You know the usual story with my sleep. I did get enough, but it was badly fractured. I slept four hours, I think. When I went back to bed at 8:30, I called to cancel my cleaning with the dentist and rescheduled. I slept until 1:30. Maybe it was 1:30.
My work today consisted of picking up and putting things back where they belonged. It does not seem like much, but things can pile up on these two tables, the only things I seem to leave in shambles.
I hate we throw our containers for our injections in the trash. The drugstore told me to get a "sharps" container and recycle the needle part completely, the metal and the plastic. When I asked where to recycle the pen, I was told to put it in the trash. There has to be a better way. There is a little colored cylinder on the needle and a clear cap over all. I have been saving those lately and having Tommy save his for me. I put them in peanut jars, thinking there could be a craft for these.
My thought on the craft. If I got a clear ornament that can be filled, I could glue the little pointy caps all over the ornament. Then, I could put a set of fairy lights inside. The ornaments have a place to hang on the top. Well, that is as far as my thoughts have gotten on recycling by making an ornament. It could be for any holiday with different colored lights inside. Any thoughts on recycling any of this? I probably have a gallon of the plastic tops and the tiny colored cylinders that cover the needle.
Tonight, I put color on my hair. I think it had been four weeks since I did. My white roots were at least 3 inches at the part. Shameful. It is so easy that I don't know why I am so lazy about it. Well, I had not felt well. Plus, if there are dishes in the left hand of the sink, that discourages me. However, the thirty minutes between applying color and washing if off is plenty of time to clear out the sink. I am just lazy!
Tommy just had a piece of cherry pie, leaving the last for me after I told him he could have it. Well, I changed my mind and told him to just give me the last piece and I could use his saucer and spoon. His saucer and spoon were so sticky it was gross. I will never understand how he can handle a spoon that is sticky from one end to the other! I gave him back the spoon and had him get me a clean one. He said he would have to wash his hands. What? Do you have anyone with whom you interact that keeps everything sticky? Well, anyone over three-years-old? Cabinet doors? Refrigerator and freezer doors? Door knobs? Pencils and pens? Walker?
I also wish there was a use for odd bits of things and have to force myself to throw them away lest i become a hoarder.
ReplyDeleteWhy are Tommy's hands always sticky? does he just find it too difficult to go and wash them?
kylie,
DeleteHe says they don't feel sticky! I don't think anyone told him to wash his hands after he ate something sticky.
My kids are like me, constant hand washers. I recently hid all the paper towels, so now we have a plastic tote of cloth towels (two old bath towels cut up) by the sink. At first, they balked, but now they say they appreciate drying their hands with an actual towel. They then chuck the towel right in the hamper. Well, one of my kids who likes to cook can use an entire tote of those towels in one cooking session! He is quite concerned with cross contamination! The paper towels are for cat messes, and I alone know where they are kept. (We were going through a roll every two days.)
ReplyDeleteAs for crafts--at this point in my life I need less items in my house, not more. I recycle all that is allowable, donate what is appropriate, and then toss the rest with reckless abandon. I'm also realistic about what I will use/do/wear. I also don't worry about finding the perfect owner for my "stuff" either. Recycle, trash, donate, and if the thrift shop isn't taking donations, then the latter winds up in one of the former two categories, and out it goes. I figure I am doing my part for the environment on the other end, by not subscribing to over-consumption in the first place.
Meg,
DeleteI would worry about those raggedy towels because the lint the ragged places make, where you tore/cut them will clog washing machine filters and lines to sewer. I gave up on towels with fringe, too. I am glad the cooking kid worries about cross contamination! That is a plus. If I had a cat, I would use raggedy clothes and towels for the cat mess and throw them out rather than using paper towels I had to buy. I try to help on both ends. I rescue things Tommy wants in the trash to donate. If he had his way, everything would go in the trash. I send his outgrown clothes and old dishes to the thrift store, much to his chagrin.
Didn't you just say in a post a few days ago that he refused to toss old containers which held soup, and left the housekeeper there looking back and forth at you? Or am I imagining things? (It has been a long month.) In any case, unless I am SURE I will make a craft (toilet paper roll Advent Calanders, for example) I don't save stuff like that. I have crafts I do regularly (card making, quilting) and more than enough supplies to last me--I even think I need to cull some of the former, since other than Christmas cards, the craft has fallen by the wayside.
DeleteShe did all this in front of him. I would have tossed them immediately. Well, I suppose we all have our way of recycling junk and calling it crafts.
DeleteI am a rather cynical person, but I think a lot of crafts are just more junk after a lot of work. I just dispose of all the minutiae that goes with my insulin injections. Why not just let your hair go natural? It might look better than you think.
