Welcome in … I had a productive evening. Washed the cats fountain in the dishwasher. Used air dry and just a normal wash cycle. Anything more and the plastic it’s made from would melt. At least that was my experience with a prior fountain years and years ago. Talk about learning from your mistakes.
Got the cat’s fountain put back together and filled. Then loaded up the dishwasher with my dishes and knocked them out. Speaking of knocking, my water heater makes all kinds of noise now that I flushed it. I wished I would have listened to the plumber who told me when it was put in don’t touch it. I know that your supposed to flush them as regular maintenance once per year. It gets pretty noisy and I can’t help but think I’ve set myself up for failure. The unit has been in service for 4 years, was installed at the start of the pandemic and still working fine. It’s gas and on the lowest possible setting for hot water. I know it is mineral deposits that cause the knocking. Yet another joy of homeownership. Here’s hoping that it lasts for many more years to come.
Went to bed late and had several play sessions with the cats throughout the day. Rudy was the one who drove that and I just hope he doesn’t think that is going to be an every day thing. He really whined and carried on at bed time because I was all played out and he was denied his normal before bed play. I watched some TV and eventually my medicine kicked in, I thought it wasn’t going to work at all.
Rudy let me sleep in for 45 minutes and then at 7:45a he was making biscuits and waking me up. I got up and fed them. I came back to bed for a bit but eventually opted to get up and eat, take my meds and just relax. That meant going back to bed and watching TV. Of course I fell back asleep. There’s nothing really going today and relaxing is what I enjoy most of all, even if it’s dull & boring wasting my life away.
Got up around noonish and had some cookies & a soda for lunch. After the cats were done with lunch they joined me as we returned to my room to watch more TV. I got going around 2:30p with a shower. By now it’s close to 100 degrees outside and there are air quality & heat advisory warnings out.
Stopped for cat food first. Then went to the office supply store and the kids working there looked at me like I had a 3rd eye. I asked if they had a document holder. The first person said that she was too young to understand what I was asking for and pointed me to some guys who thought I was looking for a typewriter. It’s a simple device it holds a document in an upright position and you can more easily type as your looking to it and then your monitor instead of having to look down if the document was laying on a desk. I was calling it a copy holder but explained what it did. Well turns out it’s actually called a document holder and I can get one from Amazon for $12 and it will be here next day. I knew I wasn’t crazy but those kids said they didn’t have it. I looked prior to asking and yeah I didn’t find it either. I looked over the pen isle while I was there. Lots of choices but I didn’t buy anything.
Off to grab the mail from there and then to a Mexican place that my friends were talking about. I had been there when they opened and it was good but that was like 5 years ago. The place fills up in a hurry. Service absolutely sucked but the food was awesome. Full of flavor and apparently full of salt. I didn’t taste it but ever since I have been home I have been so damn thirsty. I keep drinking water like I am a fish, I’ll be glad when my thirst is quenched I hate feeling thirsty and not being able to drink enough to get satisfied.
Cat food got put away and here I am in the basement. Mora has been nagging at me. I forgot about the time and realized she wanted treats. I gave her those. That only bought me 10 minutes of peace. She wants to cuddle and that’s not in the cards when I am in front of the computer. Kind of like why I hate letting either of them down here because all they do is nag me. I know they enjoy being next to me and around me but damn it gets to be a bit much. Didn’t help things that when I did let her in my lap she wiped her rear end on my arm. She loves to do that but normally there isn’t any evidence left behind and this time there was.
I’ve moved some money into savings, schedule a bill payment and updated my finances since we got paid a couple days early. My pay raise amounted to an extra $80 after taxes. Whoopy. It looks like the extra money is a lot on paper but when you boil it down after taxes it’s not much. Which reminds me I need to update my retirement account so that next check that $80 goes to it instead of me. I’m doing fine on what I was making prior to getting a raise.
That’s pretty much it for Saturday. Tomorrow I’ll do the usual breakfast, target, grocery store and gas up. Got some laundry to knock out and the house to clean which didn’t get done last weekend due to my poor back. It’s feeling better now but I’m not pushing my luck. Still very pleased when I look outside and see a semi-clean deck and sidewalk, looking at that won’t ever get old.
Once I get away from the computer it’s back to the TV for the night. Next week looks like it’s going to suck. However, I’ll just take it one day at a time and try not to freak out. The mistake maker had an early day yesterday and left me to cover things with just an hours notice and by email nevertheless. No picking up the phone. Common Courtesy as well as Common Sense just isn’t common anymore. Damn Millennials!
Take care and keep cool & hydrated!
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