Reflections of My Life

i think the ads create revenue for them when people don't buy subscriptions to their channel. i know on twitch the streamers would run their stream all night while they slept. they might run programming and they get quite a bit of revenue from the ads.
 

I made it through the whole day without YouTube. It was great......I think I like my day better. Watching YouTube is not much different than watching regular television all day. So I think this will be a good change for me. It is amazing how much of my day can be wasted on watching videos. One after the other. As for the keto ones, I already know the basics and I don't follow what everyone does. I just do what works for me and that is that. I found some of them on Rumble so I can watch there but just not as much.
 
I don't have much planned for today. That does not mean I won't be doing anything. Probably working on the story I have been writing. Still have a bunch of fact checking research to do on it. I enjoy it so it is not really work. Not like I am going to publish it or anything like that. Just like to write and create stories. I have always done that.

Raining so not going to go outside to the dumpster until it stops. I have a new book to read, Sally Norton's Superfoods book. It is pretty good and helpful to me. I know I will be reading that off and on through out the day.
 

Raining but I managed my trip to the dumpster and back with just a misting. Felt good actually. Ran into my neighbor and he said we are supposed to get snow on Tuesday. So now I am covering my air conditioner up again. This time I hope I don't have to uncover it again till May.

I know with the rain and then the wind we will get for sure with take all the leaves off the trees. I like when we don't get the fall rain and wind till Thanksgiving time. Stays pretty longer.

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I feel like we (everyone who lives in my apartment building) are a ship without a captain. A train without an engineer. You get the idea. We have survived here the time between managers. But we have not had a full time one in a long time. There is a difference living in a senior housing (and disabled) apartment building and one that is not limited to seniors and disabled people. In those buildings you do not see the need for a manager on site. Usually you just have a landlord.

Not that I am a complainer or whiner. I just felt safer every day when I saw our manager's car in the parking lot. I only went to her office a few times while she was here. I don't know if she did this or not, but a manager can come in and view the video of what was going on in the halls and around the building during the night. Then would see if anyone was up to no good before it was a problem.

Kind of cool this morning and the weather report says snow tomorrow. So I covered my air conditioner again and will be ready for the cold. I might make chaffles today as I am out of them. I am looking through my keto cookbooks for some good soup recipes. I like to have soup, though I limit the vegetables in them due to oxalates.
 
I experimented with making Keto Chow Gingerbread replacement keto shake as a hot drink. I used cream as the fat instead of butter which is what I always use. It is good but I think I frothed it up a little too much for my taste. Next time I will make it like I do for ice cream but add only hot water and then use the blender (with top off!!!). Otherwise this could be a good alternative to a hot cocoa type of drink since it comes in so many flavors.

This morning my friend (the one I walk with, down the hall from me) brought her daughter over to meet me. She lives in TN and is here for 2 weeks to stay with her parents. Her father is having some kind of procedure down at the hospital and won't be home till Sat. I am so happy about this! The fact that her daughter is here for her at this time. So she will not be alone. In all the time I have lived here none of her 3 children ever came to visit. This will be so good for her. I kept urging her to tell her daughter to come here. Her daughter looks like her twin, just younger.
 
katlupe said:
I experimented with making Keto Chow Gingerbread replacement keto shake as a hot drink. I used cream as the fat instead of butter which is what I always use. It is good but I think I frothed it up a little too much for my taste. Next time I will make it like I do for ice cream but add only hot water and then use the blender (with top off!!!). Otherwise this could be a good alternative to a hot cocoa type of drink since it comes in so many flavors.

This morning my friend (the one I walk with, down the hall from me) brought her daughter over to meet me. She lives in TN and is here for 2 weeks to stay with her parents. Her father is having some kind of procedure down at the hospital and won't be home till Sat. I am so happy about this! The fact that her daughter is here for her at this time. So she will not be alone. In all the time I have lived here none of her 3 children ever came to visit. This will be so good for her. I kept urging her to tell her daughter to come here. Her daughter looks like her twin, just younger.
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If it did not involve horses fishing or shooting I probably did not do it, I almost spent every spare moment with my cousin Sandi!
 
Kat, when you had a bigger fire a year or two ago and the fire engines came, was that woman living there? I’m just vaguely remembering your story.
 
Jules said:
Kat, when you had a bigger fire a year or two ago and the fire engines came, was that woman living there? I’m just vaguely remembering your story.
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You must be mistaken. We have never had a fire here (at least yet). Firemen have come for alarms going off but no fire.
 
katlupe said:
Raining but I managed my trip to the dumpster and back with just a misting. Felt good actually. Ran into my neighbor and he said we are supposed to get snow on Tuesday. So now I am covering my air conditioner up again. This time I hope I don't have to uncover it again till May.

I know with the rain and then the wind we will get for sure with take all the leaves off the trees. I like when we don't get the fall rain and wind till Thanksgiving time. Stays pretty longer.

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Lovely fall colors! Thanks for the photo! This is such a lovely time of the year. Usually by now, most of the leaves have fallen, but this year, they're hanging on tight in my area, too.
 
I was remembering when I was young and wanting to be older. The days dragged on. Took so long to be the magic age of eighteen. I thought everything would be wonderful after I reached eighteen. Why did I think that? I wanted to be grown up. Even though I was already a mother by that time. I was still growing up. Growing up with my child. One of those child mothers. That was me. My baby became my doll. I would take him out of his bed when he was sound asleep just to hold him on my lap and look at him. I would stare at him for an hour or more! What kind of mother does that?

