Signed for another apartment

 

Wednesday

I woke up in the dark to use the bathroom. No RLS. But Chris was already gone. I went back to bed until 7:30. It was still dark when I got up. I prepared for Meditation Morning and rushed it just a little. I started cleaning the bathrooms, then got dressed and went to a sign-over at 11. After the signing, the man left and I stayed to chat with Jack and Sarah. Jack gave me back the irrigation timer I had lent him months ago.

I went home to finish cleaning and washing dishes. I vacuumed, then checked e-mail. I prepared for the sauna and sweated for 20 minutes. Then I took a shower and got dressed. I made egg salad.

I went to 607 to clean. I tried new ways to get the blue ring out of the toilet but to no avail. I mopped some floors and down the steps. I checked the backyard garden but there was nothing to pick. I poured cleaning vinegar and Dawn on a grease spot in the garage, then went to my garden. There was nothing to pick there either.

I went to the post office for the mail, then headed home. Chris was folding laundry, so I pitched in. Then he told me Michele and John were coming over.

And they did. We started chatting and Chris reminded me that I wanted to refill the water jugs. So Michele and Chris and I went to the Primo machine to fill all three 5-gallon jugs. I noted that the gallon price went up to 70 cents.

When we got back, we talked about movies and games. Then John got hungry and they went home. I worked on my blog. Later I made tea and we watched an episode of Blue Bloods. He went to bed and I stayed up to read.

Cleaning Tarah's house

 

Tuesday

I got up at 8, having gotten up multiple times during the night to address RLS. After Sudoku, I went through the morning list. It rained again. I took a bucket of cleaners to Tarah's house about 9:30. She called me an expert. Eryne was there to help as well. As we cleaned, other ladies arrived. I got a call for a quote and ran over to Steve's building to look around and name a price. He accepted and told me the sign-over is tomorrow at 11.

I went back to Tarah's house. I cleaned here and there, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, the front and back doors, etc. I could not clean her oven because she had the self-clean cycle going. I wondered how she would pass inspection at 2.

At noon I went home for breakfast and hardboiled two batches of eggs. After eating and checking e-mail, I checked the garden at 607, then mopped upstairs, left the toilet ring to soak again, and cleaned walls and steps.

At 5, I went to the garden. There were a few cherry tomatoes which were almost ripe. A bird was caught in the netting and was surrounded by feathers. I wondered if it tried to hide from a larger bird.

I went to the post office for mail, then went to the library. Michele was there to print out mask parts. The printer was giving the clerk trouble. But Michele eventually got the copy she needed. Then I handed over a thumb drive. It took awhile but I got the copies I needed. I stayed to chat then went home for supper.

As I ate, I read RLS remedies on the Earth Clinic site and took notes. I worked on my blog, then made tea. We watched Blue Bloods. I went back to reading what has worked for other people with RLS. I tried a few at bedtime and they must have worked.

Band is a no-show

 

Monday

I got up at 8, having had to get up several times during the night. I went through the morning list. It was sunny at first, but then it rained most of the day so I did not water the plants.

I chose hymns for Sunday. I made a copy of one, then cut it up into pieces to just have the descant for the bells to play. But my copier wasn't cooperating well and it doesn't enlarge. So I asked Chris to do it at work, but he said his isn't working right either. I texted Saronna and hers wasn't being helpful either.

So I went to Michelle. I brought my cut and pasted copy and a container of cheese squares. Hers wasn't communicating with the laptop so she took a pic of the paper, then went to Canva and used that AI to clean it up. Then she printed copies for me. I thanked her, chatted with Casey and went home.

I made and ate breakfast. I texted with Kurt. I sent him the pic that Michelle took of the music. He put it through AI and it came out better. In fact, I compared the two results and found out the Canva AI changed some of the notes.

I went to 607 to clean for an hour and a half. I stopped by my garden and picked a squash. Then I went home for fiber gel. Chris put leftovers in the toaster oven for me.

