Couch 225: 2+2=5, Sheeple!

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 07:24 PM

So far anyway, L's never charged anything that I wasn't expecting. I trust her that it will stay that way.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 07:28 PM

My house looks so nice! I got rid of a bunch of junk mail off the kitchen table and straightened up the living room, cleaned cat hair off everything, swept, even put away most of the yarn that I had out in a box next to the couch (only left out what I'm currently using to make slippers). I feel accomplished looking at it. And the laundry is almost done now. Woo!

ElectricManatee · Mar 04, 2021 at 07:43 PM

I keep trying to tidy up my yarn, but the more I try, the worse it gets. I have six skeins of different colors out right now because I'm making a rainbow blanket for ToddlerManatee. She suggested earlier today that I work on it more. Maybe she's getting impatient??

ScarletPimpernel · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:10 PM

I can totally relate to the yarn mess. I have 5 blankets I'm working on. Thankfully they are all Christmas gifts, so I have a long time to get them done. But my room is cluttered with yarn!

atisketatasket · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:23 PM

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I keep trying to tidy up my yarn, but the more I try, the worse it gets. I have six skeins of different colors out right now because I'm making a rainbow blanket for ToddlerManatee. She suggested earlier today that I work on it more. Maybe she's getting impatient??

At the start of the pandemic my mother had a steamer trunk so full of yarn you couldn’t close the lid. After a year, you can now close the lid with room to spare. She’s been knitting a lot while she can’t go out.

ToddlerManatee would approve.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:28 PM

My thing with the yarn is I have many projects in progress at the same time, I like to switch around as I go. And we have an ottoman in front of the couch so I always stack up short boxes of yarn behind it where H can't see them from his side of the couch (or from the front door if anyone comes over, not that anyone does during covid but...) there were 4 count 'em four small boxes sitting there full of yarn /different projects. I put 3 of them in my office closet and left only the one with the slipper projects in it out. The room looks so much neater now.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:43 PM

Oh and then there's Penelope - she simply delights in playing with the yarn. She likes to pull a partial skein out of one of the boxes and bat it around the room. The other 2 cats don't bother with it, they're both 'old men' and don't play much anymore.

unaluna · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:56 PM

So i dont know whats going on. Amazon told me yesterday i could not buy a big jar of peanut M&M's. It looked like it had the same problem that Zipcar had! So i thought fine, maybe they sent me a new debit card, let me go check my mail. So i TOOK A SHOWER so i could go check my mail without asphyxiating anybody in the apartment building. Also bought a small bag of peanut mnms. Did not find a new debit card. Did not like the mnms. Tried renting a zipcar, it worked (i assume the changes i made yesterday all "took"). Cancelled the big jar of m&m's.

Tl/dr but it looks like everything worked out, and thousands of calories were saved!

stopdog · Mar 04, 2021 at 08:59 PM

I have never been a fan of plain m&m's. I used to convince my sibling to give me his pixie stix in exchange for my m&m's. The peanut ones are okay but there are better chocolate covered peanuts and almonds if you like chocolate covered nuts

unaluna · Mar 04, 2021 at 09:05 PM

For a while there i was eating walnuts and Walden Farms fake chocolate.

Maybe i will just add pumpkin or sunflower seeds to my fake york mints.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 09:12 PM

I am a huge fan of peanut m&m's! I haven't had any in awhile because I'm trying to eat better. I don't want to get the "taste" for them again, or whatever. Oh, and today is day 9 of my 10 day commitment to walk at least a mile a day. I'm barely over a mile today, so I probably should get on the treadmill for a bit. Tomorrow I'm going to walk in the early morning because I have a dr appt at 9:40 and then see L at 1. I've decided to commit to another 10 days and see how it goes.

atisketatasket · Mar 04, 2021 at 09:32 PM

I’ll eat peanut m&ms, but peanut butter M&Ms, that’s the stuff.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 09:36 PM

I saw an advertisement for brownie m&m's but I haven't tried those yet.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 04, 2021 at 09:58 PM

I just finished typing up my dreams for therapy tomorrow. I was surprised to count that there are 8 of them. I'd been in a bit of a dream-drought prior to that so I guess it was to be expected, especially since I've been reading a book about dreaming and also doing those online workshop thingies about dream work and imagination. I think I'm going to wish we had more time tomorrow once L and I start talking.

