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grocery spending and while it s not a true figure it seemed a bit high to me it s not a true figure because i added in the takeout meal i d purchased with the debit card but not all the take out meals i bought were purchased with the debit card nor were all the groceries i paid cash for some things and in some instances i was buying for a family or another person other than myself my skewed figure came out to about 83 a week average that figure seats me in the moderate food plan my actual budget should come in considerably lower but i ve admittedly played loose with the grocery money this past month because i have so much stuff on hand in fact one of the tasks i did this afternoon after lunch was to start inventorying my pantry i can t help but think that for one person this is an incredible amount of food and most all of it will serve 2 3 or even 4 people i shall have to determine what a stockpile for just one should look like it did not seem an excessive amount for two but it s almost overwhelming to think of it all in terms of one all in all for a first day of the month today went incredibly well here s to all the rest of june going as smoothly thursday june 4th i thought i d return to publishing once a week so you all don t have such a long post to slog through i m not promising that any week will be so terribly much to read on its own but it will at least eliminate long readings on those weeks when i do feel more talkative than usual i have had quite a week with a few accomplishments but nowhere near what i d hoped to have on tuesday i spent the day more or less relaxing as i d overdone it on tuesday i did a few simple tasks but mostly i sat about looking at youtube because i ve lost momentum with the whole idea of junk journaling as a hobby i like my own journal done a month by month basis quite well but it s more art journal than junky and i think the thing is i don t like the overall messy look of the junkier type of junk journals i like something that is a bit neater and a bit more artistic and a bit more of a possible journaling forum so i was scrolling around looking to see how others approached the journals and discovered glue books which can be themed by color subject genre etc most repurpose a composition book i have about 20 composition books the board type covered ones that i d made sermon notes in over the years and i d been wondering how to dispose of them obvious answer is to use them as art journals and glue books on wednesday i was determined to get out of the house go to the grocery store run errands and have fun well reality was that my day turned out considerably less than fun on my way over to the main shopping area the check engine light came on i noted that every time i decelerated it went off but acceleration prompted it to flash on again then the car started idling hard at the stoplight and sounded horrible on take off i prayed my way the 8 miles over to the mechanics and there i was for the next six hours repairs cost me 1600 which i put on a credit card because i had no desire to have low balance warnings from the bank on top of the day i d just had i didn t have a book with me only my phone no ear buds so i didn t feel i could watch vlogs on the phone without being a nuisance to others i sorted through the 3 year old magazines and created a stack next to my chair that i flipped through i also didn t have a jacket and it was cool both indoors and outdoors due to a heavy chilly breeze though the sun shone like a dream come true after weeks of cloudy skies at one point i walked across the street to mcdonald s and got a quick lunch if burger king left me in sticker shock a couple of weeks ago mcdonald s does have a decent pricing on their items and the value menu is under 5 for a meal since my former plan for the day had included going to mine and john s favorite restaurant and using our gift card there i was inclined to keep lunch a low priced affair later in the afternoon when she was off work katie came to pick me up and we went to kroger to get a few necessities milk for her family and eggs for my household eventually the car was diagnosed properly the repairs done and i went on my way traffic was pretty bad by the time i got to that point in the day i did manage to make one return and dropped off donations but then i headed to the backroads and came home it was nearly 7pm by the time i finally got here fortunately i recalled that wednesday night service at church was live on air and i caught the sermon part of the service it was quite a good sermon and lifted me up i needed that today i woke fairly early a long time pen pal has recently discovered she can make voicemails over messenger and i listened to her voicemail then i was inspired to send one back to her it s rather nice to listen to a voice speaking instead of just reading an email it feels even more personal we can never get our hours straight to call through to one another though she did manage somehow the day john died so this is a lovely alternative i discovered today that the voicemail stops recording at 10 minutes but you can start another right up if you were in the middle of a thought i soon received a return voicemail from her i was just waking at the time i was talking to her and she was just going to bed and yawned as she talked lol i puttered around the house then went off to shower since i m doing intermittent fasting i am taking the start of most days even more leisurely than i might in the past the mornings this week have been so cool i haven t even gone outdoors to sit in the sun as i ought i ve opted instead for sitting in a sunny window from what i ve read it s not beneficial in the least but i m not chilly i generally listen to a bible study or short sermon write morning pages have lemon water and sometimes coffee if it s late enough to break my fast off to shower and immediately i heard one of the grandkids walk onto the back porch then the sound of the lawnmower chugging over to the house lol i knocked on the wall of the bathroom that is backside of the back porch wall and told sam that i was in the shower and i d be out shortly when i was decent i went to the backdoor and looked out and was startled because i thought bess had come over with sam no it was josh he s sporting long hair these days he s grown even more in the last two weeks and he s incredibly tall now next to sam or so he seemed when i looked at him it took me a minute to recognize him josh did the weed eating and sam did the mowing my yard is incredibly green and lovely but it was beyond needing to be cut the bahai grass has started coming up which means we shall have to be more vigilant about mowing because it is terrible stuff when it starts to get tall or it s the slightest bit damp it bends and then pops right back up again john used to mow both our yards twice over when the bahai had come in sam s back has been a bother for nearly two weeks and yesterday when i was having car woes he was at the chiropractor getting adjusted he d just completed a round of corticosteroids for the inflammation in his back i do hope that mowing for 7 hours today doesn t cause him any more issues i puttered in the kitchen this morning sorting out jars from the pantry i ve had a motley crew of storage jars that i ve accumulated over the years and i ve decided to empty them all wash well and offer up to kids or donation i ll be using the mass of canning jars i ve accumulated in the last few years and