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  1. Dazzlingdreamberry
    03-02-2021 06:55 AM
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    First slog is in the bag! It was a balmy 62• I wore my one piece scuba swimsuit. It's black with fuchsia piping. With black shorts. I'm a bit zaftig. I had Mr x take a pic. Well, I gained 5# I can't wear my crop tops for a couple mos. Also back fence is down and I was aware they could be watching me. Plus the clang bang gang was there. I walked the grounds to see if any dead rodents. I looked up and the workers were on second floor. The wall was down so they're sitting by opening.

    Slog went well. I was able to do 30 min easily. Tho later my knee barked a bit. It's ok now. But I missed having the Epsom salt. Psychologically, at least, I believe they work. It is supposed to be good for soreness.

    So I had a lunch pal who has bad ch. He had to have a toe off. Other day he mentioned he would have a puff. I said, from a cig? He said medicinal pot. Ah. Even Martha Stewart is doing gummies. Then he mentioned lettuce something. Lettuce? I googled it. It is a medicinal product. You could smoke it, make tea. It was in a container like parsley. How interesting.

    Tomorrow I'll be back at desky. Oh, ordered more protein bars, scrubby poufs, and scrubby gloves. Have you seen those? Very scratchy gloves you use as washcloth. When I use spf, the towel won't work. It can't get the spf off. But the glove is flawless.

    A couple doors down from Corona nabe a nabe was robbed. They stole tools from his truck. Then the wife woke up at 4:30 a.m. To find three men trying to get in a window. She called the cops but they got away. Naturally. More porch pirates. It's very discouraging.

    Mr x told me the nabes house next to my folks house was torn down and rebuilt. They made a mcmansion. I'll have to tell bro. He's renting folks house. I don't think I'd want to live there again. I have a problem with mcmansions. The house is going for over 3 mil.

    It looks out of place and stupid. Most houses here are one story ranch. Spread out. But when the senior owner sells someone comes in and builds up. It's a ridiculous house. It prob looks down in our yard. Those tenants had to go thru a years commotion. I hate this town now. It's pretentious, righteous. It's a kid loving, pet loving liberal town. I'd like to live in a rural place with the nabes a distance away. I could get a dog. A goat! I'd also like to live in a gated community.
  2. Dazzlingdreamberry
    03-01-2021 06:54 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Well, the noise Saturday didn't begin. It was strange. Hard to relax because we expected noise. Like waiting for the other shoe to drop. That last blog I went over by 392 characters. You can only use 3k. It's so easy for me to write.

    So today hit atm. Mr x took me. First, he wanted to show me where all his pals lived. The atm format changed. It said bills could be $50 and $20 that's weird. Who wants $50 bill? That's hard to break. You want to use it at Macs? Starbucks? I went to the screen to request the $20 bills but it was complex and I felt rushed. I took a chance and got $20 bills. I went high and took out $600 I don't want to go there again till next year. That's gas money, tips. We had been running on fumes. Not much cash left. Plus for fire grab bag they say to carry cash.

    It is kind of warm right now. Today I vac LR. Also dragged vac outside and did porch. All the spider webs etc. We're coming along.

    Tomorrow kicks off slog season! I haven't even opened that new belt purse for radio. It's going to be rushed tomorrow. Dang clang bang gang will no doubt be at their posts. I plan to go out around 11:30 a.m. that may be their lunch break. I plan 30 min minimum. Maybe even just walking. I've been off for four mos. I feel terrible. Sluggish. Fat. Headache. This slogging is my medicine.

    Think I'll have an icy ensure. I've also started my chocolate slim fast again. Spring is coming!
  3. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-27-2021 04:53 PM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Early morning salutations from my softly slumbering town in drumsville, Calif. A booming enclave on the Western seaboard. It is bright sun tho chilly. My thin leggings barely able to keep up with the demand. Mr x is still in his sleeping bag.

    Construction shouldn't start till 9 a.m. on weekends. They continue to dismantle and demolish. They were taking off the roof yesterday. Mr x said he can see Corona Joe's house on the other side.

    I lost yesterday. I was feeding Wally for 5 hrs. Gun smoke was on. I caught up em a pal.

    Today I work on desky. Think I'll postpone the jury notice for six mos. They seem to be full steam ahead with seating juries.

    Yesterday my packages came. The protein bars, belt, radio. I'll open them today. Got to put my slog box together. My candy, sunglasses etc. I'll have to dust off my spf bottles. I have dozens. From 10 to 60 spf. It'll be good to smell it again.

