Letters To Friends ........ September 2003. Chronological Order. Another month in the "Twilight Zone" ........................................................................ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Hi Karen, I'm doing OK I think. everything seems to still be moving in the right direction. Yes, I'm taking things one day at a time.. or I get quite the panic attacks. I had a good afternoon today, my husband drove me down to a local beach and we sat on a big log and watched the boats on the water, and the dogs and children playing along the beach. It's been months since we were down there last, so it was very nice. My kitties were worried about me last night, and I had 8 cats around me on the bed. The oldest fellow pulled up near my head and purred me to sleep.. but i woke up with a severe sinus headache from his being too close to my face. I only have problems with the ones with very fine fur. I was having trouble falling asleep until Garfield pulled up next to my pillow and started purring. That old fellow can purr in his sleep.. for hours. Other cats snore.. Gar purrs. I had the strangest thing happen about an hour ago now.. I thought I heard a cat on the back door scratching to come in. So I just opened the door as usual.. and to my surprise a racoon nearly fell in! StrangeCat's family I think.. one large and three smaller racoons all looked at me and then ran away when I said "Shoo.. you're not my cats!" hope your day is good Huggs Phyllis ............................................... Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Hi Karen. I think it will be a long time before I get to 'normal' but every bit better helps. Today Don is in panic mode due to the Canadian banks silly policy of freezing bank accounts into which even certified cheques from the US have been deposited. The banks he called freeze things for 21-29 days. We are relying upon monies from friends in the US to make our home downpayemnt work so I'm having to contact the friends to do wire transfers. He won't be reassured that the account I have (in a different bank than the ones he has called) does not have this problem. I know this because I have deposited cheques from the US.. had them converted into Canadian dollars and then been able draw cash from them at the time of deposit. But Don never believes my experiences on my word alone. You have great photos :-) and I'm not surprised that you have been asked for an enlargement. I will be using my digital to take a huge amount of photos of the new house. I want to document the house as we find it as we move in, and then keep taking photos as we fix it up and make it our own. I'll be having Don burn the photos onto CDRom so I don't lose them. I'll be happy to show off the photos :-) Hope your day is good.. Huggs Phyllis ~*~ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Hi Karen - i am planning on the money thing sorting itself out. I asked my friends if they could do wire transfers, their bank to my bank, as a way to get their gifts to me. that pleases Don. he kept bugging me until I got emails saying OK.. by then it hurt to look at a monitor because my vision was flickering so bad. my vision problems are a brain-wiring thing and lessen when i get some rest. The more stressed I am the more the short circuts i get in my nervous system. I had Don promise me that he would not dump another crisis on me today, at least not before noon . He smiled and chuckled and said he could do that. I really need to get a supper made for him today, and it would be a bonus if I can make him a batch of his favorite muffins. i have two boxes i can pack things into.. Don will be getting more boxes this evening. yes, I've come a long way since last week. I do not want a repeat of the stress and drama of that week.. not ever again. Huggs Phyllis ~*~ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Hello dear friend, How are you doing today?? I hope you are having a good day. {{{{HHHUUUGGSS}}}} I'm feeling a bit shaky today. I don't know of anything in particular that has me down. Maybe it's just part of destressing (?) as everything sinks in that we do have a place to go to month's end.. and that all the pieces will fall into place. I'm still worried that we will end up not quite having enough money to make things work. The silly sort of thing where a hundred dollars makes all the diffrence in the world. I'm also worried about the tenants of the house.. what will they be like? Will they take out their worry and frustration on us? Will they even pay the rent for october? Will they trash the place out of spite? Or will they be nice and good people who will be friendly and cooperative? I really don't like the idea of moving into the basement suite.. especially since Don wants to cram everything we own down there with us. It's back to the old $$ thing or being able to afford a storage locker or a U-PAK container. I'd like to opt for the container. They drop it off.. you pack it and put a lock on it.. call them.. they haul it to storage or deliver it.. if stored, they deliver it when you call them to whereever you want it. Sounds perfect. But Don is worried about $ so we wait. We have nearly a month.. but it feels like everything has to be arranged *now*. We have been eating from the garden tho. Tomatoes are ripening and I am using them as they do. Last night I had Don go and get a red cabbage for his supper. :-) very nice. So I'm still alive and vibrating... ///////////////////////////// Huggs Phyllis ~*~ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Hi Dee, Last night Don brought home some boxes for packing and the cats were having a great time bouncing in and out of boxes. the love boxes that have the flaps free..they will pull the edges down over themselves to hide. then when another cat hops in to what the think is an empty box, the one hiding will do a cat version of saying "BOO!!!" and the other cat will jump. They are enjoying the boxes and open cupboards to play in and explore. Don brought home a big box.. about a yard on each side. He put it near my sewing machine that sits under a window that opens over part of the roof. Last night the window was open, and the cats thought this was a circus for their amusement. They would get up on the window sill and jump into the box... then jump out again to the window and out to the roof. The would jump to the box edge and slide down the flap to be 'caught' in the "Burmese Tiger Trap". I watched two disappear into the box that way.. and then both jummped out together, side by side.. leaping like a pair of black panthers out of the pit. What fun they had.. but it was making do much noise as we were heading off to bed that we ended the fun by turning the box over. No more "trap" to play in. I wish I had a camcorder for times like that. Today I will fill the box with clothes. I think that no matter what clothes I put in that box the weather for October will be such that the appropriate clothes will be in the storage box :o}. I think I can put the entire contents of my closet into that box. We are finally getting some cooler weather today.. what a relief. A few days of cool and rain and I may start feeling human again ;-] Huggs Phyllis ~*~