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Is it me?

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Maybe it’s cabin fever. Perhaps it’s aging. Or the weather. Could I be overwhelmed? Underwhelmed?

Whatever it is, I’m in a funk.

I haven’t touched my knitting in over a week.

Yesterday when I was outside with Pepper, I saw everything that needs to be done in the yard. More dead or dying trees should be cut down. The 550-600 pavers want to be a walkway around the deck. The almost bare sometimes muddy path between the deck and garage door and around the garage longs for a paver/concrete sidewalk. The flower beds in front of the house are pathetic.

The good things about being outside were the fresh air and the clear, sunshiny skies with a few whipsy clouds.

Inside the house… Let’s not even think about that!

Well, I have no motivation. My just-do-one-thing voice is on vacation. I sit and play games on my iPad. All. Day. WTH?!

I tried to make pie crust for the beef pot pies we had last week. I completely screwed it up. I forgot to cut the butter/lard into smaller chunks before adding to the flour. Then I forgot to cut the fat into the flour before adding the water. Everything went into the food processor at the same time. I couldn’t figure out why I had this overworked lump of stickiness with a big hunk of frozen lard in the middle.

I took a deep breath, cleaned the food processor, took another deep breath, and started over. Perfect pie crust.

So is it just me? Or do you suffer from the February Funk?

Patti

Cutting the cord

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Well, we did it. We cut the cord to our landline and only have our cell phones for calls.

We cut the TV cable cord years ago and have been just fine without that squawk box. Quite frankly (IMHO) there wasn’t much on TV worth watching. We stream what we want to watch and can back up, pause, stop, and forward as we please.

Of course, we still have internet. That is something we would have a hard time doing without.

So many people have either used their cell phones forever and never had a landline at all or gotten rid of the landline in favor of a cell phone. 99% of our landline calls were telemarketers anyway.

Do you use a landline, cell phone, or both?

Age is in the eye of the beholder

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The little girl who lives across the street likes to come over to play with Pepper. Her family has two large dogs and Pepper is more her size. She just turned 7. Her dad also had a birthday. He is now 40. So naturally she is curious about how old people are. She asked Mr. Aitch how old he is. Then asked him how old I am. She told him that I don’t look that old.

We were sitting on the front step Friday evening and she said to me, “I know you’re old. But you don’t look old.”

“How old do I look?” I asked.

“In your 30s.”

Wow! I’ll take that!



2008-2022

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At my last paying job (before I retired) our office moved in 2008 to a new location. While cleaning out and tossing old stuff, I found 15-20 reams of pre-printed letterhead. That’s a lot of paper. The logo and business name were at the top and the address was printed at the bottom. But the back was pristine. Obviously, we weren’t going to be able to use it with the old address printed on it. I asked my boss what I should do about all that paper. She said she didn’t want to move it and to see if anyone wanted it. I think a few people in the office each took a ream but we were left with lots of letft over.

Not being one to waste anything (thanks Mom) and with permission, I brought the rest home with me. We used it in our home printer for things we wanted to print but not important enough to use the “good” paper. I used the paper to print off maps and directions, templates, knitting patterns, sewing patterns, and much more. I cut off the tops and bottoms and used the middle sections for notes and stationery.

When grandkids entered the picture, I gave a ream to my son’s children and a ream or two to my daughter. They loved endless amounts of paper to draw or write on. My daughter used the last of that paper in 2020 when the schools were closed and she needed to print off worksheets for her children.

Our supply ran out yesterday.

But fear not as I have more backup scrap/printer paper! My mother gave me a box of assorted colors of printer paper many years ago. Paper dries out and gets crumbly with age so we might as well use it or lose it.

Patti