The Friday Five for 6 March 2026

Mar. 5th, 2026 03:09 pm
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These questions were suggested by [personal profile] dray.

1. Do you know of any other words for snow? What's your favourite and why?

2. What's your ideal temperature range for winter?

3. Favourite winter activity? What about it makes it your favourite?

4. What are three things you can't do without when winter arrives?

5. Do you have favourite winter holiday activities?

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Mar. 4th, 2026 08:38 pm
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Recently the toilet has been running and leaking. I have dealt with this before in another house. You need to replace the chain and flapper. Of course, the system was attached differently from the one I'd done before. Instead of just hooking on to another part, this was slipped over an end piece and you had to lift it over. I learned that on Youtube.I didn't have the hand strength to do that so I had to get out TOOLS. A box cutter, pliers, etc and so on. Finally got the old piece off and went to the store to get a new one.

I chose one, I do want to mention that I have to get on my knees to turn the water on and off, just to mention it. So it's installed and the noisy toilet is silent. I still have to shorten the chain to make it perfect, it's sort of jerryrigged now, and that will be fixed in the near future.
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I got my labcorp results last night and I made a spreadsheet of the last five years of lipid and A1c
five year snapshot
Cholesterol isn't too bad so I'm not going to fret about that. When I can get back to regular exercise, the LDL should also improve but it is on the lower side of borderline at least.

However, obviously the A1c is back to being complete crap so starting Monjauro is important. I'm going to aim for late tomorrow afternoon since I take metformin after that with dinner. I would start it today but my vaccination site is still warm, red and a bump. It is starting to look a little less red so hopefully by tomorrow, it'll be one less thing to worry about.

gray all around

Mar. 1st, 2026 08:57 pm
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Lots of snow here. Some good bird sightings: eagles on their big nest in the tree by the river, bluebirds, an oriole, and some sandhill cranes.

I've been having a new and different back pain. I finally realized that I've been sleeping on a saggy surface, so I moved to the floor on a foam cushion. Ah! Much better. But I need to buy a new bed, which is a chore I do not look forward to doing.

Still reading the correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert. The letters written during the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871) express their grief over the destruction, fear for their country and the people they love, and anger at the poor leadership. Much of what they say could apply to our current situation. They both write in an expressive way that I enjoy.

I have exercised consistently for 13 weeks. This is remarkable because I am old and unwell.

I've been watching the Korean talk show "Happy Together," It's funny and sometimes touching.

Thank you for your posts, which allow me to live vicariously.

Solutions for a small space

Feb. 27th, 2026 07:37 am
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I was ticked off earlier this week when the bar in my closet fell AGAIN. The problem is that even with a brace, it wouldn't stay up because there wasn't a stud in the back of the closet to fasten it to so an anchor wasn't doing squat. I'd already put one of the drawers in the closet rather than futilely trying to put the bar up again. I'm trying to figure out how I can use about a foot worth of space next to it. As you see, I can't easily reach into it but I'm thinking maybe I can put some hooks on that piece of wood (there's no similar piece wood on the other side, hence why the bar falls) Here's the before with my dresses and tunics dumped over the cat tree.



For the dresses, I ordered a heavy duty garment rack. The rack arrived today and literally snapped together, no tools needed. It's very sturdy. And yes, I know I have toooooo much clothing. It's an eye opener to STOP spending. But at least it looks more organized now


Going to have to suck it up

Feb. 26th, 2026 03:57 pm
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I've been feeling off for a few weeks which isn't unexpected with all the stress of the house and the crazy winter weather and work and probably menopause stuff (You know that left behind ovary ain't doing shit). I can't stay asleep, I'm constantly achy, my stomach's a mess, my blood sugar isn't testing that well, just ALL THE YUCK. I mentally told myself even though I turned her down before, since on top of everything, I gained 7 pounds in the last three months, if she asks about taking a GLP-1, I'll say yes this time. I'm paranoid as hell about side effects and things like pancreatitis (since I'm the kween of side effects) but I'm more afraid of my health continuing to decline and my diabetes getting worse so I need the chemical help. Hey [personal profile] spiffikins it'll be monjauro so if you have any advice, let me know all the gory details. 

The snow has compacted with the somewhat warmer temperatures but I still need to dig a path to my driver's side car door and push the snow off the top and front. If the script gets filled by then, I'll go pick it up. But I won't start the first dose until after I do my regular blood tests, since I want to know my baseline. I made an appointment for my fasting tests for Tuesday morning so maybe I'll start it then if I have it in hand.

Oh and just for tracking's sake, got the pneumonia jab. Guess that makes me officially old (or in piss poor health).

The Friday Five for 27 February 2026

Feb. 26th, 2026 03:10 pm
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Feelings…

1. What made you happy this week?

2. What made you sad?

3. What made you angry?

4. What are you looking forward to in the next week?

5. What are you not looking forward to?

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Since we need an outing

Feb. 26th, 2026 11:05 am
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Guess we're going to a HOCKEY game of all things. But wait, WOMEN'S hockey.

Emily found out that when the New York Sirens score, fans are supposed to go WEE-WOO! Oh we are into THAT. So we wondered where they play (since most NY teams play in NJ but we didn't know if hockey would be in actual north NY state or something). Turns out they play in NEWARK where we've gone for concerts and that we can take a train to.

Even better that they have a game on Sunday March 8 at noon so that I'm not out past my old lady bedtime, so we're going and Emily's getting tickets in the section where we typically book to go see concerts.

WEE WOO WEE WOO

Oh Canadian buddies, they'll be playing the uh...Ottawa Charge so you'll have to let us know if we're bitter rivals or something now.

I hope Columbus Ohio gets a team so that I can be rivals with my sister. lol

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Feb. 25th, 2026 07:22 pm
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I bought a new duvet cover. Teal with polka dots. I feel like Minnie Mouse.

Two feet of the stuff

Feb. 23rd, 2026 01:18 pm
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Though it is somewhat fluffier than the last round, as fluffy as TWO FRIKKIN FEET can be. Emily decided to film me trying to trek out to her Subaru. So hey, content for the channel!

Speaking of the channel, we now have 398 subscribers and our big video has 8000 views. Still ages away from monetization as our watch hours isn't quite 600 and we need 3000 but making steady progress. The first Shady Pines Nursing Home video went out today so I'm hoping YT pushes it so we get some traction.

The University declared tomorrow another WFH day but to be honest, I'm in no particular hurry to get into the office. As long as we can free Emily's Subaru, she can get me to my GP appointment on Thursday afternoon. La ti da.

Well, it almost melted

Feb. 21st, 2026 07:22 pm
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Earlier this last week, there was a forecast of 3-5 inches of snow for tomorrow. Then mid-week it went down to an inch and since then, the forecast kept creeping up, possible 5-8, then 6-12 and now the forecast starting tomorrow morning into Monday is a Blizzard Warning with from 16-20 inches of snow.

We were JUST able to finally see some grass under the snowbergs mid week and now it's going to KERFLUMP snow and have high winds. Booooooo

At least this time around, the temperatures aren't forecast to plummet after the snow so I'm hoping things are decent by Thursday so I can get to my GP appointment.

This winter has been wild.

EDIT: It's just rain with a smidge of snow mixed in so far but NOW the forecast is saying 18-25 inches with winds up to 45mph. Ughhhh

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