My friend H. and I were planning on seeing a matinee this afternoon, but she had to call it off as her mom's in the hospital. Her 94-yr-old mom lives with her and is in fine health except for high blood pressure. The problems start when she doesn't take her blood pressure meds and she starts getting a little paranoid, belieiving that someone is trying to kill her and so on. She gets very agitated. So she called 911 and the police brought her to the hospital for an overnight stay just to monitor her.

This kind of thing happens regularly with H. She has diabetes herself. I worry about her, and the effect of this sort of stress. For the 1st time ever, she mentioned putting her in a home, but she doesn't want to do that. Still, she mentioned it, so i think maybe she's thinking of it if things continue as they have.

She's strapped for cash, and seems like she's been job-hunting for years, altho all she wants now is p/t work. She's in her mid 60s. A year or so ago she loaned her daughter about $50,000 and she was never paid back. Her daughter has serious financial problems of her own, so unfortunately, that money, which was, essentially, H.'s retirement money, is gone forever. It's very sad.

So with the movie cancelled by the day's events, I'll do another walk as I did yesterday. I really need the exercise. I have not been able to get my weight down from about 135. My clothes are too tight.

Also doing laundry, did some vacuuming and picking up around the house. Ordered 5 tree seedlings (mail order) from a native tree nursery in upstate NY. With all the tree-cutting to come around here, i need to replace diseased or dying trees. So i'm getting a few Blackhaw viburnum and corkscrew willow, which will love it here with my high water table. the Blackhaw will provide berries for the birds.

I just polished off a huge plate of sauted garlic, onion and brussel sprouts for an early lunch, topped off by a heaping spoonful of peanut butter studded with dark chocolate chips. Strange diet habits, i know. I just give in to my cravings and try to keep it healthy.

I'm worried about my cat and i've got to bring her to the vet. I should've done it sooner but she freaks out so much in the car, I hate to put her thru that, but she's been drinking lots of water for quite some time now, which could be a thyroid problem, kidney problem or diabetes. I better find out what it is. I chalked it up earlier to the fact that dry food makes up 95% of her diet, so there's mo moisture in her food. I try to get her to eat canned food, like Sheba, but she'll lick the gravy and leave the rest there, wasting it mostly. But I don't think her water intake is normal anymore.

Have to schedule a physical with PCP tomorrow. I'm quite annoyed with them for requiring me to come in for a visit to renew my sleep aid meds. I'm there every year for a physical, so why do i have to take time off from work and pay a $25 co-pay to tell them what i already told them on the phone? Grrr. So since I'm due for a phsyical, i'll get the meds at that time, but now i'm hoarding what remaining pills i have.

I went to bed last night without taking one, and i slept very, very poorly. I felt super tired around 10:30 so i went to sleep, but then of course thoughts of work kept me awake til i finally turned on the TV at midnight and watched Saturday Night Live, then didn't turn the lights out tiil about 1:30 a.m. and still i tossed and turned.

The other a.m. i sat up in bed at 5 a.m. to write down some really good headlines i came up with for some stories i'm working on. Yes, that's what i was thinking about early in the a.m. Very bad habit.

Waiting to hear back from electrician about when he can install my new light fixture.

Waiting to hear back from tree company to schedule the take down of the mighty black locust and unidentified evergreen.

A lot of balls up in the air. I keep worrying i'm going to forget something, let something go, becus Monday thru Friday my mind is totally focused on work.