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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 11, 2024 14:22:27 GMT -5
This pup looks almost exactly like mine. She's a mix, though, so she has a real snout and a bit of black on the tips of her ears. She's my first small dog, after a series of Labs and Lab mixes. Cute!
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Post by busymom on Aug 11, 2024 16:29:10 GMT -5
DD woke me up with a telephone call during my nap. Then after I hung up the phone, I had one of the worst charlie horses I've had in a long time. I didn't get in my normal exercise time for a couple of days after DH had his surgery, but I've gotten back into my normal routine. I guess my body isn't impressed. I haven't had a charlie horse that bad since I was pregnant. I've read online that they can get worse with age. So, I'm going to go buy some bananas this evening, and see if that helps. Our big cool down in temps probably isn't helping either.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 11, 2024 16:41:51 GMT -5
DD woke me up with a telephone call during my nap. Then after I hung up the phone, I had one of the worst charlie horses I've had in a long time. I didn't get in my normal exercise time for a couple of days the first couple of days after DH had his surgery, but I've gotten back into my normal routine. I guess my body isn't impressed. I haven't had a charlie horse that bad since I was pregnant. I've read online that they can get worse with age. So, I'm going to go buy some bananas this evening, and see if that helps. Our big cool down in temps probably isn't helping either. I don't get Charlie horse's as often now, as I used to. But when I get them, they're sooo much worse! (more painful)
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Post by busymom on Aug 11, 2024 16:44:05 GMT -5
I checked with "Dr. Google" toomuchreality, just to make sure something else wasn't going on. The only consistent thing was that they supposedly get worse as we get older. Great... Not like I need any other reminder besides looking in the mirror every morning.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 12, 2024 6:44:15 GMT -5
Ugh. It's 5:40AM and I haven't slept yet. Hopefully, I'll get a few hours, at least. Soon.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 6:56:21 GMT -5
I'm up. Slept less than 5 hours last night but should have slept more than 4 hours. Not well hydrated. Only managed about 44 ounces of liquid. Those bites disrupted my evening. Looks better today, but still big, just not angry red. Waiting for maintenance to fix my carbon monoxide detector. I don't know if they needed to buy a new one or simply did not want to show up on Friday. The head of maintenance I think is shopping for a wife/mom to his daughter, and I am declaring not it. He's kind of been off his game since the high heat and IMO is obviously patrolling the grounds. Creeps me out. As a single woman you learn to be wary of this who find you attractive and may think you are the answer to one of their issues or hopes. I think he lives on the property. He's the guy who did not fix my toilet with what I asked. Instead of fixing it, he made it worse. I still have that weird black ring he put n the toilet tank which made it run constantly. I took it out and the cycle was down to every two hours and decided just to love with. Every year wen its hot it does run alot. Things are fixed but like most complexes, to just good enough or OK until it relly breaks. The flapper is degrading though. The water we get is real minerally especially when the water treatment plant decides to flush stuff through. I am close to this one, and its not the good news it would be as if I lived in Parsippany (far better water quality). Anyway, I am tired and now regretting selecting 8A to Noon as my third maintenance window. I selected the two on Friday. Almost tempted to put the piece parts out on the bench.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 8:44:01 GMT -5
Up for the day because of my maintenance window. Wonder if they will show up or it will be the afternoon because they had to go to Home Depot or some such.
Two things accomplished this morning, but really should eat breakfast. After breakfast, I will call my doctor and see what kind of appointment I can set up. I'd prefer virtual but watch her want in person, which is see when county medical transport can take me.
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Post by busymom on Aug 12, 2024 13:00:15 GMT -5
Good Afternoon Kids! Yup, it's Monday. I'd already had paperwork to worry about, and have gotten more since then. Plus, apparently DS is not in a good mood at work today. I guess no one likes Mondays.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 12, 2024 16:37:10 GMT -5
The weather is UGLY right now. We got a severe weather warning, a few minutes ago. And a tornado warning in the next county. (We don't get tornadoes here! Although one went through my neighborhood in 1999.) It's raining hard and the wind is blowing hard. They said beware of hail damage to cars etc.
We've gone from 92° down to 60°. There's a lot of big thunder too.
