Posting contributions

I got to bed late, and then got back up to feed my pets which I had forgotten to do, so I slept late. There were two roaches in the kitchen when I got there and I killed both of them. When I got up this morning, I swished and checked e-mail. I drank a quart of water. Things were going well until I realized I was a week behind on my Sudoku puzzles and I could not resist knocking out 5 of them. While I exercised and juiced, I listened to a talk by Zoe Harcombe (currently working on her PhD in public health nutrition) debunking the myth that a calorie is a calorie. She said that there is no body requirement for carbs, only fat and protein. Her last statement was that man is the only animal smart enough to make his own food and dumb enough to eat it. I cleaned the juicer and made breakfast. I ate it while listening to part of an audio. I put the last of breakfast in the fridge and went to quilting. Most of the ladies had already gone, and a few left soon after I got there. Dinah gave me some advise on replacing the backing of a quilt. I chatted with Lauri while working on the pillowcase for submitting a quilt to the show. I packed up at 4, and came home to finish breakfast and have some watermelon cake. Kurt sent me messages about the laptop he was reconditioning. I drove to church to help Art with the offering. It did not take long. Then we went into the church office. I showed him how I post contributions on the computer. After he left, I went on to post all the donations for the five Sundays in August. I decided I had better do it before they update the software. I might have to figure it out all over again. When I got home, it was dark. I did not want to fight with the spider in the dark, so I went in the front door. I checked the back door and he was not there. I got out some goat cheese and mixed it with some mustard, salt and pepper. I sliced up a tomato and ate it all together.. Mmmm. I watched some tapping videos, and finished an audio from this morning. I was reading about krofted farms when Chris skyped. He regaled me with stories of how they keep him busy over there. He hung at up 10:30, I had no more X-Files episodes to watch. I did some reading for my blog and then posted it before doing the usual bedtime routine.

Skype is 'healed'

I forgot to do laundry yesterday and my Sunday dress was in the hamper. I put the laundry in the washer. I started an audio, then swished and exercised. The alarm rang while I was working out. I shut it off. I continued listening as I took my vit C and skimmed the cheese from last night's whey. Then I put the laundry in the dryer but there wasn't time before I had to go to church. Today there was only one service. Still, I got to church early. I gave some goat cheese to Mary, then sat in my usual seat. Many people came in late, and Jen and her family sat with me after the announcements had started. After the service I gave Jen her coconut oil and thumb drive. I helped Art with the offering. Terry told me they were going to get an upgrade for Servantkeeper and put it on the desktop in the intern's office. I spoke to Brody about needing my sewing machine back by the end of the month. His mother told me she had just gotten him a trombone, practically brand new for $25. I asked if I could borrow it for Reformation Sunday. Jen's son spoke to me about permaculture. Then I went to Publix for groceries. When I got home, I put the food away and finished an audio while making breakfast and eating it. I worked downstairs, stitching quilt corners. I made a block from scraps of a 10 year old quilt. I cut out fabric to make a pillow case to hold the quilt that can be donated after the quilt show. I put the pieces in a pile to take to sewing tomorrow, then came upstairs to get in touch with Kurt. Skype on my laptop announced an upgrade. So I let it. The message that future updates would take place without me needing to do anything bothered me but I did not know who to complain to. But after the update, skype worked again. Faye skyped me and we talked for over an hour and a half. Kurt texted me and gave me permission to put a new backing on the quilt Mom made for him. Then Chris skyped me and we talked for almost half an hour. He told me about the 70-year-old Korean lady who took him to a wetlands park yesterday. Then I loaded and ran the dishwasher. I watched the last episode of X-Files. I read tips on moving. Then I posted to my blog, fed the pets and went to bed.
* This is the kind of place I would like to spend our anniversary *

