After seeing the recent earthquake damage I'm afraid what it will be like now.

The geologists did warn that there may be a bigger one down there soon.

OK, I'm back...

Hi CriticalMass
YEA! for shorts!
Get those draw strings in so you can wear them. :D

Good luck with your continuing sorting, organizing and all that.

Making bead bracelets should be fun and a great idea for the bunny club.

Thank goodness and thank you for checking back in.

Hello CM! You are handling the frustration well. I am thrilled you've joined Instagram and I do hope you'll post some pictures!! Would be so fun!

I just got in from spending time with friend from the Middle East. We got some walking in and visited BF and visited Mom.

I did clear off the hallway table and it looks so nice. I need to fix the rug before I take after pictures. It looks so nice.

Cm how I envy your sewing skills

Tillie I'm going to check twitter and see what's going on. Stay safe and know that we love you.

Thanks Tatoulia (((HUG)))

No damage, it was small here.
Just upset cats and birds and other animals.

I just did some checking and it was a 7 magnitude down in California at the exact same time that I felt.

Poor soul online is all shaken up and rattled, her house was swinging and swaying.

Lots of times big quakes in California are felt here.

Back in the 1950s this area here had one so big it leveled more than half the town and we can still see the huge tear in the ground, the fault line.

Tillie if you need help let me know. Whatever you need.

Feeling impatient.

Roommate has been on paid holiday all week. This has its good points and bad points. Good points are that my days are less influenced by her work schedule and she does the cat and fish care. Bad points are that I was under the impression she'd be going out of town by Wed. or yesterday so I could be a bachelorette for several days in a row. The date of her relatives' get together kept being pushed back. She didn't even get away today till about 1:30.

I had saved back several projects that I want to do during this solitary time. I won't be able to do as many as I wanted. She is planning to go next weekend too which will help some. But weekdays would've been more leisurely and places like the grocery store less crowded. The holiday was also a less useful day because of places being closed altogether. Though I did go help at the bunny shelter house which was a good use of the day.

Fireworks here have been going several days. Wednesday evening was steady and last night was nonstop including those big pop or boom types that can cause my heart to stop momentarily.

Wednesday was also my payday and bill paying day. Today I did a load of laundry which had indeed been strewn on the bedroom floor for quite awhile. There is more, but it won't be hard to finish. I got cording at the fabric store to put drawstrings in the waists of 6 pairs of shorts my friend Lori gave me.

I was really blessed that she wanted to rehome those. They fit perfectly and are 100% cotton with pockets. I will have to deepen at least one pocket for my phone to go in on each pair, while I'm sewing. I have these several OCD requirements about pants and shorts, and it gets hard to find anything even close to what I will wear, in my size, and affordable. The drawstrings help me not have anxiety about the shorts sliding down. It's kooky, but chalk it up to my sensory quirks I guess.

Women's clothes are often so geared toward looks over comfort. That's not my priority, though I don't mean I don't care about looks at all. If I won the lottery I would buy pretty cotton clothing with pockets, I'd do my makeup and stuff more, etc. I've just had less energy to try and do it. Plus in this cramped 1 bath house it's harder. I would like to find a makeup mirror at a sale or thrift shop that I could use in my room or somewhere.

Mini sorting and purging and so on are my decluttering things at the moment. My room here and the storage unit. There's an interplay and integration to it. Getting stuff back there that I brought too much of over here, and finding stuff in both places that can be donated or used up, compacted and stored more efficiently, etc. Making some bead bracelets for me and will also make some for the bunny club fundraiser. Then keep fewer beads as "stash."

I like your Instagram Tatoulia - decided to get one. @bunnyplanetqueen - just getting started so I haven't posted my material yet, just followed you and some of my interests. But I will post soon.

More to post here but this one is long enough so I'll do another asap.

Hello Peeps

It looks so serene there with the birds on the water.

Are you getting accustomed to the new AC buzz?


Really bored today.
Nothing to do.
Am watering the apricot tree, turn the hose on super slow, place it next to the tree and leave it for hours.
This evening I will water the grass & flowers after the sun dips low & it cools off outside.

It's so nice this Summer with the garden greatly reduced making it so much easier to care for.
No longer having to go out when it's hot to work.

