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Headed south

This morning I'm off to Ikea. I need new wash cloths, new dining chair covers, frying pans for induction and likely more crap that catches my eye on the way to the stuff I want.  If I get there early enough, probably one of those $.99 Ikea breakfasts.

And the on to Fry's.  I ordered 3 different cables from Amazon.  Turns out I do need 3 but I need 3 of all the same kind male VGA to male VGA.  Amazing that in a house packed with cords and cables, I do not have what I need - not even one. I need to go through all those cables and plugs and connections and send more than half of it all to the Goodwill.

This morning, after swimming for about 20 minutes, I caught some water in my throat and it caused me to cough which caused... my fucking nose to bleed again!  It wasn't much and the good lifeguard was on duty.  I assured her it was a nothingburger and fortunately, it stopped bleeding nearly as soon as it started.

I wish this damn nose would fix itself.  This is all the same spot bleeding.  At least it's no longer gushing and does stop quickly now.

I was able to finish my mile without any problem.  Whew.

I got an email last night from the housecleaner saying she would be here today.  Yeah! This house really needs some cleaning love.

Oh my! I just saw on Twitter that one of my favorite former Mariners has been named manager of the Class A farm team. His first management job.  Go Dave Valle!  I hope he has great success.  I'm enjoying seeing the dribs and drabs of baseball news.  I'm ready.

Now I'm ready to get up and get dressing and get going.

today's basket

Done and done and done

First of all, I totally forgot to post the photo of the bear that shutterbug 'designed'.  The purple is a new (to me) color that I really like.  We will be seeing more of it after my next yarn order.

My housecleaner arrived way early which turned out to be fine.  But, I hate being here while she and her daughter work so I hit the road.  Good drive and got to Ikea in time for a love breakfast.

Once I started shopping though, I started feeling really crummy.  So I pretty much got what I came for and got out of there.  On to Fry's where the cables I wanted were on the first end cap I came to.  This is not that good since it really just wiped out any reason to wander around looking for them and so seeing all kinds of other wonderful stuff.  But, again, wasn't feeling great so just paid for them and left.

Actually feeling crappy while you shop turns out to be a great money saver!!

I felt better once I got home so I tackled the cable project and finished it off and packed up the $50 worth of stuff I ordered from Amazon and is either wrong and/or I don't need.

I took the package down to the garage where UPS will pick it up and took my old frying pans to the free shelf.  My Ikea loot includes 2 frying pan and a saute pan.  Nice.

And I now have a very tidy cable area that is also very organized. I have all three monitors in use and all is good.  I went to print out my Amazon labels and remembered I hadn't told the printer about the new wireless.  Resetting the modem makes me remember - often one by one - just how many things in this house need wifi to operate!  My brother bugs me constantly for the simpleton password I use on my network but entering a password into the printer, the TiVo, the internet radios is painful enough without having an obnoxious password.

I do think my next home project is going to be Spring cleaning... Going through drawers and shelves and cupboards and do a massive culling.  I do not need all the shit that is filling up my inside the home real estate.  I have two drawers in the bathroom which really need to be emptied and and redone.  The kitchen junk drawer really needs it.  And then, the terrace.  I have 8-10 foot tall cupboards out there that are just crammed with crap.  Most of it I do not need at all but all of it needs to be gone through and culled out.  Spring and Fall are the only good ops.  Summer's too hot and Winter's too cold to spend any time out there.  So, as soon as it gets warmer. that's going to be my project.

The bathroom and kitchen do not have the weather excuse.  They can be done anytime.  And I will. But not today.

This damn nose

Another nose bleed - same spot.  I am really getting tired of this.  I'm seriously considering laying off the aspirin for a day or two just to get the damn thing heeled.

When I'm not here, Amira, the house cleaner likes to make small changes.  She swaps the ottoman.  Or moves the pillows. Today it was the lap robes.  I've kept the brown one on my chair next to me. It got moved to the green ottoman.  The multi colored one that has been over the back of one of the dining room chairs, got moved to the sofa.

And now, Zoey thinks it's her new throne.  She claimed it this afternoon and keeps going back there.  It's really cracking me up.

She's such a funny cat.  (And, by the way, all the litter box changes - lining the chest with shower curtain, swapping out the actual litter box for one with high sides - has apparently done the trick.  I can see where she's tried to pee over the edge but it was just too high so now she's going in the middle of the box.  Yeah.)