At 6:30, I went to the chapel for band. But no one showed up. I got out the bells for bell practice at 7. Michelle arrived at 7 and we chatted. Then Michele and John arrived at 7:15. They colored in some of the bell music, then we all chatted till 8. Michelle had to go to a class and the rest of us put stuff away, turned off the lights and went home.

I told Chris that I might want to quit band. He was ok with it. I worked on my blog and made tea. We watched Blue Bloods. I did some Sudoku, then read on my laptop.

Sometimes a cheat code is the answer

 

Sunday

I got up at 9, never having heard my alarms in the guest room. And it was raining. I went through the morning list. I got started on cheese squares. Michelle called, having a reaction to something. All I had to offer was charcoal, so I told her to call EMS. She did and they gave her benedryl.

I pulled the cheese squares out of the oven. I posted to my blog for Friday. I made and ate breakfast. I got dressed for church, then took the cheese squares and a zucchini to church.

Only a handful of people showed up, and the chaplain and Keli were not amongst them. Apparent the chaplain went to the hospital this morning and they were concerned he might have giant cell arteritis. Idk. Anyway, Popken led the service and I played hymns afterward. Then we all chatted and had cheese squares and went home. I stayed to check for my chenille pumpkin project but still couldn't find it.

When I got home, I ate some fruit and laid down and fell asleep. Chris woke me at 5 for the game. He had supper waiting for me. I listened to the Integrated Tapping Summit until everyone was present, then we played the game.

Our intrepid explorers were in the middle of a fight, but they handily won. Then we tracked down a revised will and delivered it to the council. It named the bastard daughter as heir. So we informed her of her parentage and inheritance and new place on the council of 5. Then two other members of the council asked to speak with us, separately. They each had a task to ask us to perform. Neither of which appealed to me but which would probably involve fighting.

After the game, I started working on my blog. Then we made the bed with a clean cover and sheets and blankets. I finished my blog and made tea. I jotted down all cleaning hours for yesterday.

Michelle invited me over for another game night, and also to be home with Isadora so she could go to the gym. So I went over. But then Michelle decided to stay home and chat. I played the game, always getting killed by the ice monster. Then I asked her if there were cheat codes for the game and she looked it up. Yes, there was a code to type in that made me invincible. That was a big help. But I still had to make almost impossible jumps. There was also a code to get all the weapons at once. But it turns out that the ice monster is invulnerable to bazookas.

Casey and Cedric came home from their trip. Casey unpacked the car and Cedric put himself to bed. The game seized and Casey freed it up. I kept missing the jumps and reloading the game. I succeeded a few times, then Casey did the last jump for me. From there, I got Urgon's part, slid back down to the first level and used it to defeat the ice monster and move to the ending of the level. Then I got the opportunity to buy ammo and med kits. I bought ammo but the screen seized so I didn't get med kits. I figured I didn't need them anyway, being invincible, but later decided I should have turned the invincibility off.

I made the next level at 11, thanked them, and went home. Chris and I retired to bed together.

Project and Game Night

Saturday

It was a horrible night. RLS kept visiting me. The treatments worked, but not for more than an hour or so. Therefore, I got up late, like around 8. I did Sudoku. Chris took his shower and went to Mass. I started my morning list. I was out watering plants when he got home. I planted the 4 seedlings that Michele gave me into the 4 empty spots in the tower garden. I also reset the traps and added mint leaves to one of them. It seems the gophers are digging a nexus of tunnels so that the water doesn't fill one tunnel, but spreads out among several.

When I came in, I asked Chris for a massage. After the massage, I took a shower. I made a bowl of yogurts with pumpkin seeds. I read e-mail, then made and ate breakfast. I went to 607 just before 2. Davis was there mowing the lawn. I went upstairs to work on baseboards. Isadora arrived to finish the master bathroom and to clean the other two bathrooms. After I had cleaned all the baseboards, I discovered that the walls needed scrubbing as well. The dirt was in between all the little lumps of paint - at least in the master bedroom and under the windows in the other bedrooms. Probably from a dog. I gave up trying to wipe away all the pet hair clinging to the walls. After I finished scrubbing, I went back with a vacuum and swept the hairs off.

