Monday and weekend wrap up

I took some peanut butter cookies with me to the neighbors, and took a bunch of books she no longer wanted to keep. I think I got almost 20. A few I have already read in years past, but they were good ones and worth a read again someday and one's, if I had purchased when I read, I probably would have kept. She had like 3 or 4 boxes of books she is trying to get rid of. I had taken a soft sided bag with handles with me and filled it up and lugged it back home, LOL. Hopefully sometime this year, we get our bookshelves built. If it's not appearing that dh is getting on this project, I will probably at least just buy a bookcase for my office then. I have no bookcases at all! Weird for someone who loves to read! Years ago I used to buy books, but our house was small, filled with 2 kids and all their stuff and toys and books were just making more clutter, so I stopped buying and either borrowed from mom (back when she used to read a lot) or the library. To be honest, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to read any of these - the print is just too small for me the past several years. Another reason I started using my ipad mini, so I could adjust the font to my liking and ease of reading. I find trying now to read an actual book is hard and I end up not reading for very long periods as it's such a strain on my eyes. But, I do love the look of books in bookcases :)

My mom tried to get on her computer again yesterday afternoon. Not connected to her wi-fi again. I have no idea. My last visit there I checked the box in network settings to "stay connected" and I turned her computer on and off 3 times and it stayed connected. I can only guess that because she has no clue anymore what to click on when she turns her computer on (she's supposed to click on the Firefox icon on her screen to access her email) and she is clicking down on the settings icons on the lower right of her task tray and if you click on the network settings, it shows a bunch of different networks, for all the apartments there. And of course she would have no clue what she is clicking on at all, she would just be clicking to see if something looks familiar. 

I finally got her to close out that screen and click on Firefox (so I could determine if she had a wi-fi connection) and it took me 2 minutes to get her to find the tab for her AOL mail, which when she clicked on it, said server not found. I'm just going to have to have her turn her computer on for me next visit and show me what she is trying to do each time she turns it on. 

She hasn't mentioned her cell phone again now in almost a week........I'm really hoping she forgets all about it! I still wonder where it is, LOL. Tucked away, hidden somewhere good, I'm sure.

This is going to be a 4 day work week for me. I am taking Friday off. I just realized my boss never approved my request and it's still showing as pending, so I just pinged her to remind her. We have to take the dog in to get his stitches out and since it's Friday and since I still have so many days to use up, might as well. I earn almost 2 1/2 days off per month, plus I still have like 240 hours unused. Ok, she got my message and approved it, haha.

We have no snow in the forecast, so now shoveling or plowing for dh looks to be for awhile at least. He's gonna need a new project to keep him occupied. Hope he finds something, haha. He's still piddling around in his shop. Finding things here and there to get rid of. One is an old cheap small upright vacuum cleaner. I had gotten it years ago to use in our motor home. Something that didn't take up much space, but it was pretty cheap and didn't work that well. For some reason he has kept it all these years and he tried to give it to dd years ago and of course she didn't want it. It's really just a piece of junk, still in the box it came in for storage. Finally yesterday he threw it in the garbage. Baby steps, I guess.

Well, it's almost 11 am. I think I'll try to give my mom a call now. She doesn't have exercise on Mondays, so should be in her apartment before she has lunch time.