Friday, February 7, 2025

Greetings all

It's a sunny bright day with big puffy clouds. The bay is smooth as glass and bits of steam coming up through the forests. Looks like the land of faeries. But I would have preferred overcast today as I went to the eye doctor to see about doing my cataracts. Driving home with dilated eyes was a trip. So I have an appointment to do my left eye February 20. This doctor has been around for a long time and has done half the eyes in the county. A couple of years ago he had some health issue and now has to use a voice assist device. So he sounds like Popeye under water. But he seems knowledgeable and very with it and helped me with the decisions on what sort of lease and which eye first. So be it. I will start to worry about this later.

So no studio today since I could not do much art with weird vision. Came straight home. May go to the gym later.

Hairdressers! So hard to find a good one. I thought I finally had just before covid but that one quit and it's been hit and miss ever since. I am like you Bonnie - going to whomever I can find. Mainly I want speedy as I don't like sitting around the salon all day. Hope you get your art arranged. A process that should not be rushed - it will come to you.

Yay Liz on finding consistently good fish. Yum. Yes that club sounds so fun. A must for retired people. I have my studio but I wish DH would find a hang out. There needs to be such places that are not bars.

Peps I bet you will have a big drop one of these days. But every day you don't is muscle.

Guess I had better find something to do that does not require acute vision. Laundry it is.

Diane S

I'm sure that you will be very happy after the surgery. All my friends who had had it done have been. And yeah, doing much of anything with dilated eyes is pretty darn difficult. I hate when they do that.

133.5. Went shopping with DSD today and got some cute clothes. Size 2 pants - yay! I still have lots of clothes from my closets to shop from but it is fun to get new stuff too!

Weather is cold. Already dreaming of somewhere tropical to go to. Won?t happen until next winter but something has to get me through this yuck!

Meatballs in mushroom gravy over rice for dinner. Family favorite! Hope DSD will approve. She?s a pretty picky eater!

Peps, I say go for the silver streak. I bet it would look fabulous. Diane?s purple idea would work too!

Miss 150, had to laugh at you being a hairdresser ****! I pick one and stick with her until I have to switch, even when I sometimes don?t love them. Very happy with my gal now though!

Liz, congratulations on 2nd place and what sounds like was a pretty good game of golf!

Diane, hope the vision clears up soon so you can do something more exciting than laundry!

You've got to get the new clothes! Its too much fun, and so nice for you and DSD to hang out.

That dinner sounds wonderful - comfort food!

A good hairdresser is everything! I had one DD and I went to for years, but during Covid she moved to Arizona. When Covid restrictions lifted, I asked my niece if she could fit me in after she saw her regulars, and I liked her work so much I decided to just keep driving the 60 miles one way to see her. Outside the metro, they charge a lot less, so I always give her a big tip. To me, she's worth more than she's charging, and deserves to be appropriately compensated.

Closing in on 6pm, and I've had a routine blood draw on the way home, been out to dinner, and am now getting ready to put on my jammies. I feel quite accomplished.

Our first sizeable snowfall is supposed to start tonight and everyone is losing their minds about a couple of inches. This use to be a nothing event when I was younger, but we're in the 3rd winter of below normal snow.

Today my previous supervisor was in our building and stopped by. He swiped a key card (where'd he get that?) and popped into my room. After I hugged him goodbye, I felt a wave of loss. He solved so many problems before they ever became problems. Its been 3 tough years with all the administrative turn over. He was a gem, and really had our backs and even better, a huge advocate for our students.

The music last night was outstanding. We've done 5 Pub Nights this year, this was the clear winner. Great evening.

We have no big plans. I wanted to visit my parents, but the snow will be heavier where they live, so I don't think we'll risk it. Maybe just a cozy day at home. No Super Bowl party on Sunday. We occasionally used to attend one hosted by a friend of DH, but they have moved. I am perfectly content to stay home, and I think DH is also.

The one good thing about a superbowl party with friends here is that it is in our community so no driving more than 5 minutes and we don't have to be on the main road.

VERY late post at 3:15 am on Saturday morning, so I'm putting this here. Yesterday was nutty busy, but I got a lot done. One highlight was an online consultation with an IKEA designer who was very nice and knowledgeable.

Also was dealing with changing my Medicare supplement insurance--a change made necessary by my move from MO to KY. But I've got a great insurance agent in MO who jumped through necessary hoops to be able to sell me insurance here in KY. He's one of those service people you guys were talking about above--really great service, attentive, works hard to make me happy.

Also got car insurance transferred to KY (package deal with DH's car insurance policy and our joint home insurance). Don't need to go into details--you all know the drills I'm going through, because you've been through them yourselves.

And YES to the hairdresser expenses and travails. I had my every-five-weeks hair color and highlight visit this past week, but no cut this time, still it's always so much money ($200 including tip). I know some folks pay more than that, but it gives me pause. My guy is really good with my hair, but maybe I'll get serious about trying to find someone cheaper but still good.

And I think I've finally found the right gym for me that's 1.2 miles from our new home. I loved my gym I joined last year, but it's a 15-20 minute drive away, and the last thing I want to do is make "the first rep" (actually walking in the door of the gym) too onerous to take. Pretty sure I'm going to go sign a one-year contract this morning.

At 3:20 am, that's all I got. I wonder if I can get back to sleep. If not, the New York Times Spelling Bee is now online, and that'll suffice. (Bad dog! Bad dog!)

3:15!

As I recall last time I had my hair done here (highlight, cut, dry) it was close to $300. Way too much. The hairdresser I am seeing in March is in the next town and moved here from the other coast last year. She was the longtime hairdresser for a friend of mine on the other coast so the friend had her hair done here when she visited last spring. Her hair looked fantastic and I think it was somewhat less expensive. We shall see...

$300?! Good Lord! Good luck finding someone more reasonable. Your hair does look wonderful (I like it long the way you're wearing it lately).

However, we both deserve a hairdresser who doesn't charge almost as much as my monthly salary back in the day when I taught junior high science and math. (Yes, for one year after undergrad I was a public school teacher for $400/month. I loved the kids, hated the administration.