20190302 – Saturday – In Mourning

20190302  – Saturday – In mourning.

It is a week since I last wrote in this my diary!!

It has taken me all this time to recover from the initial shock of being “wheel less”.

I am so glad however that I told you all about my “misdemeanours” because I have had offers to take me to the midweek class and the memorial meeting each week.

To the womens study group at Hyde Park once a month and to the Inc cafe once a week.

I have been able to prevail on Jeff to take me to the beach each evening so I can walk along the Esplanade and sit on one of the benches and watch the sunsets.

He goes shopping which he loves to do and picks me up after.

So my life is chugging along pretty well. 

Now that I have ditched Netflix, I am using Audible quite a lot and am listening to books, autobiographies and documentaries and such, for lighter reading.

I don’t know how long I will be able to stay off Netflix because it is such a temptation to “veg out” watching a movie, but so far so good.

I am struggling with my computer a lot because I am starting to use it again.

When I am away from home I use my iPad and iPhone, and for some reason my computer seems very slow.

I find it is easier to use Scrivener on my iPad than on my computer and that should not be the case.

I find my short-term memory is a real worry lately.

I need to write everything I do in a notepad that I keep beside me.

I record where I have travelled on my computer because I get side-tracked all the time and then can’t remember what I was doing.

When I have written about 10 notes, then I transfer the data into “My Brain” (a computer program I use for memory.

Then I can always find what I have done and retrace my footsteps so I can tell Tim C what I need when he comes to help me.

I am going to Tim’s place next Saturday and I have a lot of things I need help with.

I have had 2 or 3 offers of coffee for next week, so I will get to leave “my cave” for some company then, so that is good.

Just up the road from where I live there is a new council community centre being built in the Apex Park.

The community centre has already been built and next there will be a wetlands, tennis court, walking paths and such, all within walking distance of my home (well if I could walk it would be within walking distance).

It will be completed around August of this year, just when I get my licence back.

Then I will go there (God Willing) every day and sit there and work overlooking the playground and the wetlands.

It will be great!

I am hoping I will be able to ring my friends from there and persuade them to come and have coffee with me, and then I won’t have to worry about setting a time, because I will simply BE there.

This is my 79th year, and as you all know, I am expecting Christ to return somewhere in 2020, so I am very excited and looking forward to that.

If it turns out that I am wrong with my expectation, well, I will just carry on as I have done my whole life, waiting.

But even if he doesn’t come in 2020, my life expectancy is not very long so one way or another it is only a short time for me before he DOES return.

When I sit by the beach I try to imagine what it will be like when he does come.

I have got about a dozen books on the go on audible. 

I know I should be reading them one at a time, but I never do. 

I listen from one, and then from another, but it works for me.