The Saturday update

I had a good visit with mom. Her rash is doing much better than last visit, so I was really glad to see that. Still a bit red, but faded and much smaller area. I picked her up outside (just so I woudn't have to go through the check in process 2 times that day) and we went over to the grocery store for her small list. Of course, she always has something on her list that she already has - like coffee pods. Also, every visit she has her pill box filled up on her own, so that is also good news.

We got back to her apartment and she called down to see if she could order an extra lunch brought up.  Then I asked about her laundry and of course she had not done any in the last 2 weeks since we last did it. I went and checked and both machines were available, so we did a load of her whites and a load of her clothes. I'm pretty much guessing the reason she isn't doing it herself is because she doesn't know/remember much how to use the machines now. While I am visiting her every 2 weeks, I'll just keep doing it for the next couple of months. If she doesn't start to do any on her own, then I will "suggest" she hire that lady to help. Because when winter months come I won't always be able to visit every 2 weeks.

I went over papers on her desk - boy, it would be so much easier if she didn't get so much junk mail - mail she thinks is legit. This time, rather than just putting in her waste basket under her desk, I just put it all in my purse. I have realized she apparently goes back through the waste basket and stuff gets brought back out, LOL. At her old apartment the cable tv was included in the rent but for some stupid reason she would get a monthly bill from Xfinity in the mail that would show $37 charge and $37 payment and zero due. It confused her every single month. She's still getting it forwarded in the mail and of course confusing her even more now. And she apparently keeps getting mail from her old health insurance and she can't keep straight that she doesn't have that insurance, so she doesn't need to hang on to their "junk mail".

Lunch was pretty good, in my opinion. As good as anything I'd make, haha. Lunch there is a dinner type meal, Dinner is more a light lunch type meal (when I used to visit my grandparents ranch lunch was dinner and dinner was supper). It was spaghetti noodles in a cream sauce with bacon, breadstick, snap peas, cottage cheese and a peanut butter cookie. I said this is good. She said, yes, I can't complain about the food (really?! LOL) so it was a good segue into asking her about her conversation with uncle and she telling him she didn't like the food. She says she doesn't remember telling him that and that maybe she just meant the food always seem to kind of be the same stuff. I looked at the menu for next few days. Seems quite a variety to me. Pasta that day, pork the next day, etc. I said either she or uncle thought maybe she should move because of it? I told her we can certainly go look at the other 3 places in town if she wants, but I have a feeling all of them (just as her previous apartment) are under a more limited menu plan with the virus and them having to serve meals to apartments. I also said the other places range from $800 to $1400 more a month than she is paying, to which she of course says "oh, I don't need to pay that, this place is fine".

I'm guessing her memory is what's causing a lot of this. I ask her all the time what she had for lunch or dinner and unless she was still eating or just finished she never even remembers what the meal was. I think her mind is just making her think she has the same thing all the time? Or, since there are no choices in what meal to have, right now, of course there will be some meals she just doesn't like, but that doesn't mean the meal is bad. Like the cottage cheese with lunch. I HATE cottage cheese, but that doesn't mean the meal was bad, LOL.

Before I got to her place I stopped and did curbside pickup for 2 orders. One for pine shavings poultry bedding and another for landscaping edging at Lowes. I tried a different brand/bag of shavings. Much cheaper than what I first bought, so I'm hoping it's same as other stuff. DH had sent me an amazon link to the roll of edging. $65. When I went to order it it was then $74. For 60'. I looked it up for other places and Lowes had same exact thing for $35. Glad I checked!

After mom's I picked up my grocery order and got home about 2pm. I didn't do much. Put all the groceries away. Made dinner at about 5. Hamburgers and corn on the cob. Texted with my half sister a bit. Messaged with DD a bit. A couple weeks ago they tore out their wood patio deck and yesterday had concrete poured for a patio. They are very happy with it.