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Are you sure the cookie was not poisoned MsMadge?
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The Viking was rather chatty tonight even offered someone a cookie - of course when being changed at bedtime she roared and threatened to sock the caregiver
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OK, that brought a tear to my eye.

My Utopian society would find something useful for everyone to do regardless of age and ability. I can remember when I was little the ladies at the nursing home could take an active role in the kitchen peeling potatoes or nibbing strawberries (I'm not sure about the gents). In traditional societies the old women watch the kids while the younger women do the heavy work. Today we just don't have any place for those who can't put in a full day at work or meet 100% of the requirements listed in a job description.
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Lovely lovely news story here:

buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/this-woman-was-allowed-to-continue-working-a-supermarket?utm_term=.bhxr3v3Gz#.wbndyny4V
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I found a new webcomic that plays instrumental Japanese background music. The comic is obviously of the olden times because they're wearing robes. I'm on the 1st chapter and it just irritates me on how ... the posters make fun of the woman (geisha-style wear) wearing.. Gasp! 'socks and sandals' !!! {{{shaking my head}}} .. Hello, people! She is wearing the traditional socks called tabi and the traditional (usually wooden) shoes called geta... Beautiful music but I need to stop reading the comments because it's almost midnight and their comments are making me upset. I do want to be able to sleep tonight.
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Susan, I like my food to be freshly cooked. I'm not crazy about 'leftover' foods from the previous day. When I read how you would cook several eggs ahead of time, I kind of frowned about that. But, it must have been percolating subconsciously in my mind. Today, as I was sitting down trying to figure out what I want to eat for dinner, a thought popped up about breakfast instead. You see, I'm sick and tired of daily breakfast of microwavable burrito - whether with eggs/potatoes or chicken/rice, etc... I'm sick of burritos.

I bought a loaf of bread for my peanutbutter snacking. Yesterday, I bought salami. And as I was sitting here, a thought popped up that I can have tomorrow for breakfast a toasted sandwich with salami and over-medium egg! I will just have to cook the egg tonight, put it in the fridge, and just micro it tomorrow morning! Yes!!! Oh, man... If only I have fresh avocado, it would go great with it....
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Pam, you can still sell your unusual perfume bottles by updating it to modern style. Depending how you feel about doing that. If I love an odd-shape, beautiful (in my eyes) perfume bottle, I would not do anything to 'modernize' it.
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I have a friend who flea markets for a living, in the south. She does very well with fabrics to movie companies. If I could only find someone who would pay the bucks for lots of deer and squirrel mounts! LOL I could really add to FILs bank account!
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Thx Pam, maybe I'm rich...............LOL!

My Mom had an old Singer sewing machine I wish we had hung on to. Hell, I'm starting to feel antique myself. Maybe I'll try and sell my face on E Bay one of these days.
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Gershun when I have stuff I am not sure about I look on ebay. OF course what people want and what they can get are two different things.. LOL.. My FIL gave us two old irons that you sat on the stove to heat up.. people were asking plenty on ebay.. but none were selling.. I grew up with an antique store.. so I have a pretty good idea of some values. My hubs has lots of old GI Joe stuff,, and its actually going for good prices in some areas.. but it's a crap shoot! Your pez may be worth something. I have tons of old perfume bottles,, glass, crystal worth jack boo these days. People decorate with new modern things these days.
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Speaking of pez, I have a collection of pez dispensers. I was going to throw them out but my brother said, why not hang on to them, they may be valuable one day. I doubt it.........but, ya never know. I also have started collecting wooden cats. I have cats staring at me from all over my place. :)
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Good news about the red vines, thanks CM. Also, sorry for the recent loss.
Has anyone tried the baked cheetos?
Doritos had a new chip hear for a while Heatwave BBQ. I started buying them, and now they don;t sell them.
I like the savory more than the sweets. I still like sweets dont get me wrong, hershey kisses with almonds, heath bars, and chico sticks, are a big weakness, I definitely try not to keep those around.
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But they ate them. So much for the valued collections of limited edition PEZ.

Maybe you should hoard some red vines MsMadge?  The brownies and blue birds could weave a potholder once they become petrified.

Aren't P E Z. the ones that came in a little plastic dispenser?
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A few years ago the grocery store had a limited edition wizard of oz pez collection
I bought them for my niece and nephew
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Pez are pure sugar,like Pixie sticks,just flavored sugar.Whatever kind of candy it is,it's all bad for the teeth.I always had too many cavities growing up and got a lot of lectures from my Uncle,who was my Dentist.Still,I just Love candy,even in my old age now.
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i don't think I have ever had a PEZ and after CM's post I don't think I will go out of my way to get them.
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Arggh! Pez! Keep them away from me! Evil tooth-drills, pretending to be all innocent in their teensy tiny brick formations, "oo no I'm only little how could I possibly do you any harm..? And look at my all-natural flavours, I'm practically a health food - !"

Yeah, and then how sorry are you later, eh?

