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Nice setup and nice dress up job! Remind me to talk to you next time I dress...my jeans and sweat top would benefit from some suggestions! 😹😘3
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A lot of guys won't let their partners pick out their clothes, but that's one of the places that the authority transfer works for us. He feels more secure and loved when I do that.4
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When John and I used to travel, take vacations, go on cruises, etc, we always looked like we were going to two different places and not together!…once we were in a 5 Star hotel in Vancouver and we went to one of the lounges to have a drink….John was asked to leave because he wasn’t attired appropriately lol…another time we were at a funeral and John was freezing…the funeral director found him an overcoat to wear…we snickered during the entire funeral wondering if the coat had been on a corpse!….John refuses to wear long pants!…( like the tech on NCIS LA )…. Under bodily harm threats he has worn long pants. on a cruise and to some dinners…..I have never seen him in a tie but once!….a belt maybe a dozen times!….and yet he still manages to pull it off….looks nice and is always in the center of great converations at gatherings…people flock to him lol…on the other hand it takes me hours to get ready to go out….Men!2
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I'm just a little too feminine to be read publicly as soft butch, LOL! Very much a jeans-and-t-shirt sort of woman. I am almost always these days in black yoga pants, a plain colored t-shirt, and if I am cold a black knitted cardigan over the top of it. The thing that takes me longest is washing my hip-length hair, but I only do that once a week. Most days I get up and put on my clothes and am ready to come downstairs and start my day in seven minutes, and that includes taking my hair down and putting it back up and putting in earrings. Boyfriend takes longer. But he usually has to shave because he has an incredibly strong beard.4
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Anyone else trying to figure out how to fit a turkey into their freezer? I keep buying things forgetting that I have to get a dang bird up there sooner rather then later. Really trying to eat out of the freezer as much as possible this week and next. If I can find a not huge turkey this weekend I am going to grab it. It's just for me anyway. But I like to have a whole turkey so I can stuff it and I get the mixture of white and dark meat. I just end up eating the dang thing for like a week.
Also... it's cold this morning. So I am snuggled up in sweatpants, sweatshirt, and fuzzy socks. Oh, and a blanket.3 -
Thanks for the reminder, lol. You'd think that with two fridges and an upright freezer I'd have no trouble, but I will have to do some serious rearranging and reworking. And I'll be doing a larger bird because we did a smaller bird and didn't have enough leftovers to suit us last year.
I'm trying to figure out how to handle the delicate question of rolls.
Normally there would be no question; I make good bread, my sister makes good bread, my son makes good bread, whoever makes the rolls will do well and no worries. The problem is that my sister lost her husband last year (very sudden cancer dx in the middle of pandemic, serious problems with care, and death 6 months after dx) and this is the first Thanksgiving after. We're not close enough for me to call her and talk it out; she will take offense one way or the other if I do. But what I don't want to have happen is for her to be so distracted by feelings that she forgets to do the rolls, and there we are without them. That wouldn't do at all.
I think I may just make rolls that morning in addition and that way I can freeze them for us if we don't need them. That's probably safest.4 -
Last night - to take my mind off tomorrow's shoulder surgery - my kidney decided to birth a little stone.
That was an eye-popping experience.
I'm going to take it all as good timing, because now next week I'll be on my way to being good as new!
And it stopped me from eating or drinking for some 18 hours. Hard to believe - but I survived. So glad I did because I didn't want to go down with a tombstone reading "the last thing she ate was 6 mini chocolate cream donuts (on the sly)."
I have my final two freezer meals to get done today (2 new freezers later
- you would be proud Alexandra of how well I have prepared for two months without my chopping hand!) and then I'm ready.
I figure this will be my first real, planned, maintenance trial. Can't be losing during healing (I don't think?), but don't want to eat a pile of inflammatory processed stuff either. So I will be good
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Laurie I am sending you lots of good thoughts and vibes….I hope everything goes as planned and your operation is a success!1
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Wishing you all the best @lauriekallis … hope you recover nice & quickly x3
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So, my anxiety disorder is getting worse and worse and seems super triggered by noise. Which sucks living in an apartment because there is always some noise. Thinking I may need to make a doctor's appointment to talk about increasing my daily medication and maybe getting a new Xanax prescription. I have had a few nights where I work myself into such a state that I can't eat or I end up sick. Even got an "anxiety rash" the other night on my chest and shoulders. Note... there was no "real" trigger that night or for the attack I just had.
Right now I am sitting in bed thinking I should eat, but worried I will get back into the anxiety cycle and will get sick. My stomach is not settled.
One of those times I hate living alone. I would love to have someone I can lean on here.AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I think I may just make rolls that morning in addition and that way I can freeze them for us if we don't need them. That's probably safest.
I think that is a good plan. Not the same, but after my mom died, the holidays were rough. If your sister forgets and there are no rolls, she might feel like she let people down. This way, you have that backup just in case.lauriekallis wrote: »Last night - to take my mind off tomorrow's shoulder surgery - my kidney decided to birth a little stone. That was an eye-popping experience.
I'm going to take it all as good timing, because now next week I'll be on my way to being good as new!
