Still Wednesday here. I got in touch with the woman who knows Tim, the guy who came and dusted and cleaned. The recliners will be delivered on Friday between 11 am and noon. So, he is coming at 10 am and work until noon. He can drag Tommy's recliner out and vacuum there and the corner and move his table and vacuum. He can drag the other recliner and get that corner. Under my chair is filthy, so that needs to be done. Tommy's short bookcase needs to have a shelf of books removed in order to move it. Tommy wants to just vacuum around it! NO!
In the meantime, we are carrying out things small and large, throwing stuff out, carrying some to other rooms where they go or can live. I have a red sandal and a black one under a table that is so heavy I could never lift it. So, a good job for Tim, plus it needs to be moved for my recliner.
It is my curb table. I begged Tommy to bring it to his house about five years ago. Now, he is claiming it. Nope!
We need to be somewhere Friday by 1:30, so this schedule works for us, thankfully. The furniture guys can put the two recliners on the road on Friday morning, and it should not rain until next Wednesday or so. Friday will be a heavy schedule and hard on me.
Wednesday, we went to The Pig and Publix. I bought strawberries, blackberries, one navel orange, bologna, two pounds of carrots for $1.34 and one pound of baby carrots for $0.99, bell peppers for $0.49. The first carrot is for cooking and the other carrot for salads and snacking. Tommy wanted the baby carrots. Everything was on sale one way or the other. Bought two chunks of medium Kraft Cheddar, I found a package of Ball regular lids. (but not on sale) There was one left and I got it...ha ha! There was an empty space where I suspect wide-mouth lids or lids and rings were.
The reason I only bought one navel orange was I should not have oranges, especially navel. I like to remove the thin orange peel and leave the thick white underneath and eat that along with the pulp. I think the white part is delicious. However, I am not supposed to eat much fiber.
Tommy keeps all his clean clothes in plastic bags or hanging on the coat/hat rack. He puts the dirty clothes in a pile atop and inside mail carrier box. Someone gave it to him and he uses it for a laundry basket. He is very violent talking when I mention better clothes storage but still beside him. On Monday, I proffered an idea--how about getting a collapsible laundry basket, clothes that can stand and hold more clothes, take up less carpet real-estate, and look nice, too. He just looked at me like it was okay. At least, he was not against it. So, I will do that. You know the kind I mean, the tall one that collapses?
One day, this place will be fit for company. I told him soon we could invite his cousin here. He seemed happy about that. His cousin takes him and now me to Bright Star, but Tommy meets him at the door and leaves before he can see much inside. We can also invite Lynda, neighbor down the street. One day, I will get the bathroom cleaned (hire someone) and maybe he will put in the shower he really wants, the kind that has just a floor with a drain it it. The money he saved on these recliners will probably pay for the shower and bathroom remodel.
A friend died in 2014, unbeknownst to me. I found out in 2016. We were close at one time but I pulled away as she was very dismissive of me, told me how poor I was compared to her in very unsubtle ways. They were millionaires. When I called him in 2016, he was in the last throes of dementia. I am not sure he really knew who I was. Well, today, I discovered he died shortly after we spoke. So, two long-time friends are gone.
We each had a booth at same craft shows. So, for a while we were just friends at venues. Our friendship progressed until we talked and visited. Since they lived in Huntsville, it was easy and only 50+ miles north of me. At one point when I quit doing shows to go to school, I worked some shows with them. They had a double booth and each of us had a cash register. Then, I did a show for them. They each were working different shows.
Now, they are both gone and it seems like the end of something. Well, it is. People just keep dying! She was older than I am, but she died at a younger age than I am now. He died at 83.
Thursday now. I called the WD40 company and they said to use Dawn and hot water. I am ready to toss them now instead of working on them.
I have lots of plans for Thursday. Some are calls I need to make. Some are bills to pay. There are refunds to be collected when I make returns. The list is so long that I will not finish today. There are 14 items! One is done. Gotta go!
Do you ever make a list so long you cannot get it done but it is what you need to do shortly? Like in a few days?
