Beneath the Wraps

           I cannot believe tomorrow is Mother ’ s Day.  The weather isn ’ t speaking volumes of how Mother ’ s Day has looked in years past.  Yesterday we had sun showers all day.  The rain has been pouring all night and this morning.  Not to mention the hens have been cackling.  I can ’ t sleep with that!  Nobody rescued them from whatever they were cackling about nor did the rain drown them out as they seemed to be louder than the pounding rain. https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1577805/Chicken/          I must have slept at some point – and hard as I had another weird detailed dream.  I don ’ t know where Richard and I were or why.  The neighborhood was not one that I remember.  Somehow we got separated and I went to a house in which I know the woman but chose instead to go to the house next door to wait for Richard when I heard his voice inside of the first house.   ...

           Even before Bonnie came to live with us, Jenna found a comforting sound (to her) to drown out the noise of the chickens and roosters who crow all hours of the day.   She turns the phone setting to rain falling.   I don’t recall having heard it until after Bonnie had come to live with us.   That is because Bonnie snores loudly.   LOUD.   Like “wake up the dead” kind of loud. Jenna has turned up the volume in order to drown out the noise.

          It’s rare that Roland will go to bed before I do.   It was quite the opposite when we first married, but for some reason he feels impelled to stay up and watch TV even though we have the capability of recording his programs. Sometimes I will hear him come in, but not always.   I am usually fast asleep before 10:00 although last night I was in bed playing on the kindle that Caroline had given me.   After he got in bed, I set the kindle aside.   I don’t even know what time it was. Earlier this morning Roland had evidently hit the remote button which caused his legs to rise in the air.   He doesn’t like that setting, but could not find the remote to undo it.   So we get up.   1:30 a.m.   Before he found it, I offered to trade him sides as I knew where the remote for my side of the bed was. But he eventually found it.            ...

What causes stress?             Moving causes stress – especially when the moving date has changed and you are not prepared as you believe you have more time to pack everything.              It is stressful looking for a house to move into.             A job can be stressful – especially one that lays on the pressure for an academic advisor to reach the unreasonable goal of ten starts each month.   How can an academic advisor seriously be accountable for a student changing his or her mind?   Especially when the referrals given come from people who were searching for jobs and filled out a school interest on accident as they believed it was a part of the job application?             Stress is trying to fill out a job application online or take a test for school when the Wi-Fi seems to have troubles staying connecte...

I find it interesting that the topic of my last class focused on Medicare and social security.   The topic of my current class has been the brain, stress and this week’s topic on sleep disorders – which I have had my entire life.   Thus I’m making discoveries.   I am also getting the feeling that I need to put my affairs in order and start throwing away mountains of stuff so that Roland and Jenna won’t have to do it in the event I leave this earth.           I’m not saying that death is around the corner.   It just feels like it in some ways.   Perhaps it’s just the side effects of still trying to heal from bronchitis and still coughing and not breathing right.   I was told at the doctor’s office that my breathing was off.   I don’t think it’s the bronchitis that’s to blame.   My breathing has always been off.   I think more off as I age.   My pipes are small and seem to shrink with ...

          Why is it that the accounting language is so wordy?   Don't use two paragraphs to tell me what can be said in only four words.   Do they make an accounting book that reads like "Dick and Jane" - not that "Dick and Jane" was much fun to read, but at least it was simple.                    One of the objectives of this project is to create a single set of accounting                   standards to stand at the base of the "production" and at the constant flow                  of high-quality information, clear and compatible in financial situations and                  in other financial rep...