But my garden area is still full of Hummingbirds, Finches, Orioles, Wrens, Dove & Quail with the occasional other species visits too.
Also have big yellow Butterflies.

Amusing sitting on the couch looking out the window at all the little birds in the apricot tree pecking their little holes into all the fruit.
The Oriole is eating Mulberries.

What a perfect cake!!! Glad everyone behaved last night! I'm just laying here with the AC to keep me company.

Geese!! That was the second group. The first group of approx 20 swam by in a line!

Are those ducks or geese on the water?

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Tatoulia
You sound bright eyed & bushy tailed today. ;)

YEA! for a fantastic time last night!
Worth being a bit tired today.

Takes a little time adjusting to new trash pick up schedules.
For a few weeks everybody is off kilter getting it out.

It's good to resist the urge to always do laundry.
Doing some laundry makes us feel that we are keeping busy even when there is no reason or need to do the laundry.
It's the total opposite of letting the laundry pile up.
I like to wait until I have enough of something to do at least a full small load.
Like you, I sort like with like.
Sometimes I too want to do laundry because it's such an easy rewarding task.

Looking forward to hearing about how the clearing and cleaning of the hall table goes! ;D


Last night here was GREAT!
For the first time EVER there were no bottle rockets or firecrackers or gunfire or anything.
Think people finally realize they will be arrested and heavily fined.
If they start a fire they will have to pay for the firefighters and all the damages too.

I baked an angel food cake the night before. No icing or anything, just the cake.
It was the one that has colorful confetti like specks in the mix.

I'm still tired from last night! I brewed coffee this AM and I'm enjoying it now. Tillie let me know you and kitties are safe!

I cleaned cat box last night and took the garbage out this AM. In my pjs. I have to walk around my block to the back of my house. I was good with it. I wasn't sure what time they were getting the garbage so I'm glad it's out.

City of Boston is starting trash pickups at 6 instead of 7. Trying to reduce traffic and such. I try to taje our night before. They pick up early here on Tuesdays and late on Fridays but that may change with the new schedule.

I've made my bed and I'm washing yesterday's sheets. I'm glad I didn't do laundry yesterday. I didn't feel like it SubC I thought it was good to squelch the feeling of always needing to do laundry.

Im running dishwasher. And sipping my coffee.

I'll write more later. I'm just a bit tired. I'm excited about the possibilities for the day. Just have to get my walk in!!

I'm going to need all of the details on the cake, Tillie! WTG! You've been craving it for a while!

So I did the dishes too, before we went out. We had dinner at our favorite place, I had the kale and quinoa salad with shrimp. Everyone else had burgers. BF scored VIP wristbands for the esplanade concert so we headed down for the 1813 Overture and saw the fireworks. Fantastic time. We had a young couple with us and it was a lovely evening. BF went home afterward. Now I'm getting ready for bed.

Not terrible in terms of heat and humidity. I have bedroom ac cranking away.

Tmr is a work holiday! And I'll work around the house. Let's get the music going and get that hallway table cleared out.

Tillie I am feeling strong. I'm taking care of myself and have fallen into a good rhythm with it. Now to get back to reducing chaos by reducing stuff!!

Good Evening Everyone

Hi Tatoulia
Ocean Spray fizzy sounds soooooo good!

YEA!!!! for air conditioning!!!!
Cool the place down well so you will sleep comfortably.

It's an American holiday today.
We ALL have the day off.
Even people who are just living here but are not Americans.
Or people like me who are Canadian American.
You will finish up all those half done tasks tomorrow.
Only "have-Tos" for today are cat tasks and us eating & drinking and slacking off.

WTG! letting go of those excess shopping bags!


Today here it's been pleasant, only mid 80s and no humidity.
Watched Stranger Things season 3 on Netflix.
Ate some cake! ;D
Did no tasks except cat things.

Great work with your mom, SubC. Really great.

Tillie that is the height of arrogance and selfishness to do your own fireworks. I hope you won't need to flee with the kitties. But the fear will be there for you and the little ones. That is just so upsetting.

My new AC works! I have it on now. It's a different kind of loud from the old one. I'll adapt. It has a bit of a buzz, which I don't like. But it's cooling my house!

