I will be moving again. After Mike passed in March 2009, I moved in with my folks who live in a subdivision for Seniors $$ plus. Now my folks are moving again. I can’t afford to live by myself plus it is too lonely and my mom needs me to help her watch my dad.

My Aunt recently moved into an apartment complex for seniors 55 plus where you live in your own apartment but have small kitchen with no oven or stove cuz they have a dining area you eat in that’s like a restaurant and they serve you. There are activities they have that you can participate in. If you need help you pull a call box. The rent covers all your expenses, cable, light bill, heating etc. Everything except for telephone and internet. It’s in Richmond which is an hr away from us.

Well my mom has decided to have she, my dad and I move in there cuz she thinks it will be easier to take care of my dad in a place like that. And they can get help from the Veterans thingy since my dad was in WWII to help pay for it. And if he ever needs more help in taking care of him they can get nurses to come in and help care for him,. He’ll be 90 in June. So it looks about the week of June 15 or so my life will be upturned. There are no places like this around close where we live. Only senior apartments where you have to cook for yourself or old folks homes where you are there essentially waiting to die. It’s a shame cuz we’d all rather be closer. My mom is thinking if she passes first then it will be easier for me to take care of my dad. If my dad goes first then, if she can still get help from the Veterans on paying the rent they we may stay there. If not then we go back to my folks house. After my folks pass I will probably have to move into Senior apartments near my folks house. That looks like a safer neighborhood.

They have activities you can do there like a knitting group I plan to join and walking (we’ll see how long I last at doing that). My mom will be needing me to watch my dad a lot which means on Thurs I might not get to go to my Thurs knitting group for awhile cuz she wants me to watch him on Thursdays. I don’t mind watching him tho but sure hate to miss the knitting group. My folks are gonna keep their house which is good cuz I can leave there stuff I won’t have room for. Like I can keep my scrapbooks of my stars and other stuff like that in my folks attic. Stuff I don’t use all the time but still need like some velvet tops and pants I wear around Christmas and some Christmas tops and sweaters and deep winter sweaters, I can keep them at my folks house and get them around Christmas when I need them.


I don’t mind moving except for a coupla of things. It will be an hr from where I live which means it will be an hr from my friends and church. I still plan to g.o to our church on Sundays even tho they have one at the apartments. I’ll go to the one at the apartments when it is too bad a weather to go to our church. Mike grave is near the church so I visit it every Sunday either before or after church. Sad thing is my friends will be an hr away. If my friend Debbie calls wanting me to meet her at Walmart or the mall it won’t be 5 or 10 mins away or meet a Shoney’s it won’t be 20 mins away, it will be a n hr away. I’ll have to be told the nite before and not spur of the moment, let’s go. I still plan to go spend time with my friends. Just a further trip.

And I’ll probably have less room which I am not keen about. There is only one closet in my room, a foyer closet and in my folks room a closet for my mom and one for my dad. To store my winter coats, I will have tio put them in the foyer closet. Shoes will have to go under the bed in a underbed shoes thing and my extra yarn in an underbed box cuz the closet has to have as much room for my clothes as possible. My folks still have my old bedroom set I had when I was a kid, so I will use that for my furniture. It has a desk to it which I will use for my computer. And a bookcase which I plan to put some of my records (the rest will have to stay in my folks attic until I need them), my cd’s some of my dvd’s and books in.

I don’t mind moving except I hate I will be further from my friends and in less space. I just got used to being here and now I am moving again. Oh well.

Blundervibes sent for you, Cheryl. It's just another page in the book of life; hoping everything works out well for you.


mikey

Thanks so much for the vibes. I don’t mind moving except for being further away from my friends and church and less space being in an apartment. But I had to move when Mike passed and move in with my folks so I could rent out my home to get some income. So we will survive this somehow. I don’t want to live alone cuz it was be too lonely. So glad I have my folks. My mom needs me to help her take care of my dad and walk him on down to meals. I don’t mind doing that. Just such a changed so soon after making one at the worst time of my life,

think Mike would be so proud of me and how well I have handled things. It’s cuz I still can’t believe he is gone and it seems as if he never really existed but was just a wonderful dream. Oh well I am at the beach with my folks and am enjoying it. Mike & I always went there for a week with my folks so I miss him so much here. He’d be out of the beach boardwalk deck and watching his ballgames on tv. We’d go visit the lighthouses and souvenir shops and tourist places and have a ball. I know he is glad I am not alone.

When I get home I have one week before I have to move so packing will have to be quick on top of going to knitting groups, Mikes cousins sons hs graduation and going to the pharmacy to get meds. Whew…

Blundervibes from here too! You'll still have us...

Change almost always presents new possibilities and opportunities. Sometimes it causes anxiety and fear, but when we look at it with an open mind, we find that there is really nothing to be afraid of. Good luck and happy moving Cheryl!!! Oh yeah, and what Gus said........

Thanks ya'll. It'll be a busy time when I get back from the beach. Only 1 week to get things together for the move and that's a busy week with 2 knitting groups to go to and a Monkees concert and getting meds from the hospital pharmacy.

All the best to you, Cheryl.

Thanks so much. It will be a busy time for sure.

I got a catalog advertising upcoming shows at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Guess what it says in there that Arlo will be there Sat Feb 11! Hope I got the date right. Thanks for coming on a Sat Arlo! Maybe I can get my friend Debbie to go with me. We hope.

Sunday, Feb. 12 he'll be at the Modlin Center, University of Richmond. It's on their website. He's coming your way, Cheryl!

Thanks so much for the info. Now locals gigs will be even more local!

Just looked and it's the day after the George Mason University show. Sad thing is with my luck my friend Debbie probably can't go with me to the George Mason show cuz of having to work the next day. And that would mean no one to go to that show with. Crapshoot. They overwork her as it is. She deserves a day off to see Arlo. If I do get to go I probably won't have the time to hit the Potomac Mills Outlet Mall which I used to go to with Mike on the way back. Haven't been there since he passed as no one to go with. Bummer. I'd love for her to go to both shows or at least the Richmond one. I'll have to tell her about it later today. Either way Richmond here I come.

I just looked up online and it's 14 mins from the apts I'm moving to with my folks. Pretty cool!

Finally moved into the seniors apartments with my folks yesterday. My folks moved in Fri. I still don't have everything I brought put up.or do I have everything moved in either. Like winter clothes will get brought in in Sept etc. We'll see how it goes. I did see my aunt at dinner which was nice.

Wishing the best for you Cheryl in your new home!!!