I botched a credit card payment in July, and I got them to reverse the late fee on it, but it turned out that they weren't totally forgiving -- they've cancelled the promotional 0% rate that I was getting. So, now I have to pay that one off completely, instead of making minimal payments for several more months.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough money in the bank for both the credit card payment and the rent. I've just asked my parents to bail me out.

Thanks Tillie and Roxie,
The party was a blast! Matt, Cory, and Snuggles all looked hilarious in their costumes. The only bad thing is now I'm all battered and bruised from falling down more than 5 times at last night's party. I always have trouble walking in heels; and the boots that I wore last night, with my costume, had 6 inch heels on them. 😀

Hi, everybody. Good to see folks signing in! I had a quiet (thank goodness) Halloween and just chilled out either on the computer or with tv.

Hi Dianne 🙂
Thank you (((hugs))) 🙂

Got a lot accomplished and am now taking a break & resting up before I continue.

A good restful night's sleep will really make a big difference in most every thing you do.
So happy you finally got the new beds! 😀

Good luck getting the outside winterizing done before winter weather really sets in hard.

I plant something over my graves. Bushes, iris, daffodils, etc.
My main cemetery is getting too full and I will need to find another spot some day. 🙁
My neighbor has the same situation in her garden too.
So many fur babies that we all love and miss.

Just keep working at that decluttering and organizing and someday soon you will be able to find everything easily because everything will have a place and be right there. ;D

Break time is over, now back to the salt mines. haha

Tillie, you have great inner strength to push thru all the difficulties of shingles. You also have great body sense to know when to ease up and give your body the rest it needs.

Second morning I woke up without pain. Laura feels better with her new bed too. Although we made a bigger mess getting cleared for them and now can't find things that we knew where they were in the hoard, it was worth the effort.

Good morning 🙂

Friday, November 1st. 2013

Weather is supposed to be pleasant today and tomorrow so I will do some winterizing.
Since it has already snowed and melted, I no longer need to water stuff in the yard again till Spring.
I will lay out the hoses, drain them & roll them up & store them away.
I will completely cover the outside faucets with insulation to try to keep them from freezing and breaking.
I will cover some windows with plastic. Hate having to do that because I like being able to see clearly out of them but they are old & leaky & let in a LOT of cold air.
I need to replace some insulation strips around the doors.
The strom door on the back door is not a good door at all.
My hoarder has about 3 other storm doors in the hoard. There is one out there that would fit and do a much better job at reducing the air flow.
I will keep trying to get him to swap out the doors.

My plans for today.....
hang out my laundry
clean the kitchen
try to get him to use up some of the food he has been storing in the freezer for over a year
do cat related tasks
weather proof around here

Getting depressed about not accomplishing much around here lately but with the horrid painful rash of shingles you also get fever and fatigue.
I should be happy with myself for at least keeping up with the daily maintenance. 😉

A whole new month, a fresh start for all our plans. 😀

Hi MayMay
Hope you are having a lot of FUN! 😀

Hi SusanL 🙂
Wonderful to hear from you! 😀
Hoping all your paper piles are soon very small. 😉

Hi Cory 🙂

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 😀

Only 3 of us were in Sunday chat and another poster joined us later.

We decided that even with all the issues, the regular chat room was easier to use than the new one.

We are getting pretty good at back spacing to erase our previous post before writing a new post and when the site goes all crazy printing out a post multiple times, we just bear with it.

Yes, we really are crazy, but in a fun way. 😀

Happy Halloween Everyone!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun night, whatever your plans are.

Can someone let me know what the experience was with the Sunday night chat? I never heard anything back from the web hosting company about how to fix the issues with JAVA. Did you try the new chat room or just suffer through the old one? Thanks all!

Cory Chalmers

HAPPY TRICK OR TREAT!

Self-care, got a long overdue haircut. Looks pretty good. I got out a stack of papers to sort couple of days ago. They're still right there on my desk. Will get to them this week.

