End of September

 Today marks the end of another month and the beginning of a new age for my youngest grandchild who turned 13 today. The last teenager in the family. 

My finances are in the dump. With fixing my vehicle, spending way more on groceries, and various other expenses, I have decided to not buy groceries, unless it is fresh stuff I.e. carrots, beets, brussel sprouts, cucumber etc. I want to pay off my yearly car insurance in full, so I need to put $344 dollars away every pay for the next three pays. I also want to be out of the red in the next month. Things will be tight, but I can do it. Thankfully, it is only me. 

Another beautiful day. We hit 30C again and should hit the same the next few days. I have cleaned all, sans one, of the insides of the balcony windows. I also cleaned three of the apartment windows. Just need to do the one balcony window and the door window to the balcony. Then onwards to doing them inside. I am going to put up a black out window curtains in my bedroom as it faces north. Going to try those new non screw in curtain rods. Hope they work. It will warm up that side of the house. My studio I won’t do as I am infrequently in that room and so keep the room very cool. My neighbour will help me with that.

My neighbour J’s mother gave me a jar of her salsa. I am use to think chunky salsa. This one is looking to be like tomato sauce. We will give it a try. I am still considering doing some tomatoes. We shall see. It takes money, time etc. Time I have, money not so much.

Oakley was pretty good today. Only a few barks, mostly cause he wanted outside. I let him out for quite awhile but he started in, so moved him inside. He did not like that. It is a statutory holiday today so all people in the building were home. Tomorrow he will stay out much longer.

My weight has gone up again as I purchased a container of potato salad. Since it is processed, there is a lot of salt in it. My kidneys did not like that. However today Zi am peeing for England my weight should be down tomorrow. I want to be at  190 lb by the end of the year. That will mean I have lost 77 lbs all together. 

J xxx


Comments

  1. AnvilcloudOctober 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM

    Thank you for the visit and comment. I assume that it is cold your way right now? Good luck with the weight issue.

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  2. The Seventies and BeyondNovember 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM

    We have had record warm spell. It will cold down come Friday to -15C

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