I will light a candle for you tomorrow. You will have all the good positive healing vibes coming your way!3 -
Thank you all you wonderful people.
Sending calming energy your way, Athijade. That is no way to have to live. I can't remember from previous posts if you have a pet? I tell you my little girl pup is probably the only thing that stops me from crossing the line some days. Living alone is so damned lonely. The furry one is an amazing housemate.
Just stroking her for a little while calms my nerves so very much.
Alexandra, I agree with Athijade - that is a great plan you have.2 -
How is your paw, PAV?????1
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Hey @Athijade ... (waves!)
Oh LAURIE
I hope you are feeling better. And that the surgery will be resoundingly good! 
Alexandra? Why not make SOME (but not a huge amount of rolls) and have them ready anyway. Don't these things freeze too if you have extras or can be ready to go in frozen uncooked format and can be baked from frozen if you're short?
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Your paw???????2
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Paw not as bad as feared but not good. Warranty claim out of time!
Right has no ligament so left has been compensating for years
Due to manufacturing defects during growth spurt left structure susceptible to damage and gotten looser and patella is meandering more than appropriate. Snap Crackle pop.
Take two aspirins and call me in the morning!
Will improve over next 3-4 weeks back to former full range of motion glory.... but glory includes patella that is loose and snap crackle pops?????
(Conversation reminded me that it was daily clicks when weight was higher so long time coming now that I think about it)
Have applied for supplementary info as to any repairs or improvements I could make. Suspect physio? Was not mentioned directly hence the follow up petition that will be reviewed next week at 11:00 👍
Oh... and use it or lose it for osteoarthritic right. Delay replacement as much as possible blah blah
All this via visual inspection no imaging.
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Hop along is hitting 5k+ today👍2
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It’s Thursday here so good luck today for your surgery Laurie! Sending positive vibes your way!3
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Best of luck Laurie for sure!!!2
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Pav, these were the 2 exercises my husband's physio recommended when he severely damaged his meniscus. The injury happened april 2020. Severe enough for surgery, but this was cancelled because of COVID, so we had to explore the rehab route instead. He literally couldn't walk across a room for 3 months - then it took him another 9 months before he could walk for 15 minutes at a slow pace. The exercises were designed to strengthen the muscles around his knee, so that they could take more of the strain.
By April 2021 he started walking further each day, until he could manage 30 minutes without too much discomfort. Then in June he started cycling a little (just gentle rides on flat routes) - this helped strengthen his leg muscles without adding any stress to the knee. In July we got the turbo trainer, and he's come on in leaps and bounds. He can now walk for 90+ minutes without any knee pain, and cycle on the turbo (on courses that are a mixture of flat and hilly) for about 75 minutes. The progress (which was tormentingly slow for the first year) has been astonishing since June. So a bike trainer is definitely something to consider...in the meantime, the exercises may help...
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I have both knees replaced and I sound like the tin man when they creak…drives me nuts!…I can’t get down on my knees at all or it just about kills me….I probably could have put off replacing them a little while longer but I wanted to get them done while I was a little younger and they did need done….
Get better PAV
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Thanks guys and 🤞 for Laurie2
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Considering I just had my 74th birthday, I am grateful to still have all my original parts - except for some tooth crowns. This is not to say everything works 100%. My hip/foot problem is resolving itself with exercises and moderation. I’m back to the gym and walking but it has to be flat surfaces like the treadmill. PAV, I hope you can get some level of pain relief before going the bionic route. 🤖
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Went to the store today. It's always exciting to try to figure out what the gaps in the supply chain will bring. Is it safe to wait to get the fancy cracker assortment or should I buy it early? Will there be lunch meat? How about ground turkey? (sigh) I do not like that uncertainty. I do not like it at all.
I was able to get everything today, which is not always the case, but it is really chilly and was windy when I was out, and I laid down half to get all the way warm and half to deal with the overstimulation. I suspect this evening I will move my relaxing to the couch, with a lot of hot tea and the wooly sitting slippers. And maybe a lap blanket. (Which will ensure I will have a lap cat too.)3 -
You cat people!
I think CCCGG hasn't fully disclosed her domestic feline situation (weekend/summer place in Island of Aigina)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9TsUXLPXiA3FK4fQ91 -
Sigh….we have the air on and it’s been raining most of the day….supposed to get cooler like 80 degrees lol and then back to hot!2
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You cat people!
I think CCCGG hasn't fully disclosed her domestic feline situation (weekend/summer place in Island of Aigina)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9TsUXLPXiA3FK4fQ9
The black one is a dead ringer for my Nyx...
And yes, she is sitting on the instructions. Helping Boyfriend.
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If you feed them, they will come!2
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If you feed them, they will come!
She obviously is guilt tripped into feeding instead of letting them starve. The black one, Naomi, is more adopted than not by her ~20y daughter who has been spending more time in the area, especially with COVID, and they have managed to coral her and take her to the vet for shots and sterilization--the cat not the daughter!
The rest are more feral!
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at kitty cats....
me all screwed together....hurts like the dickens though. might need those opioids
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