a bloody nose, a kiss from god

Yesterday I went into Target to get Benefiber and came out with Benefiber and a comforter. Hmmm. That's some expensive fiber! My new rule is no more so if I buy new, I have to get rid of a like item. So I did. I put a comforter and two coffee mugs that I never use, out in the elbow with a FREE sign and they were gone in an hour.

The new comforter is wonderful to sleep under. I mean really. My sleep score from last night.



Lately I've been dreaming a lot and dreaming a lot about dead people. My parents, my friend, John, other friends - they have all been dead now for more than just a few years, yet in my dreams, they show zero signs of deadness. It's kind of wild.

Bonny has bronchitis and fairly robust case of it. Today she goes in for her pre hip replacement visit. She's due for surgery in two weeks. I cannot imagine that anyone is going to approve her for surgery - at age 86 - but she can't imagine they are going to object. Should be interesting.

Jan took her arm to the surgeon on Wednesday. It's a bad break and a piece of bone is floating around her arm but, no surgery. They told her at her age, it was not recommended. She was delighted/insulted. They did not even give her a real cast. Once a day she's to take her arm out of the sling and bend it and lift it touching her shoulder slowly 4 times. Come back in six weeks. Without the surgery, her range of motion will be somewhat limited. She won't be able to reach the top cabinets. But, her husband is tall. Her pitching career, however, is over.

And speaking of age, it finally happened. When someone here dies, they put out little framed photos with the birth date and the death date. I always check to make sure they were well older than I am now. Today there is one who was born in 1954. I was born in 1949. My Won't Happen To Me bubble is burst (bursted?).

This morning I need to take down the stack of done or won't ever do puzzles to the puzzle closet and do some shopping.

But, that's about it for chores. I want to watch the finale of The Pitt. And I have the last 30 minutes of my current book to listen to. And the knitting to do. I'm shoring up my doll supply so I can spend some time on my other projects.

But, first I need to get dressed.

Ha. The cats, who usually spend this time of day on their cat beds that are under my bed. This morning, they are wallowing on the new comforter. A win for all, I guess.

Well, the collected Skippy so far on the Facility guy so far is that he got pissed off at the parent company (LCS) and told them where to stick it. And he's now working at a Hyatt resort up the road about an hour. About half the people are 'it's such a loss' and the other half are not saying anything which I'm reading as 'not such a loss'. He had a tendency to make pronouncements about future stuff that then never happened. I was never overly impressed.

The Mariners beat the Padres last night in really the first real win of the series. It's the first game where the opposing team played really well and we still won so that's why it feels like the first win. It's about fucking time.

[edit later in the day... I turned the game off in the middle of the 9th inning. The Padres had done little and the score was Mariners 6 Padres 2. I was sleepy. While I was sleeping, the Padres scored 5 runs in the 9th. so... no win for the Mariners after all.]

I'm thinking about running a couple of errands today - I need to stop at Safeway but I just saw a new sandwich at Trader Joe's that looks interesting and I could use more Mandarin orange chicken. I need to inventory the fridge before I go.

I got a new United Health Care insurance card in the mail yesterday with some different numbers. No explanation why. The instructions said to activate, so I did and now I have no access to the data from the old card and the new card isn't valid til May 1. Weird. Oh wait. I just logged in again and now I can choose between the old and the new. Very weird but ok.

I've really got nothing else to report so I think I'll go get dressed and head on out.

I'm over watching calories. I learned that if I eat what I want when I want, I'm at or under what I need to lose/maintain. And I'm still eating way less than I was before Wegovy and I'm still fine with it. So I'm back to whatever. I will say, after 3 full months, the other bits of me that have actually shrunk any are still my wrists. Not on my top 35 body places to lose inches but then I didn't really specify originally.

Also, here's a fun old lady situation. My left wrist is way smaller than my right. My right ankle is way smaller than my left.

The Mariners, turns out, have a tough time winning unless they are playing a team that sucks worse than they do. It's going to be a looooooooong Summer at this rate.

Today is the monthly public Food & Beverage meeting.

Oh, I before the other meeting yesterday, the CEO dropped out so I ended up not going at all. Nice.

The CEO sent out a letter yesterday saying that the head of Maintenance left as of last Friday. As in the corporate world, when you leave a company on good terms, it's generally with a few weeks of goodbye and a little reception. When you are fired or Take This Job And Shove it, your departure is announced after the fact. The last two major departures here - Food and Beverage Director and Facilities Director - have been after the fact. This time there won't be a lot of tears. He had issues. But he had been here a fairly long time.

I ran into Jim Down The Hall yesterday. First time since he and his girlfriend got back from their multi week road trip. He said it was a good trip. I said 'can't wait to hear about it at elbow coffee on Saturday'. Then he told me they were leaving tomorrow for a long weekend in Oregon. Holy fuck, man. Time to stay home and do laundry!! He is 90 and she is 85.

I need my hair cut in the back but my brother is not coming back until June and Bonny is sick. I may have to mangle it myself.