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I love to organize and keep trying to justify buying a cricut to make fancy labels for organizing. I have used a label machine called the PTouch for probably 40 years and replaced it once or twice. They cost around $30-$50. I have lots of different colors of tapes for different projects.
A cricut is much more expensive but people make such beautiful artistic labels with them. I have a dream of running a home organizing business where I would go in and make people's closets, drawers, pantries, and refrigerators into attractivly organized and labeled masterlpieces.
Labels are the secret of organizing and keeping it organized. Without labels it is too easy to put things in the wrong place and then not be able to find them when they are needed. Everytime I go to put a cricut in my Amazon or craft store shopping cart, I talk myself out of it when I see the total with the machine and the supplies.
My favorite is cherry pie. I used to bake a lot of pies for Thanksgiving and some were cherry. After surgery I also would bake one cherry pie that was sugar-free. Giant Eagle here sells a cherry pie that I have to admit is just as good as mine. It is $20 a pie and seems like a lot but I will buy one for Thanksgiving.
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I read it is because we are building in their habitat and they have nowhere to live.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Beautiul dress and that color is gorgeous on you.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Poor Tange. I always kept the cone on a few days because they can tear their stitches out. She should be ok soon.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Thanksgiving pizza has to be interesting. I am a fan of pizza with red sauce, ham and pineapple. Something no Italian would approve of.
Thanksgiving morning memories are tearing up bread for stuffing, frying celery and onions, putting the stuffing in the turkey, watching the cranberries pop.
The Thanksgiving parade with the wonderful floats, all the pies with real whipped cream. It was definitely the food holiday. We were Catholic and could not have Turkey on Friday. It was so tempting to cheat.
The week following we had turkey dishes every day until it was gone.
I will make turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce and eat it until I am tired off it.
I love traditions.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
That is a lot of groceries and I know it is not everything. Your feast will be wonderful.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I should have known you would have a recipe. Please send it to me.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I am so glad you feel better.
I have a quiet day today. A dentist appointment tomorrow and pretty much nothing else this week. Think I will schedule a pedicure. I am going to go through all closets and drawers for donations but might wait until after Thanksgiving.
I made fresh cranberry sauce last night and going to pitch it. There are little bits of leaves or something in it. I am going try again but see you have to really clean the berries carefully first. First time not out of the can.
I am defrosting a 3 pound boneless turkey breast. Still deciding what to do with it. Brine? oven? InstaPot, or crockpot? I will be at my sisters Thanksgiving. I love turkey so this one is for me. Sometimes they come out too dry. I am hoping to have nice, juicy meat for home.
Hope everyone has amazing BBC week.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
When I entertained a lot I had a stove with double oven. JB will love it, especially on holidays.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I blocked Ava so did not know she had been posting. She has a lot of problems. Sometimes I get nausea like that due to sinus starting to act up. Hope yours is better soon.
I got a lot accomplished last week with cleaning and organizing and my ToDo list is finished for a while. Great feeling to cross so many things off and see everything done.
I bought a bag of Brach's Christmas nougats last week. Was going to save for Christmas, but opened the bag and in a few days I had eaten all of them. I will not be buying those again.
Christmas is wonderful. Our family has our big get together on Christmas Eve. It used to be at my house but now we rent a place because it is more than 50 people. It is a log cabin that was the original schoolhouse in our city. It has been restored with modern heat and plumbing. There will be a fire in the fireplace and one of my brothers will be Santa.
This is him playing Santa last Christmas with my great nephew Carter.
Have a great day everyone.
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I never paid much attention to him after he left here. What a crazy life. Wild animals used to be pretty common in Ohio. They changed the laws about 10 years ago, but before that there were a lot of people with exotic animals in Ohio. Often they were pretty neglected, with fleas and other problems. Every once in a while, one would escape and usually end up being shot. People kept them in cages and sometimes got pretty careless.
In 2011 an exotic animal owner let 58 animals loose and then killed himself. The lions, tigers, bears, giraffes and wolves were all captured or killed in the next day. After that incident Ohio made some strict laws about keeping exotic animals.
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It is rainy and cold here and will stay around 50 and wet for the next few days. Good weather to stay inside and get things done. I am cleaning and organzing. It is so good to get rid of things that I think I need and then ended up just being clutter.
I love haddock and rarely can find it here. Do you buy it frozen and thaw it? We used to have a fish market and I would buy it there. I ordered Wild Alaska last year and their fish was all excellent. Frozen in individual portions and really good. I probably should do that again.
