No Longer In Limbo

April 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I”m not in limbo any longer. In fact, by the end of this week, I will be giving up my computer for about two weeks, while my kids move all of this into the new apartment. We plan on moving on 5/7/09. Hopefully, so in the meantime, we have to finish packing, get the house ready for the For Sale sign, and finish up the minute details that go along with any move.

This means I will be without my computer for about two weeks, but I wll be so busy with everything else, it hardly matters. I will notify my email friends and family and I’m noifying all of you.

Please come back sometime after Mother’s Day, and I promise I will be back.

In the meantime, give the gift that lasts forever and Adopt A Caregiver. Tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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I'm In Limbo

April 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I feel like I’m in limbo. I can’t find anything, most things are already packed for our move which will hopefully be on Mother’s Day. We are still packing up the kitchen, and there are always the odds and ends at the end to do. Things we need for our day to day living for the next three weeks.

But, I feel like I’m not doing all the things I normally do…going to AA, the knitting club and most of all, I am not writing. I miss it, but don’t have the energy to even think about what I want to write about.

The next three weeks will be even more stressful, but things are happening. My granddaughter is coming on Monday, and driving my car back to California. They are taking the art out tomorrow. Next weekend my daughter and granddaughter and her husband are coming to help with the rest of the packing and getting the house ready to show for sale. The following weekend is the art auction, and the following weekend after that is Mother’s Day weekend. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

On the other end, my daughter is picking up our keys to our new apartment on the 30th, and on May 2nd they are delivering and setting up the furniture. Then my grandson-in-law is coming with his brother and renting a UHaul and taking our things back to California. Then hopefully we can follow right along after that.

I have not abandoned my Adopt A Caregiver journey, I have to just put it on hold for about two months. Then I will dive right back in. I hope you all will stay and listen to my woes, worries and wishfulness.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend. At least give a caregiver a big hug.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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I Need A Few Days

April 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I need a few days without blogging. I will miss this, but I’m not feeling so great, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue acting up with the weather and overdoing the packing.

They are taking the art out this weekend, and we want to do as much packing as possible. we’ve done quite a lot, but it seems that there is always much more to do. We have to do it.

Please have some patience, and believe me, I will be back in a couple of days. I hope. It’s possible I will only be writing about three times a week until after our move.

In the meantime, please look around your community for caregivers. They need your support. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Closet Packed

April 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I did most of my closet today, my husband says the bedroom and the closet isn’t big enough, and he is probably right.

This weekend we will tackle the kitchen. That will take time, but it’s not hard.

Adopt A Caregiver is still high up on my list, I just can’t get to it right now. Sorry caregivers. Once I get settled, and I guess that will take at least a month, then I will get right on it again. In the meantime, please bear with me as I take you through my move.

I haven’t done any writing, and I don’t even know where anything is, so it’s not worth thinking about. I am too tired, too much going on at one time, and I can’t think straight. Thank you Fibromyalgia and Chronic
Fatigue. As tired as I am, I’m not sleeping enough.

Talk to you tomorrow. I didn’t get to AA today, I will have to go next week.

Having lunch with my dear friend from the Henderson Senior Center tomorrow, and am looking forward to it.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Closet, Paperwork, And AA

April 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Busy day tomorrow, have to start working on packing up my closet. I have neglected paperwork for abot two weeks and have to do it, so I might as well get started on it tomorrow.

The good news is that I have Anthem Authors to go to in the afternoon. That will brighten my day.

Today we went to Costco for food, and then went to U Haul to get more boxes! There are boxes everywhere. But that is progress.

Thanks again to The Bloom Report for that terrific ad for my book, Behind The Mask. My secret journal shows what it’s like to stand in the caregivers shoes.

I’ve started thinking about Adopt A Caregiver again, and I have a whole new city and state to work in. Wow! I am so conscious of all caregivers, and all they go through each and every day, and I know there are caregivers in your community. It only takes a moment to send an email, become their friend, be a supporter. I want everyone to know what Adopt A Caregive is about. It’s so easy. Every community has caregivers, give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Home, Exhausted, Satisfied

April 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We came home from California this afternoon, and we are tired. The drive wasn’t too bad, not much traffic and we made great time.

