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I’m looking for a TV for my bedroom. It looks like Best Buy has the best prices. I found one that I really like but need to wait until after my trip.

Gracie woke me up at 8 AM. Ate and put my clothes in the dryer. Now, apparently, it’s dog wrestling time.

Threw myself together and left for volunteering. It went okay. Stopped at the store and now I’m home. I’m going to drink some water and then mow.

My mower is flaking out. It will start for about a minute, die, and then refuse to start again for a while. It doesn’t seem to be the batteries. I need to find out where I can get it serviced. Meanwhile, I need to get someone to mow the lawn. I need to wait until I get paid again though.

One of my neighbors said that I was trying to cut too low while the grass was high. He adjusted my mower. Bella ran out when I opened the gate. She ran up and down the street, thank goodness. She stays pretty close, while Gracie will take off for Timbuktu.

I got some of my herbs and planted them: thyme, rosemary, and oregano. I don’t know what happened to the basil. I need to check on it. (It hasn’t been shipped yet.) I also got the tomatoes, so I need to get the raised bed for them set up. Luckily, I should have time for yard work after my all-staff meetings. The raspberries are going gangbusters.

It’s supposed to storm tomorrow, so no mowing. It would be a good day to get the CPAP set up. I also need to do laundry for my meetings (started).

The dogs are totally flaked out. I had problems falling asleep, so I got up to have some oatmeal. Bella got up with me because she is My Dog.

Woke up several times during the night but got up with my alarm. I wasn’t moving fast enough for Gracie though and she pawed me. Oliver jumped on my back with claws outstretched. Ow. A quiet morning at home.

Got my groceries in and dogs out.

Today is meeting day at work. I was wondering how I could be so tired after sleeping all day yesterday, but meetings put me to sleep. I can barely keep my eyes open. I think that I’m going to bail after my last meeting.

The co-pay for my CPAP was only $44 and change. That’s a bit of good news.

Water did help my sleepiness a little but I still bailed out of work.

Oliver was already on my, er, “their” bed. He looks like a little angel. Appearances can be deceiving:) Slept until a little after 7 PM.

Fed us all. Logged into work for a little while. I need to get to bed early because I have physical therapy in the morning.

Woke up at 7:20 AM? Oliver isn’t eating his breakfast. Has he decided that he doesn’t like chicken? He eats the rest of his meals. I’m not too worried because he’s young and relentlessly healthy. Well, relentlessly rambunctious, anyway.

So freaking tired. I closed my eyes leaning on the filing cabinet in Zara’s room. I showered in the morning, so I can have a lunchtime nap. Still silence from the CPAP people, so I need to call.

Overslept my nap. I’m not feeling up to phone calls. I just want to work quietly. I’m doing a tedious task for work, but I volunteered to do it. The government issued an edict that all public-facing Web sites, applications, and the like at colleges and universities will become accessible. The original deadline was last month, but the government extended it for one year because no one was making the deadline. We have a Web page that contains an archive of webinars that we gave for years now. We posted the slides for each webinar in PDF format, which is the devil as far as accessibility is concerned. So I’m replacing the 60-odd PDF files with the original PowerPoint files. Someone will have to caption all the recordings of the webinars, who probably will be me. Oh well, job security. But the upload feature for the files keeps flaking out.

Checked on the dogs, and Gracie was sitting on top of the dirt for the raised beds.

Bella is always so happy when I go outside and see them.

It keeps threatening rain. Probably no lawn mowing tonight. Maybe I’ll take a nap. It started raining, and I went to let the dogs in, but it isn’t raining hard enough for them to want to come in. Okay.

Oliver attended my nap after work, but he was good and let me sleep. Had a good nap. Fed us all.

I finished We Burned So Bright. It was hard because a lot of it was depressing, especially after the fizzy gay hockey player books. But it’s good. And hard.

Another iris is blooming.


I think that the dogs have gone to bed already. They were outside for over 12 hours!

Major storm tonight. I’m glad that the dogs are inside.

Got up at 7:45 AM. I hadn’t fed Lily yet and I was putting on my makeup for my medical appointment. First, she was parading around on the sink. Then she got between me and the mirror. Then she climbed on my shoulder. Well played, Lily.

I’m at the hospital. The mammogram is done unless the radiologist wants more pictures. Then I’ll have an ultrasound.

Back home. I’m not clear on whether the “complex cysts or masses” are benign or not in the results. Okay, I guess that they are benign, but they don’t make it easy to understand. I got a message that said plainly that they were benign. It’s good to have the tests behind me. I had been worrying about them.

