It was a week with a mix of all things including working some at my old job, taking next steps on medicare, attempting to do my civic duty, having some social fun and even learning something.
I got a call from Dana Monday morning about a problem with grad allocations. I had documented those to the Nth degree and she'd followed all the directions but something was wrong. We slogged through everything and, of course, it ended up being something that had never happened in the 20+ years I'd done them. After working all morning, I rewarded myself with a chicken finger lunch from DQ. I did some laundry and ended the day knitting with friends.
On the medicare front, I made an appointment with my GP to discuss my medications because if they were going to change, which she'd mentioned they might last winter, I'd need to know that before signing up for my Rx plan and I also wanted to get another 3 month refill before I was done with my COBRA through UNL. She was fine with leaving them as is so I made an appointment for next week with the agent who was helping me with medicare sign up. Cross that off the list.
We had our first chance of a frost so I covered my plants on 2 different nights and they all survived just fine. I'd have to bring the ones I want to overwinter in soon but wasn't ready so was happy the covering worked.
I signed up to phone bank for Dan Osborn, who is running against our awful senator, Pete Rickets. I signed onto a zoom for orientation and then attempted to do the calls, which are done through an app with a script for what to say. The first caller couldn't hear me so the guy had me try doing the audio through my phone instead of my computer. That didn't work either so after a 3rd failed call, he told me that he was just filling in for the regular person and couldn't fix my problem so I called it good. I tried!
I had a fun day on Halloween. Darla was off so I met her at my favorite breakfast place in Lincoln - Cook's Cafe, which has the best sausage links. We chatted over breakfast then hit Goodwill and Dollar Tree before parting ways. I then went grocery shopping and even bought Halloween candy. I haven't handed it out in years but had a fire laid and planned to put the firepit at the bottom of the driveway and hand out candy from there. Alas, the wind picked up that evening so I couldn't light the fire so I gave up. We get very few kids walking the streets anyway because they all go to Boo in Wahoo at the fairgrounds. Oh well.
I had a relaxing weekend with knitting, doing the tallies for my sock group and starting new challenge socks (a 1st day of the month thing), doing some chores and chatting with friends/family. I did go out Sunday afternoon to a program at the library on Forts on the Missouri by a local historian. It was interesting for sure and it was great to end the week learning something. It was warm enough that I had tea on my garden bench after the program.
So, a nice week, right? I love a good mix of things and it was the perfect amount of busy - not too much and plenty of time for relaxing. Hopefully I'll have more weeks like this soon. In the meantime, here's a pretty sunset pic I took out my windy.
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