Ouchie

My doctor's visit of the day today was to the dermatologist. Aside from getting the whole body once-over -- which everyone should do, btw -- she removed a mole here, a something-or-other there. A couple of the things were face-related, so there's an ouch factor there. But the mole she removed is something I've had for a very long time, which I know because it was visible when I wore a v-neck shirt, and was called "the ouchie" because when the kids were babies, they would try to pinch it off me and I would say "Ouch!", so therefore ... Anyway, I am fine, but I have a bandaid on my forehead, which comes off later tonight. So I've stuck pretty close to the house today, since I have a bandaid on my forehead and anyway, it's like a million degrees with buckets of humidity. Second day in a row we've had late afternoon thunderstorms.

I've also got a bit of the upset tummy today, for no reason I can think of, but I took a nap in bed this afternoon, which I rarely do unless I don't feel well. I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow. At least I know it's not my appendix.

I cannot quite get my head into vacation mode, nor can I keep track of the days of the week this week. I did get my bills paid today, most of them, anyway. And the mason came by to talk about fixing the front porch, which he put in new five years ago and which is now cracking off in big chunks. He says it's from the cement the guy used when he put in the railings (which the mason himself did not do), but he's going to come back in a week or so and fix it.

Oh, here's a good one. Years back, the Sibs' husband #2, who was a roofer, would come by twice a year and clean out our gutters, which was work he did also, but never charged us because we were family. When they divorced, naturally, no more gutter cleaning. For a few years, I would just watch the gutters fill up with leaves and stuff, and maybe the Hubs once in a while took care of it. I never gave it much thought because it's outside, but when we had new siding and gutters put on the house five years ago, I thought it would be nice to keep it all intact. So I hired a gutter cleaning service. I made no mention of this to the Hubs.

One of the other little projects that needed to be done this summer was that a few loose roofing tiles needed to be fixed. But the other day, the Hubs noticed that they were okay, and asked if I had called a roofer to fix it. I said No, maybe the gutter cleaning people did it when they were here last week. He said nothing.

Then I talked to them about fixing a loose gutter, and they said they had fixed the roof, so I mentioned this to him. Now he paused for a beat or two, and said that he didn't know I had hired gutter cleaning people, and how long have they been coming? About five years, I told him. Didn't he realized that somebody was cleaning the gutters? No, he didn't.

Okay, then.

(For those of you who may live where these things don't exist or aren't called gutters, click here to see what I'm talking about.)

So that's it. No doctors tomorrow, so perhaps a bit of exercise (stop laughing) or maybe a tad of bathroom cleaning (stop it, I said!)

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