Davis left. Isadora called her mom to pick her up. But by the time she arrived, I was leaving as well. I talked to her through the passenger window, then saw Michele and John pull out of their driveway. I knew they were going to my house for dinner so I wrapped up the conversation and went home.

Chris had cooked cod in a coconut curry sauce. So we all had dinner together. We chatted until I noticed the time, jumped up and headed to the chapel. When I got there, I realized I didnt have my phone. I went through my project bag looking for the chenille pumpkin. When John and Michele arrived, I went to 607 to pick it up. When I got back, I handsewed seams on a linen nightgown. John was gluing figures. Then they left early. So I packed up and called Michelle. She encouraged me to come over for a substitute Game Night. So I did. We chatted as the ice monster killed Indy over and over again. She looked up a walkthrough and we saw how Indy was supposed to get to the third floor. But it was an awful lot of big jumps in a row, all while getting shot at.

We stopped at 11, but kept talking. She was trying to convince me to pause all my community actvities until after Christmas.

I left at 11:30 and went home. Chris had washed the bedding but it wasn't dry yet, so we we slept in the guest room and sadly, RLS still found me.

Trading squash for eggs

 

 

Friday

I woke up early, but daylight was just starting to break. I stayed in bed until 7:30, then got up to start the day. I did some Sudoku, and then started the morning list. I didn't want to practice while Chris was still in bed, so I put the new basket on the GopherHawk. When he got up, I practiced. I folded laundry. I got yogurt started for Tina, then made myself a bowl of yogurts and pumpkin seeds.

Afterward, I went to Steve's place to unlock the door so Ned could take the mattress. I went to 607 to clean. I picked a zucchini from the backyard garden. Then I met Jordan off post. I gave her egg boxes and a squash. She gave me 18 eggs. I went back to cleaning and finished the windows. I dropped the zucchini off at Keli's house.

I went home for breakfast. I added to the shopping list. I laid down and fell asleep. When I got up, we went to the commissary and then to Tooele. I wanted chamomile tea, but Melanie's was all out of it.

We came home. I read online. I went to the garden to water. I uncovered the tomato plant. It had grown through the netting. I stuffed mint leaves down a gopher hole. When I got back, Chris was still here. His game got canceled. So did mine because Michelle was helping with Homecoming.

I heated supper in the toaster oven. I read online a commentary on Genesis where Joseph invites his father and brothers to Egypt because of the famine. Michele called Chris and needed a ride home. So he left for awhile. When he got back, I made tea and we watched an episode of Blue Bloods. Then I retired to my laptop to listen and piece puzzles. Finally I worked on my blog and went to bed.

Steve's last day

 

Thursday

I woke up when Chris' alarm went off and had a hard time going back to sleep. But I must have, since I woke up at 8:30. I did a quick run-through of the morning list, then went to the chapel to open it for Bible Study. Diane brought me eggs. We got through 2 chapters, then I had to leave.

I went to Steve's place to sign for it. It is sad that he is leaving. He gave me $300, but I gave $100 back because it was not very dirty at all. We talked for a bit, then he left. I went home to drop off the money and eggs. I went to 607 to clean for an hour.

Then I came home for breakfast and to watch The Highwire. I paused it after 2, to go to a quote on Coyote Cove. It was only 2 bedroom, but quite dirty. I told him $500 and he said it was lowest quote he had gotten.

I went back to 607 to clean for 4 hours. I wasn't planning on cleaning that long, but then John came over, so I stayed till he left and by then Isadora had come. I stayed a little bit, but was tired and hungry.

So I went to the garden. I picked some cherry tomatoes and four squash. I dug out thistles. I watered the tomato plant. I went home to heat supper and check e-mail. I fielded some texts and confirmed activities for tomorrow morning.

I worked on my blog. I made tea and we watched the next episode. Afterward, I recorded all the cleaning times for this week. I listened to the next episode of the Integrated Tapping Summit, then went to bed.