Moving in May, 5/22

I didn't really have anything to post about yesterday, no moving as such. Just a normal Friday work day on Thursday. I did go over to Mother's after work last night so she could have a bath.

Today was a normal Monday or production day on Friday. I got 15.5 hours in yesterday & today. I still don't see how we can only get 15 hours during an issue cycle. But we try. I'll go in tomorrow to finish the last four pages & then back in on Tuesday for a little while.

I walked to Lewiston State Bank at lunch, up the east side of State Street. I crossed at the light & walked back up the west side of State Street to the Subway, back across State Street to the Citizen & back to work. Total time, 1/2 hour. Once I got to Stokes, I sat down on the bench just outside the front door to decide why I'd walked to the bank. Just how much money did I need, sigh. I hate not being able to remember stuff.

I buzzed my head yesterday. I have 1/4-inch of hair all over my head except a few stray hairs around my ears that I missed. The real reason I buzzed it is because I was sick & tired of it. I had asked Don a couple of times in the last couple of weeks to cut it for me &, of course, he's always busy, either with Nick, Runescape or lately he's been working on the siding of the house.

It feels so good to not have that long, at least to me, straggly hair. I was having to pull hair out of my ear after putting my hearing aid in. Once I got it cut though, I was thinking about gardening. You severely prune back bushes to make them grow bushier. I've stopped taking the femara, which has a side-effect of male-pattern baldness. I thought maybe if I cut my hair really short, maybe it'll grow out a little better. All of my mom's sisters have very thin hair, except Mother. Hers is still thick & still has color. The others all have white, very thin hair.

I don't like looking in the mirror & wondering who that ugly man is, LOL. My hair will grow.

Nick had a first yesterday. The very first time he went to the barber all by himself for a hair cut. His hair has been looking like Young Einstein's & so I had $10 for groceries. I asked him if I gave him $10 would he go to Weldon (Cheney) & get his hair cut? He said yes. I told him the $10 was for a haircut, nothing else. If he didn't get his hair cut, I wanted all $10 back. He said what if it's less than $10. I said if anything, it would be more. If it was more, come & get some more $$. He got his hair cut & went right over to Mother's to show her.

Moving in May, 5/15

Today I drove across the street to Subway instead of walking. What was I thinking? I thought of it as I pulled out of the alley, but didn't turn around & park. It took me longer to drive than it would have to walk it. I did park in the pink Victorian house lot today & walked to Lewiston State Bank & back. Then I realized I'd left my drink at work, drove back & parked on the far side of the Opera House parking lot & walked across the parking lot, the alley & into the Citizen.

So, now I'm up to 3 hours and 15 minutes, with 3 hours & 75 minutes left to walk this month.

Don & I traded nights to cook tonight. I fixed supper so Don can fix grilled burgers tomorrow night. We left the food sitting on the stove so Don-Mike could have some when he got home he could have some. Luckily he brought some food with him because Nick saw a mouse eating out of the pan. Don-Mike mentioned how he missed Astro. We all miss our little Astro-Bear. He was a good mouser.

Moving in May, 5/14

Today I parked on State Street, almost to Oneida, which is almost the center of town. I had planned to walk from U.S. Bank to the post office, through the block to the pharmacy, back to State Street & down to the Preston City office to pay the water bill. But, because of the time, I only walked to the post office, City Office & back to the bank where I parked the car, 20 minutes. The bank, post office & city office all close at 5 p.m.

I had stopped to talk to a friend & her husband just outside of Lewiston State Bank &, of course, it wasn't just a hi & bye.

Pickups, walking & babies

Here is Nick standing in the "new" driveway by his '69 pickup today, about 15 to 4. I'm glad it wasn't blurry. So many of my pictures turn out blurry.

This was a farm pickup & he found it out in Whitney in a field, sitting there rusting. Not sure what was wrong with it. He & Don-Mike fixed it up & he got a lot of years out of it. He traded it, plus some cash, for the Corvette, which they are now trailering home.

One of the T-tops blew off the 'Vette & the owner stopped, picked it up out of traffic, called Nick & told them to get off at the next exit. They did & he returned the T-top. They put all of the loose stuff in the camper shell on Don-Mike's pickup. They took Don-Mike's "new" diesel pickup.

