Howdy! Perused social media last night and one of the people that I would have loved to chat with came in for the reunion. I saw him in a photo but when I looked over the invite list he didn’t indicate he was going. He’s gay and came out long after high school. Hence why I wanted to chat with him. We never really crossed paths in high school. He is super cute and has a husband. I wasn’t looking for anything more than a conversation. Looks like that opportunity passed me by. I’m sure there will be more photos to follow in the days ahead and outside of missing chatting with one person I don’t regret my decision to not go.
I woke up on my own at 5a but managed to go back to sleep. Had a dream about a cat that has passed away. I think about all of them often and they must come to say hello by visiting me in my dreams. Either that or my mind is just playing with me.
The phone started ringing at 6:30a and it took me a few minutes to get to it but I made it. It was work and I was greeted with I hope I didn’t wake you. Nah you didn’t wake me I had to get up to answer the phone. It was a stupid pointless call but I gave my official work response and that brought the call to and end. No point in going back to sleep because I need to be up in a half hour to get going.
Mora was all over me when I got out of bed, she started crying while I was trying to talk on the phone. Like I was somehow going to forget about her and breakfast. Rudy was smart and waited in bed. We headed to the kitchen and I cracked open a can of food and breakfast was served. Mora wouldn’t touch it as she lets her brother eat first. He was round the corner in a flash.
Meanwhile I got to play with my eye. They have been giving me trouble lately. I’ve got one eye that has idiopathic conjunctivitis and each morning I have to clean the junk from the lashes. It’s not fun and some mornings it’s thicker than others. I believe this is the result of a hazing incident when I was in high school and a bunch of girls on the bus ride home put makeup on me and my brother. I wound up with a killer eye infection from it and things haven’t been 100% right since then. I had an eye doctor that put me on a steroid eye drop and that cleared it right up but my doctor along with a couple new eye docs both say that it’s too dangerous to be on the drop long term it could do damage. So I am stuck with the clean up job. To add to that my upper eye has lashes that grow in the wrong direction. I can’t curl them to save my life so I suppose it’s good I’m not a drag queen. I’ve trimmed them before but you get your eye wet for any reason and it stings like no tomorrow. What goes better with two problems, another problem so you get the Trifecta effect. I’ve got dry eyes from staring at computer screens all day. There is OTC drops for that but I don’t put them in until things get really bad because like everyone else I hate eye drops. This growing old thing kind of sucks!
After messing with my eyes and getting dressed. I opened the blinds for the back yard. Looked like it was going to pour rain. The forecast last night said rain all day. I headed out for breakfast and hit up the grocery store. Should have gone to Target but didn’t feel like it and it will be there next week. Came home, put groceries away and started working on laundry.
Got undressed and relaxed in my room. Wound up taking my usual Sunday morning nap but it didn’t last nearly as long as I wanted it to. That’s because the phone popped with a news alert that we have poor air quality and an excessive heat warning in effect. Like I needed to be woken up to find that out. I was pissed but it’s part of being on-call, I have to be available. If I wasn’t on-call I would have turned on do not disturb and that alert would have never stood a chance of bothering me. I think I got about 45 minutes and magically both cats were next to me when I woke up.
Time to pass out lunch for them even though it was 10:30 I just gave in early. Then worked on my pills. The sun was out and I checked the weather on my phone. Not a drop of rain in the forecast. I used that as an excuse to spray outside. It wasn’t fun but I got it done. Also found that cute baby groundhog made a new hole in my yard and when I saw it I wanted to kill the fucker. They are going to keep up and I will have water in my basement. No matter what you put down they will dig it up or tunnel around it. That’s why you trap and rehome them then you can close up the holes to their den(s). I’ve got 3 of them at the base of my deck which is built on top of a concrete slab patio. It’s some genius work my late spouse put together by reading books and researching. He never went into any project without arming himself with knowledge first. It looks good and is built with Trex material so there really is no maintenance needed, but like anything outdoors it gets dirty so a power wash and your good to go. Of course the improvement to the house meant that it added to the value and that cause taxes to go up.
I got to fight with some vines that I though I killed off earlier this year that managed to come back to life. I hate touching green leafy things without known for sure what exactly I am touching. So I used a trimmer to help me clear the vines and then cut them off at the root. Put down some Round Up and hopefully this time it kills them dead.
That little bit of yard work and I was hot, sweating and just wanted to get back inside. Before I tackled the vines I was all set to check my tire pressure but afterwards I just wanted to get inside and cool down. I tapped on the back window to see if I could get the cats to come see me but neither one of them answered my call. I guess they thought it was a stranger.
Came in and got almost naked. Drank a Sprite and had a sweet snack. My arms shaking like a 90 year old man with Parkinson's. My upper core just spasms and I get the shakes as a result. It’s not fun trying to pick up food or drink when that happens because it turns into a large mess quickly. As long as things are normal I’m fine and can eat and drink fine. I’m told it’s a long term affect from being on anti-depressants. I just want it to go away along with all of the other little quirks my body has developed over the years.
I’m working on laundry now and managed to wrap up my data project. Got the new drive backing up to the cloud and the backup drive is an exact copy. I hope I can keep up my plan to copy things over so that I won’t have to ever pay for a drive with my data to be shipped to me again. I really need to move into a NAS but just don’t want to part with the money. It would make sense to have a RAID array with drives mirrored so if one fails you put in a new one and it starts to mirror again. Technology is great if you can afford it and it works like it’s supposed to.
Still need to clean the house. Plan on going out for BBQ for supper. Got my Chicken Cesar Wrap purchased for going into the office on Tuesday. Oh joy won’t that be fun and boring. I just keep counting down to vacation each day brings me closer. Thinking about traveling around for some good food and trying new places. I will also plan on pulling out some cash just to be prepared in case I come across a place that doesn’t take credit cards.
Take care and enjoy what’s left of Sunday!
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