Nov. 8th, 2019

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Several people, recently, have unfriended me on LiveJournal. I guess they've had enough cat photos or boring days of well off old white ladies with lovely lives. Or they are tired of me. A couple of them have friends only journals I will miss. Sigh...

BUT also, recently, at least 3 old LiveJournal friends have dipped their toe into coming back!! This is way cool. Very way cool. I do hope they decide to stay. It's such a treat to see their usernames in my feed again. This is exactly why, when I clean out my LJ friends list, I never remove someone just because they haven't posted in years. I love prodigals.

The last two sets of press on nail polish from the startup (Manime.co) had not been good. At all. They look nice but lift up around the edges. So disappointing. BUT, I'm sold on the concept and tried some el cheapos from Amazon which worked fine. I love having nail polish on. I hate polishing. I hate sitting for a professional manicure. And regular polish chips off when your hands stay in water as much as mine do. Nail wraps - even the cheap stuff - doesn't care if I swim. And there are lots of different brands to try.

The Smalls thew up this morning. No clue why. He seemed pretty shocked by the situation. Biggie ran to his side. It was so sweet. He seems fine now. And went right back to get some more breakfast. I'd like him not to be sick. Which reminds me that next week they go back for yet another Leukemia test. It might be just The Smalls since Biggie was negative last time. I'll take them both and see what they say.

Project Find Space In The Garage is proceeding. Sherri, who parks across from me said she thinks she'll be out a week from today for a couple of hours. She's on vacation and will confirm when she gets back tomorrow. The crack seems to have stabilized and not grown bigger since yesterday so I still think we're in a 'no hurry' situation. I got one comment yesterday that my insurance should cover the cost. So clearly, I wasn't clear. My insurance is happy to cover the cost. My deductible is $500. The windshield, thankfully, will cost less than that. So I pay the insurance company or I pay the window fix it people. Same amount.

If Biggie is resting on the green blanket next to me and The Smalls is bugging me. I can gently pick him up and put him on the blanket and he'll nuzzle right into Biggie and stay there. If The Smalls is on the blanket and Biggie is bugging me, he will not stop until really ready. If I try to place him on the blanket, both of them will then come back and fight over my lap. Biggie's happy in my lap as long as I scratch behind his ears between every sentence. The Smalls needs to be in my arms, near my face. It's so interesting how tied they are to each other and how very different they are. But, still, I often need their collar colors to tell them apart on the fly.

Today will be laundry. And working on my Mariners shirt. If the cats allow, I might be able to finish it today. I need gas. I could use a slice of pizza. There may be a Costco run.

Oh and I think I figured out the mystery tunic pattern. I think it's a combo. The turtle neck of one pattern with the rest from another with the short sleeves lengthened to long. I am writing down all the details from here on out forever and ever amen.

Oh and the pool... me and one other woman this morning for the first 45 mins and then the guy who got squeezed out three times this week, came in. So Mondays and Fridays - virtually empty. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - packed. Also the manager was on duty this morning. He's the nicest, most ineffectual guy ever. Really. To you face, he could not be more friendly, accommodating, helpful. But, since he took over, the place has really tanked. The locker room is a hot mess. There's been the same bandaid on the floor of the shower stall I use for more than 2 weeks now. He showed up to open the doors at 5:03 am.

I did stop by after my swim and ask him about the Saturday morning aqua fit class. If they could start at 9:15/9:30 it would allow us who come at 8 to at least get a good swim in. But, since they start taking out the lane lines at 8:30, it's a problem. He listened carefully and asked some questions and said 'I don't do the scheduling' but let me look into it. I suggested he could use his influence and he smiled and said he would.

I am absolutely sure that it zipped right out of his pretty little head before the elevator doors taking me down to the garage had closed. But, at least he was very pleasant about it.

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Nov. 8th, 2019 01:54 pm
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Ok so that's weird. Biggie is here on the couch with me and The Smalls is MIA. I went to look and he's napping in the sewing room with Alf and Teddy. Wonder if they had a tiff...

I finished the shirt! All t-shirts except the cowl which was pajama bottoms that they gave out last year.

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I like it. I have one more to make - this next one will be short sleeved.

And just as I finished it, I got an email from my Mariner guy. My seat is moving over two. Since it was smack in the middle, any move is closer to the aisle. Turns out Julie and Erica aren't renewing this year. Doesn't surprise me. Julie's job took her to Belgium and I think she's not back here for another year. Erica stayed home with the dogs but they both do a lot of back and forth. The casino folks on the other side of me had 3 seats - enough for two winners and a designated driver. They wanted more so they bought two move and I move over. Good thing I was fine with it. My Mariner guy played it like he was doing me a favor. Which he kind of is so win win win. Also nice to have a heads up before the season starts.

I went to Costco and holy cats, dogs, and lizards, that place was packed to the gills. The parking lot was not only full but also full of Costco idiot parkers... oh you with a massive cart full? you look like your car is somewhere near here so I'll just block traffic until you get to the car, unpack all your shit and drive away.

I got gas and got the hell out of there. I'll go next Monday or Tuesday. Also, then I got home and saw that they will have the FitBit watch I want for $50 off Nov.21. So cool.

Instead of pizza, I stopped at McDonald's. I used to be the drive through queen but now, since they have those cool ordering kiosks. I find using them to be well worth the walk in. I also have the app that I forgot about and could have used. Got home and it turned out to be a delicious lunch.

The other day at Goodwill, I splurged and bought new dishes. The splurge was that I didn't need new dishes but they had these two stacks of Corelle dishes - 4 dinner plates and 4 salad/lunch plates - that are both square and dipped. I like a raised edge to my plates and I do like square. The pattern sucks but Corelle... And each stack was $3 so $6 for all with a 20% discount. Why the hell not. I put my other dishes (plain white Corelle with no dip/edge and round) in the closet. So far, I'm really enjoying these new dishes a lot in spite of the ugly pattern.. The old ones might just go back to Goodwill.

Now I need to go fold laundry and put it away and then it will probably be TV and crochet.
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My tooth hurts. I've had little flashes of owie for the past couple of weeks - maybe one or two a day. Today, it's more sustained. Not horrible but it could and likely will turn horrible at one point and it's Friday afternoon. Of course.

I finally decided to call the dentist and see if I could get an appointment for Monday. I could always cancel ... I got as far as the dentist's website. They close at 3 on Friday. It was 4 pm. Oh well. (This is a tooth that has been a problem for years. This same dentist looked at it a few years ago and said maybe a cap but likely an implant. Both options required lots of cash and multiple visits - I can deal with the former way better than the latter but no thanks to both. Unless I have to. I took two Ibuprofen and it's better so maybe...

Meanwhile The Smalls was on my lap this is a little ick so behind the cut )

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