When The Mind Is Willing But The Body Won't Cooperate

 

Just a small portion of Transgender Story Time

The above quote is not mine, but boy does it apply.

Yesterday I made a post on my local Facebook town group. I’ve decided that I will have an additional expense in the new year. I’m looking for someone to come in twice a month and do all the things I can’t and/or that cause me pain.

Basically this means everything in the apartment from the thighs down. Thighs up, I’m mainly golden. Dusting even to the ceiling corners and table fans, kitchen and bathroom counters, putting stuff away, folding laundry, decluttering are all in my wheelhouse. 

Knees down and that’s a different story. All stuff I cannot do, or do properly, or make me scream when I do them (I suppose I could ride my office chair around the apartment and do what needs to be done if I had to). This includes, cleaning the tub, toilet and floors, moving the furniture and vacuuming, doing the kitchen floor and the bottom of the fridge and so on. I’ll also have some specific season and organization tasks each time.

Lots of people feel that they don’t want to hire this kind of stuff because they think it’s good for them, or they feel less independent while getting help, or other things. With my chronic pain level and degenerative issues, I’ve decided this will actually increase my independence and health and free time.

I haven’t had a housekeeper since Germany, when we had a gal who came four days more or less twice a week and literally saved our bacon and then mine as I was downsizing and sorting to move back home. It will be a change, and it’s taking money that I know many retirees are planning to use as an inflation hedge or add to savings or other, perhaps much smarter things. But this is what I need, and so it will be.

I’ve just begun the work on my 2022 budget so I don’t know if I’ll be giving up anything for this but since this is “extra” money post Medicare B payment it wasn’t actually in the budget. Which by the way is looking good so far. I’ve dropped a few payments, and the only things I’m really seeing immediate inflation concerns and issues for are groceries (I still do a lot of meal and frozen delivery and some cooking and freezing), gas and future travel. My gas and heat increased already but that’s because I’m a warm girl who can live with the air as high as 77 in the summer but needs 70 to 72 during the waking hours, even in Texas.

Where, by the way, it will be 83 on Christmas day, rendering that nice green sweater I got for Christmas day moot.

Oh, and the picture at the top as requested is from the transgendered story time reading at a local brewery/pub/coffee shop (its an old garage that got a cool upgrade). As you can see it was popular and funds and books were raised for the library.