I didn’t realize that it was raining again. I let in two very wet dogs. Even Gracie had had enough.

I really want a nap after work. Rainy days knock me out. And it’s going to rain until 9 or 10. So no putting out the garbage.

I just realized that I have a luncheon tomorrow. Need clean clothes.

Had a nice nap but it wasn’t long enough. The doggies were wrestling before I fell asleep, and Gracie woke me up as soon as my alarm went off. The dogs want to go out, but it’s raining. I let them out in the rain. Gracie dashed out, but Bella hesitated but finally went out. I told them it was raining! They were waiting on the porch for me when I let them in. Soggy dogs.

Read an article about how New Orleans will be under water by the turn of the century, and that they should move the city now. That’s sad. I love New Orleans.

Submitted a grocery order, including the all-important cat food and lawn bags.

I need to head towards bed.

I stayed up late watching a Mentour Pilot episode about the midair collision in Washington DC. It was a typically good episode.

Had a rare bout of insomnia. Finally got up to have some oatmeal.

Woke up at 8:30 AM, which is too early after falling asleep so late. Napped for three hours. Got the clothes for the concert on the drying rack. Oliver wants food right now. Fed the cats. (The dogs are outside.). Lily didn’t finish her food. I was calling Oliver to finish it, and he was giving me the cat stare. Then I showed him the food, and he came over.

It’s gloomy as hell now, but I checked the grass, and it’s not wet. Oh what the hell. I want to lie down for a little while.

Napped. Read. I’m not going to get out in time to mow the lawn, but I’ll get the mower in the garage. It’s likely to rain soon anyway.

Oh fuck. I have a physical therapy appointment in the morning, so I need clean clothes. I’ll have to throw them in the dryer.

Got the lawnmower in the garage. At least I accomplished something.

Ate dinner. I’m feeding the cats. Oliver wanted to eat Lily’s food but I stopped him. Bella is being a little shit. She ate Gracie’s food as well as her own and stole a cat food can.

I practiced some for my concert. I want to get to bed at a decent hour to be rested for my concert.

Overslept my alarm until almost 9 AM. My lunchtime nap is being attended by Bella, Oliver, and Lily. I hope that they’ll let me sleep. Overslept my nap. So freaking tired.

The CPAP people were supposed to email my forms yesterday and I still haven’t received them yet. I guess that I’ll give them until Monday and call them back.

I forgot to mention that I found Zara’s adoption papers in the box of papers that I’m going through. Apparently, I adopted her at three years old, not one, so I’ve had her for 14 years. Still a long time.

I also forgot to mention that one of my irises is blooming! I took a picture.


Gracie finally came in at 3:30 PM. I discovered that I finally got the grass seed. About time. Speaking of grass, I should get the mower out of the basement tonight and put it into the garage. Then I can mow after volunteering tomorrow.

Oliver and Lily are batting at each other’s paws under the door in Zara’s room. My singing lesson went well.

I finished the Heated Rivalry books except for the new one coming out in June. Now I know the spoilers for the next TV series, but maybe I’ll forget them by then.

My dad said that he wanted to get a tricycle but decided not to because they don’t fit in bike lanes and bike parking spots. I think that I could take side streets to the grocery store, but I need to check out the parking situation.

I think that I want to go to bed early. I’m tired. Gracie is being annoying and refusing to come in. She’s trying to dig something out of the yard. I hope that she comes in before I want to go to sleep.

The dogs completely crashed out as soon as we got into bed. I finished reading my book.

Woke up at 7 AM. Let the dogs out. Went back to sleep and overslept.

It’s a stormy morning. Let the wet dogs in. Have lights on throughout the house.

I had to put the clothes in the dryer because they wouldn’t be quite dry when I take my shower at lunchtime. Now I know more about timing when I use the heated drying rack.

Lily is looking lovely in the cat bed on my desk. Wow, that cat is beautiful.

Tornado warning. I’m in the basement with Lily and Oliver. The dogs won’t come down. Zara is in her room. It’s over now.

Groan. Lunchtime and I had to tell Gracie to stop barking at Lily. Showered.

I really, really want to go to Hawaii (Oahu). Maybe next year? Ack, flights have gotten expensive! I’m thinking May or June. Though I want to take a cruise to Bermuda, and that would be the same time frame. Well, there is a cruise in March. Maybe I could do that and go to Hawaii in September? Actually, there is a cruise on April 6th that looks good. I need to save up the money for it. It’ll be on Norwegian, which doesn’t thrill me, but they have nice solo cabins. And the cruise is out of New York City, so I could spend a day in the city.

