Reminders

I got the Hero pill dispenser system ordered yesterday. Once it arrives I'll load up with her pills I have here and try it out for a week or so, until I see her next. I'm also going to test out forgetting to take them, so I can see how the phone app notification system will work on my phone. I will also have to determine the best time in the morning and evening for her to take them. Obviously if she is down at breakfast or at a morning activity after breakfast, she won't be in her apartment to take.

She doesn't go down for breakfast every day, from the sounds of it. Often she just has cereal or oatmeal in her apartment, as I am always picking her up milk, cereal and instant oatmeal at the store for her. I just don't think she is up and dressed and ready by 8am most days. On the days she does "wii bowling" that starts at 9:30. I think I'll try setting it at 9am for her. She should be back from breakfast by then, if she did go downstairs. The evening one should be fine, as there isn't usually evening activities, so I'll probably just set it for 6:30 (it's her Simvistatin med in the evening). I am just hoping this works!! It will be a godsend and a load off my mind, if it does.

I will say that it has been so nice not getting calls all the time (usually on Sundays, for some reason) from my mom to help her log into her bank account online and then try to figure out her check register. So nice! She still forgets I have her checks. Usually when I am visiting her and have stopped at the store for her, she knows she owes me money and says I need to write you a check. I remind her I have her checks and she always says oh that's right. I guess I don't need any...but my rent? and I always remind her that comes out automatically from her checking now. Other than that she doesn't mention her checks or her bank account at all. Then I always say she has her debit and credit card she can use anywhere.

She had asked me to go to the bank and get her $40. I thought maybe she's spent the last $20 bill I got her (she keeps it in her pants pocket) so I hand her the 2 $20 bills and she pulls out the $20 bill out of her pants pocket and doesn't remember asking me to get her cash. I said why don't you just put this extra in your wallet? oh no, can't do that. Someone will take it. Ok, so she ended up putting one in her pants pocket (so now $40) and told me to hold on to the other one, LOL.

It's supposed to be 80 degrees today. The weekend was nice and mid 70's. I think today dh wants to work on moving that fire pit in the back yard to a different spot. He's going to cut down 2 small dead trees out of the edge of the new spot. They should be cut down anyway. He's also going to make the new fire pit a bit smaller. He only really uses it like a couple times a year to burn brush and branches, etc. Sometimes scrap wood. We have such a short open burn season here, that there isn't a lot of opportunities to burn. Oct 1st was start of open burn and neighbors were burning up branches and stuff too, on Saturday. Some times of the year you can burn, but you have to go into town to the forest service office and get a burn permit. Most of summer is no burning at all.

The lots next to us are still showing as for sale on the realtors listing. So strange. So, I missed part of what the guy told dh because he had already been chatting with the couple before I went outside and realized they were there. Dh said he told him that when they had met the sellers realtor at the property a couple weeks before, they had made an offer and it must have been really low as the realtor said "he won't accept it, I can tell you right now". They said to ask him anyway, so he did and then they never heard back on their offer. So, that day we talked to him he said they had just come from the sellers place of business in the city to make another offer to him directly and supposedly he said ok. They then drove back to the properties and that is when we chatted and he told dh that that just came from seller's office and he agreed to their offer, so they were going to be the new owners. But, nothing showing pending sale so far. and for sales signs still on the properties. I said that's kind of weird to go direct to the seller and not do the offer through his realtor! If I was the seller I'd be a bit miffed if someone just showed up at my office (he's a business owner of a store). That's the whole reason to hire a realtor, so they handle it. Who knows, LOL.