Thursday morning

As my title says it's Thursday morning. I didn't sleep well for the third night in a row and I think it's because of the C-Pap machine. It's making funny noises then my sister's cats attack my face mask. One of the cats likes to sleep with me but when I wake up in the morning they are both with me. I think because I get up before my sister they think I am going to feed them. They have all the dry food they need in their dishes and don't get wet food so I don't know what they are looking for. My sister, when she decides to get up, will give them a little milk on a plate so they don't bother her while she is eating her cereal in the morning, but all I have is my coffee and so I don't give them anything. They are cute cats but get into everything. If you don't watch them they will even try to take things off your plate while your eating. I had this happen a couple of times while I was having lunch alone. I don't think they try to do it to my sister and they defiantly won't do it while we are having dinner with my sister's husband. I think they are on their best behavior when he's home. I may try to sneak one of them home with me if my sister doesn't look through my bags to carefully. I'm in love with Charlotte, she's the one who sleep part of the night with me.

I haven't spent much time on the computer while I've been here. First of all is the problem of where to plug it in. Most of the outlets in my sister's house are not grounded so there aren't many 3 prong outlets. Only in the kitchen so when I plug in there I have to make sure no one wants to use that outlet during the day. I had my computer on the island but my sister made me move it yesterday. She says it's in her way. There are a lot of things on the island so I don't know how one more can be in her way but it's her house and I moved it. I'm not used to so much room at home and I have things in a certain place and that's where they stay. Here there is a lot of places for things and a lot more room. It's funny because it seems like the more space there is the more I trip over something. Guess that's because there more stuff than at home. It is nice to have enough cabinet space to put all the kitchen stuff in here. I wish I had this much space in my kitchen. She even has a TABLE in her kitchen instead of in the main living space. I'd really like to have a space to put my table instead of right next to the couch. It would be nice not to trip over chairs when I walk into the apartment and be able to carry groceries all the way to the kitchen in the grocery cart instead of having to unload it in the hall way because the cart won't fit between the table and the computer desk or around the water cooler. Hopefully I'll hear from RCAP soon and can move to a 2 bedroom apartment soon. If I get one at Orchard Hill I'll even have a dishwasher and a much bigger kitchen which would be so much nicer than what I have now.

I miss everyone at home and the cats most of all. I'm grateful to my friend Mike for taking care of them. TJ has been at the house the past 2 weekends which I'm sure the cats liked. I keep telling Mike he can sleep in my bed while I'm gone so he doesn't have to go home but he won't do it. I'm willing to bet Dumkupf hasn't moved off my side of the bed except to go in the living room to eat. He loves to sleep on my bed and he just loves the Egyptian Cotton sheets, which I'm pretty sure TJ has left exposed by not making the bed. I'm thinking now that maybe I didn't make the bed before I left so Dumkupf was probably sleeping on them before TJ got there anyway. One of the first things I'll have to do when I get home is wash the sheets. I get in in the evening of the 30th and may not want to do it that night but first thing in the morning I'll have them in the washer then back on the bed.

I don't know why but my sister's house is always cold. I froze my butt off on the train out here and haven't been able to get warm since. I have tried heating pads and blankets but still can't seem to get my whole body warm. I can get parts of it warm but not every part at the same time. Like now, the upper part is fine but my feet feel like 2 blocks of ice. Later my feet will be warm but my upper body will be freezing. Don't know why but that's the way it's been since I got here. I'm going to go outside and see if I can warm up that way. Some days it's actually warming outside than it is in her house so I either go out there or open a window to get some of the warm air in. The cats like it but sometimes my sister doesn't and goes around closing the windows I've opened. She does spend a lot of time outside even though she's not supposed to be doing a lot of the things she has been doing. Like planting flowers and stuff. She is pushing herself way to much way to soon. I hope it doesn't hurt her healing process. I don't want her to tear her stitches out and end up back in the hospital. That would suck for her.

Well I need to get going and do something even if it's wrong. Later