Mundane Ramblings

Saturday, August 14th 2010

The phone has been ringing all morning!  Many of the calls are that 866 number that I am nearly certain is a collection agency.  Sigh.  one of these days I am going to be so annoyed that I answer and Heaven help me and the person on the other end of the line as I am tempted to scream, "STOP HARASSING ME!"  and threaten to report them to the Better Business Bureau.  They start calling at 8:30am and call every hour or so until 9:30pm.  They never leave a message.

I'm reading more of Brisingr while I have my coffee.  I skipped the pain meds this morning, despite hurting and hobbling.  i don't like taking them too often.  I also have some things I want to do and I don't want a false sense of ability and the subsequent pain when the med wears off because I did too much.

6:45pm - I've attacked the bathroom drains with Drain-O, emptied the center closet, painted it, took the linen closet shelves outside and painted them out on the patio, unloaded half a box under the kitchen sink and just took half a pain pill.  I have been productive, and now I hurt.

I texted Marty a few times.  I keep coming up with things I don't really need anymore.  He could use them, so they're his now.  So far I've given him towels and an electric broom.

I have been more productive, and now I hurt even more!  Once the pain med kicked in, I took to unpacking a box with assorted casserole dishes, coffee mugs, pie plates, my wizard statue, and pictures.  I hung the pictures of me and Dayna centered on the living room wall; the collage of pictures to the left centered over the bookshelves, and the mirror from Aunt marie between me and Dayna and the front door.  It looks nice. :-)

I hung the picture of a kitten in the hall between the linen closet and center closet.  It's the one I won from the St. lawrence church fair when I was in middle school.  I tried every night to win, and LOST!  The final night of the carnival I brought a five dollar bill, laid it across the board and said, "There!  I am covering ALL the spots!  Now I will definitely win!"  She spun the wheel and I finally had my kitten picture in my arms.

By the time i was done filling cabinets and emptying boxes, I had 3 boxes of garbage for the dumpster.