September 7, 2025 Sunday

Greetings!

Well, it's been another week of nose blowing, mouth breathing, sinus headaches, dozing off, and just plain feeling cruddy.  No unpacking to speak of, but it has still been a good week.  Miss Allie has settled in quite well.  The being sick has been a blessing in disguise in that respect.  :) 

You may note the tape on the corners of the kitchen rug.  It wants to curl up at the ends--probably because it was rolled up for so long.  We may have to roll it up in the opposite direction for a while or get some carpet tape.  Had taped it down so the movers wouldn't trip on it...or me--lol!

Anyways, the litterbox hiding bench dilemma...

...has been solved!  And Allie had no trouble switching over to the very private space.  TaDa!

I have been adjusting to having recycling rules for the first time.

Loving the new trash container!  Blue bag is for recycling and white is for regular garbage.

I do not miss my 25 year old trash container at all.

Really no pictures even this week.  So I'll show you a few I took just for myself.  ;)

Remember I told you I have lots of socks?  I do love socks.  Especially colorful socks.

Just a snapshot of Allie being relaxed and sleeping here at the new place despite the kids running across the floor upstairs.  Good shot (by accident) of the eight pen cups I have on that lazy susan, too--lol!  

Believe it or not I do use them all.  These are mostly gel pens, but also highlighters, dot pens, brush pens, felt tipped, and miscellaneous that I use for journaling, to-do lists, and letter writing. 

Speaking of, I finally have been catching up on correspondence.  I've sent seven letters this weekend upstairs to be mailed.  Now how efficiently that will be done...we'll find out--lol!  I have three more set up--two of which are already in progress.  Feels good to at least be catching up with such essentials in my life.  I do love a paper chat!  Hence a good supply of pens, inks, and paper are a must for me.  :)

Just for future reference...for the day my home is in order and I can get back to some art...I took these two pictures off of a YT vlogger I follow as she was showing some flowers from her garden.  

Wouldn't those be fun to attempt to copy...with paint or colored pencils or markers.  Probably watercolors.  Those are my go-to, I guess.

I've been watching The Good Life on Netflix before they remove it later this month (25th?).  One of those shows I planned to watch sometime...and it is leaving so now's the perfect time while I am laid up sick, anyways.  Short half hour episodes, so that's good.  I loved the twist in the first season.  Have any of you seen it?  

I've also been able to eat some tacos Leah made.  Been a long, long time since I had tacos.  And she made some cubed steak in gravy that was delicious.  Man!  Having some different things to eat sent down is fantastic!  One of the boys got sent down to borrow something they knew I had because they just moved all my frig and freezer...shredded cheese and some parmesan.  Dagan came down for eggs, too, one morning.  I had them send me down a sharp knife and glasses (forgotten essentials).  I love it!  Since it is only me down here and I have a big full-sized side-by-side they can send some extra things down here when they go shopping that don't fit in their frig--lol!  Like the extra shredded cheese and eggs.  We had talked about that long ago before I moved.  That's actually why I have a full size frig.  I think it is so cool!  I have a freezer full of hamburger, too.  We locally buy half a cow at a time to save money.  Once they get my little freezer hooked up in the garage the hamburger can go out there again.  It's a food sharing shuffle--lol!  

Today they are having Liam's birthday party upstairs.  Eight years old already!!  Since I'm still sick, I am not attending for the first time yet.  Don't want to give this to anyone else and I just look tired and sound sick, too.  I never went to the actual birthday parties for the boys.  They always came over to get their presents from me at my place on a different day, so it's not anything unusual for Liam that I am not there.  Postponing seeing my ex and his wife for the first time in like 30 years isn't a bad thing, either--LOL!  Another blessing in disguise with being sick so long?  LOL!  There are always silver linings, eh?  

Well, I am tired, haven't been sleeping that well, and feel like a nap...so I'm not going to wait until late tonight to add pictures from Leah.  Next week.  They were installing a swingset (that's been in the garage forever because so much else going on) last weekend and then there's the party today...I'll be sure and post a few pictures next week.  If I am lucky, maybe I'll get a knock on my door and one or both of the boys will bring me down a slice of birthday cake later after everyone has left? 

Well, I really have to make it over to the lab this coming week here.  I have the OBGYN appointment the following week.  Boy!  Am I ever glad I told them I wanted that appointment off into the future...now I am wondering when I am going to get over this crud and will I make it to the lab or the appointment?  Probably...I certainly hope so!  I really can't even think about possibly more cancer.  Have no time for it. 

In the meantime--I may be sick, but things are really nice.  I am soooo happy to be moved!  The space heater is working wonders.  Allie is doing well and is even using the new set up for her bathroom duties.  To her...a home full of boxes and bins is perfectly normal--lol!  She does seem quite at home here.  (Wait till she finds out there's another cat here and a whole house upstairs to investigate...if Blink will let her--lol!)  We're taking it slow.  No choice really.  I'm in no shape to deal with cat fights--lol!  But once I am up to tackling the boxes I plan to just leave the door open one day while I am unpacking and see what happens...let cat nature take its course.  

Hopefully I will be plunging into the unpacking pretty soon here.  Regardless, we are happy and doing okay and keeping busy...sedentary, but busy.  Till next week...  :) :)