Mortaine’s Blog

To Do list for today:

Spend 15 minutes cleaning up/decluttering a room
Wash the glasses in the kitchen
Pick up paint and piece at Petroglyph and do Hammer’s footprint*
Write a letter
Mail bill payments
Call DHL for pickup
Send Pets notebook
Get Lizzie’s Birthday Present (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE PRINCESS!!!) and mail it and the other pressies.
Bring Karen’s holiday gift to John at work
Coffee with to give her the rest of Peaches’ holiday gift.

*This one is hard for me. I realized a week or two ago that one of the marks of me not accepting Hammer’s failing health is that I haven’t had his footprint done. I have a picture frame with Harry’s footprint and his birth/death years and a photo of him in it, to commemorate his special life. I need to do the same for Hammer, yet I have procrastinated on it till now. Why? Because I don’t want him to die, obviously– yet another facet of me being “not ready.” I am getting there, though. Emotionally preparing myself. I must say, though, it does not help when people, in response to me saying “Hammer had ‘x’ medical problem this weekend” to hear “You need to put him to sleep.” I know this, I am aware of his health and the fact that he’s here for me now– who on Earth can discard that gift lightly?

With all the coverage of the tsunami, there’s a story that you probably should hear this holiday season but might not. As in every year, blood supplies around the holidays dip dangerously low, due to increased holiday traffic accidents and a reduction in donations due to illness.

If you are eligible to donate blood, please do so soon.

My appointment is this Friday in Ben Lomond at 9:15 AM.