November 30th and week of Thanksgiving:
Tried two bread recipes this week—no yeast bread recipes but they work very well.
Weather was cold and rainy for 2 days—it was so nice! And temps have been normal since then .
S. and I didn’t get together on Thursday due to many things. I just cooked some stuff for me and gave the cats including Traci’s cats, meat, too. So, they actually had a better thanksgiving meal than I did.
I went to paradise Valley Mall on Friday for a while (7.4 miles away but one way.) I’m beginning to remember mileage to my usual locations rather than time to get there; I remember it in a one way trip since that seems to be the easiest for me . Since I know how much 2 or 2.5 miles are from my measured walks, it’s interesting to know the distances and compare them to how far I know I can walk easily. That’s also easily without carrying much! Anyway, the mall wasn’t jammed with shoppers, but it was pretty full. There was enough parking available though so I had no trouble with that. I went there to walk the mall and also to see the crowds. I hadn’t walked for a couple of days so I got that in on Friday. Didn’t make it to Pam’s yoga class on Thursday either—my bad!
Papers came for the annuity beneficiaries, one more form to fill out but one more step in getting the estate settled.
Gas is now 1.99 at the closest station.
Cheers,
Shamba
Nov 21st
Made the rounds of Linens n Things and Mervyn’s today. LNT is getting lower and lower on stuff. Lots of sheets, fabric throws, blankets, bedding etc. I’ve got so much of that I don’t need any for the rest of my life, I think, after all the things I got from my parents and my mom’s stuff the past 5 years.
They still had manual can openers but I opted for a better slotted metal spoon than the one I have that’s wooden. I would have picked up another can opener but it’s the end of the month; payday isn’t until Dec. 1st.
However, that didn’t prevent me from picking up 2-3 scented candles at Merwyn’s that I will use for a holiday gift or two and keep the vanilla one for me. They are large and will last a good while. Sara really likes the pumkin spice one so that one’s for her. I don’t expect us to do anything more than that. She’s got enough to take care of with her cats and losing her second job at the dealership that went under last spring.
Atmosphere in general is murkier and murkier. I would like to go out the day after Thanksgiving and see how shopping is doing at a nearby mall or two but that’s using gas although our gas is almost under 2.00 everywhere. Still at 2.15 at the highest station near me.
Nov 20
DJA 7558.33; SP 753.78
Nov 19th
DJA 7997; SP 806; oil 53.62 Celebreated birthday twice this week! :)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
November 11th to November 18th:
Nov. 18th:
Today I’m puttering around the house doing a variety of things.
Paperwork.
I’m sorting through the paperwork that has come in since last week about Mom’s estate and hers and my bills. I needed to sort into categories: Hospice, funeral home, hospital, Estate & Lawyer info, my bills, Mom’s bills, my financial stuff, things for my brother, etc. This is all now in properly sorted and labeled folders.
Paperwork gets so out of hand so quickly sometimes!
Expecting: Comcast stock forms and annuity forms to fill out and return.
Kitchen/Food
I went through kitchen stores: I need to use up some flour, get more white sugar for some seasonal baking, use up some brown sugar and the last of quinoa and pearl barley to use up in the next few weeks. They are all out where I can see them to use them up.
I added this week, dried bulk stuff: oats, red lentils, yellow split peas, some more whole wheat pasta on sale, more wheat germ, and canned sweet potatoes and pumpkin . Oh, yes, Swanson veg broth on sale again this holiday season, I keep pitcking up cans and cans since it’s so much less than usual.
I need to get: coffee.
Household Goods:
Got another small plastic bag of things for Goodwill.
Beautiful black and white D’artangnan disappeared for about 3 days but he came back and has stuck around since Saturday afternoon. I told him not to do that again without letting me see him at least every other day. I also went the place where the 3 irrigation pipes come together—they’re not used for irrigation anymore but for cat homes and transportation by neighborhood cats. I announced through the pipes that D. was to come home and tell me what happened to him—that was Friday. He came back on Saturday!
11-17
DJA at 8300; gas here 229 sometimes 2.15, oil at 54.95 Lunch out with Mildred and donna at the Bistro! I was treated.