I have completed no tasks today. I take that back-I changed my sheets. But when I napped the old sheets were off and I just wrapped up in a quilt. I decided earlier today that I don't feel like doing any laundry so I'm not.

I've unloaded the dishwasher 7/8ths. Those types of 1/2 tasks that are so maddening. I got rid of three reusable shopping bags. Two I took to BF (who uses tons of them) and one to a friend who was shopping and needed a bag. I'd just emptied it from dropping off mom's things.

I can still feel the humidity and the heat. I'll have another cool drink and then keep working. I just had an ocean spray cranberry fizzy and it was lovely. So refreshing.

Hi Subclinical

WAY TO GO! You & your Mom!!!
That kind of stuff is harder than most things and you two did FANTASTIC! :D

Wish we could rearrange the rain, a little less for you and some for me.

Nice that you were able to repair that jewelry for your Mom, hope she wears it.

Hope you are having a relaxing fun vacation. :)

There is really no reason for individuals here to set off fireworks.
The Reno casinos always have large beautiful professional displays broadcast on TV and the Paiute colony does the same out at Pyramid lake.
The county & casinos here put on a professional display to the East of town.
If you want to see fireworks there are plenty of places to watch them.

The frozen candle stick holder method is a good one.
Ran the edge of the small blade on my pocket knife over the wax and it just popped off.
Then after they thaw out wash in warm soapy water.

Tatoulia, I enjoyed the new kitty pictures!

Tillie, i'm Glad you have your special cabinet all shined and fresh. I hope people show good sense about the fireworks.

We're hoping the fireworks here don't get rained out.

Mom and I emptied a whole paper ream box yesterday. I have a fat folder of duplicate pictures and old correspondence I am taking home, and I filled about 80% of a photo album with pictures of my family for her (fun to look back at my wedding pictures and my kid's baby pictures!) each of my girls has a thin folder of letters they wrote to my grandparents to do as they wish with, and the rest got trashed or recycled.

She also has a box of empty albums and a box of books to take to donation.

And I repaired four pieces of jewelry for her.

Tatoulia, I hope your mom is doing well.

Thank you for the sweet kitty pics. :)

YEA! for walking in the cool morning!!!

Good luck with all your running around errands.

Have a wonderful day. ;D

That is interesting about the freezer and the wax! I have a pair of Amber Sandwich glass candleholders. I don't ever burn candles but I do keep candles in them.

I was p snd at ?em at 6:15 today!!! I made fresh iced tea, I walked five miles (combo indoors and outdoors) and now I have to run to cvs for my rx. I will bring mom the milk and 1/2 and 1/2 I got her and then I'll go see BF. I have to pick up the window piece for the new AC so I can get it running.


I took a before picture of my hallway table, so I'll be posting before and afters for you.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Tatoulia
I guess that until the Summer heat is over with you really should stick to mall walking.


Really super, super quiet this morning.
Even the birds are being quiet.

The apricots at the top of the tree are ripe and falling off in droves.
Almost every single apricot that falls has a little bird beak hole pecked out of it.

The other night someone was setting off fireworks.
Fingers crossed that nobody does that today.
Also hope there isn't any of the usual gunfire.
Anyways, have the cat carriers all ready to evacuate.

My only plan for today is to remove the candle wax from my candle holders.
Read that the easiest way to remove the wax is by putting the holders in the freezer and the wax should come off pretty easy.
The candle holders are in the freezer.
They are depression glass with that intricate embossed design that makes it hard to clean them well.

Good work, Tillie!

I stayed at work til about 3:20 (we closed at 2) then I walked very, very slowly home. Hot and humid, but not super oppressive. I did a quick load of delicates and I've been asleep ever since. Did not walk tonight.

I'm going to have to walk in the malls tmr.

Goodnight everyone.

Hi Tatoulia

That is a very good To-Do list.

Reusable shopping bags...
First evaluate how/where/when you grab them to use them.
A good storage place is somewhere near where you are when you decide you need them.
Coat closet on your way out of the house?

Then declutter them.
Toss into recycling any that are too worn out or maybe something nasty leaked in there.

Then decide which bag would be the best bag to put all the other bags into.
Bag up the bags all into that one bag.

Since they have carry handles they can be hung from a hanger or on a hook.

