Reflections of My Life

I did not have a good day yesterday. Not sure why. My feet had swollen up again.....well, one more than the other. I kept them up most of the day and they didn't seem any better. But this morning, they are better. So who knows? I go back to my lymphedmea therapist next week so will see what she suggests.

Rabbit is a bit angry with me this morning. No spring mix for his breakfast. It was up to do I give it to him last night for his supper or save it for breakfast this morning? He had only a handful left. I gave it to him last night as he was begging. So this morning I gave him the banana at the time I usually give him the spring mix (with my first cup of coffee). Now he has gone behind the bed and is not talking to me. Pouter!

My challenge for this month is definite now. I am such a baby where going to a dentist is concerned. Now that we don't have the mask mandate, I REALLY need to do this. So I forced myself yesterday to call the dental clinic to get an appointment. I have to get the rest of my teeth pulled. Now if my insurance does not want to pay for them all to be pulled, I will find out the difference in cost and pay the rest of it myself. I just want it over and done with. None of them are in good condition. I am afraid of choking on food because I cannot chew it. I am just waiting for them to call me back. Has to be after March because I have 2 appointments with the Lymphedema therapist and her appointments are hard to come by.
 

I'm glad you took that step with the dentist, Kat. Try not to worry.

Tell Rabbit to chillax, LOL
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I have started putting the pressure on Sonny to change the tires on "Jazzy". Since we have had some spring like days, it makes me want to go somewhere on Jazzy (I guess I now I know how the bikers feel just before spring). The Dollar Tree store that was next door to Tops is moving into a new building on S. Broad Street, which is the main street through town. I have only been in it a few times in its present location. But I have been planning on going to Walgreen's (drugstore) on Jazzy anyway. I have never gone in there except with Sonny. I would like to expand my horizons, so to say.

Rabbit's hay is supposed to arrive today. FedEx leaves it outside the lobby doors by the intercoms. The first time I ordered it they brought it upstairs to my apartment and left it outside the door. Never again. I have to get it up here on my own. So I somehow manage to get it on the seat of my walker and through those heavy doors. Always making sure to keep my keys in my hand in case the door closes and I am locked out. I stick the walker in between the two doors to hold it open till I get the box to the walker. It is not a whole bale, but feels like one to me.
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Call the store customer service and ask them to leave it by your door. Delivery I place in the order form to ring my buzzer I let them in to go to the elevator and leave on 2nd floor bench some leave at my door. Try and see.....
 
Yesterday, Sonny took me shopping. It cost him $54. for 13 gallons of gas for his car. I tried to give him some money but he would not take it. He lives about 25 miles from me so it is a 50 mile trip. Yet he will come here on a spur of the moment or if I need anything. Then he bought a Subway chopped salad for our supper to eat at my apartment. We split one with double meat. Since he got here in the afternoon the credit union and store was pretty empty and easier to shop.

Our store was not out of anything except for Jumbo eggs and distilled water. Not due to a shortage, just that those items were stocked and sold out earlier in the day. Plenty of Philadelphia cream cheese! I got two. Funny that Kraft was giving out $20. during the holiday season to customers to not make cheesecake, when I think that is not what people were buying it so much for. People who eat low carbs/keto food consider it a staple. Use it for many different recipes.

It was quite cold yesterday and during the night. Before next winter, I have to find a way to insulate my HUGE windows better. Maybe they could caulk around the window casing or something. That is where I feel cold air. I have to re-certify for my yearly lease next week so maybe I can find out about that. I have bubble wrap on the window with the air conditioner and actually it is not that window that is the coldest.

I haven't figured out what I am going to do today. I think I will print out a picture of Rabbit and make it into a get well card for my neighbor. She has been sick with a cold and not left her apartment. I know she is okay because she sent her husband over to tell me. Just missing her and hope to see her soon.
 
Tonight for my supper (right now, in fact) I am having a hot chocolate peanut butter Keto Chow instead of the pudding or shake because I did not make any shakes up yesterday. I like them to sit overnight unless it is the hot ones or mixed with coffee. Very good so I may do this more often.

