In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.
I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!
Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!
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That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.
Decluttering that kind of work is never done.
Tell me about it!
Hubby keeps things bc they may be useful "someday". So we have angle iron, and wood pieces, and computer parts and cabling galore.
Dear daughter. Sigh. She just hangs onto the most useless stuff. Even trash, which she is sometimes too lazy to, er, trash. I have to constantly patrol after her, even with her money-making recycling. She's disorganized as hell, too. After the e-waste roundup we have to tackle her room. Not intending to get rid of anything bc she would resist fiercely. Just organize. (At first. )
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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.
I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!
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Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!
And good for you too.
Let me borrow some of that motivation. I seem to have misplaced mine somewhere around here during that storm.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
SIX, you were going full-bore to tackle an adrenaline and PTSD provoking situation. I think you need to take a breather and do a reset!
Is there anything small and completely unrelated to anything you've been doing that you can accomplish in one or two hours? Find a couple of recipes for an air fryer, maybe?
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.
I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!
Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.
Decluttering that kind of work is never done.
Tell me about it!
Hubby keeps things bc they may be useful "someday". So we have angle iron, and wood pieces, and computer parts and cabling galore.
Dear daughter. Sigh. She just hangs onto the most useless stuff. Even trash, which she is sometimes too lazy to, er, trash. I have to constantly patrol after her, even with her money-making recycling. She's disorganized as hell, too. After the e-waste roundup we have to tackle her room. Not intending to get rid of anything bc she would resist fiercely. Just organize. (At first. )
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yeah, I've heard the "It might be useful" line before that drove my mum batty with my dad. Also a friend's mum as my friend's dad was the same way.
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All done for today. Having a sit down now.
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Off to mah jong in the morning.
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SIX, you were going full-bore to tackle an adrenaline and PTSD provoking situation. I think you need to take a breather and do a reset!
While not untrue, and I am getting a little slower these days than I used to be, I can't keep letting every little setback throw me off track like this. I'm sitting around playing video games and wasting time when I know there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done and less time than I'd care to admit to myself that I need to do it in before I'll be trying to cram this type of stuff in between working for minimum wage doing something completely worthless with my time.
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Is there anything small and completely unrelated to anything you've been doing that you can accomplish in one or two hours? Find a couple of recipes for an air fryer, maybe?
It's funny that you mention it, because I did get something done that needed doing for nearly 2 months now today. I'm not going to name the company here, because this seems so fantastically random that it's got to be some sort of super-infrequent glitch, or you'd be hearing people complain about this sort of thing all the time...
But I had this credit card, you see... One of many. And out of all the cards I've ever had in my life, this is now the second card that required either a smart phone with the app to log into your account, or some rather draconian 2-factor login procedures that were forced on you with no way to opt out.
After they did this, I still kept the card for probably a few years. I only used it once a year to keep it active so I wouldn't get any changes in my credit score for closing it out. But that was before they made the change to the auto-call system. My phone is VOIP. Back in the day, you use to be able to use VOIP phones to navigate the phone networks, but somewhere along the way that eventually changed everywhere. Not all at once, but over time. Now if you aren't calling a live person, a VOIP phone is completely useless to you in 2026. It's a great thing that in tandem with all of this they have also added voice recognition to a lot of their systems so you don't actually need to press the keys, but not everyone has done that yet.
So here is me, a little over a year ago now, calling them up to finally cancel the card once and for all. Because they made a fatal change to that auto-call system. You used to have them call you and they'd just state who they were, why they were calling and give you your 6-digit number. But now? They call you, tell you who they are and why they are calling, but now they require you to PRESS 1 to receive your 6-digit code that you absolutely require to be able to log into your account.
Shit. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it. Hopefully my 833 credit score doesn't get hit too hard by this. At least it's over and I don't have to think about it anymore...
Fast Forward almost one year, and my yearly Sams Club auto-renewal comes in, and Jack didn't think to ever change the payment method there after cancelling the card.
No big deal, right? You cancelled that card almost a year ago. Just deny the transaction, and Sam's can let me know it failed and I'll use a new card. Bada bing, bada boom.