Problems with Skype

I started mental programming a little before 8. Then I got dressed and went out to the car to bring in the items Denise gave me last night. I put some away and read the labels on others. I read and deleted e-mail. I started drinking my quart of water. I used frankincense and a laser light on my mole, and various creams. I swished, exercised, and juiced. I listened to a Rampage (of Esther Hicks) on Youtube. I sunbathed, and then made breakfast. Dad called. I put him on speakerphone and finished making and eating breakfast. He wanted to get on skype to be sure he could call me in Korea. We worked on it for over an hour. He did not know his skype password and I tried to log in as him and clicked the link to have instructions sent to him, but when he checked his e-mail, there was nothing newer than July. Neither of us could figure out why, so that was a bust. When I tried to log in as me, it would not work. I downloaded an ebook for frankincense oil. The company wanted me to leave a review on Amazon, but I did not know how to rate something I know little about and just started using. I filled a 1 quart measuring cup with coconut oil and transferred it to Jennifer's container to give to her tomorrow. I put the magnets from my massage therapist on acupressure points on my face to see if that did anything. I went downstairs to sew red scraps together while I listened to a previously recorded interview with Wayne Dyer. I was making a bag to submit the pulpit cloth to the quilt show. I got it pieced and then realized it needed a liner or the item would get little threads on it from the seams. So I found a piece of red for that. I got the bag done, and lined, but kept sewing scraps together until the audio finished. Jane called, and I ran upstairs to catch the phone. She had a copy for me. As long as I was upstairs, I made egg salad with the goat cheese. Yum. I ate some onion cabbage soup. I looked for the purple bag for submitting the purple quilt. I searched everywhere and finally decided to go on to the next step, but got sidetracked looking for a new word I had read in an article about Alan Turing. I read lots of articles, but did not come across that word again. I ate two slices of watermelon cake. I checked skype, and it was still having trouble. I looked for an update, and thought about rebooting, but I had too much to lose. I skyped with Steven and then brought Chris into the call when he got online. The three of us talked through the process of getting the embroidery files from the floppy discs to the thumb drive. But we could not get the files off the floppy discs. When I tried to access the drive, the computer gave an exception error and crashed, repeatedly. Finally Steven called it a night. Chris and I spoke a little longer and then he got a phone call and had to go. I looked up how to uninstall and reinstall skype. But it was complicated what with the backing up files and all. So I watched X-Files on my laptop. They had the Brady Bunch on. Then I posted to my blog, fed my bacterial colonies, and went to bed.
* This is one side of the bag. *

Goodbye, my friend

I stayed in bed late, then got up to turn on the router and laptop. I drank a quart of water, and exercised to audios. I heard that we get more stimulation in one week from internet and TV than early man got in his whole life time. I put away the cleaned and dryed decorator parts. I read and deleted e-mail. I rubbed frankincense oil on my mole. I put lavender oil on the itchy spot on my head. I juiced and meditated, then made breakfast. Steven called and I put him on speakerphone while I finished making breakfast and then ate it. We talked about the problem of getting the old embroidery software to run either on Kurt's old laptop, or one of our newer computers. He sent me a game he wrote over skype. I took a shower then downloaded it. I did screen-sharing as I tried to play it. He said it was like Minecraft. I have never played Minecraft so I don't know, but shooting bad guys is not really my thing. So I said if he wrote something like Tetris I would try it. And I don't see why he couldn't, since his game used perspective and 360 vision and all the stuff it would take to do Tetris or Welltris. By then it was 2, and I had to get busy. I checked the mail, and watered the plants and brought down the old hammocks covering the now-dead plants inside cages. I downloaded files to Jen's really cute penguin thumb drive. I read a tapping article and tapped on what came up. I filled a water bottle then went to my massage. I told her that I found the magnets that had been lost. She did a great job, especially the work on my face and forehead. We decided to do stomach work next week. When I got home, I checked the mail again, and found a bill. I e-mailed it to Chris. I called Denise and left a message. I ate an egg before she called back. She said something about going out to eat but her husband wanted to stay and pack. She agreed to accept piece of watermelon cake. I put a slice in a plastic container and went over. Traffic at the senior center was all back up. But once I got through that, it was clear sailing. When I got there, she ate the watermelon and we packed kitchen stuff. We also touched up wall paint and trim paint and washed some streaks on windows. She gave me some food from her fridge. Then we bid each other goodbye. I hated to see her move, but I won't be here long myself. On the way home, I saw fireworks on the way, likely from the senior center. When I got home, I checked skype and saw that Chris had texted me early. I wrote back, and when he did not answer, I watched an episode of X-Files. Then I fed Lacto and Bacilis and the new kefir grain which I haven't named yet. Chris still wasn't on, so I posted to my blog and went to bed.