ReplyDeleteCarole,
DeleteWhen I find someone, somewhere to recycle it, I will give it up. I know how awful I look with gray hair.
Maybe Tommy's hands are sticky 'cause he's constantly rearranging his butterbeans. Old guys do that a lot, I hear...
ReplyDeleteI think you'll be better off going with a clean plate and spoon.
Linda, I know it feels wrong to throw away plastics instead of recycling them. But think for a moment: saving garbage is why both you and Tommy are living up to your eyeballs in crap. Don't save stupid stuff like those injection pen parts--throw them out!
NOBODY on this planet wants a Christmas ornament made out of that shit. Martha Stewart herself could not convince anybody that was a good idea.
Sue,
DeleteYou almost made me choke! I had something just in my mouth but still halfway on the fork.
I was still complaining to him and he said that was the third time he had used that saucer and spoon that day. Eek!
There ought to be a bin somewhere! Right? That kind of stuff is not what I have here. Right now, mine is mostly clothes I have outgrown this last year when I have swollen so.
You never can tell who wants to make something just to have something to do.
You would be shocked how much left this house for the trash outside of for Oksana to recycle or give away--like two pillows of his that were just lumps of filling.
You said you have a gallon of the plastic tops and peanut jars full of the colored cylinders. They can't be recycled unless they are stamped with a recycling number that identies what kind of plastic they are. They aren't. So for the love of all that is holy, just throw them out! Why the compulsion to save garbage?
ReplyDeleteI'm with Carole; crafts are just junk that someone wasted time and money making. Just more unecessary clutter in life.
Spending goodness knows how many hours gluing injection pen caps to a plastic ornament and then spending money to buy fairy lights AND batteries to light it up? Sounds...so wrong in so many ways...
Actually, the tops to the pens can be recycled when in a sharps box. Well, you just don't understand. These are not the makings of a high level craft. There are people who need something to do. I am trying to have these not to go in a landfull.
DeleteI gave up dying my hair during lockdown. It was the best thing I ever did.
ReplyDeleteGill,
ReplyDeleteGood for you!
I had worn my hair super short for the last 40 years. The last 3-4 years it was purple! During shutdown I grew out my short short hair and quit coloring it. I hadn't colored it purple to hide the gray it was just for fun. I was hoping to find that my hair was a lovely silvery gray. No such luck! It turned out to be a rather mousy brown but I do have the 2 gray spots, at the temples, that I inherited from my mother.
ReplyDeleteDuring the last couple of years of John's illness I lost a tremendous amount of hair, Now that it is beginning to grow back it is fine and sticks out in an unruly manner that leaves me looking like a dandelion that is ready to blow off into the wind. Last month I did get my first haircut since January of 2020. It is about 3" below my shoulders. At this point it is all the same length so I can twist it up and use a butterfly clip. I have several with big satin roses attached.
I shut the door to the garage on my right index finger just below my nail. Get this, a couple of days later I did it again. This time it did more damage than the previous time. This week, while I was visiting my daughter, I telephoned my Dr. requesting an appointment for advice about losing the nail. My Dr. asked that I get an X-ray. I did so on my way back into town and guess what. I have a fracture! I was told to try taping my index finger to my middle finger or put a splint on it. I rejected the buddy system and am currently wearing a splint. I am a hunt and peck typist and find typing with the middle finger to be doable but using the mouse is very awkward.
Say HI to Tommy for me.
Sorry about being unable to speak with you when you called. I was cooking dinner and was at a critical point.
Janet,
ReplyDeleteI have been admiring pink hair...lol. I guess that caring for him was stressful. About three inches below my shoulders is how long I have mine, too. I hate a haircut I cannot twist up. It is so unhandy. But, just a bit of layering does not hurt for me.
OW! That is an important finger for a typist. I touch type, so could probably just switch fingers. Quit shutting the garage door on that finger! Don't you just hate obvious advice? Sorry for making light. I would have to wear a splint, too. I used a stylus or the soft ones on the ends of pens when I could not use a finger. Or, use the eraser end of a pencil. That helped.
That must have really hurt. I have been known to target something on my body.
Tommy said HI! That was okay about not talking. I understand. Your son sounded very nice. I have a story about the "critical point."
My problem with the door was caused by my trying to keep the cat from escaping. He is FAST and is intent on getting outside. This next week I may be rescuing a playmate for "Frank". Frankie is still a kitten. Only 10 months old. He is full of energy. It is my hope that a playmate will calm him down a bit. He is a very good boy but plays too roughly in the mornings.
ReplyDeleteJanet,
DeleteMaybe a playmate will keep him calmer. Get him fixed and he will be less rowdy and less prone to want to roam. But, I am sure you know all this...lol.