I don't like living alone, on the 4th floor, in these conditions.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 20:05:43 GMT -5
The weather is UGLY right now. We got a severe weather warning, a few minutes ago. And a tornado warning in the next county. (We don't get tornadoes here! Although one went through my neighborhood in 1999.) It's raining hard and the wind is blowing hard. They said beware of hail damage to cars etc. We've gone from 92° down to 60°. There's a lot of big thunder too. I don't like living alone, on the 4th floor, in these conditions. TMR hang in there. Remember to go to ground or hide in the bathtub if it's that close. I hear the living alone and not on the bottom floor in these conditions ... Praying for you.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 20:07:30 GMT -5
Lots of crap happened today. May or may not post about it. DW is done, its late - time to make the chocolate cake cuz Opti needs some chocolate dessert!
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 12, 2024 20:14:53 GMT -5
The weather is UGLY right now. We got a severe weather warning, a few minutes ago. And a tornado warning in the next county. (We don't get tornadoes here! Although one went through my neighborhood in 1999.) It's raining hard and the wind is blowing hard. They said beware of hail damage to cars etc. We've gone from 92° down to 60°. There's a lot of big thunder too. I don't like living alone, on the 4th floor, in these conditions. TMR hang in there. Remember to go to ground or hide in the bathtub if it's that close. I hear the living alone and not on the bottom floor in these conditions ... Praying for you. The rain finally stopped around 7pm. At least, I'm not likely to get flooded, being on the 4th floor.
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 20:40:18 GMT -5
Chocolate cake mixed and in the oven. Even put out stuff to make frosting. (TY food pantry!)
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Post by Opti on Aug 12, 2024 20:45:54 GMT -5
TMR hang in there. Remember to go to ground or hide in the bathtub if it's that close. I hear the living alone and not on the bottom floor in these conditions ... Praying for you. The rain finally stopped around 7pm. At least, I'm not likely to get flooded, being on the 4th floor. Same, although luckily my building is shorter than yours. But still, if it's a gentle flooding I hope I'll be OK. At least in the short term. Meanwhile in NJ the apartments in Edison were all fixed up enough that residents could return. Ceiling collapsed in two different buildings so on Friday I think the town evacuated all the renters in the complex except one building. These apartments are nicer and more expensive than mine so I was . But they managed to get the landlord and contractors in there so almost everyone is back as of tonight even though spackling and minor stuff needs to be done.
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 8:02:12 GMT -5
Up for the day. Need to eat breakfast and check in for my virtual doc visit. Hopefully this will set my official Care Plan in motion and I can officially get my disability insurance paid out once the insurer approves it. The Care Plan is the piece I need to supply. HR needs to supply the plan of the year to them.
Then of course underwriting delays, which hopefully end b4 September starts. A big chunk of what I get will automatically go to paying my health and dental insurance while I am out on disability.
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Post by busymom on Aug 13, 2024 8:11:52 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! I'm still slammed with paperwork, but if I can get various computer sites to behave, maybe I can get through most of it today. DD & DSIL surprised us by giving us a LOT of food. They help at the local food shelf once a month, and there were so many "leftovers" this month, that there was even too much food for the volunteers to take home. I'm not sure why there was such a huge surplus this month. Maybe a lot of recipients were out of town because it's Summer? There was even name brand stuff, like Fig Newtons, which I happen to love. I'm not picky, if there's leftover generic stuff, and it's something we'd eat, I'll take it. Food prices have gone up a lot here, so anything to help the budget is appreciated.
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 9:34:41 GMT -5
Crap. Yesterday would have been dad's bday. He would be 93 if he was still alive. Not a bad run, still sucks though.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 13, 2024 10:03:29 GMT -5
I have a dr appt today. But I don't wanna. The dr isn't going to be in the office, so I'll be seeing their assistant.
I'm going to dog sit this evening, so DD1 and her wife can go to dinner with friends.
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 11:07:53 GMT -5
Just had my virtual and the doc said I probably did not need it at all. Just to use the specialist's referral and start booking my PT appointments. Think I'll make lunch and see if that office gave me names b4 I left. I was freaking out over the shot in my knee at the time, so not all that focused.
What kind of dog are you dog sitting tonight TMR?
