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My MiL has had hearing aids for a year now and they’ve gotten misplaced several times but always been found. Yesterday she asked me to look in the bathroom for the hearing aids, she thought she left them by the sink. They weren’t there. Oh no, I thought, I hope they didn’t go down the sink. They weren’t on the floor or in the trash. She’s starts to get anxious, “you haven’t found them yet?” I remember once or twice they were found in her hair or caught up in her clothes. Let’s check your hair and shirt, I said. And we found them! In her ears!!!
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CWillie going down the rabbit hole. I can relate to that.

When my mom passed I spent hours poring through stuff. Love letters my Dad had written her. He was quite a romantic fellow, my Father. I wish I had been able to know him. I was four when he died. But I found some of his service medals, things like that. My mom's report cards from when she was just a girl. She was a smart cookie. Straight A's. I think my mom always regretted not having a big career but with seven kids she had to raise on her own she didn't have many options. I feel sad for her because of that. I think she could have been so many things but she was an awesome mom and I guess that is what God had intended for her.

Gee, makes me wonder who will pore through my stuff when I die and what will they think. Probably, man she was a boring person. LOL
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cwille,

How difficult is it to undo knitting? I know with crochet it is super easy to rip out and repair. Take a break. If you decide to go back to your project will be be refreshed and can focus more easily.

My mom did the German style knitting which was a quicker method. Her mother’s side of the family is German.

My mother was brilliant when it came to any needlework. Her mom was the same way. My aunt too. All of the women in my family were excellent seamstresses and any type of other needlework. Many in my family sold items to fancy, upscale boutiques.

As good as my mom was, she wasn’t a good teacher with me. She is a perfectionist and had no patience with me. Anything that I learned with any needlework or craft/hobby I had to learn on my own or with lessons other than from my mom.

Mom did follow patterns that she liked but created many beautiful designs of her own.
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The knitting is NOT going well. I was just winging it knit/purling away attempting a seed stitch border but when I got to the end of a row I was knitting where it should have been purling - where did I screw up?

I went to dig out some patterns but I came across boxes of pictures I had forgotten about and down the rabbit hole I went. These are mostly my grandmother's pics and she was pretty good at labelling a lot of them - Aw, my grandparent's wedding picture and marriage certificate. Hm, my mom was a big fat baby for a 6 months birth 🤔. Oh, there's a postcard from Uncle A "on active service" in France, 1917 - it says he wouldn't be in England for anything🤨

So much for knitting today - maybe I should buy a gift instead?
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Anticipating a jackpot 🎰💰

or inhaling on the strip - recreational state
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I'm in Las Vegas, why or why are the bottom of my feet and my hands sweaty???? eeeeeeewwwww
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Speaking of weather we've had blizzard conditions here in Vancouver. People lose their sh*t here when it snows. But it's been unusually cold for here and while I like the snow personally no one in Vancouver knows that you can't keep speeding around like you usually do in this kind of weather. Makes for a few accidents.
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cwille,

How sweet. Lucky great niece to receive gifts so special!
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I am expecting a new great-niece sometime toward the end of Feb and I haven't done anything about a gift for her - I made a quilted blanket for floor play for my little g-nephew (well, that's what it ended up as anyway 🤣). I really need to get my azz in gear. I've got a few skeins of dusty rose yarn in my stash so I'm thinking maybe a knit blanket - if I can remember how. It will have to be something fast and easy because I haven't made anything in decades.
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Oh this crazy weather. Couple days ago it was 60 degrees here in the Wash DC area which is 20 degrees above normal.... now we may get a light dusting of snow this weekend. Well, ya, it is winter, let it snow :)

Makes it tough to know what to wear. Especially at work when last Friday I walked in the thermostat stated 99 degrees due to a faulty control. Even the M&M's were starting to melt. But it did bring back memories of walking into my parents house :P
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MsMadge,

Missed it. I wanted to see Elton John’s movie. Missed that too.
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Catch the Linda Ronstadt movie on CNN at 9 pm
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My teeth were getting bad because of the water I drank where I grew up. Before I could have my heart surgeries I had to have all of my dental work done. I opted for dental implants. It was a lengthy process and expensive, but it’s done. I go every six months And have my teeth and gums cleaned. But at least I know they can’t find anything else wrong.
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Even the bathroom in our new location has sensor lights. One can't bring in a magazine or they would be literally sitting in the dark.

There was a sensor as we enter our office suite that would light up the suite's hallway. I timed it, it would go off in 15 minutes if there was no movement in the hallway. So I would go out into the hallway and wave my arms like I am bringing an airplane to it's gate. It got so annoying that I had building management put in an old fashioned light switch. Whew, what a relief.

Wish management would replace the other sensor lights. We know how to turn on and off a regular light switch :)
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Rented a Red Box DVD at the grocery store for $1.75
Judy with Renee Zellweger 👍👍
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OMG FF I don’t think I could work in a place like that! How distracting! I mean today I got so annoyed at my car because I was backing out in the Costco parking lot and I was at the end of the aisle and the seat keep vibrating and buzzing when the sensors detected a car driving past me! Driving next to my spot, not behind it, so there was plenty of room for me to back out and go on my way and this damn car kept buzzing me!

but on the other hand, those are great safety features for office buildings!
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OMG that is also our new parking garages in Baltimore,, the lights come on and off as you walk past them. And we get alerts all the time about "active shooter in XYZ parking garage" all the time. Yep,, light me up as I run to my truck!
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pamzimmrrt, our office just moved to a new location, a much newer building. Our previous building was built in 1945 and it was solid. Tenants could be moving furniture and we could barely hear a thing, and definitely didn't feel a thing.

Well, the new location I can "feel" whenever someone is walking in the office next to ours. There is this vibration in the floor. I can even tell when the UPS guy is out in the main hallway. When it rains, we can hear it on the roof. The old building, not. And those darn senor lights, where I find myself sitting in my office in the dark :P
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Madge,

I saw her years ago here in New Orleans. She does have a pretty voice.

She performed at the 1984 World’s Fair. She arrived very late for the concert. Not sure why she was late. She did not offer an apology. She got booed.

After the concert finally started it was good.
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Just finished watching the Linda Ronstadt documentary - used to love her voice
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Could be
I feel in a fighting mood
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Does the days just before the New Moon cause people to fight?
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Welcome Flowergrl468.
We are not ignoring you.
Keep reading, keep posting.
I see by your profile you are moving your MIL into your home?

There are many other threads that are more active, just keep putting yourself out there.

Did you see online the baby video that went viral when a baby first had a
hearing aid? Dec.2019.

So very sweet!
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What about the moms who had weird dreams? My mom would start screaming in her dreams and wake me up out of a dead sleep! I would have to go wake her and tell her she was having a nightmare, screaming to the top of her lungs. It was awful. None of us slept well.
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Madge,

I hope you will find relief soon. Hugs.
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Yes I take Melatonin on some nights. There are nights I have weird dreams. It may be due to medication or also alot of stress I have had in my life recently. Moving and health issues. Some nights I do not have dreams despite taking medication. It's not great to have these dreams but worse for me to have successive nights with little sleep. I have a very sympathetic doctor. If your doctor isn't in this area I would try to find one that is. They are out there.
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Gershun ever tried wild lettuce for sleep?
Or Ashwagandha?
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Anyone on here have experience with melatonin? I took one tonight to help me sleep but woke up twice with bad dreams.

I'm running out of options if this doesn't work. Ativan used to help me but of course my doc won't prescribe it anymore even though I was taking the lowest dose.
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I'm glad that at least the pain is gone MsM. I was unkind to my teeth in my youth and my molars are all filled and refilled so I sometimes worry over what comes next, there are so many pros and cons to consider about things like root canals not to mention the expense. There were a lot of toothless elders in my life who seemed to manage just fine, I sometimes wonder if that isn't the better option.
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Madge, I sympathize. I just went through a process trying to save a tooth. They fitted me with a temporary crown but when I went back to get the permanent one they discovered I needed a root canal.

I finally have it done but it was an ordeal.
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