So, you are venturing into the diningroom closet again.
Good luck and best wishes. ;)


My secretary display case is all done and everything has been safely put back all shiney and clean.
Scooter quickly grew bored with "helping".

Great idea to clean the items in your desk! Please be careful. I think that it is inevitable to lose one's balance. I fall sometimes too. I blame it on gravity.

I have my list for the weekend
Hallway table. Get rid of clutter creep
Reusable Shopping bags. The drawer isn't working as a good place to keep them. And I have too many
Dining room closet. Clean and clear.

Big tasks yet I love the list.

At office; must run.

Good Morning Everyone

Hi Subclinical
WAY TO GO!!!
That's fantastic!
Only accepting items you know you have a place and a use for.
In the past, I know you would have tried to accept them all, believing you would someday find the perfect use them.

A night in an internet free yurt...
Bet that was so quiet and peaceful. :D


Hi Tatoulia
Good you had something to eat, hope the bellyache settles down.

Good luck with work today. ;)

YEA! for the new recliner!
Upsetting that she is falling. :(
Sure hope the nurses figure out what's going on and ways to help her.
It hurts to fall. :(


Falling is now one of my biggest worries.
Dizziness or just teetering over, unable to maintain my balance have become worse at times.
Think it may be an inner ear issue.

My plan for today is to carefully remove all my precious delicate treasures from the secretary desk display case.
Dust & polish the display case inside, wash and replace my heirlooms.
Even kept behind glass they get dusty over time.

Wow! Great work. SubC! Very good job in saying No! Sometimes you have to put your foot down and keep it down!!! Well done!

I bet the internet free yurt was terrific!

Thank you both. I still have a bad belly but I was able to eat. Then I visited BF then Mom.
I am going to work tmr. We have work til 2. I'll never finish my work by then. Never. But I'll try.

I have my little buddy next to me now. Oh! Mom's new recliner looks so nice in her apt. She fell again last night. That's a lot of calls in less than a week. The nurses came over today to talk to her.

Okay goodnight my dear hearts.

Feel better! Not felt better.

Oh Tatoulia, felt better!

Quick check in.

Dh took me to a lovely overnight in a state park where we stayed in an internet free yurt.very restful!

Now we are at mom and dad's. In six hours, I have already rejected the rolls of upholstery fabric my aunt tried to give me, rejected two books, accepted two books and the original door knocker from this house (built when i was 7), and started helping mom clean out photos and put them in albums - which resulted in my getting an envelope of photos, but also some going in the trash.

We also cleaned out a bunch of empty binders.

Here is some tea and sympathy
Feel better soon

I'm home now. Feeling sick to my stomach. It's not too hot and not too humid but I feel really sick anyway.

Going to lay down for a bit. I need to go to mom's but I need to rest my head.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Tatoulia
Wishing you a day filled with wonderful experiences. :)

Contemplating today hosing the car off so maybe tomorrow I'll go to town and empty out the donation stuff.
Or maybe I'll wait to do that when I need to go to town to buy food.
I dunno...

At least the items are out of the house and in the car for now.

Watered yesterday, did laundry yesterday, no backlog of dishes to wash.
After taking care of cat tasks, I'm good.
Guess I have the day off and can spend it watching ROKU and beading or something.

Tillie thank you. You are so sweet. And right. Thank you. Goodbye old luggage trunk.

It's all just adding up. And for no reason. So let's start some subtraction!

Hi Tatoulia

WTG! getting in the walking and getting trash/recycling out & taking care of Miss Kittie's box!

Good luck with AC installation and fingers crossed it is fine so you can recycle the box.

YEA! for filling your donation bin/box/bag!

My feelings about small insignificant items...
Sure, they aren't big impressive things but all together they do add up to miscellaneous clutter.

It's like a gum wrapper on the floor, no big deal
but it is still something small laying on the floor where it has no use or value.
Except a cat will lay on it and cats opinions don't count.

Some people have entire drawers stuffed full of those small random things.
Every home gets small random things laying about here & there.

EVERY little bit out helps.
Unwanted unneeded small items are clutter.
Slip them into a donate bag or just throw them in the trash and you will never have to think about them again.
Unclutter your brain, get rid of small riffraff.

OK, they are small things or something like one pair of socks
it all adds up.