    Oh, I found a note about that cheap, fickle TracFone I have. It was even cheaper than I thought. I thought it was $20 I had got it on a sale so it was $10 still need to test why it didn't send my text. I think it has to do with the wifi. I also need to get Mr x another flip phone as backup. In case he breaks his. It's amazing the call quality tho.

    Oh, so I received a Zillow em about homes in my area. I was surprised to see house of one of my 3rd grade pals. She lived around the corner. We played ball in the st, roller skated. She came to my house. Then around 7th grade she started going with popular gang and boys and I began my slow descent into nerdnom. We were never pals again. She became a cheerleader. I was wearing Bobby Sox and carrying a lunchbox. I so disliked hs. Nonetheless, I have fond memories of the few years we played together. When I was working at my folks house, her mom walked by and we chatted. She hugged me.

    Well, their house is for sale. There was only one or two daughters. Funny I don't know for sure. I never saw another sib. But there's a girl in yearbook with same last name. Anyway their house is way too big. My former pal was very smart even back then. She's a physical therapist now. I Google her sometimes to see current pics. Her mom asked if I was a lawyer. Bhaha! A lawyer. I didn't get the smart genes. But there's someone with my name in next City who's the lawyer. So I guess she had been googling me!

    Anyway their house is going for 2.1 mil. It has 5 BR, 3 BA. It's a monster house. You know, I don't even remember her BR. We mainly played outside. Tho I member her in my BR. There were pics up which I was excited to see. I hadn't been in the house for decades. But I barely recognized it. Since I had never really gone in it. I do member their front enclosed patio. That was very unusual. Most houses have patios in the back. I'll have to look at pics again. I don't recall a backyard. Maybe there was none because house is so huge.

    Got to go. Think they're taking dumpster away. The noise begins.
  4. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-26-2021 03:59 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    I was a bit at loose ends today. No taxes to do? Unreal. I still spread my work out. Put away the tax stuff. Still want to do a brief summary.

    Then I caught up on my bills. Got a few statements to do. I brought the washer folder. I'm dismantling the stack of folders against cafe table leg. Because I like to spread out on the bed now. I didn't need to use the lamp today either. Was very sunny. Not super noisy today. There's not much house left.

    Mr x was talking to someone. It was the political nabe. He called Mr x. He hadn't come over in a couple weeks. It was because of the construction next door. The horrible noise plus he said some weren't wearing masks.

    I weigh 120# I went to BMI chart to move needle and I actually lost 2# I figured I had gained. It's been 4 Mos since I slogged. I was still in shape from my mos long slogs for the first 3 Mos. Then I completely lost my head. I ate too much choc. Had more of the choc cafe beans today.

    I woke up absurdly early today. Like 7 a.m. later I thought maybe it was those cafe beans. I spit out most of them but tiny shards I might nibble. And that's mainlining caffeine.

    Tomorrow I need to feed Wally. I'm kind of feeling bad that soon he'll be leaving. I made him into this kind of cold porcelain child with wants and needs. And a weak bladder. I have stuffed animals that have personalities too. We got so we couldn't eat a cookie if it had a face on it. Mr x used to buy me these single large decorated cookies. Beautiful to look at, but too much sugar decoration. Of course, I didn't have Ch then.

    I started reading my journals. I plan to dump them after. I don't really want to, but they are incriminating. It's funny how I've changed. I was writing how I only admired celebrities. They had the best life. I wrote how even then I was shunning the phone because I was not forceful enough to assert myself with my aunt. My solution was simply to not answer the phone! And I certainly don't admire celebrities now...I don't think. I don't even watch TV.
  5. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-25-2021 07:18 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    I wrote a long blog with lots of emojis on my HS blog. It got erased. Grr... It was my TracFone. Plus I sent a pal a text and he said it didn't come. What's wrong with this phone? I don't trust it anymore. I'll just use it to read Kindle or tweets. No emailing. Rotten phone. Rotten cheap phone. Rotten cheap $20 phone. I'll use it for you tube. It was originally for Mr x. But I found him a flip one.

    I hadn't written on that site for almost a mo. What a waste of time tonight. I also realized I made a mistake on taxes. I forgot to use a gel pen for the check. Reg ink can be washed off. Rats. I don't write checks anymore. The letters are still here but I'm not redoing env and checks. I'll just keep checking for cashed check. I wonder if banks reimburse for a forged check.

    Just ordered some protein bars. Balance that taste like Snickers and Gatorade mint chocolate crunch. I'm testing a credit card on Amazon. Before I use it for a big fee like dental. I want to make sure it works.

