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I reblog here some great memories from 2014 in September. This is soon going to be ten years ago!
Kaum zu Glauben!! I can hardly believe that so much time has elapsed since then. In seven months I am going to be on a cruise. My daughter Monika booked yesterday a three bedroom cabin on a cruise ship called ‘Carnival’. The cruise is going to last for nine days. I am going to celebrate my 90th birthday on that ship. How exciting!
My internet does not work properly. This is why I have not published anything for a while. If I cannot find anyone to put everything in order so that I can use my computer without major difficulties then maybe I’ll have to give up using my computer. How on earth can a computer expert come to my house? How do I find an expert.
My social life goes now better and better in an old fashioned way! Technology is just not for me anymore. At least I can still use my landline phone!
I have better bowel movements since I started taking MOVICOL I take it first thing every morning. My morning routine includes a cup of tea, a banana and some other fruit. After a wash or shower with nice warm water I get dressed and hopefully can go for a little walk. Later on I usually cook myself a nice breakfast. Often this nice breakfast is enough to have with it a second breakfast (Brunch) as well.
What do I do over one week? A normal week goes like this:
Mondays I get three hours home help, that is the home help comes at 9,30 AM and leaves at 12,30 PM. Tuesdays I do in the morning whatever I feel like doing. Wednesdays I join a STABILITY EXERCISE class at CITOS Bowling Club, with coffee and talking after the class and sometimes lunch at the Club as well. Thursdays my daughter Monika usually picks me up to take me out for lunch with her grandkids. Fridays I go to the CITOS CLUB again early in the morning. Sometimes I have have a lunch special again at the Club. From 2PM on I play SCRABBLE and Rummy with some of my friends.
What happens on the weekend? Saturday/Sunday I usually have totally to myself unless a family outing has been planned.
To have to be ready at a certain time, I find demanding, since it takes me up to two hours to get ready! I do everything so very slowly and often keep running out of time. But I am very happy that I can stilll live on my own.
Tomorrow, Monday, the 12th of February, is the funeral of my neighbour Barbara, who passed away on the first of February.
My home help stays with me until 12,30PM. This is the time when I’ll be ready to be taken to the funeral which starts at 1,30PM in Kiama. Two of my very kind neighbours are going to take me to the funeral.
I just noticed that granddaughter Natasha sent me some pictures that she took yesterday. They are pictures with me and great-grandson Nash. Unfortunately I do not know how to copy a picture and insert it into a WordPress blog. Somebody would have to help me with that!
I am looking forward to start the Stability Exercise Class again. The class is at the CITOS club today at 10 AM. After the class we stay for coffee with a bit of nice talking.
I thought yesterday Dapto would have no electricity for most of the day. But the planned outing was cancelled. They are going to do it some other day. It has to do with mantaining the aging power lines.
My deck looks good at the moment for yesterday after the rain I busied myself with sone good sweeping away all that water. I love doing this. It is so relaxing! Of course I do it very slowly. I felt good staying on my own yesterday. Spending a lot of extra time in the kitchen as well as on the computer was good. So, so I managed to write several longer emails to keep in touch with some family members. Among other things a trip to Sydney visiting daughter Caroline and son-in-law Matthew might happen soon as well as a meeting with granddaughter Lauren and her friend Aaron. Actually, I received a very nice email from Lauren yesterday and answered it straight away. I haven’t seen dear Lauren for several years, but hope to meet up with her soon. It is not so easy to keep in touch when everyone is always very busy. There seem to be less and less old people left that I can keep in touch with on a regular basis. So, this is the way it is, that old retired people are getting less and less. Still, most of us do not pass away early. We live longer and longer than ever before.
It is so good to see the younger people being adventurous and keeping themselves very busy. I an happy to stand back now and do a lot of reflecting about old times. So far I still have great memories about my life. When I cannot remember something all that well anymore, I like to look up what I have written about certain incidents and may have published in WordPress. I look and look for a special blog. I seem to remember that I had published a blog with pictures about a lovely outing many years ago. So, why is this blog not there anymore? I take hours wanting to find it. But it is just not there anymore!
Walking is so good for me!
