I said MINIMIZE stress

         FRIDAY 7/5/19 3:30PM--to make a LONG story a lot shorter, the muffler nearly fell off  my Corolla...it may well be fixed by now, but I'm waiting for Dianne to bring her credit card...She should be here by 5PM, more or less...as you can imagine this has put a huge damper on the weekend...
            Tomorrow, she and I are going to go to a "friend's" 60th birthday gathering,,,I dunno who's gonna be there, I only know that I don't care if I'm there or not...and this is only the 2nd of 11 days I'll be housesitting for the Aprils...I thought about going out tomorrow night, but now I don't think I'll be going anywhere...I AM grateful that the muffler situation wasn't worse...and that Dianne is helping...
       4:30PM--I'm back on the road--for now...IF I can properly shave my face, I MIGHT go out somewhere, probably the OTWC...
   4:55PM- well, I DID properly shave my face… So now I have to decide where I’m going to go; probably to the OTWC for dessert... The duo that I believe is playing there tonight should be easy on my ears… 
    5:30PM- I think the Vyvance is working again-I don’t really feel like eating anything, but I’m going to eat something… probably the dinner I bought at Giant yesterday...
6:30PM- The duo that’s playing at the OTWC is only playing for two hours, starting at 8 o’clock... I expect to be home by 11 o’clock...
      Starting  to get excited/nervous about the visit to Janet’s birthday party tomorrow…Two of the people that I wish were going to be there (Sue and Nancy) are not going to be there and a lot of the people that are going to be there are total strangers to me and Dianne… I will try my best to keep calm and relatively quiet… In fact I hope to take a Xanax before Dianne and I leave Gaithersburg to make the trip to Hyattsville...
        10:50PM- just got home from the OTWC… I had a good time, in a very low-key way… I was more or less by myself for the whole evening-and I don’t have a problem with that… After I digest the grilled cheese sandwich that I had about an hour ago I will go to bed-after I watch an episode of Star Trek, that is...I’d like to sleep until 8 o’clock tomorrow morning; at which time I will feed the cat her breakfast...