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Wow... you'r BluRay player is 10 years old. Geez... I've been outside of the new tech that long already, huh? Well, I guess it's not so new anymore.

Yeah. Careful with that lead. Can't be too safe.

Your daughter was right about the Mexican food joint. She still would have been if it had been a dirty hole in the wall with a dirty bathroom. Back when I used to eat out, those were my restaurants of choice. It seemed that the smaller and danker the joint, the better the food was. Granted, that's just the Chicago and south suburbs experience and might not be the case everywhere, but I do believe I've had some of the finest Mexican food on offer in America inside some of them. Italian and Mexican food are my favorites, and let's just say that I've never found an Italian joint that compares to these hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joints.



Yeah. Making some progress every day. Sometimes I have to force myself pretty hard. Other days I go all out and give it a good 10 to 12 hours. Wish I could get more even keel about it all.






Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Yeah... We're talking taxes, credit card stuff, all of the things that I'm never going to put out on the street as-is. Finally put shredders behind me when I got the firepit, but it's gone now.

Yanno, I just remembered I've got a webber grill that's filthy and needs to be cleaned anyhow. Maybe I'll take care of that tomorrow. I haven't grilled in about 5 years, but it's something I haven't been able to part with. Glad I've still got it.


This is like a treasure hunt with the DVDs and CDs. I used to burn EVERYTHING. I'm finding a bunch of stuff I probably lost on those hard drives. Throwing out all of the tv shows and movies since they're so low quality compared to what you can get today, but the music is golden.

I just figured out how to use a thumbdrive to create a personal cloud with a pretty sweet router my old man gave me a few years back. Going to start loading that up with my music once I get it organized and I can actually do work around the house with some tunes instead of being in my own head all day. :)

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Pretty productive so far. I tend to go from thing to thing, but I make progress on whatever that thing of the moment is, so it's not wasted time.

I do spend a fair bit of time grocery shopping and cooking, but the sodium levels of everything you get either in a restaurant or a store are beyond what I can tolerate. So it's time well spent, imo.

I've been craving soup with a milk (not cream) broth, with pale vegetables like celery, onion, and potato (and maybe riced cauliflower) that I envisage with turkey meatballs, thyme herb, and fresh ground black pepper. I have NO idea where I got the notion, but when I looked it up, it actually is European regional cooking. Maybe there's a memory buried back there ...

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I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.

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I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.

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Good luck. Hope you get it done.

I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.

I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Pretty productive so far. I tend to go from thing to thing, but I make progress on whatever that thing of the moment is, so it's not wasted time.

I do spend a fair bit of time grocery shopping and cooking, but the sodium levels of everything you get either in a restaurant or a store are beyond what I can tolerate. So it's time well spent, imo.

I've been craving soup with a milk (not cream) broth, with pale vegetables like celery, onion, and potato (and maybe riced cauliflower) that I envisage with turkey meatballs, thyme herb, and fresh ground black pepper. I have NO idea where I got the notion, but when I looked it up, it actually is European regional cooking. Maybe there's a memory buried back there ...

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I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.

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Good luck. Hope you get it done.

I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.

I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I should be able too. Back in the day before computers you never thought about getting rid of this stuff. My mom may have thought she'd need my dad's stuff. But I certainly don't need that type of material any more.

Death certificates and birth certificates along with their marriage licence when I find it I will keep. My mom's last tax return I've kept. But other stuff I can easily shred. I'll do it little by little because some of it is my stuff too, that I no longer need.

The stuff my mom kept and some of it I haven't seen in ages so it needs to be sorted through to make sure it can be shredded.

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Hmm... what region?

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... letters from London to my mom when they first started writing to each other ... I was also on the lookout for stock certificates or bearer bonds or accounts that appeared to have been opened but not closed.

But going thru all of these old papers gave me insight into what they had been going thru ... steroid injections for rotator cuff and bursitis, hopeful and cautious courtship by mail, slow progession into Parkinson's .. snapshots of a life that will never be duplicated ...

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Years ago, I had kept everything. Like every receipt I had, even if it was for goodwill or the dollar store. Every monthly bill that I had paid. Before I purged the house around 4 years ago, I had boxes upon boxes of this stuff. Now I'd say everything I've kept until now would fit into two cardboard office boxes.

But going 4 years without ever going into that stuff for anything other than my birth certificate and SS card for jobs, it puts into perspective how unneeded most of it is.

Things I'll be keeping are the SS card, birth certificate, high school diploma, a folder about how many college credits I have and in what subjects/what years, car title, all house purchase documents and a folder with all of the info on the property taxes after fighting for nearly a year to have them cut in half.

Oh... and 7 years of income tax returns.

You should check the statute of limitations on that in Canada and your locality before throwing any income tax stuff out, Brenda. Here in America, although you can only go back and audit your own taxes 3 years to report that they owe you more, they have 7 years to go back and audit your taxes.

Granted, most people in our situations likely won't ever get audited. I mean, it's possible that I did once because they contacted me and sent me a 2nd check because I had undervalued the Earned Income Credit I should have gotten one year, but I don't think that was an audit because they apparently have a team that specifically does that since you have the option to check a box and have the government figure the credit for you.

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I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.

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Good luck. Hope you get it done.

I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.

I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I should be able too. Back in the day before computers you never thought about getting rid of this stuff. My mom may have thought she'd need my dad's stuff. But I certainly don't need that type of material any more.

