Reflections of My Life

Kaila said:
If that smell in the elevator bothers you, Kat, (or if it might bother the water delivery person, or anyone else)
I would think that wearing a mask (any type) would be very good for that.
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It's not that bad. Just I could tell they cleaned it out. My maintenance man had to climb up into the shaft of it.
 
Last night my friend who lives under me came up. She was looking for a red refill for her gel pen. I didn't have red but I had a whole container of other colors. Mostly dark or neons. For myself, I prefer the glitter colors and when I buy them I get all these colors I don't use much. I asked her if she would want other colors since I do not have reds. She said she'd take anything because she has a lot of empty pens. She used to throw the empties away till I showed her how to refill them. I gave her a zip loc bag full of refills in all kinds of colors. She could not believe I was giving them to her and was smiling big time! It was worth it to me to give them to her just to see that smile on her face!
 
Yesterday I cleaned my apartment and today I did all my laundry. I think it was the most I ever had to do at one time. I had planned on doing it Tuesday but then we had the power outage and then the elevator was closed. So today it was four loads and that is no bedding. No bedding because I have not been sleeping in my bed at all. Yeah, its pretty bad that I have not been able to sleep in it. I am going to start trying to take a nap in it or at least put my feet up on the wedge for an hour every day. Maybe I can wean myself back into it.

One apartment upstairs has got very severe water damage due to the snow melting and leaking through the roof I think. It is pretty bad from what I hear. The person who lives there is staying down here on my floor with her mother who lives across from me. She is lucky to have someone to stay with.

Tonight I am exhausted because I have been on my feet almost all day doing things. For the last two days. So tomorrow my plan is to have a only do what I have to do and spend the day with my feet up. I didn't get a walk in today so I will see if I can take a walk tomorrow. Depends on these knees. Sometimes they are fine the next day.
 
Monday has always been my favorite day of the week. Like everything starts new again. So if the weather holds up this week I have plans to start cleaning out my storage area. Getting at least two packages of photos ready to send to my cousins. Today I am not doing much because I am going shopping this afternoon.

Rabbit has become so social! As soon as anyone comes into my apartment now he comes right out and up to them. Checking to see if they brought him a treat! My one friend who lives down the hall from me brings him a few blackberries and tiny carrots every evening. I love seeing the smile on her face while she watches him. She says she loves him and calls him "my bunny". Since she and her husband are going through a lot of stuff and have much stress in their lives it makes my heart feel good to know he cheers her up so much.

I need to buy more ingredients for yogurt again. Fairlife milk and Fage yogurt for the starter. This makes a lower carb homemade Greek yogurt and it so good. I think I will be using it to make my own ranch and blue cheese dressings this time. I buy Primal Kitchen dressings right now but they are "pricey" so I use them very sparingly. I wasn't doing so good on keto when I was using regular store brands of condiments. I have cut them out completely (even my beloved Hellman's mayo....boo hoo!). At least now, my test pants are fitting better and I could wear them in public now.
 
katlupe said:
Monday has always been my favorite day of the week. Like everything starts new again. So if the weather holds up this week I have plans to start cleaning out my storage area. Getting at least two packages of photos ready to send to my cousins. Today I am not doing much because I am going shopping this afternoon.

Rabbit has become so social! As soon as anyone comes into my apartment now he comes right out and up to them. Checking to see if they brought him a treat! My one friend who lives down the hall from me brings him a few blackberries and tiny carrots every evening. I love seeing the smile on her face while she watches him. She says she loves him and calls him "my bunny". Since she and her husband are going through a lot of stuff and have much stress in their lives it makes my heart feel good to know he cheers her up so much.

I need to buy more ingredients for yogurt again. Fairlife milk and Fage yogurt for the starter. This makes a lower carb homemade Greek yogurt and it so good. I think I will be using it to make my own ranch and blue cheese dressings this time. I buy Primal Kitchen dressings right now but they are "pricey" so I use them very sparingly. I wasn't doing so good on keto when I was using regular store brands of condiments. I have cut them out completely (even my beloved Hellman's mayo....boo hoo!). At least now, my test pants are fitting better and I could wear them in public now.
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I enjoyed your post; Rabbit and the neighbor, yogurt making etc, and "test pants"... LOL. Happy you're getting results from your keto diet.

Oh, can't give up Hellman's! I tried last time I bought mayo. I bought a store brand called Bowl and Basket. Not bad, but I want Hellman's back in my life.

Enjoy your Monday, Kat.
 
RadishRose said:
I enjoyed your post; Rabbit and the neighbor, yogurt making etc, and "test pants"... LOL. Happy you're getting results from your keto diet.

