The Bed, The Box and The Grabber

 

The Bed, my home for 5 days straight and I did a lot of sleeping because Muscle Relaxers knocked me out. 

The box. It held my tablet and pen, 2 remotes to TV and Fire Stick, and my Chromebook and cellphone. No photo of the iPhone, it was in my hand.

Addiction to the camera in the iPhone did not go away even though I was in pain.

These were taken on the 4th day, the first 3 I moaned and slept.

I had to get Bob to get the shoe box off the top shelf. 

The bed and box photo instatooned, because tooning was something I could do in bed.

The grabber A.K.A grill tongs, lived on the sink. I used it to catch the edge of my underwear to work them on my toes without bending forward and for picking up all the things I dropped in the bathroom.

During Normal Days, I use these tongs to reach things in the back of shelves and on top shelves. 

I do have a grabber but like this best.

Several of you mentioned a grabber, I have one and this one, but have you ever tried to pick up paper or a fork, or an eggshell? I dropped all of that and more... Lucky Me, I just yelled for bob, the Living Grabber

Sunday Selfie

My back is better but it seems the week of pain and aggravation stole my MoJo.

I do have one thing to ask you. Because I could not bend over, it seemed I dropped everything I picked up .  I found that true when the Eye Doc said you can't bend over for a few weeks after cataract surgery

 My question for you is...

Do you think we drop things more when we can't bend over, or does it just seem that way because we can't bend over?

wheel chair

 

I walked Beau today for the first time in 7 days. 

It was a scary week, will give details a few at a time. I pulled a muscle that had been aching for a week or more, I think because of too much time in front of the computer.

Reached down to pull up my pant and the muscle cramped and I could not.

Stand up.

Lay Down

Shift in Bed.

I was dressing to take bob to Dermatologist visit, and between puffing air and ouches and at times.

I considered calling 911, which I have never done, but called my doctor instead.

She said come into the office if you can.

There was much screaming and ouching and a few tears.

just getting me dressed.

For the first time ever, I went to doctor office with no bra on, underwear and a diaper only because.

Bob had to drop a house dress over my head.

we got to the office and went thought the same ouch/scream/puffing air as when in labor.

this pain was a tie with labor pains.

I am glad you could not hear/see me when we got to the office.

Bob got a wheelchair and could not get the foot thing to work,

so got another one without footrest, then tried to push me to the bathroom while we waited and i could not pick up my feet without screaming.

He transferred me to one with a footrest and 

Pushed in the Womens Restroom, with permission of the front desk person,

and had to get in the stall with me and the wheelchair and pull down and pull up diaper and get me in and out of the chair.

Saw the NA, got RX for muscle relaxers called in, went through the same procedure in reverse.

Back in car with same results

Each time he stomped the brakes, I screamed!

The end result was a minor miracle.

Bob had three first in our 38 years of marriage.

HE WENT TO DOCTOR APPT WITH OUT ME

HE DROVE ME TO THE DOCTOR

HE PICKED UP PRESCRIPTION

ALONE! ( he used his debit card to pay 80 cents for the prescription) OV VEY!

Not sure how posting/visiting will go. 

Closed for back problems

 

Blog closed for back  problems, pulled muscle we think. in bed with muscle relaxers and NSAIDS and heat and ice packs. Back Soon, comments are off,

Definitely POO

Pointing out the kitchen window, I said

Bob, did you put that there?

Put What? Where?

The aqua thing on the tree!

Which tree?

the only one outside the kitchen window with a pool noodle on it. Did you put it there?

I don't know, what is it?

THE POOL NOODLE!!!!

What is a pool noodle?

THE AQUA THING I CUT UP THAT IS ON THE CHAIRS TO KEEP OUR ARMS FROM BURNING ON THE METAL ARMS!

OH, yes I put it there when I was mulching the leaves with the lawn mower and

found it on the ground. the wind must have blown it there.

More POO by Pool Noodle Fodder for The Camera/blog

POO (perfectly ordinary object)

The Perfect Lamp

 

I found the perfect lamp for the Found-on Curb Free Table!

Thrift Store, Ten Dollars! 

the light bulbs now cost more than the lamp.

