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My Great Aunt Helen once gifted me with her very old black and ( handpainted) gold Singer sewing machine - the first electric ( not pumping foot pedal powered ) model.
These were very valuable when originally sold around the turn of the century or a bit later.
We kept her in the family and my Dad actually reupholstered the living room furniture and their yachts' benches and seaberths with her as well ...now theyre making machines able to do fancy stitches but I doubt they sew as strong and straight as that old grrl.
guilty snacks - bites of tiramisu, bite of payday bar . bits of whole foods cookies
l- chicken / mushroom stewish soup
s- hummus , pickled onions, peperoncini , cabbage crunch salad from whole foods
d- milky decaf latte w booze
saw three apartments - still favor others. Tomorrow starts the re-application process !
I saw a great idea for a tv series ... no.. I mean a Physical location.
Anything commercial's bound 2 b expensive... can I stand being homeless more - living " above the store " if you will ?
Answer's NO . 
The semi- homeless rootless state is for someone thirty years my junior . But I want 2 do it - KNOW its a great idea and location .
Ill follow up anyway .. ask questions .
Did you hear about the Amazon-related outage yesterday? It affected many of the various apps they own, I suspect that Nutritionix is one of them. It is back up running just fine today.
Rodeos: I've been to three small town style ones and they were fun, nothing gruesome. Now the Vegas type? I went to one in Montana that was a wannabe and while it was suspenseful it was too loud with too many people for my taste. Lots of waiting around for the riders to get ready and the bull to get ready. None of the riders got seriously injured, thank goodness and no calves or sheep either. The bulls walked away looking rather satisfied with themselves, lol.
B: coffee and my frozen choc/protein/collagen shake
L: still sipping the shake
D: still sipping the shake but plan to have some of my home canned spaghetti/meat sauce with 3 meatballs and Shiratake noodles
Trying to do better abou****er, I've been so cold I haven't had what I should. Trying to just drink warm water.
Sewing finally, catching up on mending and re-sizing clothes. It was a trip trying to get my mom's old F-word serger going. The only times she ever swore at all was the Big Holy Mother word in dealing with her Kitchenaid refrigerator and her Bernina serger which she finally gave up on and gifted to me. I think it is possessed.
You and I would have been besties as little girls! My mom was incredibly supportive of a creative mind and supplied all kinds of sewing and crafting goodies to keep little fingers busy. She sewed beautiful Barbie clothes (which I still have) and I made hats and jewelry for Barbie (I had one real Barbie, one fake-out plus a Francine who had a compound fracture I was forever bandaging, lol). Egg carton bottoms made great hats and purses and the bottom was a great base for Barbie's bed.
Your Granny sounds like my maternal grandma. How lovely that you and she had such a close bond. I'm sorry you lost her so early. My grandma was nicely fluffy and forever on T.O.P.S. which was a glorified recipe swap, I swear. My paternal grandma died when I was 3 or 4 from prescribed amphetamines for weight loss. It worked but Dad speculated it ruined her heart. She was just in her 50's.
'Attitudinous wanna be serial killer' lol...my mom would have loved you. She wasn't very chatty but she was all about correct and creative language. Our home was filled with funny phrases, I miss that so much.
Never been to a rodeo in person... but it didnt stop m from fantasizing I could stay on a bucking bull lol.
2 tell the truth my Mongolian/ Hungarian heritage makes me a natural rider - I rode and regularly jumped a horse bareback as a five year old - had no problem ever doing gymnastic stunts like a walkover on a gently trotting horse's broad back ... enjoy horse archery as well .
Regarding bulls - being able to endlessly stay on a mechanical bar bull does NOT mean U can ride " Killer " lol. 
I have mixed feelings about performing animals particularly rodeo ones ... those bulls are bred 2 buck and no doubt they enjoy their pampered lives and bucking the PITA off their backs ... barrel racers' and rodeo queens' mounts are also very valuable and cared for ...
The sheep ridden by kids, the roped calves ... I doubt theyre enthusiastic.
Its kind of like the dilemma of heritage breeds... theyre domesticated and bred for meat production - they cant survive on their own and without farmers pasture raising ( and eventually ethically slaughtering ) them these ancient beautiful breeds would not survive .
My Persian cats always enjoy riding in the car and excitedly going to the store ( where they ride in the basket of the carriage ) and the bank ( walking w a leash n harness) and being made a huge fuss over. They literally SMILE 
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In a tiny way theyre performing animals too ... I think some doggies love agility tests and other pets love comforting sick kids and old folks in nursing homes.