NP_Complete · Mar 05, 2021 at 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

I’ll eat peanut m&ms, but peanut butter M&Ms, that’s the stuff.

Have you tried peanut butter Twix?

Daffydungle · Mar 05, 2021 at 01:32 AM

Great! Now i want chocolate and i have already been shopping. If i still want chocolate on Monday inamy buy some.

unaluna · Mar 05, 2021 at 03:44 AM

I ended up ordering a smallish box of See's. But im not going to take three years to eat it like some people we know

wait, those werent sees, those were some fancy jobbies! Anyway, if amazon decides it likes my card.

feralkittymom · Mar 05, 2021 at 03:44 AM

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Does anyone think I need to mail a replacement check off to Info asap? Because she seems to think that. Even though our next appointment is Tuesday, so whether I mail it or whether I bring it, she gets it around the same time.

And **** this. Stopdog’s right. Cash means the responsibility is hers as soon as I pay, not arguably still mine. It’s cash going forward. (Bonus: no paper trail.)

I think I paid No. 3 in cash once—I had forgotten my checkbook and her credit card thing charged a fee. She had no problem with it.

Late to the game, but I would pay her however is convenient for you, but also buy a blank receipt book and require her to sign for each payment.

atisketatasket · Mar 05, 2021 at 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by NP_Complete

Have you tried peanut butter Twix?

Yes—can’t eat them anymore (gluten) but I liked them.

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Originally Posted by Daffydungle

Great! Now i want chocolate and i have already been shopping. If i still want chocolate on Monday inamy buy some.

You can defer chocolate for 48 hours?

Is that some kind of superpower?

Lemoncake · Mar 05, 2021 at 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

Yes—can’t eat them anymore (gluten) but I liked them.

You can defer chocolate for 48 hours?

Is that some kind of superpower?

Yes it must be.

I found out this out recently about peanut M&M's and a lot of other sweets.

Possible trigger:

Why you may have been eating insects your whole life - BBC News

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ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,219 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,754 hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 07:24 PM #121 So far anyway, L's never charged anything that I wasn't expecting. I trust her that it will stay that way.

ElectricManatee Magnate Member Since May 2017 Location: Earth Posts: 2,515 6 4,704 hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 07:43 PM #123 I keep trying to tidy up my yarn, but the more I try, the worse it gets. I have six skeins of different colors out right now because I'm making a rainbow blanket for ToddlerManatee. She suggested earlier today that I work on it more. Maybe she's getting impatient??

ScarletPimpernel Wise Elder Member Since Nov 2013 Location: US Posts: 8,405 (SuperPoster!) 10 6,399 hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 08:10 PM #124 I can totally relate to the yarn mess. I have 5 blankets I'm working on. Thankfully they are all Christmas gifts, so I have a long time to get them done. But my room is cluttered with yarn! __________________ "Odium became your opium..." ~Epica

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,219 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,754 hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 08:43 PM #127 Oh and then there's Penelope - she simply delights in playing with the yarn. She likes to pull a partial skein out of one of the boxes and bat it around the room. The other 2 cats don't bother with it, they're both 'old men' and don't play much anymore.

unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 39,835 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.3k hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 09:05 PM #130 For a while there i was eating walnuts and Walden Farms fake chocolate. Maybe i will just add pumpkin or sunflower seeds to my fake york mints.

atisketatasket Child of a lesser god Member Since Jun 2015 Location: Tartarus Posts: 19,144 (SuperPoster!) 8 12.4k hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 09:32 PM #132 I’ll eat peanut m&ms, but peanut butter M&Ms, that’s the stuff. __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,219 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,754 hugs given	Mar 04, 2021 at 09:36 PM #133 I saw an advertisement for brownie m&m's but I haven't tried those yet.

Daffydungle Poohbah Member Since Apr 2020 Location: Nowhere Posts: 1,257 3 451 hugs given	Mar 05, 2021 at 01:32 AM #136 Great! Now i want chocolate and i have already been shopping. If i still want chocolate on Monday inamy buy some.

unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 39,835 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.3k hugs given	Mar 05, 2021 at 03:44 AM #137 I ended up ordering a smallish box of See's. But im not going to take three years to eat it like some people we know wait, those werent sees, those were some fancy jobbies! Anyway, if amazon decides it likes my card.