Ups and Downs

I feel awful about my last post. I really felt bad, though. Thankfully, I've been better since then. Maybe it's just hormones. I think I'm going to try to pay more attention, to see if I can figure out a pattern.

I think I've found all the stock information. I keep telling myself that this is a good thing for me to go back through all of Mary's papers and reorganize them. She kept everything in envelopes, so I've been able to reduce the size a lot. Also, there's a lot I can shred such as old bills that were paid. I'm just putting everything into shopping bags and then I'm putting them all into a plastic tub, just in case there's another leak in the basement. I wonder how you're supposed to organize your papers. How do other people keep their papers? I mean, considering you're supposed to keep some things for seven years... I wonder how many people don't even know that.

I'll be so glad to get this tax stuff done. I just hope the lady at H&R Block knows what she's doing. She called another lady over and kept say that she thought she was in over her head, but the lady kept encouraging her and saying she just needed such and such. I think the info I've found will show that Mary actually lost a lot of money instead of making any. I wonder if I need this info because you don't pay taxes on stocks until you sell them. Is that the way it is? I'll have to ask the tax lady.

Yes, I'll be so relieved, but I know something else will come up soon. It always does. But it won't be as stressful as this, I don't think!

I've been so terrible--I've been looking on eBay for old Wear-Ever products. You see, Mary's first husband Bill sold Wear-Ever. She said today that he was selling it when she married him. I don't know if that's true or not. In any case, she still has several pieces and I think they're so neat. There's a juicer that's just fabulous. There were tons of them on eBay. I ended up getting a 4-egg poacher! I'm so tickled. (I know, I'm crazy.) I love poached eggs! But I hate cleaning out the pan. Also, Grandma B used to heat her dinner in a little poacher like this. Can't wait! I recently purchased an old Pepsi crate. The counters in Mary's kitchen are just about five inches too high for me to work on--rolling out dough :-) I have always thought about the bakery where I used to work--the shorter ones of us used to stand on a Pepsi crate when we needed a little height. Well, I got this one for about $22 including shipping and I just love it! Now I'm able to work in the kitchen instead of on the dining room table where bits of dough and flour were always falling onto the carpet. Plus, I can work right near the oven. Cool!

Ok, I have to admit, that apple pie from The Pie and Pastry Bible probably was the best I've ever had. However, I still think I'm going to tinker around with her dough recipe! There was a show on TV this evening about southern biscuits. I taped it and can't wait to watch it with Mary tomorrow. I don't know why, but I'm rather crazy about making biscuits, pie dough and cookies.