Mental Day Off
Jan. 19th, 2022 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotloursI'm sitting in the hotel room this morning just chillin'. My sister flies in a little later today, and Kitty arrives a few hours later. My sis will be staying at the house while Kitty will be here with me. That will be a huge comfort. It wasn't too bad waking up in an empty house yesterday, but I started feeling that I just needed to get the heck out of there for awhile.
I spent some time with the funeral director and got everything arranged. Like I mentioned in my last post, he and his family are definitely "old skoolers" when it comes to the neighborhood. He needed to know the spelling of my Mom's maiden name and it's this long Polish jumble of letters that would make a great computer password if I could ever remember how to spell it. Fortunately I found an old prayer card from Mom's dad's funeral in the early 40's. The funeral director went "Oh wow!." It had his grandmother's name on the card since she owned the business back then.
I went back home and started cleaning up. I wanted to see what was in some drawers that I had probably never opened before. In them I found old bedding. Some was still in its original packaging. That was my Mom! Buy something on sale and then put it away for some later time. Nevermind that the sheets she had been sleeping on were ratty and torn. Those went right into the garbage. I found some old pictures and such. I even found an old drawing that either I or my sister drew over 50 years ago. It said "I love you, Mommy." Yeah. I needed to get the heck out of there.
I cleaned up some banking business and headed back to the hotel to chill. I still had leftover pizza which was so delicious. It was then time to unwind. I don't know if I'll do anything today that can't be done online. Tomorrow I have to return all of the oxygen equipment and her hearing aids, that we had just bought, were still under the "trial period," so I'll be getting a refund for almost the entire cost. At least she heard better for a month.
I spent some time with the funeral director and got everything arranged. Like I mentioned in my last post, he and his family are definitely "old skoolers" when it comes to the neighborhood. He needed to know the spelling of my Mom's maiden name and it's this long Polish jumble of letters that would make a great computer password if I could ever remember how to spell it. Fortunately I found an old prayer card from Mom's dad's funeral in the early 40's. The funeral director went "Oh wow!." It had his grandmother's name on the card since she owned the business back then.
I went back home and started cleaning up. I wanted to see what was in some drawers that I had probably never opened before. In them I found old bedding. Some was still in its original packaging. That was my Mom! Buy something on sale and then put it away for some later time. Nevermind that the sheets she had been sleeping on were ratty and torn. Those went right into the garbage. I found some old pictures and such. I even found an old drawing that either I or my sister drew over 50 years ago. It said "I love you, Mommy." Yeah. I needed to get the heck out of there.
I cleaned up some banking business and headed back to the hotel to chill. I still had leftover pizza which was so delicious. It was then time to unwind. I don't know if I'll do anything today that can't be done online. Tomorrow I have to return all of the oxygen equipment and her hearing aids, that we had just bought, were still under the "trial period," so I'll be getting a refund for almost the entire cost. At least she heard better for a month.
