End of the week

Even though it's a tad nippy outside, I know I should have gone for a walk. Especially since the weatherman keeps talking about the rain coming our way.  I could still go for a walk, I suppose. I'll think about it.  Which most likely means, I'm not venturing out.  Maybe, though....

My three 500-pc jigsaw puzzles arrived yesterday and they all look like they're going to be fun.

Meanwhile, though, I'm continuing to concentrate on my various genealogy stacks of paperwork.  I'm making progress but find I am easily distracted too.  This morning I wrote three letters.  The kind where you have to stick them in an envelope and pay to mail them.  As I was printing off the third one, my printer chewed up the paper and I sat there wondering...now what do I do?  I pulled carefully but only half the sheet came out and I could see absolutely nothing inside.

I clicked on my online printer directions and lo and behold,there was a video telling me exactly how to fix paper jams.  I ended up turning the printer around and removing a piece I had no idea removed. Was so proud of myself.  Normally, I would cuss and carry on and then just cry.  Maybe I'm growing up.  Ha!  That'll be the day.

Today I would probably be categorized as a dizzy dame.  Mainly because I've had some slight dizziness.  Not enough to alarm me but I am noticing it.  My eyes also feel kind of rummy so I suppose it's allergies or sinus-related.  Maybe I'll go put some eye drops in.

I didn't want to go anywhere today so I made a quick Safeway run last night at 6.  Figured the place would be empty at the dinner hour but it wasn't.  Plus it was raining.  I didn't even really need that much but I guess I was in the mood for getting out of the house.  I hardly ever leave the house at night.  Just not that comfortable driving in the dark if I can avoid it.

Actually, I think I'm driving less all the time.  I don't like driving. It's too much work.  Bad time for my auto insurance bill to come, that's for sure.  I pay six months at a time and even though I drive very few miles each year and even though I have never ever placed a claim, or ever had a ticket or accident, my rate increased $5 a month.

I think I'm going to have to buckle down even more and try to trim my budget expenditures.  Not that I spend all that much now. I'm pretty thrifty for the most part but I suppose there's always places to improve.  One day I'm keen on saving every which way I can, and the next day, my attitude is ''What the hell!  I'm only going to die anyhow!"  I did call my insurance agent,though, to ask him to look my policy over to see if there was someway we could get the cost down.  I know $46 a month is cheap compared to what a lot of people pay but still.....I hardly ever go anywhere!

When I went to Safeway last night I walked up and down that ice cream aisle a couple of times.  Even  opened up doors and stared inside.  Talked myself out of it, though.  Didn't buy anything yummy except some triscuit crackers and I considered that not even a treat really.  Came home and made some popcorn but it seemed kind of stale so I threw out most of it to the birds this morning.
Meaning the crows.  I had quite a few surrounding the popcorn and went to get my camera. The minute they saw me in the window, they were off.  Such a skittery bird.  I tried several times to get a picture and each time they flew off and watched me from afar.  The pigeons I used to have coming around were just the opposite. I could go out and stand on the deck clapping my hands and yelling and they wouldn't leave unless I went right up and got in their face!

I think I'm in the middle of the winter doldrums.  I've been looking at the pots on my deck and wondering if I want to even bother putting flowers in them come spring time.

I could save myself a lot of expense and work by not messing with them this year.  Still..... once the weather warms a bit I'll probably get in the mood to start digging in the dirt again.

Just got a call back from my car insurance agent and they did find a way to give me an $11 discount.  I'm having my premium paid automatically with easy pay at the bank.  Which means I'll just have to remember every six months to subtract it in my checkbook.  My, how times have changed.

Started reading Stephen Hawking's best seller called 'A brief history of time.'  I was told it was written so the common folk could understand.  I do believe that was a lie.  I'm not giving up yet but I'd say the first two chapters went sailing over my head and off into space.

Hmmmm... I just had a small airplane fly over my house in a direction I don't recall seeing a plane fly before. I wonder if it was a beginner.

Okay. I'm done for now.  Go Hawks!