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Subject: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Jan 10 - 11:45 PM Your wish is my command, Maryanne: here's a new thread. Here's the old one. We've been in a bit of a downward spiral, some of us. Others are packing up and ready to move. There should be some average in the middle that is healthy and moving in the right direction. In the Northern Hemisphere the days are getting longer. It's still kinda cold for most of us, but the days aren't quite as dreary. Take heart, move forward, stay healthy! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:26 AM Thanks for starting this Maggie. OK It's final, even a two thirds pint of real ale is a two thirds pint too much. So sick this morning (hungover I guess) headache nausea. I drank a glass of water with the ale, had a full large bottle of water on the way home form the session and another larger bottle of water over the course of the night. I had an embarrassing case of hysterical laryngitis at the pub yesterday. Didn't find my voice until second half of session. Wouldn't play my guitar either. The Lower Coke (Stoke) crowd are just too good. They make me nervous. Resolution! Practice more, especially guitar. I am home on flex leave today. Doing laundry. Will call the Healthy Living team again today. Will set up the mini trampoline which has been put away since Hilary was here for Christmas. Will catch up ironing, will shop on line for foam and/or fabric and/or used caravan cushions. Here's to a spiritually and physically profitable February to all who join in this thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 01 Feb 10 - 05:27 AM I'm sitting in my new house waiting for the router to arrive for broadband, after which I will be able to look at Youtube links and other things too slow for dial up. When I'm in properly, that is. Tomorrow the electrician will be changing my fusebox, not in a fit state as is, and a locksmith rendering the place secure. Today I will be putting another mirror up the garden. I hope the frog has found somewhere safe - my sister's frogs have all been frozen in her pond. At the moment I am reluctant to do anything much in case I disturb him. There are bulbs coming up - daffs and other things so far. I've moved everything back into the airing cupboard after the tank replacement. I could also remove the wardrobe shelves in my "playroom" which I am going to use for computing, knitting machine, loom, sewing machine, keyboard, guitar, melodica... It did look like a large room when it was a bedroom! It has a good view into the garden. Does anyone have an idea about my back gate? It has two bolts on the inside, and a latch liftable from outside. I want to be able to get in from outside without prior planning, if necessary, but it's a six foot gate, and I couldn't reach the bolts, even if the top one had a padlock, which is what I'm thinking of. I have looked at the existing phone wiring, and it isn't all that good, or adaptable to what I want - old stuff has just been cut through, or off, and extension sets all seem to come with wires with plugs already on which won't go through the holes. I'll be ringing the removal man to fix a date later. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Feb 10 - 06:53 AM Onto second load of clothes, retuned my lap dulcimer as it did not need string replacement. Mini trampoline is set up and ready to use again. Ironing board set up in lounge. Stripped the bed, kitchen floor and fridge now clean and cobwebs removed from lounge. Another call made to Healthy Living Team. A Health Trainer will call me in 2 to 3 weeks to set up assessment appointment. I was told that they do NOT meet in peoples homes but will meet some place public and convenient to customer. Problem is with my RA, no place is convenient, unless I have a lift which I will not have because TSO works. I don't mind walking to and from bus stops. It is the waiting on my feet and cold weather that get to me. Also the prospect of having to stand on the bus when it finally arrives. Well, we shall see how this works out. I am really hoping this person can help me find a fairly priced swimming pool that has access for disabled people. The prospect of driving 30 minutes (one way) with rush our traffic and then paying for parking as well as pool entry 2 to 3 times a week, does not appeal. Evidently keeping/getting fit is only for the already healthy and/or those with finances to afford it. Ta for now. I am off to do some ironing. Whoo hoo! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 01 Feb 10 - 08:18 AM Broadband now working. I hope you can find a decent pool. My local one has free parking but £3 entry, even for pensioners. And then there's the health club... not. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Feb 10 - 10:08 AM Penny, it's always exciting to move into a new house and make that space yours, isn't it? I hope you'll post photos (do you use Picasa or Flickr or something?). I'd love to see what mirrors in the garden look like, and I'm sure between us we can make suggestions for the garden latch. Is this the house where they concealed the unsightly motorcycles next door (or something comparable?) Have you thought about your plantings to continue the barrier? Phones are easy to wire, as long as the space is navigable to run the wiring. They have all of these components you can use (Leviton is the company who makes the ones I use here). Follow the color code on the wire, if you have the same kind of wiring. Swimming is a great exercise for anyone, not just the disabled, but it is something a lot of us don't think about. I have access to a pool and a health plan on campus, but I don't have the time so far. When I'm not doing the kid running around I may go ahead and start going over two or three days a week. To the office today, and then back home in time to pick up my son early at school. He has an interview with a college person. SRS Grumble grumble. . . Mudcat isn't letting me post, I had to open a new browser. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 01 Feb 10 - 10:20 AM Decluttered more money from the account today... recluttered Limpit's room with more clothes. At least I got her something she likes. Had a shopping expotition today, coupled with some vital bank business, was out for a total of 4 hours (2 of which were sitting in the bank or Costa Fortune cafe) and I'm absolutely wiped... decluttering the computer room (remember all that fabric I was sorting last month?!) will have to wait til tomorrow. Or Wednesday.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 01 Feb 10 - 10:25 AM My goal for this month is to fill my body with lots of good nutrition and to get in at least 64 ounces of water each day so that I can face chemo with the odds in my favor. My goal for taking care of our home is to slowly build back to being able to handle all of my chores on my own. In the meantime, I'm thankful for my husband who is taking on both of our chores and who is taking good care of me...YAY PETE!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Feb 10 - 11:34 AM A big thanks to amitryptiline, thanks to which I have put back TOO MANY pounds. That stuff gives great sleep-- but also all-day hunger and sloth! The whole house looks depressededly cluttered-- isn't it funny that it's an ANTI-depressant, yet it makes me not actually give a sh*t about anything! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 01 Feb 10 - 12:26 PM The fence is high enough for the bikes, when I'm downstairs! And the neighbour is working on having a better place to store them - he was evicted from the place they were before. As he is a gardener, you can imagine it's not quite what he wants. We are actually going to work together on removing some vegetation - a thick stemmed ivy which is rooted on his side, but twines up mine and turns tree-like at the top, over both of us. There's a lot of flagstones - more than half the garden is paved, but I'm going to use some of them on edge to border raised beds - I'll have to get some topsoil in. The problem there is that I will either have to drag it through the house, or wheel it a long way round to the back (unbolting first, of course.) I'll try and post some piccies somewhere, now I can. (I was trying to update my security stuff - the Antivirus was at 41% when I started this. It is now back at 5%. I'm packing up and going home.) Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Feb 10 - 02:15 PM So... I need to re-configure my annual workout season/plan to reflect that in the SAD season, I AM gonna sleep a lot, recharge, nest, work on my house, work on aquatics materials, etc., and enjoy the offseason with some periodic evening pool trips with Hardi. And get back to the crazy-running laundry/kitchen routine in the winter that work so well during hockey games. I need to stop trying harder to do what does not make sense to do at this time of year, and DO what DOES make sense. Winter-- clean closets, do spring cleaning in the kitchen, etc. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Feb 10 - 02:30 PM I can see the wood top of my computer desk. Looks pretty good! Sounds like you got lucky with that neighbor, Penny! A gardener, and a cooperative one! That sounds ideal! And I love the idea of reshaping the space and making raised beds. I always use the local rocks, bricks, etc, when I work on a place. I have tons of bricks and limestone that the previous owners dumped in the far back end of the yard after a structure was taken off of the front of the house. I've gradually rearranged those rocks and bricks, and this year will be the year I build a low wall in the front yard next to the berm I've been building for a while (to keep traffic from leaving the street and hitting the house, should someone run the sign at the intersection out front). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:06 PM Penny's deal with gardening neighbour reminds me of a BBC4 radio comedy I heard some years ago. Several elderly neighbours in row houses combined gardens and had cellar food canning enterprise to supplement their retirement income. Neighbour in the middle passed away and the house and attendant garden went up for sale. And the others were looking at being caught earning income they were not reporting. Something like that. I am a really low dose of the amitryptiline. I am sleeping better and hence had loads of energy today. All of the ironing is done and I bounced around and danced while doing it. 2 sheets, 4 pillow cases, one duvet cover, 2 pairs of TSO trousers, 2 pairs of my slacks, 10 TSO shirts, 4 of my tops, one pair of my white cotton PJs. About to put fresh sheets on the bed and have a shower. Can't wait to get into those fresh PJs and snuggle into fresh sheets. It got to 4:38 pm and I noticed it was still quite light outside. WHOOHOOT! Oh! Only 1 peanut better toast, banana and 2 clementines fo breakfanst and fresh fruit, raw veg and orange juice for lunch. Still have not had dinner. Too busy and did not feel hungry until now. It is now 8:04 pm. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Feb 10 - 06:02 PM If you wait too long between meals you'll feel your blood sugar go low and end up snacking on something you shouldn't. Stop and eat even if you don't feel really hungry. Am ready to change insurance companies. All research done. Yes! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 01 Feb 10 - 08:38 PM I need to start decluttering and getting fit too. My younger son was home for a few days between trips (he just got back from Africa where he was an intern at the West Africa Trade Hub, and is headed to Chile to visit his dad, then plans to settle for a while in Massachusetts where his girl friend lives...but that's another story). He helped me get started sorting through old pictures, so I need to continue that. Also need to organize CDs, and have gotten together a lot of clothes that will go to Goodwill. But we've had so much snow, and more is forecast - so it may be a couple of weeks. I go through spurts where I'm pretty good about going to the gym, but then things get busy and I slack off. I've slacked off for a couple of weeks - er..almost a month really. Must make a committment to go at least three times a week. Here's a good thing to report - a couple of months ago I organized my papers and documents and put everything in file boxes, with labeled. So, when Tom needed some documents I was able to put my hands on them right away. I was really glad I'd done it. Now I have to make sure I maintain the system. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Feb 10 - 12:50 AM Sounds like a fascinating story, Mary! And yes, an organized filing system is a valuable tool. Good for you! I made a pan of popcorn for myself and the kid this evening. I haven't in a long time, and there is simply no better popcorn than that popped on a stove in a metal pan with a good lid at a bit of an angle. You can keep all of that microwave junk. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Feb 10 - 12:50 AM AND the air popped junk! It needs oil to taste best. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 02 Feb 10 - 02:53 AM I love the flavour of air popped corn with nothing on it so long as it is hot and fresh. In the UK they serve sweet popcorn in the cinemas. And it is cold. No hot buttered popcorn here. Booooo! Had a rough night again. Palpitations twice. But I was able to fall right back to sleep instead of wandering around the flat. Feel pretty tired today. But it is a good tired. Like I did good hard work, kind oftired and the I am ill kind of tired. Hope I can stay awake at work today. Shopping this evening, so I hope I have something left over for this evening either work or exercise wise. This damned rash on my shins is annoying. Itchy only in the evening. Started as little pinprick blisters last Wednesday. Now they are bright red and some are getting bigger. Spreading to calves. Started 2 days before new meds, no new foods, detergents, or body care products have been introduced. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Catherine Jayne Date: 02 Feb 10 - 09:22 AM 4 mile walk and an hours circuit training last night. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:08 AM Good for you, Khatt! I need to take my dogs for a walk today now that it has warmed up a little. Still heavily overcast, like I never left the Puget Sound area in winter. We probably won't go more than a mile, due to time constraints, but we need to get back into that routine. Making forward progress on various fronts, and was able to tell an acquaintance in the UK that I could mail a box to her. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:24 AM Didn't the purchaser of the middle house turn out to be from HMRC? (IR dequivalent). I've worked out that if I put the old tank in the raised bit, I won't have to dig such a deep hole! Though I have to work out how to put an amphibian ramp in - tank is the size of half a beer barrel. The broadband wireless connection seems a bit iffy. I'm using a cable now, and it's much better. Today's bad news is that the fitting of the new fuse system has a snag - it keeps tripping, two old heaters are probably dead, but the electrician needs to come back and check everything tomorrow. DIY electricals - things connected to fuses with two sets of wires - 7 fuses where there should be at least 10. The garden has a good supply of stone - not local, which is chalk, but someone's collection. A lot of white vein quartz, some slate and Shap red granite (I know that from my OU course) and other stuff. This is all mixed in with what the geo tutors knew variously as Wimpeyite or urban conglomerate, i.e. concrete, as if of equal value. Some of the concrete is nicely mossed, though. I have added my own specimens, where weather resistant. Normally I would go for Kentish Rag, which is a rough limestone and does a good rockery, but this collection is going to be interesting. There were a lot of shrubs with variegated foliage, but I have taken them out and replanted in the garden I am leaving, as a gift, so I have room for veggies and smellies. I have a promise of cuttings of honeysuckle and a rambling rose from the cottage that was my grandparents'. I have a lovely musky rose that was the rootstock of a neighbour's rose. There is, already, I think, a philadelphus - my other granny had one in her garden. There is a juniper and a forsythia (I think) again. I am going to prune the Virginia creeper to allow space for runner beans, either side of the mirrors. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Jeri Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:41 AM Virginia, the amitriptyline can cause palpitations. (You probably knew that already.) I got them when I took the stuff for migraine prevention. I spent a long time at the gym yesterday. 15 minutes on bike, weight machines and 30 minutes on the eliptical. Slept great last night. It's becoming a lot less difficult to get my lazy ass in there because I know how happy and full of energy I'll feel when I leave. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:43 AM I'm afraid our local groundhog must be very confused-- it was snowing, and the sun was out. Personally, I'm expecting an early spring. Just got back from the dentist, and everything is cool. I moved the old tv/vcr out of my bedroom and into the music/computer room. I have finally cleared enough floor space, they I should be able to do some exercise; I can play the old VHS tapes on the old TV. I figured I'd sleep better if I didn't watch TV. I went to sleep about midnight, and-- sproing!-- I woke up again at 2am. Wide awake for 2 hours, and now, no TV to lull me back to sleep again. Too clever for my own good. So I laid awake and rehearsed song lyrics in my head. Actually remembered them better than I would have in the afternoon-- they just came flowing back. Very encouraging, actually. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 02 Feb 10 - 01:37 PM PennyS - Didn't the purchaser of the middle house turn out to be from HMRC? (IR dequivalent). Yep! That's the one. It was very funny little series. Really enjoyed it. The more recent serials have not been very good. Jeri - I am on 10mg of Amytriptyline in order to help me sleep in spite of the palpitations. I was told that it helps relieve vascular occurrences such as night time palpitations (I have had for over a year) and migraines which (which have plagued me this last month). Actually am sleeping much better. And because of this more energy during day. That's got to be good. Meals today breakfast - coffee, one sugar single cream, 1 and 1/2 wheatabix, small banana, skim milk morning snack - 2 low salt whole grain rice cakes lunch - carrot, 3 cherry tomatoes, 15 red grapes, 4 inches of English cuke with peel, two tiny tins of tuna (say that 5 times fast) with table spoon of low fat mayo afternoon snack 2 clementines and 1 apple, cup of coffee 2 sugars and low fat whitener dinner will be small poached salmon fillet with lemon and dill and 3 or 4 plain anya potatoes (boiled). pudding aka dessert - glass of purple grape juice with lots of ice to chew. Actually I am not hungry, but will eat anyway so metabolism doesn't get all confused. Exercise - nil so far unless you count shopping this evening. Too much work to do at my desk. Overflowing in tray and email in box bursting at the seams. Maybe I will take a turn on the mini tramp. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Feb 10 - 02:42 PM Depending on your size, the 10mg of amytriptyline sounds microscopic. My son started out on 10mg when he was about 8 years old. Now, at 170lbs or more he's at 50mg. This is for migraines. This is still considered a very low dose. Penny, I use all sorts of rock and rock-like objects for building, stacking, supporting, and edging in the garden and I don't dismiss the extremely utilitarian applications of your urban conglomerate. Concrete can be quite beautiful, especially as statues and objects, like benches and bird baths. I've thought that I might enjoy creating molds and making some of my own paving stones or garden tinaja (shallow catchment on the ground for birds and wildlife to drink from, it's a term from the Sonoran Desert). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 02 Feb 10 - 03:23 PM Joining you all in the wish for less clutter, more exercise this month. Add fresh air to the exercise- now that there's more light, I want long walks, but it's icy out here in the country! So, I slide my way to the mailbox and back (about 1/4 mile round trip) and try to bring in piles of wood several times a day for the wood stove. But yes, like WYS, I'm also trying to be mindful of the rhythm of the season and not mind too much that I feel rather blob-like. Good for you, Jeri- our health club is a 30-minute drive away, which means planning about 2 1/2 hours for the adventure, which is hard to do these days. BUT- the DH is working on the upstairs (bit by bit) and the LR isn't as squalid as it was a few days ago. And we're having a small group here for brunch on Sunday, so we'll need to make the place look decent for them, which is good for another few days at least! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 02 Feb 10 - 06:26 PM I just lost my post. Anyway, I was starting to say that I made a batch of waffles for the freezer. The last of the batter only made 2 sections, so I had that for a late lunch. I have stopped adding sugar to the batter; this time I added pumpkin pie spice and used whole wheat flour for 1/3 of the flour. I've been thinking of making a savory version, with fresh herbs in the batter. The chives in the planter box are really taking off, along with the parsley & rosemary. I wonder what I'd top it with—maple syrup just wouldn't go. I'll probably make an omelet for supper—I've got mushrooms & onions, and I'll find a few other things in the fridge. It's been snowing a little bit this afternoon/evening, just enough to make the streets a little slippery, so I think I'll skip the session & stay home tonight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Pistachio Date: 02 Feb 10 - 06:46 PM Pumpkin Pie Spice - can I buy that in UK?? I brought some back from a USA trip in 1997 and have forgotten all about trying to replace it, but remember how lovely it is. The decluttering is starting here, I Promise! I've got pals coming round on 13th so need to find the dining table, and before then I dash to Scotland to sing at a friends wedding and will detour to my Mum and sisters to drop off some of my clutter that they (might) want ... it's a slow process.. Well done to those who are succeeding with tasks, every little helps, I'd better head to the gym too! Time to check todays to-do list! Hx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 02 Feb 10 - 09:36 PM Pistachio, when I was in the UK (Scotland) I picked up something that looked like cinnamon that was labeled simply "Spice". It tasted a lot like Pumpkin Pie Spice - I think it contained the same mix. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 02 Feb 10 - 09:46 PM Welcome to the de-clutter thread, Pistacio. The spice mix I used was cinnamon-ginger-nutmeg-allspice, so I imagine you could find something similar. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Catherine Jayne Date: 03 Feb 10 - 09:54 AM Circuit training again tonight! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:32 AM Yes it would be easy to make your own. Here's a recipe which could be adapted to make enough to fill a small jar, then you'd have it on hand. Pumpkin Pie Spices |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:44 AM Woke up in a foul mood today, after a wonderful opening-night rehearsal. Tired, grouchy, unable to focus on anything. Could it be- ~the news I got after the rehearsal of the death of the mother of one of my dearest friends? ~normal post-rehearsal let-down? ~my body reacting to my decision to go off the bleeping Pill once and for all? ~mid-winter cabin-fever and getting desperate to have my house finished (sometimes it seems DH is dragging his heels, but today we had a Good Talk about getting the work done, so I have to trust that it will). ~all of the above?? I have a piano lesson today and this morning I've been trying to make up for lost time and practice the lovely tune I'm working on: Turning By Threes. It's coming along, but I keenly feel the lack of practice over the past few weeks of getting Animaterra ready. I think that today I want it ALL and I want it NOW!! Grumph! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:46 AM Well, Hardi and I had a nice talk yesterday, about the amitryptiline (Elavil). He hadn't realized how zombie'd his wife had become. So we greed to stop the daily use of this as the primary sleep aid. I'll use it on a schedule that works for our combined weekly schedule, which includes two nights per week when he takes an aid for an extra-long, recharging sleep-- because I need to be able to wake up fast and clear to drive if he gets an emerg. call. Those will be my nights to wake fast but ALSO be able to go back to sleep as needed, post-emergency-- Thursdays and Sundays-- making for deliciously lazy Fridays and Mondays, for me. I should be a lot less draggy the rest of the week. Monday (or Tuesday, LOL) I hope to post new goals including dissolving the weight I gained while on this daily-- it made me WAY too hungry for the too-sedentary days!!! As I had just spent three years shrinking my stomach AND re-learning to eat when hungry, that too-hungry thing was too confusing! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 03 Feb 10 - 02:04 PM Slept better again last night! Had only the healthy foods again today. It is so weird. I only actually feel hungry immediately after I eat. But most of what I am eating is raw veg and fresh fruit. I am ignoring this weird sensation. Up and down the stairs and end to end of the building 3 times today and minuted 2 meetings. YAWN! Going to have my grape juice with extra ice and kick back and play puter games. Love you guys! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 03 Feb 10 - 02:19 PM Alright, Allison. I will ask the obvious question - off the pill, cranky, emotional, etc. Is knitting little booties in your near future? SINS, on her way to the CELLAR! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Feb 10 - 02:22 PM VT, that can be related to a metabolism getting back on track. It also can be a sign that your tumy is shrinking and not liking it (TOUGH!). It just expects and thus requests "more." But you do not need to give in-- just tell your tummy it can have some more a little later, and go right on with your activities. Most times that hungry sensation will ebb till the next planned snack time. Beware fruit juices tho. They dump glucose into your system (even if unsugared) MUCH faster than raw (or even canned-in-lt-syrup) fruit. The fiber in the fruit is SO GOOD for you; try to transition over to real fruit if you can. It will make you hungry (the fructose wakes up metabolism), but if you have even a tiny bit of cracker and milk with it, it counts as a mini-meal and will digest much more slowly. === Tho a couple hours short on sleep, I'm REALLY enjoying the wide-awake and perky feeling-- no ami last night (diphenhydramine, the ingred. in Tylenol PM). ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 03 Feb 10 - 02:43 PM Sounds like you've got a good plan set up, WYS. Take it one day (night) at a time and see what works & what doesn't. Concocted culinary catastrophes this morning. Tried to combine fruits & veggies in the blender, but it didn't work out as well as I had hoped. Plus the gasket leaks, so I need to replace it. I think I'll keep the fruits in desserts and the veggies in salads for now. I went thru a very brief exercise video; at least I did some stretching. Right now my shoulders hurt more than my knees. