Wednesday, December 25th: Yoga and Dinner

Merry Christmas, everyone out there in blog world and world 

outside this blog. Today I started my day at the Dorchester had breakfast with Mary and then I ran off to sign 

in at Mike’s. After I settle in with Mike, I went off to my 9 AM yoga class with Miah. This is the first time I’ve done consecutive early morning classes since 2019. Things were a lot different in 2019 as anyone who follows my blog will ascertain. 
Don’t you love that word I love using big words. Anyhow at one point, Miah split up the class for a pose and happened to be that Mary and I were directly next to each other and she mentioned the class. Oh this is so 

Mark and look at Mary and a couple hoots of laughter came out from the class. So we are an item and everybody knows about it that it’s cute but very odd as well.😊😏. Anyhow, the class was fine. It was a 90 minute class. After

 class, Mary and I went to the local Starbucks at 21st and Spruce. It was the only Starbucks open the one at 16th and Walnut was closed. I believe those workers

 went on strike, so I don’t know whether Starbucks is gonna pull a corporate maneuver and just close the store down rather than honor the strike.Anyhow, this

 store seem to be run just like any other day. They are closing at 2 o’clock. Anyhow, I went to Mike’s Mike took care of some business. Oh anyhow, I signed out from work officially and I’m gonna call up 

an Uber. It looks like they’ll be here within five minutes and it’ll probably

 take about another five minutes to get to the Dorchester from 

here. I just mostly relaxed with Mike as he took care of his business. Well, we got to Mary’s and we’re doing a little bit of last-minute updates before the other 2️⃣ guests come over. Well, Mary, Mike and I had 

a good conversation while the food was cooking up. Beth and Steve showed up and it was time to 

get the salad together and cook up the rice. That’s what we did. Sound 4:57 PM 

and Mike is talking with Beth and Steve. They seem to be getting along very well. Anyhow, 

dinner was ready and it was definitely ready to be eaten. It was very tasty. The

 rice was just fluffy and the meat was very tender. We talked about all kinds of topics. Steve

 has been a Santa Claus for the last nine years. He has a natural beard for it And they both work with Medicare

 insurance and helping people get plans or enroll them in plans. It’s kind of very complicated

 for sure. Best said he had to get the going so we got going and I called LIFT for Mike 

and there are plenty of Lyft drivers roaming around on Christmas Day. 

This lift ride was seven dollars plus tip, which isn’t bad considering it’s 

Christmas Day and it’s pretty cold outside not super frigid but much 

colder than with the sun out. I rode with Mike with the LIFT since he didn’t have his keys

 and I left my backpack at Mike’s. We got the Mike’s and it’s clear 

that Mike needs to exercise more because he got pretty exhausted pretty quickly. It’s 

now 8:35 PM and I’m walking up Locust Street towards 

Rittenhouse Square. Believe it or not tomorrow’s a normal old day can you believe 

that shit it’s the 26th anyhow I’m just arriving at the Dorchester. I’m going 

to help Mary clean up afterwards. I’ll tell you having people over is 

a big job now. I can see why people feel burdened when they have to do it all the time. I have a clearer

 picture of it now. The weather is moderating right now, which is a good thing. It was still pretty nippy outside, but it’s not that 20° weather that we had a couple days ago.

Friday, December 20: Changing Agencies

This morning, I got up at shaded George Chester and headed on down to Mike’s after having a nice bowl of raisin bran. I slept much better

than I did the night before though that part of my hamstring near my rump is still not what it should be. Anyhow, I got the Mike’s and he was very animated today. We were taking a look at other
home care agencies I decided then to use ChatGPT, the free version, for home care

 agencies in Philly to pay a signing bonus. I called one of them and they took 

Mike’s insurance, but they would only offer $14 an hour after all the stuff that Mike and I told



 him I mean, they couldn’t raise me one dollar to $15 an hour. We were both like. “yikes!” Anyhow, we just called 

another agency called impact care. We talked to a guy named Marcus

 and we gave them all the demographic information, etc. They they take Keystone community health 

which Mike is covered. He gave me instructions to get my Social Security card and I gave him 



my ID. He asked me to schedule a fingerprint appointment and a TB test. They’re both scheduled

 next Monday, December 23 at 11:10 AM for the fingerprint and 2:30 PM for the TB test. They’re 

going to put me on board next Friday, December 27 a week from today. I can’t even believe it. Anyway, there’s a 

missed startingthat may turn into rain and then end up a snow flurries at the end as the temperature 

drops off the roof so to speak. I’m now doing errands and it’s 2:03 PM. It’s at 2:54 PM. I’m picking up my yoga 

clothes at Mary’s and then coming back to Mike’s to sign out and then 

go to my 4 o’clock class man you can feel the temperature dropping and it’s a slight drizzle right now supposed to rain and then eventually turn into snow flurries when it gets colder later 
tonight. The 4 o’clock class with Marie was not all that crowded.
The room wasn’t terribly hot either. I figured the stand of the cold and maybe I could loosen a few muscles that need to be loosened. Well, that Pilates class kicked my ass. Did all kinds of front sideways movements, including one 

where you had a block and yet squat and lift it up left and right etc. I was pretty pretty beat after that. It was 

a good workout. That’s for sure afterwards I noticed I got an email. I mean a message from Kaitlyn
 Ingersoll about going to Florida and visiting her studio. That was a shock. I hadn’t heard anything from her directly. Mary’s been doing all the writing. Anyway, February
 would definitely be a better month for sure but other than that nothing was set in stone. We then came back at Indian. Watch a little bit of Law and order. It was wet snow but nothing accumulated.