11-13“Wall Street launched a massive rebound Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 400 points after driving it below the 8,000 mark’ 8835
11-12
Oil today: 56.16.
“The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 411 points, or about 4.7%, to 8,282.66. It was the lowest close for the blue-chip average since it settled at 8,175 on Oct. 27.
Over the past three days, the Dow has fallen more than 660 points, or 7%. “
I got the Comcast issue of the estate under control for now. Have an appt with Richard about the AIG annuity on Friday. K. and I are beneficiaries and that should come directly to us; it will not be part of a probate procedure. That lessens legal costs, too.
Nov 11th
Sara and I are taking the day to fix ourselves a picnic lunch and go to the Arizona Falls, SRP takes care of it since it’s part of the canal/irrigation system. I’m taking veggies, pears and my two cameras and the binoculars I found in my mom’s dresser. Sara is bringing chicken salad, spinach salad, and we’re stopping for cookies and film camera batteries on our way out there.
From 9100 tio 8870; S&P 919; as here 2.47, oil at 62.41.
Today I’m puttering around the house doing a variety of things.
Paperwork.
I’m sorting through the paperwork that has come in since last week about Mom’s estate and hers and my bills. I needed to sort into categories: Hospice, funeral home, hospital, Estate & Lawyer info, my bills, Mom’s bills, my financial stuff, things for my brother, etc. This is all now in properly sorted and labeled folders.
Paperwork gets so out of hand so quickly sometimes!
Expecting: Comcast stock forms and annuity forms to fill out and return.
Kitchen/Food
I went through kitchen stores: I need to use up some flour, get more white sugar for some seasonal baking, use up some brown sugar and the last of quinoa and pearl barley to use up in the next few weeks. They are all out where I can see them to use them up.
I added this week, dried bulk stuff: oats, red lentils, yellow split peas, some more whole wheat pasta on sale, more wheat germ, and canned sweet potatoes and pumpkin . Oh, yes, Swanson veg broth on sale again this holiday season, I keep pitcking up cans and cans since it’s so much less than usual.
I need to get: coffee.
Household Goods:
Got another small plastic bag of things for Goodwill.
Beautiful black and white D’artangnan disappeared for about 3 days but he came back and has stuck around since Saturday afternoon. I told him not to do that again without letting me see him at least every other day. I also went the place where the 3 irrigation pipes come together—they’re not used for irrigation anymore but for cat homes and transportation by neighborhood cats. I announced through the pipes that D. was to come home and tell me what happened to him—that was Friday. He came back on Saturday!
11-17
DJA at 8300; gas here 229 sometimes 2.15, oil at 54.95 Lunch out with Mildred and donna at the Bistro! I was treated.
11-13“Wall Street launched a massive rebound Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 400 points after driving it below the 8,000 mark’ 8835
11-12
Oil today: 56.16.
“The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 411 points, or about 4.7%, to 8,282.66. It was the lowest close for the blue-chip average since it settled at 8,175 on Oct. 27.
Over the past three days, the Dow has fallen more than 660 points, or 7%. “
I got the Comcast issue of the estate under control for now. Have an appt with Richard about the AIG annuity on Friday. K. and I are beneficiaries and that should come directly to us; it will not be part of a probate procedure. That lessens legal costs, too.
Nov 11th
Sara and I are taking the day to fix ourselves a picnic lunch and go to the Arizona Falls, SRP takes care of it since it’s part of the canal/irrigation system. I’m taking veggies, pears and my two cameras and the binoculars I found in my mom’s dresser. Sara is bringing chicken salad, spinach salad, and we’re stopping for cookies and film camera batteries on our way out there.
From 9100 tio 8870; S&P 919; as here 2.47, oil at 62.41.
Monday, November 10, 2008
November 10
well, let's see, pick whatever prediction you want below about the next year or so and beyond:
--this morning had some note as two of my sites about something really coming to test Obama in the first 6 months of his presidency; not just from Biden, from some foreign leaders and international intelligence chatter .... wonderful news. then again there's some feeling thatsomething might happen during the Election and Obama's inauguration.