Oh what a night. It was storming and pouring when I left for choir-–and Gracie ran out in the yard. Fuck. I had to go because it was dress rehearsal for our concert next week. I told Gracie to go under the porch, and she did go under there and checked it out, but she decided that she didn’t like it. So I drove off, worrying. The drive was scary. I got drenched running into the building. So we gathered for the rehearsal. And then there was a tornado warning (for those who are counting, that makes two). We went down in the basement of the church. Now I was really worried about Gracie, but the tornado was up north of us, so I figured that she would be okay. We sang a song a capella in the basement and then the warning was over and we went upstairs. Many of us, including me, were making mistakes on the songs. On our hardest song, she stopped us partway and asked why we were falling apart when we did a good job last week. But we got through it.

The rain had stopped when I left. I had planned to stop at the grocery store, but I thought that I shouldn’t because of Gracie, but I decided to run in and grab a few things. Then I went home. Gracie ran over to the fence near me when I drove up. When I got to the gate, she barked at me. I think that I was told off. I went inside and expected Bella to run out, but Gracie pushed her way in and Bella followed her. Gracie was soaked to the skin.

I ate the food that I picked up. Bella was being obnoxious and tried to take a bite of my chicken sandwich. I fed them after I finished, and Bella ignored the food. Right. Gracie was nowhere to be found; I think that she’s crashed out in the bedroom.

It took me a while to fall asleep. Gracie woke me up at 7 AM. Sigh. Feeling a little tired and dizzy. I’m wondering if I should Uber to my massage appointment because of the marathon today.

Fed the cats and myself. For some reason, Oliver didn’t eat his food. The dogs are outside doing doggy stuff.

Napped. Oliver was with me but he let me sleep. Ate lunch.

I think that the roads will no longer be blocked by the time that I leave for my massage.

Showered. Sitting for a moment before I put on my makeup (done).

Had my massage. It went well except that I asked for a hot stone massage but got a Swedish massage. The streets were not blocked.

I should do some stuff outside but don’t want to. I’m mulling over a nap, but I should at least get the plants out of the garage. I have a taste for a pizza. Ordered the pizza. They estimate that it will be delivered around 7 PM, so I have some time to kill.

Got the plants out of the garage and watered them. A couple of guys walking by thought that Gracie was adorable. (Bella went inside.)

Ate too much pizza, but it was good. Fed the fur faces. I’m really tired and want to go to bed soon.

Woke up at 7 AM. Went back to sleep for a while. Woke up with my alarm. I don’t know why I’m suddenly waking up to my alarm, but I’ll take it.

Zara has been chowing down on her food and polishing it off. Good to see. Her kidney values are about the same (stage 2 kidney disease), so that’s good. My tough girl.

I’m feeling like I’m over physical therapy, but I have a few weeks to go. I’m over doctors in general, but I have a physical on Thursday.

Had my physical therapy session. As much as physical therapy is a pain, I have to admit it's helping. I just discovered that going up stairs is a lot easier. (The trick is to keep the exercises up because both Mom and Auntie had problems with stairs later in life.) I haven't tested standing yet, but maybe I could do that upstairs on the carpeting with a mat.

Gracie and Bella came in unexpectedly early. It looks like Gracie really wanted to sleep because she’s crashed out now.

I’ve been discombobulated today, forgetting stuff and doing things out of order. Bad executive functioning day.

Lily didn’t eat her breakfast, so she was eating it now, and Bella really, really wanted her food. I was hanging onto her to keep her from eating it, but she got a little of it at the end. I told her that she was a Bad Dog, but she regrets nothing.

Had a nice nap. Gracie woke me a little before my alarm. Fed the fur faces. Now I’m making something to eat. Maybe I will watch Heated Rivalry while I eat. Then I need to order food for delivery from the store and crash.

Heated Rivalry had a knockout episode. I’m glad that I watched it.

The forecast is for frost tonight, so I ran out and covered some plants.

It’s dog-wrestling time. Sigh.

Gracie woke me up at 7 AM. Fed us all. Time for a nap. Dog-wrestling time again. And shrill Gracie barks.

Woke up after an hour. Had lunch. I had a dog (Bella) poised and ready to nab anything that fell on the floor.

I forgot to mention that some of my irises have flower buds. How exciting!

I did my volunteer work. Then I went to the University library. I was so out of it that I tried to drive off with The Club still on my steering wheel. I think that I need a snack and a nap.

Good news: the garage guy finally cleaned up the gravel. Bad news: we have a power outage. The power just came on.

Napped. Fed the fur faces. I’m making myself some food and will watch Heated Rivalry (done).

I’m wondering if I should put plants in the garage (freeze warning).