Category: Family N Friends


Trying to get back to this

Filed under: Environment, Family N Friends, Home
November 21, 2024

I got a new laptop computer. My laptop was OK, but had Windows 10, which will soon no longer be supported. I had to buy a wireless keyboard for it. Too old to be bothered fixing the keyboard. Then the speakers went. So, new laptop.

This new laptop is shiny and pretty. And it is new to me, I try to avoid buying new if used will do. REDUSE, REUSE, RECYCLE is my motto. Kind of why I was not very upset when I ended up in a governmental environmental agency.

However, I had no idea what I wanted to say tonight so will sigh off. I hope I signed into the right account. 😂

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On mailboxes and coffee grounds

Filed under: Crafts, Family N Friends, New York, Uncategorized
September 15, 2024

My friend I moved in with doesn’t drink coffee so when I moved I brought my Keurig. She set up a little ‘coffee corner’ for the Keurig, my coffee canister and filters. OK, it was already there because her youngest drinks coffee. I had a nicer Keurig, so she sold his and put mine in the spot. She complained about me not dumping out the coffee grounds because she hates the smell of stale coffee grounds. To be fair, so do I. I was just confused because previously she had mentioned dumping the grounds when they are dry, but if I wait for them to dry, I forget.

She has different plastic containers to put the coffee grounds in so she can put them in her garden. So when I was dumping the grounds from the filter to the rinsed out sour cream tub I started to ask her, “When you said dump the coffee grounds did you mean from this container or” because, as I said I was confused and wanted clarification. She interrupted me and said, “I’m putting those in the mailbox.” See picture.

I froze mid-tap, she quickly says, “I mean, the planter!” Laughs “I just realized how that sounded.”

Me: “Yes, I was wondering what you had against your mailman.”

My friend wanted to move her mailbox, then decided she would just get a new one. She got the idea for a planter from her neighbor. Get a big planter, cut the post to the correct length, put in the planter and put cement in it. When the cement was dry she added rocks, dirt (coffee grounds) and flowers. She thought she could separate the flowers and spread them around the planter but the roots were not cooperative. Still, pretty purple asters.

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Everything is unpacked

Filed under: Family N Friends, New York, Personal not private
September 13, 2024

But I don’t feel settled in yet. I was always walking on egg shells when I lived with Molly before, but now, everything is different. In ways I can’t explain. I knew my place before, but the children are grown so Molly doesn’t need a Nanny, so what am I doing here?

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#TimeToTalk

Filed under: Emotions, Family N Friends, Health, Important Stuff, Personal not private, Reblogging
February 7, 2019

This is something to talk about, not hide away or make people ashamed of. Be there for the ones you love.

Danni Ever After*'s avatarHappily Ever After*

Hi. I’m Danni and I have Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I’m presently  untreated, and unmedicated.

I’m pretty high-functioning, though, so most people don’t realize how hard I’m working to keep my eyes open because my depressed brain wants to sleep for 14 hours a day and my anxiety maybe lets me get 5. Or that I’m keeping my limbs tucked in tight partly to be polite and take up less space because I’m paranoid about my size, but mostly because even on a rush hour train I’m afraid an accidental touch from a stranger is going to trigger a bout with the screaming meemees.

I present as perfectly calm, put together, and slightly detached, even aloof sometimes.

Meanwhile the inside of my head looks a bit more like this with a soundtrack of Dani Filth-like shrieks overlaid:

20190119_105632 Storage, after approximately 21 hours of clean up (non-consecutive)

Last year was…

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Encouragement

Filed under: Emotions, Family N Friends, Important Stuff, Manhattan, Personal not private
July 13, 2017

My best friend has been encouraging me to go to college. Full disclosure here, it won’t be ‘going back to college’, since I never went. She went to college and has her bachelor’s degree and is now looking at law school. She graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. None of which is encouraging me to actually apply for college since I know I won’t do as well. I”m about half as intelligent as she is. However tonight I applied. New York State is offering free tuition.

It isn’t as easy as I hoped it would be.

As I was filling out the application it said I needed to submit my FAFSA ID, which I don’t have and I was routed to the website to apply for FAFSA. So I started the application process, including questions I had no clue so I guessed, I hope I’m right, if not I’ll either owe NYS a billion dollars or go to jail. I can handle jail. I couldn’t handle debt. Anyway, somewhere in this process, in the middle of my soul crushing confusion I tweeted:

Someone replied with a gif of Woody saying “You’ll be fine, Partner”. This is someone that I am pretty sure I have never met in person, just on social media. As I looked at the tweet and thought, “She doesn’t know me”, I then thought of the 80 people who formed a human chain to save 9 people caught in a rip tide. To those 80 people, it may not have seemed like a big deal, but it was a huge deal to the people they saved.

Just like, to the person that responded to my tweet, it might not have seemed like a big deal, just a quick search and post, but it encouraged me. It made me think, that maybe I can do this. Maybe I can start a new chapter in my life. Not life saving maybe, but certainly life changing.
 

