On repeat

It was such a nice warm day yesterday. We were out doing stuff in the yard in the morning, the neighbors were out doing their stuff. I was out by the gate when the other neighbor drove by and said hello out her truck window. I also dusted and vacuumed inside and did a load of laundry. Dinner was spaghetti. We spent a little time taking break, sitting on the back patio, watching the river go by.

No shooting again yesterday. Mr. Neighbor joked with dh that the shooter told him he's starting at 11am or something like that. DH joked back well, when he threatened me with all his money, I just told him my neighbor, who also doesn't like the shooting, is a Hershey heir! That's the rumor that has been going around town for years about our neighbors, haha. People actually believe it, too. Several have said that to us and we're like no...Mrs is not, LOL. 

I called my mom just after lunch and chatted a bit (we typically chat about the same things, of course). A couple hours later I see I missed a call from her 10 minutes earlier. I hate when I miss her call, as even if I call her back 10 minutes later, she has of course forgotten why she called me. She went to her desk to see if there was something on her desk to remind her why she called. I could hear her start to look through her mail papers. Oh...I do have this subscription I just wrote a check out and need to renew. Me: Oh no, you actually already sent them a check in the last week or so (I saw the check clear her bank), so that's already been paid. Just throw that notice out. Oh, ok, I'll do that as soon as we hang up. No, just throw it out right now. Then there's a pause and she says "I have this subscription renewal for such and such...." I repeated what I said about her already sending a check a week or two ago. Just throw it away now. "I'll write paid on it and then shred it." Then she did her usual "I just don't do this enough anymore is why I think I'm having trouble with it". Pause..I have this subscription renewal here...

I think we went through this 4-5 times! She wasn't even remembering what we just talked about 20 seconds prior. I said yes, that's the one we've been talking about and finally said just throw it in your can under your desk, please! I'm sure she didn't and I'm quite sure she'll send them another check for $19.95. She mentioned she can't find her check register...I said I still have it and I'm making sure it's updated. She always tries to excuse her forgetting by saying she just needs to start doing this stuff more. I finally said, well, I took your register because you were 2 months behind on writing in the transactions, so the register wasn't up to date and accurate for you anyway. Ugh. And every time she wants to get online with her bank account (which isn't too often anymore thank goodness) she never knows where her user id and password is, so always has to call. Then she never remembers that she has to click on the account name to actually see all the transactions. And then when she does she thinks the balance at the bottom of the list of transactions is her balance and I say no, the top transaction and balance is the most recent. She doesn't really even see the dates, I don't think. Pretty much as soon as she sees all the transactions listed on the screen her mind just can't process it all.

I find this a bit interesting about her credit card. Prior to opening this bank local, she had her recurring transactions going to the card. Once in awhile she charged something from a store. This was the card that every month was getting hacked and having to be replaced. Once I opened her local account, I set up her transactions to come out of her checking account, so now the credit card is hardly ever used and we have had no fraud on it (knock on wood). I'm sure I just jinxed myself saying that. Makes you wonder if one of those businesses for her recurring charges were being hacked and getting card #'s to use.

I didn't make banana bread yesterday, but will today. DH needs some black automotive type spray paint and was going to run into town tomorrow to the auto parts store, but I just looked up and they are actually open today. I need milk and a few things, so maybe we'll run into town today.