A Productive Day at Home

Woke up at 1 PM. Yikes.

I heard Mimi thumping around, and at first, I thought that she was going after Zara, and I told her to cut it out. Then I looked, and she had a bandaid that had fallen off of my hand. She was tossing it in the air and playing with it. I took it away from her in case she might swallow it. This place is full of cat toys that she could play with.

Mower guy came by. He asked if he should wait to mow my lawn, and I said "Yes" because it looked pretty good. He said that he would come by later in the week.

Just heard thunder. The forecasters are predicting "on and off storms" this afternoon. Works for me. I'm staying at home. And here comes the rain.

Logged on briefly to print the recipe for my veggie lasagna off (need to find the notebook that I keep recipes in) and hastily got off because of the storm. I have the laptop plugged into a surge protector, but still, my mom's computer fried during a storm, so I'm paranoid.

Now I'm trying to get up the energy to make the lasagna. It's kind of a fiddly process in which you cook the mushrooms, spinach, tomato sauce, etc., and then assemble the lasagna. Need to bite the bullet and do it.

The lasagna is cooking in the slow cooker. I have to remember that my mind tells me that things will take more effort than they will take. That's a good topic for an article for my blog-to-be.

I think that it's nap time. Dozed for an hour.

Had a bite to eat. Got a load of laundry going. Started tackling the papers in the kitchen. Need to get them thrown out or filed away. Got my Google Home up and running again.

The lasagna is as good as usual.

I've made a lot of progress on my papers.

I'm playing around with a "where's my best place to retire?" Web site. You enter criteria, and it'll spit out suggestions. When I choose the West Coast, my top choice is Eugene, OR, which already is high on my list. East Coast, the top choice is the DC-metro area including Maryland, which is on my list. Now I just tried a cross-country search with no population requirements, and the top choice was...Seattle. (The rest of the choices were places in which I have no interest.)

Renewed AARP. They force you to auto-renew if you choose a one-year membership, which I really don't like. That reminds me, though, to contact AT&T and see if I can get an AARP discount on my cell phone.

Got my new Capital One debit card activated. The instructions that they sent me didn't match what I had to do to activate it. Grrr.

Changed my address with Hawaii Magazine, but need to wait until the address updates to renew.

Put my laundry on the drying rack.

Looked at the 30-day blog challenge that I signed up for. It requires creating a site on bluehost, which works for me because they're a good company, but they require a full years' hosting cost up front. Need to wait until next month.

Spent a little time on my TESOL class. I need to set up ID verification, and I'll wait until tomorrow to do that.