Random 5 for December 8, 2024 – Morning radio, colors, neighbors, procrastination, death

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Start the day right – I listen to the local oldies radio station on my coffee run each morning. There are two guys bantering. It’s always upbeat and funny. One of them has been out for an extended period and I didn’t know why. It was too long for a vacation (maybe six weeks?). If the other guy talked about it, I missed it. He came back this week with a story about his latest health issues. He had a burst hernia, but he told it with flourish and suspense. I was laughing out loud (really!). Wish I was that perky early in the morning! Much prefer this to Sirius.

Pink is pink is pink – We renovated the bathroom in the summer but I’m still working on the finishing touches. The first wall color, a dusty rose, was intended to be an accent wall (not on all walls). It turned out to be more intense than I wanted. I tried another color this week. It wasn’t an immediate love story but I’m going to live with it and see how it works. It’s pale and muted and isn’t Barbie pink but I’m still deciding. It coordinates with the wallpaper on one wall and the carpet in front of the vanity so it may stay.

A nosey neighbor and her cats – Last night there were two police cars with flashing lights outside my house. I couldn’t tell which house they were in so I did what any good neighbor would do. I found the best window view and took a watch shift. Three cats joined me. Had anyone looked up, they would have seen one old lady and three cats fervently watching nothing. Eventually both cars left. No ambulance, which is what I was concerned about. We lost two neighbors in the past two weeks and the neighbor across the street is elderly. You know deaths come in threes.

Doing stuff in my head – I’m at the age where I imagine doing things in my head, then don’t follow through. Sometimes I don’t know if I actually did them unless there is a product. I’ve been thinking about baking, but I can’t seem to get it going. I can blame it on the bathroom painting and that has been distracting. However, there are no delightful baked goods on my counter. Next Sunday looks clear so maybe I’ll plan it then. Thinking I’ll do something and not following through isn’t limited to cooking. I do that with phone calls, cleaning and other activities, even shopping. I’ve never been a procrastinator, but maybe now is the time to join that club.

And the count is over – As I was writing this post, we learned that the contractor who renovated our kitchen died. He was young, 68. We talked to him in the spring as a possible contractor for our bath, but the timing and some other limitations didn’t work. His only health issue was bad knees which are not fatal. RIP Will, you will be missed by many.

So how was your week?

55 thoughts on “Random 5 for December 8, 2024 – Morning radio, colors, neighbors, procrastination, death”

  1. Sorry to hear about your contractor and neighbors. That’s rough. I hear you on the cooking. I’ve been mentally making Christmas cookies for two weeks now. Guess it’s good calories wise 😉

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  2. I always used to listen to WZZO – the Bearman and Keith made me laugh through a lot of morning commutes over the years. You’re right – much better than Sirius! I’m sorry to hear about your neighbors and kitchen contractor. 68 is young for sure. Your bathroom color sounds pretty!

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  3. I love pink. There’s just something about it that brightens everything around it, including you.

    Sorry about the contractor, but your kitchen will always remind you of him and the lovely work he did. A nice legacy I’d say.

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  4. We had the police at our house on Thanksgiving when we filed a report about the Pit Bull attack. I wondered if the neighbors were watching and wondering like you did.

    Sad about our contractor. Was he the one that also did your patio?

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    • I’m sure the neighbors were concerned when they saw the flashing lights. He did not do our deck. He did our kitchen and laundry room. He was going to do a small job for us next year. Guess that won’t happen. It was such a shock.

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  6. I am an Olympic worthy procrastinator. It has become less of a problem the last couple of years but like you I am selective in my procrastination. Very sad about your contractor. So with you about doing things in my head and not following through. I think it has something to do with my energy level. Things sound great in the morning and by afternoon I just want to cozy in and do nothing but read blogs. With regard to you checking out the flashing lights… I do a lot of Kravitzing!

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  7. Well, I am a procrastinator. Some things I just hate to do. Seems like that list is getting longer the older I get though. And I, too, have a cookie recipe I keep wanting to try. And yet there are still no cookies! Wish my cats could cook.

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  9. No baking on my agenda but if I did, it likely would burn. 🙂 I like the color dusty pink. I’m sorry to hear about your contractor. That is a shame – young too (my exact age). The best handyman I’ve ever had became legally blind so it’s not been great finding someone that even comes close to Jim. And this Fall I thought I might have someone only to learn that he was a jailbird (he did two bouts of prison time for larceny and the last time for breaking and entering). I found that out when he became belligerent near the end of the jobs and don’t ask me why I Googled the Michigan Department of Corrections. I was especially horrified to find out about the B&E stuff since I told him I walk every morning and which window did not have metal rolling shutters and why. He knows my schedule is what bothers me the most. Sigh. Second, I have to find someone for next year. Because I don’t trust his work on the new seamless gutters and because I have a leak at the corner, I have another company coming to inspect the gutters Wednesday, then if they need to be fixed, that is another appointment … no telling when I’ll get the gutters cleaned. They are not about “one-stop shopping” but that is all they do.

