In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Pretty productive so far. I tend to go from thing to thing, but I make progress on whatever that thing of the moment is, so it's not wasted time.
I do spend a fair bit of time grocery shopping and cooking, but the sodium levels of everything you get either in a restaurant or a store are beyond what I can tolerate. So it's time well spent, imo.
I've been craving soup with a milk (not cream) broth, with pale vegetables like celery, onion, and potato (and maybe riced cauliflower) that I envisage with turkey meatballs, thyme herb, and fresh ground black pepper. I have NO idea where I got the notion, but when I looked it up, it actually is European regional cooking. Maybe there's a memory buried back there ...
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You might be craving something in the recipe too. Maybe there's a nutrient or a vitamin that you're lacking a bit and your body is trying to tell you through memory? I've heard of that being a thing before. Don't know how much truth there is to it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I know that when it's cold I crave thick, hearty soups. I make a phenomenal, rich, tasty minestrone if I say so myself!
Not about anything, but my cat ... sigh. He got out AGAIN today. Fortunately I was able to round him up pretty quickly across the street before he scampered up the hill into the undeveloped wild part. I shook a bag of treats and he came sidling over. The last time he did this, I looked and looked. That wasn't the first time he got out, but every time before that I was able to retrieve him after an hour or 2. The last time I looked for 5 hours. I thought he was gone for good, irretrievably lost, or maybe quietly eaten, or hurt ... Then finally around 2AM I went to the internet and looked up 'how to find a lost cat' and that's where I found the 'bag of treats' tip. Yanno, go around with that bag of treats shaking it so they can hear the treats rattling inside. Which is how I got him back in the house at 2:30AM.
This neighborhood is NOT friendly to indoor / outdoor cats. Out of the 5 I had previous to Einstein (he's a ridiculously smart cat, he can open every single interior door in the house), 2 were eaten by coyotes, and one was run over by a car. As much as he wants to go o.u.t. it's not going to happen if I can help it.
He is HUGE. I'm 5'7" and when he stretches up to reach for my attention, his front paws come just below my chest. He sleeps in a dog bed and fills it. And he's STRONG. I mention this because he recently tore out a window screen. THIS time around, he pushed the damn window open before he hopped out through the previously torn screen. So now I have to keep it completely closed - AND LOCKED.
Also, I had $$ecurity $$creen doors put in because I knew for a fact he would just rip through a regular one.
I hope he appreciates all I go through for him! (Just kidding. He's a cat. But despite being feral with pretty much everyone else, he's deeply attached to me. So somewhere along the line, what I do counts for something with him.)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah... We're talking taxes, credit card stuff, all of the things that I'm never going to put out on the street as-is. Finally put shredders behind me when I got the firepit, but it's gone now.
Yanno, I just remembered I've got a webber grill that's filthy and needs to be cleaned anyhow. Maybe I'll take care of that tomorrow. I haven't grilled in about 5 years, but it's something I haven't been able to part with. Glad I've still got it.
This is like a treasure hunt with the DVDs and CDs. I used to burn EVERYTHING. I'm finding a bunch of stuff I probably lost on those hard drives. Throwing out all of the tv shows and movies since they're so low quality compared to what you can get today, but the music is golden.
I just figured out how to use a thumbdrive to create a personal cloud with a pretty sweet router my old man gave me a few years back. Going to start loading that up with my music once I get it organized and I can actually do work around the house with some tunes instead of being in my own head all day. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Pretty productive so far. I tend to go from thing to thing, but I make progress on whatever that thing of the moment is, so it's not wasted time.
I do spend a fair bit of time grocery shopping and cooking, but the sodium levels of everything you get either in a restaurant or a store are beyond what I can tolerate. So it's time well spent, imo.
I've been craving soup with a milk (not cream) broth, with pale vegetables like celery, onion, and potato (and maybe riced cauliflower) that I envisage with turkey meatballs, thyme herb, and fresh ground black pepper. I have NO idea where I got the notion, but when I looked it up, it actually is European regional cooking. Maybe there's a memory buried back there ...
