I took a nap yesterday morning and woke up feeling much better. The day definitely ended better than it started. Woke up at 3:00 this morning instead of 1:00 like yesterday so making progress! May be another long day though as I couldn’t go back to sleep. I was able to stay awake until 9:00 last night so making progress there too. Trusting by the end of next week my jet lag will be gone.
Guests are arriving around 2:00 this afternoon. Not sure what their plans are so don’t know if they will be hanging at the house all evening or not. I have a dinner I might go to tonight if my guests aren’t going to be around. I’ll play it by ear this afternoon and see what I decide to do. Not really sure I want to go to the dinner anyways so I may decide to stay home. The dinner is the annual Hartford High School Alumni Banquet. I rarely go as sitting around and making small talk is agony for me. Kathy went last year and had a good time.
Still need to figure out a time to sneak away this weekend and decorate graves at Florence, Hillsboro and Cottonwood Falls. If my guests are going to be out and about tomorrow I’ll run over and do it then. Kathy ran into town this morning and was going to pick up some flowers for us to take. Have about a dozen graves we visit and put flowers on. Sure wonder who will be doing that 20 years from now. Times have changed and that tradition seems to be changing as well. I want to be cremated and scattered on the prairie so no one will need to decorate my grave.
I have a family reunion I want to go to Monday but I have to flip a room and not sure yet when the second guest is arriving and the first ones are leaving. It sucks to have to work! I had forgotten how inconvenient that is sometimes! Ha!
I have lost 3 pounds since I have been home. Thinking it was water weight from the two days of travel. That put me down two pounds from where I was when I went on vacation. Not bad! 23 pounds released and 18 to go.
Sent a note to my thyroid doctor to see if she will let me have my blood drawn so the results are back when I see her June 18. I also need to have another ultrasound done. Her nurse sent a note back saying they had ordered the tests. I’ll have to go to Emporia either Tuesday or Wednesday morning and have my blood draw. The ultrasound place will be calling me next week to get that scheduled. Doesn’t it make more sense to see the Doctor when the results are in rather than hearing the results via email later?
Have my nuclear heart stress test scheduled for June 13. They finally called to get it scheduled. Somehow Newman Hospital had lost the original order from the Doctor and hadn’t called me to schedule it. I had sent a note to my Cardiologist asking why I hadn’t heard anything. I think the communication at Newman Hospital could use some fine tuning. They screwed up my insurance claim too. Think I got that issue resolved yesterday. Good thing the stress test wasn’t urgent as it was originally ordered May 3.
Got my drain running again. The guy said if it happens again within a couple of months he would recommend having someone who has a plumber’s camera come out and have them see what is wrong. He is thinking the joint was plumbed incorrectly and may need to be replaced and fixed. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if that was the case. Grateful I got it unplugged before my guests arrive. Don’t think they wanted to go wading in the basement.
Need to find someone to replace two boards on my back deck and to replace a section of baseboard in the basement. Anyone know of someone who does that type of work? I don’t think they are big jobs but I don’t have the tools or knowledge to do it myself.
Have my house all cleaned and ready. I like to have it done early so I can be ready and relaxed well before the guests arrive. Kathy did most of the cleaning for me this time so all I had to do this morning was touch up the floors and dust. That was easy!
I was up early enough this morning to watch the sunrise. I had turned my shower on and then came out to the kitchen to take my thyroid pill. I happened to see the sun rising and stopped and watched it for a minute or so. Oh how I missed seeing the sun rises and sun sets while I was gone.
The two baby chickens really grew while I was gone. One of them is almost full size now and the other smaller one is still a bit small but catching up. They seem to have integrated into the flock well and are no longer hanging back and staying together all the time. Still can’t tell for sure if one or both are roosters. Guess I need to go to chicken sexing school to learn how to tell the difference. I can’t tell for sure until they are about four or five months old.
Glad I am out of the muck pond so quickly. I realized what had happened yesterday and was able to rezoom and not get stuck for long. Funny how what you think upsets you is not really what is going on sometimes. Glad I was able to figure it out quickly this time!
Grateful for the beautiful sunrise I witnessed this morning, grateful I am out of the muck pond today and in a much better mood, and grateful my house is all cleaned and ready for my guests to arrive.