Life is like that. Sometimes days drag but other times goes by speedy fast. I seem to be in the speedy fast mode lately. Even when I am not doing anything that keeps me busy. Coloring and listening to music. I check the time and it already time to start supper..........hungry or not. So I figure by the time supper time gets here the food will be ready. I like to start it early and I won't eat anything after six. So it narrows the time slot down.

Even though I do not live by the clock I find I do things based on the time. And Rabbit.........yes, he keeps me on a schedule.
 
Eager this morning to take down my Halloween decorations. I don't decorate for Thanksgiving and I am considering doing zero for Christmas. A lot of work for not much of anything for me anymore. I don't do a thing besides Christmas cards for Christmas anymore. My son doesn't even know what month it is let alone what holiday it is. So the time of holidays for me is past.

Today I am thinking of making chaffles since I have been out for a week or so. Such a great addition to a plate of fried eggs. If it warms up a bit, I will drive Jazzy to the Grand Union this morning to get berries for Rabbit. I got 2 packages from Walmart on Friday and one package was beautiful. But the 2nd one had already molded. I picked a few out last night for him but tossed the rest of the package.

So if I do make it to the GU I will see if they have any Fair Life milk. If so, even if it is a couple of dollars more than Walmart, I will get that and a small container of organic yogurt and cream so I can make my own yogurt. It is just so much better if I make it myself.
 
Two things I tried to do lately and failed.........badly. One was to stop drinking coffee (Yes, it is really me and not an impostor writing this). You know how much I love my coffee. Especially first thing in the morning. Well, it is not that I think coffee is bad for me or anything like that. It is just that it has not been tasting good to me lately. I try different brands, different measurements, etc. I think it may be due to my teeth which the dentist won't work on anymore due to my age.

So today was to be my first morning without it. I made herbal tea instead. Lemon Ginger tea which I usually like. I liked it but it did not take the place of the coffee. I had two cups and promptly went to my coffee maker and made coffee. It still wasn't great but I felt better after my first sip.

Number two failure is I was not going to go to YouTube anymore. Well, I could watch it on my television because I do not have an adblocker on that. So Today, I decided I will disable it on YouTube so I can watch it on the computer. I cannot comment or like the videos on the television. So I did. I watched one video and it was horrible. The ads on the side and throughout the video. It was like watching regular television. Adblocker has spoiled me! I like it! So I have officially quit the YouTube addiction. I figure it is like quitting sugar. I have to give it time.

Besides most of the videos I watch are about keto and I don't really learn anything new. I am pretty much into this way of eating and don't need any more information about it. As much as I liked the videos the people doing the videos were constantly selling stuff. Affiliates of various products or their coaching services or their private patreon communities.........they would hint they had special information that they can't share because it is only available to their patreons (who subscribe to them for this honor). I have a few that did not do this but most of them do.

Today was my lucky day.........Grand Union had Zevia Gingerale! I bought it. I have had a horrible time finding it in a local store. I was buying it at Amazon but the price doubled. So haven't had it in awhile.
 
RadishRose said:
I won't ever give up coffee! Strange that it's flavor has changed for you Kat. Any guess as to why?
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I think it has to do with my teeth. In the middle of x-rays and cleanings, their office called and cancelled my appointment with the oral surgeon. Said they do not extract teeth from anyone 70 or over. They knew what my age is when I started with them! I had been working on this for TWO YEARS! They would cancel appointments. One time we drove the 40 miles to their office to have them tell me they had to cancel my appointment.........grrrr! Anyway, I think it has to do with them. I am in the middle of getting a new medicaid supplement........but now I think they are going back to original medicaid. So confusing....

I don't want to give up the coffee. Funny I had McDonald's coffee from the drive up and it was SO good! Too bad it was too far for me to walk to. I am going to get their brand of coffee tomorrow at Walmart.
 
katlupe said:
Two things I tried to do lately and failed.........badly. One was to stop drinking coffee (Yes, it is really me and not an impostor writing this). You know how much I love my coffee. Especially first thing in the morning. Well, it is not that I think coffee is bad for me or anything like that. It is just that it has not been tasting good to me lately. I try different brands, different measurements, etc. I think it may be due to my teeth which the dentist won't work on anymore due to my age.

So today was to be my first morning without it. I made herbal tea instead. Lemon Ginger tea which I usually like. I liked it but it did not take the place of the coffee. I had two cups and promptly went to my coffee maker and made coffee. It still wasn't great but I felt better after my first sip.

Number two failure is I was not going to go to YouTube anymore. Well, I could watch it on my television because I do not have an adblocker on that. So Today, I decided I will disable it on YouTube so I can watch it on the computer. I cannot comment or like the videos on the television. So I did. I watched one video and it was horrible. The ads on the side and throughout the video. It was like watching regular television. Adblocker has spoiled me! I like it! So I have officially quit the YouTube addiction. I figure it is like quitting sugar. I have to give it time.

Besides most of the videos I watch are about keto and I don't really learn anything new. I am pretty much into this way of eating and don't need any more information about it. As much as I liked the videos the people doing the videos were constantly selling stuff. Affiliates of various products or their coaching services or their private patreon communities.........they would hint they had special information that they can't share because it is only available to their patreons (who subscribe to them for this honor). I have a few that did not do this but most of them do.

Today was my lucky day.........Grand Union had Zevia Gingerale! I bought it. I have had a horrible time finding it in a local store. I was buying it at Amazon but the price doubled. So haven't had it in awhile.
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He won't work on your teeth due to your age? Why? And what are you supposed to do if they get bad?
 

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