Happy Monday!
Here are some of my Monday meanderings, mental and physical. Not a lot to report, but what the heck. Quiet days are lovely, too!
I’ve walked 8843 steps already this morning. It’s 9:37 right now and I have clothes in the washer. I’ll do the white throw rugs next.
Yesterday after leaving y’all here, I wrote some more stuff longhand, which I’l transfer over now…
Sunday, 5:07 p.m. 10,158 steps
I’m up to page 36 in Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish with my notetaking task. It has consumed 12 pages of notebook page (6 pages on both sides). There are 125 pages in the book to go so the current estimate leaves me about 20+ extra pages in one of the two spiral notebooks that I bought in Grecia. (That’s good ’cause I can use those pages for some more longhand stuff that can be transferred here later before I trash them.)
STREETWISE SPANISH notes only consumed 28 pages and it was about the same length as this one (150 pages not counting the miscellaneous appendices, glossaries, title, acknowledgements, etc.). I can’t guarantee that this one will stay as “skinny” as that one did, but I’m using it as a rule of thumb for right now.
Deb Baked a DELICIOUS Dinner Casserole
…and invited me up with a plate to take some back home to eat. While I was there, she asked me if I like spicy foods and I thought, “Uh-oh!” But then she explained, “My food isn’t overly spicy but it has a little jalapeno in it and everybody’s different when it comes to spiciness.”
Well! I got home, warmed it up, and devoured every last morsel. It was DELISIOSO and the exact amount of spiciness that I like. WOW, WOW, WOW! So I complimented her on it and let her know that our spicy meter matches!
And now, let’s get current:
Monday March 9 2026 9:50 .m.
I walked from 6:45 to 7:45 this morning, most of it around the soccer field as usual. Didn’t need to pick anything up at a store down there: I have plenty until feria day again.
When I got back from the walk, I started the crockpot (boneless, skinless chicken with chicken broth) and the rice cooker and then I made and ate a ham and eggs breakfast.
Since then I’ve put a load of clothes in the washer and will follow that up with a load of white rugs (as mentioned above).
Jackie Got Back To Me
… (Yay!) to report that Dennis has submitted my tax return electronically and that I should get my refund within three weeks. If I recall correctly, it should be something like $586 because Social Security took out $145/month thru April of last year and AXOS took out twenty percent of just over $1000 for the RMD I received from them. If I’m right about this, the return will go a long way toward bringing my credit union savings account to $3K again, which is the minimum I want to carry there in case of an emergency of some kind. YAY!
I Want to Get a Good Anti-Gravity Recliner Soon
…rather like the one I had in Tacoma (link above). They have them at PriceSmart in Alajuela, so I need to find a friend with an account there and ride in with them (or just give them the colones) and get one.
It’ll make a nice extra sleeping place for me for when visitors come from afar and want or need to stay with me. If I have one, I can invite up to two related (or cohabiting) people to stay with me if they feel comfortable sleeping together in the same king size bed that I currently have.
And sometimes I just like to change things up and sleep in an anti-gravity recliner. So, having one will be a real blessing and treat!
Sherry Sutton
My friend from North Carolina, Sherry Sutton, and I haven’t chatted live since I moved here. (Boo hiss!) She has been insanely busy helping people and working, so we decided we had to put a live video chat on the calendar like an appointment to make it happen. Our first one will be this Wednesday night.
Sherry and I used to connect more often when I was in the States. We’ve been following each other on Facebook all this time, but that’s just not the same as a face-to-face, heart-to-heart chat. We will start putting them on our calendars from now on so we don’t have such huge gaps of time go by!
It’s time to start my studies again so we’ll connect again later!