Mom feel and broke her hip

I haven't posted in such a long time. So here is my list of excuses

1. Mom fell and broke her hip, had surgery, went to rehab, will come home tomorrow

2. School just ended last week with the last couple weeks being crazy

3. Extra hours at my second job with lots of meetings, training, etc.

4. Mom fell and broke her hip, had surgery, went to rehab, will come home tomorrow

5. Weather has been so hot, I'm just whipped, spending time in pool to cool off

6. Had family reunion here last weekend so had to clean up

7. Mom fell and broke her hip, had surgery, went to rehab, will come home tomorrow

8. Been to hot to do anything in a room that isn't air conditioned

9. Mom fell and broke her hip...........

Oh, OK, so I've just been lazy. Actually thought of several really good posts to make, but always think of those things while mowing the lawn and then when I get back into the house I forget it. But Mom did fall and break her hip, had surgery, went to rehab and does get to come home tomorrow and now I can see how my life is changing. I've had to take over her finances, not that she was doing a bad job, but there were things that she was paying for that she didn't need and she thought she had removed her name from things and yet things were still coming. I've taken care of that for her. Now I'm getting all her bills on direct debit or payments online. I can view her banking online now and keep track of things that way also.

Next week I'm planning on leaving for a few days and just hope that my body will allow me to do the miles that I plan to do and also hope that my mind will allow me to not think that I'm a terrible daughter for leaving my Mom home alone. Looks like a number of her friends will be checking in on her and hopefully Mom will realize that she is 83 and needs to take things a bit easy.

Next post will hopefully have some wonderful pictures from my trip.

Oh The Dilemma!

I'm not the best housekeeper in the world. I guess that goes back to being spoiled rotten by my maternal grandmother who lived with us and felt she needed to earn her keep. The house was always spic and span. Funny thing is, I never saw her do any housework, it was always done!

So this morning I'm finally getting around to hanging up some clothes in my closet. Probably about 10 tops in various colors and styles. Since my divorce I have become a bit of a clothes nut especially now that I need to wear nicer clothes at my one job. Once I find a style that I like and I feel it looks good on me, I have a tendency to buy that style in many different color. I happen to look better in pastels so wear many different shades of yellow, green, blue, pink, etc. During the winter months I'm more likely to wear darker colors.

So I like to put the hangers in my tops laid out on the bed, then hang them in my closet. Today I'm looking at the clothes laying there and I begin wonder, should I have all the same styles together or the same colors together? In the past I have gone by style, all polo shirts together, all v-necks together, mock turtleneck sleeveless together, etc. Oh but wait, that seems to only cover the light weight clothing! My winter type tops are separated by color! Then I notice all my sweatshirts hung by color and long-sleeve tees by color, light first then the darker colors.

OMG, I'm so anal! Why has this become such a dilemma in my life? So here I sit writing about the dumbest thing I could possibly think of, and yet I'm also fighting the need to head into the bedroom and move all my clothes around! Oh well, this is the first weekend I have all to myself since last fall, so I guess if I want to re-organize my closets, no one can stop me!