Oh, can't give up Hellman's! I tried last time I bought mayo. I bought a store brand called Bowl and Basket. Not bad, but I want Hellman's back in my life.

Enjoy your Monday, Kat.
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I love Hellman's too and have used it for most of my life. But......they use soybean oil and even in their olive oil variety they put soybean oil in it too. Soybean or canola and most vegetable oils are so bad for your health. Inflammation is a big result of using those. So I use mostly olive, coconut, avocado oils or butter and bacon grease. Besides they held me back and I am really working on this for my health. It is no fun when you can't walk very far.
 
Today Sonny took me shopping. First we went to the Dollar Tree that is a new location. Very nice! Everything is now $1.25 but that's not so bad when they have so many things that are much more in other stores. I bought some white artificial flowers for one of my vases. Time to get rid of the fall leaves that was in it. Not really get rid of but put away. And a spray bottle because I always need one.

Walmart was pretty empty and just the way I like it. I mostly bought meat and some dairy (including eggs). Oh yeah, spring mix. Can't come out of the store without that. Rabbit eats it and sometimes I use it for my salad. That was about it for today. I made sure not to do much before Sonny got here so I could walk in the store.

Tomorrow I hope to get downstairs to my storage locker to throw out a bunch of empty boxes. I need to empty that out so I can start storing my extra household supplies down there. I have some already but to get to them I have to move stuff around. I want it to be organized and easy to put stuff in there and to take any out. Need to get rid of some other things also. I want to live light I guess.
 
Yesterday we had our Bingo game downstairs in the community room. It was a nice time and one more person joined us. My friend who lives in the apartment under me. She does not usually come but hoping she will continue. So there were 7 people. Sonny did not come because he was here the day before and is coming back on Thursday for our hair appointment. That is a 50 mile trip (here and back to his house) so I told him not to come. He drives a lot and I am sure gas is costing him some bucks.

Someone said a roofing company person met our maintenance man here on Monday and was checking out the roof. So thinking we must be going to get a new roof or repairs. I think that would be a good thing even though I was hoping for the parking lot being repaved. Probably the roof is more urgent after what happened in two apartments upstairs (3rd floor).

Rabbit is so funny this morning. He spread his little blanket out, pulling it out unfolding it from the way I had it. He usually smooths out the wrinkles in it.

Today I am going to make the yogurt. I didn't get it started yesterday.

Hope you all have a nice day!
 
People are so strange these days. Or maybe always have been so. I have people who come to see me and will cry their hearts out due to their bad health conditions. I research online what they need to do (because most people, even ones with computer do not know how to research). I tell them, explain in detail to them what I found out. The first two things with almost every health condition (after smoking of course) is no vegetable oils and no sugar. Then next time I see them they are chowing down on doughnuts and processed snacks like chips, crackers, etc.. Why ask my advice? I am talking about people with VERY serious conditions. Their choice.

Today I got my yogurt going in the IP. So easy to do. My version is low carb high fat. Next time I am going to try the low fat version. Not so much for the low fat option, but leaving out the heavy cream will make the carbs even lower.

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Today I walked around the building again. I find if I do it in the morning it is easier for me. Didn't do much else today. I suppose that is okay though. Kept my feet up quite a bit so was not on the computer much. The nicest thing about living alone is that I can do what I want so no pressure to do anything for anyone when I don't feel like it. Well........except for my bunny boy. I did get him some dandelions today. I asked the maintenance man if he sprays anything at all on the lawn because I wanted to pick some dandelions for Rabbit. He said no. Not one thing.

So this is the result.............

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I actually have not done too much since Thursday when Sonny and I had our hair appointments. I have been trying to keep my feet up. As soon as my medical supplement insurance gets straightened out (this month supposedly) I will be making an appointment with a new doctor nearby. It is the same medical business as the one I have been going to, just this office is closer to me. I need one I can go to on my own in the future. Too bad Medicare does not pay for compression stockings since the good ones are really pricey.

Wednesday, the community I belong to, 2 Krazy Ketos is having a book study of a particular book. So I bought it today and am reading it now. It is Atomic Habits by James Clear. Pretty good so far. It is the same thing I used to write about on my old blogs. Little steps to accomplish things you want to change in your life. I used it when I moved in here. Now the things I did then are habits and I do them automatically. The key is consistency. Doing the smallest step toward whatever you want to change.

Today one small step I did was to take the biggest empty box out of the storage locker to the dumpster. So if I take one box or thing out of there every day when I am on my way out to the dumpster with the garbage then I will make progress in emptying it out. Slowly, but I will get it done.

