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Where I live you have to get tested from your car if you have any kind of COVID like symptoms. They come out in full hazmat gear to test you. If you are just getting tested pre-surgery or something and have no symptoms, you can go inside. And no way would they let me inside for a mammogram. You really shouldn't even…

Congratulations! We paid ours off last October and it has been glorious. We were making double payments to get it paid off early so we just transferred that amount each month into the "repair and maintenance" fund. That's what has paid for our tree work that we had done in the spring and our garage and outside painting…

Depending on your pants, your experience may have been cheaper than mine. A $15 copay at the doctor and a $45 copay at the pharmacy for the tetanus shot would have bought me a pretty nice pair of pants! Seriously, my two falls about a month apart are not encouraging me as I age. My jammed finger is still not well, although…

Caught up on reading but no energy to comment. I’ve been working non-stop trying to get the garage back together. I was derailed for a bit yesterday when I tripped over a tree root, fell, and cut my knee wide open on gravel. It didn’t even make a hole in my pants, but required 5 stitches to close the wound. One more day of…

Congratulatios, Machka! You have worked long and hard for this!

Fly by post: Another former coworker died of COVID yesterday. She, her husband and daughter all got it. She and husband were hospitalized. Daughter recovered at home. Husband got to go home last week. She just got progressively worse. I'm so over this virus. Then today, as I was visiting my 87 and 91 year old parents, my…

Fae, on spelling of names. Mine has always been Kay but I remember going through a period of thinking it would be so much cooler to be Kaye. In recent years, I met a woman who has become a dear friend who spells her name Kae. She is the only person I know who spells our name that way. Karen, I remember your grief at the…

I’m a 38 H and my Wacoal Awareness bra is comfortable. My Glamorise sports bra is even more comfortable, so I choose it if I’m going to be working hard and getting sweaty. Going braless, on the other hand, is not comfortable unless I’m sleeping.

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Are you talking about the CBT oil for dogs? That was someone else. I have no idea. Well, today was jeans day on my dress your shape class and I learned that I should not wear skinny jeans. Tell that to the 4 pairs in my closet and the pair on my butt right now. I am willing to shop for one perfect pair as they describe,…

Machka I think, asked about shoes. I have shoe shelves under my hanging clothes where I store my everyday shoes with no boxes just lined up on the shelves. My dressier shoes are stored in their boxes on the top shelf of my closet. Michele, no the clothes don’t fall over when you take some out. If I take one from the…

Most of them are these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5CKFO1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The shirts have no dividers. The ones I am using for the dressy tanks are hard plastic. I picked them up at Bed Bath & Beyond. They are not my favorites. I much prefer the cloth covered cardboard ones that I…

Michelle, I don’t roll my clothes, i fold them and store them vertically in the drawers,

Well, it’s barely 8 a.m. and I’ve already messed up. I woke up energized and put a load of laundry in. Totally forgot the guy was coming to pressure wash the house and I shouldn’t be using water. I told Dave I’d sacrifice my shower for the cause, and I changed the settings to one rinse instead of two on the washer. There’s…

Re the clutterbug quiz: I am a bee. Anybody follow Cas, the originator of clutterbug? She had weight loss surgery and lost 100 lbs in 6 months, but she just had to have emergency gall bladder surgery and is losing some hair from the quick weight loss. She looks gorgeous, though. I belong to her clutterbug FB group as well…

Condolences, Allie. It’s so sad to see so many lives destroyed with drugs and alcohol. You don’t have to ask me how I know. I was wrong about the body types. I totally forgot apple. How could I forget apple? So, pear, carrot, apple, straight ((or rectangle) and curvy ( which I assume is hourglass). My sister says her body…

Barbara, he suffered from depression and opiod addiction. He had been sober for 10 months until the pandemic hit. No access to meetings and other isolation was too much for him and he relapsed. Very sad. He was a brilliant young man who studied engineering at LSU, but drugs are no respecter of persons.

I’m caught up with 250 posts. I’m sure I missed some things. Monday, the same day I fell and jammed my finger, I got a call that my nephew had died. They were in Louisiana. We are in Georgia. We had to wait out the hurricane in Alabama and Mississippi before we could travel down on Friday for the service on Saturday. I…

Beyond whiny! I was feeling so good today, getting a bunch of stuff done, then I tripped and fell sprawling and either jammed or broke my right pinky finger. It throbs, won’t bend, and is swelling and turning purple on the underside. I’ve taped it to the finger next to it and iced it. If it gets worse, I’ll take it to the…

Thoughts and prayers for all dealing living close to the fires. Barbara, I've been following your husband's story with interest since mine also has glaucoma. When i told him your husband's numbers, he said, "Holy, kitten!' (I went ahead and typed kitten since I knew MFP would do it to the word Dave used.) Dave's right eye…

I thought I’d share the before and after of my sunroom rug. The black rug came with the furniture and matched the loveseat throw pillows. It was never what I really wanted, but it wasn’t bad so I lived with it for 6 years. I like the update. I’m not sure about the orange pillows but they’re just shams on top of the…

Pip, I like the original way best and the way with the rocker in the corner second. I don't like the one with the rocker next to the fireplace, but it might have just been the angle of the picture. It looked like the flow of traffic was blocked. Regardless, it is a beautiful room. You have a great sense of style.

Thank you for this link. This site was very helpful. Like Beth, I am only overweight on this chart. Yay! When I put in my target weight, the site told me that was "very ambitious" and suggested that I start with losing 11 pounds and maintain that for a while. They also cautioned me not to cut calories too much. None of…

Yay! My friend and my coworker connected and got the iPad unlocked. I can quit stewing over that. Did she tell me she fixed it? No! I had to ask. I was ready to wipe my laptop and give it to the student. Shoot, I may still do it. I was getting all psyched shopping for a new one. Better stress shopping than stress eating,…

Kim, the thing is I don’t think I can do it anymore. Even if I took it to apple, they’re going to ask questions about her apple id and password that I can’t answer. She is going to have to do it. She may have to get the iPad back in her possession to do it. She did offer to drive to the coworker’s house and get it. I’m…

Tldr: long, exasperating day, possibly overreacting. I need a hug.

Lisa, I have both of these. I prefer the cable bands, but either would give you a good workout.

New month, new planner, fresh start. Baby stepping my way back to restoring my temple. My September goals: 1. Devotion every morning. 2. Movement every day (5 frequency walks, 10,000+ steps) 3. Drink my water (>96 oz) 4. Log food honestly 5. Take my vitamins every day. 6. Metabolic workout 3 times a week. My weight has…

Thank y’all for the anniversary wishes. We are pretty happy with each other in this phase of life. There were times in those 45 years when I wasn’t so sure we’d make it. Margaret, my heart still breaks for you. Barbie, I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. I love your tribute to her. More later.

I seldom notice the reactions to posts. I have noticed, though, that the disagree button is right where I put my finger to scroll on my iPad. I hope that I haven’t been disagreeing accidentally. I have never once hit the disagree button on purpose.