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Nope. I got a fraud alert asking if it was me, and I half didn't take it seriously for a while and figured it had to be spam since I didn't have that card anymore. And it should be mentioned that in no point in time did I ever reply to anyone there and tell them that it was or was not a fraudulent translation, because honestly, I didn't believe that it fell under either of the stated categories, even though I had no clue what the hell was going on.
But then I looked at my Sam's account and yes... They did indeed appear to have re-opened my closed account and made that payment. On an account that I couldn't log into anymore and cancelled a year ago. And now on an account where I
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All done for today. A so-so morning at mah jong. Went out a number of times and managed to break a 1,000points but nothing else. Too many high scores like 13,000 that was the top then 6,000 after that. Think there was only nine of us today.
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I think I'm gonna have to re-read your post, SIX. Seems like you've ID'd a problematic cycle in your life, but is there a resolution in there somewhere?
I'm a bit like you. I tend to work best under pressure. Not entirely self- motivating, so I put MYSELF in pressured situations, like taking promotions I was sure I'd suck at.
BRENDA is actually on the other end of the spectrum. There are benefits to having a routine, and because of her example I've tried to put myself on some kind of schedule. I only sometimes follow it bc things pop up. A lot. But at least I don't molder in my downtimes. I accomplish something every day, even if it's routine or small.
Speaking of which ... I dragged a chair into the den and set up a stool as a sort of table and sat hubby down to go over all those computer and electronic parts that I know nothing about. He isolated two big boxes of e waste. It doesn't look much better, but at least that much will be gone! And then I'll go back to pecking away at the rest of the clutter .
And now, to make dinner!
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Yeah... I've been in quite the writing mood the last 24 hours, it would appear. I've never counted my words before. I wonder if I hit 5 figures yesterday.
I don't know if there is a resolution in there other than do like you said and force yourself into unpleasant situations. That's always what running out of money does to me. Fortunately for me, it won't be the case this time because my lack of health insurance if I'm not working is going to pop up first.
If I didn't keep getting laid off all the time, that would have been the solution right there. I tend to be a creature of habit, and I know you've heard me say before that if they didn't end night shift and ruin everything, I would have been happy doing that job overnight until retirement for the $11.72 they were giving me.
It's too late to do it now and pay it off fully, but I had thought several years ago that what I could have done to force me to do something much earlier would be to buy a really nice pickup truck, or buy the two brand new furnaces and air conditioners that this house would need for all the vents to operate and everything to be modernized. I could have probably done all of that fairly easily a few years ago. Don't imagine that's an option anymore right now.
It's easy now for me to look back and say I should have done it differently, but I'm not going to do that. Nothing about any of this surprises me. It's just what I do.
I think what I really need to do, is to get those major plumbing and electric things all squared away for good and then look for a job. If those two things get finished, my concerns over flooding, the city sewer going down or another drawn out power outages are slashed to small fractions of what they are right now.
A lot of the stuff I still need to do on the house is relatively cheap to do and/or I already have a lot of the materials necessary and all I need to do is devote the time. If I can get myself into a place I don't absolutely hate working at for 2 or 3 days per week, I should have plenty of time to keep working on all those cheapish things while topping off the tanks again on the side. If I wait until everything else is finished on the house entirely, I can pay somebody to do 2 new furnaces and 2 A/C units and the ductwork necessary all at the end when I've got no more DIY expenses here and I'm looking to sell.
Good to hear you got some stuff out.
I really need to get back to doing something over here.
I did spot a very large PC battery backup thing I took from my grandma's house for some stupid reason. I don't know why I still have it. I can't imagine that battery is really good at all anymore since that had to have been a purchase my uncle who died over a decade ago made. Part of me had always thought that it still has to be a good surge protector because of what it was designed to do, but then another part wonders if plugging computers into something that has a known failed battery might actually potentially damage the sensitive electronics, so I never use it.
And even if it does work, it weighs 20lbs. Just buy another surge protector if you ever need one. And by the way, you don't currently need one.
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