Some Thoughts

At three o’clock this morning and again at four I was woken by the symptoms of a urinary tract infection {UTI}. Fortunately, one can buy the cure over the counter these days and I actually had the one I bought before I went to Italy so I got up and dealt with it. Then, of course, I kept having to get up and pee so I haven’t had much sleep. I was going to call Beth and cancel my massage but I actually feel well enough to go now. Originally I had planned to go to the Saturdays Before Christmas craft fairs at a local building down by the river before the massage but I am going to cancel that. Next Saturday is the book club meeting and I can go to the craft thingy before that.

Fred wasn’t doing too well yesterday. He had a lot of pain in one leg when he walked. We are both hoping that it will be a bit better for him today. He was thinking arthritis since the pain was in his knee and he knows he has arthritis there. I remember one medical person telling him to avoid stairs as much as possible which was rather a waste of advice then since we lived one flight up at that time. Now, of course, we have no stairs except the three to get off the deck.

My complaints about the landlord and trash disposal seem to be endless.  Last Monday, he didn’t put the recyclables bin out and I had it full of cardboard and jars and cans. So, yesterday, I went out with a bag of paper and, of course, can’t get it in the bin. He is paying for a big bin for the non-recyclables but the one we are using for the other stuff is one Mike {previous landlord} left behind and it isn’t really big enough. Well, I suppose it would be big enough if it was emptied weekly. I think I will try to catch him outside one day and remind him that we will have a lot more recyclable stuff around Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, at the moment, we have decided not to put up the tree. I just can’t face moving the treadmill, I have decided. I should have got Fred’s son-in-law and his grandson to help me move it when they were here after Thanksgiving. I did think about it but thinking was as far as it got! And mentioning the treadmill reminds me that I want to record that I am doing twenty minutes every second day now. Every second day works well for me in that I am more motivated to do it if I have taken the orevious day off. I am still not going very fast but I am including a bit of walking on an incline. And, as I tell myself, twenty minutes is much better than zero minutes.

QUOTATIONS:

"There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)