This has been a day full of empty space. I am doing my best to relax into it and allow it to refill my soul. I feel something opening within that hasn’t been open or a long time. Ahhh……
I was surprised by a phone call from Social Security today. They had received my paperwork and the lady said she had a free moment and called ahead of schedule. I am good to go with divorced spouse benefits. They will be sending me a makeup check for April and then starting next month will receive the new higher monthly amount.
The lady that called was very capable and easy to talk to. The call only took about five minutes and things got taken care of. That was easy!
What a blessing this will be for me. I have struggled to make ends meet with what I had been getting from Social Security. I do my best to live off of that and not touch my savings but haven’t been successful at that this last year or so. I could cover my regular monthly bills but any extra stuff that happened had to come out of savings. Grateful for an ease in stress for my financial situation.
Tomorrow the gravel is to be delivered for the shed and the yard clean up project is to get underway. Not sure when the tree guy is coming. He thought he would make it out sometime this week. He may have gotten some emergency calls due to the storm Sunday night. What he is doing for me isn’t urgent so it can wait if someone had a tree over their house or car.
I may rent a U-Haul Thursday and have my grandson help me get some dog fencing here from Emporia. My high school kid has gotten busy doing farm work and that is much more urgent than what I need him to do. I have to go to Topeka Thursday afternoon but I think we would have time to get it done Thursday morning. Sure would be nice to be able to put the dogs outside during the day. I have to bring them in at night or else they will bark all night. Not sure my neighbors would appreciate that.
Sophia and I walked down to the city office building today to deliver the application for a permit so I can have the old shop go away. I didn’t ask when the next council meeting is that will approve the permit. I haven’t heard when the shop might go away so trusting the timing of all of this works.
I broke down and turned on the A/C today. I have had trouble sleeping the last couple of nights and am hoping the cooler bedroom will help with that. Kathy doesn’t like A/C so I told her if she wanted her bedroom window open, she could keep her bedroom door closed. I needed to cool down a bit. I do feel better this afternoon since I am not dripping in sweat.
It is to possibly storm again this evening and then it is to cool down for the next week or so. I may end up turning off the A/C again if it cools down. I do enjoy fresh air blowing in but when it gets above 80 in the house, that is too hot for me. I don’t handle heat well.
Tomorrow I have to go to Emporia at noon for exercise. I need a few things from Walmart so will stop and get those things while I am in town. I may do a pickup order if I remember to do so. That always saves me money as I don’t buy impulsively that way.
I need to start thinking of things to do on days I don’t have to go to Emporia for exercise. All of a sudden I have lots of empty space and I want to be intentional about how I start to fill it up. Meeting with friends and family is at the top of my list of things to do. I do better in many ways when I take time to do that on a regular basis.
I called the KU Research Exercise program today and got my 26 week test scheduled for August. I have to repeat the cognitive three hour test. At the end of the program I will repeat it one more time in addition to repeating the physical test and MRI and blood work. Hard to think I will be half way through the first week of August.
Still haven’t heard back from my builder. I met with him the middle of April and he was to get back to me in two to three weeks with the cost estimates. I think I will sit on this for a bit and wait for him to contact me. I am comfortable in this house and thinking about starting the building project seems too big to me right now. It will happen when the timing is right.
Sitting in a good head space today. Things seem to be falling into place for me without effort. I love when that happens. The more I notice it and am grateful for it happening, the more it seems to happen. I have been in this house for three weeks now and am very pleased with how quickly things have gotten taken care of.
Grateful for the surprise phone call from Social Security today, grateful for divorced spouse benefits, and grateful for things happening without effort around me.