: Midweek reflections on the last day of Kamal

‘Idál (Justice), 19 Kamál (Perfection), 166 BE – Wednesday, August 19, 2009 about 9:43 AM Pacific Time

Monday I went to United Blood Service and gave blood. Tuesday I did one load of cloths and cleaned out the refrigerator. I've written over 100 poem in Kamal and submitted 27 items.

Tonight I'm planning on going to the Feast of Asma (Names). Tomorrow is Thankful Thursday, I had planned to go pick up some food, but I think I'll hold off on that until Friday. I fixed beans yesterday and I have leftover beans in the fridge, so I want to eat them up before I get any more food. My fridge is too small to keep a lot of items in. If the leftovers get pushed to the back of a shelf they are forgotten until the fridge is cleaned out again about nineteen days from now.

I think I'm going to have to put the leftovers on the top shelf. Mom usually puts away the leftovers and she can't reach the top shelf, but using any other shelf hides the leftovers behind something.

I went to United Blood Services today

My iron count was up high enough for me to donate blood today. I know it's the results of eating more meat in the past few days. Sunday morning we had hamburgers and eggs. Today we had hamburgers and eggs. I have avoided the cheese and milk for the past three or four days. Since I donated today, I won't be able to donate again until December.

For someone who is afraid of needles, I enjoy giving blood. I think it's the wonderful people working for United Blood Services. They are friendly and helpful, they explain the entire process of the blood donation. After donating, I remained in the office, ate chocolate chip cookies and drink grape juice. I came home with a purple bandage around my arm.

I stayed home today

I stayed home today, I didn't see any reason to leave the house because we had enough food to fix and didn't need to pick up any meds. I did have one appointment with United Blood Services, but I rescheduled it for Friday. Mom need me at home today because she had a bit of a difficult morning.

Sometimes Mom has difficult mornings and I'm not sure why. We stayed home, did housework and Mom tried on some of her dress. After the morning passed Mom seemed all right, I'm going to have to keep track of the difficult mornings in relation to her taking her meds. All though, I'm not sure that there is a relationship there.

I suspect the main problem is the cataract on her left eye. Because of the cataract she can't see very well, especially with the low wattage light bulbs. However, the low wattage light bulbs save on electricity, so I'm going to switch all the light over to them by the end of June.

I'm in a better mood this afternoon, I'm not as worried about finances or getting a new refrigerator. Tomorrow I need to get out and look at refrigerators, so while I'm out I think I'll get some cartridges for the printer. I'm hoping the only thing wrong with the printer is the cartridges.