Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Up at 5:30 am....there was a buzzer going off....the smoke alarm in the hall...just a short beep every once in a while....took the cover off...it's all electrical ... no battery.  But by leaving the cover off it seems to have stopped.  But once up....I stayed up.  Very cold...41 degrees per the kitchen clock.

Weight at 135 lbs....not bad considering the Chinese dinner last night.  I'm happy.  And...we didn't walk yesterday either.

Back to working on Quicken for the day.  Still need to get Jim to sit down with me for a couple of hours and go over the speech. Paid estimated income taxes today for 4th quarter.  Stock market doing well...heading upwards nicely. 

10:15 am   Went for a 2 mile walk around lake with Jim....COLD wind....

11:15 am   breakfast:  dates, hard boiled egg, slices of cheese, coffee

I found the ear buds for my cell phone...works good with phone still in pocket...nice

The smoke alarm...Jim finally woke up at 9 am...he worked on it...doesn't want to get a new one so finally decided that if he bent the tester button back it would be quiet...I did test it with a candle to make sure it still activated okay.  We'll see...we have discovered that if we put the fan on it ... it will stop buzzing.

lunch...can't remember but I know it wasn't much...after the mail came I went to the bank with the last rent check and then shopping.  Compared prices of TurboTax and Quicken at Costco and then Wal-Mart...purchased he Quicken at Wal-Mart and will go back to Costco for the TurboTax.

Home about 5 pm....ate dinner:  salad with small amount of dressing, lettuce, cheese & ham.

Dessert:  Carmel candy from coffee table.

Jim worked with me on a run through with the slides on the first half...stopped at Italy...took us about 40 minutes. 

Then we watched The Good Wife together, then I watched Switched at Birth and then we watched Downton Abbey together.

More work on the draft with the corrections we made during the run through this evening before shower and bed with a final chapter of my book...nearly half way through now.  Lights out at midnight....long day.