I have a very small box to donate that contains dollhouse things, things my dollhouse does not need.
I could cram these things into my dollhouse and the dollhouse would look terrible and cluttered and no fun.
They are not particularly nice (primitive) and are not needed.
A child would enjoy playing with them.

It is important after decluttering the big things that we spend some time rifling through our small things and decluttering them too.

It's worth it even though you are indifferent to it. :)


47 years ago I bought a trunk.
It's only about 20 inches tall and 40 inches long.
It's covered with a green patterned vinyl and is attractive.
Been contemplating letting it go for a few years.
Today I put it in the car.
I am happy. Letting go of old baggage/luggage.

Tillie I walked around Northeastern University's campus tonight, from about 8 til 9:30. Then I went to CVS then I walked home. So I was glad to get all of my walking in.

I just took my blood pressure and recorded it for my dr.

The walking is so good for me and I was glad to have the change of pace tonight.

Tillie here is something I am struggling with: when I choose a small item to donate, how is that helping me? Today a little magnet was added to my box. I'm not sure how that makes a difference. Or if I take a pair of socks from my drawer. I understand seven pair of socks. Or a bag of magnets. But when it's something small I don't feel anything. And I wonder if it's worth it. I need some perspective.

So I have the little box ready to go. I did put in some very clean and lightly used underwear.

So it is time for me to go to bed. Bf and employee brought the AC over. BF has to modify the panel that goes in the window. I measured repeatedly then brought him a piece I won't need and he sawed it for me, I brought it home to check how it works, and I was able to give him the precise measurements for the piece that I need. So I thought of you, Tillie.


Goodnight dear friends.

Ps garbage out, recycling out, clean cat box. I saved the AC box because I need to see that it works before putting with recycling.

Good Afternoon Everybody

Hi CriticalMass
I hate wasps with a red hot passion.

Hope that was the one and only this Summer and that it's dead.

A person can be stung a hundred times in their lifetime and not be allergic.
But then one day the next sting will cause an anaphylactic reaction.
Same thing with bees & penicillin & Etc...

Hi Tatoulia
WAY TO GO! having some things in your donation box!!!

YEA!!!! HAPPY DANCE!!!!!
Hope the new AC is everything it's supposed to be!!!.. :D

So nice to hear about breakfast with your friend.

Now you listen to me...
Do EVERYTHING your doctor asks you to do.
We are waiting for him to give you a complete clean bill of health concerning this matter.
(((HUG)))


Been doing my Swedish cleaning method.
Have a LOT in the car trunk & back seat to drop off.
Quite a bit of it is for the animal shelter.
Feel good about the new emptier spaces and enjoying the process.
Have had no qualms about anything I have been letting go.

I have an expression I use when things go awry and there's no real telling what caused things to spin so terribly out of control: there's a little tension surrounding the project.

So when this starts happening, and BY WAY OF EXAMPLE I find myself crying out of control over what, we do not know, and the other person is finding me rude, flippant or uncaring, I choke out the words. There's a little tension surrounding the project, we both laugh and move on. Try it. It's great. It finds its genesis in a situation where a friend of mine discovered that one of his three boys had a videotaped school project due the next day, it was 9 PM, his wife was putting the youngest to bed, the eldest was filming the project and decided to get artsy and there were weird zoom-ins on the middle child's chin, for example, and now it's 11 PM and it's still not done and my friend just started screaming at his kids and cussing, etc, wife shouted "what is going on down there" and before he could answer, his son said, just a little tension surrounding he project.

It solves everything.

Brief update - haven't seen the wasp. Got distracted outdoors and ended up planting the rest of my container plants. Roommate was outside unbeknownst to me and wasn't angry, so at least that's resolved. I hope I didn't come across as if I didn't care; of course I don't want her to get stung and have anaphylactic emergency. And I know she wouldn't think that of me. I just get flustered and we're both under a lot of stress.

Ps Tillie. Yup, as I suspected, three cats included Jack.

Oh CM that is so frustrating! All of it! I too am allergic to wasps. And I too have frustrations when my plans are messed up. I am so sorry! I hope the wasp has been chased away. I am so so sorry it's hard to shake that frustrating feeling. I hope by the time you read this that it has passed.

