All day long I've been keeping myself busy with one thing or another on my to-do list. I did things like cleaning the window sills, dusting my miniature toilets, rearranging where I keep my pajamas, and other really important stuff like that. Mainly because I was putting off what I really wanted to get done but was kind of timid at starting --- hooking up my new scanner. I wanted it to be easy 'cause new electronics isn't my comfort area. I finally sat down with the pamphlet and started in. It was easy peasy and for that I am thankful. I'll start practicing with it later. I had a perfectly fine scanner but adobe got cute with their systems and made my scanner setting on my printer obsolete. Hate it when they do that. That scanner wasn't a real favorite of mine anyhow. I had a flatscreen when I was working on my books but then that scanner became obsolete when I got a new laptop. You just can't win this game. I'd been looking online for some time trying to find something that wasn't real expensive but would do the simple picture scanning that I want. I couldn't buy one with a CD disk with directions because my laptop doesn't have a drive for CDs. I do have my other large PC here now that I had left at Jenni's so I may end up using it instead of my laptop later on. We'll see.
My speakers on the laptop have been acting up too so Mary helped me buy an adapter on Amazon so I could hook up my speakers from my big PC to my laptop. I sound so techy, don't I? But really I'm not. I'm way more confident than I was years ago but I can still get flustered and lost easily. Yesterday I uninstalled this virus protection program I had bought last year. I was so sick and tired of them sending me pop-ups telling me I needed to upgrade. I mean. It was constant. They kept telling me I was not safe and I suspect my laptop wasn't running as well as it used to either. My subscription was up in October and once I notified them I wasn't going to renew, they really started sending me popups. Enough already! I uninstalled it and felt very good about it. Of course they wanted me to take a survey about why I was leaving and one of the first things I had to choose from was "too many popups." Lesson learned. Won't mess with them again! Avast by the way.
Mary and I made a Walmart run yesterday and stopped by my daughter's house to pick up the last of the things I had stored up there. Well, most of it. I still have two kitchen chairs but I can't use them here so I told her to put them on the Clallam County Free Site or even try to get a couple bucks. Here's what they look like if you're interested.
Another thing I picked up was a bin of collectable toys that I always joked was the inheritance for my kids. Well now it seems that it might not be a joke. When I downsized last year from the 3-bedroom house in Port Angeles to this one-bedroom apartment, I ended up selling but mostly giving away tons of my "stuff." The kids just weren't that interested in my treasures and that's pretty much how it goes these days. My pal, Mary, had a yard sale last weekend and she's having a hard time getting rid of her beautiful china set. Her daughter and granddaughter just aren't into that kind of collection and neither are any of my kids.
As I look around my apartment at what I'm still hanging on to, I'm guessing the kids will probably end up selling what they can but probably giving a lot of it away. I'm sure between the three daughters and two granddaughters might want to keep the pictures, some of the books (at least the ones I've written), and maybe some of my jewelry. But even that is questionable. I never did really have much jewelry to speak of. Certainly nothing of any value. My CDs and DVDs would probably find a home with someone as most people are still looking for things like that and maybe some of the things I have on the wall.
A lot of the time if a resident passes away here, the family survivors let the residents come in and look through what they can use. Makes it easier on the family and most residents are thrilled with things they can use. The toy collection I've been adding to over the years is mostly from fast food places like McDonalds. You can't get really good toys in Happy Meals anymore and I know some of these pieces are worth saving. I've got Archie, Jughead, Betty, and Veronica in cars, John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Toy Story characters, Insects from the movie, A Bugs Life, the Wizard of Oz, The Flintstones, Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future, The Jetsons, and some McDonald figures. I'm guessing at least one of my daughters or grandchildren might find a piece or two in the toys that catches their fancy. I set them all out to inventory what I have and it's a colorful display. I've always loved the Toy Store figures but Archie and Jughead in their cars has always been a favorite too.
I don't know why I'm preoccupied with my demise this week. I get like that now and again. Especially when you sit here and look around day after day and think about what you could unload to make the disposal easier on the girls when the time comes. I'll have to quit thinking along those lines. Every kid has to go through it to some degree sooner or later.
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