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I hope all stays warm and cozy in your place, BRENDA.

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Glad you're back home safe and warm.


Also glad you're getting some much needed rain. I hope you get enough, but not too much all at once.


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All done for today.

Flipside ran into my landlady from the really crappy place I was living in before I moved here. Anyways she tapped me on the shoulder as I was looking at something and kept calling me, "Teddy". Now, mind she could never remember my name while I was living there so I ignored her but she kept tapping. Turned around and she asked if I remember her and of course I do. I said hello and she asked me where I was living and I just gave her the street as she doesn't need to know anything else. Then she asked me if I was alright and I said yes to which she said good bye. No freaking but every time I run into her I get the feeling that she wants me to move back, which would be a biiig mistake. I was cold which led me to getting really sick one winter, the floor was starting to slant as that house wasn't built to have two suites put into it. Not to mention the spiders which luckily I didn't bring any to this place. Also my legs won't take walking up and down those hills around there. I can still every so often feel the shin splints that happened because of those hills.

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Flipside ran into my landlady from the really crappy place I was living in before I moved here. Anyways she tapped me on the shoulder as I was looking at something and kept calling me, "Teddy". Now, mind she could never remember my name while I was living there so I ignored her but she kept tapping. Turned around and she asked if I remember her and of course I do. I said hello and she asked me where I was living and I just gave her the street as she doesn't need to know anything else. Then she asked me if I was alright and I said yes to which she said good bye. No freaking but every time I run into her I get the feeling that she wants me to move back, which would be a biiig mistake. I was cold which led me to getting really sick one winter, the floor was starting to slant as that house wasn't built to have two suites put into it. Not to mention the spiders which luckily I didn't bring any to this place. Also my legs won't take walking up and down those hills around there. I can still every so often feel the shin splints that happened because of those hills.

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Yeah, it sounds like she wants you back

I remember how miserable you were there. IIRC not it was it cold and damp, there wasn't enough room, it didn't have enough outlets, and I'm under the impression it had no windows.

I was concerned, and was very glad when you moved. Your new place seems safer, more comfortable, and overall better.

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I didn't realize that laundry was so difficult and dangerous.

Finding a new place and moving is such a big job. I don't know how you managed, but I'm glad you did. Neither of us are getting any younger!

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Looking for a new recipe for ground turkey, I decided to make albondigas (meatball) soup. It's usually made with ground beef. Aside from using turkey instead of beef made a few other changes: I had some pork broth from roasting, so I used that as well as water. Since ground turkey is pretty wet compared to beef, instead of using egg as a binder (which would have made it even sloppier) I used ground chia seed (a common vegan egg binder substitute). I used sushi rice bc that's what I have on hand. And because the turkey mixture was still pretty wet and would have fallen apart in the soup, I browned the meatballs a bit before adding them to the soup. I added just a few small slices of hot jalapeno. And I left out the spearmint bc last time I tried using it in a traditional Greek dish (spanakopita) people said it was like eating toothpaste. But overall it was traditional and people liked it.

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It was there as they wouldn't let me use their laundry room. So it was lug it out, do it and bring it back. Up and down hills was no fun or the buses. This building I just wonder if all the machines are going to be used.

I had some help. One lady I know spoke to the manager here and there was a vacant place, so the manager held it for me. And the mah jong group chipped in some money to help pay for the movers. Getting settled for me was the big job because I had to open every box and check things over, see what I needed then what could be donated.

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It was there as they wouldn't let me use their laundry room. So it was lug it out, do it and bring it back. Up and down hills was no fun or the buses. This building I just wonder if all the machines are going to be used.

I had some help. One lady I know spoke to the manager here and there was a vacant place, so the manager held it for me. And the mah jong group chipped in some money to help pay for the movers. Getting settled for me was the big job because I had to open every box and check things over, see what I needed then what could be donated.

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Every time you posted about the old place, my mind would mutter byatch. Your post hasn't changed that.


I'm glad that people helped out, BRENDA. It seems you have some real friends there.

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Up and out. Found some small stuff to donate to a local thrift store, then onto other stuff.

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Sounds like you're busy, busy, busy, BRENDA!
I should be, too.

TTUL.

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Back and done. Donation made and started clean up on another spot. So all is good.