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    • If you can easily get appointments, it may not be too bad. The contractor we had before this guy had a breakdown when his wife left him. You probably remember him. I did several posts about his craziness.

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      • We have had mild weather (50) the last two days, but snow on Wednesday so they are supposed to confirm by e-mail Tuesday. I hope he can check it out if it is snowing. It is a small house and one story. I do remember your contractor and what happened to him midway through your project. The odd thing is that when Jim’s son-in-law messed up some things in early July, I decided to contact friends/acquaintances who are either single, widowed, their husbands have medical issues, or whom I know have no kids living nearby to help them. Not one of those seven or eight people had their gutters cleaned, nor needed a handyman’s services. I said “well you must have things happen that are beyond calling a plumber, electrician or having a contract with the HVAC people who check furnace, A/C?” Nope, they don’t have problems. I am gobsmacked. I should have gone to Angi’s List and I would not be in this predicament now.

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        • Oh, they have issues going on. They are just not addressing them. Some people don’t clean their gutters until they have an ice back up on their roof. As for other things, many people live with things rather than get them fixed.

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          • Yes, that is true – my friend Carol, whom I mentioned to you before re: cats, is pretty self-sufficient and has to be as her husband is in a nursing home. The latest is that she has some type of leak underground, going into the basement. They had to tear up her front lawn, including part of her paver brick walkway to the front door and when they did that, they did something and cut the power off in the house. She always has something breaking or issues there and it’s not an old house. It is easier, if you can, to be proactive – less surprises that way.

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  12. I don’t procrastinate much, except for baking. I would love to bake for the holidays like my Grandma and Mom did for so many years, but it’s just not going to happen. That’s sad about your contractor.

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    • I don’t bake much either. Sometimes I’d like to downsize my recipes so I only get a dozen instead of enough to feed an army. The news about the contractor was surprising. Unfortunately we’ll never know if it was a sudden thing like a heart attack or if he had been ill for several months.

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  14. The thing is, it’s so much faster to do something in your head. You can get three things done at once instead of just one. I do that too. And then I ask myself, Didn’t I already do that? Nope. I was imagining it while I was doing something else.

    When I was 24 and newly married, my grandma gave us her old sofa. It was that old fashioned dark wine color, so I chose pink walls for the apartment’s living room. I wasn’t sophisticated enough to think of dusty rose or muted pink. I immediately regretted the choice but we just left it. Before long, I was pregnant, so my dad built us a house and we moved.

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  15. That is young Kate. Thoughts are with his family. Wonder what was going on next door? We often see flashing blues go past our window and I’ll look up the road to see where it goes. There are a lot of elderly people on this estate and we know several who are in poor health.

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  17. Our contractor (also named Will) died at 54. At his memorial service, one of the painting contractors told us that most contractors die in their fifties because they, “play hard and don’t take care of themselves.” So by those standards, your contractor did better than average? Not much consolation to him and his family, though.

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  18. With Thanksgiving arriving later this year, it means less time to run around like a chicken with it’s head cut off. Awk…I gotta get going on baking myself. Just don’t seem to have the zest for it this year and while I have baked assortments of cookies and made chocolate truffles for my neighbors since I moved in over 20 years ago, I’m feeling less than enthusiastic about it this year. Sigh. And with the price of eggs, I may try for some non-bake varieties.

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    • Yes, I bought eggs yesterday and was surprised! I stopped giving to neighbors a while back. I give a few to each of my mahjong group but nothing big. I usually make rugalach and kiffles which most people don’t make so it’s unusual.

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  19. When I’m winding down for the night, 99% of the time I lay there thinking about all the things that need to get done and how I will spend my energy allotment in order to get as many of them done as possible. I procrastinate because they are all tasks that will take at least an hour to complete, and I naturally suffer from the problem of “seeing something that needs done while I am in the middle of something else, and then stopping to do that thing, leaving me be unable to finish the task I was in the midst of. And lately, my mindset is to recognize this happening more often than that I’m telling myself that I shouldn’t bother starting some thing I know I won’t finish. I am grateful I live alone and I have only myself to criticize about all of the things that are not yet done.

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  20. Getting older isn’t easy – I remember people saying that and I thought “what the heck?!” but it’s true. Anyway, I’m guessing you will learn to like that paint color in the bathroom but you are right – there must be a bazillion shades of pink/rose. I imagine a whole lot of things in my head – and make a lot of “gotta do this tomorrow” things in my head as well and very few of them ever happen – or if they do – it’s months from now. I make lists and ignore them. I think being 80 for me is thinking about doing a lot more stuff than I actually do. Lazy? Maybe. Years of working my buns off then retiring kind of activated my lazy button. I tell myself I deserve it. LOL Oh yeah – if you want a totally EASY baking project – look up “Palmiers” – my favorite EASY treat!

    Hugs, Pam

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  21. When did our lives become all about who lives/dies/is sick, including us?? I guess I’m glad I’m still here at 69, but so many people leaving us at ages that are entirely too close to mine!! As for procrastination, I will process applications for cat adoptions in record time…I can procrastinate about cleaning with the best of them.

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