Three Weeks On
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoozefestaudioWoke up to the 10:30 sirens today... a weekly test that takes place every Tuesday. And was walking Yvette by 11AM.
While out there, I saw the mail woman at the neighbor's house, then looked at our mailbox and saw a big oversized envelope labeled, First Class, sticking out!
After the walk, I grabbed the package and took it inside to the kitchen table. It was from the life insurance company! But rather than just cutting me a check for the six thousand bucks... they set up some stupid account for me to manage... with a brochure to explain things, and a little letter expressing condolences for my loss.
But inside the folder were also three blank checks... which they called, drafts. So I wrote one out to myself for two thousand, and then mobile deposited it in my bank... which at the time had a balance of $35.23!
That two thousand dollar draft did not become available by day's end, but hopefully tomorrow it'll be in there. And then I have four thousand more to deposit, using the remaining two blank drafts.
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Still no word on my Tax Returns today, but, I'm hoping that'll hit my bank account on Thrusday?
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Tim and I went out in my car to get some smokes at Fiesta Food Mart, then stopped at Supermercado El Paso Grande to get another round of garbage stickers, as tonight would be garbage night, once again.
Today we only needed five stickers!
Since late December, it's been eight to ten a week, with the past two weeks both requiring ELEVEN, but... we're finally back to single digits of garbage stickers!
But it's gonna be a long time before I'm using none! There will still be carpeting to throw out, even after the last of the junk is gone.
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My first day at Cloud went pretty well!
First thing walking in the back door, through the garage, into the boiler room, I ran into Jeremy, the new head custodian there.
Jeremy had been the night guy there, but was promoted to head custodian after the old one retired, and today was his first day in that capacity, as well! He's a young guy, still in his twenties, and seemed pretty cool.
He showed me where my janitor closet was in my area, and I spent about an hour cleaning up and reorganizing the janitor cart and the closet, and then just got to work!
Same cart as at Grape, same supplies, same back pack vac, same routine!.. just different classrooms.
Cloud is an older building, and a bit more run down. But I guess it still has it's charm and will grow on me in the months to come.
My step count at the end of the night was still, ten thousand. So... exactly the same amount of work, by that metric... and it suggests that when I go full time... it's gonna be twenty thousand a night!.. which I cannot fully fathom!
That many steps... five nights a week... may be what forces me back into maintenance before 2023 is out. We'll see.
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Back at home, Tim had had ribs delivered by Door Dash.
He'd also taken the garbage bins to the curb, so after we ate, we put the stickers on the five extra bags and took them out there as well.
He told me he'd broken down and ordered new handles for the kitchen cabinets on Amazon today, as a housewarming gift. He's been on about the old handles for a month!
The kitchen cabinets and base cabinet are fairly basic, and still wood grain, but the hardware betrays that they're from the 1960s.
Tim ordered much more vintage, victorian looking hardware, which is a lot more in keeping with the age of the house. I agree with him, and approve of the drawer and door pulls he chose... which will be coming on Thursday.
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As pressure grows on me to go full time at Cloud, pressure has also been growing on Tim to return to his family in Las Vegas, so we talked about Tuesday the 21st as the day he'll probably get on that plane back to home.
It's the day after President's Day... which I'll likely have off... so it'll be right after another three day weekend.
It also gives us two weeks to tie up all the loose ends, and leaves me four final days working part time... here by myself... before I go back to full time for the next fifteen years.
--<>--
Yvette has, just in the past few days, began showing signs of her age... getting shaky on her legs, and kinda walking weird, dragging her right hind foot occasionally, while out on walks.
She's nearing the end, and as I wrote last week, I can't give her away in her her final days.
But I also don't want her to be languishing alone here in the house for nine hours a night while I'm gone at work, after Tim leaves.
She's been through a lot, like the rest of us, but she has had the chance to enjoy this one last winter... with the snow, and the bitter cold, which she loves!
She'd been sitting out in her yard for hours at a time, the past couple weeks when it was hovering around zero. But now that it's warmed back up into the 40sF, and the snow is gone... she only stays out for five or ten minutes.
I know from years of experience... she really hates the spring and summer.
So... the plan is to have a veteranarian come to the house, and have her put to sleep here, before Tim leaves. We've got the money for that, at the moment.
--<>--
It's easily gonna be the hardest thing about this whole transition.
But she really is at the end of her lifespan. She's getting arthritis, and it won't be long before she's having trouble even standing.
This is the right time to do it, for that reason... for the reason that her favorite season is over... for the reason that her true master has already left us... and for the reason that I'm about to be gone a lot longer... with nobody else here to keep an aging dog company.
--<>--
So... a couple more weeks of scrambling... to deal with the biggest challenges.
