A Caregivers Chronicle

March 6, 2020 Dear Reader, It’s been nearly 3 months since I have visited here. Sometimes, I think about sitting down and writing here, but my brain has been telling me that there is no point to this effort. “You’re just wasting time. You need to spend your time working in more monetizing endeavors. Besides who is really reading this? It’s not like I am promoting this personal blog.

Ok, dear reader ….enough of this brain chatter. I am sitting down to help release thoughts and feelings that come into and over me as I move along the path I create with Deb and, of course alone. I have shared in past posts that I have suffered a business failure and it put me into a “high debt load” situation. It’s not exactly “okay”. “It is as it is.”And it is “NOW”… I have diversified my income strategies and continue to work towards becoming debt free.

I guess the passing of my father put an additional downward push on my mental attitude and the responsibilities of caring for Deb, making ends meet, traveling to Miami when daughter Kory had an emergency appendectomy, then up to Long Island New York where our daughter Li gave birth by cesarean to a beautiful baby boy, it sucked up the cash.

It has been difficult to fight the urge to isolate myself and “push myself to tackle my “To Do’s”. I got away from “Calendaring my days ” This is critical to enabling one to use “time”…the most precious commodity, in ways that will help me achieve “positive cash flow and debt reduction.” A loss of Self-discipline. At least I can say that I am back to taking care of this. I need to cut down on the “dining out” category in my budget. I have been cooking more and, of course, we are eating cleaner and healthier.

Dear reader, if I went back right now and reviewed what I have written here, I would probably just “trashit.” No, I am not going to correct the word “Trashit” Grammerly wants me to, but it is too good. It fits. it should be “Trash shit.”

I am back in this space after too much time away. It feels good.Now however, I need to get Deb in the Shower… I keep asking her to do this and she is giving me a standard reply. “Ok, in a minute”. This has been going on for 2 hours as I have been here in my office working since I made her breakfast. It’s time to get a little more firm.

Yesterday morning around 10 I came in the bedroom and said, “Little stinky Debbie, please get up.” She replied, “I know..I do stink.” She got up and she went in the bathroom and washed her armpits! Sometimes I forget to remind her to put on her deodorant. I can’t make these anecdotes up. I’m not that creative. It’s real. It is our life. Our time is life.

Dear reader, Thank you for visiting