    Haven't heard from gf. She was supposed to have her doc consultation today.

    Will have to weigh myself soon to see beginning slog weight. I know I've gained. I feel uncomfy.

    Guess I'll go look at to do list.

    I was also looking at Costco's washers. They sell appliances too.
  6. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-25-2021 03:45 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Day 23 and taxy is in the bag! Hard to believe. It's almost become a way of life. I haven't been able to make pbj. I've skipped some bike days to clean. Tomorrow I'll put the folders away and get going on next project.

    Which is preparing for Slog Initiation Day 2021. I think I've found an earphone. Also new thin belt to hold radio, and some protein bars.

    Then I'll work on statements. And do spread sheet for the washer dryer. What to get? I'm thinking of the stackables because of the tight space. But are they prone to shifting? Calif gets earthquakes. What if load becomes unbalanced? Many questions.

    Think I'll put in Amazon order now.
  7. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-24-2021 07:07 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Day 22 of taxy. I scanned and printed copies. Wrote the check, env. Tomorrow I'll review and put in env. Gets mailed Thur. Just heard from one of my pals. He uses turbo tax. Said it took him 4 hours. As compared to three mos.

    It was the nosiest day at the house of disrepute. That concrete drilling all day long. Plus tearing off the roof. It was funny looking at our window. It looked like the shadow was right outside the window. Tho they were on the roof.

    Soup was a cream noodle one. I had some chocolate Cafe beans. I only eat the outside. How can you eat roasted Cafe beans? It's inedible.

    Finished a wrinkle in Time. I had forgotten a lot of it. Only remembered the bare bones of it. Next I want to read reviews because this is a many layered book.

    Have a headache from the noise. My headphoness are better than earphones for blocking noise. Mr x is chattering. I can't believe taxy will soon be over. Tonight I finished the Epsom salts. The pounds and pounds I had bought. I threw out the containers. Things are looking better around here. The treadmill just has empty boxes. Under desky is clear. Next top of table. Garbage went out with that canvas tote I dumped. I can breathe better.

    I have to do a reg desky day. Haven't done bills for 23 days. Then postpone the jury duty. Pick washer/dryer. Send gf a get well card. Figure how to fold down treadmill. Go to atm. haven't gone there since last year. I'll just get a few hundred out. Slogging starts Mar 1.

    I'm looking for some headphones for slog radio. I've been using my old Walkman one. I'm looking for a noise reducing one, yet light.

    Think it's time for an ensure.
  8. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-23-2021 07:10 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Day 21 of taxy. My taxes are done. Tomorrow I will start with the assembling and scanning.

    Clang bang gang drove up with a tractor Jack hammer. Mr x was amazed. They drove it up driveway. When they turned it, it was facing me. It looked like a cannon.They rode it to back yard and started attacking the concrete.

    Corona Joe on other side of this house of madness called Mr x to go on a bike ride. He said he couldn't stand it anymore.

    I had classical music on louder than normal to drown out the hammering. I found that it's less aggravating than the manual random hammer bangs.

    There's a split in the fence between Corona Joe's and the bang house. So Mr x and him watched the action up close. The whole house has been gutted.

    GF was waiting on a health test and it's bad news. She has cancer. I just found out. I can't process it yet. I dreaded today because she expected to hear. She's having surgery next week but then they may start all that radiation etc. She was supposed to be moving to Iowa in the spring. She may now need to go on disability. She works a physical job at Amazon. It's rotten news. She's the girl I've known since hs. We ran the hills of our town. I hope she will be ok. She's taking it very matter of factly. Got to go em her now.
  9. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-22-2021 08:19 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Day 20 of taxy in the bag. It was Sunday and the clang bang gang did not darken my doorway. It was wonderful. And weird. You get used to being tensed up.

    Tax drafts are done. I still want to proof and examine. Because I do them I am starting to understand the why's and wherefores. I sure agonized over this year's. I need to work on my focus.

    In lieu of bike I messed in back room. I wanted to clean but got dragged down the rabbit hole of a bin. It has my report cards and diplomas. I have my mom's grade school report card. My dad's college one. He was very good at math. It showed physics, calculus, trigonometry. He got almost a 4.0 grade point. How is it possible that my bro got those smarts and math was hell on wheels for me? Was I adopted? Genetics did not smile kindly on me. It does still rankle me. I looked at a psat test I took. No one ever discussed the results with me. I don't know the grading style, but if 100 is the best, I received 35. And I can believe it. I can only do reg math. And that's with a calculator. The taxes use math but it's pretty straightforward and they spell out things. Really, the instructions are pretty clear.

