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This morning I woke up early and started looking for some certain Christmas lights. It was still quite cold out and I got cold. I couldn't find the lights I was looking for, but did find a pile of lights that for some reason got all tangled and never put away. Sally and Rick and I untangled them for about 30 minutes, but my lights weren't in there. I did find a few short strings of red lights, which I need this year, but there weren't enough. I finally found the chaser lights that I was looking for, still in the garage, but I had moved them thinking that they were just clear lights. When I brought them in, I found one section was burnt out and then another section went.
I got more lights up on the roof structure that I built, oh I need to get a picture of that, but finally the sun was shining right into my eyes so I had to quit. My light show won't be ready by the first of December as my ads state, but that happens. Then Rick and I went to Gwinn to go to the bank to our safe deposit box, then he needed a battery for his car remote, and we went to the ATM. That didn't work for some reason. It made noises, whirring sounds and all sorts of sounds like it was printing it's own money, but none came out. Then a message came up that it was having trouble and to try again later. We also stopped at ACE to see if they had red lights and chaser lights, but they didn't. We had checked at Snyder's too, where Rick got his battery, but they didn't have much either.
Then we put air in Sally's truck tires and on to get our Christmas trees that we cut at a tree farm. There was no snow this year so it was easy to walk around, except we never knew that the ground was sandy and soft. We could even drive her truck up to the place we cut our trees and just put them in the truck. When we got home, I tied Rick's tree up and we put it on the roof of his car and tied it to the racks. Then he helped me move a few things in the garage and I went back up on the roof to finish my strings of lights.
After that we went out to the high way and put the locking hardware on my sign to keep the doors with Lexicon shut and a little deterrent from someone tampering with the letters. By the time we were done with all that and I came in to warm up a bit, it was getting dark out and I couldn't see to put any more lights up. We had turkey left overs for dinner and after dinner I put cut from the big roll of rope light the length that we are putting up on the top of our cupboards and started to install them. We watched quite a few tivo'd shows tonight, but are still into the first week of November.State Of Mind:  hopeful |
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I've been promising a new entry for weeks, but nothing seems to be coming together for me. So here is a collection of scraps to do with as you will. I promised myself this entry wouldn't be about food because I've done too many food entries lately, but then I realized there are only three true pleasures in life. So this entry is, perforce, a collection of scraps about the other two.
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Thanksgiving was a winner, though sadly my sister and her family couldn't make it. My brother-in-law become flu-ish and though it best they stay home. Juli's mom joined us, as she does every year. In the past she would sit and read while the family chaos [the good kind] rumbled around her. She would love every minute of it. This year was even better. She has been working on her genealogy for the past year or so and has been having a great time with it. She had a great deal to talk about as my Aunt is also doing research, and my mother has been along for the ride. So they had their heads together in conversation off and on throughout the night.
My father has been painting. OH HAPPY DAY!!!! He hasn't been doing much since the business closed in 2006, but there it is! He has had my brother's fishing boat, the Thelma C., in mind as a subject for a number of years. The museum in Kodiak is owns the Thelma C. now and they are planning on mounting it in front of their building. My father is painting it as a fishing boat under way. Dear God, that feels so good to see!
Food was consumed. Cousin in Sweden was talked to. Two jigsaw puzzles were assembled [though one fresh out of the box was missing a piece] All in all a great holiday.
I turned on the outdoor Christmas lights for the first time so that they would be on when we got home. I started hanging them last weekend. I'm starting the shift over to LED lights, and I do like them much better. Though the ones I bought from Wallyworld have failed me twice now. I have some from Freddies that even feel much more durable.
Today was spent up on the roof replacing those dead Wallyworld strands.
Thanksgiving had one drawback.... I've lost 10 pounds in the past two weeks. I've been watching my intake. Yesterday I gained four pounds back.
...and here is where the "Lesson Learned Again" comes into play. With the loss of weight has come increase energy, increased creativity, increased alertness...
I know all this. We all know all this, that good health etcetera, effects energy and mental well-being. It's well advertised. It always surprises me when it happens though, when I demonstrate it to myself. It's like I have to prove it to myself over and over. If anything, that i have discovered it over and over is somewhat discouraging, but it always feels good when I do. ...kinda like that proverbial hammer.State Of Mind:  Oh! There it is! What's Playing: Nancy Rumbel: Tree of Life [on a music station on TV] |
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This morning, since it was cold out, I did some more electrical work, which I think is the last of the wiring. Rick also helped me figure out some X-10 things that weren't working right. Found out it was a bad receiver. I also had to adjust the dishwasher as the back panel of the counter, which is removable, kept popping off by itself.
This afternoon I put my laser up for the Christmas light show and with the help from Sleepy and Rick, we assembled 5 artificial trees for use in my light show. I made a place to set them on so they are raised up from the ground in case we get a lot of snow, which usually happens. It was still bone chilling cold out today as there was a slight wind and it just seemed to go right through me.