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Back and done for today. Got another spot cleaned off, top of a bookcase that wasn't in as bad as shape as I thought. The placemats I put up there just need to be washed along with something else and can be donated.

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Haven't been keeping up to date in the garden at all.

How you both doing?

Still plugging away at my project. Kind of working on a side project to the project right now, really, but I think I may have made a new friend. Some interesting developments. Nothing I can really talk about here, but things appear to be going well so far. I've really learned a lot of new skills in a short amount of time. Not really sure how I could really pivot them into things I'll make use of outside of this in the real world, but I'm enjoying what I'm working on a lot right now.



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Back and done for today. Got another spot cleaned off, top of a bookcase that wasn't in as bad as shape as I thought. The placemats I put up there just need to be washed along with something else and can be donated.

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yay!

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Yup, but I still got 3 more spots to clean up and one is a tall dresser. Not sure even on my step stool I will be able to reach it properly.

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Yup, but I still got 3 more spots to clean up and one is a tall dresser. Not sure even on my step stool I will be able to reach it properly.

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That is a very tall dresser!

Glad you managed to avoid the rain and still had a beautiful day. Rain and a nice day anyway. What's not to like???

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Yup, but I still got 3 more spots to clean up and one is a tall dresser. Not sure even on my step stool I will be able to reach it properly.

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That is a very tall dresser!

Glad you managed to avoid the rain and still had a beautiful day. Rain and a nice day anyway. What's not to like???

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It is really and my step stool really could use one more step for me to be able to clean it without stretching myself to pieces.

It was a beautiful day up here and not too cold either. Just right for Fall and late October.

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I went to "doc in a box" today (urgent care) bc on top of everything else, my throat was getting more and more sore over the past 5 days. It just wasn't heading in the right direction, and I couldn't imagine waiting until Monday.

Doc was all ready to say it was viral and send me off with throat spray, but fortunately they did a strep swab. He was vastly surprised when it came back positive!
So I have an Rx for penicillin.

By now, everyone in the house has been exposed. And dogs are asymptomatic carriers. What I would really like is a family Rx so we don't just keep bouncing in among ourselves. Hmm...

I'm sure glad I went!

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Its not as bad as your full-on strep bc I'm still on steroids. And since most of the pain from strep is caused by inflammation, and prednidone is a powerful anti inflammatory, the strep symptoms were muted. Maybe a third of what you had.

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Yup, but I still got 3 more spots to clean up and one is a tall dresser. Not sure even on my step stool I will be able to reach it properly.

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That is a very tall dresser!

Glad you managed to avoid the rain and still had a beautiful day. Rain and a nice day anyway. What's not to like???

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It is really and my step stool really could use one more step for me to be able to clean it without stretching myself to pieces.

It was a beautiful day up here and not too cold either. Just right for Fall and late October.

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So, how tall is it? I'm trying to picture it and it's not coming to mind. Is it a dresser with drawers? Or more like a wardrobe?

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Thinking about it now. Yes, it would be called a wardrobe. The top part has a shelf in it and cupboard doors on it then 3 or 4 drawers below it. I inherited it from my Blair. But looking at it now it is rough shape and may need replacing. Got a sliver off one of the drawers this week. Didn't do much damage to my finger. And the backing is coming off of it. And it is a little taller than the bookcase I cleaned the top of the other day or so.

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Thinking about it now. Yes, it would be called a wardrobe. The top part has a shelf in it and cupboard doors on it then 3 or 4 drawers below it. I inherited it from my Blair. But looking at it now it is rough shape and may need replacing. Got a sliver off one of the drawers this week. Didn't do much damage to my finger. And the backing is coming off of it. And it is a little taller than the bookcase I cleaned the top of the other day or so.

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It sounds like it might be, or might have been, a useful piece of furniture. I like old- fashioned pieces like that. Too bad it's in bad shape.

If the frame and a lot of the parts (drawer slides, drawer parts, cupboard doors) are solid wood, if the joints are solid and the damage not too great it might be worth fixing. Especially if you like the way it looks and/ or has good memories attached. (I wouldn't expect the side and back panels to be solid wood, that would make the wardrobe too heavy) I tend to be sentimental about major items. Everything - cars, sofas, washing machines, etc. are owed many, many repairs, and when they're beyond repair I'm sad to see thrm go. But of course that's just me.

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