Tyson had a home close to where I live. He lived in a 13,500 foot mansion and paid local people really huge salaries when they worked for him. It was back in the 1980's and he had this wild-haired promotor named Don King who was a big celebrity back then. Tyson lost most of his money after the ear biting incident and the deserted mansion belongs to a church now.
Tyson was a troubled youth from New York who made it to the big time, but inside still a very troubled teenager. I thought he was older than 58. He had a beautiful wife back then that divorced him due to him abusing her.
QOTD: I have never done meal prep, so decide what to eat each day. It is just me, so nobody else is going to be disappointed by what I fix. And I have been used meal delivery way too much since COVID. I am planning to stop doing that and fix food myself.
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I have been procrastinating on cleaning my office. When I am not working it tends to become a place to put things down and forget about them. Today is completely going to be for that project. My dream is to someday have nothing on my To Do list but don't believe that ever really happen.
For most of my life, meal planning has mostly been looking at resturant menus. Since the COVID lockdown, it has been Ubereats, Doordash, and Grubhub. I am working on changing that and doing more home cooking so I can control what goes into it. Also facing how much I really spend delivery charges, tips, and pretty inflated prices when you order meals online.
Yesterday I made a cabbage soup with ground beef, cabbage, tomatoes and onions. It turned out really watery and bland so I went online to see what to do with soup that is too thin. One sites suggested a roux. Something I never tried before. It is just heating up butter and stirring in flour. I gave it a shot and was amazed how much it helped the soup.
I have been watching cooking shows and trying to get my food to taste better and keep me more interested in preparing and eating meals. In the past, I would have ordered something delivered if my cooking disappointed me. I concentrated on work and other activities most of my life and cooking was a boring task. Now I have time to play with cooking and learn techniques. It is fun.
QOTD: Do you like to try cooking new foods or pretty much stick with the same items everyday?
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I use mine mostly for frozen vegetables that you steam in their package in the microwave. It works well for me because the packages are small and quick to cook with no pan or water.
I never thought about that reason for the two-week rule but it makes a lot of sense.
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I was self-employed for years and I had to make taking a vacation a priority. I made plans carefully ahead of time and committed to doing them just like another job. Not feeling well does suck the joy out of life. I have had different vitamin deficiencies that have really made me feel bad. I only take vitamin D if my blood count shows that it is low. There was a point where I was taking a lot of it. All of this becomes such a balancing act. Sometimes I feel fine and then the blood work shows problems. I hope you feel better and enjoy life more. Say hello to your kitties from their Aunt Mary.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Get Rudy certified as an emotional support animal. Then they have to let him on the plane. You can do it online.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I worked for EDS, the computer company run by Ross Perot. You got two weeks off starting the first year. You were required to take the two weeks off all together. He believed you needed the first week to get over the stress of work and the second to actually enjoy a vacation and relax. It was an additional week every five years. But the rule was one two-week vacation a year.
I see people who make their vacation really a stressful experience by doing things like working late the last day, driving for too long when tired and worrying about being late for a plane or other event. Now there are also cell phones and tablets and many people never disconnect from work for even a week. My vacations were always very flexible. When I travel with other people, I sometimes see them so stressful. Around here many people drive to Ocean City or Myrtle Beach. We all run into each other at the beach and the men often have conversations where they compete on who drove there the fastest.
It is amazing to me that someone I consider well educate, like a teacher, can be so stupid as to make a post like that. My sister worked in a bank and told me stories about teachers and their strange ideas about money. They would come in with their check and ask to cash the check and make a mortgage payment and a savings deposit. But they wanted the cash first and then count out the money for savings and the payment. They just could not comprehend that it could all be done at once.
A FEMA worker in Florida was fired for skipping homes with Trump signs. There is an old saying that common sense is not that common.
After surgery I bought a Magic Bullet and wore out three of them in the first two years. The Instant Pot is my go-to appliance now. I am old enough to remember a world before microwaves. When we got a microwave, I cooked everything in it and ruined a lot of meat dishes. It quickly became the coffee warmer.
The Instant Pot and the Air Fryer really do what we thought the microwave would do fifty some years ago. They have made cooking so much easier for the modern generation.
Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
That sounds delicious. I always use an oven bag and think it keeps it moister.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
You both look great. Marilyn's dress and hair are beautiful. I used to carry slippers in my purse for when my feet would get too sore from the heels. I have had broken heels but never had a shoe deteriorate. What a miserable thing to go through and she still looks so put togethe and happy.
