We received our painting from Hil! We now own a Hil original!!!
We couldn’t find a suitable frame for it so I think G’s going to make one. (More perks – having a woodworker in the family!) It’s a gorgeous picture, looks better in person than in the photo. Once it’s framed and hung I’ll put up a photo from inside the house. Hubster and I have been trying to figure out where to put it – but we both agree we love it!
Yes, that’s a lot of exclamation marks. It’s an exclamation-worthy event!
My body apparently never got the memo that my hours have changed. It INSISTS that I wake up at 3:30am. Every. Single. Day. Even on the weekends. At least, thank goodness, for the past couple of nights I was in bed fairly early, so could be a lot worse. And by waking so early this morning I had plenty of time to soak in a long, hot bath – which my joints appreciate.
The new laptop arrived and I’m getting it updated as she goes. I love some things about it – hate others. Loath Windows 8 and hoping and praying when Win 10 comes out it’s a genuine improvement. The laptop itself is nice enough, but VERY tempermental about connecting to the WiFi. I ordered a signal booster and hope that helps. I can’t connect from my normal location more than a third of the time, and even when I do connect it’s got a tendency to kick me offline at a whim.
I’m grateful for it just the same. When it does connect it’s fast, and Dell really does come with a lot of additional perks. Free tablet. Free year’s worth of McAfee. (Even though McAfee isn’t my preferred antivirus – it’s still a free program.) I even got a promo code for a free wireless mouse today. (Which makes me glad I didn’t order one when I ordered the laptop, like I nearly did.) In fact, the promo should cover both the mouse and the headset I was ogling on the site. If I can figure out how to use it, I might even order them.
I’ll be calling out of work one day this week to get a prescription refill, because a doctor’s visit is required for pain med refills. Hopefully that day will be Friday. If I have to miss a day anyway, let it be for a three-day weekend. If nothing else, maybe we’ll finally get to go out for breakfast, something G’s been promising me for weeks. We always say we’ll go on Sunday, and every Sunday we’re both too tired from our Saturday excursions to do much more than ask, “Do you wanna go?” “No, do you wanna go?” “Nope.” It’s become a standing joke. Or more accurately, a sitting joke.
My cousin’s memorial service was this weekend. His name was Eldon Land, but a lot of people knew him as the Music Man. He started playing guitar when he was 5 or 6 – which is about average for our family. He was never a great musician, but he never stopped singing, even when he could hardly breathe thanks to lung cancer. He was unfortunately one of the victims of the Phoenix VA fiasco. He didn’t find out about the cancer until literally a week before he died – when he went to the ER at the county hospital instead and they took the time to check and see what was wrong. The VA blew him off, over and over again. I won’t tell you what I think of that – what we should all be thinking of that.
The business project hasn’t made any progress, which annoys me. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day. I get my ass up, go to work, get home an hour late most days because of ferrying my DIL home, and by the time I’m done cooking dinner I’m beyond exhausted and nothing gets done. Again. Argh! It’s no longer optional and I know I’ve got to do it myself. It’s not rocket science; the framework is there. I just need to get my ass in gear and DO it. I guess if I’m waking at 3:30am I should start working on it then. Makes a lot more sense than whining, doesn’t it?
I need to write out a business plan and start accumulating products. I’ve got the basics in place, but there are a thousand little details that need attention, and they won’t get done if I keep putting them off. I’d like to write again, too. (Stop laughing. I know how ludicrous that sounds.)
Today it’s supposed to rain here. It’s been a wet winter. It’s greened up – our pomegranate tree went from knee-high to waist high. Ditto the lemon tree, which has all but exploded. And we’d nearly given up on it last summer, thinking it wasn’t going to survive! In fact, the only recalcitrant plant in the backyard is the Arizona Ash, which has yet to bud. It’s still healthy – I checked and the branches are all supple so I know it’s alive – just no leaves, no budding, nothing. I have a feeling if and when it comes out with leaves it’ll also go crazy. It gained a foot or two last year – this year that’s more apt to be 5 feet if it follows the typical pattern for the species.
Eh – time for the grindstone. I hope everyone has a great week!