Kind of a Day of Rest

When I woke up this morning I was not as sore as I was yesterday morning and I was going over the things that I needed or at least wanted to get done today. Yesterday after running the dishwasher I unloaded it and then put in all the dishes in that had been piling up. I had talked to Kathleen about starting it up yesterday morning but she forgot to so I started it up last night and by that time there were quite a few things that did not fit into it.

So this morning after finishing breakfast I had enough dishes in the dishwasher that I ran it again. While it was running I went through the coupons and took out the ones that had expired and also the ones that we need to use this week when we go shopping...at least I keep hoping that we get to go shopping as we are running out of some of the meal essentials.

While I was sorting coupons Andrea called and wanted to drop off the Kitchen Aid mixer and a few tamales that she made. She was wondering if Kathleen was up yet, since she had gotten to be around 0430 this morning and it was only 0930 I told her that she was not up yet.

Andrea stopped by after she dropped John off at his shop and dropped off the mixer and tamales and I gave her the mail that had come for her and a couple other things as well. Kathleen had said after she got up that she heard a vehicle starting up and though that I was going somewhere but I told her it was Andrea.

The dishwasher finished and so I emptied it and put the dishes away and read the mail when it arrived. I got some of my medications today and also an update for one of my software programs in the mail today as well as the credit union statement.

After finishing the rest of the mail I got on the computer and reconciled my credit union accounts. I did the saving and my checking accounts and they both came out right on the money the first time. Sometimes I have to go back and recheck it, but I always get them to reconcile.

Kathleen was fixing breakfast for herself and I made myself lunch; it kind of shows how far off our schedules are; I am usually about a meal ahead of her.


After she finished breakfast, she went upstairs and got ready to go meet with one of the women from church. While she was getting ready she said that I could put up the light fixtures in the upstairs bathroom.

She painted the ceiling in the bathroom yesterday and I had been holding off putting them up until she got the ceiling painted. So by the time she left, around 1330, I had two of them up and shortly after she left I finished putting the cover on the light/fan/heater/night light unit.

I then went downstairs and scrubbed the downstairs bathroom sink and then did a little reading. Kathleen came home around 1630 and talked about going grocery shopping; I suggested maybe tomorrow as I was tired enough and did not feel like spending a couple hours in the grocery store.

She asked what to do about dinner and I suggested using the tamales that Andrea brought over and using the left over rice from the other night and opening a can of black beans and mixing it with the rice. She thought that sounded pretty good so that is what we had. She mashed the beans and added some cheddar to the rice bean mix and heated it and the tamales up in the micro-wave.