I must have tweaked my back yesterday when getting the 2 cases of extra water at the grocery store yesterday. I had hoped a nights sleep would do the trick, but it's still hurting. I might have to get out the heating pad. I've already taken 2 advil this morning.
DH and I both took a nap yesterday afternoon. Then he got up and went out to work in the shop some more. Still trying to hang up his oodles of pictures, posters, etc. Even have several checkered flags he hung up. These were from when DS won national championships. They give them the flag used in the race. He has the huge trophies on display up in the loft and put the flags on the wall behind them.
Dinner was a take and bake pizza I got at the grocery store. The crust wasn't near as good as when I have bought this in the past, so that was a disappointment. But we also had a salad with it. After dinner I cleaned the bathroom and scrubbed the big walk in shower. I also
dusted again. Trying to keep up with our black dog who is still shedding
pretty bad. I also washed a load of laundry as I was running out of tops to wear. I still need to wash some sweaters, as its certainly sweater weather here now - well, not tomorrow and Tuesday when it's supposed to be 63 haha!
I kind of forgot about the clock change, when I got up this morning. Doesn't really matter as the dogs get up when they get up, haha. I need to figure out how to help my mom change her big digital clock/calendar. It also has the alarms set on it to remind her to take her meds. There's a menu button on back to change the time, but I'm sure I won't be able to help her over the phone, but we'll give it a try. I need to find the instruction manual online again. I thought I had saved it to my documents, but I guess not.
I saw 3 deer when I left yesterday morning, crossing the road about a mile from our house. I was like, no don't go over to that side - that's where the hunters are! DH said when he took the dogs out for the last pee (usually like 11pm) there were some deer in our side yard. He said one ran right past our bedroom window, LOL. They appear to be out there just about every night, but of course it's too dark to see that they are there. The game camera, if dh puts it out, usually catches them.
DH is feeling a bit down. He's making progress in the shop, but the memories of DS are aplenty and suffocating him. Then add in that he feels terrible about complaining about neighbors dogs - but like I said, 5-10 minutes of barking here and there is no big deal - but 1 hours, 2 hours or more of it every day is just too much. They certainly wouldn't like to listen to it if they were home. They don't even want to hear them bark for 2 minutes when they are home, so why should we have to listen to it for hours at a time?
Yay, I just called my mom and was able to help her change the time on her big digital clock/day clock. It took a few minutes/tries, but she got it, so that made her (and me!) happy.
I started this post earlier this morning, and now it's 11am and my back is feeling much better.
I listed my old tv stand/cabinet on the local buy/sell Facebook page on Wednesday but no interest. Yesterday I widened to to Facebook Marketplace, but still no inquiries. Darn. Hate to just give it away, it's a nice solid wood cabinet that will hold like a 55" tv on top. Glass doors on bottom with shelves inside. Maybe I can repurpose it for something in my office. Any ideas?
Maybe time for another outreach to your son? Family dynamics are unique and sometimes the time is open again for healing.
ReplyDeleteWe did try a month or so ago, when we sent the first batch of packages of his stuff. No luck.
DeleteA wooden cabinet with shelves is bound to be good for any kind of storage. I would keep it and think about what to put in it rather than give it away.
ReplyDeleteI have seen shelves taken off and the inside stained or painted and a light added for display. This sounds like a good candidate for that treatment.
Deletethat's a good idea!
DeleteI am glad your back is better, and I love the deer sightings! I confess, I left my bathroom clock on the wrong time after spring, so yesterday it did not need to be changed L O L.
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to you and DH, I know the DS situation is not easy. I had hoped he might reach out because it seems he got things a little more together, but maybe he feels a lot of shame and is hesitant. I hope it improves though, otherwise I hope DH can find some coping methods.
thank you. that's what dh was thinking - he's just too shamed feeling. I'm hoping that dh getting some of the stuff displayed (for himself and his good memories of those days) and getting rid of the excess stuff (sent to dd) will help him move forward eventually.
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