One lump or two?

Back on tea and sugar. I bought some sweetened almond milk by mistake. Maybe that did it. Did sixteen loads of laundry at one time. Felt I deserved something so I started drinking Darjeeling tea with sugar in it, three days in a row.

Trying to help someone get into some housing. She doesn't seem to check her phone messages. Her emails came back. When I tried to ask her if she has a working cell phone, she snapped at me. I'm trying to help her because she is an elderly female living outdoors, with an serious untreated health problem and mental illness. She is bleeding and in terrible pain from the health problem, and has lost fifty pounds. She's going to die if she doesn't get indoors. The people who are supposed to help her are useless.

Read more about this here:
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I used to a a benefits counselor and advocate for the disabled. I can help her if she keeps in touch with me. A big if, apparently. So, I've been consumed with that. I can't seem to solve my own problems, but I could solve hers and save a life. My head is full of her information. What bothers me is having to carry all of that around in case I see her, and that we pay for people to help people like this. I would normally send the info off to the person but there's no way to do that. Sucks.

I finally have clean clothes and towels. It was about a month since I did laundry last, or more. I deal with some physical limitations and doing laundry has been an issue. These are two parts to the cycle, the "dark side" where clean clothes are a problem and I don't do that much and the "light side" where I have clean clothes and can do more errands. I finally got rid of everything stinky. Finally got some new shoes. I looked for two years because of foot issues. Whew. I washed my purse because for some reason it stinks periodically. I've been keeping my hair washed. I washed my wheelchair pillow and backpack. Unfortunately, the backpack didn't survive the process. For a variety of reasons, I just could not keep everything on me clean. And I felt ashamed and inhuman. Now I feel in charge. It makes such a difference.