In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Eh - it doesn't take much to create a problem, it just has to be the exact combination of 'wrong'.
Anyway - see above. I'm hoping to pass along some helpful information to someone a few decades my junior. Don't trod the path of most youth (even me) ! You can lay in a good course for a healthful and reasonably pain-free older age. 
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah...
I forgot to install an alternate browser when I did my PC setup initially and I used my own youtube account to listen to some music the other day.
That's always a huge mistake. I don't usually ever listen to music through youtube and I have very specific videos that I like coming up in my feed based off of my tastes. All it takes is a few hours of straying off of those subjects with other things like music and now my Recommended feed is 50% music videos that I have no interest in watching.
OPPS
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I like listening to music through YouTube because I can see the video as well. Specially since I don't watch the music channels on tv anymore.
Guess in that regard you would call me an old "fuddie-duddie".
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda - that sounds really enjoyable.
Just to share some humor - and don't take this the wrong way - I enjoy Cher's stuff and I like the persona she projects ... but some time ago I stumbled into an obscure website called 'misheard lyrics' (or something like that). Anyway, one of the misheard lyrics was ...
... but every night all the men would come around
And lay the monkey down.
Another one I remember - not Cher - was ...
dirty deeds, dunder sheep
I wish I could remember more. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
It will be nice.
No worries Kiki. That sounds like a hilarious site. Might have to go and have a look for it just to see how they can "monkey" around with lyrics.
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Sunday, Sunday
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I should put this in the recipe thread, but I'm too inert at the moment to look for it. My next recipe I hope will be a rich, hearty marinara that I intend to have by itself (no pasta or rice) - full of tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs and spices and other aromatics, and of course, ground beef. We'll see how it goes.
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Hubby has been on a house fixit jag, and dd and I (mostly dd) have been his trusty helpers, so thinking about this in reverse order
Yesterday we changed out six doorknobs because he realized that they were lockable ... and we didn't have the keys to any of them.
The day before, he completed a modification to our bed's headboard, which meant adding a "bumper" and rim to headboard shelf so that the headboard wouldn't get in the way of the drapes and things wouldn't fall down between the headboard and the wall.
Before that, it was putting up the curtain rods and curtains in our bedroom.
Before that, it was fixing the garage door springs. Just as an expreiment, both dd and I tried extending the springs to hook it onto the C clip. No way, Jose!
Before that, it was trimming the bottoms of some doors so we could stil get airflow with the doors shut. That's when we discovered that these doors were HEAVY ... they have some kind of metal reinforcement in the solid (wood) core. This is another thing that dd and I tried carrying. It's a good thing hubby has got more muscle than both of us combined!
Before that, it was putting up dd's curtains and rod.
In the very near future I've got a bunch of items to collect up for donation because two different organizations will be here on Thursday, plus we are selling a car to our (formerly homeless) sometime gardener for a buck, but I have to get it smogged first b4 we can xfer title.
I've been taking care of year-end financial things ... but I have had seven large and supposedly reliable institutions (including a bank, credit union, and Medicare) fuck up something simple but important which has taken me multiple steps to get fixed because they were dragging their feet or providing me with moving targets for a solution. Kinda frustrating and scary at the same time because they have the power to make these problems entirely unfixable. Fortunately I have only one last problem to tackle... So far... I'm just waiting for another fuckup.
I have finally developed a partial solution for this continuing stuffy nose/infection?/allergy?/lack of sense of smell, and I'm sure my doctors would be horrified if they knew. I'm continuing my allergy shots and nose rinses as Rx'd, I tried the antihistamine nasal spray (so far not helping) but I've added one twist of my own: I've added a little bit (about 1 teaspoon) of vodka to my saline rinse. I don't know if I'm denaturing allergens in my nose or killing germs or just bitch-slapping my mucus membranes (" Stop being so sensitive! "smack*) but it really seems to be dialing down that blockage, allowing things to drain, and letting me dial back on the decongestant, so I feel like I'm making progress.
*****
SIX, how's the back? On the way to being fully mended?
BRENDA, all set for Xmas?
KIKI, I'm sure you'll figure out that recipe! when you do, pleae post it online!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hubby has been on a house fixit jag, and dd and I (mostly dd) have been his trusty helpers, so thinking about this in reverse order
Yesterday we changed out six doorknobs because he realized that they were lockable ... and we didn't have the keys to any of them.
