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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: February Roll Call (2/22/2013 8:40:09 PM)
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We're doing good. Not perfect, but good. My vehicle had all kinds of electrical problems, fuses kept shorting out and I've been too paranoid to drive at night for fear of being pulled over by a cop AGAIN, lol. My tail lights and license plate light was out, but I was okay to drive in the daytime...too bad I'm a night owl who wakes up at 2 p.m. and it gets dark about 5 p.m. I couldn't drive on days with bad weather, so for this past month I was only able to take the car out three times.
After consulting with my ex-husband, the auto mechanic, bo found out that the problem was a grounded wire...to an electrical plug outlet thingy attached to my unused trailer hitch. Now even my dash board lights work again, yay! Before, if I turned on my headlights and windshield wipers, and had to use the turn signal, the fuse blew for the turn signal. It will be such a relief driving to stores at night again, as per my usual. bo probably saved me thousands of dollars (Toyota would have checked everything but the real problem). MDA, I am green with jealousy over your 43 mpg! Mine on a good day gets 20 mpg, so it's a good thing I'm a "Sunday driver".
I've been doing some new exercize this past month that's been helping my right knee a lot, as well as building up atrophed muscles in places I didn't know I had muscles...but...I had to stop this past week because my right heel got a deep fissure. After filing it down a lot and soaking it, it's starting to heal. For Valentine's Day, bo knew I wanted an exercize tape I could do from a chair and looked on Amazon and Ebay until he found the Richard Simmons' tape, Reach For Fitness. He also bought me Richard Simmons' Sit Tight, another exercize tape for work outs from a chair. I also had a lovely card, a stuffed animal and a modest box of chocolates. (Brief pause here, enjoying a mild buzz cuz I just discovered a new use for his beard comb. It's excellent for CBT.)
His mom isn't doing well and we are working on that. My favorite cousin who is more like a little sister is becoming a grandma soon. At first the doctors said it would be a girl, now I hear it's going to be a boy. I already bought some Carter's baby clothes and plan to buy more next month before I start doing some sewing. I lost the pattern for hand mits so that babies don't scratch their faces up in the first month or two. I hope it's healthy.
Spring cleaning began early this year and I'm still working on it. I have a LOT of stuff (sewing, books, DVDs) in tubs and in crates and am gradually building more book cases to handle it so I can have easier access. When I moved here over ten years ago, moving things down four flights of stairs yet again destroyed a dozen of my book cases. They either fell apart or people on the street outside stole them along with my son's dresser, etc. It's been a long time replacing some things because I always needed something more...a lawn mower or weed whacer, an appliance, some repair work. So far, I've replaced six and have plans for one more in March, and then another in April. After that I will get two more for my bedroom, floor to ceiling, so I can get rid of three short shelves I have in there already that are not doing the job. Along with these, we put insulation behind them and as a consequence, this year I am saving money on my heating bill, yay!
This month I am giving about twenty something of my Barbie dolls away, along with a full grocery store bag of pretty scraps of material so that the neighbor kid can sew her own Barbie clothes after I copy some patterns. I also bought her a little sewing kit with about a dozen and a half different colors of threads. A friend of mine is getting some of the Barbies, as she plans on taking classes so that she can become a foster parent and then adopt. I'm going through my son's old I Can Read books and other fun books to donate some to her. She has two rooms ready but these kids are going to need some "stuff".
I'm about ready to start sewing some long skirts for a friend who lost everything in a house fire. Already got her a lot of other stuff, including luggage and scores of yarn balls (I forgot to give her knitting needles, as she usually crochets, aargh). I already have the fabric in tubs at home, and if I'm lucky, I will sew enough for the both of us (I want a skirt or two too) that I will be able to empty one. When I get back home, I hope I remember to prune my roses and some of the trees before the sap rises and buds break open. bo's urologist appointment went okay and he is going to be scheduled for surgery in March or April. Don't worry, it's not cancer or anything like that; I'm just seeing to it that my man gets some of his lost "manhood" back. At least his too low testosterone levels have been fixed, no thanks to his family doctor. Yay for specialists!
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