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Worst daughter ever

Filed under: Family N Friends, Personal not private
June 14, 2017

In a conversation with someone that doesn’t know me very well.

Her: Do you talk to your mother much?

Me: I call her every year on her anniversary.

Her: Oh that’s nice.

Me: At 4 a.m.

Her: …. Why?

Me: Because revenge is a dish best served cold and unexpectedly.

Her: … …

Me: ** smiles ** 

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It was a dark and stormy night

Filed under: Crafts, Family N Friends — 1 Comment
November 26, 2015

Suddenly a shot rang out! Yes i stole that. I’m visiting my best friend this weekend, she needs help sewing a coat so i came up today. She cut out the pattern then left to go to church with her husband leaving me with the pattern pieces and fabric. Being the careful seamstress that i am i looked at the instructions to lay out all the pieces before i began cutting. There was a front, a gusset, an upper and lower sleeve, side panel and back, i picked up the last big piece of tissue paper, it wasn’t the back. The back wasn’t there. Her daughter came over from the couch to help me look for it, in the pattern pieces, the pattern envelope. We got crumpled pieces out of the garbage, no back. I wondered if the pattern company had forgotten to put it in, then i remembered she had held the back up to her to measure it. 

At this point i became convinced i had somehow lost the pattern piece and would have to leave not just her house but the country and berated myself for not learning Portuguese before having to move to  Brazil. 

Her daughter remained optimistic, with ideas and scenarios, “Maybe it fell on the floor when mom was carrying it over here.” So we started looking under things, she picked up the couch and i checked, no pattern piece. She found another piece of crumpled  up tissue paper the cat has been playing with and started to uncrumple it. “This isn’t it, too thin.” I stood next to her as the 9 became visible, “That’s it, that’s the pattern piece. Go get the iron and ironing board.”

Piece found, ironed out, and placed on the fabric. Now we can drink banana smoothies and laugh at ourselves. 

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Sliding backwards

Filed under: Family N Friends, Health
September 30, 2015

“On Sunday, November 15, I will follow in the footsteps of the New York Yankees as part of the seventh annual Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium – a unique fundraising run/walk that uses the Stadium as its course. I’ll get to explore the concourses and ramps, climb stairs between levels, and take my own victory laps around the warning track that circles the field. – See more at: LINK“

This is not a plea for money, however if you want to click on the link and donate I would appreciate it. Rather I posted this so readers would know why I am running. I don’t really like running, I do like how I feel afterwards and I like raising money for Cancer Research. It is a charity that is near and dear to my heart.

There is an app that tracks exercise and besides that I am listing them in a spreadsheet. This is how I know the last four runs I am getting slower. Each run slower than the one before. I’m still faster than when I started and not discouraged.

While I’m tempted to blame this on a variety of factors, blisters on my toes, sore legs, twisted ankle and/or worsening asthma, part of me realizes this is probably just the ups and downs of running and human physiology.

Today I did not want to run. I made a compromise, that I would only run 2 miles. My time was terrible, a friend who I admire as a runner commented on my Facebook post that a “bad run is better than no run”. Support strengthens my resolve.

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Protected: This makes me so mad

Filed under: Emotions, Family N Friends, Manhattan, New York, News
February 4, 2015

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Making progress

Filed under: Family N Friends, Health, Personal not private

Since I eliminated some foods: soda, processed meat, coffee and cutting back on others I have noticed some changes. For one thing, I really miss coffee. And my stomach is getting better. I am starting to pinpoint some foods that should definitely be avoided and some that I probably should eat more of. Also I need to eat more regularly and eat real meals instead of just snacking. I should eat less sugar also.

All this is an attempt to avoid going to a Gastroenterologist since I did that when I thought I had an ulcer. Meaning I know what tests they are going to want to do and I am not ready for that.

In the interest of healing myself, I googled probiotics and found some sites with lists of foods high in probiotics. There is a good slide show at Livestrong.com. Briefly the list is:

  • Green peas – raw
  • Dark chocolate
  • Natto – Japanese breakfast food
  • Kefir
  • Miso
  • Kombucha tea
  • Umeboshi plums -eaten by Samurai
  • Yogurt
  • Sauerkraut – unpasturized
  • Pickles – made with fermentation
  • Cheese
  • Tempeh
  • Kimchi

Looking over this list, there are some foods I recognize, some I don’t and some I never eat. I knew about yogurt and kefir, in fact I have been having a half cup of kefir in the morning and evening. I didn’t know about green peas although eating carrots and celery seemed to help. I knew dark chocolate had some good things for you. The fact that miso contains probiotics explains why I can eat the miso ramen. 6 foods are Asian, apparently the Asian way of fermenting foods either produces probiotics or doesn’t kill them. I never eat pickles, sauerkraut and never tried Kimchi because of the vinegar allergy, also I don’t like sauerkraut. Now I can claim that my allergies are killing me.

Progress is being made. I am writing down everything I eat so when I do have an ‘attack’, which is still happening I can look at what I’ve been eating and make adjustments. If nothing else, I know what to do to get relief. The pain doesn’t go away as quickly as it I had a pill to take, but it does go away.

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