Reflections of My Life

Happyflowerlady said:
How do you make your electrolytes, @katlupe ? I remember reading somewhere that some people use the horse electrolytes diluted with water, because they have all the necessary electrolytes, and do not have the chemicals and flavorings and sweeteners that are put in the electrolyte drinks that you buy. I think that I might have even done that years ago when I had horses and bought the electrolytes for them, but I don’t remember anymore.
There is a guy on X that makes his own electrolytes, (GatorGar) and he had his recipe on there at one time, and was still working on it. I think he added lemon juice to his.
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This is my recipe. 15 Tsp. salt, 3 Tsp. Magnesium Malate & 2 tsp. Potassium Chloride. I keep it in a jar and put 1 tsp. in my water bottle. Not an exact science recipe but it works for me. Sometimes I add lemon juice or apple cider vinegar to my water. There are tons of recipes for electrolytes on YT. I don't need it sweetened.
 

The crows are going crazy this morning.......so noisy! Don't they know some people are still sleeping? 🙂 Not me. I was up early and already fixing my 2nd cup of coffee. Sundays are really quiet since there are no trucks coming to stores to unload. My building is pretty quiet too. The people upstairs over me are moving to a 1st floor apartment so have been busy packing and been quite noisy. Nothing that I can't stand though. They are quiet today so far. Not the crows though........

I feel sorry for Rabbit since I had to quit giving him any banana at bedtime. He gets his morning one but smaller than I used to give him. Something keeps making him have soft poop so I think too much fruit is culprit. Fruit is supposed to be a rare treat but he wants it more than anything else. If he does not have anything else he will go eat the hay which is what he is supposed to eat. I suppose it would be easier if he would eat rabbit pellets but he won't touch them even if that is all I gave him.

I get to this point in the month of December and start wishing it was January 2nd already. Tired of all the Christmas stuff going on. At least here we are not having any activities or anything else besides decorations. I can live with that. I will not be going to any if they have them because they are usually focused on food and especially sweets. Not going to tempt myself if I can help it.

This is the most stressful time of the year for a lot of people. Not only financial but health wise as well. The question most asked in my keto groups or on the YT channels. How to stay on keto or carnivore during the holidays (from Thanksgiving to New Years)? My answer? Live alone and spend the holidays at home alone. I have no problem with it.
 

This afternoon I did a bit more tweaking of winterizing my windows and sill. It was a bit cold and since Rabbit is on the floor I need to keep it warmer down there. I can just layer up. Not him. So I put a lot of bubble wrap in place and then a flannel sheet doubled over along the window sill. It feels warmer but I don't know how it feels to him. He's not talking.

Sonny went to a RC race in Syracuse yesterday with his friend who had a car in the race. An all day thing for him so he called me early this morning (for him) and has been sleeping the rest of the day. If someone says the word race to him...........he is off! No matter how he feels.
 
katlupe said:
The crows are going crazy this morning.......so noisy! Don't they know some people are still sleeping? 🙂 Not me. I was up early and already fixing my 2nd cup of coffee. Sundays are really quiet since there are no trucks coming to stores to unload. My building is pretty quiet too. The people upstairs over me are moving to a 1st floor apartment so have been busy packing and been quite noisy. Nothing that I can't stand though. They are quiet today so far. Not the crows though........

I feel sorry for Rabbit since I had to quit giving him any banana at bedtime. He gets his morning one but smaller than I used to give him. Something keeps making him have soft poop so I think too much fruit is culprit. Fruit is supposed to be a rare treat but he wants it more than anything else. If he does not have anything else he will go eat the hay which is what he is supposed to eat. I suppose it would be easier if he would eat rabbit pellets but he won't touch them even if that is all I gave him.

I get to this point in the month of December and start wishing it was January 2nd already. Tired of all the Christmas stuff going on. At least here we are not having any activities or anything else besides decorations. I can live with that. I will not be going to any if they have them because they are usually focused on food and especially sweets. Not going to tempt myself if I can help it.

This is the most stressful time of the year for a lot of people. Not only financial but health wise as well. The question most asked in my keto groups or on the YT channels. How to stay on keto or carnivore during the holidays (from Thanksgiving to New Years)? My answer? Live alone and spend the holidays at home alone. I have no problem with it.
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I know what you are going through with the keto challenge. I also have difficulty socializing during the holidays because of the food.
 
Woke up this morning to the sounds of snow removal. I should have figured it would snow since I had put off ordering groceries yesterday. Thought I would wait till today and Rabbit had just enough spring mix to get to this morning. I usually don't order on a day we have a lot of snow so they don't have to drive in the snow. But Rabbit comes first...........

Now I am hearing a sound outside I am not familiar with. A constant noise and does not sound like a vehicle. Made me look out the window and in the sky to see if the drones had found us. Sky is dark so could not see anything. Most of the window is covered so can't see much out of it. Oh well, what it is probably won't affect me.

