Sun 25 Oct

Lovely getaway is history, back to hard-workin' reality. Hope to go to Grandma's apartment after church today, strip the bed, run a load of laundry, and find out what things have already accumulated there that can be tossed out. There are partially eaten packages of cookies in the cupboards and 4 bags of mostly accumulated candy and snacks that are already getting old. Fortunately I went through the junk mail and tossed most of that several weeks ago, but I did leave some things on the reader to still sort through. We bought a 19" flat screen TV yesterday which will take up significantly less room and will hopefully have speakers adequate to hear in her room. She can't see the screen of the other TV and it would take up a lot of room in the new studio apartment. This way I hope to put the desk with the reader in that corner and just perch the TV on the end, or if that doesn't work, I may be able to put the desk/reader in the entrance hall and put her dining table in the corner with the TV on it, leaving a place to sit for visitors or a place she can eat a bowl of cereal if she doesn't want to go down to breakfast.

Don't know if I'll have any additional time before choir to work at the house, but we put in a couple of hours Thursday night before we left. The apartment switch has to move ahead in priority as I need to vacate the old apartment by this upcoming weekend, and I want to have the new place set up with her things when she comes over Friday for her assessment.

I'm really tired. Spent the afternoon at the apartment packing stuff out of cupboards and running a couple of loads of laundry. Haven't touched my own laundry yet this weekend - suppose I should go get a load or two together. Also really banged the knuckle of my left pinky finger - it's still stiff.

So tired.....

Food:

8:15 am Raisin croissant pastry, 1 string cheese, 1/4 small cantaloupe, coffee
11:45 am 2 crepes, 2/3 c blueberries in light glaze, 1 tsp powdered sugar, 8 oz OJ, coffee
2:45 pm 1 square chocolate, 5-6 coconut M&Ms
4:15 pm 10 g Indian corn
4:45 pm 1 serving Chicken Romagnola (pasta w/artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, and a cajun sauce), 12 oz light vanilla soy milk, 2 Halloween Oreos
8:25 pm Jello Sugar-Free Creme Brulee Rice pudding cup



Exercise:

7:10-8:00 am Brutal ballet DVD