The day before, he completed a modification to our bed's headboard, which meant adding a "bumper" and rim to headboard shelf so that the headboard wouldn't get in the way of the drapes and things wouldn't fall down between the headboard and the wall.
Before that, it was putting up the curtain rods and curtains in our bedroom.
Before that, it was fixing the garage door springs. Just as an expreiment, both dd and I tried extending the springs to hook it onto the C clip. No way, Jose!
Before that, it was trimming the bottoms of some doors so we could stil get airflow with the doors shut. That's when we discovered that these doors were HEAVY ... they have some kind of metal reinforcement in the solid (wood) core. This is another thing that dd and I tried carrying. It's a good thing hubby has got more muscle than both of us combined!
Before that, it was putting up dd's curtains and rod.
In the very near future I've got a bunch of items to collect up for donation because two different organizations will be here on Thursday, plus we are selling a car to our (formerly homeless) sometime gardener for a buck, but I have to get it smogged first b4 we can xfer title.
I've been taking care of year-end financial things ... but I have had seven large and supposedly reliable institutions (including a bank, credit union, and Medicare) fuck up something simple but important which has taken me multiple steps to get fixed because they were dragging their feet or providing me with moving targets for a solution. Kinda frustrating and scary at the same time because they have the power to make these problems entirely unfixable. Fortunately I have only one last problem to tackle... So far... I'm just waiting for another fuckup.
I have finally developed a partial solution for this continuing stuffy nose/infection?/allergy?/lack of sense of smell, and I'm sure my doctors would be horrified if they knew. I'm continuing my allergy shots and nose rinses as Rx'd, I tried the antihistamine nasal spray (so far not helping) but I've added one twist of my own: I've added a little bit (about 1 teaspoon) of vodka to my saline rinse. I don't know if I'm denaturing allergens in my nose or killing germs or just bitch-slapping my mucus membranes (" Stop being so sensitive! "smack*) but it really seems to be dialing down that blockage, allowing things to drain, and letting me dial back on the decongestant, so I feel like I'm making progress.
*****
SIX, how's the back? On the way to being fully mended?
BRENDA, all set for Xmas?
KIKI, I'm sure you'll figure out that recipe! when you do, pleae post it online!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
SIG, I intend to decorate on the 20th. Christmas shopping is finished just have to get a hold of a friend to find out when she wants to meet up. Found a place for my nesting dolls. Maaaaaaaay put them up tonight.
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Nice Sigs. Sounds like you all are getting a ton of work done.
I've got to get back on the ball. Between the back being hurt and just overall winter blues I haven't done much of late.
The back is a lot better. Barely hurts at all right now. Still afraid that one wrong move could bring me back down, but at least I'm not worried about the need to pass a stone or even have to go to the clinic for some antibiotics. You were probably right about the pinched nerve thing.
I was actually playing around with the small guitar that I'm giving my niece for Christmas last night for around an hour and a half. I'm trying to re-teach myself at least one song that I was pretty good at so I can play it with her in hopes it generates interest for her to pick it up. But when I was done my elbow and my shoulder hurt pretty bad. It went away quickly, but I can tell that I'm far to sedentary right now and pains like that are things I hadn't felt since before I was working the old job.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack - if you didn't get the message, I was just trying to let you know that at your age, whatever is going on with your back is (probably) completely repairable. But it would take some time, possibly a good diagnosis, and some therapy. But also, in general - unless you have some bad genetics (genetically high cholesterol comes to mind, but there are other things) or earlier bad misfortune (that left you with a permanent ding), seeing your way to future good health is less of matter of Herculaneum effort, and more a matter of persistence. As long as you do more that's right for your health more often than you do bad.
My particular problem is that when I got injured in my early 20's, I was really poor and had no insurance. (I didn't have insurance till I was in my 30's.) And no one told me it was important to get things looked after. I thought I could just push through. On top of that, over the decades, Kaiser was VERY reluctant to either diagnose or treat persistent pain. In fact, I got the brush-off from a series of doctors. And then, life was pretty chaotic for a number of years what with all sorts of things going on. So one thing and another ... putting myself possibly too low on my priority list of all that needed doing, having the medical profession put barriers in front of me, it ended up the way it did.
But if somebody had told me it was important to get treated, that it would have future consequences - I might have done differently.
So I'm just suggesting it to you. Try to treat yourself with normal, routine, habitual care.
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