Sonny is coming here Wednesday to drive me to my foot doctor appointment. I was going to walk but he offered so I said, "heck yeah." Then if I want to go to a store I can.
 
katlupe said:
Wonder why every time I sweep the floor and check it to see nothing is left behind...........I come back to put the broom and dustpan away and there are a few scraps of hay left behind???? How can that be? I really check it good. No matter how many times I check when I come back I find more hay on the floor (right where I just swept!).

It is the dust bunnies making a mess! Pesky little things!
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I have been watching a few different YT channels that are focused on senior citizens...........oh my, I think I fall in that category now! :) Most of them say the same things over and over. Makes me wonder if they are actually made by people my age. There are some videos about being alone at this place in life. Even though I write my blog focused on that right now I like to think we are not sitting around worrying about living alone.

After all for me, this is the first time in my entire life that I am living alone (at least the last 6 years). Since my son moved into an apartment upstairs in my building I don't feel like I am living alone. It is like he is off in his bedroom. He comes to my door many times during the day on some days. Then others not at all. It may sound funny that at age 54 he does that. But him being disabled (mentally slow and probably has a mental illness also) I think that is the ideal situation.

With the exception that the mother in me worries on the days he doesn't come to my door. Or when I hear the bass vibration of music far off and wonder if it is him. And if it is, is someone going to complain? Though I only hear it during the hours we can make noise. I am making an effort not to worry about it. He is not doing anything wrong. Some televisions on my hall are very loud when you go out into the hall. I don't hear them in my apartment.

Back to those YT channels. More of them are about the fact that most of the senior citizens don't want to live with anyone else. They like being alone. So if it not really a problem why are there so many videos about it? Maybe the people who have trouble living alone were in marriages and miss that companionship. There are times when I wonder if I made the right decision to leave mine. It wasn't really the marriage or man I left as much as the convenience and hard physical life that I could not deal with. If he had wanted to move with me, maybe it would have had a different outcome.
 
I just came in from the dumpster. Very nice out there! Sun is super bright. I should have sat outside for a bit but I did not. I wanted to get back so I could clean Rabbit's cage.

My son's jeans were delivered by Fed-X today and I had the nicest delivery man ever! I am going to mention that when they send me the email asking how my delivery went. He actually rang my intercom and asked to have door unlocked so he could delivery my package!!! They NEVER do that!! None of them. He came right to my apartment door. He smelled my breakfast that I had just made and asked if I was bacon. I said I was and he said it smelled delicious. I should have offered him some but didn't think to do that.

Yesterday I had butterscotch pumpkin keto ice cream. Today I am having lemon meringue. I was going to skip a day but it is an ice cream kind of day.
 
katlupe said:
I just came in from the dumpster. Very nice out there! Sun is super bright. I should have sat outside for a bit but I did not. I wanted to get back so I could clean Rabbit's cage.

My son's jeans were delivered by Fed-X today and I had the nicest delivery man ever! I am going to mention that when they send me the email asking how my delivery went. He actually rang my intercom and asked to have door unlocked so he could delivery my package!!! They NEVER do that!! None of them. He came right to my apartment door. He smelled my breakfast that I had just made and asked if I was bacon. I said I was and he said it smelled delicious. I should have offered him some but didn't think to do that.

Yesterday I had butterscotch pumpkin keto ice cream. Today I am having lemon meringue. I was going to skip a day but it is an ice cream kind of day.
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Nothing like some pleasant moments before the day really starts.
 
Today Sonny is taking me to my foot doctor appointment. He wanted to so who am I to stop him from doing something he wants to do?? :ROFLMAO: So I will stop at Walmart and do a little shopping. I need more Christmas cards because more people are giving me cards and I only had 18 in that package I bought. I didn't expect so many, especially from the single guys.

I am going to look up how to spell Merry Christmas in Spanish so I can write it on the new guy's card. He speaks very little English and seems to be pretty nice. So think that might be an extra touch to his card.

Tomorrow I am getting my delivery from Keto Chow. I am eager to experiment with adding flavors to some of these. They changed their vanilla flavor one and I used to use that one for making black licorice ice cream. Not as good as it used to be. I think it tastes more like coconut. Does not go good with anise to make the black licorice flavor (which is one of my favorites). So this time I ordered some flavors that are light like eggnog and cookies & cream. I will see. Lately I have been adding pumpkin spice to salted caramel and it is sooooo delicious!

I am going to buy some chicken wings today to make a collagen rich soup. Maybe if Walmart has them I will get some egg white wraps and make them into noodles. I will see. Sometimes something will just catch my eye while shopping and I buy it.
 
katlupe said:
Today Sonny is taking me to my foot doctor appointment. He wanted to so who am I to stop him from doing something he wants to do?? :ROFLMAO: So I will stop at Walmart and do a little shopping. I need more Christmas cards because more people are giving me cards and I only had 18 in that package I bought. I didn't expect so many, especially from the single guys.

I am going to look up how to spell Merry Christmas in Spanish so I can write it on the new guy's card. He speaks very little English and seems to be pretty nice. So think that might be an extra touch to his card.

