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Post by kritter on Oct 16, 2017 15:43:37 GMT
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Post by jesmelric on Oct 16, 2017 18:45:01 GMT
Hello everyone! We finally had a cool front! Yay! I don't know how long it will last but I sure am enjoying it  Hope everybody is doing well. I had another good sales weekend, trying to get my Christmas shopping started, it's creeping up! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 20:27:43 GMT
Hi everyone! Fall is on it's way here in Kansas getting some nice 70* weather, but the mornings are getting colder! No frost yet, but it will happen. Getting the truck ready for winter with a new battery and some antifreeze. Lost antifreeze last spring after hubby hit 2 deer on his way to work, RIP poor deers. Got a new radiator put in and hubby was handy enough to save the grill, but didn't get around to the antifreeze then, and now we needed to! Might need an oil change and we will get a new air filter and we're good to go. Our daughter bought us new tires for the truck last winter for Christmas so no worries there! Our winters haven't been horrible, but you never know when they will be! Are your vehicles ready for winter? It's coming!
I haven't been doing any walking, and didn't do any listing last week either. I guess my care meter is turned off, but it needs to get turned back on! Geesh.
We did some honey do's around here yesterday, so glad those things are done. Among other things we did, we replaced 2 mini blinds that the near adult kittens had destroyed. ARGH!! Also a shower curtain that one of them had climbed and torn big rips in! They are a mess! They have toys...one was playing in the tub with one of the toy meecy's we bought them...WHATEVER! The brat! The mini blinds I can deal with...but the SHOWER CURTAIN...NOOOOOOOOOOO! Gotta love 'em, but they are so onery!
Hope the day is going well for all of you!
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Post by chapeaunoir on Oct 16, 2017 20:41:59 GMT
Our Tux-in-Trouble likes to play with plastic bottle caps in the bathtub - she bets them around and catches them - you can hear her thundering around rattling the bottle caps all over the upstairs lol.
Winter prep for us is getting out the winter bikes and making sure the gears work - I have to put a fender on my mountain bike. Since it just rains here we're not too concerned about snow since we so rarely get it so not too many worries about antifreeze or snow tires for the station wagon.
What we ARE getting ready for is more home renos. Urrrrrrrrrrr... I keep putting them off - ripping the floors out of the kitchen, dining room, laundry room, foyer; painting the upstairs (I'm NOT painting anymore rooms - it takes about 1/10th the time for Mad Dog to just blast the walls professionally than it does for me to climb around on ladders and get paint in my eye - I'll just pay for it).
The last home renos took five months - not looking forward to this batch.
Back to listing (which I've been putting off).
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Post by val2525 on Oct 17, 2017 4:55:12 GMT
Are your vehicles ready for winter? It's coming! "Winter" here means the temps will drop below 90. Woo hoo. I am really going to miss fall/winter but I'm not complaining. ABQ fall and winter are awesome. |
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Post by Desire on Oct 17, 2017 11:56:53 GMT
Kat - I know what you mean. I just said to DH yesterday that it's been one horrible summer starting with the hurricane that caused the Houston floods, then Florida got hit, our US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico is a mess getting hit by two hurricanes in a row. Then California got hit with fires and the Vegas shooting in between all that. So many lives lost when you add it up.
I didn't realize that Puerto Rico was back to getting packages delivered. Walmart and a few other online stores had banners last week that they were not shipping there. I hope things are getting a bit back to normal despite the devastation there.
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Post by denise15601 on Oct 17, 2017 14:35:18 GMT
Sure hope that all of the fires and hurricanes are done!
Weird that there is now a saline shortage-as told to me by my chemo nurses. The main plant in PR was destroyed.
So some of my pre-meds had to given via the push method.
Broke down and turned my furnace on last night since it got down to 34 last night.
Don't mind the fall weather except that means that winter is approaching with icy roads.
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Post by Desire on Oct 17, 2017 15:21:08 GMT
It's cold here too, but I won't turn the furnace on yet, may have to tonight as it's supposed to go down lower. We just picked 4 eggplants Sunday from the garden. NEVER have we had vegetables this late in the year. That burst of hot weather last week and the "heat wave" at the end of September really gave the vegetables a push. I had fertilized them too, and the eggplants and one tomato plant are still growing strong.
I dread the oil bills that will be coming soon - just got the bill for the yearly furnace service contract. But we've been lucky with the utility bills - not so hot this summer with the A/C and the lingering warm weather so no furnace yet. It's supposed to be in the 70's all week during the day with nights around 40, so not too bad.
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Post by denise15601 on Oct 17, 2017 17:48:04 GMT
Then there was the explosion in LA last night that might make the oil prices go higher.
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Post by kritter on Oct 17, 2017 18:10:13 GMT
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Post by kat on Oct 17, 2017 18:59:57 GMT
My friend's husband was traveling near the fire area towns and needed a tow when his truck broke down. The driver told him that they've towed several people that bought gas from people that has been watered down. People disgust me. They should be charged with murder if they prevented anyone from being able to evacuate - but how would they be found out?
