Tonight I was watching or listening to the Classic Rock station on cable. I turned around and there was an advertisement on the screen while the Rolling Stones were singing. It was an advertisement for one of those emergency buttons, Life Alert. I thought that was hysterical. Since when is the classic rock station advertising Life Alert? Are the Rolling Stones now marketing to people wearing Life Alert? Does Keith Richards wear Life Alert? I just thought it was funny. Next the Rolling Stones will be providing the music for electric scooters, wheelchair lifts and Depends.
Until tomorrow...
Friday, July 31, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
WEARING FLAT SNEAKERS
For the last few days I have been not wearing shoes or wearing flat sneakers. You know those Converse sneakers. Like Chuck Taylors. I have knock off Chuck Taylors. Mine are Target Converse One Star sneakers. I have them in various colors. They seem to be less painful for my ankle. I can't figure out why but the pain seems to go away when I don't wear my supportive sneakers and shoes. Go figure!
I have been walking pain-free for two days. Okay a few little pains but that is much better than a few days ago when I could not walk three steps without pain. Maybe it will stay this way for a few more weeks.
Until tomorrow...
I have been walking pain-free for two days. Okay a few little pains but that is much better than a few days ago when I could not walk three steps without pain. Maybe it will stay this way for a few more weeks.
Until tomorrow...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
HANDYMAN WORK STARTED
I had the handyman come today and get a ton of stuff done.
I finally got my towel rack where I wanted it. I have had the kitchen towel hooked on the refrigerator door for years. It is across the room from the kitchen sink. I have always hated it but there was no towel rack. Today the handyman installed a towel ring to hold my kitchen towel. It is going to take a while for me to remember it is there because I keep going across to the refrigerator! It is funny how the little things make you happy.
The handyman also fixed this weird vibration from my drier that was driving me crazy for the last 6 months. He also fixed a toilet paper holder that I thought was going to have to be replaced. He moved another toilet paper holder from an area where it was loose and moved it to a stud. It looks great. He installed a new doorbell and fixed the wiring. He looked at a light situation but realized he could not fix it, we need an electrician. I am really happy getting these things done.
My next door neighbor is painting his house. He told me he was painting his house a new color. I was happy because his house is Pepto Bismol color. You tell me if you think the color is different. To me it just looks like a darker shade. It is not faded yet!
Until tomorrow...
I finally got my towel rack where I wanted it. I have had the kitchen towel hooked on the refrigerator door for years. It is across the room from the kitchen sink. I have always hated it but there was no towel rack. Today the handyman installed a towel ring to hold my kitchen towel. It is going to take a while for me to remember it is there because I keep going across to the refrigerator! It is funny how the little things make you happy.
The handyman also fixed this weird vibration from my drier that was driving me crazy for the last 6 months. He also fixed a toilet paper holder that I thought was going to have to be replaced. He moved another toilet paper holder from an area where it was loose and moved it to a stud. It looks great. He installed a new doorbell and fixed the wiring. He looked at a light situation but realized he could not fix it, we need an electrician. I am really happy getting these things done.
My next door neighbor is painting his house. He told me he was painting his house a new color. I was happy because his house is Pepto Bismol color. You tell me if you think the color is different. To me it just looks like a darker shade. It is not faded yet!
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
HOT HOT HOT
Okay, you got it. It is hot here. Sweaty hot. I had to run some errands today and I was sweaty. I took the top down to get a brush of fresh air. So I got a bit of a sunburn on my shoulders. I wear a hat when the top is down so my face is not too red. I feel it on my neck and shoulders.
It is also going to be hot tomorrow. Even hotter. I like it hot but my house gets really hot on the top floor. Since I work at home it makes it hard to concentrate. Fans, open windows, and ice pops. That will keep me cool. Oh, lots of water!
Until tomorrow...
It is also going to be hot tomorrow. Even hotter. I like it hot but my house gets really hot on the top floor. Since I work at home it makes it hard to concentrate. Fans, open windows, and ice pops. That will keep me cool. Oh, lots of water!
Until tomorrow...
