just a list to keep track of today. not a journal

so far today:

stripped bed sheets

started laundry load one

brought vacuum into bedroom (from garage)

got the swiffer dust thingy

changed out bathroom towel

cleaned and swished the toilet

moved decorative items on bathroom counter.....old things moved around fools my eyes into thinking i have a fresh view

picked out fresh sheets, 2many items in stuffed to the hilt in spare closet fell on my head.  got to refold and organize, bummer, glad when it was done

chose brightly colored patterned sheets......reds, yellows, blues, greens......paisley pattern.  yellow pillow shams, white bedspread, and a mini comforter in blues, greens, white and teal at the end of the bed.  added a pretty print paisley pillow to offset the yellow shams. 

cute!

gathered up more laundry......cotton throws, towels, etc, etc. etc.  load one folded and put away, load two drying...final load about done.

swiffer dusted bedroom, moved some decorative items around.  nice......good job!

brought all laundry into kitchen......did the breakfast dishes.  washed the trash can lid. 

changed out one bathroom rug, the other one is still fine.

fresh bathroom towel.  think i already listed this.

noticed there was toothpaste gel on my comb.........please tell me i didn't try to brush my teeth to make it WHITER.

old people, yes, i mean me......keep going girl.  remember it's I'm possible, not impossible. 

I'M possible..........not sure, but ok.

took a short break to call Leigh Anne.....lady with the shelving unit, she wouldn't come down on the price......I caved, got them anyway.  bruce is in south georgia visiting family, he said he can  pick them up on Tuesday.....he let me know the starter on the big mower is on order, so he hopes to be able to mow tuesday as well.  good, i have a field of dandelions.........very pretty, but other parts look rough.

swiffered and vacuumed bedroom, living room, kitchen and laundry room.  forgot bathroom.....oh well.  no biggie.

washer stopped, went to put dryer items in a basket.......still wet.  seems to help dry things when you turn the machine on.  very funny.......ha freaking ha.  gives me more time to rest.......

restocked water grenades (these are small purse size water bottles, at home i drink chilled tap water, our water is good.......!  southern california living near the beach water is grody!  tastes like kelp......ugh!  i used to live in santa barbara.......so gorgeous, wish i was there right now! 

if i draw a chalk picture and jump in would you hold my hand and jump in too?

just checking to see if you actually read any of this nonsense.  and wanna go on a chalk picture vacation.....

garage door up, brought hedge trimmer, blower and long orange cord into the house......plugged it in to a living room outlet, the builders didn't put an outlet on the front porch, morons........ the outlet in back isn't working.  trimmed the boxwoods against my better judgement.  this saved me $40....reynauds doesn't react favorably to using vibrating machinery.  if doc elliot had driven by she probably woulda just shot me, but since i couldn't talk leigh anne down, i gotta save money elsewhere.  

hedge trimming is hot work but fun........i like trimming everything into happy tidy order.  conversely i like artful disorder too......go figure.  is the a woman thing or just a me thing? 

blew off the front porch, sidewalk and so forth.  went and got mail, dug out a random plant and put it with the rest of it's tribe.  not a begonia........similar in design to sturdy green iris stalks, but the blooms are not iris like.  i can see what they look like.....that's something.

drug the blower, the cord, and the hedge clipper through the house to the back patio.......stopped for a long drink of cold water. went back to lock front door and lock door to garage.  try to always be single lady safety conscious.  took everything off the back table.  talking two rectangular planters, four white square pots and three misc. pots of plant babies.  sooo cute.  bachelor buttons, marigolds, sunflowers, no flowers on anything as yet, but i do have one camelia blossom resting in a tiny vase on the window sill........smells heavenly!

removed old beat up vinyl tablecloth.  put on a new vinyl tablecloth, this one is white with turquoise and deeper blue fishies on it.......cute.  cut a hole to put the patio umbrella back in........put the umbrella in the slot, fought to get it back into the umbrella stand.  finally............sweat dripping down neck, back, into my baby blues.....wiped my face with my shirt.......does this make me a baby boomer lady construction worker for union 971? maybe?

trimmed the camelia bush, the two boxwoods ......switched out to the blower......still can't get the leaves out from behind the patio christmas tree......it's really close to the privacy fence, i would have to crawl on my hands and knees to get back there......i've decided it can all disintegrate with time.  put the equipment away.  the cats are hiding.......too much ruckus!

