Another quiet day on the prairie. I haven’t done much today again. It felt good to take a quiet day at home and gather my energy for the trip this week.
The wind is in a hurry today. It is 94 outside right now with wind gusts of over 31 MPH. I wish the wind was blowing in a rain storm but don’t think that is in the cards for this week.
Tagen went to town late afternoon to go to the middle school football game and to watch film of the game last Friday. He said he would be home late. He gets to go back to school tomorrow after a four-day weekend.
I put my things in the new wallet and purse I got. I don’t like the wallet and am trying to decide if I want to keep it or go find another one. The credit cards barely fit and are a bear to get out. I thought I could zip my phone in it but when it is full of cash and cards the phone won’t fit. Oh the trials of picking out a new wallet.
I did a bit of cleaning today but have lots more to do. I need to change the sheets on my bed and on Tagen’s bed this week. Hoping the cleaning mood hits me hard tomorrow and I can get some things cleaned up. I always feel better leaving the house when it is clean.
I only have two more full days at home. I will leave Thursday morning around 6:30. I arrive in London at 7:15 London time Friday morning. It will be a long first day as I can’t check into my room until late afternoon. I have gotten so I really dislike travel days. But if you want to go somewhere new, you have to pay the price of traveling to get there.
The second EFIS guy sent me his bid today. It is MUCH lower than I anticipated it might be. I forwarded it to the insurance adjuster. I still hope to get to talk to the insurance adjuster before I leave so I can sign some contracts before I leave. I am very grateful I found this second EFIS guy and he turned around his bid so quickly. I never have heard back from the first guy. I will not be able to do siding so will have the EFIS repaired and replace windows on the main level. Insurance should pay for most of it, although I will have to cough up a bit more to cover the extra windows.
I need to remember to call the guy that is working on Tagen’s pickup tomorrow and see if he knows if the truck is fixable. I kinda forgot about it and Tagen asked me about it today. The guy does great work but takes a bit longer than expected. There is no rush to get it back this time, Tagen is just worried about the outcome.
Trying to remember if I need to notify anyone else about me being gone for three weeks. I don’t think I had anything scheduled or anyone counting on me for anything. Three weeks feels like a long time to drop off the radar but thinking not many will even notice I am gone. My world has gotten pretty small lately.
I was looking at Facebook memories and noticed that it was a year ago that my car got it’s window broken out while we were in Silver Spring, Maryland. The next week is when the fraudulent guy called me and hacked into my bank account and I had to change all the passwords on all my accounts. Those two events kinda started the ball rolling down the hill and my life changed completely shortly after all that. Hard to think it was a year ago. In some ways it feels a lifetime ago and other ways like it happened yesterday.
This upcoming trip is a celebration of my survival of all of those hard times and to celebrate turning 70. The best is yet to come!
Grateful for the EFIS guy getting his bid to me, grateful that I still have a chance to get contracts signed before I leave Thursday, and grateful my life changed for the best.