'Leafing' for Korea

I got up before the alarm. I took a shower, then turned on the router and laptop. I deleted the first round of e-mail. I washed the cake decorator and tips. I whipped up some coconut cream. I added lo han, and honey to sweeten it. But it just wasn't stiff enough, so I put in the rest of my coconut flour. The cream had hard pieces in it which I think were clods of coconut oil that hardened in the fridge. I tried to strain them out but it just did not work. I put it back in the fridge. I took out Netflix and recyclables and the trash. I skimmed the cheese off of the whey. I loaded the decorator with the cold cream and decorated the 'cake' as best I could, then put it back in the fridge and cleaned up. I ate the unused portion of coconut cream. I exercised. I made breakfast and it was terrible. The only new thing I put in it was the haritaki that came yesterday. I may have to put it in capsules. Blech!
I took Kurt's quilt and some fabric out to the car. I got the mail and there was the adapter for the dongle. I drove to quilting. They presented me with a bag of blocks they had made featuring purple and leaf themes. They laid them out on the pingpong table to see. Susan took multiple pics and posted one on the Facebook site (I'm glad I wore a bra today). When its done, I think I will call it "Leafing for Korea" because that's why they made me the blocks. Then I sat and talked to Leslie for the rest of the time. I tried to work on Kurt's quilt but decided that it really needed a new back, and I wasn't certain how to do that. I left about 2:30. When I got home, I watered the plants and mowed the lawn with the riding mower. Then I took a break to drink water and check e-mail. Denise called. She and her husband were packing the last of their things onto the trailer, leaving Saturday. God bless them. I checked e-mail, then went outside to trim the lawn with the push mower. Jen sent me a link to listen to a section of an audio with a glass of water. It did not taste any different afterward, but some people said it did. I saw a vine climbing up the window outside. When I ripped it down, I was covered in ants. So I put out some bait. I put some water on the stove to boil. I cracked an egg to put in a small dish so I could poach it, but the egg was already hard boiled. So I ate two of them. I also ate some fermented cabbage. Wayne Dyer kindle books were on sale for $2, so I put some on my tablet for the flight to Korea. I mixed a different can of coconut cream (this one got much harder) with powdered raw cacao and lo han and ground pecans. I ate it with frozen raspberries. Yum! I read up on Alan Turing and the Turing Test. I put on a supposedly live seminar and went downstairs to listen as I sewed red scraps together to make a bag to submit the red banner to the quilt show. Chris skyped me just as it started. We talked, but not long. There were maintenance people working in his living room. I rejoined the seminar, but since I was able to pause it, it could not have been live. But I let it play while I sewed. Finally it was 10:45 and I shut it down because it had turned into a sales pitch. I came up stairs to post to my blog and fed my pets. I expect to go to bed then.