On to walking. A friend had a link on her blog for a blog named Little April Rose. April's mommy has a link to Kayleigh Anne Freeman. In reading the condolences for little Kayleigh, I ran across a link, out of the thousands of comments, that intrigued me, Random Thoughts of a Great-Granny Grandma. See how blog browsing just kind of snowballs?

I read one of Great Granny's posts & thought it was interesting. It kind of summed up my day today:

1. Tell us how you sneak exercise in when you can't "get to they gym" or "the treadmill is broken" or whatever. What do you do at work/around the house/etc. to move more?

I certainly tried to be creative today. I knew I wouldn't have time for a straight 15 minute walk. I tried to get through work by 11:30 since we had DUP this afternoon & the books were being audited. I knew we would need to eat lunch. I parked out in the farthest corner of Stokes parking lot. For the local people, it was where the pink Victorian house used to be on 2nd South. I walked across the parking lot & down to Lewiston State Bank. Once I got my money, I walked down to the deli, opposite end of the grocery store & bought a couple of 3" sandwiches, a small bag of chips, a small macaroni salad & a small cherry pie for lunch. Back out to the car.

This evening, after supper at ChesterFried Chicken, we went back to Stokes to see if they had some postage stamps. I wanted to mail the DUP audit to the company secretary. However, I still have 42¢ stamps. The post office was closed because by now it was after 6 p.m. The post office used to have a vending machine, but no more. We went there & I walked in, only to find a metal sign over the wall where the stamp vending machine used to be. Stokes only have 44¢ stamps. I had Don park out quite a ways from the entrance & walked in & back out.

When Mother discovered that we were looking for 2¢ stamps she said she had some in the cupboard at home. Sure enough, she did. So, I took one & got the audit in the mail, woo hoo!!

Then, this evening, I walked down to feed the dog. Don walked with me & he watered the dog while I got the food out of the shed. Don had to make a special trip to the grocery store last night for dog food. He got the 50# bag. Now, tonight, I see the cats are almost out of food.

The second part of this was:

2. Let us know how your week went. Let us know your goals for next week. Not your long-term goals, just your goals for next week.

If you follow my blog, I let you know how my week went almost every day, LOL. Goals are to continue to walk daily, make the bed daily. One of my big goals for this week was to get MY wash caught up. I needed undies & socks. Undies washed, folded & waiting to be put away. Socks washed & in the dryer. I'm hoping I won't have any orphan socks. I have 9 orphans. I really wish I could find the mates.

Now, back to Kayleigh, April Rose, & Baby Jonah. Jonah is my cousin Loraine's grandson. He was born at 24 weeks gestation in September 2008. Loraine's dad, Jim, told me about a blog that Tanya & Dave were keeping of their baby Jonah. I started following Jonah's blog. I checked it morning & night. Dave & Tanya are sometimes very late in updating it & I couldn't go to bed without checking the blog. I was having a hard time sleeping back then. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle night &, almost without volition, start praying for Jonah.

Now that I'm off the femara, the new CPAP helps too, I'm sleeping better. But one blog leads to another & now I have a whole list of blogs to check. My main ones though are Jonah, Kayleigh & April Rose. I have my blog list set so that those blogs that have new entries rise to the top, like cream, LOL.

Saturday, May 9

Last night about 6 p.m., my friend Janene called to say she was just entering the valley. She was in Logan for the Family History Expo (FHE) seminar held on campus at Utah State University. She was just going to grab something to eat & then go set up. Evidently they had 3 separate hotel rooms, one each for Holly, Kimberly Savage & Janene. She asked me if I wanted to come spend the night with her. Don encouraged me, so I left about 9 p.m. & got there about 10. She had finished setting up & was coming back to the hotel when I got there.

We sat up until midnight bagging t-shirts for the FHE booth. But it was fun visiting. We both have trouble remembering words & finishing sentences, LOL

By the time I walked back & forth between the University Inn & the Eccles Conference Center 3 times today, I'm counting 15 minutes. I have no idea how many minutes it actually was, but I'm only trying for 15 minutes a day.

Yesterday I walked from the Citizen down to Lewiston State Bank & back to the Citizen. Again, I don't know how many minutes I actually walked, but I was gone half an hour. The good news about yesterday's walk is I did not drive a block & a half one way or 3 blocks round trip, I walked it. Sorry the picture is so big. The bank is at the south end of Stokes MarketPlace (Preston's only grocery store).

To get the picture with no one around, I had to wait for cars to drive by & a lady had just walked in & I waited til the door closed, LOL