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Dec. 24th, 2025 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI have this new yarn project in my head that I can't get out of it. It's taking my DK (smaller sized) yarn and chaining it into fat yarn and then knitting or crocheting something with the fat yarn. I don't want to stop making minimonsters yet so I'm hoping that I cannot think of anything I really want made out of fat yarn so that the idea will go away.
My swim this morning was particularly good except the music was not. Turns out I am not only listening to my 6,000 mp3's but all mostly, so far, deleting them. Wtf was I thinking with some of this stuff?? Tomorrow's line up is way better.
I ordered two dinners - beef Wellington, crab cake, baked potato and ginger cookies and turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, a charcuterie selection, and two gingerbread cookies. I put the turkey dinner away for tomorrow. As well as the charcuterie. I ate the beef Wellington which was waaaaay over cooked but did actually have some flavor and the crab cake which had a lovely white sauce on top. I scooped out the baked potato and added a bunch of shit to it and put it back into now 2 twice baked potatoes. I saved the cookies. Oh and I picked up some sushi in the Bistro on the way home.
Tomorrow is a buffet which means seeing people plus the menu isn't all that appealing so I'm just going to eat what I now have which, honestly, is plenty and looks all very delicious.
The cats have been asleep in the closet all damn day. They've each come out once, checked on the food situation and then gone back to sleep there, I'm considering doing a breathing check. Oh, wait, as I type this, here they come out now.
We were supposed to have a ginormous windstorm today but apparently someone canceled it. Just as well, I like my electricity.
For many years now I have wanted my Echo, to chime every 15 minutes like a clock. There have been various work around and tricks to make it happen but none have ever worked well or consistently. i ran a program on my PC for a long time but when I retired the PC, the program went, too. Then, about the time I moved in here, I found an android app that does what I want. It gives me a Big Ben Chime every 15 minutes and bongs out the hour count. I run it off and old phone and it works great but it's never been loud enough to hear throughout the apartment.
This morning I decided to look on Amazon for a small Bluetooth speaker in hopes of getting some volume. I was just starting the search when I realized that my Echo's will all Bluetooth! I have one in the center of the house that has nice volume. I paired it with the phone and it's perfect! What the fuck too me so long to figure this out???? No matter. I'm enjoying the bongs and, with the extra volume I can also have the seconds ticking. It's a lovely sound.
Oh and in other small victories. Apple TV+ let me back in and gave me 3 free months! For some reason last year they locked my account and wouldn't unlock it. I could have called but I just said fuck it instead. I guess they got a little butthurt and changed their minds. They offered 3 free months so I tried again and bingo bango, I'm back in. Til March, then we will divorce again but this time, I'll be the plaintiff.
Time now for some more Shetland.
My swim this morning was particularly good except the music was not. Turns out I am not only listening to my 6,000 mp3's but all mostly, so far, deleting them. Wtf was I thinking with some of this stuff?? Tomorrow's line up is way better.
I ordered two dinners - beef Wellington, crab cake, baked potato and ginger cookies and turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, a charcuterie selection, and two gingerbread cookies. I put the turkey dinner away for tomorrow. As well as the charcuterie. I ate the beef Wellington which was waaaaay over cooked but did actually have some flavor and the crab cake which had a lovely white sauce on top. I scooped out the baked potato and added a bunch of shit to it and put it back into now 2 twice baked potatoes. I saved the cookies. Oh and I picked up some sushi in the Bistro on the way home.
Tomorrow is a buffet which means seeing people plus the menu isn't all that appealing so I'm just going to eat what I now have which, honestly, is plenty and looks all very delicious.
The cats have been asleep in the closet all damn day. They've each come out once, checked on the food situation and then gone back to sleep there, I'm considering doing a breathing check. Oh, wait, as I type this, here they come out now.
We were supposed to have a ginormous windstorm today but apparently someone canceled it. Just as well, I like my electricity.
For many years now I have wanted my Echo, to chime every 15 minutes like a clock. There have been various work around and tricks to make it happen but none have ever worked well or consistently. i ran a program on my PC for a long time but when I retired the PC, the program went, too. Then, about the time I moved in here, I found an android app that does what I want. It gives me a Big Ben Chime every 15 minutes and bongs out the hour count. I run it off and old phone and it works great but it's never been loud enough to hear throughout the apartment.
This morning I decided to look on Amazon for a small Bluetooth speaker in hopes of getting some volume. I was just starting the search when I realized that my Echo's will all Bluetooth! I have one in the center of the house that has nice volume. I paired it with the phone and it's perfect! What the fuck too me so long to figure this out???? No matter. I'm enjoying the bongs and, with the extra volume I can also have the seconds ticking. It's a lovely sound.
Oh and in other small victories. Apple TV+ let me back in and gave me 3 free months! For some reason last year they locked my account and wouldn't unlock it. I could have called but I just said fuck it instead. I guess they got a little butthurt and changed their minds. They offered 3 free months so I tried again and bingo bango, I'm back in. Til March, then we will divorce again but this time, I'll be the plaintiff.
Time now for some more Shetland.