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I once sat at the edge of my bed, wrapped a blankie and snoring for 2 hours, because I was dreaming I was standing in line to get Iron Maiden tickets. Unfortunately, just as i reached the ticket booth, I awoke. Now I will never know if I got good seats or who the opening band was.

Actually that last night and I am still bummed.

Quick update-My application with the National Pee Bag Council was shot down. 3 more weeks of wearing it but after this it definitely comes off. No worries. Its been over 2 years. What's 3 more weeks of having a pocketbook of warm urine hanging out of me for all to see?

maju

Because it was quite a mild night and was around 11C/52F when I got up, I went for a 6 km/4 mile run just after sunrise. The forecast is for possible rain later and into tomorrow, and much lower temperatures for a few days after that, possibly around freezing for a couple of nights, so the almost perfect running weather is coming to an end.

After breakfast Eden and Aria wanted me to take them to the park again (I took them yesterday afternoon as well), so we walked over to the school (the nearest playground) around 9 am. One of their local friends joined us (with her mother) about 45 minutes later and they all played together for an hour or so. When we had to leave S (the mother) told the girls they are welcome to come over in the afternoon, so they're all over there now. The place is about a block from here.

Earlier in the week when I was talking with the girls about their school running club, they were telling me how fast they are; Eden is faster than Violet apparently. Last night I had the idea that I could put my running watch on any of the girls and have them run a short test run/time trial, so we did that this morning at the school. Over a distance of 180 metres or just under 200 yards, Eden (almost 9) ran at 4 minutes 35 seconds per km (about 7 minutes 23 seconds per mile, and Aria (6) ran at 4 minutes 55 seconds per km or about 7 minutes 55 seconds per mile. (My absolute fastest speed over a short distance is about 7 minutes 35 minutes per km, or just over 12 minutes per mile.) Neither girl could have kept up that pace much longer, but they'd still be faster than I am over a longer distance I'm sure.

greghousesgf

L. loved my curry!

Current Music: Eric Manana

susandennis

I'm really appreciating this eggshell topper on my bed. It's just the loveliest feeling of cozy. Weird and wild. I'm so glad I didn't go full new mattress. I did wake up this morning with a very sore leg - it was part of my dream. But, once I quit lying on it, it healed up nicely. I've been up an hour now and it has totally forgiven me.

I got the highest sleep scores I have ever seen from Fitbit. 87!!

This is one of the first non-rainy days we've had in a while. The sun is out. Hopefully, I can just drop the blinds in the pool and not have to fight the glare.

I have an Amazon return that I might take today. I bought a Fire TV stick to see if it's gotten any better or the years. The Prime app on Roku has been annoying me and I'm using it more so I figured a Fire stick might ease the issue. It didn't. Plus, while the Roku Prime app can be slow, the same app on Amazon's fire stick did not even work some of the time. Plus, another remote. Not worth it. So I popped onto to Amazon to start the return. And, I got an interesting offer. I selected 'no longer needed' as my reason and filled in that it did not work as desired in the comments. No, don't want to interact with a technician. Then I got a box saying that if I just wanted to keep it, they would give me a discount! The thing cost me $32 in total. They offered me $5 off. Yeah, nope. I've had them tell me to just keep the item. But, I've never had a price reduction offer before.

There is a new puzzle started in the elbow and TV to watch and creatures to knit. So that's my plan for today. After I do my swim.

days_unfolding

I almost forgot my tooth that replaces the one that broke. I realized it when the Uber was on his way, but I made a mad dash in.

On the bus to O’Hare. At O’Hare. Dropped my suitcase off. Had a sandwich for lunch. At the gate.

The boarding place has an app on which they post pictures. Bella and Gracie look like they’re having the time of their life.

I’m in Miami. Miami is hot. Had a chatty Uber driver who said that I looked tired. I’m DoorDashing a poke bowl and soda. The poke bowl didn't have a fork, so I ate it with my hands (at least the protein, pineapple, and mango). The hotel room kind of sucks, and the WiFi isn't working. But I seriously need to crash.

maju

I was hoping to go for a run this morning, thinking the girls would be watching tv for at least some of the morning. However, I had forgotten that Violet had a cub scout event all morning (from 8:30 until 12:30) and her father would be with her, so someone needed to do something with the other two while their mother was working. So I ended up walking them to the library again, where we spent an hour or so until Eden announced that she wanted to leave. I think she would have been happy to stay for longer, but she was looking forward to spending most of the rest of the day getting ready for a friend's sleepover birthday party tonight and her anticipation wouldn't let her relax and stay longer at the library. Unfortunately, while we were out, the friend's mother let my daughter know that the party has had to be postponed until 22nd November because the family is sick.