We went to Tailwinds in Sawyer for dinner and had a good time just talking which half of the time came out to be funny. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer, so I hope to get a lot done outside. Especially things on the roof, because it is a lot easier when there is no snow.State Of Mind:  sore |
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This morning I heated the garage for a while and got a bunch of pop cans, plastic bottles and glass sorted for recycling. I cleaned some more and finally put back one of the "shop" lights that we had used temporarily in our kitchen while remodeling. Then we watched the parade that we tivoed and in between times, looked for items we needed that were still packed away in boxes in the porch.
Later this afternoon, while Sally and Rick were cooking and preparing food, I went to Marquette to get Ryan, my NMU mentee in the Student Leader Fellowship Program so he could come down for dinner with us. He didn't go home on this short break from college. We ate lots, had good conversation and laughs. My mom and dad were here too, so that was nice. We ended the evening with a nice, hot sauna and now I am going to bed.State Of Mind: Full, Thankful, and Happy |
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Title:Breaking
Prompt:Cracked bathroom mirrors
Pair:jaechun
Rating:PG
Disclaimer:I don't own either of them, nor their bandmates, though I wish I did~
Summary:Breaking is inevitable...
Thanks to Jenna for sticking the idea of writing jaechun in my head, then giving me the prompt~
( fic under here )State Of Mind:  calm What's Playing: Pain-Angela |
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Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 10:26 am
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Happy Turkey Day Everybody!
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This morning didn't start out how I wanted. I noticed there has been water dripping under our new sink. I finally figured out, the drain pipes are leaking. They are just plastic, but I might have to untighten the fittings and wrap Teflon tape around them too, as I have tightened them as much as I can and it still keeps leaking. I just noticed I said untighten, and the spell checker doesn't like that, I could have said loosen, but my vocabulary said untighten. ha ha
So I worked on that for almost 45 minutes and then finally ate breakfast. Then it was on to re doing the floor. It took 45 minutes the first time to take up the boards and I had them all done and I noticed the boards did still not stay together in one spot. I re did it again and it only took 20 minutes that time. So I put the quarter round down for as much as I had, and put in the two $40 special sections of the flooring that join to the carpet and our sliding door. Those had to be glued down since we have a cement floor and they couldn't be nailed. I also made the cold air return out of the floor to near the furnace. I don't know how this will work, but the cold air returns actually are the space under the flooring, so we'll see how that works.
I also put up our new light for the table area, but when I was all done, one of the globes was broken. There was no name or contact number on the box or on the directions, so I called Menard's and they said to just bring in the broken one and I can get a replacement. Then I got the buffet back into the kitchen, put a few more things away, cleaned up the family room a bit, and went and made supper. Then I took the heavy objects I had used to hold down those special edgings and discovered that once again the floor is not quite together in the same area as before. Now there is nothing I can do because those special end sections are glued down and cost $40 each, and they would be destroyed trying to get them out. I will have to call the company later on and see if they have a sealer I can use to "join" them. I am thinking a tiny bead of some black filler would work.
The kitchen sure looks nice, but I am still not done. I have to do the wiring by the wall for the main light switches and put that section of wall back together. I ran out of quarter round too, so I couldn't quite finish. We won't be able to find or get to our good china plates for tomorrow's dinner, but that's ok. I made chili for dinner and then Rick got home about 5:30. Sally got home shortly after that, and then after we ate, we went to church. There was only 7 of us there, and two were doing part of the service.State Of Mind:  busy |
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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 05:08 pm
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This is not dangerous driving. We are allowed to do this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZowhZSyYQ |
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Today was run around day. No, I didn't leave the house or really run around it, but from one end to the other I was on the go all day. This morning I checked under the sink and there wasn't any leaks, so that was good. Then I put the new, stronger electrical cord on the dishwasher as Sally brought one from work yesterday. What I had was just an electrical cord that didn't have big enough wires to handle the load of the dishwasher. Then I put the back on the cabinet - we made it so we can take the back off too, if we need to work on the dishwasher. Then I logged in some clocks, and took apart about 5 of them for cleaning.
While I was cleaning the clocks, as I have to wait 3 minutes for each cleaning cycle, I was doing theater bookkeeping and entering all the categories of the items purchased from the checks I wrote the other day. In between that, too, I lit a fire in the garage wood stove and started cleaning in there so I can get my Jeep in. I also have to get the plow truck in there to put a good coat of enamel on the plow so the snow won't stick to it. I also am cleaning the "hall way" between the sauna and garage. Actually it is just the end of the sauna that enters into the garage area to store stuff in and get it off the main floor.
I am not nearly done in there, but I did find lots of boards, or pieces of them, that I can store in our little storage shed. I also have a whole pile of cardboard for recycling, but that isn't until the first Saturday of the month. I have a whole bunch of Styrofoam, from all our kitchen things we bought, and other things that Rick can take to recycle where he lives. He also takes our glass bottles. I even have stuff I am throwing away or already put in the garbage can.
