I've Moved!!

Well, it has been over two weeks since I last posted on here. That was the day before I moved from the senior assisted living facility, and now it is about time I got started on catching up.

The move went very well, and I quickly got established in my new home. I'll tell you more about it in a minute. I had trouble getting my TV hooked up. Finally got that done about mid-week last week. I am used to Comcast and here in the house they already had Direct TV, so I was kinda stuck. We actually had to have a tech come out and get it started. Although there was a hookup in the room, there had never been active service to this room, but that is all OK now. Now I just have to get used to the different locations of my favorite channels. A little time and practice will take care of that.

The computer was another story. There was only one phone line into the house, so the family "tv guru" finally set me up with a wireless hookup thru her computer. I guess it is OK. At least I can send and receive emails again. I haven't tried to do any internet research yet. But there are aeveral new problms which have shown up. I hope we can get them straightened out. It has to be the result of something that happened in the change-over, because all these things were working OK before we made the new connection.

When I lived in Yuba City, transportation to church, or anything in the Lincoln area was quite a problam for me because I had only three people to ask for help. And I just hate having to ask someone for a ride. I was afraid that might continue after I moved down here, and it seems that is just exactly what is happenig. Most of the people at church know I still have a transportation problem, but they are still not checking with me to see if I need transportation. I'm hoping that situation will improve as people becone more familiar with my situation.

My room is very pleasant. It is just a little bigger that the room I had at the Manor in Yuba City, but I guess it is the way it is arranged, there seems to be more room. And, it is very cozy. I always am concerned about mixing my furniture with someone else's. But it is working out well. All her furnitute that I am still usuing is light aok. And all but one piece of mine is light oak (or at least it looks like it). The room realy kooks quite coordinated, and not really cluttered. The room is about 12 x 15 and you would not believe what all I have in it. The one end wass lost space where the entrance door folds back against the wall. Then there is a space that is room for a small knickknace stand. The rest of that wall is taken up with skiding glass doors on a nice large closet. Turning the corcer, there is a round table which is actually there just for oranamental purposes. Next to that is my computer armoire (Kathy got this for me when I moved here), there is a short three drawer chest upon which we have put the printer Steve and Judy loaned me. It holds the 4-way printer, and has three drawers. The next thing is my large bookshelves. My recliner (which is were I sleep) is in the corner, and behind it is a very nice plant. On the third wall, are two nice windows with lattice blinds on them. In front of those windows is a very nice desk. In the next corner is a straight chair (dark wood, but it has needlepoint cusion on it that Mom did, and there ain't no way I'm getting rid of that chair). Next is a piece that I'm not real sure what it was intended to be used for, but it works very well for storing my magazines and some other things in binders, and then the next thing is a five drawer chest, which gives me lots of drawer space. Nex to the chest is my "entertainment center". It consists of a cabinet on wheels which I believe was originally a TV table. It has two shelves in the lower space. One shelf holds my DVD playrer, my VCR player, the controll box for the TV, another snall unit that goes with the DVD player. Then at the end of this equipment, I have some binders of CD's.
The bottom shelf right nw has only a rather large figurine of Arty's, but only time will tell how long that will stay there. The TV sits on the top of the cabinet, and we put a levelling shelf on top ot the TV holds my 3-disk CD player, with the speakers on the chest of drawers. Of course you have to add a few knicknacks, flower arrangements, wall hangings, and you have a niily furnished room. I know. it sounds crowded/cluttered but it really isn't. Oh yes, I have a nice big artificial Boston Fern on top of the computer cabinet. I am really very comfortable.

My bathroom is just outside my room and has to be used by all visitors to the home. So when I want to take a shower I have to use Artie's bath. Neither of us can step into a tub to use a step0in shower, That seens to be the only proproblem so far, and we seem to be working around that. I think this is a good place to call this blog to a helt. I will tell you more next time about Artymae herself, the house and the environment. This coukd take at least a couple of posts to tell you all about where I am, but I think I will call it quits for now..Bye Bye