Social stimulation for a pet and safe supervised outdoor activities in my opinion beat being left home alone and bored.
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Good Morning ( well, close 2 noon guyz 
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yesterdays dinner wouldn't eat ( sometimes meat wont go especially at nite ... so it was Spanish sopa de mariscos ( Shrimp plaintain n corn soup ) 1/2 a pint container some scallions and cilantro and 2 fresh empanada contents one chicken one beef n potato . Dont eat the fried crusts.
herbal tea w ff milk and a little booze 
exercise - LA fitness sauna no time for other things but TONS of walking ( over an hour ) to downtown Manhattan after safely ( i hope 
) parking car in Bowery- turns out it was MILES away lol.
b- buffet - ff scrambled eggs w s&p and salsa
coffee and tea ff sf lattes
snack - bits of biscuit and turkey sausage , turkey bacon ( about 4 pieces)
l&d dont know yet
about 4 visits to apartments planned
also making moves to reapply ( as married self ) to apt that unfairly rejected me. Well see how THAT goes ... should be interesting at least.
Planning to sleep in LI tonite tackle house issues in the morning.
QOTD- I've been to lots of rodeos, but it's definitely not fun for most of the animals.
I've been procrastinating at work, I have this simple job to finish but I've been avoiding working on it. I need to just get it done.
There are some sane people out there. I particularly liked Kenny Loggins response to the orange one using his song Danger Zone in his AI generated video of him wearing a crown and piloting a jet that he was bombing No Kings protesters with **** He basically said there is no us and them, we are all Americans and we need to find a way to come together, rather than divide us.
Have a great day everyone!
5'5" Age 67 HW 291 SW 275.8 CW 171.7
on 10/21/25 6:24 am - Amarillo, TX
on 10/21/25 6:23 am - Amarillo, TX
Good mornin y'all.
Chilly mornin in my part of Texas, 37°. Not much to do today. A cousin of my grandmas needs a ride to PT. That's the only thing we have to do.
my appointment with the pain clinic was a **** show as per the usual. The NP I saw last week lied through her teeth. It's a long story but my regular NP is trying to fix it, supposedly. I don't have a lot of faith in this place. The one NP who listened quit because he said it was a toxic place to work. He was a good provider. Can't say the same for the others. My current one is ok but still pretty new so time is needed on that one.
My shoulder started hurting worse last night. I was weak and put some aspercreme on it. I don't do it often but damn I wish I could do it daily lol.
QOTD: never been to one myself. Just not my thing. I'd find myself rooting for the animals instead.
B: egg burrito and coffee
L: ???
D: thinking fish.
my nieces pumpkins and Tange of course. She is such a baby.
Good Tuesday Morning Gang. Got home from work yesterday to find we didn't have internet. As of right now it is still out. Apparently it is just affecting the town of Putnam. I've been wanting to look at a different provider anyways so now may be the time.
Not much going on at work today just a small training class on boiler combustion for some new hires. My PM is going to the Putnam ash landfill for a Yellow Iron rodeo which is basically just big payloaders. Our tipping floor operator is going to be representing Lisbon.
QOTD: Speaking of rodeos have you ever been to one? I've been to two of them years ago. It was fun watching the different events they had.
B: coffee and protein shake
L: not sure since I forgot my soup
D: Italian chicken sausage and spaghetti squash
Hitting the Y then finishing some house stuff.
Have a great day everyone!!
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
I so admire Ur ability to sew!
My maternal Grandmother made the most amazing upholstered ( I kid U not ) Barbie doll furniture using egg cartons and matching outfits for me and my ( only ) three dollies of vastly different sizes after she heard noone would play with me because I only had one Barbie no furniture no car no Barbie house no Ken doll ...
She was so wonderful loving and talented ( not to mention so soft and warm sharing a bed for naps )
My Granny died very young from heart failure after a lifetime of shocking dieting - oranges one day , just cottage cheese the next ... meanwhile she cooked deliciously for the whole family and " lived off the smell " .
She never lost weight but she was TINY .
She passed when I was just starting high school at 14. I knew that moment .. and when she came to visit me and promised shed watch over me all my life .
She was a second ( main to be honest ) Mother to me. I loved her unreservedly and I believe she loved me unreservedly too like I was her own daughter .
I miss her to this day.
Children never forget kindness and love- it heals them - patient love makes a child motivated to study rather than become an attitudinous wanna be serial killer lol.
