Today’s Business: 2012-01-24
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE. Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.
Log
08:30 AM: I’m up.
08:45 AM: Facebooked for perhaps ten minutes. Friend count: 624 (up one). Fan count: 114 (unchanged).
10:30 AM: Continued efforts to clean up and organize the basement after yesterday’s upgrade of windows 7 and 8 down there.
10:45 AM: Leaving now to visit Mom. Back later.
11:15 AM: Arrived at the nursing home. Mo is still in bed. However, I busied myself putting away her clean clothes that I’d brought with me, and gathering up her dirty ones for laundering later this week.
11:30 AM: Submitted to the nursing home business office, an updated monthly amount that Mom pays for her medical insurance premiums. Her payment is a bit lower in 2012 than last year, and we’re required to report any changes in her expenditures to the nursing home so that they can calculate the correct amount we must pay for the private portion of Mom’s care.
12:00 PM: Walked to Mom’s favorite Mexican restaurant and picked up a cheese steak sub for me, and two chicken soft tacos with cheese for her.
01:30 PM: We ate lunch together in the first floor lounge while watching The Young and the Restless.
01:45 PM: Then we stopped off at the gym so Mom could work her arms and hands. However, due to a large crowd of patients already there, we could not stay. So, we headed for the recreation room. We’d heard that a batch of flowers arrived that Mom often arranges into smaller pots for placement around the facility. However, they were out of “wet sponge.” This is a rigid yet absorbent material that can be pierced with the stems of the flowers, and that will support the flowers (keep them from falling over) while at the same time, providing them water to extend their lives another few days. Without this material, and with no substitute present, Mom could not arrange the flowers. Hopefully by the time the next shipment of flowers comes in, they’ll have obtained more of this wet sponge stuff.
02:40 PM: Mom and I then sat in the lobby, gabbing, waiting for my ride home.
02:45 PM: My ride is here. Heading home. Back later.
03:05 PM: I’m home, and quite tired. From all the exertion yesterday replacing basement windows 7 and 8, most of the joints in my lower body are aching. So I’m taking a nap. Back later.
06:05 PM: I’m awake again. Wow! Long nap. I hope I’ll sleep okay tonight.
07:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of Dr. Phil, called Fix It Or End It Today.
10:00 PM: Watched President Obama’s State of the Union Address. I’m recording some of the follow-up commentary to watch later this week. I found this speech to be a great summary of his accomplishments during his presidency so far; so much so that he’s got my vote in November.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy]. We listened to the end of tonight’s Penguins hockey game with the St. Louis Blues. The Penguins won in an overtime shoot-out, 3 to 2.
11:05 PM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
None today.