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Mar. 21st, 2018 08:16 am
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I got a splinter in the top of my finger yesterday. It was too small to get out and it didn't hurt so I just left it. But, an hour in the water this morning moved it enough so it bugged me. So I dug around with a sewing needle until finally I nudged it out. The whole time I'm having not fun flash backs to when my mom would dig splinters out when I was a kid. MUCH nicer experience to do it myself. She was a butcher. All better now.

While swimming, I rearranged my living room a bit to accommodate the giant white elephant. I think my plan is good. There's nook between the fireplace and the terrace that it will fit into nicely and outofthewayly when not in use and close enough to get it out easily when I want to. It has wheels but they are tiny and don't like the carpet. I think I'm going to get a small water heater tray to sit it on that will 1. make it easier to move across the carpet and 2. hedge against any leaks.

When the house cleaner gets here today, I'm going to get her to help me move the main piece that constitutes my plan and then I can cut the a/c into it's forever home.

Also, while swimming, I came up with a way to install the swimming noodle. I'm going to get a tension curtain rod and run it down the middle of the noodle from the top of the door frame to the top of the a/c insert. I could also use duck tape but I'd like to avoid that.

While the house cleaner does her thing, I'll make a stop at Goodwill. I have a couple of bags of stuff to drop off and I'll go in and get more shit to replace it. Then, the grocery store.

My new across the street neighbors have been MIA since Sunday BUT their cat is sitting in the window this morning. A pretty tuxedo. As I typed that, Zoey came out from here bedroom and is now trying to keep me from typing more.

A new mid season show on NBC called Good Girls has me hooked. You really need to start with episode 1. Totally worth it. Fun show with excellent cast.

My (snooty all girls private) high school is very good about sending alumnae shit and yesterday I got a publications of "class notes" with pictures and notes about all the - still alive - graduates. Last May was the 50th anniversary of my class. So you thumb through the booklet with pictures of girls and women and now, my class, is the old ladies in the back of the book. A lot (more than half) of my class showed up for the celebration. I could recognize a couple from the class photo but most of them, not. Some of the names I didn't even recognize. 50 is a lot of years even in people years.

Ok, time to get dressed.

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Date: 2018-03-21 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jwg.livejournal.com
Hydrogen Peroxide often helps get splinters out.

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Date: 2018-03-21 07:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sweetmeow
You also brought flashbacks of my mom and me removing my son, Scott's splinter while we were all in Maine. He had gotten one in his foot on on the very old porch floor... My mom held Scott and sang nursery rhymes to him while he soaked his foot in warm water so the skin was nice and soft so I could then (fairly) quickly remove the splinter. I wonder if Scott felt that we were butchering him??? He was young enough that he probably doesn't remember, although if he does, it's probably because he was traumatized! I was grateful for my mom's distraction!

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Date: 2018-03-21 08:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sweetmeow
Ha! If my mom hadn't held him and distracted him with pretty music, I might have sounded like your mother!

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Date: 2018-03-21 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lacachet.livejournal.com
Were you a "Mad Men" fan? Christina Hendricks, one if the "Good Girls", was one of my favorites from that show.

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Date: 2018-03-22 04:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badrobot68.livejournal.com
She was SO GREAT on Mad Men!

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Date: 2018-03-22 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fenchurche.livejournal.com
The big thing my mom used to have to dig out for me were sticker burrs. We had them all over the place on Guam and I went barefoot everywhere. It didn't happen often because I had really tough feet, but every once in awhile I'd end up with one embedded in my foot. Oddly enough, I recall my mom using the technique of "Pretend you're being tortured by pirates who are trying to get you to reveal where the treasure is hidden!" Complete with the occasional "Arrrrr." It worked beautifully!

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Date: 2018-03-22 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badrobot68.livejournal.com
You know how I feel about tuxedo cats!

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Date: 2018-03-24 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com
I love the women of Good Girls and am so glad they all ended up together on it.

I also thought it was pretty amazing that Christina Hendricks, who basically had the world at her feet when Mad Men ended, chose Another Period next.

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