Motown, I used to live in Chicago and to hear of Northbrook made me nostalgic. Oh how it used to get so cold in Illinois. I haven't lived there since the 80s. I guess I'm old.

My shredder is acting up which makes me upset. But I'm sure there's plenty of other things for me. Changed the cat box. Think I'll taje garbage out now. Ooh I'll vacuum bedroom quickly. The shampooer left behind a few little mats of badger fur.

We are not predicted to get snow, but very cold. The wind is howling right now as the warm front blows through and the goats are out in the warm wind catching leaves. Very funny to watch. Tomorrow it drops steadily to -2 and the wind chill is supposed to be 30 below overnight! The radio has been telling everyone to get all animals into shelter.

Mine will be all buttoned up in the barn and I will be wearing all my cozy stuff to go out. They are saying the wind can give you frost bite in less than 30 minutes, so I don't know if school will be affected.

Don't worry, I brush and floss.

Addressing the weather question that keeps popping up, no we are not in the path of any extreme weather. The lows are going to be in the 20s when for me here is WAY too cold. Did I mention I LOATHE cold? LOL! But my daughter and her kids just moved into a house (from a very small apartment) on Saturday. They live in Northbrook, Illinois which is a Chicago suburb. So it started snowing just about the time the movers pulled out and the kids are actually out for a snow day today. PLUS they have already cancelled school for Wednesday and Thursday as they are under a wind chill warning. The forecast high for Wednesday there is 12 degrees BELOW ZERO! Um, this girl has only one word to say about that. NO. End of discussion. Ain't no way.
So I hope that none of you other friends are in the path of extreme weather either.

Peace, love and keep warm!!

We cross posted. I do not believe we are in the path of any big storm. Maybe a little snow and definitely some cold but I think we will be okay. I know our Midwest office was closed today due to weather. We aren't expecting anything too severe.

Such a pleasure to get the rug cleaned. It only needs it a few times a year. The cleaning solution smells really nice, too. Clean.

I meant to tell you, SubC, that I think you did a great job of only asking your mom to set aside a few objects. Excellent work!

Bf isn't feeling well. Yes at doctor now. Thank goodness as I have been worried to death.

Hey everyone!

Yes, we will use that Don't Make Me Get The Badger! I don't blame you for not getting the routine test. I can narrow it down to two things. I've done both and they are highly unpleasant.

Motown that's a great visual, the little game with the tiles. We call that churning.

My house is a pigsty, which I didn't realize til my neighbor came over. I have a bunch of groceries in my car that I wasn't able to get to my house yesterday so the woman who uses my car for her son came by with them. I wasn't embarrassed since the house is basically clean, it had the carpet cleaner pulled apart and drying in the kitchen and I still have a few things out of the bedroom such as my clothes hamper. So it's messy but honestly not all that dirty. Very good to see it through her eyes. I know what to work on tonight once the music is playing.

I got to the PO and mailed the box overseas. Now to put the cat food and other groceries away. Then garbage including cleaning litter box then back me quick swipe with the vacuum then attack papers. Ive kept my desk clean and clear so far,

Hello Everyone

Hi Tatoulia
WAY TO GO!!!
Next time lets not wait so long to bring out the badger. ;D
Good luck with the post office.
Are you getting this next big storm?

Hi Subclinical
WAY TO GO! being selective about your Mom's offerings!
WONDERFUL Dr. visit!
Hoping the blood work shows only good results.
Are you in the path of this next big storm?


Hi Motown
The secret to solving those sliding puzzles is...
remove some of the tiles
then the rest of the picture easily slides into place.
Yes, when decluttering, sorting, organizing
things always look a lot worse before we finish.
Are you in the path of this next big storm?

Keep up the GREAT work! :D


As a dental assistant ever since I was 16, one thing I know is that we removed a LOT of people's perfectly good teeth because their gums were diseased with significant bone loss making the teeth loose.
Practicing good oral hygiene daily including flossing prevents this.
So simple, so easy. ;D
I went decades without any dental checkups and there was absolutely nothing wrong with my teeth or gums. :P

Before noon the clouds rolled in.
So I feel better about not doing anything outside today.
Did light the burn barrel though.
Soon I will wash dishes.
We are not expecting any severe weather this week.

Motown, I hope the sliding around helped.

I have to say that for me though, there came a point where I realized than no matter how much I slid it around, it wasn't going to get better until some of it slid out the door.

