Tag: a personal note

I was really wiped out all day yesterday.

Then last night, when I went to bed, I kept waking up.  I’m sure you have had one of those nights, where you wake up just about every hour.  It is not a good way to sleep.  Don’t have a clue why that happens every once in a while, but it is a royal pain.

So, of course, the next day you are tired again because of interrupted sleep.

I will draw the curtain on this day, have my supper, watch a little TV and hope for a better day tomorrow.

There’s always hope.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

For some reason, I was totally wiped out today.

Doing anything was like pulling teeth.

I think it might be because the last few days were pretty stressful and I don’t seem to have the reserves to handle stress like I used to.  I sure hope that capability comes back.  And soon.

It’s funny how memories come back to you.  While I was on the phone with my friend in Florida today I remembered this.  When I lived near the New Jersey bay shore, my friend Bob and I would run our dogs on the beach.  This area was full of creeks, and nothing much else but quill weeds.  It was right on Raritan Bay.  The dogs (6 of them-  5 his 1 mine) could run flat out and nobody was ever there.  It was acres and acres of undeveloped land.  One of the few things that was there was a large chemical plant and the run ended up behind this factory.  One day we were running the dogs and we saw coming toward us three very large dobermans, running free, (no human in sight) and two more behind them.  We figured they were hired by the chemical plant to patrol the area and keep trespassers away. For a couple of minutes, I was completely terrified.  But then the dogs saw our dogs and it was playtime city.  I guess whoever trained these dogs never expected them to run into other dogs.  I truly wish I had a film of those dogs–they had a blast-all of them.  It was playtime -bigtime. When we were heading home the Dobermans really looked wistful (like do you guys really have to go?)  It was an experience I will never forget.  I bet those guard dogs never had so much fun on the job in their lives.

Well, that’s about it for today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

PS those are my daughter’s dogs in the picture.

When our refrigerator was delivered a couple of years ago, it took 2 men to do the task in our tiny galley kitchen and it was a real pain.

I had been expecting much of the same today with the repair.  I had visions of them having to pull it away from the wall, etc, etc,. trying to wrangle the darn thing with precious little room.

Today one fellow showed up with a laptop, unscrewed a panel right in the front (he didn’t even have to bend down to do it) and installed a new circuit board about as big as a pack of cards.  He was here about 10 minutes.

It seems to be working.

His explanation was that the circuit board “goes to sleep”  from time to time (as it is supposed to do) but sometimes when it goes to sleep it doesn’t wake up again.  He said that you can unplug the refrigerator, then plug it back again, which may work, but in my case he just replaced the board at no charge.  I did have to pay for the labor.  He took my payment, processed it on his laptop, and will send the receipt to me via email.

That was easy.

All that worry for nothing.

Fretting is a basic flaw of mine.

Hopefully all is fine now.

Time for supper.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I’ll be brief, as it was kind of a rough day.

Started off the day with a problem with my posts.  The format was completely off and I couldn’t post anything for awhile.  After a long time of figuring out and analyzing what the problem was, I was able to fix it.

The refrigerator and freezer started functioning again, late yesterday.

The refrigerator repair man is coming tomorrow and I have to find out what caused the failure.  There was no power outage or anything like that, so I would like him to do a little detective work to insure that it doesn’t happen again.  The refrigerator/freezer is far too important for it to be iffy.

Perhaps tomorrow I can get back to my full number of posts.

Somehow, I am really tired right now.

I wonder why .

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Well, I managed to solve the problem.

Everything is back to normal on the blog and I can see all my posts as they should be seen.

Thank you Lord.

Now I will get posting.

Patty

I am signing off early today.  Totally disgusted and terminally stressed-out and incredibly weary.

My refrigerator has died.  It is only 3 years old, but out of warranty.  I didn’t notice til around noon when I moved an ice tray in the freezer and water slopped out.  If I believed in past lives, and karma, I would be pretty sure that in another life I might have been Ivan the Terrible, receiving my punishment for past evil deeds in this lifetime.  I had to make multiple phone calls just to find out who to talk to.

The purchase document for the refrigerator (from Home Depot) had a bunch of papers with it relating to the purchase and the delivery.  There was another bunch of papers from the company that handles the maintenance contracts for your purchase.  It’s sort of a maze, with multiple companies getting involved.  I guess it’s harder to pin one down that way.

It is sorted out and the technician is coming on Wednesday afternoon.  That seems like an awfully long time from now.  Of course I had just put in a bunch of stuff in there the day before yesterday, but now I really don’t trust it.  The refrigerator part was pretty warm.  Nothing is quite as awful as a case of food poisoning.

Honestly, I could just scream.

So, on that joyful note I will close for today and sincerely  hope for a better day tomorrow.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

 

Today really flew by again.

One thing I did today was have a really good and long conversation with my daughter.  I am a big phone-talker, but she is not.  I am thinking of seeking part time work and she suggested something like customer service (because I like to talk on the phone).  I probably would like that better than bookkeeping (which I did for about a million years).  It’s something to be considered.  Not immediately, but down the road.  There are quite a few remote work opportunities to be considered.

Nice weather today, but we are in for about 3 days of rain coming up.  You all know just how I feel about rainy weather.  At least it hasn’t been too hot.

I have really been avoiding nooze lately.  I just can’t stand the constant downing of President Trump.  The headlines for 3 days this week were nothing but complaints about how he messed up the reflecting pool’s paint job.  Please, noozies, get a life.

All in all, it was a nice, quiet Sabbath–as it should be.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

PattyThis dog is the absolute image of my Dobie.

Back in January, I had a slow drain problem in the kitchen sink.  My landlord sent the plumbers in  and they fixed it.  A few days later I noticed ants (small sugar-ants, not carpenter ants) in the sink and also tooling around by the faucets.  I have been in this apartment for close to fifty years and never had an ant problem.  It must have been something that the plumbers disturbed, or whatever.  I bought some ant stuff and it seemed to work, but then they returned.  Not as bad as at first, but now it seems like it has become a co-existence situation.  They will disappear for a few days, then return.  It’s irritating.  My daughter and my friend (both of them down south) have learned to make peace with palmetto bugs.

Personally, I’d rather have the ants.

I don’t mind sharing quarters with some of God’s other critters–but I do draw the line at some things.

In the general scheme of things, I can live with a few ants.

Going to go make my supper now.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty  One of Lee’s favorite prehistoric animals.

Didn’t get to post as much as I wanted to today.  I got really busy and the time just flew.

Things should be back to normal tomorrow.

For now I am really tired and hungry.  Time to make supper.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty