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Default Jan 21, 2023 at 02:14 AM
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Yes, love those days.

What is your default easy meal?

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Default Jan 21, 2023 at 02:55 AM
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Yes, love those days.

What is your default easy meal?
I guess some kind of egg dish with roll or bread on the side and fresh veggies (cherry tomatoes, pepper strips, radishes, cucumber, etc.) Yesterday I made "ham and eggs", but I also make variations of mushroom/onion/eggs or Lečo, which is sauteed onion/pepper/tomato and eggs. Or other ways. They always taste good. My husband is obsessed with lečo and eggs. Sometimes people also add sliced kielbasa to it, but Hubby prefers me not to. I most prefer eggs poached or sunny side up over scrambled, or in omelette form. Occasionally I make them my prefered way. I first started making eggs for myself at age 8 or 9. First thing I learned to cook on my own and reach the stove (I was tall). I was proud of myself.

How exactly do you most like your eggs, if you like them? And dry/well or more runny? And what with?

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Default Jan 21, 2023 at 08:43 AM
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Dry omelets with cheese, sausage, onions, and peppers

Are you generally dehydrated, perfectly hydrated, or overhydrated?

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Default Jan 21, 2023 at 09:43 AM
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Perfectly hydrated is my goal. I love water, so I drink plenty when I'm home. When I'm away from home I have a nice water bottle I take with me. The lovely grocery store near my apartment has a whole section of waters. I love trying different ones, especially when the weather is hot.

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Default Jan 22, 2023 at 07:26 PM
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I'm looking forward to spring. Winter hasn't been that bad this year but lots of grayness.

Favorite Winter-Time activity?
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I'm looking forward to spring. Winter hasn't been that bad this year but lots of grayness.

Favorite Winter-Time activity?
Sitting near a fireplace or woodstove with a cup of hot coffee or tea.

What winter activity are you glad to stop in the spring?

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Default Jan 23, 2023 at 10:34 AM
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Having to keep my windows open only an inch. I want to open my windows wide, feel the air, smell the scent of orange blossoms. Spring!

Q: Same. What winter activity are you glad to stop in the spring?

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Default Jan 23, 2023 at 11:19 AM
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Wearing my ice grippies in the driveway every time I go out.

Do you listen to different types of music during different seasons?

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Default Jan 23, 2023 at 04:05 PM
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No, my hearing had deteriorated too much to really enjoy music much. I have the same rock station on in the car all year long.

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? Why?

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Default Jan 25, 2023 at 01:27 AM
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This sounds silly but I'd live at the summer camp where I worked in college. (So really I'd live near there but as close as possible). It's the most beautiful place with mountains and a gorgeous river and it's just my favorite place. If it weren't for bipolar and needing to be near my pdoc (any pdoc would be hard to find there) and some things like that I'd move there when my mom is gone. But it wouldn't be a good idea in reality.

Can you change a tire on a car?

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Default Jan 25, 2023 at 02:49 AM
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This sounds silly but I'd live at the summer camp where I worked in college. (So really I'd live near there but as close as possible). It's the most beautiful place with mountains and a gorgeous river and it's just my favorite place. If it weren't for bipolar and needing to be near my pdoc (any pdoc would be hard to find there) and some things like that I'd move there when my mom is gone. But it wouldn't be a good idea in reality.

Can you change a tire on a car?
No, but if I do eventually go to autoskola (driving school) in Czech Republic, I'll have to learn. I already know how to drive and drove for over 30 years in the US, but Czech Republic won't recognize my US driver's license anymore. They stop after 3-months living here. Czech autoskola has many more requirements, including some basic mechanics, procedures and required items if broken down on the side of the road, and even basic first aid, not to mention many different road signs and rules. Driving in tram areas is also new to me and seems scary.

Have you ever driven cross country/continent (or nearly) or been a passenger for such a trip? Where did you go?

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Default Jan 25, 2023 at 03:46 AM
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Yes, I moved an 18 hour drive across the US continent (south to north) this past August. Previously, I drove north to south to move south but only lasted 13 months in the south. I enjoy car trips normally but moving a household with cats in the car was very stressful!

Have you used the Calm app or other relaxation/meditative apps to help you fall asleep or just to relax?
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Never tried them. To be fair, I have a couple of mantras and meditation practices that help me, so I've never had the need.

What fascinates you at the moment?

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Default Jan 27, 2023 at 11:50 AM
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My motorcycle I have gotten out for two rides this year so far and looking forward to many more rides.

What's the first thing you ate today?

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Default Jan 27, 2023 at 02:32 PM
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How do you prefer the sleeve length of your long sleeved shirts.

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Extra-long. I have long arms and long hands and I like my sleeves to reach the center of my hands. That way I can leave them long (my finger tattoos show well then), or roll them up if I want to.

Q: I like that ? so: Same. How do you prefer the sleeve length of your long sleeved shirts?

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I like it to hit just below the wrist but I am on the short side so generally my sleeves are halfway or all the way to my knuckles.

How many pills do you take daily (including vitamins, half pills as a pill, etc. anything you take counts).

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Default Jan 31, 2023 at 12:51 AM
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I like it to hit just below the wrist but I am on the short side so generally my sleeves are halfway or all the way to my knuckles.

How many pills do you take daily (including vitamins, half pills as a pill, etc. anything you take counts).
Actual pills (I take more than one pill of a few meds):

Bipolar - 10
BP/tachy/choles - 3
Thyroid - 1
Multivitamin - 1
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Total: 15 or sometimes 16 or 17 per day (8 in morn & 7 at night). I've taken more than this further in the past.

Question: How close to the same times per day do you tend to take your medications?

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Default Jan 31, 2023 at 08:46 AM
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I don't think I understand the question so I'll just throw info at you and hope it covers it.
I take my AM meds at 7:15am every day exactly, my midday meds at 1pm everyday (I try to be exact but I'm not always home but it's always by 2pm), and my night meds anywhere between 6-7pm.

Do you ever find stuff you made in the past and thought "wow, I was really good at this." and then you try it again and feel like you lost all your talent?

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Default Feb 01, 2023 at 10:12 PM
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I was a talented cross-stitcher but I haven't made anything in years so I suppose I've lost my touch.

Question: Do you take a med specifically to help you sleep?
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