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I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.

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Thanks -getting over it - just having to protect my achy breaky ribs (due to the coughing).

way - hope you are feeling better. So easy to catch bugs from the little ones.

Sorry about your stomach bug, nacy. Hope you get over it quickly.

Alva - that's great and I am sure is the answer. I have sniffles all the time but they are allergies.

I believe I got this at the dinner theatre. Lots of unmasked people there and the timing would be right. I thought about it but not sure how to manage a mask when you want to eat. The closest contact with the most people was when we were in the buffet area loading up our plates. A mask then probably would have helped.

I used to grocery shop near closing time as there were few people and that worked. One day I ran to the grocery store during the day time and suddenly found myself surrounded a bunch of little kids and thought "Oh, oh!". Sure enough I came down with what I think was RSV. Talk about coughing! That was a couple of years ago and the last time I had a bug.

Yesterday I got dressed, wrapped myself in a blanket, took my mug of coffee and sat outside for a while watching LIFE! I know the soil is full of it, the trees, even if dormant are alive. the cars of the road are driven by people with lives...It was therapeutic.

Tomorrow there will be workmen plodding in and out getting the condensate lines set up. Fortunately for us the work will be in the furnace room which is out on the balcony.

Actually felt like doing a little housework today so I must be getting better. 😊
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Alva, that's awesome, oh I completely agree with them. Just walking around staring at blank expressionless faces , really gets to me.
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Nacy, ugh. I’m sorry. That’s the pits.
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Come this May should I live so long and remain masked on public transit and in crowded public venues I expect to be FIVE YEARS without even a case of the sniffles. I must admit I love that.
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I saw my grandson Saturday. So I suspect it came from him.

I will say, I'm not a huge facemask wearer , but if you vote tomorrow I'd definitely wear one. Many people will be dragging themselves there sick.
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Hmm, with everybody reporting they are ill I think I'd better stay close to home for a while
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Golden and way, hope your feeling better. I got the stomach virus during the night. 🤢

Gonna be a good day to start Hallmark Christmas movies.
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🤦🏼‍♀️ All this talk of cats. Our darling daughters (roommates at university) just sent us photos of their new kitten.
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Thanks Llama .
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Golden and Way: Feel better soon.
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@Peasup,

We never had pets until my daughter brought her ( then ) kitten home . She had come back home to live with us ( for 2 years ) after graduating college .

I had to talk hubby into letting our daughter bring a kitten home. Long story short , when our daughter and her cat moved out , we got our own kitten 6 weeks later . Both the cats are female . I’ve heard too many horror stories about male cats.

I’m allergic to dogs . Although I do dogsit my daughter’s fiancés dog ocassionally when needed . I bring my meds along .
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Way, she’s (he’s?) beautiful. I’ve had at least 1 cat for as long as I’ve been alive until about 4 years ago.

DH and I had a stray dog for 4 days until he was reunited with his family. As adorable as he was, I just couldn’t handle all the attention. Every time I left the room he would jump up and follow me. I must have done alright by him though because when his family came to take him home he wanted to stay.
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My daughter’s cat is a 7 pound princess. My cat ( pictured above is a bit over 11 pounds .

But Princess rules whenever she comes to visit since she used to live with us before I got my cat . She always remembers the house even if it’s been 6 months since she visited . ( My daughter took the princess with her when she moved out 4 years ago ).

Princess jumps out of her carrier and the cats boop noses and then princess hisses as she needs her alone time to check out her old home . She runs straight upstairs to my daughter’s old room for a while . Then she comes back downstairs to complete her tour , checking each room .

My cat always wants to play . Princess will play with her chasing each other at 4am. 🙄🙄
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Ana, she sounds like a real character! I’ve been without a cat for a few years now but our last one lived until she was 22. If we hadn’t had her mercifully put down I wonder how long she would have hung in there. Swatting the dogs! I’d love to see her in action!
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Peasuep, you are welcome to ours. She has done more damage in our house than all the dogs combined. We foster with a giant breed rescue. That feline diva will ambush and slap a 200lb dog across the face. And yet she’s on track to die of old age.
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Whine: you guys are making me miss having a cat - I just love those little buggers, big mouths and all!
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I forgot to reset the clock in the cat last night. He didn't understand that 5:45 a.m. was NOT my wake-up time =^..^=
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My cat, in full operatic voice, expressed her displeasure at waiting an extra hour for the kitchen to open.
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Golden and Way, sorry to hear you’re ill. Scram, vile viruses!

I have always hated the return to standard time. Maximize evening sunlight! Never, ever did any of my kids get up early to play outside before school. But they’d come home from school with excess energy and stress to blow off. By the time they got home, dumped their stuff, and had a snack, it was dark. I hated running errands on my way home from work in the dark. DST all year please!
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Peasuep, that is normal with what your going through, I'm sure most days you don't know if your on coming or going.
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I think I do ok on 6 or 7 unless I’m in need of healing - then I’d prefer 9 or10, but never get it. Lately Ive been getting up earlier and going to bed later just because sneaking an hour here and there, alone, in front of the fire, is so lovely.

Yes, I am a bundle of contradictions; more so lately than ever! I should probably explore that but In the immortal words of Scarlett O’Hara, “I’ll think about that - tomorrow”.
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I worked for years doing breakfast buffet at a hotel, got up at 4 left the house at 4:30 and had enough food ready to feed 200 people by 7am.

I'm just starting to be able to sleep till 6am, it's taking me years, and now with the time change, that is going to be a struggle again.

Actually curious, how many hours is normal amount of sleep you all need?

I know it varies with age, but I honestly feel like I don't need more than 6 hours, and it's very frustrating, because I like sleep, I just don't need much, and days are long .

Maybe once a week I may be able to get 7 , but average is 5-6 and I don't often feel like I'm overtired.

Peasuep, 😂 your right that is funny, you did do that
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Hahah! I just re-read my last post! Here I am talking about not messing with internal clocks right after asking on another thread about whether I should be letting my husband sleep all day! Aren’t I a piece of work?!
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Yup, I'm from peasant stock. But it's more my season of life than that, my friends and I were just laughing together about how we are tucking into bed at 9:00 when back in our younger days we would have been getting dressed to go out at that time. lol
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Cwillie, do you come from farmers? They slept when the sun went down and got up when it rose out of necessity. Maybe it’s some kind of ancestral memory if such a thing exists. I wish the experts would just pick one way and quit messing with people’s internal clocks.
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Ah, no, Golden and Way! I have great sympathy for you both. I hope you are able to concentrate on comfort and healing and forget about everything else. The clock doesn’t exist when you’re sick.
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Golden and waytomisery, hope you both feel better soon!

Cwillie, I know what ya mean, I f
Don't fall asleep to early, but I get really lazy in the evening, and it's a struggle to push myself to move. The couch, my cozy blanket, and Netflix, is always calling me.
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Standard time now, which all the experts argue is more natural and healthier. Frankly I don't get that, my tired old body wants to go to bed not long after sunset and many nights I struggle to push through to a reasonable bed time.... last night I was checking the time at 7:30, tonight I'll be doing it an hour earlier. It doesn't help that when I'm tired I fall into eating a ton of crap to boost my energy.
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(((golden )))

So sorry to read you have the flu .🤧🤧 Hoping you get better real soon , and the fibromyalgia flare up lessens as well .

It is that season , I’m battling a nasty cold myself right now from the kids I babysit.

Uggh, up way too early today . This changing the clocks stinks .
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