Making hay while the sun shines

It's a blessed day! In turning on my computer this a.m., the Internet opened immediately and up popped my e-mails, as though nothing had happened. Overnight I'd unplugged the modem and perhaps that's what stimulated the connection when plugging it in. Yippee!!! Life's simple pleasures again!

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I've had a couple things to mention but keep forgetting: let's see if recall them..............

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Years ago when still married, my former spouse and I would sort of roll our eyes about our house guests and their stash of "supplements" taken to improve or achieve health. The little Tupperware container packed with every sort of tablet or pill, Shaklee or Amway or Nutrilife, depending upon the house guest. Now, in the mornings, I remember this eye rolling and do it to myself as I medicate with various life-extending products such as iron pills, multivitamin, Calcium with D, and an anti-histamine for an unknown allergy after vowing to never have an allergy. (Justin, too, made the same vow totally separate from me!!!). Cheers, everybody! And please accept my apology....

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The good news is that I am finally out of the pre-natal vitamins I was taking because they absolutely tasted horrible and I'd taste them all day unless I ate some food with it. Yech! These vitamins have super powers to help pregnant ladies nurture themselves and the baby, and don't hurt to continue taking them long after to keep levels up. Now I can take a regular Centrum instead which doesn't have quite the aftertaste of the other.

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When I occasionally step into the kitchen and prepare some food, Lynx stands in the doorway and just meows her head off at me. When both cats lived here, they'd harmonize at me, as though cautioning me against using the stove or something. This a.m. I browned hamburger and added Barilla sauce to it, all the while being scolded by Lynx. If I head to the kitchen to just, say, grab a soda or such, she stands under the dining room table and meows at me as though to say, "Do what you're going to do and move along"....scaredy cat!

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Every morning there is an ad on TV about Direct Buy, where folks redecorate or furnish their homes through this organization and save thousands of dollars. This reminds me of my newlywed days when we bought into a program called "Consumers Guild of America" and actually drove from Milwaukee to Chicago in my sister-in-law's Marlin to visit the Merchandise Mart with our 'representative' from CGOA. I can't say that we were ripped off or taken advantage of or anything, but we did get some really nice pieces for a couple just starting out. We bought a sofa and rocker chair, a complete bedroom set with head board, night stand, mirrored hutch dresser and chest of drawers. How much? I don't remember. My younger sister-in-law used the sofa and chair in her apartment and then think it was donated to our high school's thrift shop. I kept the bedroom set, but "lost" the headboard in the first hurricane of 2004 due to rising water in the garage. When moving in here, I found that storage room was spare and instead of crowding these large pieces into the guest room, I decided, painfully, to sell the two dressers to a used furniture store. Justin tried to get me to change my mind but the frustration level was quite high and I had to just let it go. Not easy for me, and he knew that. I do still have the nightstand, my last piece of history, and it serves me well in the guest room. CGOA....are they still in existence or do they live again as Direct Buy?

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Time to go for my therapeutic massage with Carol. After that the ladies are coming over to paint and/or scrapbook. My hair appointment is at 4:00 p.m. which might be timed perfectly for some fried dill pickles on the deck at Whitey's! We shall see......