You may have all my turns to go to the dentist. The last work I had done was having my wisdom teeth out 24 years ago. No cavities since. No broken teeth. But when I was a kid, I had orthodontics and ten teeth pulled (over a long period of time and all my adult molars drilled out and filled in. My orthodontist tried to convince me to keep my appliance on a little longer when I was 17 and leaving for college. My mom tried to convince me too. I told her that I wanted it off now, but it was coming off no matter what as soon as I turned 18. So I was freed with teeth that were still a little crooked.

I actually found a dentist I liked when my youngest was almost two. I went to see him every six months for five years. Then we moved. I drove an hour back twice. I have given up on replacing him. Now I go see dh dentist when it has been so long I start to worry about cavities. And they yell at me about not coming regularly. Which really makes me want to go back (sarcasm).

Forgot to tell you my book arrived.

Hello all, Happy Monday!!!!!

I had a fairly productive Saturday once I got started. it was just small stuff but I worked hard at it. No noticeable difference and the mess created is maybe bigger than the beginning. I don't know. I just seem to move stuff from one place to another. Reminds me of those little plastic puzzles that kids used to get in grab bags with toys from Oriental Trading Company, etc. They were square with 8 tiles and space for 9 but they were mixed up and you had to slide them in a certain sequence to complete the picture on it. I never did successfully work one but the point is to just move a piece to a space made available by moving another piece, and so on. That is all I ever get done. I keep moving the pieces around but never get it done!!! Frustrating like trying to solve a Rubik's cube. anyway, I digress.

Subclinical's post made me think of something. You know how sometimes in groups the icebreaker is that we are instructed to say something interesting about ourselves or something people may not know about us? Well I can name three things about myself, things that I love that most people probably do not even like or actually detest:


1. Doing laundry and more specifically sorting socks. I do indeed love it.

2. Roundabouts like in Europe. A nearby town we frequent is implementing them and all I hear is how much people hate them. I love them! They keep traffic moving and reduce accidents.


3. Going to the dentist. If I could afford one luxury it would be to have my teeth professionally cleaned at least once a month. I really love my dentist and have never felt one bit of pain even during procedures, etc. Granted, I have not had any major work done just some broken teeth repaired and a few fillings, etc. But I love going.

Anyway, that's TMI I know but...had to share. I will shut up now and get back to work.

Yay Tatoulia!

Somehow, I feel like "don't make me get the giant badger" is going to come around again.

I went to the doctor. The doctor recommended a routine test which I am not going to get yet (statistically I should get it, using more specific information, there is little reason for me to get it. I'm using the mark twain principal on this one.) She also nudged me to go to the dentist every six months. I am not going to the dentist. My teeth are fine. In fact, she undermined her case when she said how nice my teeth were and I "want to keep them that way" which my brain heard as "your current method of going to the dentist every 5 or 6 years to be made miserable and yelled at for not going to the dentist is working just fine".

(Do not threaten me with the badger for not going to the dentist. It will not end well for the badger.)

Anyway, blood pressure was good! And I skipped breakfast, so I got my bloodwork done on the spot. Results in a few days. That was really a huge blessing because I only had to think about the fact that I was going to have blood drawn for about ten minutes.

Came home and talked to my mom for over an hour. She is thinning out books and Christmas ornaments and had to ask me about all of them. I think I ended up with 4 ornaments and a book set aside for me.

Just cleaned out the machine. Trying to get to PO to take overseas package out.

Ok done. It's remarkable how much dirt lifts up. Even on day 2. I haven't emptied the machine yet as I don't know if I'll try another pass. So gross.

Enjoy your beautiful day, Tillie. Will report back in a while.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Tatoulia
YEA! WTG!
Having a nice smelling clean rug! :D
The cleaning Fairies will be impressed too.


Looks like it's going to be another beautiful day here today.
Have no plans, will just wing it.

The badger just threw up on the rug. Time to shampoo it again. I'm excited. It smells nice and will be ready for what is now Wednesday's project on the TV. Plus my cleaners come on Wednesday! Big doings!

I just got in and yes, I am so pleased to have the rug shampooed and nice. Makes such a difference. Will do a second pass tomorrow. Some of the badger puke stains are a little difficult.

Snort. I'm laughing so hard I'm snorting. Cable bill! Badgers! Breaking the internet!!!

Love you all

WAY TO GO! CriticalMass!!!
You got Tatoulia to shampoo her rug!
I tried my best but just wasn't scary enough I guess.