It's a beautiful day (around 65F/18C - much too warm for this time of year in Connecticut), and would have been good for a run but was also very good for a walk to the library and back. It's supposed to be similarly warm tomorrow but with rain in the afternoon, so I'm now hoping to get my run in tomorrow morning.

maju

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greghousesgf

Looking forward to going over to L's house this afternoon to make them Chinese beef curry for their birthday. I have everything I need except a potato and I'm going to walk right past the grocery store on my way to the bus stop so I can just go in and pick up a potato. No, I don't know why Chinese beef curry would have potato in it but who am I to argue with Martin Yan? The only thing I'm doing differently from the recipe is leaving the sugar out of the sauce because L. is diabetic, which is why I'm making birthday curry and not birthday cake.

Current Music: Mastretta

susandennis

Volleyball hours have changed. We used to play 2 hours. But now we are going to start 30 minutes later on Tuesdays and Thursdays and end 30 minutes earlier on Saturdays. I like the 2 hours but apparently, others do not. Whatever. I can sleep in.

Today I need to remember to do pills. Put them in my sun-sat boxes I do 4 months at a time and it's time. I put them out on the bathroom counter the other day so I remember and I'm tired of looking at them.

Elbow coffee this morning.

And my back stretches. My back is way better but my leg is still cranky. Its cranky is coming from my spine. So back stretches.

In the olden days, when I would put on something with pockets, a dress, top, jacket, it wasn't odd at all to find money in the pocket. Most often, a nicely washed dollar bill or, if times were fat, a five dollar bill.

These days, I put on a top with something in the pocket and it's a very nicely washed wad of kleenex. Every time. It's why I always buy Kleenex instead of off brand or another brand. All the others seem to shred in the wash. Not Kleenex. I should do an old lady commercial.

Time for elbow coffee.

days_unfolding

Scanned my music and sent it to my singing teacher. Printed off some music to work on on the ship. Grabbed my passport. I can’t find my Global Entry card. I don’t need it for the cruise, but I’ll need it for my trip to Europe next fall.

I’m going to have to run to the vet to get flea meds for Gracie. I did, but they gave me HeartGard instead, so I used one of Bella's flea meds and just didn't give her all of it.

Cleaned out the car and put dog and cat food in it. I don’t have enough cat food, so I ordered an express order from Walmart. I couldn’t find my order of bulbs. Did someone take it?

Things that you say only if you have pets: “Oliver, stop sticking your head down my pants!” ( I was in the bathroom.) “Gracie, don’t put your nose there either!”

Hmm. Maybe I should have lunch before I shower (done).

Oliver knocked down my laptop and the I key fell off. This is a new laptop! Thanks a lot, Oliver. I wonder if I could get it fixed.

Operation Cat- and Dog-Nap went off without a hitch, although Zara was hissing at me and tried to hide. They’re settled in at the boarding place. This is the part of the trip that I worried about the most.

Ran my errands. Got my meds. I was able to get everything else that I needed at Schnucks. Contacted my singing teacher and told her that I wasn't going to make the lesson. Got the new filters for my hearing aids and she changed them and the dome for me. I saw a display of Dubai chocolates and grabbed them.

Got home. Put clothes in the dryer. Checked into my flight. Now I think that I'll pop a couple of Dubai chocolates and go pack.

Well, hell. I went to email my dad my cruise details, when I discovered that I had also booked a flight on American Airlines to and from Miami! I used a different email address than I usually do for some reason. I want to use the airfare for a trip to New York a year from December, but I couldn't book that far out, so I booked it for March and will change it in January.

I can't stop yawning. This is not a good sign because I want to pull an all-nighter to make sure that I don't miss my 7 AM bus. Maybe I will take a nap after I finish packing.

Well, everything is piled up on my suitcase, but I couldn't find the shampoo and conditioner bottles. So off I went to Meijer to get some bottles. I also found a nice shave cream in travel size. I'm taking a break now to eat something.

I'm packed. Now I'm going to do some tidying up. I think that I'll post now though.

maju

1. In one word, how would you describe your childhood? Cold.

2. What celebrities do you admire? Why? Princess Anne because she is very hard working but not at all loud or flashy about it. She just seems to get on with the job without fanfare.

3. What is the number one motivator in your life right now? Necessity.

4. What music do you listen to to lift your spirits when you’re feeling down? I don't normally turn to music to life my spirits, but I always enjoy listening to music that's tuneful and has a good beat.

5. If I gave you $1000 and told you that you had to spend it today, what would you buy? I'd probably go looking for some new clothes considering the shabby state of many of the garments I'm currently wearing.

