A Day in the Life

This is Wednesday November 23, 2016 and last night it was medication with Ida. I took inventory of the laundry. I made out a list on a fresh slip of paper. I did one of the sloppiest jobs ever of cutting up a typewriter sheet into quarters. That pack is a lot thinner now. It was ABC network news and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune followed by NCIS. I got up at 5:15 but couldn’t take a shower because the towel was in the laundry. I was cold outside even with a jacket. Maybe it was just me or else inadequate blankets. Cigarettes were hard to come by. I looked at the medication line twice with April and it was just too long. Denise returned the laundry basket at ten to seven. Everything was there. I turned on Democracy Now and then Stephanie Miller. I went to the store a little after seven and spent my last dollar on a cup of coffee I took into the dining room. This breakfast proved to be a record setter in terms of delay of meals is concerned. We had oatmeal for the second day in a row and already things were showing indications of being really slow. I only got a half a bowl and worried it would be another day of shrunken portions. We had scrambled egg and not much of that. We had toast and butter but no jelly. I entered the dining room at ten after seven and left it about 8:25. We didn’t get our main plate till 8:10 and didn’t get our coffee till 8:20. Pretty much a record.

Then I got in line with the cigarette people. I was curious whether I’d gotten the pink lifeline envelope in the mail because it was already late. It always arrived before Thanksgiving. It wassn’t there but I did get a notice from the phone company dated November 11th stating that my application to end auto bank account deduction. That was a load off my mind. I called Judy and told her and also mentioned the life line thing. I gave Judy a number to call because she said she could do it better. But she was on the phone a long time with people and called me back in frustration that she couldn’t get confirmation on anything. I rummaged through my files and came up with a pink envelope from way earlier this year, from February 2916, and it said that the thing went into effect February 24th 2016, which would mean I’m covered for another three months. I hope that’s true. I also told Sarah about the sink again. This time she called Augustine and eventually Augustine made his way to this room and unclogged the sink and adjusted something underneath the sink so the drain stopper was open properly. I wanted to get Nora to give me a thicker bed spread. I saw a bed spread that looked a whole lot like the one I used to own and mentioned it to Nora. She babbled something and said “I’m changing the linen” and so I left and this was after ten. I didn’t go for refreshments. I think I had Rush Limbaugh on sometime in the morning. You guessed it. She didn’t put on a new bedspread.

We had a fairly decent lunch. It was rather salty pork with actual soy sauce and pasta that was half way decent I sort of mixed together. We had carrots with that. In the morning I ate the green apple Bill gave me. I also used the last of the old instant coffee early morning. This noon we had grapes for dessert. I think I had Gary and Shannon on. Phyllis Green agreed to lend me four dollars but I didn’t spend it and still haven’t. I watched over half of Days of our Lives and then went down to check on my ride to the dentist. There was a lot of scurrying around in the office and me and Patty were being ignored. Eventually Sarah heard what I was saying and told Federico and Federico ended up taking me to the dentist. I didn’t have any cigarettes with me. The getting of the permanent crown took a little longer. But my ride was waiting for me because Federico just went to Burger King and then circled back and waited in the office. They took more X rays. Dr Bui stated that she would not use permanent cement because she still suspects I might need a root canal. That was a real come-down. She wants to see me again in three months so I have to worry about the crown falling out all that time. I have an appointment for mid February. Back here I decided to use my debit card and buy a small jar of instant coffee. They were out of the five dollar jars. I also got cigarettes and a red cigarette lighter. Phyllis wants me to not lend out cigarettes to others, which makes sense. I haven’t used any of Phyllis’s four dollars yet. I haven’t decided how I’ll spend that.

This is after dinner. Donald Trump’s restored Hollywood star is featured on Eye Witness news. Bill complains of it being cold in here now. When I hit the open menu the whole thing came in black. It finally straightened out. Bill had Eye Witness news on at the three o clock hour. Dinner was a real delayed affair. We had hamburgers and cut up boiled potato. They had advertised French fries. You could already observe it getting dark outside with a cloud bank. We didn’t leave the dining room till ten to five. There were no seconds and I checked the counter twice. Jeff was also turned down. We had chocolate pudding for dessert. Donald Trump has appointed Nicky Haley to Ambassador to the UN and some other woman as Secretary of Education. Neither was a Trump supporter during the primary campaign. Nicky Haley supported Rubio and made that major TV speech against Trump in prime time. The other lady supported Kasich. Trump was interviewing for Secretary of Defense and apparently hasn’t chosen anyone yet. However Trump talked to someone who talked him out of water-boarding.