Living room looks very nicely set up. Office looks like it needs some setting up – but there’s plenty of time to do that, no rush.
And Tikva already up on top of the couch out in the open and looking out the window, looking relaxed about it, too! I wasn’t expecting her to come out of the closet for a week, except for food and catpan when she thought nobody was looking.
Same here. In fact, she’s here at my feet right now wanting pets and rubs (P&R, we call 'em).
Staples would be another spot to check. If you have a reuse store like Restore, you might want to all them first-offices renovate or are decommissioned and those chair mats are just the kind of thing that they might have stacks of. Worth a call anyway.
What a swell perch you have set up for Tikva~kudos!
Good idea!
Looking comfy!
A decent question.
I weigh 140# and by the time my wife was raggedy she was down to about 110#. I attached the suction cups to the tile and hung and bounced on them a lot to test and the suction hold was incredible. They used a sort of soft silicone rubber for the cups that seems to love molding itself to any micro-imperfections.
The big concern with any surface mount is tearing the tile off the backer board. Assuming there is backerboard, not just drywall done by an incompetent DIYer or a very cheap remodeler / developer.
Another issue is how people use them. If you have ahold of it and begin to fall that puts a very different load on it versus not holding on, beginning to fall, then grabbing it to stop yourself. The latter of course has much higher dynamic loads than simply your weight.
For sure a big person, or worse yet a morbidly obese person would impose much higher loads than a small frail person.
Thanks for the clarification. Also for not pointing out that I misspelled “shear”. 
The person in our house who’s mostly likely to depend on grab bars is pretty close to the weight limit of those. I’m also not at all confident about getting the suction cups firmly attached, since there’s a little texture to it. I tried one of those in a hotel bathroom that wasn’t equipped, but they had little tiles and it wouldn’t stick firmly.
I got a few things done today…not that you can tell by looking around, as not all of them are readily visible.
The most important thing is that Mike the Handyman, hereafter to be referred to as Saint Mike, hooked up my bidet seat water supply. He WAS able to turn off the water under the toilet using the handle that (to me) felt like it was already as far to the right as it would go. WTG Mike! Then I asked him to install a magnifying mirror and also to see if he could plug in a power strip behind a hutch (should have done this before the hutch was in place - duh)-- and he did ALL of these things, quickly, willingly, cheerfully, and competently! PLUS he gave me his cell phone number. He said that’s a better way for residents who need him to get in touch rather than going through the office, especially on weekends! 
I am dazzled. And possibly in love.
I asked him if he would install a third grab bar in my shower and he said he had just ordered some and would definitely do it when they come in. And I feel confident he will actually do just that.
I called Spectrum and I can indeed use the Spectrum channel on my Roku TVs. No cable box needed. I think I’m all fixed up there. I haven’t completely explored the Spectrum channel yet, so I may have some questions.
I resumed walking this morning. Got my 5,000 steps in for the first time since August 4 when my landlord turned my world upside down.
A good day.
And Tikva just made her first appearance of the day…she is definitely part bat.
I am sooo proud of you. That’s not a good day; that’s a stupendous day.
Lots fixed, TV & cat back in action, and you’re walking to boot.
So much for that overwhelmed and timid little old lady you were telling us you were a few days ago. She is banished, banished, BANISHED I say!
Awesomesauce.
Now you know you’re in good hands. And have ON-CALL HELP. I’m moving. Oh wait, I’m too young.
Seems things are going to work out for you and the critters. And having Saint Mike available is a big bonus.
My BiL, who I mentioned earlier always has the fun sized candy bars around to thank the ladies who do what needs to be done. They like Payday bars the best.
A really outstanding day, ThelmaLou!
I’ll say. He’s on duty all week and he’s volunteering to be on call all the weekends, too? That’s amazing. I hope he gets really well paid. And also that nobody calls him up at two in the morning because their faucet’s dripping.
But I am really glad you get the benefit of the presence of a saint!
Cats are crepuscular.
That is a seriously accomplished day. I’m glad a comfy toilet has joined the cozy home.
Thanks, everyone, for all the back pats and kudos. 
I do feel like I moved the mountain a little bit today.
I boxed up some stuff to take to Goodwill tomorrow. I’ll probably be doing that every day for a while. I’m changing the way I’m doing things-- streamlining mercilessly. I guess I could have done it before the move, but I wasn’t sufficiently motivated until my feet were on fire.
Sitting on the sofa with a cat dozing on each side of me. I found a Law & Order episode on Spectrum-- from the Lenny Briscoe era. That was a great series…
More later…
OMG, you are so right.
I’m probably not a good person to get your organizing advice from, but I’d be way happier going through as many of my things as possible after an unexpected move rather than before. This way, you aren’t left with (more of) a lingering feeling that you’ve been forcibly divested of your things.
It’s fantastic that you’re recovering from the move and Covid so quickly. I remain in awe of you. Please remember that you may well hit an emotional bump once the dust has settled a bit, just when you’re thinking you should be feeling fine. That would be natural and almost certainly temporary, so if it does happen, I hope you’ll remember just how much you’ve accomplished in a short time.
This is very wise. I know you’re right. Right now I’m consumed with busy-ness, but it’s like afterthe funeral when you go home alone and it hits you that your life is completely different now.
I still have to deal with the stuff that’s left at the house. I’m not officially out of there til Sept 30. So there’s that, too.
My dispatches from The Front will be less frequent than they have been. Right now, more of the same-- rearranging stuff. Taking things I have no room for to Goodwill. Rinse and repeat.
Hope I can sleep…
Sleep the sleep of the just, at least until the bat eared ones decide that it is time for you to serve again…