Death certificates and birth certificates along with their marriage licence when I find it I will keep. My mom's last tax return I've kept. But other stuff I can easily shred. I'll do it little by little because some of it is my stuff too, that I no longer need.

The stuff my mom kept and some of it I haven't seen in ages so it needs to be sorted through to make sure it can be shredded.

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I know I mentioned this before, but when I visited momI spent several days sorting thru boxes and boxes and boxes her hers and dad's old papers. It was something of a favor to the executor of the will and something of an asset chase ... dad used to chase highest interest rates and opened and closed a crap-ton of money market accounts at one time, so as I was sorting thru the papers ... "this is not a bill" insurance statements from 1992 ... letters from London to my mom when they first started writing to each other ... I was also on the lookout for stock certificates or bearer bonds or accounts that appeared to have been opened but not closed.

But going thru all of these old papers gave me insight into what they had been going thru ... steroid injections for rotator cuff and bursitis, hopeful and cautious courtship by mail, slow progession into Parkinson's .. snapshots of a life that will never be duplicated ... so will we all fare.


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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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I think what I'm saying, SIX, is ... save some of yourself. When you get old you can look through them and be reminded of the person you were. And then when you die others can go thru them too, and think about the person who was.

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Way to go Jack. You are looking pretty good on the home front there.

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BRENDA, sorry to hear about your left ear. All I can say is that hearing loss, for whatever reason, is a normal part of aging; so I hope that's all that it is.

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Well, we finally got dear daughter's walls and ceiling cleaned with TSP, wiped down with clear water, and sealed. So the next thing is to buy some sample paints and try dear daughter's color scheme on the shortest wall that she has so she can get an idea of what it'll look like. Paint purchase tomorrow.

I sure don't have the energy you do, SIX. I feel my age at the end of the day, and I'm glad that Wednesday and Friday are no-project days because of other commitments!

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SIG, I also hear you about being tired after doing too much and I will only be 55 this year. But I have times when I feel like I am at least 100.

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SIG, I also hear you about being tired after doing too much and I will only be 55 this year. But I have times when I feel like I am at least 100.

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Goes for the both of us! I know KIKI has the same problem.

A large part of my problem (in the past year, anyway) was a reaction to Levaquin which is slowly fading away. But even before that... sigh. Part of it I think was just sleeping very very badly because of stuffed nose, swollen tongue (allergies) and (painless) acid reflux causing general congestion. They say that deep sleep is very restorative; and when it's consistently interrupted it can cause fibromyalgia like symptoms within a few days. When I was working, I had no time to bird-dog my sleep issues; now that I'm retired I can commit myself to at least 7.5 hours of sleep a night plus the anti-snore mouth insert and nose spray and all of that. It's either that, or feel like crap the next day. Anyway, check your sleep. It may be something simple to fix. Today, I had to get up extra-early so right now I think I'm going back to bed!

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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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That's awesome SIX! I feel ya on the "minimalist lifestyle" too. I was contemplating life as an elderly person ... I think I could be content with one small bedroom, bath and kitchen facilities.


BRENDA, sorry to hear about your left ear. All I can say is that hearing loss, for whatever reason, is a normal part of aging; so I hope that's all that it is.

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Well, we finally got dear daughter's walls and ceiling cleaned with TSP, wiped down with clear water, and sealed. So the next thing is to buy some sample paints and try dear daughter's color scheme on the shortest wall that she has so she can get an idea of what it'll look like. Paint purchase tomorrow.

I sure don't have the energy you do, SIX. I feel my age at the end of the day, and I'm glad that Wednesday and Friday are no-project days because of other commitments!

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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

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BRENDA, I too sleep with two pillows! Are you taking any meds for your conditions? I get that gerd rears its ugly head when you're under stress, but -trust me - omeprazole (once per day), zantac (at bedtime) and Rolaids or equivalent (as needed) work wonders, stress or not.

As far as allergies, I understand why you might not want to take oral antihistamines because they might intefere with your neurological status, but have you tried local treatments like nasal decongestant spray, nose strips, nasal steroid spray, nose washes and mouth inserts like ZQuiet? You might not need them every day but they might really come in handy for those days that you do.

Anyway, it sounds like you have a bead on your sleep quality which is a good thing. Everyone needs a good night's sleep!

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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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BRENDA, I too sleep with two pillows! Are you taking any meds for your conditions? I get that gerd rears its ugly head when you're under stress, but -trust me - omeprazole (once per day), zantac (at bedtime) and Rolaids or equivalent (as needed) work wonders, stress or not.
As far as allergies, I understand why you might not want to take oral antihistamines because they might intefere with your neurological status, but have you tried local treatments like nasal decongestant spray, nose strips, nasal steroid spray, nose washes and mouth inserts like ZQuiet? You might not need them every day but they might really come in handy for those days that you do.
Anyway, it sounds like you have a bead on your sleep quality which is a good thing. Everyone needs a good night's sleep!- SIGNY

SIG, I don't take anything for the acid-reflux as the problem is pretty well gone now that I've moved.-BRENDA

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As for my allergies, I can't really take anything in tablet form because they don't mix with my seizure meds or my thyroid meds.

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But I do keep something on hand for when nothing else works. Other than that I use a nasal rinse and eye drops for them. Also I can use a nasal spray too but I don't have any on hand right now. I do work on my sleep situation all the time. :smile

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