If you didn't see the photo on my last blog entry you won't get anything from the title of this one!
After a beautiful day yesterday, it is starting to get warmer and will be downright hot for the rest of the week I'm tired of the ups and downs and am ready for a cool fall (in Sacramento, yeah right!)
I spent the day with Jeannie and Arianna yesterday - a trip to Costco and trying to figure out how to hang some photos on a blank bedroom wall. I've decided that will be my rogue's gallery of my kids and grandkids. I need to buy a few more 5 x 7 frames to match the others and then we can start hanging them on the wall. They will be the last thing I see at night and the first thing when I wake up in the morning.
After being off blood thinners for at leat 2 years I was doing fine without the awful bruising, but it's started up again. Some internet searching of ingredients in one of the new eye meds I'm taking reveals they contain green tea extracts as well as some other herbs that act as diuretics. Needless to say I'm not going to take them anymore. I also think it is affecting my eyes now and then, and I'm wondering what a blood thinner would do to the eyes. Hopefully I'll see a change fairly soon. I even bought some teabags a few weeks ago containing green tea as I read somewhere that it is so good for you. I've only brewed one cup of it because I didn't care much for it. I am glad to have an excuse to not drink any more of it!
Today Jeannie and I cashed in our recycled bottles, cans , etc. We had very few cans but lots of heavy bottles. The money goes into a savings account with the kids' college funds. I'm happy to contribute my recycling but my kitchen really doesn't have room to accumulate the stuff. I'm thinking about buying a smaller garbage can with lid and keeping them outside but I'd better check with the Park police first or they will "ding" me with a "no no note"!
I know I've been sitting too much in the past few months, so I've been trying to do more around the house. Since I spent the time cleaning the venetian blinds in the kitchen I decided to wash the windows today - can't have clean blinds on dirty windows - my Mom would come back to haunt me.
I'm so looking forward to my art classes the day after tomorrow (Wednesday). I may end up wishing I didn't take them back to back, 2 hrs each with a 30 min. break in between, but I think I'll keep my enthusiasm and energy levels up for both classes.
I didn't walk today and am debating driving over to the gym, or just forgetting about it until tomorrow morning. I'll probably wait until tomorrow. I am craving sweets right now and don't know where that is coming from - I had a good dinner and am full. I already ate my ice cream bar for today (the skinny cow stuff). I'll be glad when I can finish what I have and go buy some really tasty stuff. Costco was handing out samples of their signature vanilla ice cream yesterday and I could easily get re-hooked. The trouble with buying it in half gal. containers is that it's so easy to go back and add a little more ice cream to the bowl, whereas I won't go back for another individually wrapped ice cream bar. For anyone who doesn't shop at Costco, you should know they give out samples throughout their store. It's a great idea for them as well as for their customers - some of my favorite products were foods I tried as samples.
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I'm waiting for Fall but sure doesn't seem to be ready for us either. So sick of this heat already. I also hung the family photo's in my room I love looking at them. I used those 3m tapes so I wouldn't have to make all those holes.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen anything about 3M tapes. If you get it just a bit off, can you remove it and place it somewhere else? I need to look into that as I hate to hammer nails - don't worry about the holes but I just hate to hammer. With my luck I'll hit my finger!
DeleteWish our recycling center would take glass but for some reason they quit doing so earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky to have a Costco in your town.
Both Jeannie & I tend to buy things in glass bottles & jars if they are available, rather than plastic. So that made up the bulk of our recycling.
DeleteI have been to at least 4 or 5 different Costcos in the Sacramento area, but I like the one nearest me the best. The others sometimes carry certain items that mine doesn't carry (such as Hazelnut coffee beans - I mix Hazelnut beans with good organic Columbian or French roast beans and have my own blend of superb coffee!
I like your picture gallery idea. Great way to fall asleep and wake up. You have such a terrific family. What would the park police do if you just ignore their "no no" notes? I'll bet a lot of people do.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to look for the 3M tape this morning. That would be so much easier than nails, although I'm planning on having Jeannie do the nails anyway.
DeleteI have ignored some nasty notes in the past and will continue to go my own way. For some reason they have been leaving me alone - sometimes makes me wonder when the shoe is going to drop! (On one of their spring forays they told me I should have my entire unit power washed! Anyone who reads my blog knows I am somehow in the path of the dust and dirt gods, and even the clean windows won't last long. Wonder how much they think it would cost me to have this place power washed, and how often I would need to do it. I just totally ignored it.
Those 3M hangers are called Command Hangers or something. They are little tabs of foam plastic, with adhesive on both sides. You stick it to the wall, peel off the protective coating to expose the outside adhesive, then carefully push your framed photo up against them. They are not reusable. To remove them, you pull one end and they stretch and the adhesive has to let go. If you get one in the wrong spot, it is destroyed in the removal process.
ReplyDeleteThose 3M hangers are called Command Hangers or something. They are little tabs of foam plastic, with adhesive on both sides. You stick it to the wall, peel off the protective coating to expose the outside adhesive, then carefully push your framed photo up against them. They are not reusable. To remove them, you pull one end and they stretch and the adhesive has to let go. If you get one in the wrong spot, it is destroyed in the removal process.
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