6:45 am – sleepishly hear Nat arise from bed, get clothes and go to bathroom to get ready for the day
6:46 am – roll over onto Nat’s side of bed and fall back asleep
8:33 am – slowly wake up, step onto floor, grab clothes and go to bathroom to get ready for the day
8:50 am – walk to office, turn on computer, printer and mouse – roll up window blinds
8:51 am – walk into living room, kiss Nat good morning
8:51 am – walk to kitchen, get morning pills, drink and take to living room
8:52 am – walk to office, print out LA Times Crossword puzzle for Nat – go into Crossword Blog for theme of puzzle and write in one or two to get Nat started
8:55 am – return to living room, give Nat his puzzle, sit in recliner chair, ask each other how we slept – start to discuss what’s for lunch and supper
9:00 am – take regimen of pills – squint eyebrows and rattle head to think of what to eat for meals
9:05 am – still trying to decide what to eat for lunch and supper – discuss various ideas
9:07 am – go to freezer to remove meat or fish for supper to thaw
9:08 am – grab 4 mints from freezer, turn on iPad to play games, read Twitter feed – Nat does crossword puzzle – answer any crossword questions Nat stuck on
10:30 am – make sandwiches for lunch and put aside – return to recliner
11:00 am – Nat makes coffee
11:15 +/- – Eat lunch while watching one of many taped TV shows
12:05 pm – clean up from lunch
12:10 pm – return to recliner to decide what to do for rest of day
12:15 pm – Nat works in garden, if necessary, I run errands or do office work or maybe bake
2:30 +/- pm – Both finished and return to recliner chairs to wait until time to fix supper
3:45 pm – Start to fix supper
4:15 pm – Eat supper
4:45 pm – Clean up, put on evening track suits for comfy
4:46 pm – Nat returns to recliner, listens to music waiting for his show at 5:00 pm – I go to office to watch a TV show/podcast while playing Freecell game
5:30 pm – Return to my recliner chair – begin watching regular 3 news shows – local, national and American
7:00 pm – unless hockey game – settle in for night of TV watching whatever that may be – DVD collection, taped TV shows or regular TV
8:30 pm – take evening regimen of pills
10:30 pm – off to bed – Winter time lucky to keep awake until 11:00 pm
10:32 pm – take nighttime regimen of pills
10:33 pm – Kiss Nat good night
10:45 pm – Lay in bed, play one iPad game – lights out.
Good night.
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