BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:23 AM

Good for you, all of you-

We were without power all day yesterday, and somehow I sank into a gloom that rendered me immobile in the de-cluttering department. Even so, I shoveled over a foot of snow for the third straight day (no, we're not getting a foot a day, but there's been continuous snow and it drifts right across our front door (oops, design flaw!) plus the driveway plow man is very good but blocks the cars in very effectively).

I also practiced piano and recorder, read a book, went to the local cafe (which had power) for lunch, then to dinner at another powered neighbor's then to hear Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman in concert- and when we came home the lights were on! So a happy ending to a grouchy day.

But now I've got to play catch-up before the jammers get here in 90 minutes!

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 12:20 PM

It's pretty out here again today, high is supposed to be 63. I need to do some yard work. I'm also going to pull out a piece of scrap gold that has been in my dresser forever and take it over to be appraised at the mall. I did my homework and I know that scrap is downgraded from investment gold, but I have the figures to do the math. It's a 10K case, so it isn't worth a lot, and there is a tiny diamond, but I think it's a throwaway item because it's so small. Who know one day I'd be tossing away diamonds. :)

For March, Kat wants to run an accountability thread separate from the declutter thread. I hope we'll all be more active as spring approaches, and for those in the southern hemisphere, fall is still a good time for activity. So this first lawn mowing of the season will get reported on that thread.

Gotta get that shelf out of the truck and I'm going to pull out the bags of dirt also. I think we're past the ice and snow now.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: mouldy
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:36 PM

Had Freya all day, so I didn't get much, if anything, done. One good thing is that I haven't got to look after her tomorrow, when all the work kicks off again, so it means I can do some then.

The blasted heating is playing up again. It keeps getting air built up into the system until it forms an airlock somewhere, and the thermostat won't work. It seems to function at about 16C/60F. The upstairs radiators seem to be not too bad, but the ones downstairs are tepid. This isn't a problem in the living room with the stove burning, but the other rooms aren't comfortable for very long.

I must be getting soft in my old age!

I'm not looking forward to my weigh-in tomorrow, as I have been a bit - no, make that a lot - uncontrolled around the WW bars!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:48 PM

The newly cleaned old metal cabinet that was originally at some county courthouse in a southwestern state is now in the office closet and will hold various heavy files and paper things. They're coming in from various places around the house--school supplies, graduate school notes, reems of printer paper. I took stuff from some of the wooden shelves in that same closet and will move lighter things to those upper shelves. One was beginning to sag a bit.

I defrosted the last of the ground beef from the freezer--I don't buy pre-ground any more unless it was actually ground in the butcher shop of the grocery store where I buy it. I have been using chuck roasts cut into about 1 pound chunks, from the freezer. Take them out to thaw a little but then grind cubes of the somewhat icy roast and it grinds very nicely in the Kitchenaid blender's grinder attachment. The meat was cooked thoroughly and is made into taco filling. I added black beans this time for more roughage and because it tastes good and looks nice.

The dogs (and I) are going to get a nice long walk as soon as the meat is finished and put in the fridge; we want extra exercise today and tomorrow morning before the inspector arrives. The house is still messy, but I've cleared most of the kitchen counter, have cleared the halls where things had been stacked before putting away, and I've been sweeping and mopping. As I move stuff I encounter old spots from cat barf, so I'm cleaning all of those and my floors look much better than they have in years. (When you have a cat that upchucks several times a day, like Clementine did, it becomes a fruitless exercise to try to keep up with more than just wiping it up with a paper towel and moping infrequently.)

SRS