6. What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud? Violet and I were reading lists of "the weirdest baby names" together and some of them were hilarious. There was one which was pronounced "Yamajesty" which made Violet laugh very loudly.

7. What is your biggest pet peeve? How to choose? One is when people chew gum loudly in public.

greghousesgf

Nothing happening since yesterday evening. Looking forward to going over to L.'s house tomorrow and another friend's birthday party next weekend. It also occurred to me that my friend who's having the birthday next weekend and his girlfriend, who I'm also friends with, said something about being interested in going to the Dickens Xmas fair with me and you have to buy those tickets online in advance so I should ask them when they want to do that.

Current Music: Gabin

susandennis

I had a fine sleep last night. My egg carton foam got more foamy, hopefully as foamy as it will get. It's really lovely to sleep on which really surprises me. I didn't mess with the extra pillow anywhere. Just slept like I normally do and it was fine. And my back is better than it was yesterday.

I walked the long way down to the pool and stopped in the gym room to use the nice padded table for stretches and other exercises before my swim. Swam and walked the long way back and now I'm done. I'll walk back down stairs again at least once more today to pick up dinner, probably and back and forth to the elbow. I need to put the puzzle away and get ready for the next one.

But, mostly, I'm done for today.

I just got a reminder to check my website hosting and it turned out to be a little mini tour down memory lane. In the olden days, back when web pages were THE thing, hosting companies were everywhere. You picked one, moved your shit, got it all set up and the company went under. Lather, rinse, repeat. In 2004, I found an outfit called Total Choice Hosting that looked boring enough to be around for a minute so I moved my sit and got it all set up. Susandennis.Com is still there. All my images, most of my mp3's, a lot of genealogy stuff that a remote cousin dug up and digitized is there and backup email. It cost me $44 a year*. Most years, I do ponder on whether it's worth it to keep it and the answer is always yes. And it is again this year.

My relationship with my current website hosting company is now 21 fucking years old. It could VOTE! Wild. I sure can't quit it now.

*I don't remember the details but while the price has not changed, I do know the value has. In the beginning, there was barely enough storage available to house a tiny website. Now the same amount of money provides way more storage than I could ever use.

maju

This morning I started on the process of transferring my driver's licence and car registration to Connectitut. First I went and had an emissions test done on the car; I thought this was going to be the hardest part, but it was quite easy. The next thing was gathering the various official documents I'll need, which was also easy except for the insurance. I have to present evidence of current insurance to transfer the registration, but my current insurer can't insure the car in Connecticut so I have to find a local insurance agent and have them give me a new policy starting on the day I have the registration transferred. I assume the current insurance card I have will be good enough proof that the car was insured before the registration was transferred. (I also found out from the current insurer that I will have to return the MD plates to the Maryland MVA, which I already knew.) Anyway, after all this, I have an appointment with the Connecticut DMV on 18th November to transfer both licence and registration.

I received a text message from my real estate agent asking me if he could arrange for "his" contractor to do some painting and replace the damaged flooring in my house before he puts it on the market. He knows I wanted to sell it as is, but he thinks these two repairs will make a big difference in getting it sold. I do think the appearance of the damaged floor will detract from the appeal of the house so it's a good idea to have it replaced. I just didn't want to deal with that myself.

days_unfolding

Note to self: buy Imodium and dental floss and denture tablets and protein bars and straws and travel toothpaste and hair gel and pens. Dramamine at Walgreens. Shut off outside water. Pack passport! And scissors and stapler. And pens.

I forgot to mention that Gracie attacked one of my pillows and pulled the stuffing out. There is pillow stuffing all over the place. This is why we can’t have nice things. I'm going to give up and buy cheap sheets and pillowcases for the bed. I might already have some extra pillows. I bought some inexpensive Eddie Bauer flannel sheets and duvet cover. If I like them, I'll get an extra set of sheets.

Also forgot to mention that I got the dogs a "dog puck" toy, and it was a hit. Both Gracie and Bella wanted it, but Bella got it. I need to get a second one.

Woke up at 7:30 AM. I didn't shower because my clothes were in the dryer and because I had a 9:00 meeting for which I wanted to be on time.

Bella says, “Use your time well. Pet your dog.”

Hmm. I was going to run errands tonight, but I kind of want to stay home and grab a quick nap. I'll need to be out tomorrow to drop off the fur faces, so I could run errands afterward.

Oh! United's site: "The U.S. government plans to restrict flights due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. Our schedule changes for Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8 are now in place. Check your flight status to see if your upcoming flight was affected." The flight is still scheduled on time. Yay.

Well, crud. I forgot about my therapy appointment and missed it.

I took a nap and slept until 3:30 AM. Went back to sleep, and the dogs made a concerted effort to get me up at 4:30. I can’t blame them; I was asleep for a long time.