Economic/Financial situation:
--Deflationary recession/depression;
--Inflationary probably Hyperinflationary economic contraction/recession/depression;
--Bailouts for 3 US automakers to be a "bridge loan" until the economy improves in the next year so before the end of 2009 people will be buying cars again;
--Contraction/Recession will last 12-18 months; roubini says this as well as others so does that mean it started in jan 2008 or started Fall 2008. that 6-8 months makes a difference to how people plan or think about it;
--After the severe recession--most blogs I read at least say we'll have at least 12 months of severity, more sever than anything in the post-WW2 era--there will be the oppotunity of a lifetime to buy stocks and equities;
--Or the severe recession after a year or so will morph into a depression, Depression 2.0 or Greater Depression depending on your point of view;
--Or at what would be the beginning of an upswing in the economoy, oil depletion on the downside of peak oil will be setting in and there will be NO upswing ever again for industrial society.
--If there's any kind of growth, due to the oil shortages, depletion rates and no if any new oil projects of ANY kind, it will be so very small it'll be negligible;
--After the recession will just come the Long Depression;
--Reduction to subsistence farming, rudimentary technology, real poverty everwhere in the world so that the world will be a much bigger place than it is now;
--You could also add in, madness, depression and suicide for many people facing the decline in their lives; disease possibilities ; starvation; great homelessness for many; more violence probably and just freaking out all the time.
--Public services, police, fire, emergency personnel will dwindle as local entities have no more money to spend on public services.
--then of course, there's climate change and how fast it's coming and when it will effect food supplies and what will it do to the weather in North America when there is no more ice at all at the North Pole anytime of year?????????????
--this of course doesn't cover the lack of electricty in southern Arizona where people will just go totally insane and kill each other and themselves over the crushing heat we get here ...
--I don't understand why some economists, financiers/bloggers prediction inflation and other prediction deflation ....
--If the US defaults, does that mean everything in our bank accounts dissapears like it never existed ....
--do I really need to get a new regrigerator since they might stop making them .... I could really use a new refrigerator--it almost freezes everything put into it! it's pretty old ...
Makes me wonder why I should pay my bills and keep going .. but I'm so curious to see how it all plays out! ;)
I stopped at Linen's N Things and Merwyn's today to see what stuff was available; they are both going out of business and big signs hang outside about liquidation sales. didnt' buy anything--I don't need anything but I think about putting stuff away for the future constantly and I wonder what people will do for Christmas shopping next year. I wondered that last hear at this time, too. :/
Circuit city doesn't have any signs up yet but the Phoenix stores are all being closed for good.
It's creepy to think how many other's may be going to be in the same situation even before Christmas/end of Year this year. :(
It's been 8 weeks since the mid-September stuff started and just about that long until the end of the year.
On a higher note: 70s weather is here and the cats are all doing well and so am I.
cheers,
Shamba
--this morning had some note as two of my sites about something really coming to test Obama in the first 6 months of his presidency; not just from Biden, from some foreign leaders and international intelligence chatter .... wonderful news. then again there's some feeling thatsomething might happen during the Election and Obama's inauguration.
Economic/Financial situation:
--Deflationary recession/depression;
--Inflationary probably Hyperinflationary economic contraction/recession/depression;
--Bailouts for 3 US automakers to be a "bridge loan" until the economy improves in the next year so before the end of 2009 people will be buying cars again;
--Contraction/Recession will last 12-18 months; roubini says this as well as others so does that mean it started in jan 2008 or started Fall 2008. that 6-8 months makes a difference to how people plan or think about it;
--After the severe recession--most blogs I read at least say we'll have at least 12 months of severity, more sever than anything in the post-WW2 era--there will be the oppotunity of a lifetime to buy stocks and equities;
--Or the severe recession after a year or so will morph into a depression, Depression 2.0 or Greater Depression depending on your point of view;
--Or at what would be the beginning of an upswing in the economoy, oil depletion on the downside of peak oil will be setting in and there will be NO upswing ever again for industrial society.