Of course, the little step I planned on doing every day for my health was to walk at least around the front of the building to the end of the block and back. I walked on Friday and have not been able to walk any further than the dumpster since. My knees have been hurting pretty bad and it could be on account of the walk I did or shopping at Walmart on Thursday. So have been babying myself instead. Maybe tomorrow will be better, after all it is Monday.........a start to a new week.
 
This morning, hopefully I will feel better than yesterday. I am paying bills this morning then planning on doing laundry. Usually I check out the laundry room first to see if it is empty. While I am down there I want to see if I can do a bit of organizing in the storage locker. Empty boxes need to go! I have always saved the boxes of things I bought in case I had to send them back or sell them on eBay. Since no more selling I only save the boxes till it is too late to send it back. The ice cream maker and boom box boxes I will keep since I purchased the warranties that Walmart has for those. Cheap. So just in case.

I am going to organize the storage locker so I can keep my household supplies down there. In plastic Rubbermaid totes, the big ones. Some stuff in there I have no idea why I even kept it. I do have my suitcase down there (in a plastic tote) just in case I ever go somewhere. I will keep that. I could store stuff inside it though. Still have the photos, I think that is one of those jobs I dread doing.........keep putting it off.

It does not look too bright outside yet. Maybe it will be a rainy day. If so not taking boxes out to the dumpster today.
 
I was not able to walk around the building yesterday. Mad at myself but I do not want to make it impossible to walk at all. So I did laundry instead. My friend was doing her laundry too and was sitting in there reading a book. So instead of coming back to my apartment, I sat down there talking to her. Then one of our friends came in when she saw us there. So we sat in there talking while waiting for the laundry. It was nice.

Today Sonny will be here to take me out to do our errands. Always a busy day for me. He is the opposite of me thriving on the busy day, errands and people. Not me. It is always a relief to me when I get back home. I make a list of everything I have to do and get it done as quickly as possible. We used to go out to eat too but I don't really enjoy doing that anymore. I have been going down in my sizes and don't want to screw that up for some mediocre food.

Yesterday my neighbor across the hall went into the hospital. It has been eerily quiet in the hall this morning. She always gets up very early and has her television on very loud. You may remember I told about her getting struck by a shopping cart at Walmart some months back? A little boy running through the grocery aisles pushing the cart and people having to jump out of his way while his parents had no control over him. She is 95 years old and was pretty active till that happened. Every since she has suffered. Her leg is now infected and that is why she is in the hospital. When it first happened I thought to myself this will probably ruin her life or kill her.

My MIL had an accident happen to her leg where a car door slammed into her leg and cause her to have a bad wound. It got infected and she was diabetic so it got really bad. She was very active till that happened. After that she had to give up a lot of her activities and music engagements. So I am always careful about falling or putting myself at risk of something happening that would cause a wound of some sort (the best I can).

I hope everyone who reads this has a beautiful day!
 
katlupe said:
I was not able to walk around the building yesterday. Mad at myself but I do not want to make it impossible to walk at all. So I did laundry instead. My friend was doing her laundry too and was sitting in there reading a book. So instead of coming back to my apartment, I sat down there talking to her. Then one of our friends came in when she saw us there. So we sat in there talking while waiting for the laundry. It was nice.

Today Sonny will be here to take me out to do our errands. Always a busy day for me. He is the opposite of me thriving on the busy day, errands and people. Not me. It is always a relief to me when I get back home. I make a list of everything I have to do and get it done as quickly as possible. We used to go out to eat too but I don't really enjoy doing that anymore. I have been going down in my sizes and don't want to screw that up for some mediocre food.

Yesterday my neighbor across the hall went into the hospital. It has been eerily quiet in the hall this morning. She always gets up very early and has her television on very loud. You may remember I told about her getting struck by a shopping cart at Walmart some months back? A little boy running through the grocery aisles pushing the cart and people having to jump out of his way while his parents had no control over him. She is 95 years old and was pretty active till that happened. Every since she has suffered. Her leg is now infected and that is why she is in the hospital. When it first happened I thought to myself this will probably ruin her life or kill her.

My MIL had an accident happen to her leg where a car door slammed into her leg and cause her to have a bad wound. It got infected and she was diabetic so it got really bad. She was very active till that happened. After that she had to give up a lot of her activities and music engagements. So I am always careful about falling or putting myself at risk of something happening that would cause a wound of some sort (the best I can).

I hope everyone who reads this has a beautiful day!
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I hope your neighbor will be ok!
 
katlupe said:
I was not able to walk around the building yesterday. Mad at myself but I do not want to make it impossible to walk at all. So I did laundry instead. My friend was doing her laundry too and was sitting in there reading a book. So instead of coming back to my apartment, I sat down there talking to her. Then one of our friends came in when she saw us there. So we sat in there talking while waiting for the laundry. It was nice.

