I'm awake, it must be Tuesday.

The wind is quieter.  The temp has dipped another 12.
Yesterday was a fairly typical weird day.
I'm not exactly sure what all went on last night, but somebody, let's call him RIO........little Mr. Somebody got into all kinds of mess.  Poor thing had thrown up twice in the living room.  He managed to get into a plant......oh Rio.......!  He played kitty doodoo hockey........it's been a LONG TIME since he pulled that kind of caper.  kitty litter mat soaking in a pail of hot sudsy bleach infused water.  He created havoc & got good and sick.  The litter is changed, everything is mopped/tidied up......somebody needs to do more cleaning.  It feels like PET HAIR is everywhere. (not me.......but somebody!!!!)
I made some calls yesterday.  Checked out another dentist.  Their prices are higher than my current dentist.  Currently having teeth cleaned costs $60.  Other office charges $87.  No senior discount til age 65.   If I have quarterly cleanings until then at the new place (based on ha ha --- zero price increases.) it will cost an additional $972 by the time I celebrate my 65th birthday.  Not to mention all the other procedures one is bound to need.  Got to keep looking for both price & service. 
Stuff never sounds like it costs much until you do some basic math.  And then it hits ya......all the things you need besides tipping a dentist with a higher priced menu.
I pressed on, called the office of another rheumy.  Talked to a pleasant patient young lady......all was going well and then she said the name of the doctor.  It was not the name of the doctor I had called about.  Noooooo, wait, what?  They have two offices, are accepting new patients.......and recently added a second doctor.  Doctor Unpronounceable Name.......this is gonna sound so WISHY WASHY.......but I don't want to tip my hand by asking for a record transfer YET.  If I don't like the new Doctor will I have upset the apple cart even worse with the current DOC than it is now?  Sometimes the doc we have may not be perfect, but we might find ourselves in an even touchier more upside down situation.  I have got to be a decision maker - quit waffling.  I know.......I hear ya.  I want it all to be easy.........and no I haven't prayed about this, not yesterday and not today.......so what do I expect?  I'm wonky at best........but absolutely wonkifiable without prayer.  (this is me OVERthinking......sigh.)
I have a late lunch.  So sleepy, so cold.........so horribly cold.  Wrap up in two red blankets.......shiver and start watching "Point of View" (POV via PBS.)
About the journey of a 13 year old girl from Poland......(living in poverty) discovered to become a fashion model.........her first day arriving in Japan......no one was at the station to meet her, she was lost, had no phone, spoke no Japanese......in a strange country, a strange city........a very tall very pretty little girl with huge expressive eyes.  I want adult accountability.  She was lost for 4 hours.........a lot of things can happen to a child in four hours. (A very kind decent man did help her.....got her to officials who sorted things out, "she's just a little girl......why didn't they provide an adult chaperone?"
Cannot escape fate.  Fall asleep, wake - it's early evening.  I don't feel well.....want to take a shower, but the rest of my body votes NO.  NO WAY.  (shaddup, sit down, quit rocking the boat........don't move).  So cold.  Lie there - wait for the nausea to settle - spend time dealing with some of the stuff nobody likes to talk about.......like bouts with IBS.  Right, wrong or indifferent I take a swig of pink stuff.  Sip water, want something carbonated, but the cats STILL don't drive.  Talk about procrastinators...............they think that being feline lets them off the driving test hook.........that's just wrong!  Take the car keys, c'mon Annie- Rio, just go .........help a girl out!
Watch the end of Wheel of Fortune.  Not very good at that game.  Used to be.....better at Jeopardy which IS TOTALLY odd.  Seems that all the scrambling of the personal brain drive files unit (sitting on top of these shoulders) has created some real anomalies.  Don't have a higher I.Q or anything..,(as if, LOL!!!!!).... it just seems to allow random retrieval of things I never knew I was absorbing the last 5.7 decades.
Late last night, before bed, I clicked on Craigslist for my area.  I don't contact anyone about anything, I just get tickled/tripped out.  There was a header in the misc category offering an 11 foot cactus for $2 GRAND.  Yes, you heard me, two thousand dollars.  That's a very big cactus, the seller included a pic of the cactus with a spunky looking little lady standing next to it......dwarfed by this huge plant.......it wasn't a cactus as in a Sedona Saguaro.......it looked more like a gigantic hybrid house plant from a crazy campy B version horror flick........we could title it "The Cactus that Ate the South."
Under the "free" category the header said, "Cute 1 year old, free to good home." 
One year old WHAT????  As a Mom, I thought what the heck???? 
It was a very cute dog........very cute, but I gotta tell ya.......people can be pretty vague on Craigslist.......vague & frequently kooky.  There was an ad for a vacation rental on the coast of Florida......for a mere $12,000 a week you can stay in a house floating on the water.......it is not a mansion, it is not grand......., it's cute......think floating house version of say a basic log cabin in the Smokies near me......they go for $750 a week in the off season.  It has to be a typo right?  But who knows??? .......in San Diego you can rent a one bedroom yacht for $250 a night.  It's a very pretty pristine white boat.  I don't know that I would rent a small yacht to me, but hey.......it's out there, it's available.  Fun to think about all the stuff you never knew you never wanted........
There are some odd swap items offered........some people dream big.  one guy wants techy game toys in exchange for a two drawer wooden filing cabinet.........do we think this is being offered by a kid? yes we do........i don't know the price of most techy game toys, but I would bet that a $100 cabinet at best.......will not net him an X Box or a Wii.........but what do I know?  Maybe he can throw in his Grandma's baking skills????? It's a strange place this world of ours.
Sometimes the audacity & ingenuity is priceless.....with the recent storms and downed trees.....one crafty home owner posted "FREE wood, all you can cut........come today....yours 4 FREE!"  Posted a picture of a huge old tree covering almost his entire front yard.  Why hire a tree cutter?  It's all in the advertising right????????? 
And I like the one offering huge boulders for $50 a ton.  It only costs an additional $1,000 per ton to have this entrepreneur pick up and deliver the boulders of your choice to your property.  Anything is a business opp. (specific boulder placement is additional, please inquire for more details.)
Love ya'll............wishing you happy.  Stay warm........cover up ---- baby it's cold outside!