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Went ahead and ordered the barrettes and mr xs fruitcake. I got 3 1# loafs. I'll freeze them. But I'll have to cut the sticky mess. Well, I have a good bread knife. The barrettes are the claw type which I've never tried. Color was pretty. The others are a clothespin type.

Cut Mr Xs long hair with the flow bee. He'd been touching his hair till it was driving me nuts. Stop playing with your hair, I silently screamed! I told him I'd cut his hair when my arm felt better after those shots. So that's done.

Finished that raunchy love story I was reading. It ended well. Now that I've read it I can read the reviews. I didn't want to read any spoilers. But briefly glancing I'd seen others complaining about the sex scenes. They were outrageously blunt. Gross. Take your pick. I said, this must be written by a man. I was very surprised the author is an attractive woman. The story was pretty good. If the sex scenes were cleaned up. Romanticized. Take your pick. It'd have been a pretty good story.

I just had a salad. Mr x picked up a chef salad at trader Joe's. I eat it with chopsticks.

I had been researching plug adaptors on Amazon. You plug something in it, like our space heater. Then you can turn it on and off with a switch instead of unplugging. I don't trust a heater's off switch. Id want to unplug it.

But the reviews are tiring to read. Now that i have to vet the reviewer. One was an Amazon's choice pick. It had a high rating with hundreds of reviews. But the 1 star reviews were concerning. One mentioned it caught on fire or had scorch marks.

Now i had been looking for a new one because this one's indicator light had gone out. Plus the device itself seemed warm. But so do phones charging.

This morning mr x said he replaced adaptor with another one. Why, what's wrong? The heater stopped working and when i went to check the adaptor was scorched. Whoa, mama! Said adaptor had also been made in China which doesn't have a good safety record.

So we're not leaving heater unattended. Ill look for best quality adaptor next.

I haven't ordered the barrettes yet. Think i want to go thru drawer and see exactly how many i have. Hair accessories have been a big disappointment to me. My hair is straight and pins just slide right down. Ive fallen prey to all sorts of devices. There's one called bump it. Supposed to add volume like a beautiful fall. It's this toothy curved device. You snuggle it in your hair, then arrange hair around it. Well maybe it'd work if someone did it for you. There's a finite time one can keep their arms in the air. I couldn't make it work. The thing is uncomfortable too. It's like trying to hide and wear a couple of combs in your hair. Then when you try to remove it the teeth snag at your hair. Yet i still have it plus the instructions. Why don't i dump it? Do i think that magically in a year or two i can suddenly make it work?

I think fireplaces are on the way out. We have one here but aren't using it. We used to. But there's glass in front. You don't feel any heat. It does make a nice ambiance. But it smells. That smoke smell. And scents the air. When i used to run in winter, I'd smell the smoke. It's not healthy to breathe.

So i just read in Marin county, where we just vacayed, is expanding their smoke ban days. Anytime air quality heads south they'll implement it. It's in our area too. So, i think fireplaces are on the way out. I had thought of cleaning it out and using it for storage. I don't know. Shoes? Something waterproof? The flue is closed but probably water could come down. You wouldn't want to chance it with a Monet.

At one Airbnb they had a fake fireplace. It radiated heat. It was very nice. I guess you could convert these real fireplaces into fake ones. That place also had heated floors. It was magnificent. I didn't tell mr x. He delightfully found out. But Mr x tells me those floors are nice but he's seen them on home improvement shows. There're heated water pipes beneath. Mr x says what if there's an earthquake and pipe bursts. You'd have to rip out floor to fix. Spoil sport.

Today's project was trolling for barrettes. After I found how to spell it. I use a long one and wind my hair around it to make a bun. But the metal eventually rusts. I got a few from Street fairs but they're a lil short. So off to Amazon I went. Yeesh. There's a million styles there. I need a long one like 5". That cuts down the entries.

They have banana clips which I never tried. Also duck billed ones. Ditto. I threw a bunch of possibilities in the cart. Now will have to scrutinize. Reading reviews, comparing.