Keep up the good work, everybody!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! 😀

Tonight we are throwing a Halloween party at the bar. 🙂

I'm going to be a firefighter for Halloween. 🙂

I'm also dressing Cory, Matt, and Snuggles up for Halloween too. Cory is going to be a hot dog, Matt is going to be a taco, and Snuggles is going to be a banana. I was really hungry when I bought their Halloween costumes. LOL. 😉

Good morning 🙂

Hi Roxie 🙂
WAY TO GO! for getting the usual two done early! 😀

Hi Dianne 🙂
WOOHOO!!!
sleeping in a new bed and waking up a new & improved you! 😀

Have no real plans for today, just continue what I have been doing.
Tuesday I made a curtain, yesterday I hemmed my new jeans.
Been having so much fun sewing and making plans for more sewing projects.

So far in the Nielsen diary all I have noted is that the TV is off. lol

Like my mornings quiet and stress free and TV is too intense this early.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN
wishing you all a day filled with treats! 😀

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 😀

I hear you Roxie.

Happy Halloween everybody!

I woke up early and am already feeling a nap pending!

Hi faithful Tillie. Good to read your update. I've done my usual two...early in the day yet. I can't believe it is almost November.

Good morning 🙂

Sunny with occasional clouds today.

I think the Nielsen people picked my address & phone number out of the phone book and sent me a post card saying I would recieve a call in a few days.
Nice lady called and asked a few questions as to how many people lived here & how many working TVs we have.
Since I really wanted to do this, could have said no thanks, they sent me a packet containing instructions and 3 diaries, one for each TV and a dollar bill for my efforts.
I will keep one diary near each TV. He uses two and I only ever watch the one in the livingroom area.
When we watch a show we jot down the information or check the boxes for when the TVs are off.
The diaries make this very easy to do.
Only have to do this from tomorrow, Thursday through next Wednesday.
Then I seal the diaries and mail them back, they paid the postage.
The important thing about doing this is that our voices will be heard and noted as to what kind of programs WE enjoy and feel are worth our time to watch. 😀

Yesterday I got caught up in sewing and sorting out my future sewing projects while watching the snow and spooky DVD movies.
Didn't cook a thing.
But now have a very lovely vibrant red sheer lace curtain hanging in the window of my little room.

I would not have been able to relax and enjoy myself yesterday had I not forced myself to do that house cleaning.
Getting the house decluttered and cleaned & fixed has all been very hard work and many times I just wanted to give up.
But I would be/was so miserable and depressed.
Now I must defend my "No Clutter Zones" and keep slowly working to get more things around here decluttered, cleaned and repaired.
Not easy when dealing with a hoarder who has no interest in doing the hard work or even allowing others to do the work for him.

As for remembering what day it is....
I try to check the date every morning and try to remember it all day long.
Just hate it when I lose days because I wasn't paying attention. ;D
When trying to remember my age, first I always think 18 then add some years to it. ;p
Life began for me when I became a legal adult and no longer had to live under my parent's roof and my mother's rules.

Have no idea what I will be doing today.
Should get dressed, hair brushed, face washed & teeth brushed too.
A little tidying up, cat stuff taken care of then the whole day will be all mine to do with as I choose. 😀

Today is trash pick up day and the cans are out at the road!!! YEA!!! 😀

Might do some winterizing of the windows and maybe do more to the outside faucets before we have a deep over night freeze.

What ever you all do today try to find the fun. 😀

Mmm, yes, a lovely roast or beef stew, followed by cookies and excellent coffee sounds great. I'll be right over. ;d

Hugs

I get my days mixed up too, Roxie. What always surprises me is when I get my age mixed up. For the longest time I've been thinking I was 62 then someone pointed out the other day that I was 61. haha

I can just imagine little Scooter's expression lol. His first playtime in it will be too cute. 🙂

Been snowing here since 7:30am.
It is now 8:30am and the heavy snow fall has everything all covered in crisp clean white snow.
Looks so lovely! 😀

Scooter, the kitten, looking out the window with an expression like "WTF!!! :O

I love it! HAPPY 1st. SNOW DAY!!! 😀

Another rainy day today.
Yesterday I got the usual general cleaning tasks accomplished.
It was hard. I did not want to do it.
But I was very glad that I forced myself to get it done. It's done & over with for now.
This means that today I don't have a dirty house.
Today I can do whatever I want. 😀
Been trying to talk myself out of making those wonderful little buttery cookies that you shape out of a cookie press. They go so nicely with a cup of tea or cocoa.