We actually accomplished so much in the five days we were there: we signed the lease for the apartment, we notified the utility companies, have a new phone number, and the most important thing of all we saw the entire famiy, or most of them.

Another thing we accomplished, we bought all the furniture we need for the new apartment, and arranged delivery before we arrive since my daughter said she would pick up the keys for us and be there when they brought the furniture in and set it all up. Now that is a good feeling.

Now we have to finish packing, and do the things around this hose that we need to do before we move. It’s just all time consuming and back breaking, other then that it’s fine.

And our life goes on, still doctor appointments, haircuts, lunch to say goodbye to dear friends.

One of our neighbors is giving a block party to say goodbye to us and our next door neighbors who are moving to Georgia.

Anthem Authors is also throwing a party for me. I’m smiling…I will surey miss everyone in AA. I am so proud of that club and all it’s members! Cheers to you guys, all of you.

Keep your spirits up, and keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

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Fast Decisions

April 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We made a quick decision today. We are leaving tomorrow for California, still coming back on Sunday. Will probably have news about the apartment, buying new furniture that will fit into that smaller space and whatever else comes along. In our family, you never know.

This will give us an extra day to look around, see the apartment again, measure some things and think about placement of what we are taking, and deciding what to actually take. Sounds simple enough, but everything will need to be measured carefully. It’s been ? forever since we lived in so small a space. The only good news is that the apartment is brand new, and has three bedrooms, so each of us can have our own office and space.

Probably I won’t be blogging, not sure I’d know how to do that from another computer. I will miss doing this, but I will be back.

In the meantime stay well, have a wonderful week and do a good deed. A Mitzvah!

Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Time Is Flying Now

April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

All of a sudden time is starting to fly by. Our neighbor took the boxes out of my office and put them into the garage. Whew, that was a job, and I’m so glad to be rid of the boxes, now I can move around my office again. Even though there isn’t anything in here, excep what I’ll need for the next 5 wees or so.

We decided to go to California on Wednesday, so don’t expect to hear from me until we get home on Sunday night.

I’m hoping tomorrow I’ll find some time to sit down and write something for Anthem Authors. It might be my last Tuesday with them, and I owe them a huge thank you for making Anthem Authors the success it is today. I love that group, as writers and as people. They are helpful, dependable, thoughtful, and just genuinely nice people. I will probably cry when I read whatever I write, but I’m sure they will understand. I started this group in 2/2009, hoping someone beside me would show up. Two others showed up, and now we have grown into this wonderful group. I salute them, and I will surely miss them.

More thanks to The Bloom Report, thanks Phil.

Please support the caregivers in your community. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Taking The Day Off

April 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I think we will either take the day off tomorrow, or pack up the kitchen. It depends on how we feel. Moving is stressful, so we are just taking one day at a time. We will finish long before we are moving in mid-May.

Next week we are going to California to look at furniture. When you are downsizing as much as we are, there is no way to take what we have in 3100 square feet, and have it look nice in 1425 square feet. The new furniture needs to be apartment size. I’m glad we are going, that way we can see the apartment again, and make better decisions.

In the meantime, please look around your community and if there is a caregiver in your midst, contact them, be their friend. Adopt A Caregiver. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Thank you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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I Miss Writing

April 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I miss writing! I miss the thoughts and the ideas that come to me when I’m ready to write. Soon, I hope. Maybe I’ll find a time during the weekend, as I have part of a memoir story I want to write. It’s about the contrast when Howard and I were first engaged, and I met his extended family, and he met my extended family. Huge contrasts.

Over this weekend, I will tackle my closet. The hard part is done. Just have to pack it up. Same with the kitchen, we weeded out a lot of things we haven’t used in years, and what’s left can be packed except for the few pots and pans and dishes we will be using for the next 5 weeks or so.

In the meantime, please support the caregivers in your community. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you. Just write an email, be their friend.

If you don’t know how a caregiver feels, read my secret journal,  Behind The Mask, and stand in the caregivers shoes for a few hours.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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