In the Books

This is it! The day I begin the final exam. I’ve scheduled myself to start at 8:30 this morning with a break for lunch and a walk somewhere around midday to fluff up my buns. I’ll be shouting over the roof tops when that baby is done.

I took the weekend to do my own thing and one of those things was to travel around the countryside in search of a place to move to. Absolutely no luck so far. We left home with a list of open houses we thought we could check out but we only went inside one of them and this one only because it was the last one on our list and we thought, what the hell, why not? All the others we went to we only had to drive by and we knew it wouldn’t work for us.

And the prices!! Oh my gawd! They are outrageous. I can’t believe what some people are asking for properties. The one we actually did go into was selling for $225,000.00 and it was an old run down place with ceilings about to come down, crooked walls and floors that made one lose their balance. It had the railroad track on one side and the highway on the other side. It needed major repairs and was almost unfit to live in as it was. Right now I have no idea where we are going to live once we leave here.

I also went to see Mom yesterday. She was adamant that I untie her belt in her wheel chair and no matter how I tried to distract her from that she kept coming back to it like she was stuck on that track.

“But Mom”, I said, if you don’t have your seat belt on the cops are going to give you a ticket. You know it’s the law to wear your seat belt now.” But she wouldn’t buy it. “I’m 185 years old”, she said, “and I still can’t do what I want.” At which point we both had a good laugh as she knew she wasn’t that old but that’s just the way it came out.

That’s often what happens now. What comes out doesn’t always match what she means to say. It’s as if some things don’t quite connect somehow and things come out in a scrambled kind of way. Sort of like how I respond after a day with my head in the books.