Little Victories

Retired and in a new place and today, we pat ourselves on the back for actually making food here - three meals in a row so far and we've eaten 'in' for close to two days.  Tonight, we'll do a salad with chicken.  I'm going to make spaghetti sauce tomorrow - double batch and freeze half.

It's been super nice to be starting fresh on provisions.  Things are manageable and easy to remember and we're eating what we have.  I did get some mini frosted mini wheat (cereal).  Not a typo.  The mini size is even more mini.  And in the trek to Target, I also found some comfy, cozy tops, some makeup needs, cat needs, toilet paper (which I'm proud to say is made with 50% recycled materials and was LESS (way) expensive than the name brand we usually buy).  Well, that's not true - we usually buy Costco brand but we're staying away from there because we truly don't have the space to store 48 rolls of TP.

We left all our toilet brushes behind - didn't seem like a big deal to replace them.  It isn't but...$15 each added up.  I also wanted to replace the laundry baskets - we brought those with us but they are losing handles.  I didn't buy new, though - because we have them and they work.  Might splurge on new when we get into our new house.

Roof is in process and windows arrive next week. We'll trek there later this week to check the progress.

J. also found a couple things that somehow were packed and shouldn't have been - he will get a package ready to send to the new owners of our Tracy house and get those things shipped to them later this week.  Most we're sure they can do without but one of them is the electronic device that plugs in and allows them to get information on their computers about the power generated from the solar system. 

Tomorrow, J. is going to South Lake Tahoe (which is in California) for a meeting and lunch with his new golf club.  They play golf on Tuesday this week and he plans to join them.  They play weekly.  He found out about this club because I played slots with J. and his wife P. and J. invited (my) J. to join.  They are a very nice couple and it will be fun hanging out with them on occasion.  They play at Atlantis a lot but mostly weeknights so we'll run into them now and then.  They travel a lot and our spending the holidays in Montana - so we won't see them until January, most likely.  Look forward to it - such nice people.

Goals this week include the trip to DMV to register our cars and get Nevada driver's license.  The new 'Real ID' program is in place here so a lot of documents are required - birth certificates, passports, social security cards, proof of residency in the form of our rental lease and our new house building contract, utility bills (which we don't have in Nevada yet).  We'll figure out what to take, take all that we have and hope it will work.  We purposefully didn't do Real ID in California because we knew it is required here - so we waited. 

Other goal for the week is sketching out our 2019 taxes and preparing a payment to the IRS - we owe a lot and I need to get funds paid by the end of the calendar year to avoid a penalty.  I plan to work on that tomorrow in the quiet of the morning - while binge watching Netflix.  We don't have cable TV here - so we have an antennae in the window which is getting us local channels - and the TV is a Roku TV so we can watch Netflix and Amazon to our hearts content. 

We just saw that Season 3 of The Crown is now available - so that will keep us busy for the week.  Also enjoying Jack Ryan.  So many things to watch -