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 03 Feb 10 - 04:18 PM For all of the household clutter around here, I was actually able to find something when I needed it. I needed to find documentation of the purchase & sale of a few shares of stock in 2004, and I did it! I've always been pretty proud of my filing system, regardless of what the rest of the house looks like. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Feb 10 - 04:57 PM Thanks, M, but it's more like three-four nights at a time. In this ministry life, it's the details that can get so screwy that it's hard to see the patterns. Without a deacon-on-call, this means that there is no one to cover for emergencies, so we have to figure out for ourselves how to phase in some rest for him as well as non-craziness for me. And unfortunately, lay parishioners cannot cover this base. (I used to BE on call for Red Cross (mostly housefire response to families, and also late-night communications calls for military fam emergencies), but I had backups scheduled..... and I know too well that if my own routine goes too far off-plan, I'm no good to myself, no good to Hardi personally OR professionally, and ultimately no good for regular or emerg. pastor-ees, either. But I have made a big decision that will affect all that-- I am going to see if I can take CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education), the certification required to do crisis hospital/nursing home/funeral pastoral care in our denomination. I have the flair, I am told, and I have lay peer counseling education and experience. But I want the CPE training. I may also take some Heart Assn. crisis-care courses-- not so that I can be a "wacker," (make ambulance runs), but so that I can function better in juxtaposition with that whole environment. But anyway, as it regards my own wellness, I figger two good nights' sleep per week is already more than a lot of people-- not to mention emergency responders-- get. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 03 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM Susan I only eat fresh fruit (lots of it). Never ever eat tinned fruit and very very rarely dried fruit (apricots or cranberries on cereal). Pout - Grape juice with lots of ice is my dessert after dinner. It has to be better than cookies or icecream. Maybe I will go for half glass of juice and even more yummy crunchy ice. Girl you go for that certificate, especially if you think the training will help you take stock and cope better in the ministering situations that are heavy on the emo. Maryanne - way to go! I still have a long way to go toward organising the paperwork. Wish I could figure out what this damned rash on my lower legs is. Only bothers me in the evening. Please don't tell me it is the grape juice. I love my Welch's purple. Can I take a benedryl (which turns me into a super hyper mouthy meanie) with the amytriptyline (which helps me sleep and leaves me feeing a bit dozy)? No more googling... Alarming hits linking leg rash to tuberculosis which showed links to immuno-suppressant drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Doesn't bear thinking about. Just watched Horizon - science on why some don't age as others do. Findings show that along with genetics, and attitude of not thinking too much about health contributed to the longevity of some subjects. Think I am going to take a decision to just fell better regardless of what my body is telling me. Whatthe hell does it know anyway. It's not the brain. It is only the body. I will be in real trouble when this happens. Where's the bloody Lancet |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Feb 10 - 07:24 PM Animaterra (Allison?) I'd guess going off the pill probably nailed you. I was on a form of HRT that is no longer available (turns out the FDA never approved 1 part of this combination for this use) so after 10 years, in which the last two years were heavier because of the need to switch brands, it took me weeks to wean myself off of the old one. Stopping cold turkey isn't necessarily easy or the best way to do it. Stepping back will feel a lot better and the mood swings aren't nearly so uncomfortable. I switched to a simpler HRT, one ingredient, but still had to work to leave the other behind. I might have trouble going to sleep once or twice a year, if I drink a caffeine soft drink or something. It's usually off to sleep within a minute or two of lying down. I wish I could tell you how I do it, but there it is. My daughter is even faster. It's like she's out mid-sentence of telling her goodnight. A friend told me he usually lies in bed for an hour before he goes to sleep. That sounds astonishing. Do any of you read until you're tired, or do you lie there resting, and eventually drift off? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Feb 10 - 07:27 PM VT, you CAN take both (I recommend the diph for better sleep with less drowsiness the day after, and take ONLY ONE), but..... the pharm instrux will say not to do it, so when I did it I made sure hubby knew to keep watch till I was sure how it would hit me, and I did NOT take them at the same time but took the ami 2 hours earlier tha the diph so they did not both "kicj in" at the same time. And MAN was I out cold. I CANNOT guarantee you will wake up enough to pee... (where you prefer to pee)..... OK you asked! :~) I'm actually gonna cut a diph in half to see if it does the job. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 03 Feb 10 - 08:44 PM Feeling much better today after an amazing piano lesson. I'm lucky to have one of the very best in the biz as far as contra dance and English country dance piano goes. Cross that out- The Best! Peter Barnes is AMAZING! Thanks, VT- I am doing it cold turkey, but with guidance. Sheesh! I really look forward to knowing what my body really feels like! I'm generally in excellent health, and agree with the Horizon show - for me at least! BUT- ----- MARY!!!! BITE YOUR TONGUE, YOUNG LADY!!!!!! (be grateful that b and i are the limits of my html knowledge!) As for you, dear WYS, when I saw this: - I am going to see if I can take CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) I nearly shouted "Halleluia" out loud- this rings true and clear and I really hope it can happen for you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:46 PM Allison, CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) is normally a go-away-for-12-weeks thing, done either on paid professional leave from some other social-work-type job, or during seminary; it's expensive, too. I do have Red Cross "emergency interface" training I can re-cert at any time, and there is a former CPE trainer in our area who cobbled up a make-do program for two locally-trained ordinands-to-be. His cert was not "the" cert, and I can honestly say that in one case, the trainee bailed on the part I most want-- the "verbatims" and group discussions post-pastoral-visit-- and still got his cert. I'm thinking how to beef that up so I can stay local and cheap-- audit some social work courses, for instance, IF I can get Gene to work with me as well. The other person he certed did do ALL the time he requested, and more-- and got the same "cert." [shrug] I do not need the in-person "chaplain-on-call" visits-- we make enough of those that I can use past events for training discussions. And I do not want to wear a collar and parachute into unknown ERs. I just want to be able to cover that first 1/2 hour of a local visit while Hardi's coffee kicks in, and hand off to him with appropriate briefings. Not to cover for him on an all-night shift, but just be a better-prepared inteface with the hospital. They can be picky about who comes into ICU "after hours," or a death watch, an ER death, etc., to interface with patients or families. Not becuase of the kinds of worries people might expect-- confidentiality concerns, etc.-- I pass muster on all that on a daily basis in these parts, and I interview diocesan ordination candidates on THEIR boundaries, etc. Nope, what they actually worry about is that people who have not done CPE are said to be both lightweights not up to blood and gore (I am), or "agenda-driven" inapproriate (Pentecostal variety) proselytizers. The thought is, they want a person they can "control" if a visit goes horribly wroing. CPE is no guard against that-- Hardi has a file full of horror stories about dumb stuff "certed" colleagues have done over his many ordained years who just did not have a gift for that kind of work-- but it does reassure the hospitals and the diocese. It makes you a "known" quantity unto them. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:31 AM Well, I'm ready to call it quits for the night. I've about finished editing an article that somehow went astray when I was writing it yesterday. My boss asked me to take another stab at it, so I have been. But this was one of those days when the office machines all ganged up on us. A file I sent to one of the secretaries to print out wouldn't display properly. Her little ink jet printer had the best rendering of it, but we needed 200 copies. Couldn't waste that much ink on her desk printer, and the darned big one wouldn't receive it with corrections to lighten it (though I told it to) and it wouldn't copy the better print without turning it to a blob. I was at Office Depot twice today finishing this project. There is a print shop on campus, but they wouldn't have been able to drop what they were doing, they would have me come back and look at a proof, etc. Traffic lights got the hang of the printer truculence and elevators languished on lower floors of the building, refusing to rise to the call button. I tell you, it was slow all around. On my way home from work I did a favor for a co-worker who lives in another direction from the university (and who picks things up and delivers them for me when I'm not on campus). The friend I took her softball registration money to works in the traffic equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. But before the day was over I did hand deliver the letter to the insurance office that I'm not renewing two of my three policies with them. I did some of the shopping I needed to, and I have hopes the rest of the week will turn out better. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:41 AM Decluttered bank account yesterday.. cluttering sofa today. Seems I'm good for a 2 hour outing (with Limpit doing the heavy lifting in and out of shopping trolleys and cars) every 48 hours. It is totally ridiculous that I should be worn out after just 2-4 hours being upright and moving around.... and yet the ECGs show nothing unusual. I am getting really fed up with this and am downright miserable today. Still, on the good side, I'm getting a lot of sewing done for a couple of projects that have time limits. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:24 AM LtS, edema? === SRS, that sounds a lot like grantwriting deadline insanity. I used to enjoy it-- the mad dash to get bookoo pages prepped to fire off into money-space. Always worth it, too. === Animaterra, TODAY's wakie/"exercise" thoughts were even BIGGER. I said a long time ago that God would back me right into further ed, and that He would attract me to a collar. Not NOW, I am sure, but eventually-- when Hardi retires our deal has been that I go back on a payroll-- because this house needs only ONE collar at a time (our discernment says so). Today's little slice of the tantalizing progress in that direction, though, was a Scripture reading that caught fire (not literally, LOL) in answer to a LONGstanding meditation about better ways of handling racism awareness in the Church. The result will go into a Good Friday meditation, and the result of THAT may go into a homily I am invited to preach at a farflung parish whose priest has invited me to come "play" with them anytime. I did offer a meditation LAST Good Friday that went over very well, and I find that for me I need to write them out first. I'll PM it to you when it's done, OK? There is another one I owe someone else here, about a young priest whose ordination happened to fall midway through her last year of life. Want that one too? Oh, and I finally found the SHORT version of that LONG doc I emailed you! In bullet points, in a skills-oriented resume style. I'm working on updating that now to include the more recent stuff. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 04 Feb 10 - 09:52 AM Dunno Wys... when you go in with certain symptoms, they only look for zebras. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Feb 10 - 10:00 AM Sounds like it is time for another doctor, Liz. Allergies are beginning to be apparent. Migraine like symptom for a while yesterday receded, but today it is back, with a tickle in the nose. Mountain cedar (the native juniper) seems to be pollinating. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:06 PM LtS - Sounds similar to what I have been enduring for a year now. Cardiologist could not find anything wrong with my heart from the 24 hour mobile heart monitor or from stress test. My blood pressure (when it is checked at GP) is only a bit high. Yet I was feeling bloody awful after minimal activity as well as several times a night and in morning. Bad like if I wasn't dying, I kind of wished I would, just to get over the bloody awful feeling. I have been this way since I had a 3 month long respiratory meltdown last year. Flu, cold, flu and chest infection. I wonder if some virus is still affecting me. Or it maybe another symptom of the autoimmune problems RA which has been treated and is being monitored and Sjögren's Syndrome, which GP and RA consultant and nurse completely ignore. TSO wants me to see private doctor, because he NHS GP and consultants are not really addressing my issues. They tend to pick and choose what they will treat out of what is bothering me. Example - went to GP last week complaining of not being able to sleep due to palpitations. As an aside I mentioned sudden frequent ocular migraines and itchy rash on my legs. I was given prescription to help me sleep which may help with any vascular probs (i.e palps and migraines) and referral to Healthy Living Team. Didn't even look at the rash on my legs. She just made diagnosis that I am old, out of shape and overweight and need to make lifestyle changes. No tests ordered. Admittedly the tablets are helping me sleep better. But I still feel damned awful (hungover - like) in the morning. Anyway after all that junk above. Push for tests or referral, or consider seeing a private doc for one appointment at least. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Feb 10 - 01:26 PM The hangover-- that's the ami's. 100% of it. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 04 Feb 10 - 04:21 PM The weather was decent today, so I walked up to Main Street for a haircut (badly overdue), then picked up a few groceries before I walked home. It was only a little over a mile, but my knee held up well enough. I don't usually have a problem walking TO places, but the walk BACK often gets me, esp. since there's a very slight uphill incline. M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:15 PM This article is about a friend of mine on campus. This made a huge difference in his life. Sleep apnea. Think about it. Must call new insurance company tomorrow, ask about levels they didn't mention in our conversation that was paid for in the old policy. I'm looking at the form of levels that I need to sign and return, and along with it a questionnaire. This gives a glimmer of why the new price is low--doesn't include stuff. I was ready for a change anyway, but I want this to be thorough. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM Sleep Apnea really is a candidate, Liz. Any way you can get tested quickly? It requires an overnight with multiple thingies stuck to you - Jacqui had the test and they ruled it out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Feb 10 - 11:26 PM VT, took my Thursday AMi early-- we'll see if it shortens the duhs tomrorrow. Pool tonight 45 minutes, on top of a very busy day processing meatsale items and writing a first draft of a homily that will condense down to a meditation. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:07 AM Oh, LTS, I wish I could come help out a bit- but more than that, I hope you can find a doc who will listen and above all, I hope you FEEL BETTER SOON! maire-anne, keep posting those walks- one of these days I'm-a gonna take one! WYS, love, I do know about CPE. Never did it, meself, but it seems like something you were made for- or perhaps a direction to pay attention to, while the collar dangles in the distance? Other unexpected doors (or windows!) might be poised and ready to open? SRS, best wishes on the insurance stuff. I'm uninsured at the minute, hoping to correct that in the fall, once a bunch of monthly costs are over with. Just have to stay perfectly healthy until then! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:15 AM I had a Dr.'s appointment yesterday, went to church, crashed on Mom's couch, took my car to get inspected, did a little grocery shopping, made a visit to a dear friend who had flowers waiting on my front porch when I got home from the pathology visit on Wednesday, went to WW, lost .8 pounds this week (because I'm finally able to EAT a bit more), and made a visit to the yoga studio/lounge just as a class was wrapping up. Had a great chat with my yoga teacher and how we are going to work me back into class with restorative yoga. At WW I have a habit of wearing the same thing I did as the first day I started....shorts and a t-shirt....always the same shorts and t-shirt. So last night after I got weighed in (I was the last person in line and the meeting was already in progress), I threw my slacks and shirt on over my weigh in clothes and went to sit down. Before I could, the leader called me to the front of the room and gave me a certificate of achievement for my (now) 102 pound loss. She totally caught me off guard and I was kind of embarrassed to stand in the front of everyone and talk...but I did. It was a good day. Probably did too much but I'm home for today and will take it easy. And putter. *GRIN* Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:34 AM Michelle - that's a fantastic acheivement - be proud of yourself! VT "She just made diagnosis that I am old, out of shape and overweight and need to make lifestyle changes. No tests ordered. " Sounds very familiar.. Ever notice how they say do this and that, but never actually direct you to anyone who will help you with it? They tell you to lose weight but never refer you to a dietician or excercise classes. As for sleep apnoea - I don't have it, but I'm pretty sure Manitas does (but of course, does nothing about it), and it's his snoring that keeps me awake. I can - and have - slept 12 hours straight, a couple of hundred yards from the concert tent, through mega decibel concerts (just Google Shooglenifty), lying on the cold hard ground at folk festivals, but only when he isn't there. Hypnotherapy has helped enourmously with my sleeping, but it's the physical tiredness, the muscle aches, tight chest and lethargy that is the problem at the moment. Having said that, it's getting better and I'm following up on the 24hr monitor referral next Monday. I may even get some decluttering done next week! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 05 Feb 10 - 02:00 PM Just got home from a meeting, and I don't feel well, but I can't quite put my finger on one thing. I feel achy, bloated, gassy, feverish (slightly at 99.4F). Plus had a large salt bagel during the meeting, and my pants are really tight. I didn't sleep well at all last night—kept waking up about once an hour. Fortunately, nothing more on my calendar until next Monday. Hopefully I can kick whatever it is my then. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Feb 10 - 02:10 PM The hangover-- that's the ami's. 100% of it. Well Susan, I have been having the hungover feeling since I was put on metotrexate (low dose chemo to knock down immune system) for the RA sometime in late 2005. I have bee off the metho since summer 2007, but the horrible feeling on waking is still with me. It is no worse or better with the amitrip ta thingie. So I am thinking it is combo of RA, Sjögren's and the palpitations, plus hormones or lack there of and stress re job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:10 PM OK, but antihistamines are gonna make it worse. I gotta Google Sjögren's. Any "good" links you have, please PM or post. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM Just inhaled Showgrin's site. I may also have it! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM Lucky me. My company got in some new monitors which arrived in suitcase style boxes - easy to carry and lots of room. I got three of them. With my cold, I will have no company or interruprions this weekend so I can finally tackle the sunroom. Hopefully by Monday I can freecycle a folding hospital bed, a small refrigerator and tons of crap while putting the saleable stuff in the shed for a yard sale. Wish me luck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mg Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:01 PM If you have ancestors from the Appalachians, you might be Melungeon, (my favorite topic this year) and they have ailments that are Medeterranean usually -- like some sort of Medeterranian fever, usually found in people of Mideast descent. It is often mistaken for fibromyalgia. This is due to Medeterranean (sp?) ancestry, Turkish/Syrian/Puetoguese, Jewish etc. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:26 PM I am now officially snowed in and have a mildly sprained ankle that needs a little TLC - probably just need to stay off it as much as possible but it isn't a bad sprain. I visited this thread to inspire myself to either: 1)Go through my music and organize it 2) Sort through photos and organize them 3) Sort through and organize my CDs 4)Do my taxes (might not be up to that) 5) Clean out the linen closet and refold and organize the towels and sheets. All could be done without any trauma to the ankle. So far I've just been sitting on the sofa watching reruns of Bonanza. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM Bonanza???? What channel? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:52 PM I'm not sure I got new cable service because with this digital conversion thing I would have had not TV reception. It's something called "TV Land" that shows all old reruns. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:59 PM We've kind of spiraled this thread down to cover the winter blahs and aches and pains, haven't we? But guess what--the sun is out here! This morning I came across a brave soul running a garage sale. She's selling stuff that they probably thought they were pretty savvy about collecting years ago--action figures, beanie babies, etc, which have no value now. And for those who were paying attention, we knew they didn't have much then. What I bought from her were 8 shepherds crooks for supporting stuff in my garden. It helps to put the tomatoes in a cage and use something like this to keep the cage upright. So this weekend I'm going to be pulling on my coat if I need it and organizing my gardening stuff in the garage, I'm going to be clearing out the planting area in my sun room window, and I need to clear out some of the unused pots that are collecting leaf litter outside my door. Since we've kind of clumped a bunch of stuff into this de-clutter and weight loss tracking thread, I propose we split off our aches and pains to the recovery ward (Sinsull keeps it so ship shape, I hate to see it not being used!) and maybe another one for some of the non-corporeal spirit-boosting exercises (Susan's specialty). And I need to quit posting my de-cluttering remarks in LilyFester's recovery thread. (I see she's making progress--soon she won't need that recuperation thread, she'll be picking up where she left off, pardon the pun.) I know, I know, some of you are going to be under several inches of snow over the weekend. There will be some suitable remarks to do with heavy weather--but what are you doing with yourselves while you're stuck inside to make that indoors environment more habitable? Since it should be nice here I need to get out and walk the dogs this weekend. If it doesn't stay warm I probably need to get a pair of goggles so I can walk more easily (without my dry eye complication of watery eyes when I'm in the wind or cold). What progress does anyone else have to report? Kat, has Morgan come over again to help you? That child sounds like a wonder! My oldest (Moonglow) is coming by this afternoon, and I may have her take some time to box up some of the loose toys in her room that she doesn't want so I can sell them for her on eBay. She has so much stuff in there, and it was mostly for display. But she'll want to give her kids some new stuff, so perhaps we can clear out some of this (or put it in a place for our own garage sale later in the spring). I'll be using her room as the sewing room, so I can use the space. I have a lot of extra cloth in there--is there some quilt planning going on for maeve? If anyone is sending quilt-sized pieces, what are the measurements you're using? I can probably come up with something (or many somethings!) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Feb 10 - 06:13 PM For starters on my weekend, I spent a few minutes in the front yard and took one set of lights (three strings together) out of a juniper next to the driveway. There is still a set in the Italian cypress and some I laid down on the front porch to organize that had been running up over a hook to make a tall pyramid shape of light. I'll remove and organize those this weekend. I should have the xmas lights in by Valentine's Day, don't you think? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Feb 10 - 06:29 PM I do come from maternal grandparents who were from West Virginia. But they were extraordinarily healthy and long lived. My mom is 82 and in better health than I am, though she has suffered all her life with lung problems. I was born and raised (as was my mom) in what was once called (with pride) the chemical capital of the south. Often the very air was yellow and acrid. What I have is a compromised immune system due to that exposure and probably a cocktail of drugs army doctors fed my mom when she was pregnant with me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:01 PM Ok I've gone through half the CD collection and sorted through them. Just taking a cyberbreak, and I'll do some more. I rediscovered a lot of CD's I'd forgotten I had. I would like to find a good system for organizing CDs in some kind of small folders, where I can store the CD, cover and booklet together, instead of in the plastic CD cases. Anybody know of something like that (affordable?). I really like the cardboard CD jackets that a lot of performers are using now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:10 PM Are you willing to trade off the plastic of the case with the liner notes for the cost of a new folder? I have seen some CD mailers that would hold the disk and notebook, but I don't think they'd take that much less space and they're not cheap. At least, not at Office Depot where they sell them a few at a time. Maybe you can find an online stationer who sells them cheaper. I found one of those large 300 CD changers and have printed out the instructions, but even if I fill it with my CDs, I plan to keep the cases, notes, etc. I need to somehow number the cases so I can find them if I want to read up on the disks playing in the changer. