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Saturday, November 08, 2025

NaBloPoMo: Is it too late to winterize?

Beloved and I were talking about preparing for winter earlier this week. I think it was Tuesday. He was talking about getting the car's tires replaced and possibly the windshield wipers. I was talking about putting up plastic over the windows to block the drafts that blow in around them when the wind comes hard out of the west. Come to this morning and I smelled snow on the wind as I was getting to the car to go run errands. It's currently too warm to drop snow on us right now. But if you look at the clouds, they're snow clouds up there.

I now find myself wondering if we're going to get walloped by a big storm in the immediate future and temps will just stay bitter cold. I'm probably worrying over nothing. But, if we can get the apartment a bit more sealed up, it'll lower our heating bill and keep us more comfortable. Of course, the landlord will bitch about the tape holding the plastic on the windows but he doesn't live here. The only evidence he'll have of us putting up plastic will be less dust in those spots.

Anyways, our security deposit went missing sometime between when our first landlord died and the property got inherited by his wife. We suspect she used it to cover burial funds.

Thursday, November 06, 2025

NaBloPoMo: Decaf Coffee < Regular Coffee < Espresso

My morning habit is to drink coffee as I do some writing. About this time last year, I had to switch to decaf everything because my heart rate was too high. (It wasn't the coffee causing it but it didn't help.) I see advertisements for different types of coffee and I find myself missing regular coffee. A special treat from time to time was a demitasse of espresso. An extra special treat was chocolate covered espresso beans.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find ground coffee that is decaf? It's damn near impossible. For the first few months, I suffered through a few different varieties of instant decaf. Some of them were really unpalatable. Then, on a whim, I stopped at the local Tops Market. Lo and behold, I found ground coffee beans that were decaf. To compound this minor miracle, it was the store brand which made it less expensive than the only other ground coffee that was decaf. To say the least, I was delighted.

I also found an instant decaf coffee that actually tastes like coffee. It is quite a bit like the coffee my paternal grandmother drank by the pot on a daily basis in flavor. It may actually be the coffee she was drinking as her tolerance for caffeine decreased. That one is a national brand. It's from Nescafe.

The awesome thing was when Beloved found coffee flavoring syrups that were sugar free at Walmart. The only one that I've had disagree with me so far was the Pumpkin Spice. The French Vanilla is my go to. So, I get up in the morning, fix myself some coffee with a splash of that and half and half, and start my daily writing. More than once, I have gotten into the coffee experience so much that I finished the pot before I started my journal entries. LOL

Wednesday, November 05, 2025

NaBloPoMo meme edition with cats!

 Judgemental cat is judgemental.



Sunday, October 26, 2025

Monday Menu

It's going to be a long week. Appointments and halloween this week. oh boy.

Day Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Sun yogurt with
granola
coffee
pb&j
tea
chicken
nuggets
w/ mashed
potatoes
water
Mon yogurt
coffee
granola
quesadillas
flavored
water
hamburgers
quick salad
water
Tues yogurt
coffee
granola
leftovers
flavored
water
tacos
water
Wed yogurt
coffee
granola
taco salad
water
spaghetti &
meatballs
water
Thurs yogurt
granola
coffee
leftovers
water
split pea
soup &
sandwiches
water
Fri yogurt
coffee
granola
leftovers
tea
chicken
patty sand.
water
Sat yogurt
granola
coffee
ham sand.
water
take out
water

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Monday Menu

 Second verse, same as the first. Last week's menu went over so well with the guys that I'm doing it again. I think these guys would eat mashed potatoes everyday for the rest of their lives given the opportunity.


Day Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Sun yogurt with
granola
coffee
pb&j
tea
meatloaf
mashed
potatoes
water
Mon yogurt
coffee
granola
quesadillas
flavored
water
hamburgers
quick salad
water
Tues yogurt
coffee
granola
leftovers
flavored
water
tacos
water
Wed yogurt
coffee
granola
taco salad
water
spaghetti &
meatballs
water
Thurs yogurt
granola
coffee
leftovers
water
split pea
soup &
sandwiches
water
Fri yogurt
coffee
granola
leftovers
tea
chicken
patty sand.
water
Sat yogurt
granola
coffee
ham sand.
water
take out
water