First Day With a New List of Goals

I was going to make this my day for working on my "part-time job" of producing cards. However, this morning after checking my emails and answering phone calls, and a very frustrating hour of trying to send documents as PDF files to my sister, I discovered THIS.

 I don't know if you can see this very well, but the pine tongue-in-grove planks on the back of the ceiling were coming down. I mean, it didn't look like anything was holding them  up. If I didn't take each plank down myself, one at a time, the whole thing would come down on top of someone. I have no idea why they came away from the ceiling. They were not glued up there, like they should have been, but there were several finishing nails in each of the planks. Rick and a friend of his put them up years ago.  I will certainly need someone's help to put the ceiling back up. I took this photo after I had removed about half the planks. Anyways, the day could only get better from here. I made a change of plans and decided that Thursday will be my day to work on cards.

Today is  Wednesday and I need to put out the garbage and the recycling tonight. I have one garbage tag left from 2017, so I don't need to buy any this week. 

The day started out snowy again, although it has since stopped. I knew I had to pick up a prescription  in Amerstview and I like to group errands together. I need to buy groceries some time this week but the grocery store in Amerstview is NOT a discount grocery store. So I asked the drug store  to deliver my prescription  to me. It is a free service that I have never used before but I decided it was well worth the $4 tip I gave the driver for my pills to be delivered to me. I have enough meals available that I don't need to go shopping for a couple of days.

I also wanted to go to the Dollar Store to pick up a new 2018 Agenda like the one I used last year. I decided against it after I printed out a free January calendar from an on-line site.

I made a pot of soup with some beef broth that was in my freezer and added some fried hamburger, dried onion flakes,chopped celery, diced carrot, tomato, burgundy beans and cauliflower (all from the freezer). This pot of soup will do my lunches for several days.

I called my cable provider and downgraded my phone plan and cancelled my cable TV. Since discovering Netflix, I haven't watched much television (except for the news) for most of this  year. My monthly payment for phone and internet will be $123.10, saving me  $47.46 a month. WooHoo.

I walked to the post office and picked up my mail. I received two more Christmas presents. What a lovely surprise. I was told they were coming by mail but I had completely forgotten about  them.

Another Michael's gift card "to feed my addiction."

A "Just Because Box" from one of my nieces, filled with pampering all natural bath and body products ( a bath bomb, body balm, solid perfume, and love those socks). It is one of 3 boxes that are due to arrive in the next 3 months. The "Just Because Box" is shipped out from a company in Texas. This will be so much fun. My niece told me that my gift also includes a weekend of pampering in Ottawa (where she lives) when we get a chance to set a date.

So now I am off to make dinner of a sausage casserole. I cannot believe another day has gone by and it is getting dark again already. The street lamps are on, as well as my outdoor Christmas lights. I had intended to unplug them on New Year's Day, but the snow has been deep and I haven't made the trek across the front snow banks yet. I'll have to get it done soon.