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:34 PM Mary, I have a 3 ring binder which zips closed and holds a bunch of CDs and their inserts. I quit using it because it was so heavy. If you want it, it's yours. I can send you a photo if you want to see it first. You could help me declutter!:-) SRS, I put all of my inserts in alphabetical order in a small box which was for CDs. I used my own system though as to whether I put it in the section which went with the artist's name or the album title. The 300 changers are neat! This week I have started a small walking regimen with a step up and down several times at the end of each ten passes. I also lost 2.5lbs last week. Thanks, SRS, for what you posted. I'd like to see us get back to more of the goal posting and positive achievements, NOT that the other stuff isn't valid...I just think a different thread might be a good idea, as you suggested. Or, maybe the two, accountability and decluttering, should go back to being separate? kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:46 PM NO I do not want more threads to keep track of! We can use sensible subtitles and subkect lines???! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:29 PM PS-- NONONONONO NO!~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:44 PM Kat that binder might be just the thing! I'll pm you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:47 PM Mary, I may have spoken too soon. My Rog says he's not sure we still have it. He is going to check the storage area tomorrow. I hope it is there as I'd like to give it a good home. It is really nifty with a handle on the spine so it's like a small briefcase, kind of. I'll let you know..sorry about that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 06 Feb 10 - 09:28 AM sniff.... I shouldn't listen to the Silly Sisters.. too many sad memories... sniff..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 06 Feb 10 - 01:07 PM New resolution for the new year (despite fighting back urges to reboot 2010) is to get back to reading this thread on a regular basis. Maybe I'll have some time one of these days to read the declutter threads of the past few (ach! more than a few!) months. Last Monday while bailing out the manager of JCPenney Optical at the other end of the mall (where I work for Sears Optical -- we're both licensed businesses within our host stores and are owned by the same company), I got talking to one of the JCP managers and discovered that her set of dishes is the Pfaltzgraff Yorketown pattern -- and I've been trying to de-clutter some Yorketown serving pieces that have been totally unused for over 30 years. I said I was planning to sell them on Craigslist and she said, "No you're not! I want them!" Wow! Getting rid of cubic footage AND gleaning some $$$ at the same time! (Still have to find the casserole, but I took her the soup tureen with ceramic ladle and the bowl and pitcher last Wednesday while Jeri waited in the car.) Been getting some small items (bagged over a week or so as I find them) dropped off at Goodwill, especially while Tom was in hospital in Dover and I had to drive right past. Also have been giving stuff to friends lately -- a bunch of shortbread molds and cookie stamps (keeping my 2 faves), scarves, books, and last night a snow globe of a woman reclining in a bath tub with a glass of wine at hand. (Cute kitsch; got it for a nickel at a yardsale; don't need it cluttering the bathroom shelf anymore.) Also doing daily de-cluttering of the woodpile, but I don't think that counts. If I finally get Christmas presents mailed, does that count as de-cluttering? Felt so un-Christmassy and stressed this year that only my SS gift got mailed. Speaking of de-cluttering the woodpile, need to bring some more in and then wake Tom from his nap. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 06 Feb 10 - 01:42 PM I got a large load of clothes together for Goodwill, but haven't had time to take them over. RE Scarves - I love scarves and have a ton of them. Some are pretty but I never wear them for one reason or another - don't go with anything, etc. I can't bring myself to part with them. However, I often see scarves I want to buy, but then tell myself I've got too many already. Maybe if I resolve to give away a certain number of the ones I don't wear, I can promise to allow myself to buy a new scarf - one new one for five old ones? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:44 PM I think perhaps we DO need an aches and pains thread, where spirituality stuff can weave through if it wants. My son was in the ER this morning with a bad stomach ache, it might be appendicitis, we'll wait 24 hours to see if we will take him down for the surgery. But I'm not going to share any more of that here, because this is the de-clutter thread, not the surgery speculation thread. It was kind of an organic migration of things before when Michelle got sick, but this is just too confusing for more casual de-clutters to sort through. This afternoon I need to go through papers on my big dining table (in the living room) and file all of the ones we've finished with for my son's college applications and give him a list of the stuff he needs to finish. Since he's back at his dad's house now, he can write an essay. And I'll finish some paperwork and get things mailed. I am planning to have my dining room table cleared of these papers this weekend. I can set up a smaller file thing (you know--those desktop stands with thick wire dividers that you can set folders upright in). Once that table is clear, I'll work on the shelving next to it and put some table setting stuff nearby. So far the upper open part of it is full of collectibles, but there are cupboards down below that don't have much in them. I could put some china in there, for example, and empty one of the trunks in the front room that way. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:59 PM Just went hunting for the hot chocolate mix (which I couldn't find this morning) in the difficult to access cupboard behind and above the dishwasher. Not only found it (!) but decided to clean out the top two shelves which are almost impossible to get at. Dragged the step stool over and proceeded to clean it out. Yikes! Stuff that hasn't been touched in YEARS! Threw a lot of it out. One container will be cleaned and Goodwilled (unless I decide to keep the beach glass in there instead of the container it's in now). The ashtrays go, too, except for the cool one with Queen Victoria on it -- a new place on his nightstand for Tom to toss pocket stuff. Haven't needed (thank goodness!) ashtrays since I've not allowed smoking in the house for years. (And now Tom's quit for good, too.) After I scrub those shelves again, I've got a place to store other items not often used (but can't bear to part with yet) and thus have some more room in the lower shelves of the hutch. Got some rearranging to do -- and prolly more decluttering. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM Here is an aches and pains thread, to let folks working through some of this stuff share their remarks without having to trip over the boxes left in the hall by de-clutterers. I've started by adding a little more info about the kiddo. Michelle has made some great progress through all of this, but it must feel just a little odd at times to post the news about surgical staples falling out following a description of the stuff someone has discarded from a hall cupboard. And Michelle, as you feel better, we expect you back over here with your cleaning and redecorating (remember when you were redecorating last summer?) and such. This is kind of the same as what is going on with maeve, the recovery of her homestead is so much bigger than de-cluttering that it really needs a place of its own, the way it's set up now. The sun is out, my yard is a mess of leaves plastered on the turf. I suppose if I was really organized today I'd put fuel in the mower and mulch those leaves. But I think I'll start with taking the last of the xmas lights out of the Italian cypress in the front. Table clearing and cupboard stuff can take place once the sun is down. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM Isn't it astonishing what you can find on forgotten shelves like that? I've evicted some really really old (but not collectible old) spices and such that way. And when you look at the medicine cabinet after a long time, it can be a real eye-opener, what has been sitting there getting old (and did you not buy a new bottle of whatever because you know you have a perfectly good one at home). Updating is not only good, it can be healthy. I took a quick spin around the back yard to see what needs doing back there. Police the grounds and mowing, but I am pleased to report that the Japanese flowering quince thinks it is spring already--it is covered with buds. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM SRS, As you know I value your leadership, but I wish you had waited for a good night's sleep (mine) before you went ahead. As I posted earlier, part of decluts goals for ME is fewer threads, more PMs. Anyone with whom I have been exchanging contact in this thread is welcome to move any of those talks offthread into PMs, but reconfiguring any of it NOW is an additional barrier for me here, and some thread-participants have put themselves out of my "hoop" until they clear up some issues they have caused with me. One thread that IS (already) open is the "Small Strokes" thread where a few of us have been exchanging thoughts; some additional chat occurs on that topic offthread.... I'm going to put a Sjogren's item there which actually fits any kind of memory issues, and sleep issues, if anyone with those wants to join that discussion. SRS, I will say tho that this division of topics sounds like more-Catting, not less-Catting... and in the direction of more-cluts, not less-cluts. It "thinks" like that, but it "feels" very strongly like control and boundary issues.... I hear a sucking sound in the background, to which I suspect some folks in this thread will relate. Please give that some thought. I continue to enjoy our PMs and their thought-provoking, respectful mode of discussion. It's part of what I so respect about your leadership. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:00 PM Here's an example of the integration between issues that I think is healthy and that, for me, is part of decluts. With only 3 hours sleep-- not, usually a good start for me due to health issues-- I sorted thru a huge stack of our songbook players' books Hardi found all over the house, to annotate with to-do tasks on their way to our new music librarian who also, I believe, will find the found books themselves a HUGE and immediate help in his own new-instrument-learning. === That could go, in pieces, in at least 7 specific, existing threads I have in mind-- 7 different threads. Or it could have been expanded so as to be OF USE TO ME, right in the one series of declut threads I was already tracing. I do not need a personal page clutted with traces I forget to go see. See? === What is also more-cluts in trend IMHO is that people have added support-exchange, here-- to what started as a tracking program for each's own use. All that said, these remarks are intended to be DESCRIPTIVE, not PEJORATIVE. But W Y S I W Y G . ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:19 PM There's trace and untrace, that's all I can offer. I don't read all of the threads so I haven't seen the strokes one. Following threads is out of interest, not obligation, here at Mudcat. Okay--out the door, I need to get that tree disentangled from a lot of mini lights. I should probably take the step ladder because I think I used it to put them up. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:22 PM Unfortunately, about two weeks ago I did the annual declutter of my medicine cabinet and, convinced that I would not get my annual January cold as it was almost February, I didn't replace the old OTC meds. How's that for a run on sentence? So I caught the cold and suffer less than quietly when I could have been sleeping peacefully with the aid of outdated Nyquil. But my medicine cabinet is organized. LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 10 - 05:22 PM SRS, I do not expect you to solve the issue-- I know it's "my" issue. Just pls "see" the issue so you can include it in your excellent leadership's thinking, is all I was asking. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 10 - 08:12 PM Mary, there has been one of those really long-drug-out colds going around. I had one that killed most of my December. I'm sure it resulted in my paying more for the holiday than I planned because I just bought some things I would have shopped for more carefully or made myself. All of the holiday lights are now at least inside the house. And the extension cords. It's cold out, so I left the cords on the floor where they can warm up and will be more supple to loop and hang up in their regular place (these are the thick orange ones). And I've checked out the phone wire in the kitchen. I need to replace a couple more lines to rooms before I'm finished and can maybe switch to the cable company for my phone coverage. If a tiny bundle (Internet and phone) will make them happy so they'll give me a low rate for a long time, then I'll consider it. The AT&T phone sounds like crap right now, and gets worse every time it rains. My next door neighbor has the whole big bundle and says the phone sounds great. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 06 Feb 10 - 08:27 PM One of the items on the tippy top shelf was an unopened bag (safely ensconced in a Zip-Loc bag so still probably usable) of wallpaper paste. It had a Rich's price tag on it -- Rich's went bankrupt and closed all its New England stores early in 1996. Time flies... Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 06 Feb 10 - 11:13 PM I have tasted gravies that I suspected were made with wallpaper paste just never really believed anone cooked with the stuff. So...recipes, Linn? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:40 AM A daily declut of the mind has been co-counseling sessions rather creatively managed, since trained co-counselors in this necka the woods are scare to nil, and this is not a good time to train one-- I used to teach the classes and it's fairly easily done. I do have one "learner" started at the pool, which is a great place, for me, for sessions on one particular set of topics; outside of that narrow area I have to be creative. And I finally figgered out how to do THAT so it works in this normatively-isolated clergy lifestyle. It's been working very well for more than the last 30 days, so a new goal to track is the daily habit of 5-30 minutes of taking out THAT old trash. === Hardi will be away for several days, so there will be time and focus possible on some downstairs tasks. === Upstairs tasks also can probably proceed, during that time as well, if I can remember to ask him to carry up the card table he fixed, before he splits. === Last night before church the Band met, and did a HUGE declut of old songbook insertions, sorted old players' book to start giving a set to our newest member (and a big thanks to LF for taking on one of HIS old jobs-- she's a superb greeter even from a comfy chair and I'll move the set of people's books to her chair area-- no wait! We have a new sexton that can do that!!!)... The new Band member is a developmentally disabled, middle-aged adult. We had a SUPERB group conversaton about how that has notherng whatever to do with his Band role, becuase ALL people can play MUSIC, and about how important it is for us to be clear and vocal about that. He was a full and beaming participant in that conversation and well able to tend the boundaries of what he is willing to do with us.... he experiences us as a place to do more than "family" can relax about. === Last night I also declutted several lay ministries I've outgrown, by soliciting volunteers who WANT to do them-- BIG success there with a long-pending new item getting off the ground as well. === I declutted my personal life early this AM when I awoke too early-- a local gal who makes jewelry has agreed to tutor me. She started in email by asking me what I wanted to learn. I am a self-directed learner, lifeloing, but no one's ever asked me that-- everything else I have learned, I had to set up my own study plan. She took charge, so now I do not have to! Yay! I get to show up for LESSONS, and take home skills and ways to have FUN. She is also forming classes and groups, so I requested one with all-strangers so I can meet some NEW PEOPLE who live far outside the "ministry fishbowl" we clergy spouses talk about when we actually find 5 minutes at major events to connect. So this is a long-overdue action on a longstanding goal, YAY. === I declutted a clusterf*cked, proliferating personal conflict by consulting with a trusted Mudcatter privately who gave his usual brief and stellar advice that will work because he actually KNOWS ME. I referred the matters that are others' potential AFGOs to their supervisor. There is one person left in that group to whom I am contemplating a PM, as PMs with her have generally gone quite well IMO. There is a very funny personal story from HS that goes with this one. === Animaterra-- in the last week or two, I decluttered a church-related conflict similarly t the point just prev.. I headed another one off. I nudged another one toward health in the baby steps THAT one requires. I degoofed some boundary issues with one of the folks who is caught up in another one; this clusterf*ck includes the "consultant" they'd chosen (who'd promptly got himself stuck in it). I presided over another one's resolution. (These things do not take a lot of time when one holds the correct tool for the job.) === Oh and I figgered out why I was suddenly SO THIRST ydy and SO AWAKE on only 3 hours' sleep. I discovered how much "juice" is in hot chocolate, which I had WAY overindulged (sugar free). Since I had so much awake time on my hands, I simply put it to use and got caught up on a LOT of stuff hanging fire (another normative part of fishbowl life). ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:55 AM PS, one home-office-kitch shelf-ful sorted, shelf lined, sinkside drip drainer reinvented. === Four MP3 recorders charged (contents stowed for processing). === ANimaterra-- The caution-point now is to go toward the fun and avoid filling time with another big project-- keep the baby steps on the other balls in the air. And catch up on that hated task: correspondence. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:00 AM Duh, PPS-- I decluttered TIME by discovering and USING new settings on my cell phone alarms, to portion off the days into ships' bells or monastic bells if you prefer). ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:24 AM 2 loads laundry done, still editing and publishing videos from Lower Stoke (see lower coke thread), onto my you tube. Made 7 more fairies today. Walked my Mamma (over the phone) through setting up Skype. And we skyped yesterday as the snow fell in my home town of Hopewell VA. Spent some time on facebook posting up some pics of head dresses and fairies. Also searched for and poked some old high school mates on facebook. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:27 AM I have teamed up with a buddy to lose 12 to 15 lbs by mid June, when we plan to go for a weekend to the beach. I don't have a reliable scale so I'll get my starting weight at the gym when I can get dug out from all this snow. Spark People has a very useful tool for tracking calories (also protein, carbs, etc.) and I plan to use it. I do okay during the day, but get serious 'munchies' attacks at night. As soon as I can get to the store I'll pick up some permissable snacks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:50 AM Hey Mary, Munchies at night are OK as long as you plan for them. If you know your body is hungry (and not just wanting snacks as a habit) at a certain time of day, you just make sure you alot calories/points (or whatever) so that your nighttime snacks are not only OK but a necessary part of getting in the calories and nutrients you need. :) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:51 AM I use the The Daily Plate for tracking calories..... when I remember. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:18 PM In agreement with LF's post: HUZZAH and HEAR-HEAR!!! Also true in sports nutrition, plus never forget recovery calories (sm bowl of cereal sz). If you skip them you get major hungries later when you are tired enough to overeat as comfort food. This is well known in the sports nutrition field, tho I did summarize it pretty tightly, there. When Search here goes back to working you will be able to find many posts of mine about mini-meals (which is the best known way to make metabolism work for just about everyone). But the posts have tips about how to do them. === Another really important declut for me is being able to function, after decades otherwise, on very short sleep. Yeah. So I have been actually enjoying this few days' sleep disturbance, and that is VERY cool.... Fixing a longstanding vision issue turned out to change my brain function, totally. That plus how cold it's been-- well, adding in the stimulants from chocolate, and the need to keep moving to stay warm-- well I did get a lot done, din I? :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:28 PM I was sending a PM to John Hardly this morning (an embarrassing photo of my long-suffering pit bull in a jersey dog jacket in our very cold weather last month) and all of a sudden a file started downloading and opening in Adobe Acrobat. I told it not to, and kept refusing the file, but it still managed to get in and reset several values and try to write to the registry. I set up Spybot to search it out and refused to follow the bait as it tried to tell me that Windows wanted me to do this. The misspellings in the instructions of the dialog box were a clue, along with my not initiating it. I have the scan running now in the Microsoft antivirus program that didn't notice this thing. Thank goodness for Bill D's Winpatrol and for Spybot. But I am going to do a system restore and I may put AVG back in. It doesn't play nicely with IE, but it does a better job of noticing this stuff. So, I'm waiting on that and the work I have to finish on that computer. I might as well work on rewiring the last two phone lines, and be ready to switch to the cable company for my phone service for a while. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:17 PM I prefer Google Chrome to IE. It doesn't give me any probs, except with forms on some websites. I have also bought McAfee, because I will have VPN on laptop so I can access my stuff at work. McAfee is required. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:55 PM I wasn't using IE when this happened, I was using Firefox. It took a couple of hours and I did system restore to put my settings back; I didn't want to turn off the computer before system restore for fear whatever bug got in there might write itself to the registry. Back to work, now that I think (hope!) I've recovered from that assault. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 10 - 04:31 PM I am decluttering the data from the hard drive that is now in an enclosure. I took it out of the CPU (it was the original hard drive in the computer) and moved it over and put in a larger faster hard drive. So after copying data over it was a defacto backup. But now it is old and out of date and doesn't need duplicate operating system stuff, so I'm emptying it out and going to use it for a backup of the current main hard drive. Also getting ready to run out to mail payments on a couple of bills and pick up some groceries. Chicken and broccoli over rice tonight, I think. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 07 Feb 10 - 04:49 PM We went grocery shopping today. Pete carried everything in and I put most of it away. He cleaned out the fridge. We make a great team! One load of laundry is going and I've hand washed my compression stockings which are now hung to dry. I'm off to my recliner to read or sleep, whichever comes first! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 07 Feb 10 - 05:25 PM Forgot to mention that in the midst of the enormous declutter at work (Essex County Council is undergoing transformation decode= selling off services to private companies) The leader of the council Lord Hanningfield decluttered himself out of a job. Charged expenses peer Lord Hanningfield quits council tam .... doing happy dance |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 07 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM [clapping time for you Tam] LF, good effort! Felt good I bet. Rest after-- so smart (I told ya so, nyah nyah) Fr. Cootie+ glad you liked chair. We gotta abbrv that name to Fr CS. No Sunday folks thought a thing about the chair move. Now I can add a second comfy one too. SRS, I'm running free Avast while still letting Symantec scan automatically. Sleep deprived-- lost track of the rest of you. Remember: any movement away from clutter is progress, even if it looks small in the one-day-view mode. Tonight is sleep night, early. Soon. Let Ratched out if she hasn't chewed thru the restraints yet. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 07 Feb 10 - 07:06 PM WYS:The caution-point now is to go toward the fun My late mother-in-law, who I am sad never to have met, was by all accounts a very wise woman (Sometimes I think that, even on "the other side" she hand-picked me (with help from my late SO) to be able to cherish and appreciate her multi-faceted Aspergery son). One of her wise sayings, closing phone conversations and the like was: "Oh, and don't forget to have fun!" She said that if you weren't having fun, you did yourself and those around you a great disservice! Lovely LilyF, from church and the comfy chair (why does Monty Python and the Spanish Inquisition pop into my mind just now?!), to groceries and laundry and more comfy chair- good for you! I was briefly at a contra dance today where a stunningly beautiful woman with a lovely scarf wound around her head was dancing every other dance, stopping and resting when needed, tenderly treated by her partners and others- she was clearly taking steps to have fun and enjoy life despite the big setback she was also dealing with. VTam and Stilly, not much to say but: yay! We had a committee meeting at the house this morning and you know what that means: yes! The floor is clean, the surfaces are clean, the furniture is free of books and instruments and debris, and for a few days I will enjoy a relatively clutter-free environment! AND DH wants to invite some friends for dinner later in the week, so it may last awhile! AND our hired hand arrives at 8:30 tmw am so the upstairs work will continue! See? Having fun! Meanwhile I finishd the "Afghans for Afghans" sweater and will start a simple neck-warmer for self until I can get to my local yarn store to stock up on some sweet, soft, lovely yarn for another little project I have in mind... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:56 PM I have a dense set of files deleting from the old hard drive. I don't know why these are so difficult to remove, but once they're gone, I'll use this drive for a full backup. I'll probably set it up to do the backup after I head to bed. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 08 Feb 10 - 09:20 AM Well, I'm back here on the sofa for another 2 weeks... decluttering has come to a halt, but I'm trying to keep a lid on the mess... did manage to get Manitas to move the allegedly pot grown Christmas tree into the garden where it may get colder but it will at least be watered more often than the dining room... it may survive - it may not. I found out it was double potted so the water in the tray wasn't actually getting to the root ball or soil in any quantity... poor tree. May have a bash at vacuuming up the needles it left behind later, but a walk up the road to the doctors and the purchase of some organic comestibles has wiped me out again. Have been busy sewing for other people again, maybe in the next week or so I can sew for myself for a while, and declutter the shelves behind me where all my projects are "resting".... and providing warm, soft spots for the cats who don't appear to mind sitting on 3" quilt pins. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 08 Feb 10 - 09:42 AM I spent a little bit of time this morning finding my kitchen counter. It seems to disappear every now and then but I am happy to say, it is now clean and clear the way I like it! I also did a load of laundry....all large pieces of polar fleece. When they were dry, I went around the living room removing the polar fleece that covers each chair, fluffed the pillows, Febreezed everything and put the new, still warm from the dryer pieces of polar fleece on each chair. We have animals here and they love to sit with us...so I am in love with polar fleece which not only protects my furniture but it's warm and soft to sit on plus it washes like a dream. Easy care. LOVE IT. Let's see. I also got rid of a large basket of dead flowers (except for the pink carnations which I pulled out and put in a vase) and am using the basket to hold ALL of my meds. Pretty, organized and the basket is special to me. I'm tired already. Too bad for me as I have an appointment at 11:00 and then my Subaru is going in the shop for a recall issue and an oil change. I can sleep while the car is in the shop if need be. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 08 Feb 10 - 09:44 AM Back at work this morning after spending most of the weekend asleep either in bed or on the couch. The remnants of my cold hang on and several people at work are less than happy with me - they too spent the weekend on the couch. Horrible how these sealed buildings spread crud. But I got some laundry done and the dishwasher emptied and re-filled. House is almost orderly. Maybe tonight I will have the energy to attack the treadmill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Feb 10 - 10:32 AM LF, we snatched some cheap polar fleece after-Xmas at Walliworld, and use it the same way. I'm sure you remember Isius' stunning eyes in white fur. She's sunning on another piece the SPCA freebie-mailed us, in the LR picture window. They seem to reflect kitteh-heat back up into their tummies, don't they. === Nine hours' blessed sleep, just starting to wear off ("up" since 8). Sunshine, time, and space at my disposal. What to do...... so many choices. === AniAllie-- A Funster replied to me this AM on a plan to move a plan forward. Another "fun" thing I availed myself of this AM was a home-childbirth educator who happened to make a request on FreeCycle today. I have things she can use, so I offered those right back at her. It may mean, also, some new non-parish volunteer opportunities. I miss the midnight drives to play a small part in LIFE coming forth... I had just completed an email about some fairly difficult church-growth and church-death issues, and the very next email in my inbox was the LIFE reminder. I'm working on organizing the "last" detail of the home office later today-- the "work in progress" cubbies that hold stuff not specifically "deadlined." Doing that will make it very, very simple to see and maintain the priorities. Some folks use categories like "To do," "to read," "to mail" for their desktop boxes? Mine will have slightly different headings, something like "For God," "For Susan," "For Money," etc.-- mini-departments in the office, each with their own dedicated space and cubbies-in/out boxes. A lot to think about in my sunny and temporarily warm office, which has been prestocked this time with more than a day's groceries and a REAL BAD Mudcat connection where MudCatting is so much... LESS. Oh!!! I gotta remember THIS one-- I have 3 huge standable panels stored at the church to bring home!!!! They are bulletin-board material that can be wall- or booth-configured! And I need tack space up there!!!! Whoo HOO! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:54 PM Ok... lesson learned... do NOT skip amytriptyline 3 nights in a row. Rough rough night. Waking every hour and wandering about until palpitations stopped. Dinner was processed food (fresh tomato/mozzarella pasta parcels and asparagus, petit pois cream sauce) and though not really high in salt, more so than I could take. I did drink more water yesterday, so the bladder was on full alert all night too. These things gang up on you, I guess. Just cleaned up the spare room, so it is ready for TSO's son, should he stop by on his visit in town. Cleaned up lounge and sorted the recycling. Kitchen is clean and one load laundry washin now. Should vacuum, but cannot be bothered. Hugs to all my sisters of da thread. yawn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:02 PM Computer declutter has moved to computer dementia. XP isn't repairing itself nicely, so if this latest try doesn't work, I'll pick up Win7 at work tomorrow and upgrade. Probably time to do that anyway. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM I declutted the one holdup blocking several HUGE projects-- some of them potentially very lucrative. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 08 Feb 10 - 04:04 PM One wall up!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Feb 10 - 04:16 PM ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:19 PM I understand that "Pollyannas" can be annoying, but I just have to say-- I had a great day today, and nothing special happened. We've got 10-inches of snow coming our way, so I got out early and bought bread & milk, and topped off my gas tank. Since then, I've been at home, just hanging out here, "fat, dumb & happy" like my old boss used to say. I said (to nobody in particular) "Bring on the snow. I'm just happy to be alive today". No stupid snowstorm is going to mess that up. I've got food and firewood, and I don't have to go anywhere. That being said, I put a lot of miles on my washer/dryer today-- 3 loads and more to go. Also decluttered my refrigerator; a few things went past their prime while I was sick, and a container of fresh pineapple fermented (unless somebody has a recipe for fermented pineapple, ha-ha). Oh, and there's a trip to Ireland on the near horizon. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:06 AM It's snowing here, big flakes at the moment coming down fairly rapidly....but oh so pretty! Pete took the day off as the roads are bad and he has a long drive. I am going to go through all my new caps today. Each one is in a ziploc bag and I am going to sort them all out. Some of cotton caps, great for inside or sleeping, some are flannel for sleeping, some are heavier for outside and then there are sun hats and kerchief kinds that tie behind the head for home or public....I just want them all sorted...so that's my plan for this morning! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maeve Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:48 AM I've packed up several things to return to their donors. If we're not using it, we want it out of the apartment. Listening to an old friend this morning- the Archie Fisher cd I had loaned to a friend before the fire. Lots of laundry yet to do, if I can muster the energy and quarters to haul it all down the street and back. maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:07 AM OMGosh!!!! There is a clear table top in my kitchen!!!! Who knew?!!??!!? WHew. I finally sorted through all the stuff on the table and got rid of about 90% of it. Hats are all sorted too. Now to find a place to keep them handy for daily use........ Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:38 AM They make some neat cap racks that can be hung over a closet door. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:39 AM Like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Overdoor-Cap-Hat-Organizer-Rack-Holds-24-Hats_W0QQitemZ270529140279QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?has |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Feb 10 - 11:58 AM The last 24 hours have been complex and rough. Yesterday morning I told my daughter by email (because she was either in class or was asleep) that I was going to take the cat to be euthanized. I told my son at breakfast that I had decided to do this, but I didn't say when. After taking him to school I decided that I needed to do it then, because the cat was due another IV treatment and it was such an awful thing for him. If we did it twice a week he would have a couple of good days and then a day or two of loud whining meowing. I couldn't stand it and he wasn't happy, so I loaded the cat, the extra food, litter, and the unused IV bag and took them all down the the Humane Society. I didn't bring him home to bury--I did with the cat last year, but I don't think that made anyone feel better, I think that just dragged it out longer. But what I saw that time was that in death she looked like her "old self," something she hadn't experienced for months. And it was going to be the same with this one. So I've been clearing out the cat box (for the first time in weeks my laundry room and kitchen don't smell like the acrid diarrhea smell of a sick cat, and even if he had buried it, it was so strong I was scooping several times a day) and vacuuming and washing hairy rugs and towels. I'll dismantle cat window seats and remove trunks and boxes that have been human tripping hazards that were put in place so this old cat could get up on the bed and up on window seats and chairs. I'm out of the cat business. All things considered, the last two years of cats have been expensive and miserable. In both cases we probably kept the cat alive longer than we should, because no one was happy with the way they felt. And all of this time, the dogs have been second class citizens, rarely coming in the house and only after an elaborate roundup to get the cats out of the way. I can now again have houseplants that the cats won't destroy or poison themselves with. I can start my spring seeds in the window without them stepping on, peeing on, or eating them. I can leave clothing out and not have it covered in cat hair. I won't get bit if I step on a tail. I can just open a window to let in fresh air and not check to be sure it is not open so far a cat won't get out or that the screen is sturdy enough to keep them in. I will miss the companionship of young healthy cats, and their playful antics, but it has been so long since I've seen those that this break is welcome. The last two years I've been a hostage to my own decisions to keep these animals, so I actually feel liberated in a sad sort of way. My son came in yesterday and I hadn't said anything when I picked him up after school because I didn't want to make his guitar lesson difficult to get through. He saw the changes immediately (I'd taken down the barrier into the front room with the carpet--we can finally go in there without moving this thing out of the way that was up to keep cats from peeing in the corners) and I simply told him I took the cat down that day. He hasn't spoken to me since and I gave him dinner in his room. I'm going to have to write a blog examining the life and decline of pets, and post some happy expressions and the late-in-life expressions when they won't meet your eyes and just want to sleep or crawl into a corner to die. I'll have to let him discover this to understand, because he doesn't want to hear what I have to tell him in so many spoken words. All of this makes rebuilding the computer seem tame by comparison. I found all of my old files, so I'm set. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:23 PM (((SRS))) If it's any help-- my mom did something similar when I was an age like your sons. For a long time, although I knew right away she had some the right and grownup thing, I ached with regrets and resentment that she had not TOLD me, even tho I really did know it was right that she had not. Within a few months all the resentments were gone and only the joy of the critters remained. Forty years later all I feel is wanting to be as smart as she was, and as compassionate, toward not only the critters but to my "kids." So-- GOODONYA. === I declutted Lent. I declutted my marriage. I declutted my daily co-counseling program. In all 3 cases, note that I declutted them so they'd work better-- I didn't toss 'em out!! :~) Ditto, Prayer Chain. === In the past week I declutted brain chemicals. Last night I took a step toward decluttering the DAILY meds-- a great night's sleep, med-free (!!!), now that vision issues do not make my strokebrain crash and burn like a bad HD. I awoke ready to take BIG next steps (we creep and then we leap), and took them. [dusting off hands of stuff that fell off of stuff others'd put into them by mistake] === Sent a pile of pix to HD and a small subset (office pix next) to a good friend. Folders well set up to continue. === I declutted the annual website-maint thing I do, into something I CAN do-- not less but more, but set up so it works for ME. === I am just about ready to declut/"redecorate" an old family relationship that shattered when strokebrain could not sustain it. === When I go back dnstrs I'll declut a spiral ham. Ydy I finally finished the kitchen declut Hard was not able to help finish after the Meat Sale. === I put new (NEW!!!) (!P!r!e!t!t!y!) curtains over the dnstrs kitchen sink. They hold heat, reflect bright (FS) light from overhead while I wash dishes in winter, create privacy when I am home alone, and will-- when Hardi helps me put them back up in a mo'-- leave the sill accessible. And they are all-cotton easy-care NEW, did I mention, STOREBOUGHT instead of made from garbage! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:39 PM SRS, I have four cats and I love them dearly. I also can not have carpeting, clean the bathtub daily because Alice prefers it to the litter box, clean the litter box and basement floor daily because Ed prefers the basement floor. They snarl, spit and fight constantly. Each has rituals to start and end the day and it takes me an extra half hour in the morning to get dressed or I come home to cat vomit. Like I said, I love them dearly and enjoy the nighttime cuddles. But I loof forward to a day when I am down to one "normal" cat and a life. And then none. I keep telling thm I am going to replace them with a goldfish and if he is a problem I will flush him. Keeping an unhappy pet alive out of guilt is just wrong. He was suffering and so were you. I wish the same end were available to us when illness and pain can not be cured or relieved. You did the right thing. Your son will see that in time, maybe when he has to make the same decision. RIP, Kitty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:49 PM ((((((SRS))))))))) Putting an animal down is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life....my head knew it was the right thing and my beloved dog's eyes let me know it was the right thing....but my heart.....it was so hard. I imagine it was much the same for you. Once your son understands it was done out of love for your cat, he'll come around. (((((((((((((Much love and many hugs)))))))))) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Maryrrf Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:15 PM SRS - I had to put my beloved dog down in May so I know how it feels. She'd been going downhill and as she aged things got difficult - lots of accidents and such. There was absolutely no doubt that it was the right thing to do but it was so hard and I still miss her. It sounds like your son is grieving and still has to come to terms with what happened - at some level he knows you did the right thing and will soon come to realize it, when he has worked through his sadness. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:46 PM So sorry to hear about your cat, Maggie. You tried valiantly to keep her going, but in the end, you did the right thing to let her go. Your son is upset, of course, but he surely knows that it was inevitable. He'll come around. You did good. (((SRS))), Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 10 Feb 10 - 01:55 PM Oh Maggie! So hard to do what you did. I had the same decision to make re a dog who had been with us 15 years. He was in pain and was not enjoying his life. I think I was more heartbroken then anyone when it came down to it and I had never wanted the dog. Like everyone says here, your son will come around and understand that it is cruel to keep ailing pets alive, if you cannot ease the suffering. I agree that humans should be give the same consideration. I certainly don't want to linger. Sorry I have no 'nergy to contribute more to others in this thread. Tam needs a spiritual and mental declut now. Utterly wiped out! Hugs you all.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Feb 10 - 02:04 PM I think the trick is to write a blog message, keep it short paragraphs, descriptions, a few photos, and let them "discover" it through facebook. Give them that perspective that I would share in a blog and maybe it will help. I've been reconstructing some files that were missing for a few days and a co-worker just called me about one I missed that needs urgent attention. ARrrrgghhh! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 10 - 02:29 PM I decluttered my member-name. :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 02:46 PM My Ed is fifteen and getting on in years - arthritic and more than a bit demanding and strange. So far he is not hurting but I am dreading the day. Kendall has a beautiful poem called The Rainbow Bridge. If I can unearth it for your son, I will. He needs to grieve in his own way. The blog sounds like a good idea. Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 10 Feb 10 - 02:58 PM Susan, you're making me nervous. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 10 Feb 10 - 03:48 PM (((((MAGGIE))))) wiser words have said what I would also say. Love to you and your family. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 10 Feb 10 - 04:00 PM Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... Author unknown... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: ragdall Date: 10 Feb 10 - 04:17 PM ((((((((SRS))))))))) Euthanizing your beloved cat was not only a kindness, it was necessary. I kept a diabetic cat going for two years on insulin, fed him tinned food processed in a blender every two hours, cleaned up his "accidents" and followed him around if he went outdoors because he couldn't see much or hear at all. Through it all he was loving and cooperative so I carried on. One day I realized that I was keeping him alive for my selfish reason, not for his benefit. I made the phone call and did what had to be done. It broke my heart but I had the peace afterwards of knowing that I did the right thing. I was fortunate that my two boys who grew up with the cat were both married and living far away at the time and my husband was out of town so I didn't have to discuss my decision with anyone beforehand or I may not have been able to go through with it. I hope that your son will understand someday. It may not happen until he is placed in a similar position himself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM Actually, I've always thought the Rainbow Bridge concept was pretty hokey. Sorry, but it sounds like a Hallmark card. I do like the saying "if there aren't dogs in Heaven I don't want to go there," but I don't believe in Heaven, either. I think simply understanding that the animal is no longer in pain, kept here because we're trying to spare ourselves the heartbreak of losing it, is the best I can hope for for all of us. We have to move past this fear of our heartbreak to spare our pets more pain. I agree, he may not understand any time soon, but he's smart, and he'll eventually figure it out. The house is incredibly quiet, especially because over this last year the cat got progressivly noisier with his loud complaining. My nerves need a rest. If you've been jolted awake a couple of times a night by that loud Siamese howl, then you know how hard it is to deal with. I'm trying to sort out my computer files and get caught up on stuff I lost early in the week. Time flies when you have to announce events, and I lost a couple of days. We're possibly going to get some snow overnight. I hope not, because I don't want a snow day tomorrow. There is a talent show at school and my son will be joining some friends in a band, and I'd really like to hear them! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 10 Feb 10 - 06:17 PM Maggie, sorry I am late to this. Of course you did the right thing and your son will eventually understand. Is it possible he is angry about not knowing when and not being there to say goodbye? I've always stayed, petting them and talking to them, as the vet injects the meds. They do always looks so peaceful and relieved. One of them was even purring to me, as if to say Thank You, as she drifted away. I think it is a healthy thing for older children to have that chance. NOT second-guessing you, just thinking of why he is so mad, besides being sad, etc. I used to have all of those problems with cats peeing , barfing, etc. Now we are down to two neutered boys who are an equal match, so they have a kind of peace between them and will even sleep together. AND, they neither one use anything but the litter box. One would prefer the bathtub, but we keep the bathroom door closed. Anyhow {{{{{{{SRS}}}}}} luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Feb 10 - 06:43 PM I'm sure it is the Goodbye he's angry about, but I had to make a decision about when to do it, and couldn't wait until he came home from school for that day. It seemed more important to get it over with before we had to go through another cycle of the IV, or to let him feel worse for another entire day before I took him in. Once you realize the time is here, it's so hard to make them wait. We may get a little snow overnight. Despite the fact that this seems like a colder longer winter than many we've had, I need to keep going in the sun room and get my flats out and seeds planted. My neighbor across the street tells me that if you wait until Easter to plant your tomatoes then you'll have better luck. And last year the ones I planted earlier had to be replaced because they got frost bit and the soil was too cold for them. I'd like to have some bedding plants of various sorts ready in the house this year for planting. I did a couple of big loads of laundry this week, and got caught up on the pots and pans in the kitchen. It's too late to start stew, but I'll have to think of some hearty cold weather dinner for tonight. SRS |
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Subject: Healthy NonReactive&Non-Co=Dependent Kindness From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 10 - 07:17 PM Our dear yoot seldom appreciate all things at the time they occur. No sense trying to pre-judge our own course of action based on fearing how a person "may" react. What needs to be done-- needs to be DONE. THEN you try to do it the best way you know how, and give yerself credit for caring enough to do it AND for trying to do it as "well" as you possibly can. This whole culture IMO is far too reactive (and not values-driven enough by ANY positive values) for its own good. For its own species survival, I mean, in the most practical terms one could imagine. It's also a co-dependent culture, in many ways. It's not "kindness" to act in fear-- it's fear. It's not high moral values-- when it's fear. Kindness can look very different from soft, squishy, over-protective fear. Every kid who was stopped from playing for an unreasonable reason knows the difference between protection and fear-- you can't fool them on THAT one for very long. Each human bean has to live in that reactivity. What is up to us is HOW we live in it. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 10 Feb 10 - 07:20 PM Going alone may have been the better decision, as much as he might feel he was ready to handle it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: ragdall Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:48 PM Is it okay if I just try to declutter? I gave up on becoming fit, years ago. I almost typed "reclutter". I'm afraid that is a more accurate term for my efforts. I move clutter around, and reorganize it but I clutter. Monday was half price day at Value Village. I was proud of myself that I managed to stay away even though I was across the street having my haircut. My mantra is "I don't need any more junk!" I've been building some shelving for the basement under the steps and landing. Three shelves high, three feet long on wheels to roll in and out under landing.The shelves are in place and look neat and tidy with the similarly sized boxes on them, but the rest of the basement is a mess from sorting everything out. The most difficult part comes next, disposing of computers, books, data and peripherals which are all outdated. rags |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:07 PM Those are really nice shelves, rags! For the first time in ages, I did qi gong tonight, plus my walk/step thing outside. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:22 PM Very nice--I like the look of those slats in the shelves. Wasn't it you in the last couple of months who built a similar shelf for a closet? You're very handy! I'm working through software I need to install, and while I was at it, figured out why the speakers weren't working. The system set it to default headphones on the front. Doesn't everyone have speakers coming from the back? That was odd. Haven't messed up the kitchen too much; same son with the broken heart has a headache. I suspect it is more sinus this time. He's soaking in a hot tub and the humidity will probably help. I had a big bowl of soup for dinner and he hasn't had more than a cup of herbal tea. I'm rediscovering a few things around the office as I look for software and cables and such. But I haven't neatened it much. I think this might be an early night for everyone. Tomorrow we might have snow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:42 PM Neat shelves, rags! They remind me of a set my sister made years ago for this one apartment she had-- she did hers all in hand-sawing, and the patterns she followed came in cubes, nifty closet-installations where not one nail went into he wall (for easy take-along when lease ended). They were all in 1 x 3's for easy hand-saw-a-bility. But they were NOT out of the gorgeous wood you used, and are those pins/dowels fastening up the tops or nails or screws or what? They look neat enough to be pegged. Beautiful work. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Feb 10 - 12:42 AM I realized that in order to work on my blog I needed to install a bunch more stuff on the computer. The Microsoft Office suite again, and now the new Adobe software (the CS4 suite--I didn't really want to use this yet, I was just getting good with some aspects of CS3, and I hear that they changed enough things that the new one even stumps old pros). Anyway, once Photoshop is in the computer again and Picasa I can start tracking down my photos and find the right ones to illustrate the comments. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Feb 10 - 05:14 AM Feeling much better today so hopefully I'll be able to do more than clutter up the sofa... depending on how I feel after my 8 mins of yoga (trying to build it up to 30 mins again... 5 is OK, 10 is too much at the moment) I may even get dressed! