There are times when I swear my mother's
condition is contagious, and I have caught it. Yesterday was one of
those days. She is forever telling me that she feels like things are
wrong, that she should be doing something, but she can't remember what.
I felt that way yesterday. It's impossible to describe exactly what it
felt like, but all I know is that I understood for the first time what my
mother must be feeling.
Physically, I was still feeling a bit rocky
and didn't feel like eating, so had very little to eat throughout the day.
But my brain just didn't kick into gear most
of the day. First I had to solve a banking problem. I got my
Visa bill and it showed that I had not paid last month's bill. That
seemed impossible. I always pay the bill in full. How could I
have not? I knew I had paid the bill because when I deposited a
check a couple of days before, I only had about $300 in my account, which is
what I should have had at the end of the month before my Social Security
check is deposited. If I had not paid my bill, I should have had a lot
more.
I started trying to figure it out. This
is the kind of thing that I am not very good at, but as I started checking
my bank statement on line, I realized that there is no way I could have paid
the bill because I am now using the laptop and didn't have the passwords to
get into the account and had to talk with someone at the bank to get my
log-in information. If I had paid the bill last month, I would have
already set all of this up.
OK. so I didn't pay the bill...but
where was the money I should have had?
It took a long time, but I finally figured it
out. I had deposited a check into my checking account at the end of
the year and then took a portion of that check and transferred it into my
savings account. The transfer showed, but the deposit did not.
What happened to the money? After a long, frustrating time, I finally
checked my savings account and it turned out I had deposited it into that
account...and then transferred money from my checking account into my
savings account, leaving very little in the checking account.
I was relieved to have solved the mystery,
not happy that for the first time I have a fee on my Visa bill, but as soon
as my Social Security check arrives, I can pay the double bill and be back
on track.
In the afternoon, I went to the store to do
some shopping. "Just a couple of things." First I had a check to
deposit and in using the ATM machine managed to indicate that I wanted the
transaction to be conducted in Spanish.
I got my "couple" of things and checked out.
When Walt and I were first married, I remember I had $20 a week for
household expenses. I could fill up four bags of groceries for that
amount. Today, 4 bags of groceries came to over $150. Good thing
I wasn't doing a "big" shopping.
But as I shopped, I was feeling less and less
well. I was having pains in my stomach, and my back was killing me, so
when I got home I put all the refrigerated or frozen stuff in the fridge and
then climbed into the recliner and went to sleep for an hour or so.
Several years ago, I wrote an entry called
"Pancakes," which is probably my classic TMI entry, but it detailed a sticky
situation and how my traditional remedy for constipation was pancakes with
lots of butter and syrup. Works every time.
So for dinner, I had waffles with lots of
butter and syrup and a couple of hours later I felt a bit better.
It was just a strange day all around. I think
my brain finally cleared by the end of the day, but I'm not sure.
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