Today Has Been Better

It figures the last day he's here we actually get productive and on a passable wavelength. Better late than never, though. The bad news? The large policy pay out may be delayed months because it was less than two years old. That could delay my ability to move, thus the ability to sell the house. I was very down about that. Went to the home improvement store and sawed wood. That improved my mood. Got the moulding needed for nearly all of the rooms so I won't have to wait on brother for that supply run. That's good. Supposedly the car will "for sure" be done today. They found a bad O2 sensor causing the check engine light to come on. One of the O2 sensors, that car has four, was replaced just back in August. They want to charge extra. They are truly EVIL. I hope the car is available. The small insurance check has not yet appeared in my account balance. Maybe tomorrow. Anyway, because of the large check delay I can look forward to an easy April, perhaps an easy May financially but that's when it gets tightened up.

We were going to go out for lunch but did the home improvement run first and came back here for lunch. That's good I had bought a sandwich yesterday at the grocery. It was indulgent but tasty. The garage is fairly much nailed down with much staging of items for a yard sale. So it turned out that while clearing the patio room, the room he thought was too much effort days ago, we found a box of dust masks identical to the ones he bitched about needed yesterday that I ultimately paid for. He's gone off to the grocery for more water. Not that he didn't buy water yesterday or that there isn't gallons of water in the house. Who knows if that's why he's really gone out. That's fine if he needs a break.

Karma might've bit his ass--if that was you, Mother: thanks! His hard disk crashed on his laptop; he's inconvenienced and having to use the Mac to check his email. He didn't lose anything really as he had just synced before leaving.

Tomorrow my uncle will come and pick me and Mother up and we'll go out to the cemetery. He wanted to be there for the placement so we arranged that on his day off. The SIL is watching all the kids so it'll probably just be me, uncle and brother. Perhaps (doubtfully) the neighbor as well but I understand, and know Mother would, his inability to go since he's caring for his wife. I didn't get my hair cut and I am not sure what I'll wear. Maybe I'll "dress up" or maybe I'll try to figure what Mother would prefer. Today marked one month. It doesn't seem so long. Not nearly! It still isn't entirely real to me. I was up and caught Vegas skulking around. We were in the kitchen, appropriately, when the time came. That was Mother's hang out. I guess I should spend some time talking to her tonight. It'll be the very last time I have with her. Cleaning out I've turned up some things that I'd forgotten about, some things we had just gotten, even a brand new picnic set we were going to use when we took brother and the nephew to Phoenix for baseball spring training. Alas, that was to happen this past weekend. There's a twinge of bitterness.

The cat hasn't eaten in at least a day. She's hiding in my bedroom. She's scared by Vegas' phlegm problem which is like when people try to get a really huge wad of spit going. It's grotesque. He's been a bit less diva today. Will try to blog more. Will definitely make point of blogging tomorrow after service and things.