I do a lot of cooking for myself because of my food sensitivities which are a pain. But if I don't watch them I run the risk of making myself sick.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.
Good luck. Hope you get it done.
I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.
I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.
Good luck. Hope you get it done.
I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.
I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I should be able too. Back in the day before computers you never thought about getting rid of this stuff. My mom may have thought she'd need my dad's stuff. But I certainly don't need that type of material any more.
Death certificates and birth certificates along with their marriage licence when I find it I will keep. My mom's last tax return I've kept. But other stuff I can easily shred. I'll do it little by little because some of it is my stuff too, that I no longer need.
The stuff my mom kept and some of it I haven't seen in ages so it needs to be sorted through to make sure it can be shredded.
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Years ago, I had kept everything. Like every receipt I had, even if it was for goodwill or the dollar store. Every monthly bill that I had paid. Before I purged the house around 4 years ago, I had boxes upon boxes of this stuff. Now I'd say everything I've kept until now would fit into two cardboard office boxes.
But going 4 years without ever going into that stuff for anything other than my birth certificate and SS card for jobs, it puts into perspective how unneeded most of it is.
Things I'll be keeping are the SS card, birth certificate, high school diploma, a folder about how many college credits I have and in what subjects/what years, car title, all house purchase documents and a folder with all of the info on the property taxes after fighting for nearly a year to have them cut in half.
Oh... and 7 years of income tax returns.
You should check the statute of limitations on that in Canada and your locality before throwing any income tax stuff out, Brenda. Here in America, although you can only go back and audit your own taxes 3 years to report that they owe you more, they have 7 years to go back and audit your taxes.
Granted, most people in our situations likely won't ever get audited. I mean, it's possible that I did once because they contacted me and sent me a 2nd check because I had undervalued the Earned Income Credit I should have gotten one year, but I don't think that was an audit because they apparently have a team that specifically does that since you have the option to check a box and have the government figure the credit for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Hmm... what region? Been trying to figure out where all of these would come from ... nothern Europe, maybe, with the potatoes, onions and milk, but the presence of thyme is a little confounding because I thought that was a southern European herb? Sounds like a real tummy-soother! If only I could eat potatoes ...!
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Pretty productive so far. I tend to go from thing to thing, but I make progress on whatever that thing of the moment is, so it's not wasted time.
I do spend a fair bit of time grocery shopping and cooking, but the sodium levels of everything you get either in a restaurant or a store are beyond what I can tolerate. So it's time well spent, imo.
I've been craving soup with a milk (not cream) broth, with pale vegetables like celery, onion, and potato (and maybe riced cauliflower) that I envisage with turkey meatballs, thyme herb, and fresh ground black pepper. I have NO idea where I got the notion, but when I looked it up, it actually is European regional cooking. Maybe there's a memory buried back there ...
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:I know I mentioned this before, but when I visited momI spent several days sorting thru boxes and boxes and boxes her hers and dad's old papers. It was something of a favor to the executor of the will and something of an asset chase ... dad used to chase highest interest rates and opened and closed a crap-ton of money market accounts at one time, so as I was sorting thru the papers ... "this is not a bill" insurance statements from 1992 ... letters from London to my mom when they first started writing to each other ... I was also on the lookout for stock certificates or bearer bonds or accounts that appeared to have been opened but not closed.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.
Good luck. Hope you get it done.
I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.
I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I should be able too. Back in the day before computers you never thought about getting rid of this stuff. My mom may have thought she'd need my dad's stuff. But I certainly don't need that type of material any more.
Death certificates and birth certificates along with their marriage licence when I find it I will keep. My mom's last tax return I've kept. But other stuff I can easily shred. I'll do it little by little because some of it is my stuff too, that I no longer need.
The stuff my mom kept and some of it I haven't seen in ages so it needs to be sorted through to make sure it can be shredded.
But going thru all of these old papers gave me insight into what they had been going thru ... steroid injections for rotator cuff and bursitis, hopeful and cautious courtship by mail, slow progession into Parkinson's .. snapshots of a life that will never be duplicated ... so will we all fare.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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