Damn it! I called Home Depot in Topeka today to see if they stock 1/2 x 1/2 oak quarter-round. The guy on the phone said they had it in stock. I told him how much I needed and he said no problem – they had plenty on hand. Drove to Topeka this morning and found out they didn’t have it in stock. You have to special order it.
Found some 1/2 x 1/4 inch oak molding that might work although it is polyurethane and not real oak. Picked it up in case it will work. If not, I will have to special order the real thing. I hate shopping for stuff like this as I don’t know what I am doing. Doesn’t help when the clerk at a store misleads me.
Stopped at Hy-Vee and picked up a few groceries and drove home. I forgot grapefruit so will now get to go to Emporia to get that. Some days are harder than others!
This is day 140 on the Bright Line Eating Plan. I have lost 32 pounds since I started February 11 and 52 pounds from a year ago. Nine more pounds to go to goal weight and then maybe three more pounds after that to reach the lower level of a three-pound target weight. When I get a bit closer I will start adding food to slow the weight lose. As slow as I lose it I may wait till I am much closer to goal weight. With my low functioning thyroid levels taking off weight is hard.
Nothing else on my calendar that I wanted to get done today. I may take a nap today. I have not slept very well the last several nights. I was on a roll for a bit getting five to six hours of uninterrupted sleep but that hasn’t happened for almost a week now. I am back to sleeping for two hours and then laying in bed awake for two to three hours. On a good night I get another two hours of sleep but some nights I haven’t been able to get the second sleep. It is harder to deal with less sleep now that I remember what it feels like to get more sleep several nights in a row.
Have two more tea towels to embroidery to complete another set. When I get those two done I will need to stamp two more sets and press the completed two sets. They are starting to pile up but as I am still enjoying making them I will continue to do so.
My guest is a very pleasant young woman. She went for a long hike at the National Prairie Preserve this morning. Last night she enjoyed the Cowboy Music Jam at Emma Chase Friday night music. She is headed out to go explore Manhattan in a bit. She leaves in the morning. Love guests like that who are not in the house much and when they are they are quiet and fun to visit with. I have two guests coming in early evening that are only staying one night. I’ll have lots of laundry and cleaning to do tomorrow afternoon. Only need to make sure one of the two bedrooms are flipped by evening tomorrow so have extra time to get the second one done as the next guest to use that room doesn’t arrive until Monday afternoon.
Need to take some time soon and get my book work for the Airbnb caught up. I have a bunch of receipts I need to get recorded so taxes are easier to do next year. I realized I have my sales records on Notes on my iPad and probably need a back-up copy of that in case Notes fails. Can’t believe it is mid-year already and time to get that stuff organized. I try to do it at least four times a year so it isn’t such a big job come tax time. It is easier for me to do when my memory can kinda help me a bit. I have a poor relationship to time these days and anything that happened in the past is gone from my memory. I can’t tell you how long ago something happened with any degree of accuracy anymore.
I get to deduct household repairs and utilities from my Airbnb income based on the number of nights guests stay. Those expenses are also easier to track if I record them quarterly. I didn’t do any business the first quarter of this year so didn’t bother to record those expenses so need to do six months to get caught up. Projects like that go easier if I am in the right mood. Maybe the mood will strike soon and I can get it started.
Got my medical ID card from the Medicare Supplement program I enrolled in. Noticed on my mail digest I am getting my new prescription information in the mail today. Nice to get confirmation that I am ready to go August 1 with those two companies. My Medicare on-line account is not showing I have made my choices yet. I’m sure it will get updated soon.
Still basking in the glow of the energy of the full moon. The moon was really bright again last night. I had left the outside lights on for my guest last night as she wasn’t home yet when I went to bed. When I woke up around midnight I thought it was so bright out because I had turned the lights on. Got up and turned them all off and it was still bright outside.
Grateful my Medicare supplement enrollment process is completed, grateful for 32 pounds released this year, and grateful for having enough business with the Airbnb that I need to record tax deductions and income.