Katiegirl

Kate
2021-01-22 14:41:57 (UTC)

Busy Week

At least it feels like it's been a busy week. We had a four day work week this week because of the Martin Luther King Jr Birthday. We are caught up (for now) on the EOB scanning. AC has been trying to catch up on all her work from her extended vacation. I have been able to work on the refund scanning backlog for the last couple of days. I finished a box that was started back in late 2020.

The mail has been surprisingly low volume and DG/shadow has been able to do it. I learned this week she is retiring in October. I am not sure how I feel about that. She has been here since she was 19. We have worked in this office (or department) through all of its renamings since 1990. It will be interesting to see what happens. I am going to have to get her something.

We also got word from both the union and HR this week that our yearly raise is happening. It will be in next week’s pay stub. I have no idea what I will be getting after all the deductions (I am not about to figure it out because I am not good with that) but it will be very good with the debt and a cushion. I hope. It means I need to readjust the budget-again.

We have been getting covid19 updates regularly. At least I think we are. There is always something in the inbox from the Administration. I am still trying to figure out when I am supposed to be going. Although I do see notifications that people 75 and older go right now. I will wait for either a reminder from the hospital or the providers will ask.

We also got news of Drs, moving to new positions, retiring, and of course passing away. I don’t think I heard of the most recent one but there are still many people I haven’t met or have been introduced to yet and I am here almost 30 years.

Things at home. Well let’s see I still get aggravated and or annoyed a lot with Sis. She came over with our cousins blankets to cover the new furniture. It took about 20 and she commented she could see the litter on the small recliner. It was fuzz.

Then we took a few moments to relax and she mentioned the incident on the Anchor Beach-Woodmont group from last weekend. She did admit that FB has its moments and she wanted to know what happened. I said one did give me a hard time but a friend of mine came to my defense. The other woman and I were fine. I told her I had received an email like most if not all the people in the borough. SHe threw out her patented “Did it have to be said by you” crap. I look back at as: Speak only when spoken to?

Then we worked on getting valances and curtains for the windows. Apparently it didn't go through at first so I let her know later and she took care of it. I am not sure when they are coming. She also said next week the other blinds are coming sometime too. She wants me to look for the other rooms too. We did focus on the kitchen.

I admit she was helpful with the mattress delivery (that came earlier than scheduled). It is annoying that that happened. THen the guy texts me back saying he stopped for food. Excuse me? I made my sister rush over to the condo so she could be there and now you are going for food? The box spring had a tear in it so they took a picture and hopefully will replace it. THe mattress doesn’t fit the bed frame so we had to order a new one with a headboard. Liz did that last night. Even that was an exercise in futility. Now she is saying oh you really don’t need a headboard. Considering the one you were showing me was $125? The bed frame I saw was almost $89. It may have been all innocent in her eyes but to me she wasn’t listening and trying to control. Oh and they will be here Wednesday.

She did also notice the cats on the furniture and she asked if I sprayed it again. She also told me that one of them (I am thinking it was Tiger) was inside the Box Mattress/foundation mattress etc) and scared the shit out of the delivery guy.

So I got home around 3:30 relaxed for a bit and treated the kitties. Eventually putting the tiger into the crate with little to no problems. Even taking her out a little early to hold her and comfort her. She was literally rolling around in the crate (the collapsable one. We took off just around 4:30 for the Vet. I called in and they came to take her.

It seemed like forever as they called me and said she is very underweight and I was feeling guilty (we noticed she was underweight). I was hoping nothing else was wrong with her and they were reassuring that after the bloodwork results come in the next couple of days.

They recommended a few things. Foodwise separated them at feeding time. I started that when I got home. Semi successful, and feed her more than I have been (like a full can of the wet food) and more of the dry.

I also had checked with them earlier in the day about the nail trimming (liz wanted me to learn how to do it) and they recommended that every six weeks for a fee of $18 that I come in and have THEM do it. Liz asked me if I could afford it and I said yeah. I know I couldn’t do it.

In the end the whole thing cost about $300 plus. I was shocked. Even though they have a Vaccination program called Vax4Life. It would be $125 once and it lasts for the entire life of the pet. I can’t do that. Its going to be the same amount for Sky next month.

I spent most of the night hovering over her. Holding her, cuddling with her and allowing them to sit/sleep on the couch. I even had her sleep with me and I just couldn’t sleep (the coffee didn’t help either).

I did watch Moana and Twister and of course This Old House. I also was working with Mama on the budget things. I had spoken to her earlier in the afternoon about some things. She feels that there are too many people involved with the lawyer and they shouldn’t be. She is basing this only on things I have told her about them.

I did give her access to my credit card accounts and she is going to look them over and see if there is anything that can be rectified. I think she is gonna call me tonight or over the weekend.


My hope is to do the weekly cleaning tonight. I know that usually I want my Friday night to be relaxed but I want to get it done and do other things for the weekend.

I had a great virtual meetup with the Finding Friends Group. The original Owner Lori B was there from her home in Texas. She gave up the group many years ago so that she and her husband could travel in a Van around the country and find a place to live (they were tired of this state). She is going to be a guest speaker in February but she will be joining us from now on when she can. I was excited to see that Gillion has added a Virtual cocktail party every two weeks along with the in person meetup in Guilford.

The Hiking with Friends group have had a few activities this past month. I haven’t attended, not sure I want to be in person yet.Tomorrow there is a Hike in Goodwin State Park in Hampton CT. Maybe one day.

The weather the past week has been cold, sunny at times and cloudy at other times. We had a dusting Wednesday morning and a few flurries later on in the day. Its supposed to be very cold this weekend and there is a forecast of snow showers for Tuesday. I was really hoping for a major snowstorm this month or in February. It looks like we may get one according to the Farmer’s Almanac.

Well I will close out for now...

PS: Yes I know I didn’t mention the Inauguration. I saw a little bit of it and grew tired of the fashion comments. I still do not understand the Memes that are going through with Bernie Sanders. .As I said to Siduri. I am missing the point.





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