Tuesday-11am

Good Morning!

It's a balmy 37 degrees and might hit 40 today.  Probably our warmest day for the rest of the week.  

The snow is gone.  Was too cold to melt.  I think it blew away or evaporated in the wind.  

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Dagan ran over to pick up Leah's drill on Sunday and he messed with my computer a bit.  I've had this Shockwave Flash problem making McLap super slow and freezing up.  Apparently Chrome comes automatically with Shockwave Flash and it can compete with other flash plug-ins or something like that.  So Dagan tried deleting my Adobe Flash and it seems to be working a lot better.  Pages are opening faster and it isn't freezing up constantly telling me Shockwave Flash has crashed.  

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But I still have gotten the boxes telling me a page is not responding--do you want to wait or kill it?  If you "kill it" you can lose everything you were doing.  Computers.  Been a real headache over here for the past six months or so.  I never had any bugs or viruses, so it appears to be a software issue.  *sigh*  Things are better than they were now, though.  I was about ready to keep a deck of cards nearby to play solitaire while pages loaded like I did in the very old days when I got my first computer--LOL!

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Anyways, then Leah came over later on Sunday and we worked on Christmas cards.  Well, mostly Leah did--LOL!  We sure do love the new MISTI!  But we have discovered that if you have to print more than once with pigment ink it doesn't dry well and will smear days later!  :(  So we'll be using dye inks in the future.

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Leah made a trip to the store for me, too.  Now you don't have to worry about me having poster tack in my mouth--LOL!  She got me this wax you use for braces.  It works great and is actually meant to be in somebody's mouth--LOL!  

She brought me more cold medicines, too.  So I am all set.

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Leah's got the tail end of the cough but is doing better in general than I am.  I caught this when I was at such a physical low-low that it is just taking me a long time to get over it.   From what I've heard this stuff loves to cling to you as long as possible...weeks.  So--just waiting it out.  (Hasn't gone into my chest--whew!)  And, thanks to Leah, we can start working on getting Christmas cards ready.  Yes!  They're done!  

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I still wake up sounding like a frog, but I think that's because I'm breathing through my mouth all night--LOL!  I am just thrilled to be sleeping better most nights.  But I do need the cold meds to be able to sleep...and they immediately gave me diarrhea.  I know--TMI.  But that is why I am not going to be able to make it to the dentist until I am well again...both ends--ROFL!  No point in calling yet.  Thank goodness the tooth doesn't hurt.  :)

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Good Lord!  You never know what I might be talking about when you come to visit, eh?  ;)  LOL!

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I have even been too sedentary for too long for Miss Karma.  I know.  Impossible to believe.  But I haven't had her string toys out for weeks...or brushed her, for that matter...as I was walking past the chair in the kitchen she took a swipe at me.  You know how cats love to attack each other?  Well, she wanted me to play with her and I am still too much of a zombie-woman to play.  Karma was not happy with me, as you can see.  She's not always sweet, I tell you.

This morning she was walking around complaining for some reason.  She's been going over and pawing at Ian's cloth containers in his shelves lately.  It got very quiet.   Caught her just sitting up there in the sun half dozing.  Silly girl.

She's been extra cranky lately.  Goes off and sleeps in the bedroom.  Old age?  Sometimes I think she still wants to go "home".  It was the only home she knew all her 10 1/2 years.  But she does love the new power recliner, I tell you.  More room for her to sleep on the footrest and she has learned to wait until it is half the way down before she jumps off so she doesn't have to jump as far.  (She has been rather stiff-legged the last couple years.)

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Well, that's about it from here.  Caroline was sick last week so she is coming to clean this afternoon.  I will close with a picture of my end table for the T Stands For Tuesday group over at Elizabeth's.  

No clue whether I will be able to make it around to visit the group this week or not.  I hope so, but no promises can be made in good faith.  As for me--right now I have to go refill the humidifiers and my water bottle...and then make me some more pour-over coffee.  I hope everybody is having a good week.  Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating.  :)

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I think I may have posted this quote before, but I do love it.

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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset."

Crowfoot, Leader of the Blackfoot Nation