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Crazy thing this morning: For a little background I've had a mouse this week.  I only saw him once last week, nosediving under the refrigerator.  So I set out my traps...round things with a little door that you put peanut butter in the bottom of.  The dumb mouse is supposed to go in the door to get the peanut butter & the door closes behind him & he's trapped. No hurt up front.  Then I toss the entire thing.  I've had about 4 mice in the last year & a half & they've worked fine.  Til now. The genius mouse hit the door once but it closed before he got in & scared him off.  He didn't try again.  So it was time for meaner stuff.  I got this poison stuff that goes in a plastic box & the mouse eats it & then eventually dies.  Not what I wanted but I hate a mouse in my house much worse.  So genius mouse has been munching along & I have not seen again.  I was hoping he'd gone to the big mouse house in t...

There is a commercial on TV where a man is trying to cool up people who have become their parents.  The ads are cute but ineffective because I don't know what it's for.  There are several versions & they are pretty clever.  And I find myself in at least one person every ad. I pack snacks to travel because $5 for a candy bar in the airport is excessive. I wonder how much money the parking people at the stadium make for owning real estate.  I compliment good employees because sometimes they are rare.  So today I was out & did a couple of things that made me think I've turned into my Mom.  And for the record, I can't think of a better person to turn into. 1. I went looking for half price Christmas loot at Walgreens.  I bought Hershey's Kisses & Reese's Peanut Butter nutcrackers.  And my friend found M & Ms.  I'm ok with red,green & gold candies in March.  Also if your birthday package has Christmas wrapping paper or the ...

In the junky snail mail insert today I saw this ad for some limited edition pennies that were minted in 2009 & this company in New Hampshire is giving them away.  Actually free.  No charge.  No shipping.  No handling.  Just fill out the coupon & mail it in & they mail them out to you.  So I filled it out & put it in the post box today.  I felt like I was 8 years old & sending in cereal box tops for a secret decoder ring or possibly a Lucky Charms spoon.  Always took like 3 months to arrive  & by the time it showed up I'd forgotten what I ordered.  But I loved getting mail anytime.  Anyway, we'll see if they show up.   They are pretty cool looking.  They'll probably end up on a jewelry mirror. 

Cyril & Lucille   I love this show!! We start with the week leading up to Lucille & Cyril's wedding day.  The baby business is strangely slow so everyone is helping plan the wedding.  Violet Buckle is making the wedding dress.  Sister Hilda is baking a cake, even though it's a tradition of Lucille's church for the church ladies to walk up the aisle with cakes.  Trixie is doing flowers. Nurse Phyllis is lending moral support as she remembers her friend Nurse Barbara.  After the man who was going to give Lucille away falls ill, Fred Buckle will give her away with Reggie taking over as best man.  Even the gorgeous Matthew, who I hope they finally let Trixie happily ever after with, gets in the act as the chauffeur to get the bride to the church on time.   But then, there are complications.  Babies decide to be born in waves.  We have a woman having her 5th with complications.  One has a heroin addiction.  We found out...

  I'm fully a creature of habit.  Even with little things I have to have a good reason for a change & even then I have to have a little inner debate on it.  Sad but true. Many years ago my mom started making traditional Chex mix from the recipe off the box.  3 kinds of Chex, nuts, pretzels, butter, wostershire sauce, season salt, garlic powder, onion powder. And for years we looked forward to it.  My nephew especially liked it. (That's my memory anyway.)  I still make it for him every year like mom did & he picks it up every year & says he eats it.  He may feed the birds on the way home.  Not sure.  My cousin likes garlic rye chips so I've started adding them.  I don't really like them so I pick them out.  But nephew has not complained. So my sweet neighbor brought me some yesterday to add to my personal stash...and hers has Fritos in it & it's good!   I've never seen it before so obviously never tasted...b...

