My agenda was:

Go to the mechanic
Go take a tour of a duplex
call my sister and shoot the bull
relax and watch netflix

Fix a bed which involve a run to Home Depot.

Homework.

Interview.

More homework.

and keep reminding Myself to be grateful and happy that I am alive.

– Take out trash
– Pick up groceries
– Ring sensor return to UPS store
– Cruise the 'hood looking for sweet Bruno
– Maybe collect some leaves
– Try using the gel nail tools

Go get a haircut.

Take Bear to the vet. (he has a UTI)

Homework.

Possibly grocery shop - though that will likely wait until tomorrow.

Do a small load of laundry.

Start a new LEGO build.

Possibly get an oil change on the car - though that may end up like the groceries.

Deep clean the kitchen and the bathroom for an unwanted visitor who's coming tomorrow.

Bèsame*, I'm glad you're safe and comfy at home. I'm kinda jelly, I have way too much to do today.

- Order groceries. - COMPLETE
- Pick up prescription for Brittany at vet, and talk to vet about details of what exactly we have to do to un-giardia this house and all of her belongings and, most importantly, her.
- Pick up grocery order.
- Sign up for a new patient portal that's going to ask me way too many questions so I can message my doctor to find out if the boy and I should get tested for giardia. - COMPLETE
- Make an appointment with a different doctor.
- "Encourage" the boy to do his chores. - COMPLETE
- Go through 2 weeks worth of mail.
- change sheets and do laundry
- Contact my health insurance company to see why I can't log in to their web site. And then, remember why I needed to log in to their website in the first place.
- Call animal shelter about next phase of heartworm injections. (And perhaps raise some Cain about why they gave me a dog with heartworms, an ear infection and giardia.)

You will notice that playing around on BFP is not on this list, yet here I am.

A heart stress test is on the calendar today.

I completed one years ago on a treadmill but this one is a chemical test. Not sure what all it includes. I’ll know more when I arrive at the testing facility later this morning.

Have been fasting since yesterday and food is on the brain. Maybe I’ll go out for an omelette after the test is over.

Thank goodness the snow isn’t sticking to roads, yet, because I still have some driving issues. Nothing as bad as when I was on the left coast, but I’m still nervous especially on the highway when it’s snowing.

My doc isn’t too concerned about my heart since I ride a bike on most days, but he’s just being cautious because I had some unusual pain in my chest.

My day was busy and a little stressful. My mother had laser cateract surgery and had the follow ups but this last one something with blood vessel in eye bleeding so she has to go to a retina specialist tomorrow. Things seem so different now... For me I had cateract surgery at very young at and in the 80s wasn't so advanced like now. I didn't get a lens implant when I was a teen because back then the lens implants were not perfected yet. The laser took up a whole room and made loud popping noises too back then. The productive part of my day was painting old pavers to be used in garden.

Adding stuff.....Nowdays there is a specialist for every inch of your body too. My dad always says to me whoever called it the golden years is full of it...ha. It's golden for the doctors to make money. I suppose simpler times are long gone.....

Most of my day was spent in bed, as I was having a not very good day. Too sad to face the world.

I did get up in the evening because the boy requested that I help him with a baking project. He's been watching The Great British Baking show and now thinks he's a baker. He had an idea to turn one of his grandmother's cookie recipes and a can of cherry pie filling into a type of sheet cookie. It turns out I was mainly there for moral support as he didn't take any of my advice. As I predicted, he ending up with a sort of cobbler and not a sheet cookie. It was good anyway and we ate it with ice cream. Afterward, I was much cheered up.

I am glad food was good...In my younger days food was more of an artistic medium for me....like one time I made a snow femme with a handbag that was made from those sugared spiced candy and and handle was that thin shoestring licorice and I think I added candy red lips...lol. The cherries made me think of time back then that I thought I was being creative with banna bread and maraschino cherries.....I ended up with pink banana bread....so not one of my better creations. But I did find out mini Starburst yellow could be sculpted into a star which I used on cakepop tree I made.