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Post by val2525 on Oct 17, 2017 19:13:38 GMT
Sure hope that all of the fires and hurricanes are done! Weird that there is now a saline shortage-as told to me by my chemo nurses. The main plant in PR was destroyed. So some of my pre-meds had to given via the push method. Broke down and turned my furnace on last night since it got down to 34 last night. Don't mind the fall weather except that means that winter is approaching with icy roads. Puerto Rico's main industry was med manufacturing, somewhere around 80% or so of US pharmaceuticals were manufactured there. Expect more price hikes. |
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Post by val2525 on Oct 17, 2017 19:14:25 GMT
I had a sale to Puerto Rico and it got me looking up everything going with the hurricane devastation. I'd check with the PO before shipping, to ensure deliveries ARE going thru in PR. |
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Post by kat on Oct 17, 2017 19:16:30 GMT
I just shipped it. It's in USPS hands and they can add it to the pile.
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Post by kat on Oct 17, 2017 19:22:02 GMT
USPS Service Alerts
Last updated Oct. 17, 2017, 1 p.m. ET
Multiple wildfires in California are causing disruptions of mail delivery. Some postal facilities have been damaged and some are in fire zones and are closed. Click below on “is my Post Office open?” then “California wildfires” for a list of affected facilities.
All incoming mail to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is available. Customers are receiving mail by picking it up at Post Offices or through limited delivery throughout the islands. 140 postal facilities are fully or partially operational. Click on “Is my Post Office open?” below, then “Puerto Rico” or “Virgin Islands” for more information.
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Post by kat on Oct 18, 2017 20:31:27 GMT
Chocolate Cupcake Day and No Beard Day. I'll pass on the cupcakes unless they have a truffle filling or ganache. I will grab my tweezers and magnifying mirror to celebrate No Beard Day.
I haven't noticed posts from Zoe lately, is she MIA?
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Post by SA on Oct 18, 2017 23:23:09 GMT
I like cupcakes. Not so much the chocolate ones unless they have some type of coffee in them  I prefer to go beardless! This has just been a crappy week. Besides everything else going on in the world. Listening to the local news just makes me sick. This morning a mother and her baby was shot by her roommate who then killed himself. A 19 yo boy stabbed and murdered his 9yo and 5yo siblings because he wanted to live alone. There was a shooting outside the high school downtown (2nd one in a month) 2 13 year old boys were arrested last week for plotting to kill people at their middle school and had plans to make bombs. They want to try them as adults. Trial is underway for two 13yos that were murdered in a suspected gang initiation. Those are just the headlines in town. Not all the other stupid stuff that goes on. On Nextdoor yesterday morning, someone posted that last week their garage was broken into and everything stolen along with stuff stolen out of their cars that were parked in the garage. Someone else responded that the same thing happened to their friend a couple weeks ago. These houses are the street right behind mine! And wouldn't you know DH has been out of town since Sunday (he is home now - I don't ever post about him being out of town until he's home). Needless to say I was a little freaked and turned the sensitivity of my camera up and turned on all notifications. So of course I haven't been sleeping well the last couple nights. AND WE LIVE IN A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD. It's a 20 year old neighborhood, but it's established. People keep things tidy. Just a nice middle class neighborhood right next to the elementary, middle and high school (all walking distance) to the best school districts in town. People move up this way for the neighborhoods and schools. UGH. BIL started chemo and immunotherapy today. Friend went in for double mastectomy/reconstruction today. Haven't heard from her yet but I'm sure it will be a couple of days. I text with Zoe last week. She's been busy. |
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Post by denise15601 on Oct 18, 2017 23:30:37 GMT
Wow Liz!! Hang in there! I love living alone except for the latest area robberies, etc. If my security alarm ever goes off at night, I know that I will have a heart attack.
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Post by SA on Oct 18, 2017 23:37:45 GMT
With the way my dogs go nuts every time someone even tries to walk on the porch, I would hope that they would tear someone to shreds if they tried to get into the house. Oscar, my GSD seriously turns to vicious barking if the UPS truck even drives down the street. Growling with teeth showing and hair standing up on his back. But he's old and he likes his sleep LOL. Both dogs sleep in my room, but it didn't give me much comfort the last couple nights. I have alternate means of protection, but I'd prefer to use the dogs as a deterrent. And the garage is right below my bedroom so I think I'd hear if it were opening.
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Post by Pantlandia on Oct 18, 2017 23:40:17 GMT
Chocolate Cupcake Day and No Beard Day. I'll pass on the cupcakes unless they have a truffle filling or ganache. I will grab by tweezers and magnifying mirror to celebrate No Beard Day. I haven't noticed posts from Zoe lately, is she MIA? I've had some contact with her. She's okay, just had to step away for a little bit. I have no details, other than she's okay. |
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Post by denise15601 on Oct 18, 2017 23:43:59 GMT
Dogs do help, but I can't afford one.