I didn’t notice that the gate was open and Bella got out. At first, she ran away, so I got Gracie inside and grabbed her leash, but then she walked up to the gate to be let in. Good girl, Bella. Fed us all. My stomach is a little upset. I'm going to take a nap.

greghousesgf

Got an unexpected phone call from L. this morning and we wound up spending most of the day together, I just got home not too long ago. I'm still going over to their house day after tomorrow to make Chinese beef curry for their birthday.

Current Music: Bill Withers

somedayseattle

Today's culinary masterpiece...a Catalina dressing so blood-like it would give Dracula a stiffie.

Today is Pee Bag Decision Day. Fingers and wieners crossed I can have it removed.

I apologize for not being better at updating since moving to the new castle. We here at SomedaySeattle LLC take our role of motivator, beacon of light in dark days, annoying agitators and spatula's of love seriously. I have recently Elon'ed the entire staff (4 sloth's and a sarcastic 3-legged cat named Tripodicus) and hired anew. There are currently 12 monkeys, in the writers room on word processors, hurriedly working on new, fresh content (when the are not flinging poop at each other)

In between fashion shoots, tv appearances and Bingo (mostly the bingo) I am almost constantly in motion but I promise to try harder to keep you entertained.

maju

It's parents' night at school tonight (I think - there's something at the school at 6:30 pm) so the girls came home at lunch time. They hadn't been home long before Eden and Aria asked me to walk them to the library (about 1.5 km/not quite a mile). Violet didn't want to join us, so I guess she had a nice peaceful afternoon at home alone (without her sisters that is). We ended up spending about 2 1/2 hours there.

Apparently Eden and Aria enjoy walking and running but Violet doesn't. Earlier this term their mother signed them up for Running Club, which met before school one morning a week for five weeks. Violet violently objected to going and every week started complaining about it the night before, but did end up participating - she told me later that what she hated was the fact that it was so cold at that time of the morning at this time of year. Aria hated having to be ready to go to school earlier than usual but ended up enjoying it anyway. And Eden loved it. Turns out she loves running and is fast. My daughter says sometimes their father takes Eden and Aria to the school just to spend time running around and around the oval, when they're showing signs of being too cooped up at home, so I'm hoping I'll get to do that with them sometimes.

maju

Finally I had a good night's sleep *and* managed to stay asleep until my alarm went off at 5 am, so I'm feeling much less tired today.

I went for my usual walk this morning. My daughter has an electronic noticeboard/calendar on the living room wall; as well as showing calendar events it also shows the weather. When I went out this morning it was claiming that the outside temperature was 51F/10C, but I'm sure it was forgetting to allow for the wind chill effect, because there was a very brisk cold breeze and it felt like well under 51 out there. I started out with a long sleeved flannel shirt with t-shirt and shorts, and I didn't need to take off the long sleeved shirt, whereas back home in MD (where we rarely have any breeze at all) I would have been well warmed up after 15 or 20 minutes at that temperature.

susandennis

The bed topper I got is the egg crate type. This one 1.5". I had no idea what it would feel like and would not have been surprised had it been a total fail. Even as I got into bed, I was wondering if I should not have just gotten a whole new mattress instead. But the egg crate stuff was actually a nice feeling to lay on it. My sleep sucked (a 64!) but I think that was more from the residual pain and the night long fight to keep that damn pillow between my knees. I think tonight, I'll forget the knee thing and just sleep. But I'm keeping that egg crate foam.

This morning, my back was stiff and sore but not as bad as yesterday. Volleyball is a great back exercise by itself. So much reaching and jumping. PLUS today, when I wasn't involved in the shot, I was moving my back and my legs. Last night I researched back exercises for the pool and this morning I did them all. And by the time play was done, my back felt a whole lot better.

Then I stopped in the workout room and got onto that giant bench and did some more stretches and back stuff. I really don't mind doing them. What I mind is getting down to the floor and back up again. That bench is fab.

So now, a couple hours later, as I type this, things are way better. I can stand, sit and walk without too much pain. If I turn at the waist a certain way, it's wildly painful but mostly it's ok and way way better.

I have done some YouTube back exercises for seniors searching and have a nice little play list. I still do need to actually watch the videos and do the exercises but... baby steps.

I love Amazon gift registries. It makes everything so easy and anonymous.

Another obligation-free day. I've got nothing planned. I may do laundry. I may not. I haven't decided. It is getting closer to the 10th and I have meal money to use up so there may be some of that. Or not. I have a freezer loaded up and ready to eat.

But, now I've been just sitting here alternatively staring out the window and googingly random shit. I need to get out of this chair!

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