The Invisible Woman Chronicles

I got the blues and it's not because my staycation is almost over.  I just feel blue. Kind of started when I drove back from Bay View yesterday.  My mom had asked if my friend Josh knew of any rentals near him.  I said no and if I did, it would be out of our price range.  I miss the area, but I think the "cool crowd" ruined it for me.  I'm not sure when the trend started.  Maybe the early aughts on when businesses started moving in on KK Avenue.  We joked about KK Avenue when we went to college being rough and now it was the happening place for cool people.  The guys went to a workout place somewhere on KK.  New businesses were a great thing for the community but then it seemed like it became a trendy hipster thing.  That part of Milwaukee is pretty much working class.  Cassie's daughter was all excited about getting a room for $800 a month because the apartment was on KK Avenue.  No shock when I heard her complain she was movi...

This time it's because I actually sold something on eBay.  My big $4 sale.  Whatever.  One less thing I have to deal with and I'm ok with that.  I will get another sheet of the postcard stamps this morning.  I'll get my walking in. I got greeted by a visitor early this morning.  Honey Bear jumped into bed with me and flopped down beside me.  She's trusting me and I'm so happy for every little step she takes.  She got up after 20 minutes after I rubbed her belly and she took off.  Such a silly kitty.  I'm so glad we got her.  I still miss my tiny tiger.  It's ok.  Adopting another cat that needs a home helps everyone with the healing.  I think she's a Blue Russian cat.  I kind of wonder if she got dumped off because they said she had been exposed to another cat with feline leukemia but she tested ok.  They kept her in quarantine for 15 days and she had only been at the shelter for 18 days.  I thought no ...

 Yeah.  I dread my emails but it is what it is.  Glad to have a week off even though I didn't travel.  Didn't drive as much either thanks to high gas prices.  And why is that?  I spent the morning walking in Bay View.  I got a nice view of the city this morning from a different angle.  Don't feel too bad for me.  I'll be back to my usual walking spot tomorrow morning and probably Sunday.  Just saying my miles and making them stretch a little today.  Mom has a doctor appointment this afternoon so I figured I'd be on the go more later. Weird thing happened with her getting the covid and flu vaccines on Wednesday.  Walmart denied her.  They said Medicaid didn't cover it.  She's not on Medicaid.  We tried that this spring and she withdrew it because of her insurance policies and she wanted to keep Senior Care.  I thought am I going to spend my time on the phone trying to make sense out of nonsense?  I'm ok ...

I got my covid and flu shot this morning at Walgreen.  I hadn't thought about the flu shot.  I thought I was getting it earlier this month with a reminder call from Walmart but well, that didn't happen.  I said yeah, that's fine.  Pharmacist did not find me amusing when I joked about having a microchip in my brain.  Oh well.  My humor isn't for everyone.  He wished me a nice day.  I noticed I wasn't the only one with the same plan.  That's a little reassuring. I happened to park in Walmart's parking lot before I got there.  I was a little early so I thought I'd walk around and look at Halloween stuff or just get some steps in. I wanted to make one appointment this week and I thought I'd do it then.  I was looking to see if I had my insurance card in case I got asked and then I see someone by my car.  They're looking for money.  I shook my head and said not today. I got my seat belt on and drove off.  This is a nice Wa...

I did not start off my staycation well yesterday.  I wasn't going to go out to the east side in the rain when they warn of flash floods.  I stayed put until about 10:30 and went to the West Milwaukee post office and actually found postcard stamps.  Go figure. I had a light come on.  Every damn year when the temps dip, the air pressure dips.  I googled where I could get air put in. I wasn't going to drive to Glendale for that with gas so high.  I went to Goodyear on Highway 100 and they were packed.  I found a place farther up the road but I didn't know if they were even open or how to get in.  It looked like it was closed.   I pulled over in a restaurant parking lot in Hales Corners and googled some more.  I saw that Midas on South 76th Street would do it. I was on Edgerton and I thought I could take it all the way over to South 76th Street.  No, I was wrong.  So wrong.  I was lost in Hales Corners for a minute and it...

We are at the Humane Society a lot earlier than we normally would have shown up.  It generally takes us about a week or so to say Let's get a cat.  We're lonely.  We're sad.  The place has been cleaned up from memories of our beloved feline.  I remember when we got Precious.  We had to take Roxy in like mid August and we thought maybe when I was off in late September we'd go to a Humane Society or two or three . We wound up getting Roxy from Ozaukee years ago because Milwaukee didn't have a lot of female cats available.  I don't know how the hell I found my way home that day.  We were at the Milwaukee Humane Society that following weekend looking for another friend and we found Precious.  I didn't know about the name until she head butted me and flopped down by my leg. I thought, I get it.  She is Precious.   What happened with Precious was so devastating and horrible, especially for my mom.  I couldn't take her sobbing th...

I'm still mad about the rain tomorrow.  I know I have all week but I had my exciting plans of going to the post office and getting more postcard stamps.  I still might do it depending on how bad it is, just to get out of the house.  You suck Mother Nature. My mom is feeling discouraged by the news yesterday.  The interest rates being raised upset her and she was hoping she could have a little extra money after her annual raise.  I think I'll be cancelling my MSNow subscription.  They suck and were very misleading about their streaming service.  I also know that they are working on it and I don't have the heart to tell my mom that somehow the DOJ is involved with Roku getting licensing.  Sigh. The guys are in Thailand.  I don't even want to admit how I know.  I don't like looking at a social media page but I wonder when someone isn't here for a few days, like where did you go?  Are you coming back?  I'm fine with them being gone...