Today was a busy day –
I ended up taking a 3 hour nap after I got back home!
Today I peeked into
the past, dealt with today’s immediate issues, and started preparing for the
future Winter months ;-)
I had an appointment
in town around noon – and arrived early; so I did a Word Search Puzzle while I
waited for the door to open. The puzzle I did was a word search based on ‘Auto
Maintenance’: doing that puzzle brought back the memory of our first September
together, when Bob would make a point to be home early night after work to grab
the 2 metal garbage cans we had/throw them in the back of the pickup/go down to
the marina where he would set up a make-do driving obstacle course for me to maneuver.
THAT did not last long! Bob was an excellent driver, and anyone else would have
been privileged to learn from him … but our temperaments just did not mesh
– The thing would end with me coming home in tears, and Bob following me into
the house in frustration.
Over time, we learned
to come to peaceful agreements on hot topic issues.
And, I eventually did
get my driver’s license.
And I was thankful to
have it during those 4 horrible months I was tearing up the local road while
Bob was in the hospital dying last Fall/Winter.
Around noon, after my
appointment, I went grocery shopping while in town, and saw ‘Senior
Multi-Vitamins’ for people over 60 – and thought to myself that maybe the
Health Food Store may have better ones; so I made a mental note to myself to
check that possibility out after I loaded my groceries into the car:
Grocery shopping is still a hard task to get through.
I drove over to Kelso,
and read the large piece of paper spread & taped across the Country Village window: they had
moved! And the address meant nothing to me – nothing at all: I couldn’t place
it. So, I thought, “I’ll just punch it into the navigation program, and the car
will take me right to it”. I had watched Bob do that enough times, that I
felt reasonably confident that I could do it too.
WRONG!
It was not as easy to
do as it seemed while I had watched Bob do it.
But I eventually DID
manage to DO it – and did a mental
happy dance, feeling Bob had been watching me struggle, and applauded my
eventual success ;-)
I learned how to use the navigational feature of the car – Bob would be proud of me ;-)
The car did take me to
the new location … and I realized that I could have walked to it from the
grocery store! Reading an address doesn't TELL me anything! Landmarks DO. So, now I know where it is for future visits :-D
The saleswoman told me
that, yes, they did carry multi-vitamins for Seniors – so I bought what I
thought would work for me, as well as Iron supplement capsules: I am severely
anemic … so much so that doctors before I stopped using doctors, wanted to have
me do blood transfusions; but I refused – and still refuse. I try to get my
vitamins and iron through foods organically. My garden didn’t do so well this
year due to the whacky weather here in the PNW, so I will try to o the vitamin
regime this year.
I normally do not buy
vitamin supplements, because my body rejects vitamin supplements, and they are
just a big waste of time and $$.
But I really got very
sick last year because my body was so run down after the 4 month death watch –
and I do NOT want a repeat of THAT this year. I have been taking better care of
myself this year, but I will need vitamin help to keep my body healthy because
my garden was a bust this year … and when Alex took me to Yelm to get some meat
orders, he did not want me buying liver because he hates liver and didn’t even want
the wrapped meat in his car: so I was not able to get my organic iron
supplement that way; I have been buying Liver with Onions meals at the Indy Way
Diner at least twice a month, but the meals are $17 each, and that gets very
spendy after a while. I am hoping to get to the Yelm meat market, myself, the Spring
of 2020 to get some Liver, but in the meantime, I will try the iron capsules;
and hope and pray my body does not reject the supplements.
