Wednesday Morning

I didn’t walk at all yesterday because of the damned bunion and I may give it another day off. This is the second time I have pushed myself up to another level in walking and my body has responded by breaking down in some way. Last time, I strained a groin muscle. This time it is the bunion. Actually, it feels much better this morning even though it still looks ugly. Fred suggested I give it another day of not walking. I may try that.

I have been complaining about sleeping until 8 or 9 o’clock because it seems to me that by the time I get my act together, half the day has gone. Well, this morning I set my alarm for 7 am and I am not thrilled with that, either! LOL Fred had to be at one of the local hospitals by 9 am for a routine colonoscopy and so we both got up at 7 am. By 8:25 he still wasn’t dressed but he eventually got going. It takes about 10 minutes to get to the hospital. We drove away from the house at 8:50! Of course, that didn’t include the getting-the-car-warmed-up time nor the scraping-frost-from-the-windows time. I actually went downstairs to the car early because I was getting so irritated by his piddling around at this and that that I felt I had to get out of there or I would say something I regretted! It was fortunate I did because I had totally forgotten that in Vermont winters, one has to allow a good 10 to 15 minutes time for warming the car and scraping off the frost! And there was a tiny bit of snow on the car too, but not enough to have to sweep it off before going anywhere. That comes later in the year.

Now I am sitting at home waiting for the phone call to come and get him in two to three hours. I thought I might start the gingerbread but think I will wait until I know the phone isn’t going to ring and I have to go out. So far I have had a couple of pieces of melba rye toast {in addition to the oatmeal I had this morning} and washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen. Next, I am going to tackle cleaning up the table which has newspapers {unread} from three days ago. I have decided to cancel the local paper. I have totally lost interest in it and I was the only one who read it. I get my world news fron the New York Times headlines downloaded to my mailbox every morning and if I want to know local news, I can join Fred to watch it at 5 pm on the television.

Until later…