Do you remember when a lamp came with the base and lamp shade and bulbs were under a dollar. for FOUR.

the cheap lamps at Walmart now start at 39 for base, 30 for shade and 12 dollars for four bulbs.

OV VEY!

Thus The Thrift Shop

Guess what we forgot?

 

We forgot our anniversary last year but remembered late in the day with a nudge from an ecard from Madeline, and this year I remembered it when I wrote the date 2/10/2023.

38 years! I think age must have something to do with it. 

the lack of memory, I mean.

Bob and I were married in the courthouse, center with columns.

I found this link while searching for something on our City Site.

Our Downtown area, we are in these city limits.

I thought you might like a tour just click HERE

be sure to click on the four boxes at bottom left of photos, and drag your mouse

Natures Hearts For You

 

The corner of my kitchen, is full of leaf hearts for me,

each moment of every day, this is what I see.

I took these photos of hearts for you,

Just because that is what I do.

Today is Valentines Day in USA

I hope these hearts will fill your heart with Love this Valentine Day.

popular culture makes you believe that Valentine's Day is only for love-struck couples.

The truth is, it's a day to love, and that love can be for anyone and everyone. Thus, all kinds of love should be celebrated. 

For those of you who want a traditional Valentine,

Here it is for each of you, will you be mine?

I tried to cover all the bases for traditional, candy, flowers, hearts and bears.
How Did I do???

To Mascara or not to Mascara

At the time I am creating this, 100 % of the comments state you no longer wear makeup.

If I go out, I have to cover the 4 large brown spots created by 39 years in bright Florida Sun.

Also known as Age Spots! I only use a light cover up the same tone as my skin.

Today I purchased Almay scent free, dermatologist tested, anti-allergic blah blah blah 

Above the right eye has mascara on and the left doesn't.

I tried and tried to get a close up, just could not.

so far after one hour, I am still not itching. 

I know I don't NEED mascara. I know this because as I pushed my loaded basket out the door, the Old Man Greeter at Walmart Door, looked at me and nodded, and said I want to know the lotto numbers you just bought, and I started to say I did  Not and he broke in and said Oh, not You! I many you, and they cute thing that i saw at the lotto thing said What?

He repeated in a silly, male flirting voice, I want to buy the numbers you bought, I know they will win if you bought them.

OMG! she could have been his Great Grand Daughter.

She DID have on a LOT of Mascara!!!😉😉

 I do NEED Mascara!

Not for shopping Walmart and Publix, or walking Beau in the Park, just for 

Hollywood Parties, CMT Awards. walking the Red-Carpet Visits and invitations to the White House!

 

Both eyes with mascara, and all it did was point out the left eye bottom only has lashes on the side close to the nose
Natural, Cartoon, Two-Tone, Pencil sketch.
I think two wone shows the lashes best.

Eyeglasses are HERE

I tried and tried to get a good pic of the glasses, either the iPhone is broken, or I just look bad in them. this was the 5th try, 

I tried 4 shots of them in the container and since they are rimless, they just disappear.

you can see the shape in neon.

PS, does anyone use mascara that works for people with eye allergies? 

my lashes are gray and thin and if I touch them a little with Almay they itch like crazy.

a search shows dozens, but it is to expensive to TRY. 

anyone use any of these?

 

I even tried all the comic filters. Nada. See those funny eyebrows? that is the glasses.

I told you they disappeared.

Guess what else disappeared. MY MEMORY.

I had a 1:30 appt. to pick them up and at 2:05, got an eyelash in my eye, which caused me to stop reading in my kindle, go to the magnify mirror and when I took.

my old glasses off I saw them, and Screamed I FORGOT MY APPT!

I ran down the hall yelling, you said you would remember. He said Remember What?

Eye Glasses!!!! 

He said what about them! OV VEY! his is worse than mine. YES, I know I can set the phone, but not if I forget to...

They still gave them to me and Wow! 

Can I SEEEEE

now I need glasses for my MEMORY.

I JUST CLICKED PREVIEW AND HAD PUT THIS ON BEAUS BLOG AND HAD TO COPY PASTE ONTON THIS BLOG AND DELETE FROM HIS BLOG.

