Another lazy day on the prairie. Can’t say I got anything done today. I am on a roll of lazy days.
Got a recorded phone call from DISH telling me if I don’t return my equipment they are going to charge me for it. Only problem is I haven’t received my boxes to send the equipment back. I called them and they tried to get me to stay as their customer. They offered a huge reduction in the price for 12 months, although you have to sign a two-year contract and won’t tell you what they will charge for the second year. I kept telling the lady move on – I wasn’t interested but she kept circling back to their offer. The lady finally looked up the tracking information and told me the boxes are expected to arrive Friday. That call was to make me call them so they could try to get me back. I am so glad I am almost done with them.
My local bank called me today to let me know my account was overdrawn. I found the account my credit card payment came out of. I use the automatic payment system with this credit card. I had checked the credit card on-line to see what account the funds would be coming out of and it showed my regular checking account number, not this account number. When I had the Airbnb I used the local account for that business and used that credit card if I needed to charge things to the Airbnb account. When I closed the Airbnb, I changed the automatic withdrawal account number to my regular checking account number. I haven’t used the card since. Not sure why they picked up the wrong account number. The guy from the bank was nice and I appreciated his call. I transferred some funds to cover the overdraft. That mystery is solved.
Called about the TROPP forms and had to leave a message. I got an email from them late afternoon today saying they needed my shipping address and will mail the forms tomorrow. Not sure why they didn’t have the original order that showed my shipping address but what ever. Grateful the forms will be on their way to me tomorrow and I can scratch this off my pending list.
Called my attorney to see if I need to change my will. When I was pulling out my living will to make a copy of it to give to my doctor, I read through my will. Found out I haven’t updated it since Jim and I got married. He is named in my will as my companion, not husband. Nicole has changed her name since I did my will. Not sure what needs to be done to fix those. Jim will need the same thing done to his will. I also want to make a change to my living will.
As I read through my living will, I realized it stated that I wanted IV fluids as part of my end-of-life care plan. I have since learned that is not what I want. Giving fluids to a person that is dying can cause pain and problems. Your body does not need fluids as it goes through the dying process. I will get my living will changed when I fix the will.
I have my mammogram in Emporia tomorrow late morning. I don’t think I need any groceries but I do have some books to donate to the library for their book sale, some things to drop off at Goodwill, and some medication to put in the disposal container at Walmart. I always like getting extra stuff removed from my house.
I cleaned out the refrigerator and took some tomatoes that were soft, some old grapes and old spinach down to the chickens. They went after the grapes first but made quick work of all three.
When we cleaned out the freezers yesterday I found some whole chickens I had bought from a local rancher that is trying to start an organic ranch. The problem with these chickens is they were butchered at the wrong time and there is little meat on them. I think if you worked hard, you might get 6 ounces of chicken meat off the whole chicken. Too much work for so little effort. I was going to throw them away but Jim convinced me to keep them and cook them up and give them to the dogs. I put one in the crockpot today and cooked it. The dogs loved it. One down, seven to go. I’ll try to remember to do one a week for them. We had bought a box of bones for them from the butcher so the dogs are really getting some special treats right now.
Had trouble sleeping again last night. Sure hoping that tonight will be the night I can sleep longer than two hours at a time. Once I wake up I am usually up for a couple of hours and on a good night can get a second sleep of two hours. I’m starting to run on empty due to little sleep. I have come to dislike going to bed as I never know if I will be able to sleep or not.
Grateful the credit card mystery has been solved, grateful my TROPP forms will be on their way tomorrow, and grateful the dogs like cooked chicken.