A Week Too Busy

March 19, 2013. 

The day was pretty much wasted trying to get information out of people.  Little of use was learned.  The computer shut down completely and is surely on it’s last legs.  Fortunately someone had a good idea or there wouldn’t be any messages posted for a couple of weeks.  And, just because there is one here doesn’t mean any following will make it to publication.  One can hope.  There’s a nagging question as to whether the aide service will continue.  That time wasting got a little nasty and was with that agency.  The brighter side of things is simply things like there’s food in the place and the computer is working insofar as it might. 

March 20, 2013. 

They say it’s the first day of spring.  Never mind March 21 any more.  It’s been said as time passes the first day of spring is going to fall on March 19.  The 21st is just another bit of knowledge rather painfully learned by experience (probably taught in school, too, but it didn’t “take” then) that’s no longer a valid idea.  In the apartment underfoot it was a busy day as the homemaking assistant spent three hours doing things like sweeping the carpet and combing the hair.  She also went to the post office and the in house mailbox and got all the mail that arrived in the last seven days.  The world at hand feels a lot better.  She’s a good worker. 

March 23, 2013. 

A scooter re-charge is one of the most important things to do – scooter’s the substitute for walking.  Without it there’s no moving more than a few inches.  A re-charge requires hours of immobility as the scooter doesn’t move.  It was set up for the evening of the 21st, and it was guessed to be early enough for other stuff afterwards.  It wasn’t so.  The re-charge finished in the early hours of the 22nd, a day with a rare opportunity for bank business and a need to get ready for that.  Today was a rare “off day” for someone to get some high priced goods.  Scooter’s done for a couple of days, likewise the rest.  Days lost can’t be helped.  

March 25, 2013. 

Things are so bad that last night the door was left unlocked, although there was a conscious thought to lock it.  An alarm at 10:00 p.m. last night disturbed an unexpected drift into sleep.  The awakening brought to mind supper missed, the door, unwatered plants and seemingly a couple of little now forgotten things.  All were taken care of except the door somehow got forgotten.  The sleep must have been fairly essential as this entire day so far has been plagued by another round of a constantly dripping nose.  It’s just not possible to do much if every three minutes it’s necessary to stop for nose blowing activity.  It’s more nothing day.   

Some weeks get frittered away unavoidably.    

A Little Older And Then Some

March 12, 2013. 

People are talking about spring.  The days and nights are getting more even.  It was a rather sudden realization that that time of year is near when someone mentioned it recently, and the difference in the morning light was noticed.  There was a winter; but,  somehow it wasn’t noticed much.  Of course, being nearly housebound didn’t help matters toward being aware of winter.  Sure, the heating system, which is noisy and blows hot air all over the place, ran more often, but that’s about all the inconvenience there was.  While it’s acknowledged that it’s a bad time of the year, winter has always been enjoyed.  It’s gone. 

March 13, 2013. 

The personal revolutionary event of the day was a trimming off of some hair to create some bangs.  In the apparent permanent absence of a simple clip as long used, there has been a return to a ponytail for hairstyle (the mainstay of school days), which leaves bare the face of a wrinkled up old woman.  The bangs cover a little of it.  And, of course, out in the big world the revolutionary event of the day was the election of a Roman Catholic Pope from the New World (Western Hemisphere).  That be even a bigger new event if he is the first of the Jesuit order to be elected.  What that means is yet to be seen.   

March 16, 2013. 

Well, two days are missing again.  Yesterday there were many people around.  There was the lady with lunch as usual and the food truck as expected.  There were two more people that made a “birthday visit” with gifts of flowers, candy, cake and odds and ends.  Only one was really expected, and the visiting was for a good two hours.  It was enough to wear out a person in better physical shape.  As for the day before, there was a medical appointment as well as the lunch visit.  Somewhere in there the scooter had to be recharged.  Today was spent trying to recover.  There’s stuff to do, but it seems beyond the endurance. 

March 17, 2013. 

It’s Irish day, and at this point it’s almost over like the birthdays.  There were always two of the birthdays to be remembered and two still are, but there is no celebration for one.  There is no Irish in the household, but the things of the birthdays usually have had Irish influence due to the anticipation of Irish day.  And, parts of the world now move on to Easter which is in two weeks.  Then for all practical purposes spring celebrations are finished.  The time is going too fast.  A few food items were hauled in this afternoon, and that was the extent of the day’s activities, apart from looking over things online. 

March 18, 2013. 

A “free day” of sorts.  “Free days” are days when no one is expected for whom there needs to be preparations or time to be ready, nor is there anything that needs to be done, such as get downstairs with the rent money because it’s due.  This is important as re-charging the scooter or a trip to the bathroom interferes with the activity to be carried out.  Days to “take it easy” were eliminated to a great extent during the recent medical todo that amounted to nothing, so they are highly valued now.  The lady with lunch has come and gone (and so has the lunch).  Computer stuff has been checked out.  The blogs may get done today…. 

Opportunities are by their nature rather unexpected.