12/2023 Fredag the 15th -- Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

International Tea Day

Today's Name Day is Gottfrid

    Not a wonderful day.   Could have been much worse but still bad. 

    Started the day with my phone company calling saying my credit card was overdrawn.   It was not.   I just paid it off but my card is not working correctly.   I knew I was a going to have to call them & today was the day.  

    Called them around 930am.   A very nice lady helped me.   She had an accent but not sure what kind.    I understood her ok & we even laughed at a few jokes we told.   She tried her best to help me but just could not.   But she took all my information plus a screen shot that I sent to her.   She gathered all the information & sent it to other workers who hopefully know how to fix my account.   She said she would email me when they were ready.   Apparently they are not ready today.   Hopefully tomorrow.   All my bills are paid for by that card.   Then once a month I pay it off,   My stress level was sky high.   I missed lunch with MM & skipped supper with JR.   Not in the mood to get dressed to go out.   Sorry for others but I do what I can.

    Nico & I napped on the sofa.   I set my alarm for every 45 minutes so I would not miss my email if it happened.   Totally gave up near 430pm.

    It started raining  around 10pm last night.   Rained most of the night & today.   The last time I was out it was still raining but the radar shows it has probably quit now.   Forecasting rain next week & on Christmas.   No snow though.   God forbid I could enjoy some snow.   I don't get a real Christmas.   I do not think a white Christmas is too much to ask.   But apparently it is.

    I am doing a fund raiser for the Old Mill Museum. People buy a membership & the Mill gets 3x that amount.  We are at 40% of our goal.   That is so exciting.   I gave them permission to use my name.   But.   Only 3 people have said anything nice to me about it.   One friend who lives in Denmark,  My former boss & her daughter.   No other friends or family have made a comment.   I chose not to tell family who live away from here.   I doubt they would care.   We rarely see each other.   Oh well.    I did not agree to do this for them.   It is for the Mill & for my own sense of what is right & good,

    I was not going to watch Home Alone 2 this year but I am watching the end of it,   The only thing that made me laugh today!   Next is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas.   Have several Christmas movies taped.   Need to watch them.   Or it will be Valentine's Day & I will still watching them.

    I opened a box in the living room yesterday.   Never got it taken out to the trash.   Then I picked up trash around the house & set the bag on the box..   Kisse climbed in & you could not see her.   Could just hear the paper rattling around.   She napped there all day!   Must have been cozy!!

    The julbock in Gälve Sweden is doing good,   But the birds are damaging it but eating the seeds on it,   It is covered in wheat,   It is usually destroyed by fire but this year it is the birds!!

    Photos are seasonal.   Some I took, others are not mine.   

    The Santa is the best Santa ever.   His sister (my aunt) made is costume.   He passed away recently.   A sad loss.

    The tree is from a game I play.   Start with a bare tree & then earn points to decorate the tree.   Thought it looked pretty good so I saved a photo of it.

     The stuffed animal is a gift from a dear friend I took to the airport when he went back home to Brazil.   It has on a Bethany College tee shirt from our local college.   He played soccer there.   I sure miss him.   But we chat sometime.