Monday, July 27, 2015
VEGAN INDIAN FOOD
I went to lunch with my friend H today. I tried vegan Indian food for the first time. It was good but I think next time I will try another dish. I am sure the dish was good it just wasn't tasty to me. I would like another thing better. I like the vegan naan. It was so soft and warm.
I tried wearing flatter dress shoes today to see if my ankle feels better. It did feel better until I sat at the restaurant and sat with my feet in a position that caused my ankle to get stiff. I have a habit of sitting at tables with my feet perpendicular to the floor. Toe pointing toward the floor. This causes my ankles to get stiff. Then I end up limping. A few blocks later I feel fine but for a few blocks my ankle hurts. I definitely felt better with the flatter shoes. This brings up an interesting point. Why do the flat shoes hurt less? What could that mean?
Until tomorrow...
I tried wearing flatter dress shoes today to see if my ankle feels better. It did feel better until I sat at the restaurant and sat with my feet in a position that caused my ankle to get stiff. I have a habit of sitting at tables with my feet perpendicular to the floor. Toe pointing toward the floor. This causes my ankles to get stiff. Then I end up limping. A few blocks later I feel fine but for a few blocks my ankle hurts. I definitely felt better with the flatter shoes. This brings up an interesting point. Why do the flat shoes hurt less? What could that mean?
Until tomorrow...
Sunday, July 26, 2015
WINDSHIELD
This week I finally got my windshield fixed. Over 1.5 years ago a rock hit my windshield and cracked it. It was a 3" crack right along my windshield wiper. It didn't go all the way through the glass and it was hard to see under the wipers, so I didn't get it fixed. I let it just stay. It bothered me but not enough to get it fixed. Since it hasn't rained in the west in forever, I didn't worry about it leaking.
Then about 6 months ago it started to grow. Bit by bit it started to sneak across my windshield. By the time I took it in this week, it grown to about 9-12 inches across. I felt it was starting to get dangerous.
Now I have a sparkling new windshield. I am afraid to stick my Garmin GPS on it. The only drawback is that it smells like stinky adhesive. I know it will go away but in the meantime every time I close the windows I get lightheaded. Luckily the weather has been nice.
Now I need to clean the car to make that sparkly too. If only there weren't water restrictions...
Until tomorrow...
Then about 6 months ago it started to grow. Bit by bit it started to sneak across my windshield. By the time I took it in this week, it grown to about 9-12 inches across. I felt it was starting to get dangerous.
Now I have a sparkling new windshield. I am afraid to stick my Garmin GPS on it. The only drawback is that it smells like stinky adhesive. I know it will go away but in the meantime every time I close the windows I get lightheaded. Luckily the weather has been nice.
Now I need to clean the car to make that sparkly too. If only there weren't water restrictions...
Until tomorrow...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
FLAGGING
Today I went to the park to see some people flagging. If you don't know what flagging is, it is when people dance to music while twirling flags. The flags are mostly hand tie-dyed silk. Most of them are beautiful.
The music is usually old school music like Tina Turner and Annie Lennox put to a dance beat. It is in a park so I sometimes bring my lunch and sit on a blanket and watch. Mostly I take my camera and take photos like the photo above from last year. Today I went late and just took photos. I haven't looked at many of them yet but I just enjoy taking them and listening to the music.
Until tomorrow...
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| Flagging in the Park |
The music is usually old school music like Tina Turner and Annie Lennox put to a dance beat. It is in a park so I sometimes bring my lunch and sit on a blanket and watch. Mostly I take my camera and take photos like the photo above from last year. Today I went late and just took photos. I haven't looked at many of them yet but I just enjoy taking them and listening to the music.
Until tomorrow...
Friday, July 24, 2015
HANDYMAN
I contacted a handyman to come and fix some things around the house. It has been a long time since things have been attended to and I had a long list. One of the big things is water is leaking in at two places. I have been slow to attend to it because there is a drought out here in the west coast and at this rate it may never rain again. So fixing water leakage is not my top priority. Figuring out how to keep water in my pond and keeping my plants alive, is my top priority.