And then... it'll be just me and the cats... doing our best to get by!
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While out there, I saw the mail woman at the neighbor's house, then looked at our mailbox and saw a big oversized envelope labeled, First Class, sticking out!
After the walk, I grabbed the package and took it inside to the kitchen table. It was from the life insurance company! But rather than just cutting me a check for the six thousand bucks... they set up some stupid account for me to manage... with a brochure to explain things, and a little letter expressing condolences for my loss.
But inside the folder were also three blank checks... which they called, drafts. So I wrote one out to myself for two thousand, and then mobile deposited it in my bank... which at the time had a balance of $35.23!
That two thousand dollar draft did not become available by day's end, but hopefully tomorrow it'll be in there. And then I have four thousand more to deposit, using the remaining two blank drafts.
Still no word on my Tax Returns today, but, I'm hoping that'll hit my bank account on Thrusday?
Tim and I went out in my car to get some smokes at Fiesta Food Mart, then stopped at Supermercado El Paso Grande to get another round of garbage stickers, as tonight would be garbage night, once again.
Today we only needed five stickers!
Since late December, it's been eight to ten a week, with the past two weeks both requiring ELEVEN, but... we're finally back to single digits of garbage stickers!
But it's gonna be a long time before I'm using none! There will still be carpeting to throw out, even after the last of the junk is gone.
My first day at Cloud went pretty well!
First thing walking in the back door, through the garage, into the boiler room, I ran into Jeremy, the new head custodian there.
Jeremy had been the night guy there, but was promoted to head custodian after the old one retired, and today was his first day in that capacity, as well! He's a young guy, still in his twenties, and seemed pretty cool.
He showed me where my janitor closet was in my area, and I spent about an hour cleaning up and reorganizing the janitor cart and the closet, and then just got to work!
Same cart as at Grape, same supplies, same back pack vac, same routine!.. just different classrooms.
Cloud is an older building, and a bit more run down. But I guess it still has it's charm and will grow on me in the months to come.
My step count at the end of the night was still, ten thousand. So... exactly the same amount of work, by that metric... and it suggests that when I go full time... it's gonna be twenty thousand a night!.. which I cannot fully fathom!
That many steps... five nights a week... may be what forces me back into maintenance before 2023 is out. We'll see.
Back at home, Tim had had ribs delivered by Door Dash.
He'd also taken the garbage bins to the curb, so after we ate, we put the stickers on the five extra bags and took them out there as well.
He told me he'd broken down and ordered new handles for the kitchen cabinets on Amazon today, as a housewarming gift. He's been on about the old handles for a month!
The kitchen cabinets and base cabinet are fairly basic, and still wood grain, but the hardware betrays that they're from the 1960s.
Tim ordered much more vintage, victorian looking hardware, which is a lot more in keeping with the age of the house. I agree with him, and approve of the drawer and door pulls he chose... which will be coming on Thursday.
As pressure grows on me to go full time at Cloud, pressure has also been growing on Tim to return to his family in Las Vegas, so we talked about Tuesday the 21st as the day he'll probably get on that plane back to home.
It's the day after President's Day... which I'll likely have off... so it'll be right after another three day weekend.
It also gives us two weeks to tie up all the loose ends, and leaves me four final days working part time... here by myself... before I go back to full time for the next fifteen years.
Yvette has, just in the past few days, began showing signs of her age... getting shaky on her legs, and kinda walking weird, dragging her right hind foot occasionally, while out on walks.
She's nearing the end, and as I wrote last week, I can't give her away in her her final days.
But I also don't want her to be languishing alone here in the house for nine hours a night while I'm gone at work, after Tim leaves.
She's been through a lot, like the rest of us, but she has had the chance to enjoy this one last winter... with the snow, and the bitter cold, which she loves!
She'd been sitting out in her yard for hours at a time, the past couple weeks when it was hovering around zero. But now that it's warmed back up into the 40sF, and the snow is gone... she only stays out for five or ten minutes.
I know from years of experience... she really hates the spring and summer.
So... the plan is to have a veteranarian come to the house, and have her put to sleep here, before Tim leaves. We've got the money for that, at the moment.
It's easily gonna be the hardest thing about this whole transition.
But she really is at the end of her lifespan. She's getting arthritis, and it won't be long before she's having trouble even standing.
This is the right time to do it, for that reason... for the reason that her favorite season is over... for the reason that her true master has already left us... and for the reason that I'm about to be gone a lot longer... with nobody else here to keep an aging dog company.
So... a couple more weeks of scrambling... to deal with the biggest challenges.
And then... it'll be just me and the cats... doing our best to get by!
°¦}