Wonderful how quickly we can get exactly what we need using the internet.

Good luck homing all the bunnies.
Unfortunately, easter is right around the corner and there will be more poor misused little waifs along with all the baby chicks & ducklings.

Hi Subclinical
You had a right to boast about your weight.
Falling off the wagon every now and then is alright as long as we don't give up and go whole hog every day.

Along with glowing spider webs, aren't dust motes so wonderful to watch? ;)


Hi Tatoulia

Isn't it wonderful to see all those ads telling us just how much we are saving by not buying anything! ;D

WTG! finally going over the rug and it does make sense to do it in two parts given the circumstances.



Just puttering around here today.
Very nice outside but my back, neck and shoulders are telling me to take it easy and not garden for a few days.
Clipping off the spent seed pods from the lilac bushes and pruning down the tallest lilac branches is a LOT of work in a position unnatural for humans.

Oh my, I broke the thread!

I guess that's better than breaking the entire Internet...

ROTFL!! 😂😂😂

And hey, it got Tatoulia shampooing the rug! I regret nothing!

I was laughing so hard when that happened last night, and also praying Cory and Tillie wouldn't be mad at me...

SubC, I bet those pounds will go off quickly. I seem to have a new set point just one pound down from the higher point I got up to when I started getting sloppy. I wish it were more, of course, but the consistency is somewhat encouraging.

I'd hoped to get to the gym last week for sure, but on Wednesday I was needed to sit for my elderly lady friend all day, unexpectedly. So then my pay stub project lost a day's work, and then there was the episode of the fried computer cord Friday night. The new cord arrived this morning (Amazon Prime rocks).

So I am back on my main computer, badgers and all.

Well, actually, today's theme is bunnies, in that we have a board meeting for the bunny group this afternoon. We are getting so many bunnies in but no adopters. Pray we get some amazing bunny-loving people soon!

I also have the paperwork to do for the student loan debt; it also comes in January. Shouldn't be too bad, and I can probably do it here at home now that my roommate has a new laser printer that works - with documents like that I do keep a hard copy because I've had them lose my paperwork before and it helps me to just be able to look at it as I await their confirmation letter without having to boot up the computer, etc.

Well, I better get ready, so TTYL.

To anybody needing motivation in future, I will simply say:

DON'T MAKE ME GET THE GIANT BADGER!

Bwahahaaaaaa...

I think it was probably more that I held my ground long enough to become complacent. I have to remember that the body takes a long time to accept a new "set point" not just a week or so.

Puttering around today, catching up on little spaces. It's gorgeous and sunny today and so the light is streaming in all of my windows and making my spider webs glow. Not to mention pointing out that all the things that look dingey are actually dingey.

We often get mail informing us that the sender can save us $100/month by lowering our cable bill. I wave it at dh and say "look! Somebody wants to pay us $100 a month to get cable!"

SubC you weren't bragging about your weight! You were celebrating. Please this wasn't karma. I found it inspirational. So unless you really think it was karma, please keep me posted on how you are doing.

I forgot to tell you that I too support your book purchase.

Ok! First pass with the shampoo machine. There are two settings and I did the lighter setting since BF and employee may be helping me with moving some things around in the bedroom and helping me with TV. I was dead set against TV in bedroom but now I'm not. I don't watch in living room and I only need one tv. Anywho I did the lighter setting because it affects the drying time. If need be, I'll do a second pass tmr. Or tonight if they don't come by.

It was easy and efficient. I did a quick second run of vacuum this AM.

Shower and mom time now. As to spending, it is remarkable that each day I wake up to emails from stores telling me how much I can save. I delete and save the full 100%.

That is the cutest badger I have ever seen. And he is right there on top. In case any of us needs a badger.....

I am off to a very slow star today - chores, yoga, and a relaxing morning with dh. But I am feeling more rested and relaxed and optimistic, so we will see how I do.

The only bad thing is that karma bit me for bragging about my weight. Too much pasta, cheese, bread and goodies the last couple of days and I am right back out of my zone. I will get it back though. (And then I will keep my mouth shut!)

Ok the badger will win! Enjoying my coffee. Then will shampoo the rug.

It was time for a new file. And I certainly appreciated the effort of the badger picture. Really nice work.

Good Morning Everyone

I fixed the formatting.
YEA!!! D

Due to Godzilla Badger attack...





LOL :D