Reflections of My Life

Today is my water delivery day so I will try to empty the last big bottle I have left before he gets here. Also need to get a grocery delivery. For me this time, not my son. Keeping it separate as much as I can.

Yesterday morning, my neighbor across the hall knocked on my door. He hadn't seen me in a few days and wanted to say hi. He had his e-bike all ready to leave for the day. I asked him how he likes it and he said he loves it. So I told him to ride it down the hall so I could see him ride it. He looked around like he thought he might get in trouble but I encouraged him. So he did.

It is really nice and can go really fast but he does not drive it like that. He is careful not to get hurt on it. Said he has to watch it closely and has a lock to keep it safe because everyone wants to steal it from him. I know bikes are always being stolen here. I see it on scanner nerds (fb group) almost daily.

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Just finishing up my 2nd cup of coffee while I wait the 20 minutes till I can take my shower. Just did the dry brushing and applied the magnesium oil. So have to wait.

I ordered my groceries and they will come later this morning. I set the delivery time for 10-12 because I did not want a conflict with the H20 delivery.

I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but the other day when I took my coffee maker downstairs to the community room for our coffee hour there was a coffee maker already down there. I thought well I didn't even need to bring mine down. I go over to it and noticed there were a lot of fruit flies flying around it. I opened the filter thing and it had old wet grounds in and was full of fruit flies! I shut it fast and moved it away. Glad I had brought mine (which is a much better one anyway). I didn't clean it out for whoever is in charge of that. Personally, I would have thrown it in the dumpster.
 
katlupe said:
He had his e-bike all ready to leave for the day. He is careful not to get hurt on it. Said he has to watch it closely and has a lock to keep it safe because everyone wants to steal it from him. I know bikes are always being stolen here. I see it on scanner nerds (fb group) almost daily.

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A three-wheeler is much much safer! My opinion.
 
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My grocery delivery arrived and is all put away now. I feel so sorry for people who cannot have their groceries delivered. They sit down (in the lobby) while I wait for my delivery. Amazed that I am getting groceries from Walmart brought to me. Today one of the guys looked so sad as he said to me, "I wish I could get Walmart to deliver groceries to me." Hard to explain to him exactly how to do it. He can barely use a phone and had his debit card taken away from him by his social worker. Plus there is the annual fee for this service. But I am not offering to do it for them. Hard enough doing it for my son too.

Walmart does offer a discount of 50% their annual fee if you have a EBT card. I don't get it because my card is not a year or less old. They don't actually give out new EBT cards every year. Usually you have it forever. If you cannot handle your money maybe you can't shop this way either. I know my son wouldn't be able to.
 
Water was delivered. I caught the maintenance man at the elevator to put a new bulb in my light above my computer! I turned in a work request for it almost 2 weeks ago but didn't hear from him. Have to bug this guy. He took care of it in less than 3 minutes. Now I can get comfortable. Not going outside of my apartment again today.
 
Today I have a variety of trivial jobs to do. Those little things I meant to do but just never got them crossed off my list.

I bought a whole box of coffee pods of a brand I thought I would try. Not good! So I am forcing myself to drink it as my 2nd cup every morning till it is gone. It can't last forever. The funny thing to me is the brand I have discovered to like the best is the McCafe one. Made by McDonald's. Well I always did like their coffee so even after I stopped eating fast food I would get a cup of coffee there. There is a McDonald's on the way home from Walmart and sometimes I have Sonny stop there (if the line is not too long) so I can bring a large cup of it home.

I am looking through my keto cookbooks for a good potluck side dish (besides loaded broccoli) to bring to our Harvest Potluck Supper. I like to try the recipe a few times before the actual meal. Making sure I have something there to eat in case all their food is something I cannot eat. I am so settled into keto now that I won't eat any little bit of those other types of foods. I figure my health is more important than trying to fit in or being sociable.

I am listening to Spanish words and phrases on YT. Maybe I can learn some simple phrases to be able to talk to the new guy who just moved it. Must be difficult to move somewhere and not be able to talk to anyone.
 
34 years ago today I married my 2nd husband. I should have known better. He was a bad alcoholic and it killed him at 52. When I left him I told him I loved him but was not going to watch him kill himself. I was going to Al-Anon and learned I was never going to change him or save him. So I gave up on him and decided to work on myself.

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Maybe things will turn out for me and "jazzy" after all. Sonny is getting that cargo container on Monday, I think. He said he will have a workshop in there and can work on things. Going to keep it locked and no one, not his grandsons or neighbors can go in and out like they do his garage. I asked him if he can work on things that need to be fixed for his girlfriend. He thought a minute, then said yes. He can pick up my mobility chair ("Jazzy) with his trailer and put it inside and will have the time and place to work on it. Can you imagine how excited I am about that??? Maybe next spring I will be back on the road again!

He even mentioned he could drop his mobility chair off for me to use while he works on "Jazzy" and that would be great. As long as his works good. I don't know since he has had it in storage ever since he got it.
 
I woke up this morning at 2 and couldn't really get back to sleep. I never have problems sleeping so figured it must be time to get up. Maybe I can take a little nap later. Need to order groceries for my son and spring mix for my bunny boy.

I have basically been watching only YT for some time now. I have premium so they are ad free. The catch is they are only ad free as far as the ads from Google are not shown. The paid promotions are put on by the channel content creators and in the middle of the video. I usually fast forward through that. If a video is a sponsored one by a certain manufacturer I only watch it if I am interested in that item. Otherwise I skip it.