At least I could SEE to copy paste. hope hope

I also forgot sunday selfie, this will have to do

The Doorknob Made Me do it.

While sitting poking the iPhone, I had the urge and took the phone with me. I like to read or text or play with cell phone when the urge Hits Me.

I stood up to leave the bathroom and another urge hit.

insta-toon was set on filter Two Tone

Doorknob my brain said.

 

Look, there I am!

turn the phone landscape, easier to work with

Zoom on the STUFF

Odd, the dust doesn't show on junk using Two Tone.

Outa Here!

The Senior and Her Moments! again

 

Last week, I took a couple of days off to work on 

My To DO list!

I knew what to do with my day and dreaded it, 

Put down the phone.

Stop Peering out the windows at the neighbors and their dogs.

Get it together.

Attack the #!@%$@$ computer.

It did not go well or quickly.

I spent FOUR HOURS updating a spread sheet, line by line and dealing with the 

craziness of someone selling my 401k account to another company.

Let's call them...

"#! FinancialCompany#!1" and 

" #! FinancialCompany#!2"

Hereafter referred to as, F-1 and F-2

This sounded simple, except step one was the information I needed to log into F-2 was trapped in F-1 because the account is PAPERLESS per them pestering me to do it and I HAD NO PAPER to get the info from.

As I fought through the old system finding what I needed, my mind kept losing focus while I pondered just what I would do if the power was out, the internet down or the computer had died.

First, I had to log on to F-1 to retrieve account information because I had gone paperless and 

: Senior Focus is not good, and stress makes it worse. the ability to put in a password correctly the first try has become impossible due to senior moments, assuming I can remember said password.

I spent 40 minutes finding and printing 2022 statements from F-1 for just in case I needed them to prove to F-2 I had the money in the account and to verify what F-2 has in their accounts, which turned out to be a waste of time because F-2 Had NOTHING BUT the Total.

Seems records will stay with F-1 and if I need anything in the future, before F-2 I have to log on to F-1 to get it and by the time I need it the password will not work because it has been to long since I logged on and I have do jump through Hoops. Sorry, my mind went down the Alice hole.

Logging into F-2 was a challenge because after hunting through the paper pages from F-1

to find the information to prove I was who I am, I found myself reading the instructions on how many letters and numbers and the length of the LOG IN should be. 

and drawing a BLANK because F-1 allowed log in ID to be easy peasy and was created before cyberbullies made everyone terrified.

oops there I go again.

then I was asked to create a new password, and each time I did, I got a red error,

not long enough, no capital, can't use those characters, and I estimate the time to create a new password at 30 minutes.

I must tell you I was prepared with log in ID and password, but In a note they advised I NOT use the log in password from F-1 which was my plan.

I ended up with an A Plus on password which meant the red turned green and said Excellent Strength.

I kid you not I wanted to cry by this time.

Next came the security questions which turned out to be SIX of them, I was warned to pick questions that I KNEW the answers and to pick something I could not forget.

To be sure make the answer was ONE WORD and something that could not have 2 answers. Also to pick harder questions so people who know me can't guess what I can't remember.

I was so upset, by this time when it asked me to set up double authentication, I had to go get the phone to look up the phone number.

I finally was In and the only thing I could prove was the total amount. 

Plus, an hour of what I want to see or not to see, MAKE IT ALL PAPERLESS, had to pick each thing click yes/no OV VEY!

When I retired in 2006 I could have done this with one arm tied behind me. Now it is like my brain is tied behind my head. I said to Bob, it's a good thing I am not still working because I could not do the job I did then and who knows what that has changed too.

PS.... I wrote all this to make you as frustrated as I was, assuming you made it to the end.

2023 Calendar

 

I added appts to my calendar and decided to show you the top of it.

The top of each page is trimmed with Doodles. Not Mine, they came on it.

the back of the calendar shows each doodle

You do know my middle name is Excessive Photos of POO

Now I just need the calendar to jump out and slap me to make me Look at it!

Yes! I put it in the phone also, but prefer the Big Picture On The Kitchen Wall

It is Thankful Thursday with Brian, and I am thankful for

cell phone, insta-toon app, calendars and all of you to stare in awe at this post of POO.

(Perfectly ordinary objects)