MidWeek

Whenever I hear The Husband go "uh-oh" or "oh, man" I know there's something amiss.  This morning it was a charge that came through on our charge card - a completely unauthorized charge.  I despise this kind of trouble.  It feels like we're constantly fighting fires in order to maintain life.  One small conflagration doused and another one springs up in its place. Small flames erupt in myriads of places / areas of life.  Requires constant watchfulness.  It's work.

Fortunately, this morning found the charge still pending; immediate phone call to the company (one of the reasons we continue to use this card in spite of the annual fee) and they handled it on-the-spot.  A different numbered card has been issued and will arrive next week.  In the meantime: no online charges can be made with that card, and we use it almost exclusively for online purchases.  Had just been sitting down to order a couple things from the company I have a love-hate relationship with.  But that'll have to wait.  And that's just fine.

We had some rain over the last couple days.  So grateful for it.  Rain overnight and I wasn't certain our morning walk (the rec center has been closed for annual cleaning / maintenance and not quite sure it's open again and too lazy to call to find out) would actually happen.  We grabbed our slickers and headed out.  It was cool and breezy (dratted humidity, also, of course) and the sky was just lovely.  We could see it raining across the valley.  The pictures on my phone camera are a completely different color than in-person but still give a sense of the majesty of the clouds.

Ran over to the church yesterday to practice the piano solo on that piano.  I'm still practicing and will hope my muscle memory will conquer the nervous shakes of my hands.  My little finger is still painful - when I woke up this morning I could not even make a fist, or fold it all the way in. The pain radiates down the side of my hand.  I'll give it some more time, maybe have to see a dr.  Not the InstaCare.  Had double digit reminders/requests from them for me to give them a review.  That's a hard no.

Had a brief visit from our son, his wife and two of the grands.  One of them is headed off to CA to be a traveling nurse.  I had mentioned that I hoped to see her before she left, wanted to get a hug. Didn't expect it to happen.  It did and for that I'm grateful.  She's nervous, understandably so.  Hard to imagine that we'd been married for several years by the time we reached her age.  She's brave to head off on her own.  I never had that experience, going off on my own.  She'll do great and we were grateful for the visit, they never stay very long but it's nice to not feel so completely alone if only for a few minutes.

Grateful this morning to have something to look forward to tonight - dinner with a friend.  I hope we'll always be friends.  Grateful for instant attention from the credit card company.   Not interested in paying $320 for a hotel room across the country that we won't be staying in. And so very grateful for the rain.  (It's weary to constantly hear on the news that we're in a drought - gloom and doom about something we have no control over.  Maybe they'll be less so for a day or so.) Time for lunch - grateful for food in the house for lunch.