So over fuzzy headedness. Allergies are worse than ever. Hard to get anything done with pain, let alone not being able to think clearly.

BUT, I discovered I have been making coffee wrong. Not enough grounds, not steeping/perking long enough. Much better now. I only have one cup a day, so I want it to be the best. I use two heaping scoops, mine is a tablespoon, for one mug, and let it do it’s thing for 7 minutes once it’s started turning brown in the glass lid of the percolator, or I pour the just-off-the-boil water into the french press. Perked takes longer, but if I heat the water in my kettle first, it takes a lot less time to make. I like perked. I have a little one-mug stove top percolator. Heat it on not quite high heat, once it turns a bit brown in the glass thingy, lower heat to just above med low (electric stove) and leave for 7 minutes. Should be doing a slow perk. Turn off heat and let stand for a few minutes to settle. I also pour it through a melitta brown filter into the mug. Wet the filter first. And that’s how I make good coffee for one. 🙂

Another gray day. And then it’s going to rain for the next few days. We have had so much rain, after the severe drought two summers ago, and not much rain last year, we are def making up for it. Flooding alerts almost every day. Fortunately, I must live on higher ground, because it is not a problem here. But not that far away it has been pretty bad for some people.

My lovely helper person is on vacation, and no homemaker anymore, so am depending on friends yet again. To take out the trash and get the mail, because I am just not up for trekking downstairs to the mailbox. Too much pain makes it very hard to get around.

My Asus laptop has given up showing anything on the monitor, and the HP keeps going black screen randomly, so I hauled out my older Dells. One is okay, but kind of wonky, but the oldest one, the really well-made Dell, works perfectly except for being so unbelievably slow, which is why I replaced it in the first place. I have cleaned it up as much as possible, but it take about a minute to load gmail, for example. Or anything else, really. But it has win10, so I am learning patience. I hope. Oh, I also discovered why I have 2,000 instances of each category, like Documents in my file explorer. You have to go into the Documents or any other folder, choose ‘view’, ‘options’, and ‘change folder and search options’, ‘view’ and check ‘don’t show hidden files, folders or drives’. Voila. Just FYI.

Took a picture of my messy living room. It is a work in progress. My helper and I have been doing the kitchen cupboards, but will get to this next. It actually looks kind of cheery. I must have had the sun on when I took the picture. I have full spectrum bulbs in the overhead light, which I turn on when I get up on the dark days, and leave on for 3 or 4 hours. Makes a huge difference in my mood. Once I was working at the table with my back to the windows, and when I turned around it was dark outside. I thought it was still daytime because it really does seem like the sun is shining. They are Phillips curly bulbs, and I have had them for at least a decade. I should probably order some back ups just in case, but then I’d need to get someone to replace them. I have high ceilings. I love high ceilings. Okay, Rambling on. Later. Oh, second pic it was in slightly better shape. So was I. Second Gertrude had just moved in. When I moved in, I had the table the tv is on, a big brown basket, a plant stand, the blue chair, the table and chairs, the shelf thing in the hallway, and my desk, which is in the bedroom. I seem to have accumulated some stuff in the intervening years. LOL