Welll here we are....
Dec. 4th, 2023 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukIts been a minute since I updated. oops. But we had the week of crazy at work before the Thanksgiving holiday. We traveled to Seattle early on Saturday the 18th, waited for the BIL/SIL to get in. I had rental car shenanigans that i had to deal with but we got all 7 of us loaded into the suburban. Can I say how much I hate not being able to rent through National for work anymore? We have to use Avis and they just suck. Anyhoo, we got out of seattle, grabbed lunch for the South Carolina family and then wound our way up through mountain passes into the high desert that is NE Washington State. We got in just at dinner time which was nice. Momma Ellen looked really good and we had a nice evening of chatting and getting things organized for what we needed to do in the morning for food shopping etc. We meal planned for the week. We spent the week doing things around the house for Mom. Well Mel and Rob did. I cooked a lot and crafted on mel's socks...though I never finished one. It was seriously in a time loop of knitting. I was not sleeping well most of the week and then got a bad asthma cough. Which resulted in me getting a chest issue when we got back. But we had a nice visit. did a bit of antiquing on our way back.
So the rental car had all of the bells and whistles but the main system for the electronics kept glitching and I couldn't use the onboard nav or the sound system. We had a ceiling piece come off on my nehpew from the middle third row seatbelt well and there was a piece of trim in the back that would not go down. I dropped folks off at the hotel at the airport and then went to return the rental car. It was about 20F and windy with the sea chill in the air. I got the car into the return line but pulled all the way to the front so they would have to deal with me first. I talked with the manager and explained and showed him the issues. They rebated me 110$ off the rental which was really nice. still a PITA to deal with. Then I had the fun of getting bussed to the airport, then I had to weave my way through the under construction section, to a skybridge, through a light rail station and finally out into the street to walk to my hotel a block down. It was chilly. I had my hat, half gloves and my thermal shirt but I was super chilled when I arrived at out table for dinner. We had adjoining rooms with the family so that was nice as well all cycled through showers and good byes. They had to get up at 4am to catch their flight.
SEA-TAC had their shit in a sock and you ahd to go down an escalator and then up stairs to get into the line for the security. Oh, well but once we got to security it went pretty quickly. Benton's backpack got pulled for a bag of rocks. Lol. But all good. We got to our gate and then I foraged for food. Benton wwanted subway for breakfast. Sighs. But I got that and coffees and some local cheese stick for mel. Mel went back and got a small cooler of cheese from Beechers Cheese. Our flight was good. I slept for most of it and that was also good as breathing sucked.
But we all managed to relax and get ready for Monday. I was beat...my blood ox was hovering around 92. I took it easy for the next few days and felt better. Did not go into work but Wednesday night Mel started coming down with something... Not my thing..I have no head congestion just the cough and some phlegm that Mucinex helps with. Benton has also had the same thing as mel but not so bad. He's been tired and snuffly but able to stay awake etc. Mel has has momemts of sleep. Spicy has been very happy to have snuggly humans and has been snuggling under blankets at times. I've had some bouts with insomnia and been up with her snuggling my feet on the couch. Insomnia is keeping me stressing about things with my mother's estate. The probate has brought up things we thought were handled and then they canceled her 401k at work and I had to scramble to get that sorted and moved to an inherited IRA at a different place. I hate the fact that my mother's generation was to have money ferreted away in way too many places and I have to track it all and I'd love to have it all in one place but isn't a possibility. Additionally, she had stocks in 2 different ethanol plants and I'm now the owner of shares and oof. For a woman who bitched and scrimped about money she sure had it handled. Sighs. Grumble...flail. Ugh. and inherited IRAs suck cause I have to dispense with them by 10 years from her date of death. That is a lot of paperwork to deal with. Sighs and that is not including the land issue. sighs.
Anyhoo...I've done a bit of reading and knitting.
For reading I finally finished #36 The Enchantress which was meh. I finished it cause I was curious but not curious enough to read the next 4 books.
#37 was The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire
#38 was Hell Bent by Devon Monk
I will start #39 tonight which is Lore Olympus #5. I will see what I will read after that. I have new T. Kingfisher, an other series to start and yeah. We shall see what is my fancy.
The ankle has been stiff and aggravated by my good tennis shoes. Anything that touches or rubs against the ankle at the point to attach the tendon it gets irritated. I need to research to find out what the heck.
So the rental car had all of the bells and whistles but the main system for the electronics kept glitching and I couldn't use the onboard nav or the sound system. We had a ceiling piece come off on my nehpew from the middle third row seatbelt well and there was a piece of trim in the back that would not go down. I dropped folks off at the hotel at the airport and then went to return the rental car. It was about 20F and windy with the sea chill in the air. I got the car into the return line but pulled all the way to the front so they would have to deal with me first. I talked with the manager and explained and showed him the issues. They rebated me 110$ off the rental which was really nice. still a PITA to deal with. Then I had the fun of getting bussed to the airport, then I had to weave my way through the under construction section, to a skybridge, through a light rail station and finally out into the street to walk to my hotel a block down. It was chilly. I had my hat, half gloves and my thermal shirt but I was super chilled when I arrived at out table for dinner. We had adjoining rooms with the family so that was nice as well all cycled through showers and good byes. They had to get up at 4am to catch their flight.
SEA-TAC had their shit in a sock and you ahd to go down an escalator and then up stairs to get into the line for the security. Oh, well but once we got to security it went pretty quickly. Benton's backpack got pulled for a bag of rocks. Lol. But all good. We got to our gate and then I foraged for food. Benton wwanted subway for breakfast. Sighs. But I got that and coffees and some local cheese stick for mel. Mel went back and got a small cooler of cheese from Beechers Cheese. Our flight was good. I slept for most of it and that was also good as breathing sucked.
But we all managed to relax and get ready for Monday. I was beat...my blood ox was hovering around 92. I took it easy for the next few days and felt better. Did not go into work but Wednesday night Mel started coming down with something... Not my thing..I have no head congestion just the cough and some phlegm that Mucinex helps with. Benton has also had the same thing as mel but not so bad. He's been tired and snuffly but able to stay awake etc. Mel has has momemts of sleep. Spicy has been very happy to have snuggly humans and has been snuggling under blankets at times. I've had some bouts with insomnia and been up with her snuggling my feet on the couch. Insomnia is keeping me stressing about things with my mother's estate. The probate has brought up things we thought were handled and then they canceled her 401k at work and I had to scramble to get that sorted and moved to an inherited IRA at a different place. I hate the fact that my mother's generation was to have money ferreted away in way too many places and I have to track it all and I'd love to have it all in one place but isn't a possibility. Additionally, she had stocks in 2 different ethanol plants and I'm now the owner of shares and oof. For a woman who bitched and scrimped about money she sure had it handled. Sighs. Grumble...flail. Ugh. and inherited IRAs suck cause I have to dispense with them by 10 years from her date of death. That is a lot of paperwork to deal with. Sighs and that is not including the land issue. sighs.
Anyhoo...I've done a bit of reading and knitting.
For reading I finally finished #36 The Enchantress which was meh. I finished it cause I was curious but not curious enough to read the next 4 books.
#37 was The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire
#38 was Hell Bent by Devon Monk
I will start #39 tonight which is Lore Olympus #5. I will see what I will read after that. I have new T. Kingfisher, an other series to start and yeah. We shall see what is my fancy.
The ankle has been stiff and aggravated by my good tennis shoes. Anything that touches or rubs against the ankle at the point to attach the tendon it gets irritated. I need to research to find out what the heck.