SubC your loving relationship with your husband is a thing to behold! You are a great mother and a great citizen of this planet. Thank you for all you do. Yes a vacation is in order!!!

I have a box with two penguins to go to goodwill. I put in some underwear to cushion the penguins. They are both relatively large and I'm ready to part ways with them.

I am shredding papers. Have completed two loads of laundry and dry and I'll go check on the third. Bed made, dishes done, I need to make some more choices (more positive than decisions) to get rid of things. I have a few things I am thinking of.

My new AC comes today.

Good breakfast with friend today. I haven't seen him in over a year. He said, you look fantastic. He's very impressed and very pleased that I haven't seen my brother in over a year and he loved the pictures of my house. I'll have him over some time. But it might be weird as that's not really our relationship. I'll get all awkward. So I'll just take more pictures. Ok.

My doctor thinks I'm doing okay. I haven't been as vigilant with some of the things he needs so I have to step it up if I'm to succeed.

I'll go work on the box to donate now.

This is a frustrated vent post for now. Hopefully the subject of the vent will be resolved soon and I can write a happier and more interesting post.

Yesterday I was drifting off for a nap in my bedroom and heard a slight buzzing sound. I opened my eyes and saw what I thought was a fat bee hovering above my frog's terrarium.

Later, after my nap, it was nowhere to be seen, then it reappeared. Turns out it wasn't a bee. It was a WASP. Ugh. My roommate is allergic so that's freaky, and then of course the stupid insect disappears again.

Toward morning I thought I heard buzzing again. The wasp was between the blinds and windowpane. I smacked and smacked. The body fell down into a box of books. I could not find the body. Then I lifted a vinyl protective cover off one book and out flies the wasp!

So we've opened the inner windows and are hoping it flies in there and we can shut that window. I've Googled and learned more about wasps than I would rather know. My roommate shut all the curtains in the living room and we ended up being upset at each other because I wanted to do some work and with my cataracts I can't see in a dimly lit room. Ugh again.

This is my life so much of the time. Some dumb unexpected weird and tricky to resolve thing when there is already too much going on. And my anxiety turns me into an obnoxious control freak. If I lived by myself I'd feel alone dealing with stuff, but in some ways that'd be better. I got low marks on "works well with others" in first grade. Nothing much has changed.

Pray for me/us.

End of rant, for now.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
Please do not compare yourself to other people.
They have not and do not live the life you have led.
You are unique and do so many things and so much for other people and your community and the world's ecosystem.

Now that you are at a new phase in your life
you are changing your home environment to match.

Please be proud of yourself and all you have accomplished in your life.

Have a marvelous vacation.
Enjoy every minute of it.
You have earned this fun free time. (((HUG)))

WTG! DH for all you have done and for acknowledging Subclinical's accomplishments.

Tatoulia, I am glad to see you back sounding better.

I don't know about a July challenge - I have two weeks of vacation in July. The one i'm about to take, and fair week.

I fell apart last night. Both my girls who were here this weekend are going through difficult times. I was able to help one of them with some money, but all I can do for the other is hold her while she cries and remind her that we love her. On top of that, all day while I was getting ready for this trip, I was faced with reminders that my "really good" still falls short of most people's every day.

Dh told me that I have been doing an amazing job on the basement for three straight weeks and that he kept expecting me to get tired and quit, but that I didn't. And that our kids are fantastic and I raised them and they are going to face rough spots but they will be ok. And that I really need a vacation.

Then he emptied the dishwasher, completely cleaned the kitchen, refilled the cat food, and put my feed in the barn. He never does barn stuff.

I'll probably still check in while i'm traveling.

Hi Tatoulia
Very happy you are feeling better, more like yourself.

Nice you had a good visit today and plans to visit your friend tomorrow.

Sleep.
Get all the sleep your body and mind need.

YEA! for getting your nails done!
It's always nice to have our nails looking good.

Good plan for a July challenge.
Nice thing about our challenges is that we can roll them over.
Sometimes we have the best intentions but life gets in the way.

Breakfast line up was Twinkles, Scooter and Jack.
Jack lays on either the front or back porch waiting for me to notice him.
Pretty easy in the daytime but impossible at night unless I turn on the porch lights.

Hello everyone!