plan to buy more of them it just makes sense to have those as storage jars to me i like the look of them too i made up three small chicken pot pies and cooked the last of a jar of egg noodles that didn t fit in the quart jar i had some cooked venison burger that i chopped up and made julia pachecko s hamburger stroganoff i managed to knock the recipe down to a 2 serving size portion it s more like a hamburger helper sort of recipe than a proper stroganoff but it s really tasty and i was quite happy with my portion for lunch today i should have diced and reheated some of the beet i d roasted to go with it but i didn t think of it at the time after lunch i loaded up the dishwasher and then washed everything by hand that wouldn t fit in the dishwasher i tried to pack all i could in there but there s only so much space now it s waiting to be emptied after that i emptied three of the boxes of books that were behind the guest room door and put them on the shelves here in the study they filled just three shelves i have plenty of room to move extras from the living room shelves and i think i m going to set up one shelf as genealogy stuff and empty the tub where i ve hoarded those things i also have one shelf dedicated to john s music books and notebooks and papers i will eventually be sorting out those and culling out the multiples of things but not right now some tasks are still too personal and painful to handle just at present i take those things a little at a time and then i ll have to recover from the emotional wear of doing them the empty boxes the books were in will be packed with the china and glassware that i ve hoarded and not used it s hard to admit that something i ve held onto for so long is simply not going to be used but it s not and so why am i keeping it all while the decluttering spirit moves me i need to let go of as much of the excess of stuff i have accumulated as i can i ll still have plenty of stuff i am a collector by nature and by no means minimalistic but i m determined that in future i shall collect and store only what i m actually using no more money spent on pretty things to sit behind closed doors unseen and unused the house is changing i don t find that unusual there s been a major change in life here and i ve always responded to the outward changes of life by adjusting the interior of my home as well there s the fortune of having a wealth of inexpensively gotten things i can afford to let them go and find something else that suits this current phase of life mostly decor items or thrift and yard sale purchased furnishings not the stuff we paid proper good money for i do tend to hang on to those things and use them until they are past their lifespan now i am off to put my chicken pot pie in the oven i ll try to put away the dishes which takes far less long to do than it does for me to make up my mind to doing when supper is ready i shall officially call my day finished there are a puzzle book and a coloring book waiting on me after supper and i ll listen to music or tv while i play with those saturday june 6 interesting thoughts to note today i was thinking about grandmothers in general different grandmothers and how they approach their grandchildren etc i can t say much about my great grandmothers as my time around both was fairly limited granny was very much prone to being a hands on sort of grandmother she kept us when we were too young for school she took us on holidays when we were in school and she periodically came to stay the night and spend time with us all throughout the school year grandmother and granddaddy tended to come see us about once a month pretty much catching up with the whole family at once we spent a few summer days with them but not necessarily every year even though they didn t live that far from us perhaps an hour and a half part of that had to do with an alcoholic and sometimes violent uncle and i think part of it had to do with grandmother s own lack of grandmothers both her mother s mother and her father s mother died when her parents were young children and so they more or less were raised by other family members there were no grandparents about in her childhood she had no clue what a grandparent did yes she did keep us when we were young and my uncle was not yet the threat he became in later years but truly the only time we were allowed to go spend a week with them was when the uncle was locked safely away in jail for a few months time and not likely to be about my mother though she d grown up with both her grandmothers and spent lots of time with them was not to be bothered with children indeed she always proclaimed to me that she wasn t going to spend her spare time doing my job for me granny sometimes took my children for a few days at least giving them a taste of what i d had growing up but not often and seldom did she have them that mama didn t call and fuss at me over the fact that they were with granny whom mama was convinced i was taking advantage of i have friends who have grandchildren some of whom live near enough and some who live far away and in varying degrees they choose to spend time with them or not as their personality dictates i don t criticize anyone i know only what i had in granny and those occasional visits with grandmother and i loved the times i was with them hence i have often tried to say yes to my own children and grandchildren when they request time to come here but occasionally i do say no i said no earlier today when i had a request for a grandchild to come over supposedly wanting to work but from past experience i can tell you sincerely that she is very much into the attention seeking stage and if i don t pay attention is prone to get into trouble doing things she oughtn t like gluing coloring pages to the wall or using the carpet as a work surface to put paste on things or leaving the dining table covered with paint or nail polish not in a destructive way nor done to be mean simply the way any six year old does that sort of thing with an intent to do the more grown up things not allowed at home today i was not up to it i ve had residual guilt all morning never mind that one of my scheduled days next week is simply for her particular pleasure otherwise i ve a rather busy and taxing week ahead the final legalities to tie up or at least so i hope and a day out with my friend susan which should be fun and a day with millie as promised and then a day to have an adult birthday party with josh in fact in the next seven days i ve only one day planned to be at home yesterday i went to run errands and get groceries finishing up what i d meant to do on wednesday when i ended up sitting at the mechanics none of this was what i really wanted to do what i wanted to do above all else was go do something fun for myself like visit a garden center and get some coleus or go to the hardware store for paint for the entry doors or wander about a clothing store or anything in the world but adult responsibilities but there you are however next week is already scheduled to the max yesterday had to be about the other necessities post office dollar store paying bills running by the bank getting gas in the car getting groceries going up to sam s to get produce for the week ahead and two or three more things i can t recall just off the top of my head it was hot it was tiring and exhausting my hip was aggravated from the previous day s work of lifting and shoving heavy things about in my home i left hom...
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