Never again.
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That is Good News Country Mouse....Thanks for telling us about it~
I have to admit...I am a candy addict and Iv'e always got some kind of candy here beside me.I go through candy phases,get stuck on one a while and then switch to another.I was hooked on Lifesaver Wintergreen mints most the winter,but lately,I found that Lifesaver Gummies are really good.Pez are always a winner and ofcourse,good ole chocolate.It's just too bad there's no penny candy left and a candybar is over a dollar nowdays
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Should I be stockpiling original red vines ?

I bought some cheetos made simple recently and simply threw them away 
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CM, there is this fudge I buy and I hate to admit it but sometimes I eat it till my teeth ache and I feel sick. :P
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

I was wondering what exactly was in Red Vines so I looked them up, couldn't see the info, and sent a contact form and only a few hours later....

"Thank you for reaching out to the American Licorice Company. We appreciate the time you took to contact us.

Our Original Red Vines Twists contain Red 40. However, we do offer a newer product called Red Vines Made Simple. Our Red Vines Made Simple are made with real sugar, natural flavors and colors. This product also contains no fat and is produced using non genetically modified ingredients.

Your friends may not be very familiar with Red Vines Made Simple at this time. However, as popularity for this product increases, we expect distribution to increase as well.

We hope the above information answered your inquiry. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out!"


It is STILL not good for any person to eat sweets until they feel sick and their teeth ache. Not that I would know, of course, cough cough. Other than that - have fun!
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That is why you are there, Cwillie! It only takes one good heart.
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We had the first meeting of our new Family Council at the nursing home today. I went with an open mind but I'm afraid it will be exactly what I expected it to be, dominated by brown nosers who think everything is all wonderful and already seem to have a cosy relationship with staff, and focused on fundraising and doing good deeds for the residents. The good deeds sounds positive but they were already talking enthusiastically about the new wheelchair tandem bicycle that had me rolling my eyes last summer, I doubt that there will be anything positive coming out of this for the most vulnerable residents who are unable to voice their own needs.
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CM you loved J so just keep that in mind and be there for her. Sit in the back and take dog with you, he loved her too.
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I need to be grown up, go, smile pleasantly at people whatever I might think of them, hold my tongue, and then slip away before the social gathering afterwards.

That's what J would have done, and taken lovely flowers. She would then have gone home and gossiped enthusiastically (never maliciously) about everybody there, in her unspoiled Black Country accent.

That's how we found out that one neighbour had gone bankrupt twice, another had been a hard-working philanderer long before his wife died and the glamorous "new" girlfriend was no such thing as new, and that the ladies in the corner house were not only business partners. There was also a suspected cat-poisoner but as J didn't own a cat she wouldn't vouch for the truth of that one.

I do partly know what she said about us. ExSO (aged 65+, mind you) was "that young lad, liked his cars" and I was "there was a girl who lived with 'im, was that you?" But this was when she was ill in hospital, she'd perked up a lot next time I saw her.

With the dog, truth of it is I don't want exSO coming over and making a fuss of him; and if you're thinking he'd surely have more sense, no he wouldn't. 12 year old dog was abandoned by his first family aged seven, has had to adjust to losing his second "Daddy" since exSO and I parted two years ago, and is it any wonder that the poor animal has separation anxiety in spades? So the last thing I want is SO making a reappearance. Finding a dog-sitter for a few hours might well be the answer, Send - not bath! What fresh h*ll..?! He really doesn't do baths - but perhaps I'll see if his best friend's Daddy can have him over just for the afternoon.

I also can't stand the thought of anyone saying:

she had a good innings
it was a merciful release
she was rather losing it, wasn't she
losing T must have hit her hard

But in fact I think the only way not to slap anyone who says those and similar things is to make a bet about how many times they do and concentrate on counting up.
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CM,
Just some thoughts about the logistics of attending vs. not attending.
You have done enough for J while alive, that counts for everything.
The dog really cannot stay out in the car and not be seen, imo, that long, but you could board him in doggy day care or overnight. If you took him to the area of the funeral, could you drop him off for a bath, would that be enough time to pick him up after the funeral?
Still, you need to be able to go places that you choose.

Again, sorry for your loss.
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(((((((cm)))))) so sorry about J's passing. You have been a good friend.
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You are under no obligation to stay long at the funeral or to interact with people you do not want to see. Some people say funerals are for the living. Others that they are our final goodbye to the dead. When my dear friend - also J - died a few months ago, I went to the funeral and sobbed like a baby. I did not speak to another person there including his family. I signed the book and left with a heavy heart that I was never going to see him again, which in its own, painful way, was closure. Sorry for your loss. Peace.
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CM, Sorry to read of J's passing. I always go back and forth on deciding to go to funeral's or not. Then on the day of the service I go and I'm usually glad that I did.
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Oh, CountryMouse, I'm so sorry to hear about J's passing. Maybe you need to go for you? I always think that funerals and such are for us as much as for those we go to comfort. Be well.
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