Ever hear of those Nielsen people who do the TV show ratings?
I always wondered who those people were that they used to rate shows.
Well, it will be me watching TV and telling the Nielsen people what is being watched on the TVs in my house this next week. 😀
This is so much FUN!

Keep posting, love hearing about everything going on in your lives. (((hugs)))

Good morning 🙂

Hi Dianne 🙂
Chip chip chip away at those piles and eventually thay will all be gone! 😀

Hi Diane 🙂
Hope you are having fun playing with crafts and straightening up the livingroom. 😀

Hi Roxie 🙂
I read online that people like me, with a sensitivity to sunlight, who always use sun screen, wear wide brimmed hats, long sleeves and always stay in the shade have to be extra careful to make sure they get enough Vit.D in their diets. 😉

Did my usual two chores, then also ran an errand, finally brought the Sunday paper inside, gathered up the week's mail, reseated the mailbox which yet another car knocked over. I was confused, thinking it was Tuesday for awhile. Glad I didn't lose Monday!

Hugs

morning Dianne and Tillie sounds like you both have busy days. I haven't done anything but play with crafts this morning. Since it is so cold have to go out and get firewood, it is cold in here but 34 outside, guess will have to put a coat on and go out, or soon it will be 34 in here. windy and cold all week, down to 19 one night, brrrrrrr. Today I have plans to stay home all day and getting clutter out of living room, period, mostly practice having fun all day. Cold cloudy weather is going to keep me inside so I can practice being positive and happy inside the house. The chat last night helped me so much, thanks tillie.

Thanks Tillie! 🙂

Today I'm going to keep at it in the library. It's overwhelming to see the piles. But I'm going to chip away.

Good Monday morning! 🙂

Today I will do some general house cleaning.
Sweeping, cleaning the bathroom & vacuuming.

Only got rain over night, no snow here.
Supposed to be rainy all day today.

Really enjoying all the light that I get now through the two main windows now that that tree is gone. 😀
It is the west facing side of the house but even early morning there is a lot more natural light in here.
Helps wake up my brain. ;D

WAY TO GO! Dianne 😀

More maintaining today with some dejunking.

I've gotten rid of some junk papers, made a pile for donations, a pile for regifting for Christmas and cleaned some floor space. I need to keep the cats out of here. They love it because the room gets warm afternoon sun but it's not safe to have them navigating over slipping piles and winding their way around breakables. Although it is interesting to watch how limber and light-footed they are.

Here is an interesting website.

energy saving website, bubble wrap window insulation

Chatroom tonight.
Anybody attending?
Anybody want to use the other chatroom Cory set up?
On the other board I have to scroll down to write then scroll back up to read.
Very frustrating and I can't figure out how to change the format on my screen there.

Last week's chat went well once we all decided to just laugh at the weirdness in our chatroom.

It is still usable. I will try to be in our chatroom by 5:00pm PST.

Please join me there! 😀

Good morning 🙂

Thank you both (((hugs))) 🙂

Diane 🙂
Great! that you and your friend had quality time together. 😀

Hi Dianne 🙂
It's because of these little moves forward I keep going. Nudging him along at a snail's pace since I can't get him to move any faster. 😉 haha

Last week I finally figured out what's been wrong with me physically.
Put all my symptoms together.
It was the blistery rash that finally clued me in.
I have shingles on the left side of my head.
I refuse to allow this to bring down my spirits. I will not allow myself to wallow in self pity.
I am much stronger than a silly old virus. ;D

Today I will continue to play and relax and enjoy the weather, tomorrow rain & snow is predicted.