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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 10:06 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 |