Amazon reviews. Well, I always, of course, read reviews. More emphasis on the bad ones. Like these scooter ones. One mentioned the handle fell off. That's extremely serious.

But I hadn't known the proliferation of fake reviews. Mainly 5 star ones but you'd think there could also be 1 star ones. So now I have to review the reviewers. You look up their profile. If they're reviewing 300 items a month, something's wrong.

Think I'll grab a Joe. It does keep me up at night. Maybe I should get some decafe.

I just had some sherry cake I made. I proclaimed it perfect. Usually something is off. Like it sunk in the middle. It's kind of tricky. I have a retro recipe. But what happened was through the years cake mix shrunk. That skewers the dimensions. It calls for instant pudding mix. I sent the ever affable mr x out to buy me a box. He returns with a sugar free version! It has less volume than the regular. I had to do math equations to get the proportions correct. Then adjust the baking time. I use lower temperature for a longer time.

So this time i bought the correct pudding mix. Mr x was sniffing the air. Asked, cake? Yup, I replied. Wine cake? Bingo! So I liked this cake... but, still. The liquor taste could be stronger. I cut some of the oil with water. Trying to cut calories, but is drier. Going to make notes for next time.

Time for some cheetohs and my book.

Mr x is watching program about diving for abalone and shark danger. That's what he did for 23 years. I'm glad he doesn't do it anymore. He still likes to fish though.

I saw an ad for fudge covered nutter butter cookies. I was entranced. Xmas food catalogs have landed on my step. I used to get Petit fours. These bite size cake connections. So pretty. Mr x has told me if a fruit cake doesn't appear he will be unhappy. The boy does love his fruit cake. I got claxton last time. I like a liquor fruit cake. But I'm not paying 50 bucks for a cake. I used to make my own liquor cake. That was my hobby for awhile. I sent Mr x on the hunt for those chopped fruits. My oven smoked so badly from the liquor I had to open the front door. I wonder if that was dangerous.

I found my sd vacay card! I knew I would eventually. Now I'm having trouble viewing them. I put them in a phone and they don't show. I'm googling for hints. At one point I thought I had erased pics.

Just had some popcorn. They have a lot of hard kernels I can't eat. Got to find another brand. I started a new book. But they're dropping some raunchy language and if they don't stop I'll find another book. I'm on Twitter a lot and the folks are interesting. But profanity has become an adjective. Mr X has American pickers on. Keeps flickering. I'd like an evening without the TV being on all night. But that'll never happen. He probably wishes I'd get off my phone.

There's rain in the forecast next week. That would be nice. Cali is way too dry.

Just read an interesting article. It showcased this fabulous taco. Called quesobirria sp. Basically cheese beef taco. It looked really good. But the place is called el garage. And it's made in someone's driveway! El garage! That's a brilliant name.

It's in my neck of the woods, tho I wouldn't go that far for a taco. But I could make some myself! Puts down in ever increasing to do list.

It's past 2 a.m. and ive got insomnia. I keep scrolling different articles. Im almost finished with this e book im reading. About a woman whose ex is killed but his spirit goes into their cat. He can communicate with those he wishes to. There are mysteries to solve. It's a trilogy and im on the last one. The question is will the spirit remain in the cat or move on. It was, not surprisingly, very comforting to continue to interact with the spirit in the cat. Even his 8 year old daughter could hear him. I remember a conversation I had once with a pal and she emphatically exclaimed that people couldn't reincarnate into animals and vice versa.

I got to hit it. Work tomorrow. Night!

Was browsing on Next Door. Someone mentioned retro cake recipe from Blum's. A coffee crunch cake. Ooh! So I looked up the recipe. It's a chiffon cake. Drat. I can't do those kinds of egg white cakes. Can't do the folding of the egg whites. You do that for the lightness, airiness. Otherwise you'll get a dense cake. I'm not experimenting and having to eat a brick cake.