My Broken Toe Is "Stable"

Overslept but had time for my shower, which is good because of my doctor's appointment.

Holy cow. The head of United Health Care was shot and killed in Manhattan. This country is getting crazier and crazier.

Couldn't sleep during my lunchtime nap.

The orthopedic doctor pronounced my broken toe “stable,” which I gather is doctor-speak for “healed”. She okayed me to start yoga again.

The executor of my aunt’s estate told me that I should receive a check on Friday. Excellent.

Got the Walmart groceries in before the Aldi order got here. Awesome. Got the Aldi order in. I didn’t get the yogurt for the salad, so I need to go to the local grocery store. I need to sit a moment before getting the recycling out. I think that I’m going to lie down and then get the recycling in bags to take out tomorrow morning.

Checked the Urbana Park District classes for next year. Of course, they have yoga, but they also have Zumba on Friday nights, which I’m considering.

Napped until 12:30 AM. I need to get up early to get the recycling out and practice piano.

Why am I looking at Land’s End sales for clothes? I already have too much clothing! Stop this!

Fed the girls and myself. Now I’ll go back to bed. Mimi: No, now you need to be a lap for me!

A Difference of Priorities

Mimi was having problems jumping on my lap, so I picked her up. Surprisingly, she didn’t mind.

I found a recipe for a mixed berry smoothie. They suggest adding 1/2 a frozen banana to it, so I need to pick up some bananas and freeze them.

Ow. My right arm was hurting when I pulled up the comforter. Don’t know what’s up with that. Getting older is the pits!

I signed up for BlueSky: adriennerad.bsky.social.

Ugh. I woke up at 7, decided that I'll take my shower at lunchtime, and went back to sleep for a little while. And overslept. So much for getting the recycling out.

Holy cow. 7.0 earthquake in Northern (way Northern) California. I hope that people are okay. The "pretty big one," the Loma Prieta Quake that I experienced, was a 6.9 or 7.0. Personally, I don't want to experience a quake again over 5.5. Funny, a person that CNN interviewed said that he got "seasick" because of the quake. I described the movement of the cruise ship as "being like an earthquake".

My dad is annoying me. I had sent him an email saying that I wanted to take a Panama Canal tour in a couple of years. He sent a response that the most important things are 1) finding a life partner and 2) getting your financial house in order. He said that travel, while satisfying, was less important than 1 and 2.

Well, I’m not certain that I want a life partner (most men remarry after a divorce, but women are more dubious), although I’d like to date, and that was the reason I was losing weight, although I’ve fallen off that wagon. Plus, I need to declutter my house, both to make it look nice for dating and also I don’t want to leave as much of a mess as Mom did.

As for finances, I have retirement money. And I’m working to get a pension from the uni. (Honestly, that’s the thing that is keeping me from retiring right now.) I’m working on getting the rest of my finances in order.

As for travel, I know that there will always be “one more place,” but when I die, if I haven’t been to a majority of the places to which I want to go, I will be pissed. Plus, I belong to a Facebook group of retired women, and they consistently say, travel while you can. I’m aware that my traveling time has a limit. And it makes sense to me to travel as much as I can while I'm still working. And I'm consciously doing the things that are important to me: travel, singing, piano, and Italian.

My therapist agreed that I need to live my life my way. She thought that my dad was out of line and doesn't know how to parent an adult child.

I’m waiting to cool down before responding.

Had my piano lesson. She commented that I had did a lot of work on my recital piece. In fact, I had played it so much before the lesson and at the lesson that I got really tired and stopped being able to play. That never has happened before. And I never have been so aware of my ability to concentrate as a limiting factor.

I'm need to go to bed early because I need to get up on time and take a shower and put on my makeup because we will be introducing ourselves to the governance board at work. I know I keep saying that but staying up late, but I need to stick to it this time. Posting is a start.