Today Sonny will be here to take me out to do our errands. Always a busy day for me. He is the opposite of me thriving on the busy day, errands and people. Not me. It is always a relief to me when I get back home. I make a list of everything I have to do and get it done as quickly as possible. We used to go out to eat too but I don't really enjoy doing that anymore. I have been going down in my sizes and don't want to screw that up for some mediocre food.

Yesterday my neighbor across the hall went into the hospital. It has been eerily quiet in the hall this morning. She always gets up very early and has her television on very loud. You may remember I told about her getting struck by a shopping cart at Walmart some months back? A little boy running through the grocery aisles pushing the cart and people having to jump out of his way while his parents had no control over him. She is 95 years old and was pretty active till that happened. Every since she has suffered. Her leg is now infected and that is why she is in the hospital. When it first happened I thought to myself this will probably ruin her life or kill her.

My MIL had an accident happen to her leg where a car door slammed into her leg and cause her to have a bad wound. It got infected and she was diabetic so it got really bad. She was very active till that happened. After that she had to give up a lot of her activities and music engagements. So I am always careful about falling or putting myself at risk of something happening that would cause a wound of some sort (the best I can).

I hope everyone who reads this has a beautiful day!
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You know, it can happen so easily to any one of us.. for example just before Covid I was in a small coastal town in Southern Spain.. it was twilight, and we were walking in town on the pavement side, which is quite wide , lots of others milling around.... and suddenly I heard an almighty bang , and in a split second I was on the ground. A teen ..close to being a grown man, had skateboarded right into me from behind... The shock nearly killed me much less falling on the ground.. no apologies, just picked up his board and walked away as my husband shouted at him,..

The same trip co-incidentally.. ...a few days later.. Daylight, mid-day searing heat... we were in Malaga city town Square.. just left a restaurant, and as we walked through the plaza slowly 4 adult German tourists about my age or older came walking past and as they did , one male over 6 ft ..tripped and fell right on top of me...:eek:..it was like being hit by a bus... !! he fell completely on the ground, legs flailing, and his 3 companions helped him up... and not one of them asked me how I was, or even apologised for crashing me to the ground, it was like I didn't exist, never known such rudeness ... I was really bruised and in shock after that one as well... If I had been older or more frail I could easily have suffered a fatal injury from either of these encounters
 
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hollydolly said:
You know it can happen so easily to any one of us.. for example just before Covid I was in a small coastal town in Southern Spain.. it was twilight, and we were walking in town on the pavement side, which is quite wide , lots of others milling around.... and suddenly I heard an almighty bang , and in a split second I was on the ground. A teen ..close to being a grown man, had skateboarded right into me from behind... The shock nearly killed me much less falling on the ground.. no apologies, just picked up his board and walked away as my husband shouted at him,..

The same trip co-incidentally.. ...a few days later.. Daylight, mid-day searing heat... we were in Malaga city town Square.. just left a restaurant, and as we walked through the plaza slowly 4 adult German tourists about my age or older came walking past and as they did , one male over 6 ft ..tripped and fell right on top of me...:eek:..it was like being hit by a bus... !! he fell completely on the ground, legs flailing, and his 3 companions helped him up... and not one of them asked me how I was, or even apologised for crashing me to the ground, it was like I didn't exist, never known such rudeness ... I was really bruised and in shock after that one as well... If I had been older or more frail I could easily have suffered a fatal injury from either of these encounters
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OMG, how horrible! The skateboard hitting me from behind would have killed me for sure! I can't imagine having that happen and then to have that guy fall on you a few days later. You must have been still sore from the skateboard.
 
So tonight, I am sitting here soaking my feet in cold water. I heard that helps. Funny thing is that I used to do that at my house when I got really hot. The cold water from our well was ice cold. My feet would heat the water up like a stove! It just gave me some relief. I don't know why I didn't think of it before.

Today was the day I have to get my son's money and run errands, pay his rent, etc. It tires me out. After we did all that we came back to my apartment and Sonny had gotten himself a couple of burgers (take out) because he hadn't eaten. So he ate here and stayed awhile. After he left I had to clean the bunny cage and made my own supper. Then I had to get my feet up and didn't even put lights on or television or anything. Just fell asleep. Just woke up a little while ago. I feel much better.

Rabbit kept watching me like his routine was all out of wack because I did something different. LOL Animals get more into routines and the way we do things than we do.
 
katlupe said:
OMG, how horrible! The skateboard hitting me from behind would have killed me for sure! I can't imagine having that happen and then to have that guy fall on you a few days later. You must have been still sore from the skateboard.
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yes , you're not kidding Kat... I really thought that Fate was trying to take me...
 

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