A Bit More on the GPS

• Tomorrow is Fred’s birthday. He will be 83.
• This morning I and my GPS went to K.’s house for two hours of art. It is interesting that our art is so different and yet we can be inspired by what the other is doing. I like her a lot.
• The replacement for the GPS that died worked beautifully. I have to say that if I had known how helpful these things can be, I would have got one sooner. Things that I found particularly helpful were the little countdown on the screen which shows me how long to the next turn and which way I will turn. I very often confuse right and left and the arrow pointing in the direction I will be turning works very well for me. On the way home in an area where the legal speed was 55 mph, I was a little taken aback to be shown {in red!} I was doing 73 mph.  I had the woman’s voice on the way out and the man’s voice on the way back. I think I will stick with the man’s voice.

What I want to do tomorrow:

1. I need to do a bit of tidying and dusting in the living room. "Tidying" basically means that all the piles of stuff become tidy piles of stuff!
2. I may go out to the craft shop which is where I was trying for when the first GPS died.
3. I need to get the dead GPS packed up to return to Amazon. I waited to do this until I was sure the replacement worked.

What I did yesterday:

         I washed three loads of clothes and dried and put them away. I also stripped the bed and washed and dried the sheets and remade the bed, This got me thinking how hard I found these tasks after the hip surgery. I got to feel more normal VERY slowly, but now I can do these chores with very little effort on my part.

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change." — Katherine Hepburn

"Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness."

— Bertrand Russell