Friday

• Something in this house is beeping and it is driving me mad. It doesn’t do it all the time– just often enough to make me jump. The landlord changed the batteries in the smoke alarms a day or so ago because I thought it was them but now we feel it is probably the carbon monoxide indicator calling for batteries! {We don’t change our own batteries because this apartment has high ceilings and neither of us feels safe standing on a chair.}
• If my car isn’t ready today, I am going to be annoyed. If I have to wait over the weekend, I am going to be pissed!
• I want to get flowers for the flower boxes which are full of soil and waiting patiently—more patiently than *I* am.
• I have to come up with a book suggestion by the next meeting of the book club.  Hmmm, I wonder how a book of poetry would be greeted…  Perhaps if I made it "Your favorite poet?"… There are some caveats in our choices. The book should be readily available in paperback {when I chose The Secret, my copy went all around the group since it was expensive} and, if possible, it should be available in large print or an audio book since one of our members is legally blind. However, if the book is not available in either of these formats, Therese’s long-suffering husband will read it to her, she says!
• Fred took me out to eat last night and it was lovely.

Ok, on with the day!

What I am reading:

• Fledgling by Octavia Butler

• I haven’t decided on my second book yet

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933