    So I found the hospital bill when I was born, the notes my mom took when I was born. Do I dump these? It's taking a bin. I have these blue bins everywhere. They are filled with books, videos, Xmas decorations, maps, work papers, past taxes. Speaking of taxes it said you should save past returns about 3 years. Before it was 7. I have the taxes from when I worked in high school library. I should dump that, right? My bro still has my folks taxes from when they were single, prob. He should dump those, right?

    I also picked up my slogging box where I keep my sunglasses, radio etc. Have to get it ready. I was looking at my slog belt where I carry the radio. It's florescent yellow but sunscreen got on it. I think I'll get another one and pick a more camouflaged color. I could use it. I mean I even washed it. But it's stained. It feels like that horrid yellow sweatshirt of Mr xs. I follow this adult child of hoarders group and this is that kind of mentality. I try not to do it.

    Time to hit hay. I expect clang bangers to wake me up at 8 a.m. the beasts.
  10. Dazzlingdreamberry
    02-21-2021 04:05 AM
    Dazzlingdreamberry
    Day 19 of taxy in the bag. I did the 540 draft. Tomorrow I'll do checking and proofing. My head was clear so I went for it. I don't member having this prob in sch. Where I read something and can't retain it. Force myself to focus. If I could, I could do taxy in half the time. Last year taxy was done and mailed in 16 days. I'm at day 19 now. Plus this year got more complex. I have till March 1. Then will postpone jury duty. Our area doing better with virus so they prob won't be cancelling trials.

    This disc stylus is very elegant. Pale pink. It has an aluminum body. But many sold are pink, white, or black. Where are more colors? I have some in my cart of turquoise. I want to see purple. Maybe some neon.

    No chocolate today. I didn't miss it either. But if it was there I'd certainly eat it.

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Posted 09-25-2017 at 03:48 AM by Dazzlingdreamberry Comments 1
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amazing as it sounds, i passed the dmv vision test. i was quite apprehensive in days leading up to it. every nite religiously doing the eye exercises. straining, straining to see, imagine, the dinky little letters. when it came time to test, i didnt even falter! i guess i could see the shapes good enough to recognize. mr x came with me. we had a 2.5 hour wait. he started grumbling part way thru the wait.

other day we were at macs. tried their new ice mocha. yum!

then yesterday hung out with bro for 5.5 hrs. he had these dumb rebate cards to redeem and he didnt need anything. so we went to walgreens, 2 cvs, and a tjs. i caught up on my shopping. we hit a macs and i tried the caramel macchiato. even better than the mocha. we got along very well. we had been estranged a long time. but now i suppose i will eventually move closer to him. he lives in san jose. not a place id like to be. maybe i can move nearby on the coast. would like some fog weather.

so i passed my big hurdle. can relax now and get back to normal. have to hire a drywall guy.

just finished a great read. about uber rich ladies and the scam perpetrated against them. a good frothy read. hey, its fall i believe! got bottle of pumpkin spice latte by starbucks. so curious to taste it.

welcome to fall! time to bring out the sweaters.

Posted 09-14-2017 at 12:52 AM by Dazzlingdreamberry Comments 2
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finally got back here. we had a plumbing event. on labor day mr x noticed water running off front lawn. a water main had broke. a small 2" gush was gushing out. mr x called water company who turned off water. then i called our go to plumber. a solution was to replace pipe to house. however id been wanting to replace the pipes one day. we had no hot water at bathroom sink and cold faucet was dribbling out. i knew it was a matter of time. then. we didnt have hot or warm water in washer. only cold. thats why my wash would take hours. so i decided to kill all birds with one stone. i replaced all pipes with copper. it took a total of 5 days. we had no water for 3 days. first day we used wipey dypes. 2nd day mr x warmed water jugs in sun and we bathed with a gallon of water. i helped mr x wash his hair on back lawn. i viewed the experience like camping. its doable, but im not keen on it. 3 guys were here. all spoke spanish. so i decided to learn spanish on phone app. itd be nice to be able to converse with them.

im doing eye exercises. plan on taking vision test next week. its better not doing close work, which ive done my whole life. reading way too much. better to look at scenery. i think ill continue the eye exercises.

we had really hot temps, then other day first rain of the year! it began with a thousand lightening strikes. scary, and weird for this area. it started brush fire couple towns over. also monsciour ugly was caught on film sliding his grotesquely ugly body under a residents fence. # the outrage

id been watching lovely old films, then the plumbing debacle. i have to bring in a drywall guy to patch up the holes the plumber left. already found my guy thru yelp.