I didn't do much today because of my feet. I did put the compression stocking on and immediately my feet felt much better. Then not too long later the front of my shin just below the knee (not sure if that is consider the shin or not but let's just say it is) started hurting. What to do? It was helping my feet but not my knee and I could not walk once that started. I took one of my wooly socks that was near by and folded it in half and stuck in the top of the stocking where it was pressing on my shin........it worked! I was able to wear them for a good two more hours.

My dental office called and my appointment is the 12th of April. I am nervous but this is just a preliminary appointment. He said they will put me to sleep (the other dentist I went to did not do that or even mention doing that). It is the shots I can't take. That was the worst pain I ever had in my whole life. I have to do this no matter how hard it is. When I was a child my mother had to give me a sedative before my appointments. The dentist told her to do it before we got there! I was just as bad going to the doctor.
 
katlupe said:
Yesterday, Sonny took me shopping. It cost him $54. for 13 gallons of gas for his car. I tried to give him some money but he would not take it. He lives about 25 miles from me so it is a 50 mile trip. Yet he will come here on a spur of the moment or if I need anything. Then he bought a Subway chopped salad for our supper to eat at my apartment. We split one with double meat. Since he got here in the afternoon the credit union and store was pretty empty and easier to shop.

Our store was not out of anything except for Jumbo eggs and distilled water. Not due to a shortage, just that those items were stocked and sold out earlier in the day. Plenty of Philadelphia cream cheese! I got two. Funny that Kraft was giving out $20. during the holiday season to customers to not make cheesecake, when I think that is not what people were buying it so much for. People who eat low carbs/keto food consider it a staple. Use it for many different recipes.

It was quite cold yesterday and during the night. Before next winter, I have to find a way to insulate my HUGE windows better. Maybe they could caulk around the window casing or something. That is where I feel cold air. I have to re-certify for my yearly lease next week so maybe I can find out about that. I have bubble wrap on the window with the air conditioner and actually it is not that window that is the coldest.

I haven't figured out what I am going to do today. I think I will print out a picture of Rabbit and make it into a get well card for my neighbor. She has been sick with a cold and not left her apartment. I know she is okay because she sent her husband over to tell me. Just missing her and hope to see her soon.
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you've just got to take a look at..the 3m...shrink wrap for windows...perfectly clear...good seal ...and easy
 
katlupe said:
Tonight for my supper (right now, in fact) I am having a hot chocolate peanut butter Keto Chow instead of the pudding or shake because I did not make any shakes up yesterday. I like them to sit overnight unless it is the hot ones or mixed with coffee. Very good so I may do this more often.

I didn't do much today because of my feet. I did put the compression stocking on and immediately my feet felt much better. Then not too long later the front of my shin just below the knee (not sure if that is consider the shin or not but let's just say it is) started hurting. What to do? It was helping my feet but not my knee and I could not walk once that started. I took one of my wooly socks that was near by and folded it in half and stuck in the top of the stocking where it was pressing on my shin........it worked! I was able to wear them for a good two more hours.

My dental office called and my appointment is the 12th of April. I am nervous but this is just a preliminary appointment. He said they will put me to sleep (the other dentist I went to did not do that or even mention doing that). It is the shots I can't take. That was the worst pain I ever had in my whole life. I have to do this no matter how hard it is. When I was a child my mother had to give me a sedative before my appointments. The dentist told her to do it before we got there! I was just as bad going to the doctor.
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Except my windows are very tall and there is no way I can stand on the windowsill, even though it is pretty wide. I would like to get the maintenance to do it for me.
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I bought a ladder tallest one that opens up there is 3 sizes and has a bag that attaches to the top holder. I leave it open. Yet maintenance would do the trick I would like to know this so I can call on them to help me with my portable air conditioner.
I had a neighbor help me last year however he did not want to leave since With me being 5" and him 6 " young man I felt a little unsafe thought he seemed as a mama's boy I'm sure he felt very lonely.
Anyway, just saying I feel I'm almost in Africa......actually it's about even no one bothers with no one. At the moment 211 is dangerous I say. I bumped his cloud by reporting him he's not happy I believe he is the one pushing my buzzer
I think everytime he has to go out side to smoke so I don't think he wants to thank me at all. I remember him awhile ago when I was coming back from shopping he was outside smoking with a female neighbor who no longer lives here.. I always wondered what had happened to her. She worked full time and was not young yet he had his foot blocking her from leaving to go inside, usually I would had said a few words to her in passing though not this time. But I did sense the heaviness of the downside of his presence about her. I looked and went by without a hello. So, why I post this is common sense to me.
Just saying in case...
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Except my windows are very tall and there is no way I can stand on the windowsill, even though it is pretty wide. I would like to get the maintenance to do it for me.
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oh....that'd be hard to keep up every winter...unless maintenance could put up a curtain rod and use light colored temperature control curtains...difficult to come up with an idea that'd work
 