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Feb 10 - 08:53 PM I had to declutter the driveway of snow this evening to be able to get up the hill and into my garage. That's a first for here in Fort Worth! (Used to shovel snow regularly as a kid, I always kind of liked it, because the neighbors usually gave tips for clearing their sidewalks). I realize the kids in the area don't have the experience to have a good snowball rolling technique to make snow men. I have to clear my front path tomorrow, so I'll probably roll up and down the concrete and pick it up and build one out there. It's rough, but someone has to do it. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:04 PM We declutted the fridge of a spiral ham, now packed in several sauces/sizes. Hardi got me started in the home weight room tonite, working on assessing how much I can lift/reps for a painful shoulder thing I've been dealing with. A touching surprise was the way Faulkner "guarded" me during this-- he's Hardi's dog, really, and he has never guarded me before tho he has volunteered as a service pet for me many times when I'm sore. He kept stopping me (the dog did) to see if I was really OK. I was fine but the solicitude of the dog on top of how lovely was the way Hardi was working with me-- made me cry nice warm tears. Healing in several ways at once. The cool part-- Hardi's tracking this for me on his big chart paper where he tracks HIS stuff, and I asked him not to explain ANY of it to me-- I just get to be the "client" while someone else is the expert. I so rarely get that. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:56 PM I added some more clutter to the house today....3 new books!!!!!! YAY! Meanwhile, there are dishes in the sink, laundry to be put away, blah, blah, blah...I decided it can just WAIT!!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:52 AM I managed to dress, go shopping (although it took twice as long) and stayed vaguely upright and conscious for the rest of the day! That's a first for several weeks now.... I've had to have a nap every other time I've done some major activity (and right now, a potter around the shops counts as major)! Today is another action packed day - a Summons to Limpits' School to discuss her options for future exams, a long piano lesson for her for me to sit through and choir practice with a meeting after tonight. We'll see how tomorrow goes! So.. looks like I'm getting better. Bought myself some new jammies again, these are so spotty and loud, I can barely sleep for the noise. So... hopefully the weekend will see me decluttering the bedroom of unwanted clothes because Manitas is off to buy new drawers. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:38 AM LTS, Glad to hear you are feeling better!!!! Here's to hoping you can take some breaks today!!! When you are done decluttering your bedroom, wanna come do mine? Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:36 AM Liz, Drawers in the US are underwear. Do you simply throw them out and replace them instead of laundering? I like that. Also love the new jammies. Glad to hear you are feeling better. It must be hard on Limpit to have you couch-bound. Yeah SRS. Rainbow Bridge is bit over the top. I prefer Yellow Dog. But it is designed to induce tears and sometimes tears help. Listening to your story of the IVs I have decided that when Ed gets to that point I will end it for him. I don't see him being happy held down for anything. Good grief! How's taht for decluttering? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:04 AM LF, that is WAY too good an idea-- "wanna do mine?" -- I may have to steal that idea, especially as it would involve LtS coming over from Merry Olde England (Catters have been known to do that!)! === SRS, smart-- getting back to decluts in the face of a painful potential distraction. === Animaterra, has the amazing amount of love in your house overflowed into an addition, yet? :~) === Mine: I declutted my LR: I washed filthy dinner-tray tables remaining from the laying of the LR rug several weeks ago, re-allocated some side tables/stools that had gotten stuck in "where do I REALLY go" mode, and removed a large "elephant" that was messing up the place. (I replaced that with a "unicorn.") So now we have a clean place to eat while I decide where the last "to-re-allocate" LR table goes-- my large autoharp-arranging table which may go up to the home office if I can massage a couple of large office items into better spots (that I had contemplated as their original positions and can be easily slid over a tad). ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM SRS, how do you stand the suspense when waiting for an auction to end on ebay? Usually I don't feel too excited, but Rog is decluttering some of his broadcast equipment. One item up now has the potential to raise a lot; used ones like we've listed typically go for at least a grand when bought outright. So, we have 130 page views and 13 watchers and NO bids with it ending in 7 hours. I keep thinking they're all waiting 'til the last minute, then I hope they will all outbid one another.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:15 PM I sell on Ebay, kat and it can be frustrating. So much depends upon the title you use and the opening bid. AND often real bidders wait until the last minute to bid rather than have a newbie come in and up the bid every ten minutes. See how it goes. What is the listing. I will take a look. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:19 PM I haven't had anything up for a while, but I have gotten to where I check periodically but don't hover. Though if it is something big it's fun to watch at the end. I received a call today from the new insurance company. They had a form last week and asked if I had pets. At the time it was one cat and two dogs, now, of course, just two dogs. The guy I've spoken with called, "what kind of dogs?" I don't have papers, they're rescue dogs, but the predominant breeds are pit bull and catahoula. Or American Staffordshire Terrier, to be more accurate, but she could also be part boxer (I had a boxer when I was a kid who was colored much like her, but she had a wider darker muzzle). "Dangerous breeds" send fear into the hearts of insurance companies, but at least this one is willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. They are scheduling an "inside inspection" so they can meet the dogs. And the dogs will love to meet them. But my house--OMG but what a mess lately. So I guess I'd better start picking up around here. Pit bulls get such a bad rap, but if anyone saw this dopey dog out in the back yard chasing snowballs, they'd know she's a sweetheart. And she's such a beautiful athlete, but I had trouble getting her to race across the field of view for the camera; I was throwing then whipping the camera up trying to get a shot. Maybe I should take the tripod out. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:47 PM One room done, second one will at least have a wall by the time DH arrives later this afternoon for her 21st birthday weekend! We had company for dinner last night, so the place doesn't look too bad- downstairs, at least. And the birthday party is Sunday, so it'll start the week looking pretty good! I've finished a sweater and a neckwarmer and now I'm knitting, er, caps. I'm loving checking in and seeing what y'all are up to. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 10 - 04:27 PM I just emptied a bunch of digital photos from the camera, and am happy to say that I did get a few shots of the dog in motion. But she is so intent on catching those snowballs that she looks just a bit demented. This is one area of play in which I can fake out this dog. She's so smart, but hasn't figured out WHY she can't find that ball I threw when she gets to the spot where it landed. So she runs faster the next time. :) Running blankets through the air cycle on the dryer to pull out some of the cat hair before putting them back in storage. I'd set up a couple of window seats for the old guy in the last few weeks, each one with a platform and a folded blanket. I won't miss the cat hair, but I do miss the cat! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: ragdall Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:42 PM LTS, I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better. W.y.s.i.w.y.g., I used flat headed wood screws on the shelves, not dowels, I'm not a masochist, hehehe. They're built along the lines of some shelves that my husband bought for his room. The sizes that I wanted were not available in the premade kits. I'm trying to motivate myself to pull everything out from under the landing, clear out the spider webs,(yuch!), and rearrange thing in such a way that nothing can fall against the shelves and make it difficult to pull them back out again. Last night I started rendering a bag of "beef fat" chunks from the butcher to make suet blocks for my birds. I could only get half of the fat into my pressure cooker at one time so this could be a long process. I cooled everything outdoors last night. Fat rendering will continue today after we return from my university where the undergrad society is hosting a "Winter Carnival", beginning in about 20 minutes. It sounds like fun. Being able to participate in events of this sort are one of the perks of living in a small town. From the invitation from the university president: "there will be free outdoor activities, ice skating, live entertainment, horse-drawn hay rides, hot cocoa and much more." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM Made it through the day in pretty good shape... but tomorrow will tell... even managed to tease the choir master into utter distraction - which is always a plus! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:32 PM Headed out to a village fundraiser supper. I haven't been to one here before, but my next door neighbor gave me a ticket. Nice! When I come back in I'll split my time between picking up in the living and dining rooms and working on eBay stuff. I have several books to list for my son. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:04 AM Supper was nice. This evening I finished wrapping up the strings of holiday lights, around panels of cardboard, for next year. They're back in the closet till next year. There are a couple of bills left to pay this month so I think I'll finish those this evening and be ready for the official weekend with some of my chores out of the way. I can't say I got a lot done today, but enough that I'll start the weekend without as much on my plate as usual. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:16 AM Glad you're feeling well enough to tease, Liz! Maggie, you are such an inspiration. Rags, how was the carnival? Meanwhile, MY Maggie is home, asleep in HER ROOM (as yet unfinished, but there's a WALL up and we vacuumed with the Rainbow vac to get all the dust out, then made up her bed, dragged in a few area rugs, and she's snug as a bug till Monday when the work resumes (and she goes back to college). Today, a mother-daughter-thrift-store-shopping-spree, with a stop at the local food coop for its chocolate tasting! And a visit to a few guitar stores to scope out possible future guitar purchases for the young adult. Last night she and Hunt talked for hours about guitars- he was trying to suss out what exactly she wants in a guitar, what kind of music she likes, what guitar styles she leans toward. Kid's been playing for 7 years but struggled to put it into words. Out came the ipods, and in the course of a couple of hours the 2 of them had it pretty well figured out. Me, I sat and knitted and basked in the love. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:37 AM I went to yoga last night!!! Even better? I DID YOGA LAST NIGHT!!!!!! YAY!!! I emailed my teacher ahead of time that I would be going and asked (since this was a drop in class...Happy Hour Yoga) if we would be doing any gentle yoga. She wrote back saying that she'd incorporate anything into the class that I thought might feel good. I sent her a list! *G* I did maybe 3/4 of the class. Bending for standing forward folds is still out, as are any belly down positions, twists and sun salutations. She did a great job stretching our legs and backs. I did what I could comfortably do (still managed to break a sweat..YAY!!!..that's SO good for me!) and when I tried things that created the sensation of pulling, I stopped. No one said a word, but then again, the idea of yoga is to do what YOU can do...NOT to keep up with everyone in the room! Still...it's hard to make myself stop because I had such a STRONG yoga practice. For now, I'm listening to my body and it was FANTASTIC. I was a bit sore last night, but relaxed when I got home and I was able to sleep. I am not a bit sore this morning. :) I did dishes yesterday for the first time in a month (DH has been doing them) because bending for the dishwasher hurts and my belly sometimes presses on the sink and that bothers my incision. He was happy to come home and not have dishes to do and quite frankly, I was happy to do them!!!! Meds have all been packaged up for the week so I don't have to open 11 bottles each morning and night. My kitchen table is a mess again but it's because I'm working here.....will be emptied later...or not. ;) I don't care either way. I'm surrounded by sleeping dogs and a cat who is farting. How nice is that? EW! LOL Love to all, Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:18 AM Just gave my cocker spaniel half a hair cut. He really needs to go to the groomer but I can't lift him into the car...he'll go to the car, put his paws on the bumper but he can't jump that high. He's really BIG for his breed, weighing in around 45 pounds or so. Anyway, I cut around his face and as much off his body as he would allow....which is fine as I needed to get off of the cold floor! So....he's a little goofy looking but he doesn't seem to mind!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM Michelle, good for you! Resuming normal activities at a measured pace is great! Allison, if paying the bills is inspiring, I can keep you guys going for months to come! ;-) I did some dusting in the bathroom and dressing room this morning, and started moving the clutter off of my dresser. It has looked great for ages, but lately, ended up piled up with stuff. I suppose some is stuff moved there to get it out of the dogs' way when they were in for a few nights last month. I'll keep up the dusting and putting things away. I don't know if an inspector from the insurance company looks at my housekeeping skills, but I know that's all I'll see when he/she is here, so I need to clear out some of the dust and put things where they belong. As the weather gets better here I'll make a point of getting the dog out for a walk each day; that means they're less likely to jump all over the inspector (they love company--an inspector won't have to fear viscious dogs, he'll have to worry about muddy footprints as Poppy jumps and wants to kiss him.) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:08 PM This tread reads reel funy if you think you hit pg UP but you rely hit pg DN. Too many decluts to list now, but this new laptop to try out (used, slow) should create abt a dozen! ~S~ I'm giving up "compulsive" prufrdg for Lent,too, and I'm starting early! BOLO txtx-msg-type posts. If Firefox don't undrscr a wrd red, SCREW IT! :~) PM if you have a burning Q! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:22 PM AT&T is now history. For about $26 a month I had unlimited local calls. Period. If I made a long distance call, my carrier was Sprint, but AT&T charged me $5 to engage it for the month. And then the cost of the long distance, even if it was only a 30 second call to send a fax (the only reason why I use the house phone for long distance--the rest is cell phone). I didn't have call notes or Caller ID. I need to set my phone up so I can see the readout (the date and time are wrong on it) but I do have one phone with that ability. And they do make little boxes. This changeover will happen on Friday and then I'll have unlimited state or national calling and also Canada. So, I can finally call my aunt without jumping through a bunch of hoops or settling the national debt with the phone bill. And I've locked it in for 12 months. I don't want cable, so I can't lock a plan for 2 years, but next year they can expect to be hearing back from me to negotiate this again. So far this year I've changed, electric, phone, and insurance companies (auto and home). I'm tempted to change the bank, but I'll leave that for another day. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:57 PM Amazing how many of my "window treatments" were cat-proof or cat-oriented. I can move a trunk from under my office window now and make a little more room for my desk and to reach the cord and wand for the blinds--I had the truck tucked in with blankets on top. Same in several other rooms. It's nice to have de-cluttered the bills down to one less a month, now that Internet and phone are together. And if these guys don't play nice, I can do the reverse and take the Internet and phone back to the phone company. I need to start cluttering my bank account with some PayPal deposits, that would also help. Kat, did your item sell? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Feb 10 - 05:46 PM Didn't declutter the bedroom drawers, because Manitas didn't buy the new ones.... but I did make some chocolates, watched 2 rugby games and did some good old fashioned mending! Still feel pretty good, although I'm starting to flag at the end of the day. A good long wallow in a lavendar bath has me yawning, but the obscene amounts of food I ate for dinner has me burping... lavendar and garlic are not complimentary scents.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 13 Feb 10 - 08:29 PM Yes, SRS, we've actually had two electronic things sell. The first one, the guy obviously didn't know how to run. He said it didn't work. We just got it back, today. Rog fired it up. I made a video of it working and took some still shots and sent them to the guy. The other item closed last night and the guy paid right after he won, so that's good! So that's two less of Roger's cluttering; they are going out of the house. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:59 PM I'm getting tired of having to reload pages to get messages to post! I'm glad to hear you sold those items! I have three books I've found packaging for that I'll list tomorrow. I try to list things during normal hours when people might be up to bid it up a bit, not late at night. You can pay ten cents more and start the listing when you want, and sometimes I'll do that. I've been on a bit of a Harry Potter binge this evening. I turned on the Chamber of Secrets on TV, but when they cut a whole important scene (for time, one presumes) I got out my DVD to play instead. And now I have the next one on. I'm not much for the early days of the Olympics, and I've seen most of the late Friday and Saturday night mysteries (CSI programs). This will work! I've seen it several times and can treat it like radio and come and go or work and listen and still enjoy the story. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 14 Feb 10 - 06:53 AM so ashamed... i wasted all desteryay on taplop cudmatting and bacefooking. my wrain is basted... going to go make fairies now and do laundry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:11 AM someone pm'd me for links to piccies of the fairies that I make. Hi Animaterra! Here ya go sweetie. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42775227@N08/4356244294/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/42775227@N08/4356241674/in/set-72157623102156568/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/42775227@N08/4229049714/in/set-72157623102156568/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/42775227@N08/4228283901/in/set-72157623102156568/ Time for me to stop using Christmas ribbon and silk roses. I will pull out my other colours to work on now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:30 AM They are wonderful, Miss Tam. These would make a wonderful house warming gift or even a baby gift. Lovely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:37 AM VT: Absolvo te! :~) Cudmatting-- izzat what you sed-- may I steal that one for keeps? Go Tam! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:09 AM not safe for children or mad adults...SINS see the copper pence (same size and US penny) in photo to show size. all wire and beads. They make lovely present and cake decorations though. Susan... yes you may... I am suffering from profound syllable switching in speech lately, so decided to try writing them out too. Maybe it will get speech centre of my brain working correctly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:17 AM I am suffering from profound syllable switching in speech lately, so decided to try writing them out too. Maybe it will get speech centre of my brain working correctly. Maybe it will help you laff about it too, instead of "suffer"ing it. It's the folks around you who have to deal with it, after all, and I say LET THEM. PM 'em too if it's a help or a giggle-- I LIKE them! ~Susan, writing from experience again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:06 AM LOVELY, VT! I esp. love the close-up girl fairy. You may be s"uffering from profound syllable switching in speech lately", but I've got it in my fingers- I type so fast I don't see what I'm typing. My first sentence originally went: "I spe lvoe the clseo-up glri fair." Slow down? Yeah, maybe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:25 AM Besides pulling stuff out of the cupboard above the (non-working) dishwasher and either putting it in the box for Goodwill or just plain throwing the dreck out (why was I KEEPING this stuff?!?), I found that we have way more liqueur glasses than anyone could possibly have a use for. I asked around amongst my friends at The Press Room and actually found someone delighted at the prospect of taking them off our hands. So yesterday I pulled them out (I did reserve a few to keep -- still more than we need, but a bit of variety) and washed them. Didn't actually deliver them because I woke up much too early, never bothered to put my contacts in and, besides, I would have had to redress in "going out" clothes, so my friend will have to wait until next week. Stacked a few more things in the Goodwill box, too, and decluttered a couple magazines and local free papers (and finished a book, which will find a new home after Tom reads it). Despite being very tired all day, I think I accomplished quite a bit. (Including making balsamic/red wine vinaigrette and finishing some laundry, not to mention the usual daily schlepping of firewood.) Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:29 AM And the butterfly! I love the flutterby! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:56 AM Those sweet little fairies also bring smiles to people, like me, who are struggling along!!! They are SO CUTE and mean so much because YOU made them!!!! :) Much love, Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Feb 10 - 10:57 AM Linn, I have a lot of antique wine or cocktail-type glasses that one of these days I'll get into one place and see how many there are. I bought some various small sized wine and liqueur glasses at a local restaurant supply store (I do love those places!) and I use those as my everyday glasses. Computer desk decluttering this morning. Making progress. Had to install another couple of computer programs also. Throwing DRECK out is a good thing. Especially doing it right before trash pickup so you get the visual boost of all of that stuff down at the curb, and then all of that stuff GONE. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:40 AM EUTHANASIA ALERT A FC correspondent with whom we have had several great interactions is badly needing to send a house-kitteh away-- the kitteh is sending the wife to hospital, by causing flare-ups of her auto-immune disease.... at the same time our dear Sam (our last FC-in kitteh) has not healed well from a run-in with big machinery. ... which we all feel strangely good about, as all of the details will dovetail perfectly. No rushing-- they're boarding their departed, while we enjoy a few days with our injured (but not suffering) kitteh, and taking her in due course to the Vet Who Cares. Same vet cares for Mouser-Katy-who-is-coming, and can transfer her health history to our file. We net no interruption in rodentia-protection, 4 happy peeps, and 2 dogs who will share Dog World with fenced-in Katy. Katy gets a cat-door between mouse-ridden bsmt and Dog World. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Feb 10 - 02:01 PM In our locality the Humane Society will perform euthanasia for a donation, they don't have a set price. The vets locally charge up to $75 and then if they dispose of the animal another $50 or so. The Humane Society doesn't charge. I opted not to bring the cat home this time; it was very hard with the other and I found no reassurance knowing she was buried in the yard. I think his spirit has found his way back here anyway, I still tend to avoid trying to trip on him in the usual spots. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 14 Feb 10 - 02:10 PM what butterfly? do you mean the maroon fairy wings? I made load of different colour ones of those. given as gifts and donated to MBSLYNNE and her daughter for fundraising for Alicia. Maggie... I think Susan was pleading for new owner for the kitteh with auto-immune suffering owner. Kitteh will have to be put down if new home not found? Did I get that right? I made 2 maroon and 1 pink fairy today. Very slow going as my hands hurt and can't see very well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM I thought there was a second sick kitty. This is such a hard thing to bring yourself to do, so the information is useful even if it (hopefully) isn't required now. Does anyone else print out the sign-up page with passwords for all of the various online places they visit every so often? I have a notebook of those pages, arranged by groups. Discussions, bill pay, general membership, etc. I updated that today, hole-punched a bunch of pages and put them in alphabetically (though that doesn't always help, because places change their names or I file by site and not program name, etc. But at least if I look long enough I can usually find what I was looking for). Someone came through the neighborhood this morning and cut up a bunch of the broken tree limbs in the yard next door and at the house kitty-corner from me. They don't know who did it, but are glad that someone taken care of it. I called another neighbor to see if it was him--nope--they want to know who to thank, but it is still a mystery. But isn't it nice that there is someone out there doing this for folks? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM Re: Number of euth's-- there will be one, it will be hard, and it's OK that it is hard. It should be. This kitteh will be brought back home-- we live on farm property. === Re: passwords/acct info. We keep a file as an emerg backup (stored offsite) for financial stuff, but I also keep non-financial (like forum) passwords and usernames stored in a hotmail folder with other oddball address info I do not make time to put into Excel. If I "join" something, the confirming email goes into that folder. And, for example, one friend sends boatloads of forwards-- and he's in frail health. I save an occasional one of his fwds with the endless recipient list, in case I ever need to find someone in his circle of friends in a crisis (his). But they're all in a folder stored on the big server in the sky, not where I will lose them in a disk crash or housefire. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:17 PM I keep websites/userids/passwords in a Word document. Started when I was working, because I had a dozen or more to keep track of. Still do it for my personal passwords. Got a lot of laundry done today. Didn't exactly de-clutter, but I straightened up the guest bedroom. That's where I put all the boxes of holiday decorations. They're stored a little better now, and I can move around in the room now. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:03 PM Sum total of bugger all done again today, but I did make a box for my friend's birthday present, which I have to make tomorrow... Had a busy day, starting with church, a little craft shopping, visiting some friends and their babies, playing with a couple of horses they happened to have with them and then home... still getting breathless and a bit light headed now and then, but much improved on the last 3 weeks.. this was my first full day out and busy for a month. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:15 PM Free weights again with Hardi. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:26 PM This afternoon, there gathered in this house: my lovely daughter, my husband and me my wonderful 24 yr old son my 83 yr old mother and her partner my daughter's father (my first husband) and his wife and their 15-yr old foster daughter And all was friendly tranquility and gentle humor, all enjoyed the home-made vegetarian pizza (crust by me, toppings by daughter) and the double-death-by-chocolate cake, and everyone stayed just long enough, left just in time AND my daughter and I did the dishes together. No exercise, no de-cluttering, but a truly beautiful, satisfying day. ...but I think I've topped my chocolate allowance for the year! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:40 PM Went to a session this evening. I counted 9 of us, including some folks we haven't seen in a while (including myself). Lots of tunes & lots of songs towards the end. Lasted from 6pm to about 9-ish. Roads were clear & dry, which helped. Still doing laundry. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Feb 10 - 01:36 AM Sounds like it was a good weekend for folks! I made a big pot roast and will have leftovers for a couple of more meals. My ex came in to eat when he brought our son back from the weekend. So like with Allison, we try for a peaceful co-existence. Kitchen is cleaned up, laundry is done, and I finished one graphic project for work and sent it to my boss for in the morning. It was a weird week last week, with a day+ off for snow. Now we'll have to scramble to get caught up, that's why I did the invitation so early. Plus I needed to give this new software a spin. I can see faux-wood on the computer desk again. This is a good thing! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 15 Feb 10 - 02:56 AM GAWD.... chocolate. I have forgotten what it tastes like... Don't think I have had any in at least a month, maybe 6 weeks. How long since Christmas passed? Well that is not exactly true... when TSO has his 2 snack size packets of Malteasers (same as Whoppers malted milk choccies) of an evening, I get one. Not one packet. One Malteaser. When he has Cabury's Turkish Delight, I have none. Bleagh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:19 AM Declutted my Mudcatting, by getting all the threads I really want to follow Traced so my own personal threadlist is visible on Pers. Pg. === Regarding all of you declutterers here-- I'm seeing (but not always posting a response to) your progress. Feel free to PM anytime. Remember, it's not how often you "fall down" but how often you get back up, that really matters. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,Penny S.(sans cookie) Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:42 AM I am moving mirrors around the fence to find the best spot for views from the house. I have put a bung in the old cold tank and moved it by the compost bin so that I can use it for all the comfrey and add the liquid to the compost. That way I won't get little bits of roots starting up in new parts of the garden. I'd like to have some of the plant somewhere, but not a great mound in the middle. I bought a bird food pole with birthday money and have set that up. Sole birds seen - pigeons. And found the washing line hole, right where it ought to be, in the middle of the flagstones, previously hidden by a weed. It needed an insert to bring the size down, but that came with the line. I had a voucher from my credit card company, and spent it on a line cover with a photographic meadow on it. Bulbs are popping up all over the place. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:44 AM In the immortal words of Jacqui Morse, this place is a bloody tip! I ran the dishwasher and it leaked. LOL Another expense to add to the list - gutters falling down, back door falling off, porches in need of painting, no heat in the sunroom AGAIN!, Wonder why none of it seems particularly important? I am quite happy to walk Seamus and brush the cats. LOL Guess I just need a long weekend to veg. Freecycle and Ebay next weekend...I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Catherine Jayne Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:10 AM Over the weekend I did 2 spinning classes and a body pump class. Been really good food wise up until last night when we had romantic meal, champagne and of course chocolate! We had a lovely ride in a horse drawn carriage yesterday, kids loved it! Tonight I am going circuit training. Frock buying day is 6th March so I am trying to lose those last few pounds so it'll be maintenance only from that point. Baeutiful favours bags have arrived, the personalised sweets to go in the bags were delivered this morning. Invites are almost complete ready to go out next month. I can't believe how organised we are. 4th bedroom is almost finished. Got a number of bags of clothing to go down to the charity shop which will have to be done this weekend. Bed was delivered last week. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:12 PM warning all caps alert I BOUGHT A POWER CHAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! var spds, tortoise to hare hare is WHOA NELLIE! ~s~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Feb 10 - 11:34 PM A power chair? Is that like a vibrator bed? What does it do? ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Feb 10 - 02:35 AM It's half term here this week, so I have Limpit at home. Of course, that means we're out and about (more therapy for me) but there are a few spare hours at home where I could be shifting crud... is it going to happen? Watch this space. I spent yesterday making chocolates... and today I'll be finishing them off ready to deliver on Thursday. I just have to remember not to eat them myself... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 16 Feb 10 - 03:08 AM DAMMIT! Cakes in the staff room yesterday. There are 4 ladies in my office me included. 2 finance 2 admin. One of 2 finance colleagues has to go. Either to Central Payments (a grade cut) at county hall or take redundancy. One has worked for county for yonks and is top of her band but her husband lost his job last year and now has hand injury. The other has 3 sons living at home to support. So I ate a small slice of dark chocolate comfort cake. And within 15 minutes I was pinging, like I was on rocket fuel. I decided not to have the afternoon coffee. Bummer. I really have fun with these ladies. Now one has to go. End of this week, they review the admin. Wonder if one of us will have to go or have reduced hours. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 16 Feb 10 - 10:54 AM My car has a hole in the exhaust. More expense. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 16 Feb 10 - 12:25 PM Cleaned up my hotel room...it's amazing how fast they can get cluttered up. Currently I'm sitting in my chemo chair getting my first treatment...snacking on healthy stuff I brought but also 4 doughnut holes that some kind soul brought to share...YUM! I'm tired and off for a nap. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Feb 10 - 03:30 PM I kinda thought I might get a rise out of Susan, so to speak, for my little silliness about her new chair. Buried up to my eyeballs in paperwork today. It seems all sorts of things were coming along that needed to be listed at work but that weren't quite library events so no one sent me the memos. Now I'm tracking it all down. Plus a lot of stuff to put in the mail. Looks like that will happen tomorrow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 16 Feb 10 - 03:40 PM Well the 2 finance colleagues (one of which has to leave) were not in the office today. So me and the other administrator felt safe to cry about what has happened to them. It is utterly messed up. Today we both had trouble concentrating on work. To make things worse, a couple of managers were making life hell because they don't do the work they are supposed to do. And one keeps skiving off sick or claiming he is working from home or that his blackberry isn't working. He has 1400 unread mails in his inbox and never responds to meeting requests, which for some reason all come to me. I don't even work for his service area. While we poor foot soldiers work our asses off and fear for our jobs, this shit goes on. AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!! ok sorry rant over. It is just that it is all very demoralising. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:03 PM SRS, I'm just not "here" every ten minutes this month (or next-- I'm all Lentied up). The power chair of course launches me at top speed into new angels-fear-to-tread areas. It may have an ejection seat-- have to check. It was dark when we unloaded it and tried it out. :~) But it also has reverse gear. I hope to find a basket and bike streamers for it at Sallie's, Where the Stars Shop. It has "horns," too, and a headlight and tail-light. It's fast enough to ALMOST keep up with Hardi's inline skating, and DEF. fast enough for my dog to chase me around the big ole parish hall. == Keep on keeping on, ladies/wimmin/whatever! What's our Allison been up to? ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 16 Feb 10 - 05:10 PM I been pacing the floor, trying to decide whether to cancel tonight's rehearsal. Verdict- home safe and sound, after Hunt tried to drive to a friend's house 1 mile away, got stuck in a ditch, got pulled out by another friend, drove another 100 feet, turned around, came home. Cozy at home tonight! Darling daughter was home all weekend which also cut short my puter time. We had a lovely time and yesterday was spent driving her back to college, going out to lunch, checking out a few shops in NoHo (Northampton, Mass), and driving home, then playing at the contra dance last night. I'm grateful for a much more relaxed day today! I've also been helping with the finishing upstairs- we now have 2 rooms, one with closet AND door, the other filled to the brim. I'm dreaming of getting all my stuff out of storage, getting the bookshelves set up and filled with our books, and getting down to the business of a non-house-building life! I've also been very busy knitting! Susan, that chair sounds almost dangerous! Pix? VTam, I feel for you. I remember work situations similar to yours. Hang in there, sweetie! SRS, I'm just avoiding paperwork. I know where that leads in the end, but I have to get myself psyched for it. You ARE an inspiration, you know! Michelle, you are, too. Love you, lady! SINS, are you getting snow to cover those bulbs??? LTS, are you feeling better? Penny, good luck with your car! Catherine Jayne, I wish I had your energy! |
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Subject: PY: The View from the Scooter From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Feb 10 - 07:27 PM I like this: Susan, that chair sounds almost dangerous! Pix? VTam, I feel for you. I remember work situations similar to yours. Hang in there, sweetie! SRS, I'm just avoiding paperwork. I know where that leads in the end, but I have to get myself psyched for it. You ARE an inspiration, you know! Michelle, you are, too. Love you, lady! SINS, are you getting snow to cover those bulbs??? LTS, are you feeling better? Penny, good luck with your car! Catherine Jayne, I wish I had your energy! So organized! A decluttered list of declutterers! (I'll be referring back to it often.) It reads a bit (in MY mind) like a horse race, except that I know we all come out in a dead heat, WINNING! "~) === My "chair pix" will be pix from IN the chair. The type I bypassed (was also on display/sale/used: http://www.pridemobility.com/jazzy/models.asp The type (not the brand) I have: http://www.pridemobility.com/scooters/lifewithoutboundaries.asp I used it tonight with great effect, zipping around the borders of the pancake supper. So comfy to sit at eye level to greet the many people who wanted a moment of closeness-- instead of standing, aware of sore feet and knees, looking down on people who teach ME. Saw and conversed with twice as many as usual, or more, and also got to check out the accessibility of the setup-- Yup, the menfolk doing the supper set up for folks with walkers and chairs purdy gude, except for a few funny tight spots in the worship space.... BUMP! The other fun of the chair was the reactions to the cheery, non-embarrassed air I evinced among a group of folks chronically embarrassed to "need help." "Help!??" I said, "I'm having FUN!" None of them took me up on the offer of a free spin (yet), but I did tell them the keys are with Hardi, and I betcha there will be some surreptitious gallivants before long. "Oh I just wanted to see what our parish life is like from the chairbound view," uh huh! Whatev-- if they can USE it and not feel so BAD about having FUN, it's all good. Main aisle of the sanctuary-- sacred worship space, very formal-- on HARE speed was FUN! Someone asked me, did Jesus ever laugh? Of course!!! Deep, rich belly laughs. I know. I heard that burbling sound coming from the Reserved Sacrament, even if it IS in a stone wall. I b'lieve I heard giggles coming out of the Chapel along the one side aisle-- that's where the Columbarium is. :~) I have a few good friends in there, must stop by to chat. Power chair will not fit-- there's where the trubble will come along. I want the Columbarium totally accessible for families of the stashed. And I just joined that committee..... (oops, I did it again!) Hm, maybe it already IS accessible if I go around the one pew.... gotta check that out next. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Feb 10 - 07:29 PM The 2nd of the two link-texts I gave should be: http://scooterdirect.com/PrideGOGOULTRAX3WHEELdetails1~cPath=1_206&.htm ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Feb 10 - 07:49 PM Mine: http://www.pridemobility.com/pdf/owners_manuals/US_Scooter/US_Revo_3_4_om.pdf 3-wheel. With battery packs off, I will be able to load it by myself. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Feb 10 - 10:37 AM Digging out tax forms that seem to have gone walkabout after finishing my taxes. I have to send them all out soon for the college application process. No call yet from the insurance folks; the dogs had a bath, they're ready, but my housekeeping is still a little on the soft side. . . and I have to climb into the attic and run a couple of last phone lines before Friday morning. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:19 AM 3-wheel. With battery packs off, I will be able to load it by myself. WOOO HOOOO! I wanna find you a bumper sticker that says, "Helen Wheels"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Date: 17 Feb 10 - 11:38 AM I am actually feeling a lot better, but still tiring early. Mind you, I've suddenly clicked back into waking at my usual 5.00-5.30am timeslot, so there is some excuse for my flagging by 4.00pm. Yesterday I had a busy day finishing the chocolates, napping on the sofa and driving twice as far for a soloists choir practice, which ended with me dozing off in an extremely comfortable rocking chair - which would have been even more comfortable if it were a little lower or my legs not so short... Took delivery of another teenager this morning, so that decluttered the bank account a bit more... I deliver the teenager back home and the chocolates to another friend tomorrow, along a few other little things that are cluttering the mantlepiece... I have to go and prepare myself mentally for the Ash Wednesday services (new church, only been going for a few months so not sure how they do things...) and driving through match day traffic. Luckily I should be going the opposite way to the majority of it both ways. Pizza will help. We've had a gorgeous day here today, sunshine, crocus flowers, it was almost warm at one point.... but boy is it going to be cold tonight! Enjoy the day all. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 17 Feb 10 - 12:50 PM grumble... work... Last email of the day from the CEO's office (she makes more than the bloody prime minister, Gordon Brown). Bands 5 and above to get from 1.5 to 2% pay rise for meeting or exceeding targets. But grunts on the ground get no cost of living pay rise this April. I think what bugs me most is we little folk won't stand up and say - NO MORE! I belong to the union, but we are very thin on the ground. If people won't join then we have no voice. My morale is very cluttered up with this lately. sorry.... grumble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 17 Feb 10 - 02:27 PM Waiting to hear from Tom in Boston, I used part of my nervous energy (that's the only kind I've got -- I am soooo tired!) to pull some more stuff out of the cupboards for Goodwill or something. I think maybe the white goblet (or whatever the heck it is) with the red Chinese dragon (and a small chip in the base) may end up with a friend; I'll have to check around as to who might want it. Still have to get those liqueur glasses to another friend. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 17 Feb 10 - 04:33 PM Also culled briefcases and similar items. I have waaaaaay more than I need. Went down cellar for a couple other things, but more of that will have to wait til spring -- it's way too cold down there. Oh, yeah. And coffee cups. Now I got rid of a whole bunch of 'em a couple years ago. Where do these things come from?!? Rufus also got a new cat food dish -- it was in the cupboard and a lot nicer than the one he's been eating out of. Has an imprint of a maple leaf on the bottom and a logo. I swear I never saw it before -- how did it get in the cupboard?!? Also a set of squat yellow glasses that were giveaways with Shell gasoline in the early '70s -- I'd been using them with citronella candles in them...except I haven't actually done that in living memory. Gotta wrap all this shhhh-stuff up and get it in a box so it doesn't get broken on the way to Goodwill. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Feb 10 - 08:03 PM I've caught up with a few threads, on the health of several mudcatters, and now I need to go bake some biscuits and reheat the pot roast from the other night. Knock wood, but I hope I got the drivers into the computer for the monitor--I was getting an error message so I downloaded new drivers. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Penny S. Date: 18 Feb 10 - 09:15 AM VTam, I'm so sorry to hear about what's happening at your work. Cheery bit, sort of. The bluetits have discovered my garden, but not to be interested in the food, oh no. The mirrors! Once i realised that one poor little cock (I assume male) was frantically spending all his time displaying to it, and going round the back (very interesting sign of some intelligence?) I've had to nip out in the rain and cover them with cardboard. And the soil is sodden, with water running down the surface. No problem setting up a water feature eventually. I found a wall greenhouse at Aldi,very reasonable, so have got a bit ahead of myself and bought it. And some seeds - sweet pea, sunflower, lettuce and cornflower. I lost my temporary supply work because of budgets - classes taken by unqualified teaching assistants and newly qualified now. Still a little one to one tuition, but only two of those left. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:14 AM I refilled my bird feeders this morning. One of them looks good, and I thought it would be very sturdy, but the design is lacking in insight--when I fill it one side lets a lot of seed pour out of the little hole with a perch 1/2 way up the fine mesh screen. It's always something. I have stuff to mail today. It has moved to the top of my list. And for work things, I have my evaluation tomorrow. I never enjoy that, though I work for a really wonderful boss. I was trying to think back to my earliest job experiences yesterday, wondering what about my early history impacts my current history, and flashed on an event I haven't thought of in years. The thing is, I don't think it impacts today at all, but it's a memory that comes back very complete because it was so shocking. The guy wasn't a boss, he worked for someone else, but he was an alcoholic and was usually drunk by lunchtime, so I can only assume he carried a flask or kept something in his desk. This was the early 1970s. We passed in the hallway in the middle of our Forest Service office cubbies, and he exploded in anger at me one day, out of the blue, and out of his drunken rage came the vitriol of a middle-aged man who was divorced, living alone, who proceeded to verbally stomp an 18-year-old for working in the woods and for not being feminine enough. He was so nasty--and none of this impacts the work I do now, but you know how sometimes you can look back and realize how much times have changed? I don't think I said a word, I was in such shock, I simply picked up my papers and went and sat in the secretarial pool to work and calm down. And the guys in the back got him out of there and gave him what-for for being drunk and out of control. But nothing was ever done about his behavior or drinking. I hope times have changed. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 18 Feb 10 - 12:29 PM That'S it! NO MORE NEGATIVITY! Specially not in this fred! Today at work: - Downstairs tomb filing done in spite of frozen shoulder. Feel damn good about it too. - Decluttered my personal work folder and organised by Service area for which I did any work. Today at home: - 2 Loads of clothes done. - Turkey breast roasted and Anya Potatoes. boiled. - Practised singing 'Fore Day Creep twice (keep coughing and losing my voice but I am determined to get my pre-Christmas dynamics back). - Made a decision to study UK Driving theory, take and pass test, learn to drive manual transmission and get driving qualification over this spring and summer. (I miss the freedom of being able to jump in the car and go.) Also having a license will improve my employability should I lose my job. Tonight at home: - Try an work out more of the chords for Ride Warrior Ride on the guitar. - Practise Let the Mystery Be and Ride On on mandolin. - Practise Nottamun Town, The Water is Wide, Beulah Land and Boil That Cabbage Down on the lap dulcimer. Pack clothes for trip to Stratford on Avon this weekend to see TSO's parents. Tomorrow morning at work: - Be positive and upbeat during my Performance Review. (Good wishes gratefully received) HEY YOU GUYS!!! Tam's back! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 10 - 12:55 AM Thanks, Virginia! I finished a design project this evening and processed some more photos, so on some of these things I'm caught up, and ready to tackle another newsletter. Also sent some images to folks who had asked for them. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 19 Feb 10 - 03:04 AM I promise to behave. Try and work out more of the chords for Ride Warrior Ride on the guitar. I sussed it and I am so chuffed. But my fingers hurt too much after to play the other instruments. Feel pretty relaxed about My Performance this morning. I have gone above and beyond the call of duty on more than a few occasions over the year. I have exceeded expectations and I have the documentation to prove it, including thank you emails for the stellar work, etc. Yes I keep it all to remind me what I have accomplished. Never said "no" to any request for help. What will be difficult is the over helpful judgement from TSO's Mum, re my arthritis and weight. Just got to set my teeth, nod and smile a lot and keep telling her that I will have appointment with Healthy Living trainer to address things like diet and physical activity and the depression. So it's all good. I am armed and ready. BRING IT ON! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 19 Feb 10 - 09:15 AM Thinking about VTam and SRS and evaluations/performance reviews- it's a day for positive energy!! I am off to the Post Office and local shop to mail off a few care packages, and to get the goodies for tonight's overnight guests. By lunchtime the work in the guest bedroom will be completely finished, and this afternoon I will vacuum, dust, iron and hang curtains, make the bed, and there will be another COMPLETED ROOM in the house! All that's left is window trim, one upstairs door, moving in the bookshelves for the library/landing, and then the major declutter begins! Maybe by this time next week I will actually have a real-live office, after 2 years of living out of cardboard boxes, shifting the printer around, having to go to the storage unit for the file cabinet, etc, etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 10 - 10:13 AM Allison, congratulations on another room finished! I remember working my way outward when we moved into this house. I signed papers on Valentine's day and had a contractor in doing some work for a few weeks, but when we moved in I stacked all of my furniture and boxes in two rooms and slowly renovated around us. I started with us all camping out in what is now my bathroom, and we took bathes in a galvanized tub until I finished tiling the first bathroom tub surround. I tiled one bedroom and moved the kids into it, and slept on a futon in the living room while I tiled that first bedroom we'd used. And as those rooms were ready, I unpacked furniture from the two rooms I'd completely filled, so I could then paint and tile them. I still have some floors I haven't finished around here, but most of the rest is unpacked (and there's too much of it, so I need to thin it out now). Waiting on the cable guy. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 10 - 01:33 PM I forgot to mention on the fitness end of things that I am finally experiencing a shift after I weaned myself from one type of HRT last fall. I accidentally put on a pair of pants I hadn't planned to the other day and was surprised they fit, even though I haven't been doing any particular diet or exercise, and I had added my evening glass of wine back into my routine. When my insurance company stopped offering the mail order compounding because there were "suitable" versions of the medication available in regular pill form, I switched but ended up getting way more testosterone than I liked, and gained weight gradually. It took weeks of cutting back to cut out that pill, and probably weeks more to shift my metabolism. I won't go back to sweets and junk (though I did just finish a few Valentine's chocolates this morning) and hope that this spring's gardening exercise helps take off the remainder I'd like to lose. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Feb 10 - 11:54 AM Okay, the handoff of the liqueur glasses is today. Yee hah! It only counts when it's out of the house! Just pulled a bunch more canvas briefcases, legal-sized zipper bags, and zippered 3-ring binders out of the difficult to get at spot between the file cabinet and the wall, leaning over piles of books to do so. (Gotta work my way back there to retrieve what's fallen on the floor.) Hope I can interest some friends in these -- otherwise they'll be off to Goodwill before the end of March. Monthly sea music sing this afternoon, work tomorrow, gotta find time to pack -- early train to Boston Monday a.m., full day of medical appointments for Tom prior to his very early surgery Tuesday morning. No more time for de-cluttering until maybe Wednesday after we get home -- just checking things off lists. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Feb 10 - 11:54 AM I picked up some powdery dry dirt or mud on my heavy jacket in the snow last week, so I'm going to run a load of dark stuff on delicate. This is the kind of laundry where comforters, lap quilts, other bulky delicate stuff that hasn't been washed in quite a while can go through, so I'll go poke around and see what is there that I haven't laundered in ages. Evaluation went fine, partly because the print documents that are such a struggle to produce on a time schedule (because we turn over our text and photos to another office to design) are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. I had been producing online newsletters a lot more and I think last year my boss had a couple of "aha!" moments when the design process slowed even more with new management in that other office. So I came out ahead, with my web design being a good representation of being caught up with information promotion. The print documents we do still produce I have been designing, saving a lot of time. I'll also see if I can find some training this year. I used to take local classes every year, and have gotten out of the habit, mostly because the local classes were beginner level and I need to find mid or more advanced user courses. So, overall, it was pretty good! My phones have been converted to cable, and it's wonderful to not hear a roar over the voices now. I have to pull cable for two more rooms and I'm finished with that job. I did the kitchen phone yesterday before the cable tech arrived, and he was pleased that he didn't have to climb any ladders or pull any cable. He hooked a modem up to the cable connection in my closet and wired it to the expansion board where my phones are hooked up, and that was it. I'm going to see about turning that same closet into more of a media space and store some of the things in there that you keep but don't use often. Like the boxes software comes in. Even flattened, they take up space, but every time you buy a new program, you can use something off of the old box to get a rebate, so it pays to keep them. Kat, how are you feeling? Is Morgan coming over? Michelle, you're going through a really complex process right now and as long as you feel good you're very lucky, but you may hit a point where you're tired. Don't flog yourself about that if you hit it (no everyone does, so this isn't a prediction!), but however you're feeling, continue to pace yourself so you feel good about what you can do and DON'T OVERDO!!! Liz, VT, Susan, how are the rest of you? Maeve, are you setting up spring planting materials? MaryAnn, what are you up to? Who else is cleaning, building, moving, rearranging, etc? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM Hi Maggie - you forgot to mention if the cable guy was cute! I am back from Stratford u Avon where the mum in law did not once mention my diet, weight or arthritis. I was stunned but in a good way. We had some excitement last night as she tipped a near full glass of red wine over her husband and his new (Christmas prezzie) sage green pullover. He went off to clean himself up and I helped with getting the wine out of carpet, clearing the table and fixing him another plate of food (wine sauce over Portugese eggs and jacket potatoes being not very appetising). He returned to table and about 20 minutes later I excused myself to the rest room, where I found a flood of water under the bathroom basin where he left his pullover to soak with the tap still dripping a bit. Well we pulled up the carpet tiles, mopped up the floor beneath, put the carpet tiles in tub to drain. I mentioned the downstairs flat (currently being redecorated for new owner) probably had water come through. It was a lot of water on the floor upstairs. It had to go through. I tell you the nice buzz I had from champagne and red wine vanished immediately. Well the workman rang the bell this morning to ask if we had a leak. The bathroom he had just painted, had water damage. YIKES! So TSO and I try to tell the Mum that insurance will cover it. She is determined that no one knows about it. Not her husband or the neighbours who are all pretty much friends. She is going to pay for the damage and has asked the decorator to come give a quote for her lounge as a means of keeping him quiet and not telling the new owner of the flat (who happens to be the daughter of a gossipy neighbour). What a bluddy parlaver. Anyway I am home now and mudcatting in nice relaxed state. Tomorrow we go visit our old (but new to us) little caravan and start making plans for fixing her up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:47 PM Ah, yes, the problem of floods in apartments. I had the neighbor's dishwasher draining into our apartment and had to race upstairs and ask them to turn off the machine. The management had to send the roto-rooter folks to clear out the drain from the roof or something. I just read through Michelle's recovery thread--I can see that suggesting she was might hit a wall was timed pretty close. Take it easy, move when you can, and feel good about what you can accomplish, but don't worry if all you can do right now is just find a comfortable spot and get through one day at a time. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:17 PM Finally, I have some decluttering to report! I've been stacking bills, mail, and papers needing to be filled out for weeks now. All over my dining room desk. It's too small for it all, so it was spilling all over the place. Today, I knew I had to address it in order to pay bills o Monday, so I went through it ALL, got it all organised as well as space will allow and am almost finished filling out the papers. They were for the hospital to ask for a discount/aid on the bills for various things. They are so invasive. I cannot believe all of the info they want and so personal, which they keep on file. And, they make you do it every six months. Ah, well, the other hospital gives us 35% off, so it helps. So, Monday I will bills done, finish the hosp. papers and get them sent out. I will also be sending out a book someone ordered from paperbackswap.com. In the meantime, to keep from having to do all of that, again, I ordered THIS with free shipping to the local store. I dn't like patronizing them, but after looking at what other stores had, it was the best one for the price. It will take the place of a tv tray I have stuff on right now, behind me. I can keep current files out here instead of stuffed in the 4-drawer file cabinet in the old office and keep other paraphernalia off my desk in the little baskets. Yes, I had Morgan on Wed. and Thurs. Puir kid...I was so tired and sleepy, he kind of took charge. We played Monopoly and a couple of games online. He brushed my hair and told me it looked like its "old self" again...lots better. He even put up the sides with combs. He's so kind and loving. He kept putting his hand on my shoulder and gave me a "massage." At one point I told him I was going to the bathroom. He said, "Oh, sure, no problem. Take your time. It's okay, Mama."LOL He has been quite helpful and loving this week. Otherwise, it has been a long and tiring week, but I made it. Have not had enough sleep for three nights, now. Tonight will be better. I will be going off of the zoloft and xanax over the next few weeks, using biofeedback and therapy instead and I am well pleased about it. The side effects are too much! Thanks for asking, Maggie. You are a wonder! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 20 Feb 10 - 07:11 PM Been thinking of you, Kat-me-love. Bless Morgan and you (and Roger, too!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:17 PM Got rid of the box of miscellaneous liqueur glasses. Promised Jeri the silver plate set. Gave her one of the briefcase/messenger bags, and found homes for two others. In cleaning out one of the bags, I found a small bag with a bunch of finger picks in it. The bag was labeled with a shop name I'd never heard of which is (this info was on the other side) possibly in Dallas, Texas. Definitely a mystery bag -- convenient that it contained finger picks! Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:27 PM I made a quick trip to the thrift store this evening and found a few knit tops in other colors than the ones I usually wear. It was time for something different. I also found a couple of nice fitting pairs of jeans, blue and black. And a couple of cardigans and the whole lot was $32. Hard to beat it! I set up the sewing machine and am going to do some mending then run those dark things (including the jacket) through the wash. I have a couple of really heavy beach towels that the dogs pulled a couple of holes in last month when they slept in the bathroom a few nights. A heavy duty zigzag stitch ought to do the trick. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 20 Feb 10 - 10:30 PM Thanks, 2Ls..had you on my mind, too, along with the rest o'youse.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:14 AM First batch of mending finished and towels now finishing in dryer along with jacket (lots of snaps are making a racket as they bounce around in there). I've rearranged my office space, removing the cat window seat that was composed of an antique trunk with blankets folded on top. Now I've moved my desk and a side table around to better positions. The cat had climbed through the plastic slats on the blinds often enough to bend and break several, so they look a bit drunken from outside. I'll replace this with a metal slat blind (better to not get the PCBs from the vinyl blinds anyway). I also need to replace blinds for the same reason in my son's bedroom. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 21 Feb 10 - 09:27 AM Today I'm baking Scottish shortbread for the English Country Dance this afternoon, and throwing turkey soup ingredients into the crock pot for supper after the dance and before the lovely Windborne concert tonight (incredible a cappella singing). Laundry's in the dryer, the house is reasonably tidy. But the upstairs landing is full of book cases (not enough) and book boxes (too many!). To be dealt with this week! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:50 AM Hi, folks. Haven't done much physical de-cluttering, just my bank account. I paid for my Ireland trip next month. Now all I have to do is show up. Yesterday was our second afternoon music session at the historical museum. Whole different group of musicians, so the experience was totally different-- lots more singing, rather than tunes like last time. Great fun either way. Pub quiz this afternoon. One of our team members is having her baby tomorrow (planned C-section), so we're all excited. Her mom is also on our team, and her brother is her sub this month. It is our first team baby! Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 10 - 12:56 PM Just did the dishes while Rog swept and did his plastic dishes which I refuse to do. He let's the dog lick them out so they are full of dog hair and I don't like trying to get it all out!:-) I also decluttered my email addys. Got rid of 86 most of whom I have no clue who they are. Also have another book packed up and ready to dump in the mail box, tomorrow, as it was requested from paperbackswap. Morgan is on his way over, so not sure I'll get much else done.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:20 PM Kat, I sometimes let the dogs lick the plates, but they don't take much time and there is never anything left on them when they finish. I also don't put them on the floor, I take turns between the dogs handing them food from the plate, then they lick it (sauce, whatever) when the food is handed out. I don't do it often--pancreatitis is a problem in animals fed much table food. I've pulled a futon love seat (the one I put my donation stuff on usually) away from the window, dusted and photographed it with and without the slip cover. I use it, but of the things in the living room that I can live without, this is one of them. It has never looked like anything else in the house (light wood, Scandia style) and I think it might be easier to sell than some of the other items taking up too much space around here. I'll use that space to line up my extra dining room chairs so I'll still have seating over there, but I'd really like to unload about 1/3 of the bulky furniture in here. This is a Craig's list item, too nice for a garage sale and too big for eBay. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:13 PM There was an expression of interest via Craig's List, asking my final price. Well, that's simple. It's the one listed! Since he has a UK address I won't give a lot of weight to this query, though Moonglow also has a UK address. She thought it would be a hoot to sign up for Yahoo's mail from the UK. :) I did a lot of laundry and dusting today. The house is still a mess, though. It seems to have gotten worse in the progress of cleaning. Funny how that works. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:28 AM I may get my bum in gear and sort some clothes out today, ready for the new drawers that will hopefully arrive next weekend... Failing that, I have officially decluttered 10cm from my waist since last October and been downgraded to 'mildly depressed'. So that's nice. No wonder my trousers fall down. Yesterday, I must have seen about a thousand snowdrops in the hedgerows and a million trees... so that has refreshed my spirit somewhat. Had a drive along my all time favourite coastal road, with God working the spotlights out over the bay... even though the weather was grey and showery, it was glorious. Tomorrow is back to work, so that could be interesting. Enjoy the day all. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:03 AM Liz, on facebook a friend posted photos of her drive to work this morning--not snowdrops or spotlights, but foggy trees in the snow, very pretty. It really can make you feel better when you pause to look at the beauty around you. Well, I think my first answer on the futon was a scammer. I think his first contact, asking what was my bottom price, was a ploy to pretend he might "negotiate." When I didn't respond favorably, I figured he'd drop out, but this morning he wrote saying he was out of town so would send a money order and would I please remove my add so no one else jumps in. Sorry, but my ad says PayPal or cash only, and I'm not a sucker for that stupid trick. Wanna bet the money order would be for a larger amount than the purchase, and I could just refund the difference? I didn't send him my mailing information, but said if he has someone local who can handle the cash transaction for him, I'll be happy to sell the piece. Geez. No point in outing his name or email, because, as the comic says, he has a million of 'em. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:05 AM FOund the top of the kitchen table, cleared the counter as well. Straightened up the living room. Laundered some sheets. Walked Seamus - good for both of us. AND finally got the bills organized. A busy Sunday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 22 Feb 10 - 01:40 PM ooohh Maryanne - I wanna go to Ireland. That trip will have to wait 3 or more years. LtS - congrats on the trouser fall down thing. Mine are too, but the roll of fat that used to hold them just moved northward on my body. I used to be pear shaped. now I am a granny smith. Maggie and Kat - I wish I had the initiative to sell on ebay. I tend to just recycle or take my unwantables to charity shop. It was pissing down with rain yesterday so we put off caravan work. I did laundry and TSO ironed his own shirts. Ain't he a good un? Performance review went fine on Friday. Today at work did much decluttering of my folders, updated my completed task list with some past one off jobs I did last fall and forgot about. Decluttered my email inbox at work but not the sub folders of which there are about a bazillion. Came up with a system for archiving email enquiries and comments on service, so the archivist's don't need to print them out for me to file. Can't be kept in the ERO email inbox for more than 3 months. So I save each email under sender's name and date sent and pertaining reply emails like wise in type of enquiry specific folder on the Archivist's drive. Log each email in Index spreadsheet and insert link to the email. Now when any archivist needs to refer to an old email enquiry such as a coroner report or adoption enquiry, they just go to the index, search for the name of requester and they will have a hyperlink to the specific email needed. We are trialling this for 6 months, so I will still be filing hard copies (6 inch stacks of them) twice a month until the Senior Archivist confirms the system is working for all. I will still have to hard file, letters and faxes which is ok. The bulk of enquiries and comments on service come as emails. This should save a mountain of paper and ink cartridges too. I should get a bonus for coming up with this cost saving plan. I'll bet the Archive Service Manager does though. Oops! Scratch the negative thought. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:54 PM Just finished running the snowblower. We got about seven inches today; mostly stopped snowing now, except for a stray flake or two. Warmed up with chicken noodle soup-- not home-made, but it did the trick. Don't have to go anywhere today, so I'm happy to stay inside. Oh, we won first place in the pub quiz, and little Xavier arrived right on time this morning. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM Welcome, Baby Xavier. Great name. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 22 Feb 10 - 03:41 PM I have my books back! They've been in storage for 7 months, and I've missed them so much! ...trouble is, they're all in boxes on the landing, and the bookshelves are stacked 2 and 3 deep, so now I have to get up there and organize. Tomorrow. During the snowstorm. Which will cancel another chorus rehearsal. oh, well, at least I'll have my BOOKS!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:47 PM Funny--I think we're going to have another snow storm here tomorrow also. What a winter this is in the "south." South side North Pole. . . I think you'll enjoy unpacking your books, Allison, but you might want to think about spreading them out on a large floor area first and organizing them, if they aren't already. I used the large tiles on the living room floor and alphabetized. I needed a could of tiles each for the letters M and S and W, etc., but I found the duplicates in my collection that way. Now they're on the shelves alphabetically for fiction and still kind of a jumble in non-fiction, but at least kind of lumped by type (crafts, kids books, cookbooks, reference, etc.) I've been letting the dogs in for a few minutes at a time. They still use their freedom in the house sniffing everything. I took a bath and Poppy wouldn't come near the tub (she does not like baths and won't get in the pup wading pool in the summer). Cinnamon hung out on the bathmat for a little while, and I think she wondered why she didn't have to get in. I'm glad she didn't try! :) Talent show at school tonight. The snow should hold off so it can happen this time, but 2 weeks ago it was postponed because of snow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 22 Feb 10 - 09:42 PM Don't know what got into me, but I am glad it did! This afternoon I got up from a nap, looked across from my side of the bed to a shelf where I have jewellery boxes and such, all buried under books I've read, socks that needed sorting, and a few papers. I told myself I'd start small: take the books out and the socks. When I went to put the socks away I looked at two baskets of clean laundry, my clothes canvas mini-hampers in which I keep my clean clothes and were a mess and thought, I can't put these socks away until I put those socks etc. away, so...it took me about 45 minutes, but I folded all of the laundry, sorted it, and put it away! It's been sitting there in seeming perpetuity while I get my head *examined* so it feels really good to have done it. Rog was quite surprised and pleased. I also helped Morgan with his "homework." He called and said, "Would you like to do my homework with me, today?" I asked him what it was...he needed to take pictures of things that were "triangooler" and take them to school. Of course I said yes and couldn't think of a thing with was triangular shaped in our house, but we went hunting and found cat's ears are triangles, I had a pendant, a crystal and Morgan decided my little collection of brass bells, old ones, were like a triangle, plus we found an industrial plug for the end of a power cord which really was that shape. We cropped them on the computer, arranged them on one page and printed it out. It was a lot of fun. He asked me if I thought he should be a photographer when he grows up. He loves taking pictures.LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:04 AM Kat, the amazing thing about kids is that you never know what small thing you introduce them to is going to be the catalyst for future interests, but later on you will see, and it will warm your heart. Keep up the good work! With my daughter, there were so many little things I see in her now. Her love of sewing--the antique machine she was given when she was 14 made a huge impression. She's studying costume design now in college. All of the art pencils and pens that were around here were enjoyed, and now both of them are very good artists. (This just reminded me of a question my son asked last night, so I went off and did a little research on Mozart symphonies. They played #25 in Persuasion on Masterpiece Theater.) Both kids love witty things like Tom Lehrer lyrics and good poetry and literature--all things they were introduced to as kids. We've worked on critical thinking. Examples in childhood can go a long way. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 23 Feb 10 - 07:20 AM Stilly, that is a great idea, and if I were the only book worm, it would work well. I do plan to lump books together according to type, but it would be a bloody miracle of all the alphabetized books stayed in place! I do plan to keep fiction on one wall, maritime books in one location, music books in another, but don't know how long those ambitions will keep up. Wish me luck! It is amazing what we do for our children that plants seeds for later. My daughter has tried very hard to concentrate in college in areas I know nothing about. What is the topic of her current mid-junior-year crisis? "I wanna study music and be a musician!!!" (she's going to forge ahead with her economics degree and keep playing that guitar and writing songs in the meantime). Kat, it does sound as though the light has returned! Isn't it therapeutic to get a job like that done? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Feb 10 - 10:14 AM I decluttered a heap of old, ripped shirts, found a shelf and sorted some rubbish to the bins... then today I went to work and decluttered my in box of the 402 Emails that were waiting - 128 of which were from the Systems Administrator telling me my box was full! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:57 PM De-cluttered a bunch of dust-bunnies from under the bed & dresser. Got a lot of laundry done. Did some grocery shopping this afternoon. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:07 PM I did some vaccuuming today and swept the hallway and living room. Soon, I'm off to the kitchen to roast a chicken. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 23 Feb 10 - 05:38 PM i cleaned my keyboard at work.... eeewwwww, was it ever gross! wish it would stop being so grey and dull outdoors. i want spring to hurry up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Feb 10 - 06:19 PM I agree, Virginia. Gray and blah. The snow from this morning didn't stick around, and now it's just another cold wet day out there. What to make for dinner, with stuff I have in the house, that is hearty and warm? Carbs, I think. I took some hamburger out of the freezer and I'll make some meatballs, spaghetti and sauce, and garlic bread. And I'll make sure we have plenty of fruit and veggies along with it to avoid any problems. (My son went to the hospital later in a week after having lots of carbs for dinner and little or no roughage along with it. The spaghetti wasn't the problem, but it may have exacerbated something already underway). I'm thinking maybe later this evening I can start unpacking one of those trunks after moving some of the school supplies from the destination cupboard. Last weekend I dusted the shelves in my bedroom, and I'll take a step stool and continue the work in the living room. These are the shelves above that cupboard. It would be nice to have a polished look in there, and not just jumbled interesting stuff, too much of it, on all of those shelves. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mouldy Date: 24 Feb 10 - 07:59 AM Been in NZ again to meet new grandson, got back late last week, and have just been reading and catching up with Michelle's thread. Wow! I only wish I had one tenth of her attitude and strength! I have had a phone call from Peter, who is wanting to get started on the re-decorating. He's coming later this afternoon to measure up for wallpaper. I still have to get on with clearing the study and getting extra power sockets in there and into the small bedroom. (I sort of took a winter recess....). Well, if ever a kick up the butt was needed, it's now, and I know of no better people to give it to me! I really have to start slinging out stuff I haven't worn all winter - let's face it, it HAS to be getting near its end - as my lovely relaxing bedroom is a total HEAP! Andrea - and I put a pound and a half back on while away, despite some days earning 3 points through walking about! Garumph! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 10 - 12:11 PM Andrea, Get those sockets in place (it will hit your pocketbook, I'm afraid--that's a part of the declutter that is less welcome) and you'll find yourself inspired to get the rest of the work done. Most exciting work around here in a while was a couple of years ago when I had the extra cash to have the electrician come in and fix a few things I'd wanted done for a while. One of those was to put an outlet on my front porch--I absolutely love it! I can work in the garden and plug a portable radio in to listen, and I can plug my xmas lights in without running an extension cord under the slight gap under the front door and into the house. I hope you enjoyed your travel! It has to have been nice to get a good dose of high summer after the winter blahs. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 10 - 01:24 PM Andrea! I've been wondering where you've been. Congrats on the new grandson! More laundry done in the past two days. Got pretty good news from the 6 month visit with the nephrologist. I have to cut out the rice protein powder in my morning smoothies and have stuff checked again in a month, but otherwise he is okay where my blood levels are and doesn't need to see me for another six months. I have finally called the cardio's office as no news on the echo, which I take as good. His asst. is to call me back. I am eating what seems like a lot, but barely making it to using my daily points and am only using about half of the bonus. I lost almost two pounds the week before. This morning's weigh-in showed 3.8 which I know is too much, so will redouble my efforts while watching the protein and salt.:-) I am not complaining about the loss, though! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: SINSULL Date: 24 Feb 10 - 02:41 PM Just started WW at work today. A huge group 24+. The company offered to pay 100% as long as we agreed to complete the program. 3.8 in a week is wonderful, kat as long as you are drinking enough. Good on you. Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:02 PM Thanks, Sins. That may be part of it. I know I was dehydrated after two bloody noses and a craving for ice instead of water. I am back on track with that, though. Except for an occasional oj, water is all I drink. Good for your employer and for you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:07 PM I broke down in tears twice today. Don't know why. Still feel as though I could easily give over to weepfest. Wonder if it is Amytriptyline? Taken Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights. I have never had it 3 nights in a row. Usually 2 nights on 1 night off. Felt foggy and dysfunctional all day. Can't tell if it is weather (seems like endless stream of grey rainy days since November) or if it poor sleep or the meds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maeve Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:12 PM Tamara- A kind friend stopped by yesterday morning. It seemed that every third sentence from her brought forth floods from me. Sometimes life's stresses make themselves known whether we want them to or not. Be kind to yourself. m |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:23 PM It's been one of those days. From being downgraded last Friday at the docs to 'mildly depressed', I upgraded myself today to 'raving, snivelling bitch queen from hell'... and I really hope the thieving rat bag who decluttered my purse of the £20 that was in it, had a damn good meal with it. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 10 - 04:03 PM I see we're having mixed results this month in our decluttering, though it sounds like most of those who are dieting are having success. It's a beautiful day out here, finally, and is beginning to warm a little. Since I moved the desk and trunk (former cat window seat) last week I haven't felt like opening the blinds, but it is open today and it's a lovely blue sky. Now all we need are some spring blooms and budding leaves. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 24 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM Today was mostly paperwork & online forms. Had to create a new unemployment claim. Also filled out health ins. application papers. Tomorrow I see my doctor and have to face the music about my diet. I had blood work done last week, and I'll get the results. Probably not as good as the last time. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 10 - 11:22 PM I opened and emptied the contents of the trunk in my office this evening. As I unpacked bowls, cups, demi-cups, saucers, tureens, casseroles, platters, I was astonished at the breadth of this set. Alas, some dinner plates and a platter were broken. The moving company was not particularly gentle with our goods when they moved us from Temple to Fort Worth, but that was in 1989. I haven't opened this in all of that time because I didn't have anyplace to put it. That said, I found some amazing pieces of glass, including two cake plates that are identical to some in a Martha Stewart Living article last month. I remember studying one photo because I couldn't figure out where the base of the plate was. There were two that seemed like just regular plates, but I finally realized they seemed to have little dimples on the bottom, so they were probably lower. On page 62 of the February issue you'll see the clear version (mine are green). It's the only one with the sunflower pattern (I found one online), lower right part of the page. There was also this incredible spiral patterned bowl of some kind with a heavy foot (all of these are really heavy) that is just gorgeous. I don't know where I'll put all of these yet. I put the plates and stuff in the cupboard that used to have school supplies. I think I'll put school supplies in the hall closet where the router and modems are. And I have a bunch of old linen hand towels and cotton bath towels and a couple of soft soft bed blankets that were around the plates and around the box in the trunk. These were all packed at my great aunt's house by my friend Emma. I paid for her ticket to fly out to Connecticut because I knew she'd enjoy the trip and enjoy the task, despite the hard work. We packed up 9 trunks total with lots of glass and objects. And here I am, 25 years later, still making discoveries from what Emma decided to pack. (I sent her home with a trunk of her own with the things she really liked for herself and her family.) Amazing evening. Ironic, as maeve is locating a few remaining treasures, one at a time, that this incredible surplus from an estate is truly a gift that keeps on giving. I think, once the new house is built, that Josephine (the aunt who left me this stuff) is going to contribute to maeve's functional yet beautiful objects. The thing is, these are all utilitarian objects that are unique today simply because they survived. They're not high-dollar like fancy Euro crystal or Old World antiques, they're period pieces that are remarkable now because they aren't made any more. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mouldy Date: 25 Feb 10 - 07:45 AM Peter came round yesterday, and he is starting Monday on the parts of the downstairs that don't need sockets. We have made the decision to get the ceiling paper down in the living room and see what hellish horrors happen when the plasterboard has nothing to hold it up (there are signs showing through the paper that things are a little -er- unstable up there). He's then going to skim the ceilings and make them good so that they match in with the dining room's plain plastered top. He estimated about 15 rolls of paper for the living and dining rooms (maybe it'll take one or two less), and I am now on a hunt for suitable paintable paper in that quantity. Can't find one I like yet, although I'm going to head out shortly to a big DIY warehouse. This morning, locally, I have got new paper for the study, and paint for all rooms except the hall and stairway, and the little room upstairs. We are looking at about 4 weeks' work we think, and then I just need to sort the garden (which hopefully I can get on with as soon as this awful Winter decides to depart. So it's back to chaos again next week! Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 25 Feb 10 - 08:24 AM I made a similar discovery once. The garage at our old house was ready to fall down, so we were having it demolished. Before that happened, I inspected it and found a box in the rafters. It was full of pink depression glass, including a big pink bowl, several cups & saucers, 4 little pink glass ashtrays, and assorted small dishes. I had no idea that they were up there. Even my mother had forgotten. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:52 AM Andrea, by the time you get done you will have a whole new house! How about some more pix as you go along? MaryAnne and SRS..don't you just love it when you find treasures? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Feb 10 - 11:00 AM Andrea, you bring up one of my future projects--wall paper. I haven't done anything about the paper in my house because most of it is okay, though nothing to brag about. It's what was on the walls when I moved in 8 years ago. I don't think it is contributing to the structural integrity of the house, but I would like to take it down and just paint the walls. I'll have to do the score and steam route, and then prime and paint. My front room has a kind of attractive grass cloth on the wall, and I put all of my bookshelves right over it. If I ever decide to do something about that wall, please shoot me first. I'll get some photos of this glass, maybe over the weekend, and post an image. Some of it is a real surprise, and of course presents the question about how to display it, get light behind or near so it makes it look its best. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mouldy Date: 25 Feb 10 - 01:06 PM Just been and got most of the rest of the paper. I'm hoping I might get away without doing the small bedroom (if the electrician doesn't make a mess). All I will have to do there, hopefully is paint out the intense green walls and ceiling, and black skirting. I must have spent £200 on stuff today. All nice neutral paint....I watch too many property programmes! Anyhoo, I am off to my first ever Pilates class in about 30 mins. It's working out fine because it's in the same village where I go to a pub quiz on Thursday evenings! I've had to dig out the yoga mat from the glory hole under the stairs. It's been rolled up so long I think I'm going to have a bit of trouble! Andrea - and I'll send some before and after pics via Kat at some point. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:15 PM Decluttered some drawers, swapped them for bigger drawers and now hopefully will be able to declutter a clothing caddy that's blocking the radiator. Had cardiac consultant appt... blood tests tomorrow morning (fasting) to check all manner of other things inc cholesterol and thyroid. Then make another appt for next week to find out what's going on... more tests planned too, inc a 24hr monitor to wear, that should have been arranged by the hospital after my visit there 6 weeks ago, but hasn't been heard of since... My socialist soul says 'support the NHS' but the chest pain and addled brain says 'take full advantage of the private healthcare you've had for 20 years and never yet used!' More when I know more... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:42 PM Good results from my bloodtest last week. A1C is okay under 6.0; last July it was 5.8; last week it was 5.6, so that's GOOD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 25 Feb 10 - 07:06 PM Sounds like they might figure it out, yet, LtS. Good wellness to you. Andrea, you are a wonder. You all are wonders! I have a new exercise coach as of today. Morgan was over and we were playing a trading card game called "Chaotic" which I didn't know beans about and he can't read the cards, yet, but he knows all of the terminology and what each character can and cannot do, so he makes up his own rules about points. It was driving me nuts because he was rattling more and more info off, non-stop, like a carnival barker.:-) I told him, "let's go outside." we talked a bit, he wanted to play, I didn't...told him I was going to fall asleep. THEN, he said, do you want to exercise? I said sure. So he ups and walks out to the LR, starts me out with my small handweights with the moves he's seen me do, then he did things that were very familiar to the qi gong he has seen. He also made up a few moves. Anyway, he had a whistle which he would blow for me to start and stop, pattered on about how good I was doing and counted reps. out loud. We did at least a half hour and it was a blast. It almost made me cry...I've been wanting someone to be here and do that with me. More later. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:16 AM Kat, to have been the fly on the wall for that session--it sounds priceless! Liz, it's about time you took advantage of extra insurance! I have a friend who has caught so many colds lately, but trying to get him to choose a new doctor is like pulling teeth (had a bad experience with his former doctor--the kind of experience that would have me changing in a heartbeat). He has insurance he isn't using, and I sometimes think he's dealing with a kind of survivor's guilt. His partner didn't have insurance and I'm sure Allan died when he did because of all of the care that was delayed or not adequate for what he needed. Today I washed some of the dish towels (what some of you call tea towels, I imagine--various sizes) that were in the trunk around a lot of plates and glass. The lint in the dryer was astounding. I washed them all on a gentle cycle and added bleach--something I rarely do, but these really needed some help. They're still not white and probably need another soak and wash or two before they are up to speed. And there were also a couple of wool blankets. One with various rich shades of red graduated the length of it, and the binding is in pretty good shape, all things considered, and the other has a hole in it. I think there was a leak of some point and a small spot through the trunk onto the blanket at one spot on the bottom, and the wool rotted. But I may patch it, or use it as batting in a quilt or something. The blankets are on the coolest heat setting and are okay. Here are a couple of tags on the towels and if you look at the labels, you see one of these is from the WWII era. I scanned one of those and one other, that came after, I think. It's a lot thicker and more fancy. Tomorrow night I'm headed up to watch my daughter's play for the semester. She did the costume design this time. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Feb 10 - 09:58 AM I spent this morning doing dishes from my husband's cooking extravaganza last night (didn't mind cleaning it up at all...dinner was INCREDIBLE!), cleaned the bathroom, swept and mopped the kitchen, hall and bathroom. Next on my agenda is to make meatballs and ziti (big batch cooking/freezing for sick days when I have zero energy to cook). If I have any zip left when all that's done and cleaned up, I'd like to clean out our fridge. I have developed a habit of putting too much food on my plate, not being able to eat half of it and then putting it away for later. Trouble is, later I don't want it. I have a fridge full of I'll eat it later stuff. It feels really good to be productive. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:11 AM Maggie, I was trying to figure how I could just turn the video camera on and let it run, even if all we got was audio, but unless I plan ahead of time, he gets a bit shy. It was incredibly fun. When we were first starting, he was facing me, put his hands on my hips, waist really, to demonstrate a move. As soon as he put his hands on me, he looked up and smiled and said, with surprise, "Mama! You've gone in there!" We talked about how he can see where I've lost weight. Made me giggle and smile wide. (I can't keep my wedding ring from slipping all of the time and am going to have to take some links out of my medic-alert bracelet as I can now slide it off over my hand.) Anyway, I am doing qi gong this morning and, if he comes over, no doubt I will get some more time in exercising. I hope Rog and I will do more decluttering this weekend. Our other electronic ebay sale went well, so that's good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:20 AM Awwwwwwwwwwww.....I love that Kat!!!!!!!!! Made me smile too!!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:52 AM Oh, precious Morgan, your guardian angel for sure! Michelle, it does me good to hear you bustle about like that! LTS, healing thoughts and positive vibes that the docs are finally going to nail this! Stilly, I have a "thing" for old tea towels- usually I go for the linen ones- but yours are priceless! What a treasure trove! The "hired hand" is finally back after first being sick then snowed in- the guys hope to finish framing the last window and installing the last door upstairs! I decluttered my to-do list this morning with an application for Pinewoods Camp and some forms for the insurance co. Now I'm making soup for lunch, then to practice the piano and knit away the afternoon (I should get out and shovel, too, and probably will). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mouldy Date: 26 Feb 10 - 12:32 PM I had a looong transfer in Melbourne on my way back via Hong Kong. I was delighted to see a Chinese lady doing some Qi Gong in the gate area. Pilates has found bits of me I had forgotten I'd got, but it's all going to be good. My friend who goes is a masseuse, and the guy running it is a sports masseur, so they are quite capable of de-cranking me. I'm seeing Sue next week, anyway. Have rung the electrician today, and he is calling in on Monday morning to see what's what and to see what order Peter's doing stuff so that he can work round him (they know each other, anyway). I'm also going to get him to put me a long-needed security light outside, and to renew the earthing cable, as it's very old and not up to modern standard. Apart from that, as the weather's wet and foul today, I've had a fairly lazy day: made soup. made a salt dough figure as a gift for someone, browsed the internet..... Rugby's on now! Big thrill in NZ was seeing the English Sevens team rise wet and gorgeous out of the lagoon on Wellington waterfront! Mmmmm! Well muscled men in skimpy wet shorts.......! Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:14 PM Weepiness has given over to bitchy... full moon's almost here. I have been terribly lazy at home, but sticking to the 1250 cal diet. So hungry. RA has been particularly bad probably due to the damp weather. Think I am gonna have to move to southern France or Florida in retirement. I hurts bad. Called Healthy Living team again (3 times now) pointing out that I should have heard from a trainer early last week. Tweeny receptionist, said she would get back to me today. She didn't. I notice that this NHS sponsored programme has now been partnered with the County Council. Fancy new website. I work for county council so I now know why I have not been contacted. It is all a pretty shell but inside are ants working frantically at trying to break out of the fancy shell and actually deliver to customers. Feeling bad for the 2 colleagues who have to compete for the one finance job. One is off with the stress. The other who has more financial responsibilities and a heart condition is the one who always soldiers on uncomplaining. It is really her job they are both competing for. The other colleague (stressed) has seniority though. Found out today that the interview panel is stacked against the soldiering colleague. The manager of the stressed colleague will be on the the panel. And said manager has been dependent upon the stressed colleague to get her budget out of the shit for years. I told them both ages ago to join the union. Too late now. Totally f*cked up. Well... will practice instruments (if hands permit) for Sunday's fun at Lower Stoke. Happy weekend everyone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maeve Date: 26 Feb 10 - 02:06 PM I spent a couple more hours cutting apart burned pages of slides to save what isn't already ruined. As they dry I put each "page" of slides into an ordinary letter envelope for storage. I wrap up the charred plastic and other burned things and get them out of the apartment as fast as I can. Nevertheless, the smell of ruin was the first thing a recent visitor noticed upon entering; not the new drapes (Goodwill), or the newly printed photos of happier times...just the smell. Another thirty pounds in weight has disappeared since the fire, and more to follow, I hope. Ironic- I can taste the good food but have no appetite, while my sweet husband lost his sence of taste with the pneumonia but is hungry. We've both lost weight we needed to lose. My back and arms hurt all of the time, and I can't sleep, but it's good to feel lighter physically if not emotionally. The Lion's Club has paid for new eyeglasses for each of us and we are grateful to have good vision again. m |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maeve Date: 26 Feb 10 - 02:09 PM I guess I decluttered my spelling sense, too. "...sense of taste" m |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:47 PM I won't complain too much about our dreary drizzly low-40s days because it sounds so much worse in New England. All of the paperwork is in for the schools, finally, and yesterday we received the formal offer from one of the two offering full rides. To be signed and returned accepting (or not) a $100,000 scholarship. If we don't hear from any of the big schools, I think we'll have to visit this one and the other that made the same offer. Both in the Southwest. Better climates for a kid from Texas. It's nice to know he has this to fall back on. It's amazing to know he has this to fall back on! But the cost of four years at one of these schools is about one year at the big ones, so we're just watching and waiting to see what happens. I'm going to be a cleaning fiend this weekend, getting ready for Monday morning's visit from the insurance inspector. I don't know if I mentioned that we've filled out all of the forms, but until someone asked I didn't volunteer about having dogs. When they asked I answered, and they scheduled an in home exam. He said he had to look at sinks, the fireplace, the master bedroom, etc. And I added "but it's really to meet the dogs, right?" and he agreed. But it sounds like he likes dogs, and these dogs love meeting people, so it should be fine. At last Amica gives the benefit of the doubt and sends someone to meet the "dangerous breed." I have no papers for these two, they're rescue animals, so I told them they're mixed, and I've seen boxer/pit mixes that are the same build as Cinnamon. She's probably not a mix, but I can't prove it one way or the other. As it is, she's a lovely pooch who at her most aggressive will break the guy's kneecaps with her wagging tail. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Feb 10 - 05:46 PM Did get around to decluttering the drawers - removed the extra clothing store to the front garden where I daresay it will be removed later tonight... we rarely have to take old furniture to the tip or the charity shops - leave it in the front garden and someone will take it! There's a wee bit of faffing about what wardrobe to get - I'm happy leaving it as it is for the moment and seeing how we go, but someone has other plans because 'it doesn't match'... like the rest of the house! Ah well... it will sort. Thanks for the good wishes, test results next week, have to make an appointment yet. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Feb 10 - 09:27 PM Never did get the meatballs made or the fridge cleaned out BUT.... I WENT TO YOGA!!!!!!!!!! I have missed it SO MUCH and so has my body!!!! One of the university coaches was there tonight and after class she came over and told me I am amazing, an inspiration. I don't think so but it was really nice to hear!!!!!! I started class with one of my chemo caps on but took it off part way through. I sat in the back and figured who would see me? Nobody except my yoga teacher who was walking around the room and when she got to me (we were on our backs) she smiled and said, "Well look at you!" *Happy, contented sigh* Happy hour yoga was absolutely perfect today! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: mouldy Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:53 AM Oh Michelle, I am so pleased you had a good time! You ARE a shining example to us all! Andrea x |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Feb 10 - 01:26 PM I was exhausted when I rolled into the driveway last night, and was in bed asleep within 10 minutes. Moonglow's costume design worked very well for the play, and we went out to eat after the performance. I took along a pair of black jeans I found at the thrift store that were too long for me. Before hemming them I decided I'd let her try them on. She ended up changing out of the skirt she was planning to wear and added a pair of boots and looked great. Since we wear the same size now, I think I can try more on at the thrift store and ship her some jeans. She's a little short on long pants right now, apparently. This is the big weekend clean up, and I also re-listed the futon on Craig's List. It would also be nice to start on the garden. I need to set up the edge plank for my raised bed. I drove past a house on my way out of town yesterday (had to take a detour past an accident) and saw some raised beds edged by stacked cinder blocks. That is something I might do this year as well, on one end of the garden. I'd better keep moving and not play on the computer too much today. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Liz the Squeak Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:38 PM Decluttered more shelves, shifted a few books around... not a lot else. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: katlaughing Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:03 PM We went to Wally World and picked up the chrome roller cart for hanging files, etc. today. We picked up Morgan along the way who helped Papa put it together, then helped me put the file folders in it and the stuff from my desk into the pull out metal mesh drawers on the bottom of it. It's pretty neat and handy. Looks MUCH better than the ugly plastic tv tray which was straining with too much weight..papers, books, etc. I walked about 35-40 minutes and it was hard, but it got easier as my legs warmed up and felt pretty good at the end. I will do qi gong later today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: maire-aine Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:55 PM Ran the snowblower this morning, even though we only got about 1.5 inches overnight. I didn't want it to freeze on the sidewalk. Went to a Lenten discussion at noon-time, and took along some granola bars and raspberry-leaf tea that I wanted to get out of the kitchen. Both found somebody to take them. Went to the farmers' market this afternoon. Got some fresh spinach and blueberries, and a bunch of dill so I can put that on my salmon for tomorrow's supper. Stopped in to hear a friend playing at one of the nearby restaurants. Love their French onion soup. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Feb 10 - 01:58 AM Good for you, Kat and Maryanne! Good spaces and good food--it's all important! I took a bunch of stuff over to the local recycle drop-off station, and there is an area where people drop large metal things and tires and such. So you see stoves and fridges--and there was this three-shelf metal office-style (you know, government buildings) bookshelf with adjustable shelves. I talked them into letting me have it instead of sending it to the place that recycles all of this. So I'll be moving it into the hall after I give it a good cleaning (it looked okay, but you never know where these things were between now and when they left the county courthouse). I have stuff that it will organize in the hall or the sunroom. I know, I know. Bringing stuff in. But it is almost impossible to ever have too many bookshelves. No nibble on my futon on Craig's List today. The only ones who responded said they wanted to look at it later, someone was out of town--that is a red flag that a scam is afoot. I might be better off donating this and taking a tax deduction. I have always liked it but I don't really need it and I don't think I'm in love with it. I can live without it. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness From: VirginiaTam Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:31 AM straightened lounge practiced guitar, mano and dulcimer yesterday for Lower Stoke today - but got nasty paper cut on finger tip - so no playing for me. did 2 loads laundry kitchen clean bathroom almost clean - floor needs sweeping - my hair made sausage rolls for Lower Stoke gonna practice singing some now before we leave ate about 1000 calories yesterday - not feeling very hungry. hey today is last day of the FEB declutter... WOOT! |
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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! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