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 13, 2024 11:16:42 GMT -5
Just had my virtual and the doc said I probably did not need it at all. Just to use the specialist's referral and start booking my PT appointments. Think I'll make lunch and see if that office gave me names b4 I left. I was freaking out over the shot in my knee at the time, so not all that focused. What kind of dog are you dog sitting tonight TMR? Two littles, under 5 lbs each. They're sweethearts.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 13, 2024 11:18:54 GMT -5
toomuchreality During tornardo warnings where my dad lived, they had the residents go to the lowest level of the garage. That was the safest spot.
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 11:28:47 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! I'm still slammed with paperwork, but if I can get various computer sites to behave, maybe I can get through most of it today. DD & DSIL surprised us by giving us a LOT of food. They help at the local food shelf once a month, and there were so many "leftovers" this month, that there was even too much food for the volunteers to take home. I'm not sure why there was such a huge surplus this month. Maybe a lot of recipients were out of town because it's Summer? There was even name brand stuff, like Fig Newtons, which I happen to love. I'm not picky, if there's leftover generic stuff, and it's something we'd eat, I'll take it. Food prices have gone up a lot here, so anything to help the budget is appreciated. Sometimes companies donate more than average. Once I scored a bunch of single serving Lays potato chips simply on when they arrived at the food pantry. (Last day it was open that week and they were closing I think within an hour.) It was pretty useful because I am using the food pantry generally as a working FT poor person. I had chips to go to work lunches for a bit. I'm going to ask the universe for too many of those wonderful small potatoes you have to use up pretty quickly.
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Post by jerseygirl on Aug 13, 2024 11:53:24 GMT -5
Prices are up in NJ but crazy in California In an Safeway Ordinary ground beef 80% for hamburgers is $9.99/pound!! Who knows how much in Wholefoods? We stopped there first cause it was closest but RAN out when we saw ordinary coffee was $15 for 12 oz
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 12:31:05 GMT -5
Prices are up in NJ but crazy in California In an Safeway Ordinary ground beef 80% for hamburgers is $9.99/pound!! Who knows how much in Wholefoods? We stopped there first cause it was closest but RAN out when we saw ordinary coffee was $15 for 12 oz I'm curious, are prices for ground turkey and ground pork also high compared to NJ?
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Post by jerseygirl on Aug 13, 2024 12:40:46 GMT -5
Prices are up in NJ but crazy in California In an Safeway Ordinary ground beef 80% for hamburgers is $9.99/pound!! Who knows how much in Wholefoods? We stopped there first cause it was closest but RAN out when we saw ordinary coffee was $15 for 12 oz I'm curious, are prices for ground turkey and ground pork also high compared to NJ? Don’t know. Didn’t buy the ground beef, shocked at price. They bought chicken thighs for kabobs and brats I didn’t go to Safeway with them Went to In n Out burgers really good burgers and fries$50 for 6 of us and 3 got double burgers But son has grape vines loaded with grapes, peach tree with delicious peaches, apple tree. Tomato, zucchini cukes melon herbs growing really nicely. So if you have Ieven small yard growing food will help Little need for air con or heat and most places have solar to help with electric Why am I staying in NJ?!
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Post by busymom on Aug 13, 2024 12:41:07 GMT -5
They literally had cases of food left. DD & I divided up a case of individual bags of Old Dutch potato chips. They're the perfect size to put in DS's lunch that he must bring to work every day (there is no cafeteria). Ever had Tate's cookies? Yum! And the going rate here is around $6 a bag, and I now have a 1/2 dozen bags of those yummy but expensive cookies. That's what I mean about I can't believe this stuff is leftovers. I only scored about a pound & 1/2 of potatoes, but I'm definitely not complaining. There were no other leftovers on fresh produce, other than potatoes. Sometimes they have stuff like mixed greens salads, sweet potatoes, or carrots left too. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Fall. One time the leftovers included boxes of Stovetop Stuffing for the holidays.