Amazon did the same thing. Charges $2.99 for ad free on Prime. Now at the beginning of the videos there will an ad for other movies in it before you can watch the actual movie. I expect one day to buy an eBook and have ads inside the book! Maybe they already do that. I am just sick and tired of advertisements. I used to read other blogs but they had all kinds of ads and pop ups on them so I stopped. I took off all affiliate ads from mine and resigned from the affiliate programs I was a part of. No ads on mine.

I do the "no spend" month several times through out the year. Now I am getting serious about it. If it is not on my budget sheet for the month I am not buying it. Holiday season is normally a big spend month for people. Not for me and especially not this year. I am working on rebuilding my emergency fund. I kept taking out of it and didn't put the money back. I will now.
 
I haven't eaten all day. I finally ate a few pieces of pepperoni because I know I need to eat more not less. Just not hungry and it is hard to eat if you are not. Now I finally feel hungry so am making pork chops in the Nuwave. Breaded with my keto breading . I think tomorrow morning I need to make some Keto Chow for ice cream. Without it I can't seem to get enough food. I have some recipes I want to make up and put some in the freezer for exactly this kind of situation. I don't want to cook but need some food. I guess that is why processed foods became so popular. Easy to fix.

It was a really nice day here today. Sunny. I went out to the dumpster and that was about it for me. I hope to get out tomorrow because it is supposed to be cooler but will probably rain.
 
katlupe said:
I woke up this morning at 2 and couldn't really get back to sleep. I never have problems sleeping so figured it must be time to get up. Maybe I can take a little nap later. Need to order groceries for my son and spring mix for my bunny boy.

I have basically been watching only YT for some time now. I have premium so they are ad free. The catch is they are only ad free as far as the ads from Google are not shown. The paid promotions are put on by the channel content creators and in the middle of the video. I usually fast forward through that. If a video is a sponsored one by a certain manufacturer I only watch it if I am interested in that item. Otherwise I skip it.

Amazon did the same thing. Charges $2.99 for ad free on Prime. Now at the beginning of the videos there will an ad for other movies in it before you can watch the actual movie. I expect one day to buy an eBook and have ads inside the book! Maybe they already do that. I am just sick and tired of advertisements. I used to read other blogs but they had all kinds of ads and pop ups on them so I stopped. I took off all affiliate ads from mine and resigned from the affiliate programs I was a part of. No ads on mine.

I do the "no spend" month several times through out the year. Now I am getting serious about it. If it is not on my budget sheet for the month I am not buying it. Holiday season is normally a big spend month for people. Not for me and especially not this year. I am working on rebuilding my emergency fund. I kept taking out of it and didn't put the money back. I will now.
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Serious question Kat.. do you think that it would be harder for you to do a No Spend month if you had the space to put more stuff ?
 
hollydolly said:
Serious question Kat.. do you think that it would be harder for you to do a No Spend month if you had the space to put more stuff ?
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Maybe. I have to think before I buy something where I am going to put it. I have bought things and they end up downstairs in my storage locker. So I want to tame that buying urge. Actually I don't really need anything. At least not urgently. So this coming month I might buy a big fan because I think they might be marked down. But I am planning for it. Nothing else unless it is a living expense already on my budget sheet.
 
First light. My favorite time of the day. All is quiet except for the occasional bird, which I welcome. Eventually an early morning delivery when a truck backs up to one of the stores in the parking lot (behind the stores). It has always been my reason for rising early. I don't want to miss it. My coffee tastes better at that time. Probably just in my head but I enjoy it more.

It seems funny to me that I had to become poorer to really enjoy my life more. If it wasn't for not having the ability to walk without a walker I would be really happy. I have everything I need and I can do whatever I want. Of course, I don't go places like I used to but I don't miss doing that. I enjoy simple things I guess. Like my parents did.

I really get into making my apartment better (for me, not trying to impress anyone) so I have space to walk with the walker. Eventually I may get an adjustable single bed. Right now I still am not using a bed. I can see the value of a bed so I can raise my feet up at night. I figure after my bunny boy is not here anymore I might do that. For now, that area is his space. In the future I would have a bed there but hopefully can keep my mobility chair there too. Hate having to keep in my bathroom. Makes the bathroom look small when it is really quite spacious for a studio apartment.
 
katlupe said:
First light. My favorite time of the day. All is quiet except for the occasional bird, which I welcome. Eventually an early morning delivery when a truck backs up to one of the stores in the parking lot (behind the stores). It has always been my reason for rising early. I don't want to miss it. My coffee tastes better at that time. Probably just in my head but I enjoy it more.

It seems funny to me that I had to become poorer to really enjoy my life more. If it wasn't for not having the ability to walk without a walker I would be really happy. I have everything I need and I can do whatever I want. Of course, I don't go places like I used to but I don't miss doing that. I enjoy simple things I guess. Like my parents did.

I really get into making my apartment better (for me, not trying to impress anyone) so I have space to walk with the walker. Eventually I may get an adjustable single bed. Right now I still am not using a bed. I can see the value of a bed so I can raise my feet up at night. I figure after my bunny boy is not here anymore I might do that. For now, that area is his space. In the future I would have a bed there but hopefully can keep my mobility chair there too. Hate having to keep in my bathroom. Makes the bathroom look small when it is really quite spacious for a studio apartment.
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Is it possible to chain your mobility chair out in the hallway?
 


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