I did not keep my June challenge of Covering Old Ground, where I will revisit drawers and cabinets and see what else can go, look for clutter creep, etc. so I'd like to do for July. I am desperate to get rid of more things. Any things. I will also post more photos of my home and of things I'm getting rid of.

Today I feel like myself again. Yesterday I had a lovely time at my friend's house with mom. Her new place is so clean and neat and well-decorated with lots of space. So nicely done. Very motivating.

I got home around 5, ran some errands with BF and then fell sound asleep. Got up around 10, 11 PM to feed kitty and slept til this AM. I did feel more like me when I got up. I walked some this AM and got my nails done. Then BF and I drove out to see our friends and their kids. Lovely time. We got back here in time to drive a friend to the airport and then I just got in. I was going to go for a walk, esp since I have no bread or groceries in the house but now I realize I'm here. And I'm going to bed.

In the AM I am meeting a friend for breakfast at 8. I havent seen him in a year.
Tillie three cats? Does the three include Jack?

My friend said, you are looking so svelte when she saw me today. Pretty nice.

I'm going to wash my face and go to bed. I'm too tired to walk.

I look forward to re-joining every one here. I've missed you while I tried to sort out myself.

And I feel that I can make a better balance this coming week. I am noticing big changes in my body with all the walking. The weight may be the same, but there's some noticeable slimming going on.

Congratulations to everyone for your hard work. I'm so proud of you all. I'm feeling so much better after the long sleep. And I'm thrilled that today I forced myself to get a manicure Even though I had to walk to four different shops. All were filled up! And the place where I ended up was very nice. I may return for a pedicure on Friday.

Good Afternoon Everybody

YEA! Subclinical!
Your home was company ready and the barn is baby sitter GREAT!

So wonderful DD's BFF complimented!

Will miss you while you're away but you have a fantastic relaxing time.
You have earned it (((HUG)))

Hi Tatoulia
Hi CriticalMass
Hi everybody ;)


Woke up this morning and read here but 3 cats were nagging at me for canned food breakfast.
Got up and got them feed to get them off my back then did a bunch of tidying up and then washed kitty breakfast dishes and so on and so on and so on...

Very last day of June 2019

My challenge for July will be to maintain my "No Clutter Zones" and garden area.
I must try to ignore him because he just makes me sick.
I must just accept I live precariously surrounded by wildfire dangers.

good morning everyone!

My new glasses are in my cabinet and the odd extras are in the discard pile (I am up a net of three glasses because I had ten before, but they fit in the cabinet.)

Yesterday was a lot of people for me. I wasn't expecting ❤️Dd for another hour when a car pulled in - it was youngest Dd - who spent the night and is still here. Then ❤️Dd and ❤️Gs arrived and we had a nice visit. They had just left when one of dd2s friends dropped by, and then in the evening, dd2's best friend and her little sister came by to check everything out because they will be farm sitting for me, and they stayed to visit.

But, my house is in order. There were clean dishes, the living areas had places to sit, and dd's Bff (who is like family) looked at my barn and said "this is the best i've ever seen it!"

Today I am going to get ready to go tomorrow.

Hi Subclinical
Glass drinking glasses are the best in my opinion.
We use them and some get broken now & then.
Nice that you now have plenty in the style you like and can now release the other partial sets. :D

UMMMMMMM!.... donuts, from a fancy bakery.
Sweet treat.

That would be fantastic if a space at that pop up market turns out to be a good outlet for some of your pottery.
Monthly sales.


Went out and did a little in my garden this morning.
Just finished an early lunch, resting before I do something else somewhere.

Steven got up about 10:45am. Sat at his computer and just now has left to go shopping. >:(

I am so very disgusted with him and him never doing anything around this dump.


Anyways, time for me to play with my dollhouse.
I'm all caught up on ALL my chores.

Tell scooter he can only supervise!

I went out this morning and bought feed. Stopped at the monthly pop up market and found out all you have to do to get a space is talk the woman who runs it into giving you one - there were no potters.

Bought donuts for me and dh at the fancy cake shop.

Stopped at a garage sale on the way home. When I woke up this morning, I had parts of four sets of drinking glasses. The garage sale had 11 glasses that matched the ones I like best. So, I am going to have 13 glasses that match and get rid of the rest. Cheaper than the donuts.