An hour well spent

[susandennis]

Yesterday, I missed a text from Frank. I missed it because all my notifications sound the same - emails sound link texts sound like twitter likes. I heard the noise and just ignored it.

NO MORE! I just spent an hour creating specific sounds and identifying them. Now, when a text or an email from my brother comes in, I'll hear "It's Bill". When a random email comes in, I'll hear "It's an email!" And when Amazon sends anything, I'll hear "Amazon!" - I made one for Frank, one for Fed Ex, one for USPS, one for UPS.

So far, no one's sent anything so I can only hope they all work. But, if they don't it's a tweak to fix. I'm delighted with the idea and the effort.

I got bandages and a rubber glove so I can do the dishes. I thought about dropping by Trader Joe's but decided...nah. I came home and rebandaged my hand but also remembered to take a picture of it in case it gets infected so I can show the hospice nurse what it looked like before it started to kill me. Drama queen? Me????

Now I'm back home, doing laundry.

I just went in to swap washer to dryer only to discover that I'd also washed a packet of facial tissues. That had now disintegrated. All over my clothes, my red coat, the carpet.

• I went to get my 4,000 year old hand held vac only to discover it no longer works. My other vacume doesn't do tight spaces.


• Handheld going to Goodwill.


• The old hand held was mounted to the wall in the closet. I wanted to unmount the charger to put with the handheld - 2 screws.


• Got my trusty drill/screw driver. Bit too short.


• Got out the brand new box o' 597 different bits and things for the screwdriver that I had never used. The last time my brother was here, he struggled fixing things because I didn't have the right drill bits and stuff so I got this variety pack to solve that problem. Only it was a bitch to get into.


• Got into it finally, got the bit extender, got the fucking screws out. Put it all in the Goodwill bag.


• Used the lint roller I got yesterday at the Dollar Store (to pick up thread bits at the sewing machine) to clean up the clothes and then vacummed the other stuff as best I could.


• Ordered a new hand held.

And now it's lunchtime. ThankgodforPopeyesFriedChicken.

Comments

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

Yikes washing a one tissue is bad enough but a whole packet 😱😱🙄🙄🙄..

[meathiel]

Ugh ... I hate it when that tissue thing happens ... so annoying!

Old Times

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Susan! This is Cindy Thacker in snowy Raleigh NC. Since our driveway is more of a sledding run, I decided to get some indoor exercise by cleaning out a closet. Does not sound like much exertion but all the folded blankets and what not on the top shelf fell out on me so it was pretty exciting. Anyway, in the whatnot I found a note from you from maybe the 80s? It was a January when you were moving to White Plains NY for a new job. Reading the note made me miss you so I looked up this journal. Believe it or not, it is snowing still and I am missing yoga class but we got the power back on last night so warm and comfy now. I was thinking of doing laundry but will check all pockets! I wish I was better at keeping in touch but most of my social media is on FB. I have an Instagram account but have not posted anything, mostly just looking at the things my kids post. Maybe I will take some snow pix if I get outside!

RE: Old Times

[susandennis]

CINDY!!

Snow in Raleigh? Very exciting! The national news we get here in Seattle said that Ashville got snow. I was not impressed. We get the hard hitting dog bites man stuff here. But Raleigh gets snow... now that's a thing. Also electricity is always lovely on snow days.

I just sent an email to the Cindy Thacker email address in my contacts. It, too, is probably from the 80's. What a treat to hear from you! (If you never get it, would you please send me the best email to use to get to use? Send it to susandennis@gmail.com)

So many years ago and such wonderful memories.