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It’s a Birthday! Where’s the Balloons?
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Happy Birthday Shirebound!! May your day be as wonderful as you are. Congratulations on another amazing trip around the sun! 🎉💖☀️💕🌺🌺🎉🎂🎈🎈🎈🎈

It’s an update!
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Hi there!

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More AT&T Hijinx
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2 hours on hold between both B and me, and I was shuffled between 3 departments before I was told that their technician had our correct address and would be out here by 6 pm tonight. We were trying to correct the address that was wrong in the appointment notification app, which had our apartment as 208F instead of F208 and the correct city with the wrong state, but no one at AT&T would let us do that; instead, we were transferred around and patted on the head. Now, I’m willing to believe they’re liars. Still. It’s only 2:45 pm, so we have only 3 hours and 15 minutes more to wait.


A Quick One While He’s Away
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Hi! B and I are slowly settling in here at our new place in the Midwest. One of the things that has turned out to be very hard to get is Internet service. That is why B and I are at our wits end with AT&T. They promised us a very easy transition that has turned out to be a nightmare. They keep sending the technicians to our old address 1700 miles away to troubleshoot our modem. My husband has changed our address 5 times with them now, as of today, and a technician is due tomorrow morning. If one doesn’t come, we will try the local cable tv provider. We are skeptical that anyone will appear. Meanwhile, B is unpacking magnificently and I am breaking down. I hate this.


Making Progress
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As of the day I start writing this (Sunday evening, 2/23/2020, 6:51 pm Pacific Standard Time), my husband and I will be leaving for Kansas in 31 more days. I AM SCARED!

In other news, I have been making progress on packing. It's slow, but it's going on. I'm packing the fragile things: my small collection of handmade ceramics, (which isn't that small! Aaah!), the tchotchkes, and soon; the shelf of natural history items, including the skull of our first cat Felon. I was supposed to be packing the kitchen, as well, but we've runout of time so my husband and I are paying the movers to pack that instead. We still have to pack our clothes and the bathroom ourselves, and the odds and ends from packing other areas. And the 2-drawer filing cabinet.

I hate to say this, but I think I have too many special coffee mugs. My mind is wailing, "But they're my bay-beees!!!"

Almost all of our books are packed, as well as our CDs and our DVDs.

I'm wondering what will fit into our car for the drive to Kansas. The List: 2 adult humans, 1 22-pound, 31-inch-long cat (excluding tail), 1 l-a-r-g-e cat carrier (there's room for the cat to lie full-length and still have a little bit of room around him), 1 cardboard scratcher, 2 containers of coolant, 2 quarts of oil, 3 gallons of water (I was told 2, but I'd prefer to take 3 to be safe, especially since we have the cat's needs to consider), a can of brake fluid, clothes for the trip and bathroom gear for two, a box with a pan, 2 plates, table setting for 2, a jar of cashew butter and a loaf of bread, 2 travel mugs, 1 cat food dish, 1 water dish, 1 cat box, 1 large tool box of acrylic paint, 1 box of personal papers, 2 hardcover-book-sized desktop computers, 2 monitors, 1 laptop computer, 1 pair of computer speakers...

...and I don't think that will all fit into our SUV with the back seats down. My husband and I are going to have to work this out...or ask Dr. Who if we could rent the T.A.R.D.I.S.

It's a Birthday!
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Happy Birthday shirebound! May the candles on your cake glow as bright as the lights in Pippin's eyes. <3<3<3<3<3

Early Birthday Felicitations!
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This coming Thursday is my dear friend <lj user="amedia">'s birthday. I love you and I wish you all of the very best on your special day.


It's a late birthday wish!
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Hi shirebound! Happy belated birthday! I hope your day was a sweet and friendly as you are. May you joyously enter another year!


The eyes have it.
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Wesnesday morning, I will have cataract surgery on my left eye. The cataract in my right eye isn't ready to be removed yet. When removing them from both eyes, surgeons do them about 2 weeks apart, or a little more or less, but I'll have to wait longer than that.

Wish me luck!


Hurrah! *dances with everyone!*
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My A1c is down to low normal!

My migraine is almost gone, too!

I'll return soon with more.