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Post by jerseygirl on Aug 13, 2024 12:47:46 GMT -5
They literally had cases of food left. DD & I divided up a case of individual bags of Old Dutch potato chips. They're the perfect size to put in DS's lunch that he must bring to work every day (there is no cafeteria). Ever had Tate's cookies? Yum! And the going rate here is around $6 a bag, and I now have a 1/2 dozen bags of those yummy but expensive cookies. That's what I mean about I can't believe this stuff is leftovers. I only scored about a pound & 1/2 of potatoes, but I'm definitely not complaining. There were no other leftovers on fresh produce, other than potatoes. Sometimes they have stuff like mixed greens salads, sweet potatoes, or carrots left too. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Fall. One time the leftovers included boxes of Stovetop Stuffing for the holidays. Maybe the clients prefer different type of foods. When our church collects food they are specific. Each church in diosce collects different foods But I can see a grocery etc just donating whatever In NYC, the migrants refused to eat the ‘American’ food. So city gave them CCs to use cause huge amounts of food being thrown away. Weird thought they would be more grateful for any food after the ordeal of walking through horrible conditions
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 12:52:08 GMT -5
They literally had cases of food left. DD & I divided up a case of individual bags of Old Dutch potato chips. They're the perfect size to put in DS's lunch that he must bring to work every day (there is no cafeteria). Ever had Tate's cookies? Yum! And the going rate here is around $6 a bag, and I now have a 1/2 dozen bags of those yummy but expensive cookies. That's what I mean about I can't believe this stuff is leftovers. I only scored about a pound & 1/2 of potatoes, but I'm definitely not complaining. There were no other leftovers on fresh produce, other than potatoes. Sometimes they have stuff like mixed greens salads, sweet potatoes, or carrots left too. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Fall. One time the leftovers included boxes of Stovetop Stuffing for the holidays. Yes, I have heard of Tate's. Every once in a while, the better brands need to get rid of stock. I snap them up if they are dairy free or only contain some butter.
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Post by busymom on Aug 13, 2024 14:27:52 GMT -5
They literally had cases of food left. DD & I divided up a case of individual bags of Old Dutch potato chips. They're the perfect size to put in DS's lunch that he must bring to work every day (there is no cafeteria). Ever had Tate's cookies? Yum! And the going rate here is around $6 a bag, and I now have a 1/2 dozen bags of those yummy but expensive cookies. That's what I mean about I can't believe this stuff is leftovers. I only scored about a pound & 1/2 of potatoes, but I'm definitely not complaining. There were no other leftovers on fresh produce, other than potatoes. Sometimes they have stuff like mixed greens salads, sweet potatoes, or carrots left too. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Fall. One time the leftovers included boxes of Stovetop Stuffing for the holidays. Maybe the clients prefer different type of foods. When our church collects food they are specific. Each church in diosce collects different foods But I can see a grocery etc just donating whatever In NYC, the migrants refused to eat the ‘American’ food. So city gave them CCs to use cause huge amounts of food being thrown away. Weird thought they would be more grateful for any food after the ordeal of walking through horrible conditions I agree. Our church used to keep canned & boxed goods stored in our kitchen area, and if anyone came by asking for help, our pastor would send a big box of food with them. The problem is, our pastor later discovered that anything they didn't want would be thrown in the dumpster behind our church. Now he just gives out gift cards, and they can buy with that whatever makes them happy. I hate food waste! If it were me, on those days when cars are lined up around a food distribution site, I'd be out there in the parking lot with a big box for unwanted items, so they could be redistributed to families who would want what others would never use. Of course, that's just me.
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Post by NastyWoman on Aug 13, 2024 15:20:33 GMT -5
Prices are up in NJ but crazy in California In an Safeway Ordinary ground beef 80% for hamburgers is $9.99/pound!! Who knows how much in Wholefoods? We stopped there first cause it was closest but RAN out when we saw ordinary coffee was $15 for 12 oz True but mostly in regular grocery stores (WF would fall in that category) and that is why I shop, as a single person, at Costco. Even though I can't possibly use up the huge amounts I still save significantly on food there. I just post my "too much" on the Buy Nothing FB group so it gets eaten. For instance: I bought 2 huge boxes of Cheerios for less than one slightly smal!er would cost at Safeway. DS and his littles love that stuff. They'll be here next week and after they leave that second box plus whatever else is leftover from all different kinds of food will go on FB and, if the past is anything to go by, it will be picked up within a few hours of my post. I am just glad I don't have two bottomless pits, aka teenage boys, to feed with the current food prices...
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