Tonight I can hear music playing from the bars across the city parking lot. They have back doors and some of their customers park in that parking lot. Some nights it is louder than others. Thursday, Friday for sure and sometimes on Saturday. It does not bother me because I like all types of music and it is not really that loud since my windows are closed of course.

It has been a very long time since I have gone to a bar. I can't believe I even used to do that. But I even worked in a bar as the bartender and night manager. Now I can't remember when I even had a drink. Alcohol doesn't agree with me. I get really sick if I even have half a drink. And hot. I turn beet red almost immediately. If anyone wondered if I was drinking it would be easy to tell. My son was fortunate to inherit this condition from me. He doesn't drink either.

Besides.........I'd rather eat ice cream.
 
Since I bought my new coffeemaker in December (my Christmas gift to myself) I have been enjoying my coffee very much. I have also been buying a new brand of coffee beans which I really like a lot. I did not buy a new bag this month because I have one and half bags left of the Eight O' Clock brand that I was buying at Walmart. I need to use that up first. I can really taste the difference! I will not waste anything and especially food or coffee. I will suffer through it. I have half a bag of the good stuff left, but going to try to use this for a few days and then a day of good. Yes, there is a big difference.

If something helps you stick to your food plan and it is not the cleanest ingredients, then it might be worth using. I feel that way about sugar-free soda. I have had a love hate relationship with soda for a long time. My first husband was a coke addict. Truly, he was. We had a second refrigerator in our garage and it was full of coke. Back then (80's) you could get a 2-liter bottle for .88 a bottle and I would fill that refrigerator with it. In his office he had a refrigerator that he kept those little bottles of coke for clients and himself, of course.

I hadn't been buying it much myself since moving here. And Sonny is a coffee person or ice water or ice tea. So I wasn't really into soda. Now I have not had any sugar since the week after Thanksgiving, except on Dec. 10th we went to the Chinese restaurant and their food is heavily sugared. None since then.

Now I am using Zevia, which is a sugar-free soda that uses Stevia and nothing to color it. It is clear. I bought it on a whim and now am buying it every month from Amazon. I hated all diet sodas and could never drink one. This one I really enjoy and it is good (at least to me........not going to taste like sugar because it is not sugar). I get what they call the rainbox pack of 24 cans. It is the variety and I like having a different flavor each evening. It helps me satisfy that urge for sweets that is not completely gone, but less than it used to be.
 
I wonder if you put someone on ignore here, does that mean you cannot see any board or thread that they have posted on? Or just their post or comments? Can they see yours? I was wondering if it is like fakebook where the other person cannot see anything you post or comment and you can't see theirs either.
 
Devi said:
When you put someone on Ignore, only that person's posts do not display in the thread (or on the page of the thread where they posted). There is ALWAYS a link at the bottom to display ignored content.

In other words, you did not put the entire thread on Ignore. I don't think there's a way to do that.
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Thank you, Devi! Sometimes one person's attitude can shift the good feeling I get from this forum most of the time. No sense in letting an unhappy miserable person ruin it for myself if I don't have to. I have no interaction with it and plan to keep it that way.
 
katlupe said:
Thank you, Devi! Sometimes one person's attitude can shift the good feeling I get from this forum most of the time. No sense in letting an unhappy miserable person ruin it for myself if I don't have to. I have no interaction with it and plan to keep it that way.
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The only time you won't see a whole thread is if the person you have on ignore started the thread.. otherwise it's as Devi said, you only not see the person who is on ignore's posts
 
hollydolly said:
The only time you won't see a whole thread is if the person you have on ignore started the thread.. otherwise it's as Devi said, you only not see the person who is on ignore's posts
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Oh good, that would be fine with me. Right now, I usually don't go to any thread that person is on. Will that person be able to read this thread, my diary?
 
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