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Friday things

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Yesterday ended up not so good with my blood pressure really spiking. I didn’t feel great but knew it was dex. I did take an extra lisinopril and within the hour it dropped to almost normal. And I felt better too. This morning it was 127/ 90 and that was without any lisinoprol so all good. It was a tough day though.

Today my face is red still but that’s all except maybe a little jittery from dex.

It’s cloudy and grey again which is also a little depressing after a while. But next week looks sunny and we have a few outings planned.

Frugal-wise, Costco went well and came in at $279. But $79 was nonfood like toothpaste and toilet paper and B bought his Sierra Pale ale and 2 bottles of Napa wines. So just groceries came in at @ $150. not too bad. My trip to Trader Joe’s came in at $100. Honestly, without Costco, TJ’s and, Winco we’d be screwed at other stores. I haven’t shopped in Safeway in ages. Today though I’m going down to our Holiday market for some buttermilk, cream, Earth Balance and maybe some deli ham. The store’s free coupon this month is some kind of burger so I don’t want to miss the freebie unless it’s all sold out.

Sunday is Easter but since we don’t celebrate, it’ll just be a normal do what ever day. I plan to go to the gym. I also plan on making Southern Fried Tofu and potato salad.

Frugal wins; we didn’t go out for coffee after my appt.

No extra spending on things

Our electric bill came in lower although still high in general. PGE’s rates are really crazy here in California.

No eating out this week.

Simple Sunday

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So far we’ve made it through the ‘blizzard’ although we didn’t have the blizzard here but lots of rain and wind. Fortunately, we didn’t lose any trees. A friend from way back in the library days had 2 trees fall on their house. Yikes! I’d be breaking out. They live quite a ways up I 80 and I think the wind was worse up there. It looks like today is still stormy so I’m not going to go to the Auburn gym. Plus I’ve kind of felt ‘off’. It’s probably the residual of Dex and Velcade. My blood pressure was high yesterday even with taking my Lisinprol so I’m attributing that to dex too. It’s always something.

I have a loaf of sourdough in the oven and I’ll pull a frozen lasagna out for dinner. the other day I was able to get 4 lasagnas prepped. I think I have some salad stuff to use up too.

Yesterday, I cleaned out a few kitchen draws and probably will do a few other kitchen things today. I need to order propane too. That’s all done on line now so I can do it and pay that way.

I’ve been thinking about how having injured my knee in a split second of stepping off the step ladder wrong way. I think things like this do affect us in deeper ways than we realize. All of a sudden I couldn’t do what I had been doing at all. No walking, swimming, house stuff etc. It really did have an impact on me and with that some sadness of what was lost. I’m certainly much better now and am walking about a mile a day and swimming. But it’s not back to where it was and I’m not sure if it will ever get there realistically. But I’m grateful that I can see forward and keep trying. Yesterday, I used the PT band for a few exercises and it really stressed my knee out so today I’ll skip that part. The other thing I’ve noticed is my routines were more or less disrupted as I couldn’t do the same things such as swish and swipe daily. I’m back at it with more regularity but it definitely impacted me and one has to wonder how things will be in 5 years. I guess the whole point of minimizing and streamlining things was exactly the place I’m in now. My house can handle not getting dusted for a few days, or vacuumed because there’s less to take care of. Daily though, the dishes get done, counters cleared. laundry done, bed made, house tidied. My husband does the laundry daily. He also cleans the kitchen after dinner so it’s a good system. Because of this, I think I will start looking around the house to see what things are taking up space or require some maintenance and then probably get rid of them. I guess this really does comes down to Swedish Death cleaning.