Tomorrow I am getting my delivery from Keto Chow. I am eager to experiment with adding flavors to some of these. They changed their vanilla flavor one and I used to use that one for making black licorice ice cream. Not as good as it used to be. I think it tastes more like coconut. Does not go good with anise to make the black licorice flavor (which is one of my favorites). So this time I ordered some flavors that are light like eggnog and cookies & cream. I will see. Lately I have been adding pumpkin spice to salted caramel and it is sooooo delicious!

I am going to buy some chicken wings today to make a collagen rich soup. Maybe if Walmart has them I will get some egg white wraps and make them into noodles. I will see. Sometimes something will just catch my eye while shopping and I buy it.
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I found how to spell Merry Christmas in Spanish. So writing it on one of my cards for a guy who speaks Spanish.

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Today has been a busy day so far. I think the only thing I have left that has to be done, is cleaning Rabbit's cage. I made a ramp into the cage for him and now he is used to it. Not jumping out like he's in the Kentucky derby anymore. I was afraid he would get hurt doing that one of these days.

My neighbor/friend told me last night that her coffeemaker broke and that she was going to have to drink instant till she could get to Walmart to buy a new one. She was hoping she could find someone to take her there on the week-end. I told her to come over in the morning and I will make a cup of coffee for her. Then I can order the new coffeemaker for her from Walmart and it will here tomorrow. So she did. Had a nice chat and ordered her coffeemaker. It was delivered already so I took it to her and she could not believe it that it was here already. Gotta love Walmart Delivery!

Sonny took me to my appointment yesterday and then we went to Walmart. So I got more Christmas cards and passed them out earlier today

Right after that my water delivery came. My driver gave me a letter that is about the sale of The Water Bottle company. And he bought it! But he will still be doing my deliveries. So that is done for today and I have water.
 
katlupe said:
Today has been a busy day so far. I think the only thing I have left that has to be done, is cleaning Rabbit's cage. I made a ramp into the cage for him and now he is used to it. Not jumping out like he's in the Kentucky derby anymore. I was afraid he would get hurt doing that one of these days.

My neighbor/friend told me last night that her coffeemaker broke and that she was going to have to drink instant till she could get to Walmart to buy a new one. She was hoping she could find someone to take her there on the week-end. I told her to come over in the morning and I will make a cup of coffee for her. Then I can order the new coffeemaker for her from Walmart and it will here tomorrow. So she did. Had a nice chat and ordered her coffeemaker. It was delivered already so I took it to her and she could not believe it that it was here already. Gotta love Walmart Delivery!

Sonny took me to my appointment yesterday and then we went to Walmart. So I got more Christmas cards and passed them out earlier today

Right after that my water delivery came. My driver gave me a letter that is about the sale of The Water Bottle company. And he bought it! But he will still be doing my deliveries. So that is done for today and I have water.
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You did a very good deed and got rewarded with a pleasant chat. Two nice gents in one week:>)
 
I love Walmart+ delivery, too , @katlupe ! I have been using Walmart+ Assist for a couple of years now. Actually, the first year was before they came out with Assist, but I got it on a half-price special, so it amounted to the same thing as the Assist.
I still do not understand why they deliver some of my groceries and then they send some as shipped, but it comes with a different driver sometimes, and sometimes, it comes from FedEx.
I can order a jar of green olives, and they ship it FedEX, and i am sure if i actually went to the store, they have green olives right on the shelf.

That was a great way to help your neighbor get her new coffee pot ! I am sure that she was so happy having it delivered, and now maybe she will get Walmart+, too and be able to do her own orders that way.
It is such a help for us when we can’t get to the store for shopping.
 
I made a recipe based on Ketogenic Women's carnivore stew. I think she put breakfast sausage, lamb and stew beef in hers. I put stew beef, bacon and Italian hot sausage in it. She had made her own bone broth to cook it in. I had Fire & Kettle bone broth so used that. It was very good. Not thick, but I could have thickened it up. Didn't need it that way. You do not have to be keto or carnivore to eat something like this. You can add vegetables. I just barely eat them anymore. The hot sausage seasoned it for me. Good!

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Every morning now, I plug in the snowman I have outside my door so he is lit up very early. Now adding to that, I have been plugging in the ceramic Christmas tree in the middle part of my vanity in the bedroom. It looks pretty in there with the tree lit up. I might just leave it there after Christmas is over. Nobody can see it but Rabbit & me. That would cut down on the work of putting it away somewhere after Christmas is over.

Today I changed three of the drawers around in one of the dressers. I was keeping my gel pens and some other items that I use often in the 2nd drawer. It is a little too high for me and that drawer is deep so it was hard for me to reach into it with my sore shoulders and arms. Now I am wondering if that could be what was causing them to hurt so bad. Now the gel pens are so easy to get to that I don't have to take all of them out at the same time. Just pick what colors I need.

Sheets and pillowcases are now in that drawer. And the towels which were in the drawer I wanted for the gel pens are now in the drawer where the sheets used to be. Much easier for me. I kept putting off doing this. You know how long it took me? About 15 minutes while I was talking to Sonny on the phone.

So I have three other drawers to organize. Two on the other dresser and one on the dresser I worked on today. Now I am so ready but will wait and see what tomorrow is like.
 

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