I’m off work for a vacation day today in order to get a head start on lots of laboring. Additionally, my new dishwasher was delivered and installed this morning. Completely cleaned the kitchen last night to get ready for today, so it’s very nice having a new dishwasher in a clean kitchen! The only bad part was the installation charge. Since my old hookups were not “up to code”, it cost me an additional $178 for the installation. I really had no choice. It was either pay them or they would leave the dishwasher and I would have to hire someone else to do the connecting. The extra charge was not unexpected as a friend told me this happened to her and I had to sign a form at the time of purchase saying I understood I might have to pay extra if my connections were not up to code. What can you do…

I got my new bedroom rug delivered this past week as well as the bedding for my new bed. Unfortunately, the rug had a 2″ piece along one of the edges that was frayed. I sent Kohl’s an email and they arranged for pickup of the damaged rug. Then I had to place an order for another rug for which they will give me credits for the sale price, free shipping and 15% off. The new rug will be delivered sometime next week. Glad I checked the rug right away. I would hate to have waited until I spread it on the floor…which may not be until later this weekend.

The bedding seems to be okay. I’m going to try to put the bedskirt on later today. It all depends on whether I can lift the mattress. We’ll see. I don’t want to do something that will cause problems as a result of my surgery. I can wait until I have some help.

Right now Patrick and almost all his friends are off at Burning Man. I read where they had a large dust storm yesterday but, otherwise, it seems all is going well. They either don’t have cell connections or have elected not to text/tweet/etc while out there. I’ve watched the live feed a few times and will definitely watch The Man burn tomorrow night.

I’m officially the Pasadena cat sitter this weekend! I’ve been watching Amanda’s cats all week and had to go to her place early this morning to lock them in her bedroom for the day. I found a notice on her door yesterday saying that inspectors would be coming into her apartment today to check the fire alarms! Her cats try to get outside the minute the front door opens and I didn’t want them to get out and run off when the inspectors came in. So I left a note on the front door, shut the cats up in the bedroom and left another note on the bedroom door. Hopefully they won’t get out. I’ll go over again around 5 pm to let them out.

Then tomorrow and Sunday I will be going over to Christina’s (my supervisor) apartment to medicate one of her cats while Christina and her husband are out of town. Her cats are senior citizens and I volunteered to help her out since I have lots of experience giving meds to older cats.

So now I’m getting off the computer so I can try to get laboring!