All good feedback - the cherry banana bread is something I might have tried, now I will not. Good to know about moldable Starbursts, especially at this time of year. I haven't started my baking yet, but I will in a couple of weeks, and I can see this coming in handy. Thanks!

go to work
bake a cake
do laundry
make soup

:coffee:

I like to hear about your baking ang maybe you have some good ideas.Only fancy cookie I made in past was those stained glass ones.I think it's sugar cookie dough and you cut out center and put crushed jolly rancher candy.I don't remember how long you bake for....oh makes me think of time I made olaf marshmellow cookie type thing. The website I saw it on used sugared orange candy cut to nose but I didn't like the look so here is another idea for snowman nose I molded mini orange star burst into carrot nose.I might have use tiny bit of those Wilson melts to hold nose on. For olaf arms I was kinda fancy ...lol I used shoestring licorice and cut to look like branch but you lay out on wax paper and use coco melt by painting licorice using like a glue you add other pieces and paint a few times till pieces hold good and melts hard the ya do back side.lt looks nice a a branch...

- Get up early to drop off the dog at the vet's for a bath. - COMPLETE
- Sweep and mop the kitchen floor. - COMPLETE
- Wash all the dog toys and blankets.
- Throw out the dog mattress.
- Clean the dog crate, and put in the new mattress.
- Refill prescriptions. - COMPLETE
- Call doctor to clarify a question about a test I need. - COMPLETE
- Pick up the dog from the vet's.
- Pick up a few groceries.

I'm so pleased with myself I just had to say - I GOT EVERYTHING ON MY LIST DONE TODAY! (It took from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. but that's okay.) <beaming>

- make 2 vet appointments
- make a hair appointment
- pick up meal for Thursday
- make sweet potatoes for Thursday
- laundry
- buy gas ( I saw it for $2.97 yesterday!)

– Exercise, maybe
– Speak with dna family and chosen family
– Start holiday shopping for the little ones
– Decide if I’m going to Dad’s gravesite tomorrow
– Cook wings, dressing, collards
– Avoid eating popcorn, maybe
– Thank Cousin Al again for the video of a grandmother I never met
– Pull out the holiday tree, maybe

- Take care of doggo
- Eat
- Nap
- Take care of Brittany
- Eat
- Nap
- Take care of doggie
- Eat
- Nap
- Take care of puppy
- Eat
- Go to bed

Waiting for the painfully slow conclusion to the Bills game. Omg. They're tied, 15 seconds left in the game.
After that, the usual Thanksgiving day stuff.
Edited to add: Buffalo won by 3 points with 2 seconds left in the game. Woohoo!

– Try an online eye-brow tutorial
– Purge my makeup and toss out any oldies
– Transfer remaining makeup to the new caddy
– Update my medicare health plan, maybe
– Change linen
– Make a canna-salve, maybe
– Make some bean-less chili

:bow:

To Do List for the Weekend
 

*decorate for Christmas
*start my Christmas shopping
*get gas and wash my car
*put together my grandaughters Christmas present
*do laundry
*bake pumpkin bread and artisan bread
:coffee:

- write and address holiday cards
- find a pile of mail that I know is missing because it has some important docs in it
- call the animal shelter about scheduling the rest of Brittany's heartworm treatment
- laundry

– Exercise
– Take out tree and make tree skirt
– Give myself a pedi
– Get “emerald bliss” ingredients for smoothy, maybe
– Book an appt with Doc for a line up
– Start making care packages to mail in the next week
– Finish shopping for the little ones
– Pat myself on the back and thank my lucky stars

Just a couple of things...
 

My extended family is moving back to Idaho, this weekend, but today we have our last holiday meal together before they go. I will miss them greatly. :(

Then go pick up something for my mom and have it shipped via FedEx. :canadian:

Mostly staying home today and resting. :bow:

On the Agenda today
 

Only one thing, waiting for my brother to come pick me up so we can go to lunch. In a one hour drive lots of traffic can keep you slowed down.