wrote a letter to optum rx.  the letter they sent says they will be expecting interest on the check i received for medical bills.  uhc and optum can kiss my ........well they can.  i told everyone........throughout the process since the accident......everyone that i knew to tell about everything.  UHC? spoke to them no less than four times and they never said, oh an accident, then you need OPTUM to open a case history.  as far as i'm concerned uhc should pay it, or state farm should pay it, but i shouldn't have to pay it.  that letter made me so doggone mad!  they still haven't BILLED ME........not UHC, not OPTUM.  gotta not talk about it  right now cause blood pressure spikes are bad news!

the patio looks so nice......all fresh and tidy.  ahhhhh.  the kitchen looks nice......sprayed downy smelling febreze throughout, so the sausage smell from breakfast is finally gone........nice!  i fluffed the living room throws and throw pillows.  i have three throw blankets in the living room so i can sit anywhere and be able to reach a blankie........one of those things i've learned to do since living with illness.  i used to sit and shiver, too tired to even tell my brain to get a blanket or too tired to reach for one.....now i keep them close always.  keep chairs close so that i can fall into things safely......like giant catcher's mitts for the home! as in every few feet there is a place i can sit if need be. 

took the trash out, then noticed the mail lady came......why didn't i wait just a few more minutes.  rats!  put the vacuum cleaner away......the swiffer dusting thing, restocked the lemon cleaner in the bathroom.  i keep a small sprayer bottle hanging in the shower area.....it's made by lysol and it smells like FRESH LEMONS.  not chemical smell at all........got debbie hooked on it too!

brought in some manila folders to organise some paperwork. what am i forgetting?  still need to look at events calendar and movie schedule to see what's going on.  sam and i are gonna hang part of this holiday weekend......hope i didn't ruin things by being productive today.  please Lord, please may I have time with sam?

i didn't go get a pedicure......or a haircut.  i need to get my haircut on senior day, but when is it? either tuesday or wednesday maybe?  i just recently had a pedi it seems but something is wrong with my toes, having toe pain that feels like ingrown nails.......so weird.  since i recently had the pedi could it be fibro pain faking me out?  confused.  i can't see my toes very well.........i have great vision distance wise, but not as far as my feet.  i can see them, but not the details.  i have a bathroom mirroe that magnifies things x 15.....sam calls it the funhouse mirror.  you can see pores on the moon!  hah........the back of my head is still wet, even after all this typing.  i turned the ceiling fan off and forgot to get back up and turn it on..........sheez. 

i need to send a couple of cards out.......but i am so tired now.  i need to paint the shelves sitting on the craft table behind me........no ruthie no.  stop, save your self.  don't ruin time with guisseppe.  (nickname for sam.....)

ok if i can i'll take a shower, finish the laundry and try to stay awake until at least ten pm.  one day this week, thursday i actually stayed away from morning until bedtime.  one day in weeks.  most people with our illness(es) tend to be more troubled with insomnia but i have both.  long periods of hypersomnia interspersed with short bursts of insomnia.  i thought everybody with cfs was like me until i found ds and got to know more people with cfs and people with fibro........

gonna massage the glands in my neck awhile, get the mail........eat something so i can take pain killers.......and hopefully chill out. enjoying hulu movies but don't like the commercials that come with regular tv shows.  it costs more to skip the commercials with hulu than with netflix. ........if i stop dish service i could have netflix and commercial free hulu.......still deciding.  it shouldn't be so hard to decide, it's just that i'm a creature of habit and i've had a satellite tv habit for a long time.  i wonder if i have to have anything else in order to make netflix or hulu work if i have satellite turned off?  they are interactive or interconnected in any way or are they?  something to ask sam.......even though he'll try hard not to give me that is she really asking me this kind of face......i'll still see a flicker of concern.  oh well..........that's ok.

stop typing now. ok, the end.  i did a lot. i overdid it.  i know, sigh, i know.........but try to understand Lord, i've been so inactive for such a long time........it gets to me, it takes a toll on the house......on me.  doing makes me feel like a person. not just a chunk of sick chick.  this time is really the end.