My garage is under my bedroom, too. But then if the door is opened into my family room, the alarm would sound and I have a chain on that door.
And I have a deadbolt on the door that opens to the steps in my house. I live in a split entry.
Front door has 5 locks. Back door only has 2 locks since the EMS couldn't get in when I fell after getting out of the nursing home. Alarm on there too.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Oct 19, 2017 0:02:46 GMT
Liz - those are awful headlines. There has always been crime, always been stuff like this, but we're going through a dark time in this country and I think it's working on everyone - it's making bad worse. I also think too much video and too much (a)social media is robbing some of our youngest generation, the iGen, of volition and humanity.
Our cats would be useless as attack animals - they'd run under the bed.
I have a collection of various weapons, though, left over from when I was a bike courier and then also worked evenings so would be in the streets going home at night, plus my knives and swords collection.
The whole thing, though, is you want people to NOT come in to begin with, and be scared away BEFORE they ever set foot in. It's like when I taught self-defence - the whole point is to disable quickly enough to GET AWAY to safety, not get into some big fight or prove something.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 16:01:36 GMT
I have discovered a new place for procrastinating! wish .com
It's ALL Chinese crap, the same things repeated over and over but with different prices - but once you select size and colour the price changes. So you thought it was $8 but it's really $13.
Shipping is calculated per item, which I like a lot. I add the shipping to the item price then go see if it's cheaper on ebay. And it always is.
I'm looking for a large, black handbag that I can take on dates and look less like a bag lady. It has to be cheap, and my thinking is that China will make the best unashamedly plastic or nylon bags. Not really, though, so far.
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Post by val2525 on Oct 19, 2017 17:11:42 GMT
Um, folks? Stop listening to the news. It's not good for your mental health.
I was listening to local news on the TV in the a.m. but I even stopped that this week. It's depressing.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Oct 19, 2017 17:34:42 GMT
Um, folks? Stop listening to the news. It's not good for your mental health. I was listening to local news on the TV in the a.m. but I even stopped that this week. It's depressing. I run over the headlines on google.com in the morning and from time to time read commentary on boingboing or The Guardian. That's it. If there's something I can do, I do it, but there's a strict limit on it. 24/7 news is driving us all crazy. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 20:22:57 GMT
My DH has turned into a news zombie. MSNBC is on, generally, from 8pm until sometimes after 11pm mon-fri- it all depends on when he falls asleep watching it. While I do like to watch and get caught up on the happenings-o-the-day, there is such a thing as too much. And depending on what channel you have it, it's all slanted one way or the other. I've learned to take it all with a grain of salt. DH, on the other hand is like chicken little. Oye. Thankfully we have a few TV's in the house. And in his defense, he will sometimes put on a marathon of past shows of Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers or Trevor Noah to lighten things up a bit. That I enjoy.
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Post by kritter on Oct 19, 2017 21:12:49 GMT
My TV has been stuck on Walking Dead marathon all week.
I am so confused because I miss episodes when I life gets in the way plus I think they are skipping around trying to mess with me.
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Post by pyrexandpearls on Oct 19, 2017 21:16:13 GMT
Today has been no fun. I started felling really sick at work yesterday with an awful sore throat but managed to finish my shift. Once I got home I realized I had a fever of 101.9 so in hindsight I shouldn't have pushed on. I called out today and luckily my fever is gone but I have done nothing but lay around today. On sick days like this I miss having cable. Scrolling though Netflix isn't the same as flipping between Food Network and HGTV when you're sick. You know how there is a joke about the "man cold" and how men cannot handle being sick. That is me 100%. I am a total baby when I am sick and DBF has to take care of me, lol.
I had posted about my job woes the other day and am happy to say I had an interview for an internal job with my company that would be a really good move for me. Fingers crossed as I will hear next week if I get the job or not.
I certainly hope I am feeling better by this weekend. I have really been itching to work on Ebay. I am taking a 2 week trip in November and if I could make a few hundred bucks of spending money before I go that would be wonderful.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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Post by kat on Oct 19, 2017 22:32:26 GMT
I hope you feel better Pyrex
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Post by kat on Oct 19, 2017 22:36:41 GMT
I'm exhausted. My brother (the newly paralyzed one) needed a ride today. He called yesterday. It's 2.5 hours to his place, then 2.5 hours to San Jose. We are here now, then when we are done, I get to to 2.5 hours back to his place then 2.5 back home.
I have an appointment at 8:00am in the morning, or I'd stay at a friend's that lives only 20 mins from my brother.
Just moving him from his chair to the car is exhausting. It takes about 20 minutes since I've never done it before. I also had to take his chair apart to get it in the trunk.
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