Posted 09-04-2017 at 06:17 PM by Dazzlingdreamberry Comments 2
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back to school time, but kids already back. when did that start? and no telethon with jerry lewis. he really wanted to hit 100.

its been super hot here. sf broke record. something like 106. we were 107. i was taking 3 showers a day. would sit outside at nite for air, started watching my dvd player. watched, british intelligence, with boris karloff. such an intimidating man. it was a ww1 flick in blk/wh. got bit by mosquitos. its the gift that keeps on giving. next nite sprayed off on.

got couple more weeks for eye exercises then have to take dmv vision test. strangely enough, the pinhole glasses im using seem to help. before i couldnt see without glasses without closing an eye. now im able to read my phone without glasses. of course, i return to glasses asap.

the smoke from oregon and calif fires drifted down here. could smell it slightly. today its a strange totally overcast day, but warm.

your friendly, pink weather girl.

Posted 08-31-2017 at 05:43 PM by Dazzlingdreamberry Comments 2
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hi izzy! i know what you mean. its fun to read new blogs. kind of like toothpaste. if nothing to read, ill read the tube. tube tops. i thought those were the dumbest things. then my wing went out once and i couldnt finagle a bra. so had to get the tubes. so easy to put on. i have them in colors, of course. fuchsia, lime, orange.

im writing on lappy, my laptop. too onerous to text on my phone.

its been a long, hot summer. i look forward to fall temps when i can don my beloved denim jackets.

izzy, that was interesting telling of what a nuclear stress test is. what is the nuclear part? the dye? it sounds so high tech. nuclear. do you glow now:)

i need to clean my fans. some arent openable. need some kind of thin bristle brush.

a few cities over madame ugly and her spawn were spotted. search partys are out since they came down where schools are. i noticed their looks didnt improve over the summer.

did i mention mr x found a dead rat on back lawn. thankfully he disposed of it. he said it was 17" with tail. # ick

see you in september!

Posted 08-23-2017 at 07:53 PM by Dazzlingdreamberry Comments 1
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my newest project is trying to buy glasses ol.

last nights movie was a doris day musical. she can really dance. and tap. that is an odd dance move. the guy was doing it on a staircase. itd be kind of neat to suddenly break into a tap dance.

then i started a cary grant and rosallnd russell movie.

i made up 5 packs of indonesian ramen. made oodles of noodles. heard ramen is hot commodity in prisons. ramen wth an egg on top. # breakfast is served

i should try on my cargo shorts again. itll probably be another year till i can wear them. i sure love the pockets. i used to be a tomboy back in my tomcat days. but i grew out of it. i get more favorable responses when i dress ladylike.
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Congrats on passing the eye test!

Where I have been living, I have worn a sweatshirt all summer long! Its time to don flannel underwear and a parka already! It already spit some snow at us yesterday! *Izzy is not happy! *

I'm happy that you and your bro have reconciled and hang out together on occaision!
Posted 09-26-2017 at 08:37 AM by Inzanebraned Inzanebraned is offline
We had to replace the water pipe to our house, years ago, when we had our own house. BF and a friend did the work.
A root from a tree had punctured the pipe...so the tree was felled.
The lawn never recovered from the line that had to be dug into it to access the pipe.

I bet its nice to have working water again!
Posted 09-15-2017 at 08:30 AM by Inzanebraned Inzanebraned is offline
Plumbing is the most odious of all home repairs. Like eew
Posted 09-15-2017 at 01:29 AM by kelseydee kelseydee is offline
OMG, the smoke from the fires drifted into Colorado so thick that it allowed one to look directly at the sun without seeing spots when looking away!
We could barely make out the shapes of the mountains through the heavy smoke.
When the sun had set and the moon had risen, the moon looked much like the sun had looked...only the sky was dark!
There was also a fire near Steamboat Springs, Colorado that grew from 2 acres to 419 acres in just a few hours...that also contributed to our smoky air.
The elderly and people with health issues are being advised to stay indoors with the doors and windows closed.
Its really kinda scary to see that much smoke in the air!

I'm glad to hear that the eye exercises and the pinhole glasses are working for you! ...I should try something like that since my aging eyes are failing fast...but I am lazy lately...maybe at another time.
Posted 09-05-2017 at 09:38 AM by Inzanebraned Inzanebraned is offline
Hey, hows the mountain lion situation
Posted 09-04-2017 at 10:09 PM by kelseydee kelseydee is offline