Still more stuff

Condo closing did not happen while Dean and I were in Florida but all the papers were signed in the lawyer's office and the closing happens sans everyone's presence the next week. $$ received and put in the bank. WE had a good visit there, nothing startling happened and had some good dinners out. Daddy using wheel chair as much as possible.

I arranged for him to get some physical therapy for his foot and also for an additional aide to come in from 4-8 p.m. This is to help them down to dinner, back up, and to get ma ready for bed - help her undress really.

Called them yesterday and told them I want to buy them a new mattress for ma so she could get into bed easier. She said no, she doesn't want to spend the money but I think I will do it next week when i go there anyway. She has given her bed to daddy since it is closer to the bathroom and he can hardly walk. So now she is in the even higher bed (the one with the castors still on).

Accidentally got up a 4? am this morning. Thought it was 6 am. Barn show today. I'm glad I decided not to be in it because something is causing me to have a runny nose. allergic to something going on in the air.

Breakfast room curtains came and I love them. For all the money I paid though, I think they could have been sewed a little better. I will not have this lady make me anything else. When the chairs come back from being re-covered and I get the pics framed, I will really like it. The can lights over the table are nice too.

Deciding not to take tile out of master bath as the headache of the actual picking out and work being done seems too too much to cope with. Will do the counter top, sinks, and sink and shower fixtures. (may change my mind heh)

Waiting for landscaper's bid. Will probably just do the front yard and maybe the side and do the back ourselves. We already worked in the back yard 2 afternoons and it already looks a little better.

I want to move to RI in a way but I don't want to leave my riding teacher. I will never find anyone else like her. She is so patient, so good at teaching! I can ask her anything and she will consider it and discuss it!!!! She has removed W's flash noseband at my request. We are working on my posting trot a lot and also the left shoulder problem. Another good thing is that she can demonstrate horse or rider's actions with her own body so that the problems make perfect sense. And never in a critical humiliating way. I wish I could be like that.

Back to moving, my greatest wish is to move near the kids. I miss them a lot. I would love to talk to them every day but haha, they have their own lives and so I leave them be for the most part. It's silly anyway, long distance sucks. But my parents are not long for this world and even though their physical needs are being taken care of (not sure what's going on with daddy's foot), they are all alone. The day after Dean and I came back from seeing them, Jeanne asked me what I had done because they seemed much more normal!! It was only the stimulation of family activity and being around people in a group. Plus they are spending a lot of money on things that J or I could do for them if we were all in RI.

Would I like the cold weather again?? It is so beautiful here in the fall. Perfect temp, not too many bugs, and now that I'm not working (YAY!), I have time to be outside and enjoy it. I have the feeling that I am on an inevitable path to move there now that it has been mentioned as a possibility. It does seem to make perfect sense. Lilacs, rhododendrons (sp?), beach, restaurants, Italian food stores, relatives I would like to get to know, helping J out with her life, pussy willows!!!!! I would have no hesitation if it were not for my riding and my ultimate goal of moving to CA. It would be so wonderful to be able to see all of them whenever!

OH is in MD visiting his mother and hopefully helping her sort out her financial situation. She stonewalls him tho and he is too meek to insist. :P:P:P:P

L's doctor thinks she has a spinal injury. I think she is glad to have someone finally figure things out so we will see what happens. Naturally, I wish I were there to give some support and help, but I'm in fucking Houston.