The handyman looked at the construction errors and told me he could either fix the problems or can manage fixing them. One problem is that one area of my concrete floor gets wet when it rains hard. Different contractors told me it was the water seeping up through the concrete floor. I never believed them because that seemed illogical. If water was seeping why would it seep in only one place? Then one day when it was raining I put plastic outside along the side of the house. The floor did not get wet. I figured the rain was leaking in from outside the house. The handyman found a space where the tiles on the house are not meeting and the water is probably leaking in there. Good that he found it. Bad that it has been going on forever. He says he can fix it. Let's hope he doesn't have to rip out the wall or that there are termites.
The other leak is more complicated and will take removing a deck, re-tarring the roof and fixing the flashing along the gutter. Lots of moving parts. Thank goodness it isn't going to rain anytime soon! For once a drought works in my favor!
The other items like fixing my toilet and drier noise will be easy to fix. I have to go buy some lights and a new doorbell.
I am going to get the house back in shape in a few months. Yay!
Until tomorrow...
The handyman looked at the construction errors and told me he could either fix the problems or can manage fixing them. One problem is that one area of my concrete floor gets wet when it rains hard. Different contractors told me it was the water seeping up through the concrete floor. I never believed them because that seemed illogical. If water was seeping why would it seep in only one place? Then one day when it was raining I put plastic outside along the side of the house. The floor did not get wet. I figured the rain was leaking in from outside the house. The handyman found a space where the tiles on the house are not meeting and the water is probably leaking in there. Good that he found it. Bad that it has been going on forever. He says he can fix it. Let's hope he doesn't have to rip out the wall or that there are termites.
The other leak is more complicated and will take removing a deck, re-tarring the roof and fixing the flashing along the gutter. Lots of moving parts. Thank goodness it isn't going to rain anytime soon! For once a drought works in my favor!
The other items like fixing my toilet and drier noise will be easy to fix. I have to go buy some lights and a new doorbell.
I am going to get the house back in shape in a few months. Yay!
Until tomorrow...
Thursday, July 23, 2015
DRAG QUEEN BINGO
Tonight I went to Drag Queen Bingo with my friend H. I had great time. It has been close to 20 years since I played Bingo but it all came back quickly. I bought a few sheets and a dauber (the thing you use to mark off the numbers). My dauber was purple with sparkles in it. Very special! It was a family friendly bingo game so the drag queens had to be good. I could have gotten in with a discount if I had dressed in drag. I thought about it but I ran out of time. I didn't win anything but a good time!
Until tomorrow...
Until tomorrow...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
STAIR TREADS
The stair treads that I ordered for Happi have finally arrived! I ordered them almost three weeks ago and the company forgot to ship them. I kept seeing that a fed ex slip had been filled out for shipping but no shipping had occurred. I finally after 1.5 weeks contacted them and asked what was going on. They shipped them out the next day with a one-line apology. If these treads weren't rated the best for dogs, I would have canceled the order.
I got the box today and put them down immediately. They are great. I gave Happi a treat to come down the stairs and she flew down the stairs. I had her go up the stairs and called her down again and she flew down the stairs on her own. She has gotten over her fear of the stairs. The treads fixed her slipping problem and now she is good.
This makes me so happy. I hated seeing my confident dog stand at the top of the stairs and shake in fear when she wanted to go out back to pee. Poor thing hated me picking her up to carry her down the stairs. I was also so worried that she would slip down the stairs when I was not looking. Now I don't have to worry anymore.
There is peace again in the house.
Until tomorrow...
I got the box today and put them down immediately. They are great. I gave Happi a treat to come down the stairs and she flew down the stairs. I had her go up the stairs and called her down again and she flew down the stairs on her own. She has gotten over her fear of the stairs. The treads fixed her slipping problem and now she is good.
This makes me so happy. I hated seeing my confident dog stand at the top of the stairs and shake in fear when she wanted to go out back to pee. Poor thing hated me picking her up to carry her down the stairs. I was also so worried that she would slip down the stairs when I was not looking. Now I don't have to worry anymore.
There is peace again in the house.
Until tomorrow...
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