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Also cherry experiment is so far so good. I have eaten one and it has now been over half an hour and no reaction. So maybe a little bit of cherries is possible now.

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Also cherry experiment is so far so good. I have eaten one and it has now been over half an hour and no reaction. So maybe a little bit of cherries is possible now.

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sounds like positive news, both about the potential new doc and also about the cherries.

I was wondering how both of those issues were working out!

And good to hear that your weather is less fire-prone.

I sure hope the Canadian fires have been put out by rain.

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I can't remember Sigs...

I know you have a much more varied diet than mine, but did you ever try reducing your gluten intake?

It's not the miracle cure that I once thought it was since after I was laid off and not getting that great workout every night some of the constant aches and pains have slowly crept back into my life over time, but usually it's only in the morning when I wake up and is gone after I move around a bit. It's also not every day either. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I've been sleeping on a futon since I got rid of the big comfy couch when I dehoarded.

I still think that being (mostly) gluten free has had a great impact on my quality of life.

I say "mostly", because I never make anybody cook anything special for me and I will eat gluten if out with friends and family. I just don't need to be making it for myself is all, and since most of the stuff I eat is what I cook I don't.



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One place was a call back and they have a nurse practitioner that is taking on patients but the other place is doing nothing.

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What's going on right now is an injury of some sort, not the usual aches and pains.

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I can't remember Sigs...

I know you have a much more varied diet than mine, but did you ever try reducing your gluten intake?

It's not the miracle cure that I once thought it was since after I was laid off and not getting that great workout every night some of the constant aches and pains have slowly crept back into my life over time, but usually it's only in the morning when I wake up and is gone after I move around a bit. It's also not every day either. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I've been sleeping on a futon since I got rid of the big comfy couch when I dehoarded.

I still think that being (mostly) gluten free has had a great impact on my quality of life.

I say "mostly", because I never make anybody cook anything special for me and I will eat gluten if out with friends and family. I just don't need to be making it for myself is all, and since most of the stuff I eat is what I cook I don't.



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What's going on right now is an injury of some sort, not the usual aches and pains.

I'm allergic to so many foods ... and probably many I don't know about... it's hard to say which ones are causing the "usual" aches and pains. I was tested for allergy to wheat as well as sensitivity to gluten (two different blood tests) and wheat is the one thing I apparently DON'T have a problem with!

Potatoes, rice, beef, tomato,lettuce, orange, coffee ... yep to all of those. I could try taking gluten out of my diet but not sure I'd notice a big difference, seeing as I'm prolly allergic to other stuff too.

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Wow, those look like brand new, high-quality cabinets, SIX! It's easy to hid flaws and misalignments with wood grain to confuse the eye, but when they're all painted a solid color imperfections really show up. But it all looks crisp and clean and solid.

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That's exactly what I was telling people when I started this. lol

There were countless imperfections on those cabinets that I'd never even noticed after 10 years of living with them. Not just the damage to the fronts of the cabs and doors from wear and tear over the years, but the fact that none of the upper cabinets were installed at even heights or depths and the HUGE gaps that created where the corner lazy susans met the adjoining cabinets. These gaps were so deep they required small backer rod to be meticulously nailed in place before several applications of caulk that required very time consuming sanding in between before paint could be put on.

I knew going in that I needed to do something to hide this on the bottom of those cabinets and the idea for that corner guard trim was something I came up with in the middle of January but didn't even start installing until May.


If you were to go over everything with a magnifying glass, there are still minor imperfections here and there to be sure, but we're talking super minor compared to what everything initially looked like, and even painted white most people would never notice them.


To me, the best part of the cabinets are still what's on the inside, so it's really a shame that they all are going to be covered up most of the time. Using caulk and backer rod after I stripped and sanded the insides and before I painted them was the key.

Whoever pulls those down decades from now is going to have a bitch of a time. You see, I took out all of the screws mounting them to the wall one at a time, hit the holes with a countersink bit before screwing them back in tight, and then I filled the holes with wood putty and sanded them down before primer and paint.... along with about a billion other holes, scratches and dents.



One of these days I should put up a video of the lazy susans in action. I think out of the entire job, that's the crown jewel.

Those things were disgusting, and they were so rough to spin that you'd only get about a 3/4 turn before they stopped and they were LOUD!!!!

Now that they're all fixed up and greased I can make both of them spin like Wheel of Fortune and they'll keep going on their own for about a minute without a peep.

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Thank you.

It's one of those things that most people would never do. I've only spent about $500 so far in the kitchen if you don't include tools that I'll have for the rest of my life for other projects. But I've easily logged over 1,200 hours working on the kitchen at this point, and we're still far from finished with it.

I'll bet when my neighbors see the finished project they'll tell me that I should go into business doing that like they were telling me when I spent 3 weeks and $600 resurfacing my driveway.

But nobody could ever afford me. Even if I did it for minimum wage, which I'd never do, we're already looking about about $10,000 in labor.

Not only that, but if I were working on their kitchen they wouldn't have cabinets for 7 months and would probably have to have me living there the entire time too.



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One place was a call back and they have a nurse practitioner that is taking on patients but the other place is doing nothing.

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It's true... you can't really accomplish much, dusting or vacuuming around a million things.

This was the first good vacuuming my living room and kitchen has seen in seven months. It's difficult enough to move all of the stuff around that needs to be in a room to properly clean, let alone try to do it around all of the stuff that doesn't need to be there.

Maybe it's time to drop off more stuff at Goodwill Sigs?

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So, how is your back doing Signy?

I hope it's feeling better, and that you don't believe your episodes of pain are due to any significant injury or deteriorated condition.

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So, how is your back doing Signy?
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I think it was an injury and possibly a significant one. I think the reason why I have those "two steps back" days is bc I keep re-injuring whatever I injured in the first place. I keep imagining a bulging or ruptured disc. But, if I'm very careful with my back and go slow (which gives me time to notice that I'm fucking up) then I can manage a number of "good" days in a row, albeit restricted from bending to the ground too much.

To give you an example, one early morning I woke with my back twinging. But by taking some time to figure out exactly WHICH sleep posture alleviated back/butt/groin pain (on my back, r leg extended and l foot under my r knee for some elevation) I was able to get back to sleep and wake back up a lot more comfortable than the first time.

So, hopefully, if I manage a LOT of good days in a row, eventually I'll be healed.

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DD's issue is a neuroglogical problem. Without going into too much detail, her problem is organizational. She has a hard time categorizing things, events, feelings, memories, which makes everything a jumble for her.

On top of that, because she make so little sense of what she sees (eyes are fine but perception is poor) she remembers things by how they feel. Physically. In her hands. Like a blind person. So pictures of past items are poor substitute for memory.

I feel like I understand her problem quite well. All I can do is keep working on improving her organizational skills and hope that eventually it will spillover into memory retrieval.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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