Today's Exercise

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Had a wonderful surprise visit from an old friend and mentor Sister

. She stopped in on her way to Ireland with a plate of cookies!

After she left, I decided to change the furniture around and spent

several hours lugging stuff up and down stairs, and dragging heavy

furniture around the apartment. And yes, I am counting that as my

exercise, burned lots of calories and hardly broke anything!

I painted the back of one of the aquariums for relaxation, and am off

for a nap or two.

Food is good, water is pathetic, but I do not want to be trucking up

and down two flights of stairs to go potty, so I will drink when I am

settled for the day.

How has everyone else been doing today?

Tommorrow I go Christmas shopping, so I wanted everthing in order

today, so that I can just come home and flop after a day in town.

Tis' only a week till Christmas, and just a couple days till the

winter solstice and then the days will start to get longer again, and

I can start looking for flowers, yes, I know they won't be here for 4

more months, but I can start looking now.....

I can if I want tooooooo!

Have a great night everyone!

Eleanora

[Guest guest]

> . She stopped in on her way to Ireland with a plate of cookies!

Oh, how deadly! How many did you have?

> And yes, I am counting that as my

> exercise, burned lots of calories and hardly broke anything!

Especially a hip or your back. Please be careful lugging that heavy stuff.

> I painted the back of one of the aquariums for relaxation, and am off

You mean you still have some fish left?

>but I do not want to be trucking up

> and down two flights of stairs to go potty, so I will drink when I am

> settled for the day.

I feel your bladder, er, I mean your pain. At our age we don't want to be

caught too far away from the facilities so we only drink lots when we're

settled in.

> How has everyone else been doing today?

Food-wsie and exercise-wise, not bad at all, but then again, it's not even

2pm.

> Tommorrow I go Christmas shopping,

Nothing like waiting until the last minute, heh? How are prices on things up

there, as terrible as ever? All our newspaper & TV people are saying how

great the sales are, that retailers slashed prices to rick-bottom early to

spur sales, but you can't tell around here. In fact, some stuff seems higher

than ever.

Just my luck the kid got a sweater from hubby's aunt and he fell in love

with it, so I wanted to get him more just like it. Aside from the really

cheap polyester ones, the cheapest I could find one was around $30. Maybe

next week I'll hit Salvation Army and Goodwill and find a few. Now that he's

thinning down he no longer needs the XXL but can fit into the plain old XL

again. At least this size does show up in the thrift shows on a fairly

regular basis. I just got him a few shirts there last month for the winter

for $2 - $5 each, including heavy flannel.

>so that I can just come home and flop after a day in town.

Flopping is nice after a day on your feet harassing sales clerks.

> I can start looking for flowers, yes, I know they won't be here for 4

> more months, but I can start looking now.....

I'm not the only one who starts looking for Spring before Winter even

starts? It's good to know.

Hope you had a good night's sleep and a nice day today.

Sue in NJ

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> I had to park in a different spot last night because my normal spot

has a

> sheet of ice and I can't get on/off it to save my life,

Event though I haven't had to use them in a few years, I *always* keep

these traction thingies with spikes on them in my trunk so I can get out

of any bad spot like that. They've saved my hide a number of times. One

of my neighbors liked them so much he would come and borrow them to get

his truck out. I forget the brand, but I got them in Pep Boys ages ago.

They must still sell them, because about half the block own them now.

> and when I got

> home I was able to park where I wanted to!! Yay!!

You're lucky. Around this block, they'd be waiting to park in the spot

as you were shovelling it, maybe even honking you to get out of the way

when you were just about done.

> Now my arm hurts again. Lovely. Just

> l-o-v-e-l-y!!

The best thing for a sore muscle is a heating pad and an ointment I get

from the health food store called Arnica. Works wonders and is all

natural.

> so I have to figure out

> how to get TWO cups of coffee home in the snow/ice??

Next time through a drive-through, save the cardboard drink holder and

store it in a closet or somewhere out of the way. They come in handy for

all sorts of things, even as a place to rest Easter eggs when dyeing

them..

>I think I will get my cuppa joe and go back

> to bed to watch a movie. ;-)

We finally finished all our running around for the day - laundromat, 4

stores for stuff for the aunt, and a visit by the landlord (I got my

oven back! Yay!), and right now the rice for my lunch is cooking and I

have a cup of decaf tea cooling next to me. As soon as I finish that and

checking email I'll have my lunch and we'll probably pop some cruddy

1950's sci-fi movie in the DVD player. Knowing Ed, he'll doze off and

leave me to watch the film by myself. He already complained that I woke

him up doing my exercise this morning. I had the volume so low I

couldn't even make out the music, yet he heard in 2 rooms away with the

door closed. Oh, well. Any excuse for a nap on a day off, right?

Sue in NJ

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> > and when I got

> > home I was able to park where I wanted to!! Yay!!

>

> You're lucky. Around this block, they'd be waiting

> to park in the spot

> as you were shovelling it, maybe even honking you to

> get out of the way

> when you were just about done.

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>THIS IS WHY I AM SOOOOOOOO GLAD TO LIVE IN THE

COUNTRY.........WE MAY HAVE TO PIPE SUNLIGHT

IN......BUT THERE IS ALL KINDS OF ROOM TO PARK !!!!!!!

Vickie

West Virginia

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