The next big project in there is to rinse out the pop cans from the last 3 - 4 plays at our theater and get them to the return machines, since we get 10 cents for each can, that adds up for the theater account! Then about 4:30 I took a break from cleaning and got more quarter round along the ceiling-wall edge and the area around the dishwasher.
Some of these things are on my list, but I can't cross them off I get them done. Hopefully tomorrow I can do that. Oh, a couple people picked up clocks today too. One lady had car trouble as she was coming from another state and called and I said she could stop by when she got to this area, and it was about 8:50 p.m. I also have to clean up the family room - mostly theater papers and a few other things, so Rick has room to be "home" in too. Part of the mess is stuff from our closet where I put in the freezer. I was waiting to get into the garage to find my shelf boards which had Christmas stuff piled in front of that area, since I never got them put in the Christmas storage shed this past spring, but so far I haven't seen the boards. I wonder what I did with them?State Of Mind:  accomplished |
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Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 06:52 am
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Right now my thoughts are with my fire department. Dixie Volunteer Fire Department. We lost a firefighter this weekend to cancer.State Of Mind:  sad What's Playing: Sound the Bugle - Spirit Stallion of the Cimerron |
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This morning I think I got 3 clocks running, at least they were earlier. This afternoon I went to Marquette to return a few parts to Menard's and buy the faucet that was leaking. I also picked up 2 more clocks. I then went to the theater to talk to a few people and do the banking. Everything went good and it was a relaxing and good afternoon. This evening I just hooked up all the connections and hoses and this time it works, no leaks! I wonder if they'll take a broken faucet back, heck, it's worth a try. Now we are just waiting for the rest of our knobs for the cupboard doors, as we were short five and they are supposed to be mailed to us. I also got another section of window trim up, and now just need to do the bottom one.
I am also counter sinking most of the nails in the trim boards and quarter round and filling them with wood putty. That sure makes a difference as to how it makes everything look finished. I did get a little bit more quarter round on this evening, but since I was gone all afternoon, I didn't get much done here. I did accomplish a lot in Marquette and at the theater. I talked to a couple people and had good results on that and also got some good banking done.
I didn't get every thing done from today's to-do list, nor caught up from yesterday, but tomorrow I will be home all day as my clock customers that I was going to deliver clocks and parts to were leaving tomorrow for Thanksgiving elsewhere. We are also supposed to get a faster modem tomorrow too, for free as Charter is handing them out. There's no extra charge except for the few dollars the bill is going up for everyone. So I guess it isn't really free, but we do get the faster service and those that don't get the modem won't have the faster service.State Of Mind: happy |
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Title:The Trouble with Mixing
Prompt:"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Pair:Kyumin(as in Changmin)
Rating:PG
Disclaimer:SuJu owns SuJu...that is all
Summary:Everyone expected them to get along famously...
This was written for the blind quote challenge on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) neoragobang. Please go there and check out all of the other amazing stories written for this challenge~!
( fic under here )State Of Mind: calm What's Playing: 进化论-JJ Lin |
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 05:06 pm
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Apparently Mera doesn't respond to emails. I need to talk to him but won't be able to tonight because I have a meeting to plan a funeral for a firefighter of my department. Please don't just read my emails and pass over them. I really would like an answer to this one before you go to bed Mera. |
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 04:21 pm
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 03:59 pm
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Mera check your email before you leave. |
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:58 pm
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Feeling depressed and left out today. |
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After church today we stopped and bought some flat black paint to finish my Christmas light show supports. I wonder why water based paint is more expensive than oil based?! When I got home I changed and went up on the roof to finish painting some support boards. It was supposed to be sunny and nice today, but it never cleared up and it was damp out, not really raining, but the paint took forever to dry. So I got paint on my hands when I went up later to assemble the boards and put the stars up. At least it was water based paint and washed right off my hands.
I got a few strobe lights up too, but didn't get the twinkle lights up. The next thing on my list was to take in some wood for the sauna from outside, and then start on the quarter round for the kitchen. We have one part of our flooring, and of course it is about 8 rows in that is coming apart because we didn't get the quarter round down to hold the "floating" floor down. Then supper was about to be ready so I couldn't finish that as it would take about an hour to take the floor apart up to that point and put it back together. I finished up a few trim places to cover areas that weren't straight or had openings because something didn't go together right because of the crooked walls and floors.
So there was about 3 things I didn't get crossed off my list for today, so they will just be added onto tomorrow's list. We had sauna tonight and watched a few tivo'd shows, and talked to Lani on the phone. |
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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 01:52 pm
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There will be a new entry tomorrow. A good one, with brave men and beautiful women and other fun stuff. I'm about halfway through writing it, even as I type this. |
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