I did not sleep at all last night. I took way too long of a nap yesterday. I did take an hour nap around noon today. Hoping I will sleep long and hard tonight and get back on track.
Kathy didn’t sleep much either. She was prescribed some prednisone for her cough and congestion and that can rob a person of sleep.
The sun has been flaring a lot lately and that can make sleep hard to find too. The odds feel a bit stacked against me getting sleep these days!
The Detention Center suggested we provide each Detainee a pint of ice cream for Valentine’s Day. They don’t ever receive dessert so it would make a special treat for them on Valentine’s Day. I will start fundraising and see what we can do. I added some Valentine’s Day cards to the Amazon wish list so the Detainees can send their loved one a card. The Center also let me know they need more stamps.
Tomorrow I will attempt to open the new PayPal charity donation link. I got the information so I can get on-line to the new Love in Action checking account today. Too tired to try it today.
Our Keurig machine wouldn’t work this morning. No lights would come on. Kathy tried plugging it into a different plug but that didn’t help. I went to Emporia and got a new one for Kathy this afternoon. Man are those machines expensive now. They only seem to last about two to three years. It was hard to find a simple one as they keep adding special features to them that we don’t need.
We got some rain today. I heard thunder this morning for a bit. We have a good sized pond in our yard so we must have gotten an inch or more. We were really dry and I appreciate the rain. I would much rather have rain than snow or ice.
Phil got the shower door installed today. He is installing a towel rack and then the back room addition is all but complete. I do have some outside painting to do next spring but other than that we are done. It will be so nice to have the second fully functioning bathroom. Kathy will move all her things from the other bathroom into this one.
The addition solved several problems I had with this house. I love having the litter box in the addition and out of the laundry room. Now I can go barefoot in the laundry room and not step on cat litter. The laundry room is staying much cleaner now.
My kitchen cabinets are not so full as I was able to move the overflow to the back room. It is so much easier to cook now that I can find things easily.
My bathroom will feel bigger and less cluttered now with only my stuff in it. Having two potties has been a game changer!
We are closer to the dog pen now so it is easier to get to the dogs. I do want to have a cement pad poured leading from the new back door to the dog pen next spring. The plastic tiles we put down are working well in the mud and rain.
I’m too tired to have even attempted to work on my tax prep today. I need to both work on my taxes and start working on the homework to pass the exams so I can do taxes for others for AARP. I need to pick up my computer I use to do taxes on and attempt to get certified before surgery next week. May not get it all done but I would like to knock most of it out of the way.
No plans for the weekend. I do have some cleaning I need to get done before surgery. I need to reorganize my bathroom when Kathy gets all her things out of it. It will be nice that we will each have our own space in bathrooms now.
One week from now surgery will be over and I will be spending one night at the hospital to recover. I was diagnosed last June with this problem so it has been a long time coming. It will be good to have it over with so the recovery can begin. Trusting I do as well with this surgery as I did with my hysterectomy 20 years ago.
Haven’t read too much of the news and have even had to do lots of fast scrolling on Facebook. I fall down a rabbit hole of despair if I read too much news. There is not much I can do about any of it. I do send emails to my representatives and senators, not that I think that makes much difference. My heart hurts with what is happening in the USA right now. I keep thinking we reach a tipping point and things will change but that tipping point hasn’t seemed to have happened yet. I see signs of a growing resistance which give me a bit of hope. How low will we go?
I have to stay in love and hold peace in my heart. The world will only change when all can do that. We can’t let our overwhelm, rage and anger be who we are and the place we function from.
Still feeling a bit congested and snotty. I thought I was getting better but today it came back hard. Hoping it is allergies and it will soon pass. Maybe this is the last blast of it and in a day or two it will be gone.
Grateful for the rain, grateful the new shower is ready to be used, and grateful for Phil and his efficiency.