Back to the doldrums

The hot weather wears on me pretty badly, and Dave and I are both completely back into the "fed up with work" day to day life.

Sigh.

The good thing about the heat is that the grass isn't growing, since it's too hot to mow anyway.

Dave's son showed up for a visit with us yesterday.  That's the first time he's come to see us in many months.  The only time we've seen him (since some time last summer or fall) was for a couple of hours the day Dave went to the hospital by ambulance in April.

I think that visit did Dave a lot of good.

Back in the spring, you may recall that we had some minor home improvements done with our tax refund.

One of those things was to add a garbage disposal unit to the kitchen sink.

Once we started using said disposal, the sink started clogging all the time.  One time, it clogged so badly that the liquid drain cleaner-laced waste water came out through the dishwasher all over the floor.

When that happened, Dave had me run and get all of the bath towels to clean up the flood in the kitchen....so now, our bath towels are all damaged from the chemical, which is basically bleach gel.

Anyway.... after that particular event, Dave called the contractor we have been using for all home improvements since last year, and had him come out and take a look.

They agreed that what needed to be done was for a plumber to crawl under the house and change out the drain pipe.

It took until this past week for that job to FINALLY take place.  The good part about it taking so long was that we were able to save up some money to pay for it.  He's only charging a few hundred.

I think if we hadn't had him to call upon, a regular plumber out of the yellow pages would have charged us a WHOLE lot more.

We still haven't replaced all of our bath towels.  Too expensive.  They are mostly just discolored, and a couple of them have rough spots.

My new glasses finally came in this past Thursday (they were supposed to be ready in a week, but it took almost 2).  I wore them Friday, and they were hurting my ears and nose.

Fortunately, my eye doctor has Saturday morning hours (which I did not know about until Friday evening), so when we were out for an errand yesterday, we stopped by so I could get them adjusted.

Unfortunately, when the tech adjusted them, she did something that ruined the lenses.  It was good that Dave was driving, because I had to leave the new glasses at the office to be sent back to the lab for new lenses!!

It was extremely aggravating.

Another good thing is that I had taken with me a pair of  much older glasses to donate to Lions Club, so I retrieved them from the donation box so that I could sort of see on the way home.

I also still have my most recent pair, so I am back to wearing those, and not being able to read street signs until I am close to them, which is really not THAT big of a problem.  It's not like I'm going anywhere unfamiliar these days.

The tech didn't say how long it would take this time, but that may be because they were wrong with how long it would take the first time.

This is my chemo-free week, and my appointment next Thursday is just for the monthly injection.  Easy peasy.

My sister and brother in law are en-route to France right now.  I hope we get to join the ranks of international travelers in the family next year!