Dress Up

Barb was invited to a party in which she was supposed to dress up as something she wanted to be.  She said she had everything she wanted and didn't want anything else.  So she didn't know what to dress up as and didn't want to go to the party.  So over dinner we were talking about it.  I suggested a few things that she thought might work but weren't great.  Then she remembered how she had wanted to become an American citizen so she could stay in Florida longer than her six months.  So she thought she would dress up as an American.  Her friend had a lot of American flag paraphernalia.  And she had a great costume for the party.  She had a skirt, a shirt, shoes and gloves and a visor and even gloves.  She also bought a balloon and a few little flags.  Again she was mad a me because even though I didn't think of the idea by just talking it over with me she got the idea and she asked me why I hadn't helped her earlier and stopped all her worry.

Ms Fix-It

Barb had broken the little connection on the shower that holds the shower hose in place last year.  She had tried to glue it back together with Gorilla Glue and Super Glue but it kept breaking off again.  She was worried she would have to replace the whole shower pipe out of the wall.  She was showing me what she meant and when she showed me she found out that the little connection could be screwed off separately.  So she screwed it off and took it to Home Depot and got a replacement for $3.  When she put it on it worked like new.  Barb is always mad a me because she struggles over everything for months and then she shows me and just like that she figures it out.  She always says I should help her right away instead of letting her struggle.

The Fun One

One of Barb's friends was asking a man at pickleball who was at the courts yesterday and he said among others Deb was there.  Her friend said which Deb. There are lots of Debs.  The guy said the Fun One.  The friend said that none of the Debs were really fun ones.  But he insisted that it was the Fun One.  Then when the guy described what the fun Deb looked like Barb's friend realized that he meant Barb.  And he said yes Barb.

Banana

Barb's friend had to go back to Pennsylvania to prepare her house for sale.  She was in a hurry and is a little scatterbrained normally.  So after she left, Barb got a message from her asking Barb to go into her house and get a banana out of her blender that she had forgotten about.

Steps

Barb was happy because her fitbit said she did 5000 steps after 2 hours of pickleball in the morning.  Then she did 3000 steps wandering around the house in the afternoon and evening.  She started competing with Sarah, Haleigh, Ali and Sarah Woodend for the most steps in the work week.  Her fitbit would tell her to get up and take it for a walk if she was sitting too long.  And her phone would tell her if she was in the lead or if Haleigh had overtaken her.  So if Haleigh overtook her, she got up and started walking around the house.  She even started walking while she was knitting and while she was reading her book.  She had a daily competition with Haleigh.

Sleep

Barb thought the sleep monitor on her fitbit was neat.  That was one of the things she found didn't work well on Laura's fitbit.  She was showing me how it monitored her light, deep and REM sleep by the minute and produced a timeline of her night.  Then she went to look at something else on her phone and when she came back to her sleep information she had a second copy of the sleep timeline.  Then she had a third copy and a fourth copy.  So she tried to delete the copies and when she pressed the delete key, she deleted all of them and lost all of her data.  Barb found she only gets 6 hours of light sleep and gets very little REM sleep and even less deep sleep.

Bands

Barb bought two Fitbits because she found the one that Laura had given us didn't have all the features she wanted.  For example, she thought it was ripping her off on her steps during pickleball and it lied about her sleep time.  I didn't like the Fitbit she bought for me because I thought it looked too feminine.  I also thought the one Laura gave me was working well for the steps on my daily walk.  Barb had a tough time picking the band colour she wanted.  Then she found that she could buy a whole collections of different coloured plastic bands.  When she got the bands, she was trying them out in the bedroom and dressing in her pickleball outfits and seeing how they looked in the mirror.  Then she would walk from the bedroom in the back of the house to my office to show me each one.  I told her she was getting lots of steps in by walking back and forth from the bedroom to the office so many times.  She had about 10 different coloured bands and had to try on each one, sometimes with more than one outfit.  She used 1400 calories just trying them out.