wild firI never thought I would see the day that there would be grocery shortages... We are suppose to be living the American dream not the covid 19 scary time! (We are living in the Twilight Zone!) The grocery shortage is causing me make a 30 year life style change!!!! I have always been a Diet Coke drinker! (I am addicted!!! LOL) I had to go to diet caffeine free coke a year or so back and I thought that was horrible but at least it was still Diet Coke!!! With the grocery shortages getting diet caffeine free coke is almost impossible! I told my mom that we might have to change our drink to Fresca or something like that! (This is a family addiction!!!) When I told her this, she said that she refuses to change her drink (her addiction is apparently worse than mine.... (HELP!!!) I don't think she has a choice in this... I went to the instacart app to order what I could of our grocery list and put Fresca into the search and the store was out of Fresca also!!! This is a truly horrible! I believe mom and I have entered into the abyss of HELL!!! Mom likened this time to the shortages of the great depression and WWII!!! She explained to me that no one should have to go through that hell twice in their lives! Well sorry, mom, we have entered that hell! She said at least during WWII people in the country banded together and here instead we have great strife. I tried to explain that we seem to be over achievers and are having wild fires in Australia, a pandemic, race riots, killer bees, the rise of wild life and now I hear fireballs are coming!!! We still have 5 months of this year! The loss of my signature drink along with all the rest... Can we live through the rest of this year?!?!?! I definitely need T-Shirt Therapy!!! And some YouTube fun (Language Warning)
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The joys of selling my house! I have spent the morning on the phone and online taking care of the cable (for mom), insurance company and all the other companies that need to be called! I never realized all this was so time consuming! I have lived in that house for 14 years and I don't remember it taking so long to get everything taken care of when I moved in!
I have mixed feelings about selling my home.... My home was a sanctuary! When I walked into it, the house seemed to say, "welcome, you are home!" It was my sanctuary for a long time. That is what a home should be! It should be a sanctuary! And just recently it no longer was a sanctuary and the last incident that happened in my home was domestic violence! My daughter's friend and boyfriend were over visiting and all of a sudden a fight broke out that became physical! (My grand daughters weren't there thank goodness!) That totally took away my last feelings that the home was a sanctuary! That incident ended in one of my huge windows broken and the very last bit of sentiment was gone. I am sad that my home can no longer fit that need for me. I thought that was going to be my forever home. I am starting a whole new adventure in my life! New adventures are always a little scary at first so I have a little anxiety over it, but I think I will find my new adventure to be one of sanctuary and love and this time be a forever adventure! I was talking to a couple of friends the other day and we were talking about our anxiety levels, and one of my friends said I remember you use to blog to help you deal with your anxiety. I did use to blog to help deal with my anxiety so why aren't I blogging?!?!
I am back to blogging! I have actually had some really wonderful hoorays in my life lately that have lightened my load and my heart! It seems as if all my baby chicks have grown up and our out living on their own and thriving! Even in this crazy world! I have also had some real scares! So here is the update with my family... First the Hoorays! My son, Matthew, bought a condo and is renting out 2 bedrooms so that almost all costs are mitigated! I am so happy for him! My daughter Danielle has moved into a condo that she is very happy about and has a job that she seems to be pleased with! I am going to miss my sweet baby girls that of coursed moved with their mama! Danielle has moved close to her brother so she still has family around! My son and daughter in law that she has moved close to are expecting another baby! That makes 12 grand kids for me!!! Yay!!! That son, Jonathan, recently moved to that area and have a lovely new home! (When I get to go visit them covid permitting I will be able to see 9 of my grand kids at once! My son, Tom, and his wonderful family, my daughter Megan and her wonderful family, and my baby Michael are all doing great! Woo Hoo!!! Now the stressful and scary news that is turning out okay... My son Bob has covid 19! This news scared me to death especially the fact that he was having to use everything he had in him to get his breath! My sister took him Xlear (everyone should have this as it mitigates the symptoms!!!) and it has greatly relieved his symptoms! Bob immediately quarantined himself to the guest bedroom so that he didn't infect his wife, Dawn, who has diabetes. If she had gotten it, this would have been very bad! (Dawn unfortunately had her birthday in quarantine! Dang!) They are both doing okay!!! I love them both and the thought of the potential consequences of having covid 19 scared me to death!!! I was in the process of selling my house... Quite the experience when in quarantine!!! My house is under contract in record time and everything has turned out really well so far! (Thank you Sean!!!) Lastly, there is construction on our street and the other day the construction was right in front of our house with a very large hole in the road about 6 feet deep. We knew our water was going to be turned off for a few hours and had prepared for this. The construction workers accidentally hit the power lines and the power went out. Normally this would just be and inconvenience; however, mom is on oxygen so without power her concentrator does not work! I switched mom over to her battery powered portable concentrator that has 6 to 8 hours of battery power. When the battery was down to 18% power I was getting very concerned... I called the power company and ended up speaking to someone that was rude and really didn't get the scope of the problem. With the hole in front of the house and the fact mom has to stay in isolation made in my mind an insurmountable problem for getting mom to power to run her concentrator. As I explained this to the customer service rep. she told me rudely that this way my problem not the power companies but mine and I should have prepared for it! I tried to explain again and the answer I got was that the workers wanted to be able to leave and go home just as much as I did! WHAT?!?!? I lost it at that point and unfortunately yelled at her that she didn't get the situation at all and I might have used a swear word or 2 and asked her to get her supervisor... It is amazing how when the supervisor got on the line and I explained the situation she immediately got a hold of the dispatcher and came up with ways to get mom out of the house with a steel plate being put down over the hole etc... Thank goodness it didn't come to that as mom called our neighbor and they had a generator that they brought over!!!! Hooray!!! the day was saved!!! And other than losing it on the phone for a second I held it together and had mom taken care of through the whole ordeal!!! YAY!!! We are definitely living in a stressful world right now and this anxiety girl isn't doing so bad!!! I think that having to be in quarantine and not face to face with a lot of the problems has actually been a blessing for me! Hang in there everyone and give each other a little extra love1 |
I am Ally. I am the center of my universe and I can determine whether to be a victim, survivor or thriver. At one time or another I have been all of the above... I am choosing to thrive!
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