--If there's any kind of growth, due to the oil shortages, depletion rates and no if any new oil projects of ANY kind, it will be so very small it'll be negligible;
--After the recession will just come the Long Depression;
--Reduction to subsistence farming, rudimentary technology, real poverty everwhere in the world so that the world will be a much bigger place than it is now;
--You could also add in, madness, depression and suicide for many people facing the decline in their lives; disease possibilities ; starvation; great homelessness for many; more violence probably and just freaking out all the time.
--Public services, police, fire, emergency personnel will dwindle as local entities have no more money to spend on public services.
--then of course, there's climate change and how fast it's coming and when it will effect food supplies and what will it do to the weather in North America when there is no more ice at all at the North Pole anytime of year?????????????
--this of course doesn't cover the lack of electricty in southern Arizona where people will just go totally insane and kill each other and themselves over the crushing heat we get here ...
--I don't understand why some economists, financiers/bloggers prediction inflation and other prediction deflation ....
--If the US defaults, does that mean everything in our bank accounts dissapears like it never existed ....
--do I really need to get a new regrigerator since they might stop making them .... I could really use a new refrigerator--it almost freezes everything put into it! it's pretty old ...
Makes me wonder why I should pay my bills and keep going .. but I'm so curious to see how it all plays out! ;)
I stopped at Linen's N Things and Merwyn's today to see what stuff was available; they are both going out of business and big signs hang outside about liquidation sales. didnt' buy anything--I don't need anything but I think about putting stuff away for the future constantly and I wonder what people will do for Christmas shopping next year. I wondered that last hear at this time, too. :/
Circuit city doesn't have any signs up yet but the Phoenix stores are all being closed for good.
It's creepy to think how many other's may be going to be in the same situation even before Christmas/end of Year this year. :(
It's been 8 weeks since the mid-September stuff started and just about that long until the end of the year.
On a higher note: 70s weather is here and the cats are all doing well and so am I.
cheers,
Shamba
Thursday, November 6, 2008
November 6th
an exciting week, a new president since November 4th--President-Elect Barack Obama!
Gas is now 2.45 here; on Oct 31 it was 2.69. Oil barrel has been around 60.00 dollars. DJA went up to 9400 on election day; but it went down the day after and now is at 8837 right before the close on Thursday the 6th.
Made it to yoga classes 2x a week; that’s my goal for the next few weeks. I want to add Tai chi back in once a week. Life is so much more manageable with yoga with others in a classroom!
Picked up death certificates this morning and ashes; had lunch with B. yesterday after I saw a lawyer at her offices. Time to start doing the paperwork for the estate settlement.
I haven’t been cooking as much as I was but only ate out twice this past week. B. paid for lunch yesterday, we ate at an upscale fish place but it was very close to her job. I’ll have to go back sometime, maybe. Anyway, coffee was strong and excellent and the entrée I had was good with leftovers for today.
Temperature in house was 63 degrees this morning; I put on a sweater, I have lots of sweaters and a few more now from my Mom.
I've decided to use the whole cranberries in the next batch of corn bread.
cheers,
Shamba
Gas is now 2.45 here; on Oct 31 it was 2.69. Oil barrel has been around 60.00 dollars. DJA went up to 9400 on election day; but it went down the day after and now is at 8837 right before the close on Thursday the 6th.
Made it to yoga classes 2x a week; that’s my goal for the next few weeks. I want to add Tai chi back in once a week. Life is so much more manageable with yoga with others in a classroom!
Picked up death certificates this morning and ashes; had lunch with B. yesterday after I saw a lawyer at her offices. Time to start doing the paperwork for the estate settlement.
I haven’t been cooking as much as I was but only ate out twice this past week. B. paid for lunch yesterday, we ate at an upscale fish place but it was very close to her job. I’ll have to go back sometime, maybe. Anyway, coffee was strong and excellent and the entrée I had was good with leftovers for today.
Temperature in house was 63 degrees this morning; I put on a sweater, I have lots of sweaters and a few more now from my Mom.
I've decided to use the whole cranberries in the next batch of corn bread.
cheers,
Shamba
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