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I confess. Having been going through some attacks of the allergies that abound here, I have been trying to get some sleep which gets missed when coughing, sneezing, wheezing….etc.

Yeah, sounds pleasant doesn’t it - NOT.

Benadryl only helps so far, the rest is up to my body. Did I hear a moment of silence there? I know that I did on this end. My husband has also gone through this collection of nasty things. He is kidnapping one of our cats and is going to sleep even as I type this article out. He likes to have a furry person sleep on his side. He says that the purr helps him to go to sleep easier. Works for me, too.

What is really fun is having an opinionated furry person sleeping on your if you need to turn over. Especially when she makes her displeasure known by chewing on toes to get you to stop moving. It does not work. The foot moves even more.

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The trouble is still in our apartment complex. Our friend is now whining about his wife not being on the lease, and not staying here. He wanted her gone, told the maintenance supervisor to do ‘whatever’ it took to get her out (this while he was in the hospital).

I wish that he would make up his mind. He has evidently forgotten all of his complaints from before. No one around here knows what to make of all this.

Me, I want to keep my distance to see where the dust will settle.

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Yes, that is how I want to start this one.

Where we live, it is apartments on half of a street that has no end, just a circle. A lot of the people care about what is going on and about each other. One of our neighbors care, but doe not always get the information correct. (I wonder if I could use pressure washers and wash out his ears so he could get the information correct.)

Anyway, he gave us some startling news last night. Today we found out that he was all wrong in what he thought had happened. We really do love him, he is in his late 70’s, I just wish that he would listen carefully and get his information correct.

We have learned over the years, that when he says something, we should listen, and then look around to make sure that he did not misunderstand. He is not a trouble maker, just hard of hearing.

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He’s home, feeling better.

Her family is still trying the get him to let her back into his home, in spite of the trouble that she has caused.

My previous article explains what has been going on.

It is not over, yet, unfortunately.

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My husband and I have a brother that we care about dearly.

Sunday night he ended up in the hospital. We still do not know what caused his collapse. The hospital is still running tests. Tonight, we found out that his blood sugar was 252 which is one clear sign of Diabetes.

He ‘wife’ was kicked out of his apartment since she is not on the lease. She has refused to sign the papers which would certify her for residency. She has constantly stolen his money for her drug use, even to taking money that he had set aside for him to get 5 prescriptions after his recent hospital stay.

When she was told that she would have to leave, her only concern was how to get a ride to where ever she was going. She did not even ask where her husband was or if he was even alive. She showed her obvious lack of compassion or concern for his well being by stealing his medicine money for illegal drugs. She had been gone from the apartment since Saturday night.

This situation has put him in the hospital. There has been so much tension in his home, so much stress. It is very sad.

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You know about potted meat don’t you? I know that I do. I used to eat that stuff when I was younger and they did not make it with so much grease and preservatives.

Now I no longer eat that stuff, I value my stomach. Now when I want to eat something similar, I make it myself.

I take one can of Vienna sausages (any brand) shredded by fork to make them crumbly
1 Tbs pimento
1/2 c shredded cheese
2 Tbs Miracle Whip

I blend it all together and voila - meat spread.

Of course if you want, you can vary it by using less of the salad dressing, more pimentos, more cheese - what ever.

It is nice to have alternatives for everyday living isn’t it?

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My husband and I both love a lot of types of music. Right now we are listening to early rock and roll to the tune of ‘Why must I be a teenager in love?’

Our grandpa had a bunch of cassette tapes of early rock and roll from the late 1850’s to the late 60’s.

It has been so much fun to hear all of the music. We can understand the words, hear the rhythm and actually sing along. I have no idea if the neighbors like to hear our voices, though.

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Yup, everyone know that. Not a whole lot of people actually pay attention to it except for whether or not they have to wear a coat when they go out.

One thing I know the apartment manager where we live does is to change the furnace filters for each season. It does help with the AC bill and in the winter it does help with the heating bill.

What about with peoples’ cars? Don’t they need to have things changed there too? I guess so. Most of the time we don’t worry about that for each year we might be driving a different car or vehicle. Not new, just changed out for a different one. If old cars are finally taken off of the road, what will poor people drive? The new cars do not seem to last as long as the older models. Talk about a change of seasons.

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I am being watched.

There is a furry person who has been watching me, all without comment. I have made faces at her, she doe not respond. I talked to her, she doe not respond. I wonder if I am in trouble.

There is food in both food dishes. One is for wet food, the other for dry food. I know that it isn’t that. There is water in the water bowl. It isn’t that.

I wonder what it is that makes her stare at me? If you have ever been stared at by a cat - you know the feeling. Should i feel guilty? I don’t think that I’ve done something to deserve this.

Oh oh, she is on the move.

I now have a cat sitting on my stomach. I think she was bored, or thought that I was crazy. Oh well, the purr is nice.

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Have you ever noticed how people will give names to events or places?

Sometimes it can be amusing, sometimes it can be very irritating. The word ‘Watergate’ always made me think of a dam that had floodgates in it. The nick-name for the St. Louis arch - ‘Gateway to the west’ - made me think of a corral. Westgate believe it or not is not the same as the arch.

WW1 and WW2, who decided that those two wars should have numbers on them? I mean that there have been so many wars in this world that the number could in reality be much higher. Nick-name are something that we all deal with. In high school my nick-name was AWOL. (I was caught cutting class.) The media is one of the sources of those infamous name that are stuck on things.

What is with the names? I guess it makes it easier to remember than just putting dates on everything. Sort of like the war of 1812? or not.

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