Ready for the week

After our big grocery stock up the prior weekend, when I was in the city visiting mom, I only really needed milk. I also picked up some Hostess cupcakes that dh likes to eat with his lunch. They seem to always be out of stock now at Walmart, but typically the regular grocery store or Target has them, so I grabbed 2 boxes. Even though I love desserts and sweets, this is one thing in the pantry I rarely eat.

Yesterday I made spaghetti for dinner, which will give us leftovers for dinner tonight, which is always nice. I'm still loving the Texas garlic toast type of garlic bread over the loaf kind. Quick to heat up and no waste. Unfortunately, last trip Walmart was out of their Great Value brand so I had to buy the more expensive name brand. I tried to serve up my portion of spaghetti a bit smaller. I gave us each 2 slices of french bread, that I usually eat, but I only ate one and wrapped my extra up in a piece of foil and will have it with leftovers tonight.

I also made myself some tapioca pudding. A half cup serving only has 85 calories. One peanut butter cookie (I'd have like 3) is almost twice that. Plus, I've been wanting some but haven't made it in quite awhile as it uses up a lot of milk and I always feel like I'll run out too soon if I use up almost 3 cups for that.

We are back to winter weather. Cold and a bit snowy. Nights this coming week will be down in the 20's and even teens. It looks like next week we start to get back into 50's during the day.  

Yesterday afternoon our retired friend stopped by for a visit. The cat always goes and hides when he comes, but yesterday he finally got brave and came out and gradually kept getting closer. He was making a circle walking around the dining room (we were sitting at dining table) and the kitchen. Each trip he was making his circle a little smaller. Finally he ended up on the chair next to friend, LOL. 

DH is sleeping in this morning. I have no idea what time he came to bed (it's always late) but for awhile, after I went to bed, I could hear him in his den laughing as he was watching something on his computer. It kind of sounded like maybe the old comedian Don Rickles. Whatever it was, he was enjoying it, LOL. 

When I was driving home from seeing mom I finally used a SiriusXM channel (we have 6 months of it) and listened to a comedy channel. The lady I was listening to on the way home was so funny. It was enjoyable and I have a feeling we'll listen to stuff like that on our trip to Utah in June.

Whenever I bring mom's meds to refill she always say "oh, let me know what I owe you for these". I always have to say that it's charged to her credit card, so she doesn't owe me anything. Oh, I forgot to say yesterday when talking about her, she also was trying to tell me she could start filling her meds up in the machine if I just show her how! I said that's ok, it's kind of confusing to use the menu. What I wanted to say was you can't even get them dispensed half the time, you sure aren't going to know/remember how to fill them up! LOL. On a good note, though, she again dispensed her meds at 6:10 last evening, so 3 days in a row. And I am really really liking not having to deal with the morning medications! It was getting a bit much to spend my whole morning, often up until 1pm, trying to get a hold of her and remind her to take them.

I got her tax return done and submitted last Friday. I don't know why I procrastinate on that, other than I just seriously hate doing taxes. I basically had hers done 6 weeks ago. Now I have to get mine finished. They are also mostly done. I just need to do a review and make sure I didn't miss anything. I also emailed her retirement account assistant and told her for her distributions going forward to w/h 5% for state taxes. That should cover most of it. 2020 was hard to know what her typical state income tax would be. She didn't live in the state for the full year, plus with Covid she was allowed to not take her distribution so her income was much lower than usual, so not much taxes owed. For 2021, with a full distribution, it ended up being about 6%.