pretty good day

Not a bad day yesterday. We filled three small planter boxes with garden soil and replanted the surviving parsley and thyme from last year's garden. MonsterMustDie planted salad greens and watermelon radishes. We need to plant the  tomato & kale seedlings we have before they're too big but he is dragging his feet on building simple fences to fit over the boxes to protect them from cats, squirrels and rabbits. Something got in under the screen I laid on top of the boxes and dug around in the newly planted bed and dug up the parsley plants. I smoothed the soil back over the seeded bed, hoping for the best on what we already stuck in the soil.


I also made what I consider to be a meal of real food - fresh chicken medallions wrapped in bacon and roasted, roasted brussels sprouts, and fingerling potatoes tossed in butter and parsley.



I need to put something together for headers, etc. on a new web page and portfolio for myself.

another UTI

Woke up at 2:30 a.m. with another horrible UTI, probably from the infection I had last month that was never completely cleared, no thanks to my regular doctor's office. MonsterMustDie drove me to the local emergency room for a positive test and thankfully, my insurance was still active so it only cost me $500.00 (I dread to think what something like this will cost with no insurance). Thanks to the kind staff and young Dr. Patel for helping me accurately and quickly. My Walgreens helped with the cost of the antibiotics and now I'm once again on the road to recovery.

This has been a strange sad week. Lost my full-time job last week. 

Planned a trip to Chicago this week with friend to visit her mom. 

Then my sister-in-law's father, who has been ill for a very long time, passed away early Sunday morning. I cancelled the plans for the Chicago trip and started making new plans to drive down to Atlanta for the funeral and MonsterMustDie took his suit to the drycleaners (which he should have done last time he wore it). 

My sister-in-law asked us not to come to the funeral. She just repeated several times how the long drive wasn't worth it and it was going to be a small brief memorial - about 30 minutes.

On the upside, maybe everything does happen for a reason. 

My friend decided to postpone her trip to Chicago to next week so we can go together and she doesn't have to make such a long drive alone. 

It probably would have been much worse if I had come down with this infection while I was away from home. The money I would have spent on travel and flowers and cat-sitter, etc. for the funeral trip was used for medical bills. Looks like the universe has taken care of me again.

such a joyful life

I hate it here. I don't fit in. My hands are tied. I get shut down at everything I try to do.

Once again, I'm unemployed.

The company I've been working at full-time since July 2018 decided to eliminate their entire digital imaging department, outsourcing more and concentrating on marketing instead. They called all of us into a meeting on Friday morning and let us know our jobs were terminated. Effective immediately. They handed us our final paychecks as we left the conference room and all of us were escorted out of the building. The only people I didn't see leaving were Captain Cod and Mr. Drinky. 

Boom. 

I've got no plans or prospects for another job here in High Point. Meanwhile, I'll try to put in more hours at my weekend job at the shop. This leaves my schedule and life even more unpredictable and since I'll have to be available to show up at any time to keep a retail job. I still work every weekend but I will try to get more weekday hours now. 

John is retired now and has no interest in working for someone else again. He'll be 65 on April 28. 

All retail work is part time. I am now immediately uninsured again, probably permanently.