A real fruitcake

I got up after the alarm went off. I had a lot of watermelon juice in me which needed to be let out. Then I turned on the router and laptop. The spider web was still up, so I tore it down with an umbrella, vowing to get rid of the spider because it was too much work. I don't want to clean up after a husband, much less a spider. I could not find my detox paper, so I modified and printed another one. I also made a copy of the pattern I picked up yesterday. I squeezed lemon into a quart of water to drink while I read e-mail. I washed the coffee pot again and put water in it to heat up. I read an article about how better plumbing in the form of clean water and waste disposal and not vaccines was responsible for eradicating disease. I added things to the moving lists as I went through the detox procedure. I heard a talk on gluten. Gluten is the only molecule so far that they know the immune system remembers. Once sensitive to gluten, you will always be sensitive to it. But other foods seem to be able to be reintroduced once the gut lining has healed. I juiced cauliflower leaves and carrots, then cleaned up, made breakfast, and meditated. I ate breakfast, and read about a new product called Homebiotic: its a probiotic for your home, You spray it in places where mold is likely to occur and the microbes destroy toxic mold colonies. It needs refreshing every 6 months. I read about flashlights that are charged by the earth's magnetic field and electrosmog so that they recharge themselves every day; no plug in or batteries needed. But they cost $99. Wondering what was bringing the ants in, I started cleaning cupboards in the kitchen. As the sunlight waned, I decided to mow in the front yard, and then do some trimming. I opened my coconut, only to find that it was rotten inside. This is the second rotten one from Publix so I won't buy any more. I cleaned all the cabinets above the stove and the countertop underneath. I frosted the watermelon cake, but did not have any fruit to decorate it with. I got a call from VCU. She wanted to know if I had any favorite classes or professors (from 30 years ago), and a donation. I watched “The Imitation Game”, a movie about Alan Turing and the computer he built to win the war for Britain. I paused it when Chris skyped me. We arranged for me to get a frequent flier card with United because that is the flight I will be taking to Korea. Then I finished the movie. It was fascinating. And sad at the end. I posted to my blog, fed the pets, and went to bed.

Cake in progress

I got up soon after the alarm quit sounding. I read e-mail, and exercised. I listened to audios, and watched a video called the Meatrix, starring Moo-fius. I juiced and cleaned up. Then I grabbed the Renegades quilt top, and with the license plates already in the car, went to quilting. I had six plates. I traded two and sold three, so I had one left. I showed off my quilt top, and picked up a pattern to copy. I talked to Beverly who said we can communicate by Facebook after I leave. I went to the Asian store for kimbap, and also got a can of coconut milk, and looked for dates. I did not find dates. I stopped for gas on the way home. I got the mail, and there was a package with a bottle of myrrh oil. I ate the kimbap with kimchi. I watched several dental videos on root canals and implants. I looked up biological dentists in Korea, and only found one, in Seoul. I watered the plants. I called the credit card company to check on a charge. Jen called to say she'd meet me at the market for eggs. I made up a week's worth of supplements. At 2:45 I headed to the farmer's market. I parked and soon Jen pulled in along side me. I gave her the eggs from Monday, and she gave me a thumb drive, a CD, and an empty container. We went to the milk booth together. I got another gallon of milk. Then we separated. I got lettuces, and zucchini and squash and cauliflower leaves. We left together. When I got home, I oiled my hair to condition it over night. I got out the coconut milk from the fridge. I scooped out the solidified cream into a frozen bowl and whipped it with some carrot juice. I was preparing for the watermelon when Kurt started texting me on skype. I cut off the top and bottom and ate the red parts. I meditated and fell asleep. I cut off more pieces to get a round cake-shaped structure. I ate those, too because there wasn't room in the fridge. Kurt skyped me again, and I forwarded the questions to Chris. I did an on-line meditation that was supposed to be live, but when Chris skyped, I was able to pause it. Then again, when the call was over, I could not get it back. Chris told me he had made the charge that I called the credit card company about. After the call, I fed Lacto and Bacilis. I think they have friends now – or offspring. I found roaches in the sink, so I filled it with soapy water. The soap clogs their breathing apparatus. Then I posted to my blog, sighed that once again it was too late to watch X-Files, and went to bed.
* Susan already made her license plate blocks. I wonder why real cars only come in solid colors. *