I am happy that I managed to walk a lot these last few days, well whatever is a lot for me. On Sunday I had this walk to the pool and back. Yesterday, on Monday, I had my homehelp coming in the morning as is usual on any Monday that does not happen to be a Public Holoday. So I had dear Summah with me yesterday. I always enjoy her presence. She is such good company and does so much for me during the three hours she stays with me. Yesterday she dropped me off at 12,30 to get my hair done. I have a hairdresser’s appointment every four weeks now. It is so good to get my hair washed and blowdried by my marvellous hairdresser. Yesterday she did a bit of haircutting again too. Also, there is always a lot of talking going on at the hairdresser’s. I find it is good for me to find opportunities for some talking. So, my lovely hairdresser did a good job again. Her shop is not far away from the Shopping Center at the Dapto Mall. So I could easily walk to the Mall with my rollator to have some lunch at a cafe called the shed. The other day I had looked at a blog of mine that was about ten years old and where I mention a nice meal I had in Berry with Peter, my husband. We always loved a trip to Berry. As a meal that day we both happened to choose Eggs Benedict with lovely crusty rye bred. Yesterday at the shed I daringly went for Eggs Benedict in rememberace of that lovely meal at Berry. To my surprise I did get exceptionelly good Eggs Benedict served. They were as good as the ones that we had in Berry the way I remember it.
Yesterday was an extremely hot and humid day. So, I was happy to stay for many hours in and near the the Shopping Center, doing a lot of walking as well as a bit of shopping. After an exhausting day I took a taxi home. After a lot of sleep, I feel refreshed this morning.
Yesterday was a very hot day. So, I went to the Swimming Pool Centre here in Dapto, NSW. Arriving at 11AM, I had a lovely time and stayed at the pools for exactly four hours. I had been walking there with my rollator (walker with wheels). With a few rests on the way it took me quite a while to get there. The place was filled with a lot of children of all ages as well as young adults and of course some older people too. There seemed to be mothers and fathers with babies and toddlers everywhere. Also plenty of lifeguards were keeping an eye on the place, which was a very peaceful place as far as I could tell.
Apart from the Olympic Pool there is another quite large pool where the water is not very deep. Young and old took a chance to relax in it. Also there was no problem to stay out of the sun in nice shady partitions and in beauifully kept grass under shady trees. People are very concious these days that they should not expose their skin to the sun for too long.
With a lot of relaxing on that beautiful summer day, I felt actually well enough in the afternoon to walk all the way to CITOS Bowling Club which is very near to where I live. So, I stayed at the club for a lovely dinner: I had braised fish and salad and a glass of wine. Just wonderful! I liked the fish very much. It was the very best of fish.
Yesterday there was no pool entrance fee charged. How amazing, for usually to be admitted to that beautiful pool area does cost quite a lot. Another plus was that the Kiosk was open. I started with having some ice cream. Later on I had some hot chips and a coffee. I also bought a nicely chilled bottle of water. And I had brought a packet of chilled apple juice with me. By the way, at the club I had another coffee. I was very happy that I was able to consume this and that all through the day. I really felt on top of the world. To enjoy food and drink is still one of my top pleasures. However, these days I never do eat too much. I always stop eating when I feel I had enough. My fish for dinner was quite a large piece. It turned out I had no problem eating all of it! It just melted in my mouth and was not too much at all. Together with some nice fresh salad it was really a very good meal for me.
Whenever I moved around with my rollator, or frollicked in the swimming pool, people would caution their children to keep out of my way. And they would always refer to me as ‘lady’. Whenever people would feel they might have obstructed my movements a bit, they would immediately be very appologetic! And there were always people offering help when they noticed that I might need some help.
All around it is really not that bad to be very aged, when people are that kind. I find, all I need to do is be grateful for their kindness.
I do not know when was the last time I wrote something for the Diary. It seems it may have been quite some time ago. My life is pretty good right now; and the way I cope with everything is getting better. It is so good, that I can still look after myself. Sure, I do need a bit of extra help, and with advancing age the help I do need is likely to increase. However, any extra help I get I accept gracefully now. Yes, I find it liberating to be able to say thank you to everyone who gives me some help. Actually, there are many people who always want to help when they see I might need some help.
One daughter of mine struggles with some health issues right now, and I pray for her that she gets better soon. The rest of the family is doing well. The younger daughter came visiting me yesterday with her family. They stayed ar my place for three hours. We all had a good time and talked a lot. I always feel good when I can talk a lot of different people. We were four adults and a sweet little boy who had fun exploring my place. The visitors had brought a very good lunch along and did all the catering for me. This felt so good to have a perfect lunch ar home for all of us. The daughter, son-in-law and son-in-laws son they all did their share to bring all the great food to the table. And later on they cleared everything away and did the dishes always working together in unison. I stayed out of their way. However I had always someone to talk to.
Son-in-law made the coffee and served it for all of us outside to the table. It was good to sit outside on the deck where the table was covered a bit with some awning and an umbrella. The air was lovely fresh. There was only a little bit of rain and sometimes a slight breeze.
Today are the tennis finals which I am going to watch now.
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