use at least 148 a week.
Good thing I had nothing else to do today but figure out technology things. It has literally taken me all day to do a couple of what should have been simple things to accomplish. I had to talk myself off the ledge a couple of times.
Tomorrow is another empty space type of day. Maybe I won’t raise my blood pressure trying to figure out technology things tomorrow. It was good to get the wish list published and the bank papers mailed. I still need to write a letter to Kathy’s insurance company and cancel the life insurance policy we discovered she has last week.
Wednesday I go to Topeka for an Endocrinologist and ultrasound appointments.
We are to get a cool front starting Thursday and it will hang around for about a week. I am grateful as we have been way too hot for my liking lately.
Feeling a bit flustered this afternoon. Not sure why it was so hard for me to make things work. Grateful I managed to get there but it sure took lots of cuss words and frustration to get there. Maybe I need to go back to school and learn the right way to do things.
Once I take a step back and look at a bigger picture of today I will be back into gratitude for what I got done today. I got the trip to India paid for, the wish lists are published and being taken care of, the papers to clean out Max’s bank account have been mailed, I replenished my personal stamp supply, and my doctor’s appointment got moved up two months. None of them happened the way I thought they should happen but they all got done. When I focus on the end result I am grateful.
I will move my body and shake out the frustration from how hard things felt today and move into gratitude.
Grateful things eventually got done today, grateful the wish list things are being purchased, and grateful not everyday is this hard.