Busy with Mom

7:45 am

                Crappy morning crappy night soon to be crappy day. And I feel crappy. Thought I’d better get that off my chest. If not here then where?  Yesterday was busy. I left around 8 to pick up Mom to get her to a gathering of all the Great Grands. Ok, so that part was fun, seeing all the kids,  though there was also Mom to keep track of, make sure she was ok. We managed to get some really good photos of her with the kids. Now I need to get those photos off the facebook page and get them printed for Mom. By 11:30 we headed off with part of the crew to get lunch at 99. The whole day involved a lot of driving. Lunch was quite fun as I sat next to one of the kids and helped to keep him entertained. Finally it was time to get Mom home. We got back to her place at about 2 and I made some phone calls for her, washed some dishes, and left her to rest before she got herself to dinner. She did agree that while she was out and about with the kids the pain was not so bad - she was so distracted.

                I drove home and checked all the text and email messages. I had foolishly posted some furniture on Freecycle just the night before, so there were all kinds of questions etc coming in all day. I arranged to meet someone there at 7 (a second person cancelled). He did arrive and actually took a desk and shelves. Yay! I cooked a very nice steak that had been sitting with its “rub” all day, and after we dealt with the furniture we went to Barts for me to get an ice cream sundae. Kind of stupid and I felt not great at night. I just had such a craving for it and justified since I had had such a hard day. Next time try to be satisfied with a cookie or piece of chocolate….

                I am going to go for a quick bike ride now.  I did not ride either Tues or Wed and I felt crappy. It takes up such a chunk of time, but I really seem to need the exercise. Today I am just going up East Pleasant to Leverett rd (which of course becomes Amherst Rd in Leverett) then turn onto Juggler Meadow, cross 63 onto Hubbard Hill, then over to Plumtree, down South Plain (which turns into Shattuck) then onto Comins which will take me to Meadow and I can take North Pleasant back. Not sure how long that will be, but it will not take too long. As long as it does not rain.

                Then the rest of the day will HAVE to be devoted to: finances and getting ready for next week’s class. And sometime very very very soon I must finally open my work email and start the process of getting ready for the fall…..

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