  I'm good so far.   Even though I'm not much on Christmas, for some reason I feel the need for a  Christmas dinner.  Probably because I have a food addiction.  I like to think it's subsided alot but it'll always be there.  I'm working on it.  I don't cook much anymore because it's a lot of work for one meal.  I don't like leftovers so mostly I only eat it once.  One of my eternal New Year's resolutions is to save money & I can do that pretty well if I only make enough food & don't throw any out.  It's a 2022 goal to do it better.   And probably because a special dinner is what my body & psyche expects.  Today I made a chocolate pie & a fruit salad & for a few seconds, it smelled like Mom's kitchen on Christmas day.  It was overwhelming.  I also made a forgettable piece of ham & a baked potato.   Surprise (no surprise) the fruit salad & pie were the best part.  That...

The corner of happy & healthy.  Whatever.   When I first retired in 2010, I worked seasonal at Walgreens.  They were open then 7am-9pm.  I'm not sure of their hours now in pandemic world.  And open 365 days a year.  So I got to work Christmas day.  I think we open 9am-6pm that day.  And we were busy all day long.  4 registers and lines down the aisles.  What the heck?  And people coming in wondering if we had pies & salad ingredients & mad that we didn't.  .  We were like, "It's is a drug store".  And at 6pm we had a manager standing at the door letting people out.  And when we finally got rid of everyone & the door was locked there were still people trying to get in.  They saw us inside trying to close & they were beating on the door & yelling.  And I'm sad to say I knew one of them, a guy I used to work with.   I understand that someone might need an emergency pharmac...

It's Christmas Eve.  These days, it's just one day closer to the holiday season being over which is how I get through holidays these days.  It's hard without people.  Steve doesn't even ask.  He has his wife's family so he doesn't need me.  Hope asked a few months ago but then they decided to go to Philadelphia.  It's too far away & I would not have gone anyway.  I was invited to Dallas to my Aunt's but I don't like the long drive.  So it's me, not them. My across the street neighbor brought me some Chex mix & a little rose bush.  Very sweet.  My only Christmas gift. I loved Christmas Eve growing up...we always got to open presents!!  We'd eat supper & do dishes & then the youngest person would pass out presents & we'd take turns opening one at a time.  Then when we were little, Santa would come on Christmas morning.  Then a special Christmas meal of chicken (no turkey for us!) & dressing with pie ...

2 days ago on Wednesday I weighed and I'm down 2 1/2 pounds.  But I feel that I've lost.  My good jeans are almost too loose already but over the past few years I've lived with baggie clothes.  I want to get down to a constant weight of 130 so I can buy clothes that fit.  21 pounds to go.  One thing that I have to stop weighing so much because I get discouraged.  Here is my goal, written right here on this page:  I'm not weighing again til February 1.  That's my 2 months mark.  The diet (I hate that word...trying to think of another) is easy.  It's actually worse waiting for 10 am than not eating after 6 and that surprises me.  But I've made it so far.  It's gonna be good!!

It's Christmas Eve & I was scrolling through the hundred's of streaming service for a Christmas movie.  I'd never heard of this one.  The description says "A priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to shut down a dying parish...and beomes entangled in the lives of the town's eccentric characters while learning the power of forgiveness & redemption".   I'm thinking that was written by either the writer of the movie or by someone who had not seen it.  The original name of the movie appears to be 'Mrs Worthington's Party' for some unknown reason.  Marjorie Worthingon is a character but she doesn't have a party & is not a Mrs but an unwed mother-to-be who tempts the original priest & the priest arriving to abandon their collars.  She doesn't have much of a personality & is not a beauty people write sonnets about & there is not enough interaction to warrant any declarations of love.    Also,...

Candy & Jeremy    In 1968 a TV show came on called 'Here Come the Brides' set sometime in the late 1800s Seattle, a logging town full of men but the only single women were Lottie the saloon owner & Miss Essie, the school teacher. The men are ready to move on to a place with women when the Bolt brothers Jason, Joshua & Jeremy vow to go back to Massachusetts to bring back brides.  They kept their promise & Candy Pruitt (Bridget Hanley) was one of them.  She was the love of youngest son Jeremy (Bobby Sherman, the absolute love of all of my 11 years).  Candy never got to be an actual bride although she & Jeremy were engaged when the show was cancelled.  It was only on for 2 seasons. I have to admit I wanted to be Candy, mainly because Jeremy loved her, but also because she had impossibly cute hair that would be impossible now to do every day, much less in the 1800s.  And trust me I tried.  I have lots of hair but that hairdo was im...

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