Friday, November 16, 2012 @ 1:03 PM
Ok, maybe that is more a comment on the amount of fur
growing into a new kitty on the couch and carpet than anything, but it is true …
the cats seem to be procreating. Best to
be moving on … we see they are still hiding defensively from the sounds of the
loud vacuum. Must be hard to be a cat …
no telling when you might need to run.
Well, things are seeming to slow down a bit and we are happy
about that … today was our first real housekeeping day. We washed and folded clothes and steamed Rich’s
shirts and pants too! That’s a pretty
big deal. We got each room in the house,
and straightened and vacuumed. The
dishwasher wasn’t ready to run and we still haven’t fully unpacked the suitcase
from the retreat, but that too is soon coming.
The really extra extra deal was that we packed a few things to be
mailing. We got the quilts ready for
Mary Ann and we got some sweatshirts and packaged coffee to Jillian and Chris,
AND we even took care of the envelope going to Medicaid. Good deal.
We asked Rich if he could stop by the post office before going to his
game tonight. We’re hoping for the
best. I’d like those things to all hit
before Thanksgiving if at all possible.
Just give me a tremendous feeling of having gotten something done this
week. Believe me not much REALLY got
taken care of.
Linda and Tpony are home and as busy as ever. I’m not sure if we’ll be catching up with
Linda, because I know she has errands AND she’s going to want to get some
sewing done. She will be celebrating
Thanksgiving with family and now with it being less than a week away – there will
be more things to be doing. That’s part
of our effort to be doing stuff with our space again. I would like to make sure as much is as in
order as possible because I have to get back in the mode AND Rich is talking
about a major cleaning tomorrow where things get dusted and vacuumed underneath
stuff. It’s more than I can do, but will
certainly appreciate that he’s willing to contribute. I think I have about 3 more days straight of
laundry to do before we catch-up at a pace of one a day. Things sure do stack up if you miss a
week.
Oh and we took care of litter and garbage! That has to count for something!
Ok, moving on … We still want to get to Nikki’s quilt today
which means that we need to first measure again … I’m thinking it’s like 28 x
28. Then we add about 3” to each side
and cut out the batting and then the backing.
After that, we will pin the quilt to each of the pieces, and then we
will do the quilting meandering. After
that, we need to cut the trimmings off and then we need to cut some binding –
IF it is not already cut. I don’t quite
remember if we did that or not. Usually
we try to do it as we go, but this quilt was long in coming. Then we sew together the binding strips, and
then sew it onto the front of the quilt, and then lastly we hand stitch the
binding to the back of the quilt. If one
just jumped in and did it … it wouldn’t be a very big deal. We now have four quilts out – two to Linda
and two to Mary Ann, so when they all get back, there is going to be a LOT of
hand sewing, AND we would like them all finished in December – and especially
by Christmas. I’m feeling pretty good
about it. When we unpacked the sewing
area, we set up our hand sewing tools by our space on the couch. This should be a lot of good sewing while
sitting with Rich in the living room.
BUT, we also might have to work on it during the day to make sure they
all get done. The little ones were one
thing, but these other quilts are bigger.
It will definitely be the holiday push.
We just checked our sewing room again to make sure things
were put away. We still have a bit of a
problem with the closet in that it and the small fridge are being blocked by
the coat rack and the walker. I am
probably going to need asking Rich to take it back down to the car. Most often it is used when we have to be out
and walking, or needing to stand in line or something. It has the chair so we can actually sit
down.
Hmm, CS was online … she commented on our FB. That doesn’t always happen. Nice!
We’re not sure if she’s back in Rochester yet, or is still in West
Bend. BUT, we did hear that LV Linda got
home last night and will be taking her daughter back to Arizona today. It must not be a long trip, because she said
she would be home tonight. She was gone
a LONG time. We’re figuring her hubby is
probably pretty glad to have her back.
Rich is getting ready to go.
He has been having us help him with knee braces and socks because his
arthritis is helping. He needs a certain
medication, but needs to go to a doctor to get it. He made an appointment for Monday, but doesn’t
have insurance so is going the budget route.
I feel bad for him. He’s going to
be going one and half hours drive to do two games. He won’t be home until 10 pm. He made me dinner ahead of time, but I don’t
like the idea he is going to wait until he gets home to eat his dinner. It is just too long a trip and its not good
to eat so late at night.
Another AHA! CS wrote
back and says she’s still in WB and not sure if she’ll make it back to
Rochester by Thanksgiving. Rough spot to
be in … Like LV Linda … spouses here are probably hurting? Another AHA??? Ok, Rich seriously you didn’t think that
blueberry bread would wait for dinner if you left, did you?
Hmm, it is now about 2:30 PM and we’re just slowly really
realizing that we have about 7-8 hours to entertain ourselves. We’re caught between that point where we
really should be writing something to get back into the computer, and in moving
ahead with the sewing. LV Linda reminded
us that we should still keep quilting and I’m pretty sure our Linda says that
too. She didn’t check-in at 2 PM, but I
think her schedule going into the Christmas season is tough to compete
with. I remember last year feeling a
little hurt feelings, but this year we will be better prepared for her holiday
business. Pretty sure she’s in that
mode. J
We also missed a time we could have gotten together with
Maury’s family and in particular with Jasmine, because she had a concert last
night. I felt really bad about missing
it, but it had been competing with Dr. Marvin time. I need to plan that out a little better, but
because we missed two appointments last week, it was going to be one of those
hard things to do. We will give Jasmine
a call in a couple hours after she gets home from school. I would like to find out how it went for
her. It’s always a bad thing when you
miss one of the kids events.
We did have a Dr. Marvin meeting last night. I think it was more adult than the one
before. There was still a lot to discuss
from the weekend retreat with the other quilters. And, there seems to be a fuzzy line between
that and what had happened in growing up with our particular family. That seemed to be the other half of the
meeting. Some of it was caused because
we were working on a project for our mother, but mostly it was similar behavior
patterns by some of the stronger women in our life. It brought back also moments with my
Grandfather. We’re finding there is
still very little we remember from him – for whatever reason. But, finally on the way out the door, it
seemed very clear from our conversation and our behaviors leaving or coming
into Dr. Marvin’s room had something to do with our Grandfather’s
behaviors. We’re still having trouble
maintaining our more normal consciousness when walking past Dr. Marvin. We talked to Rich about it last night. He stated that we didn’t have the same
reaction walking past him, and we explained that Dr. Marvin – unconsciously for
us sometimes takes on the persona of people in our life and through the therapy
we can work through those relationships with him rather than the other, and it
is a much safer environment to be handling what comes up.
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