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I never was a real drinker. When we went out I would order drinks with fruit or ice cream. My husband said it was much cheaper to take me to the Dairy Queen and I actually enjoyed that more. I used to have one or two drinks. After surgery I get light headed from half a drink. Especially if I do not eat before. I have an arrangement with my nephew. I order the fancy drink with things like pineapple juice and little umbrellas. I drink a small amount of it and then Kenny finishes it for me. He is always so happy when I order a drink because he knows he will actually drink most of it.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
It is already Tuesday and feels like it was just Friday. I had a great weekend with my family. We went to a Korean resturant and shared a lot of different appetizers and entries. The beef shortrib ragu and the butternut squash risotto was really good. But seeing people is the best part of going out.
I always loved volleyball and when I was a teenager used to spend hours working on my serve and playing games. I don't have enough speed or balance for that anymore. But I am learning that there is always a way to do things, even if it is a very different way from when I was younger.
QOTD: Have you found a way to do a sport that is harder as you get older? I am joining my senior center chair volleyball team. It looks funny but a good way for seniors to stretch and work on balance.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I agree. I was completely alone and needed the companionship and Gizmo needed a mother. I have had a cat since 10 years old and really love having one around.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I got some zofran and take one if I have nausea. It really helps.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Thanks for getting things started today. I turned 76 this year and have been doing taxes for about four months every year since 2017. I enjoyed the work, the people, and the extra income. It was remote and Intuit has wonderful management and really treat people well.
I am at the point of starting another season but struggled all summer with whether or not I really wante to do it this year. Yesterday I sat down and thought things through and decided it is time to completely retire. I feel this is the right move for me. I still love the work, the people, and the challenge, but my body just seems to need more rest and less stress now.
It is a bit daunting but I feel very relaxed about it and slept really well last night. I have enough to keep myself busy partly because everything seems to take longer to do.
I relate to not needing any more animals. I lost a 19 year old cat last summer and made the decision not to replace her. But last month I saw a cat on Facebook and just wanted to help it. I ended up adopting him and he was the right decision for me. I did get the robot litterbox and and that is a game changer. Gizmo stays with me all day. If I leave the house he sits by the door with a toy waiting for me to come home.
He is about two and was abandoned and living in the woods. A lady saw him one day and snapped a picture. He is so pretty and I fell in love with the look in his eyes. I told her I would get a trap, food, and pay her for her time if she would try to catch him. I was not sure if I was going to be able to keep him but said if not, I would find him a home. It turned out that he have no front claws and was covered in scratches from being attacked by other animals when trying to survive on his own. He was chipped but I could not find the numbero online.
I really don't want to know why he was out there alone. My guess is that someone died and the family got rid of him. Either that or some other sad situation because a declawed cat should never go outside. He is very affectionate and playful. He carries his toys around and takes them to bed at night. I thought I was too old for this but love his companionship and have made arrangements for him in case he outlives me. He loves people and runs to anyone who comes to the door for pets and play.
QOTD: I live in a condo now and the lawn people do the leaves. But I miss those days of raking and cleaning up the yard. Lowes had leaf bags that said "What did you do this weekend? I loved piling up them up for pickup. One year our leaf pickup was scheduled to start the day after trick or treat. The kids tore up a lot of those bagged leaves and the city learned to get them picked up before trick of treat night.
Exercise all of my life has been the water. Swimming or water aerobics of just getting in the pool in the winter and walking. I am usually at the pool in the summer as long as the weather is dry and warm. Our weight loss surgery program included a water aerobics class twice a week at the Jewish Community Center. It was a great place to meet with other weight loss surgery people. They have a steam room and that used to feel so great during the first winter after surgery when I could never get warm.
I got a recument bike during COVID with iFit. I still use that. We have a great pool just about a mile from my house with a water aerobics program. One of the instructors is 90 years old and gets around like a teenager. Water aerobics is such perfect exercise for everyone and especially for seniors.
I got to an exercise class at my senior center. We have people in their 90's who still come and are in pretty good shape. We do a lot of light weights, stretching and balacing exercises. It gets us out of the house, with other people, and staying active.
Three of my sisters are here from North Carolina and we are going to lunch today. It is so good to see them.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
That mailman picture should go viral. So many bad stories about dogs and mailmen. Those two are sweethearts. You and your mom look great and your food pictures look so professional.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
