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Make me.

 

(But don’t tell AMJ that I said that or she will start one of her long and loud lectures. )

 

 

I'm too tired right now.  Take it outside, where I don't have to listen to it.  But if you start the neighbor's dog barking we are going to have a "discussion".   :toetap05:  :toetap05:

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You know, saying "ignore this thread" to this group is like saying "don't push the big red button!" 

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AMJ

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Since the temperature got all the way up to 30 degrees (but I am NOT going to check the wind speed and calculate the wind chill-just BRR), I went and unblanketed the ponies and turned them out. They played hard for about 10 minutes before they begged for a snack.  The Fjord had a particularly fun time, but she's built for this weather, baybee.  I need to take a picture and have Slash teach me how to post it, but here's a stock image (also, pro tip: if searching for an image like this, type "Norwegian Fjord horse," not "Norwegian Fjord," lest you get a bunch of images of water.):

 

stock-photo-horse-93155725.jpg

 

 

ETA:  Watching ponies play makes my heart happy.

 

 

What a cute horse!

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There is much (figurative) weeping and gnashing of teeth as I try to find health insurance.  My health insurance of over 30 years is pulling out of the state.  Sigh.  And no one allows me to go to my regular doctor. 

 

 

:grouphug:  :grouphug:

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So, a body was pulled from the river last night, right by my house. We were driving to a neighboring town for dinner and saw all this commotion and at least 5 fire trucks and numerous other rescue vehicles on the west side of the river, directly across from our subdivision which is on the east side of the river. Found out this morning on the news that some kayakers discovered a submerged vehicle with a body in it and they were pulling the vehicle out last night. They identified the person and he was from our town, apparently missing since Sunday.

 

 

His poor family!   :grouphug:  :grouphug:

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I think I broke the internet.  I can't seem to get on the Rainbow Resource website anymore.  It just tries and tried to load and never does.  Are you guys staging an intervention and I'm just now finding out?

 

#firstworldproblems

 

Oh!  Imma try a different browser!  (Woo-hoo!  Why didn't I think of that before?!)

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Dd14 has written a little over 4300 words so far. She is super super proud of herself! :)

 

 

That's great!  Another Critterfixer in the making!

 

I'm still catching up on Day 1's quota, but at least I'm writing now.

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I don't wanna go get a job, because I'm afraid everything is going to fall apart if I add one more thing. I'm stressed out just thinking about it. But, money.

 

 

:grouphug:  :grouphug:

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We have over a foot of snow on the ground. My morning chores were hard. On top of yesterday's 4-hour Winterize the Barn extravaganza, I am tired and sore.

 

And then we learned that MIL's anemia is being caused by acute myeloid leukemia.

 

I am having a shitty day.

 

:sad:

:grouphug: That’s what my Meme just died of - leukemia. It was quick. I hope you get more time with her. :grouphug:

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1699 words now.  I have finished the first day's NaNoWriMo word quota.  Only two more days' worth to be caught up.

 

 

Behind-in-NaNo booyah.  Oh, well.

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1699 words now. I have finished the first day's NaNoWriMo word quota. Only two more days' worth to be caught up.

 

 

Behind-in-NaNo booyah. Oh, well.

In the year 1699 the people of Rotterdam went on strike over the high cost of butter AND the pirate, William Kidd, was captured in Boston.
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I have tried just the one Stitch Fix so far, and I have now sent everything back.  I didn't keep the dress  :(  because though I truly tried, I couldn't find any shoes to go with it.  I am rather hard to fit when it comes to footwear.  Footwear is my clothing bane.  

 

I had indicated I wanted "as cheap as possible" for the price range of everything except shoes, since I know that to get shoes that work for me I'm usually paying 3 digits (even for flats).  The shoes they sent for me to try didn't fit, but they were a decent price range (still, $69 for flats).  The dress was a little expensive ($84), but for a dress that nice I would have expected around that price.  The blouse they sent that wasn't me at all was an okay price (basically pre-sales price at stores like Kohl's and such -- $44).  The fashion-faded and scissor-cut (unhemmed) jeans were a whopping $88, and the oh-so-comfy t-shirt done in block colors with quilted shoulders (made me look like a linebacker) was $54.

 

It seems like anything less than $100 is "as cheap as possible", because there is no way I would count $88 jeans in that category.  I am quite frustrated, too, in giving them feedback because they put character limits on any text box they provide.  I had to shorten what I wanted to tell them to ridiculous statements that made me sound like I was vacillating between gushy and *itchy ("Great fit!  HATE the fashion fading!  Price much too high!").

 

My biggest two peeves were the cost and the 3-day limit in which I had to decide.  I did state that if I had had longer to hunt for shoes I would have kept the dress.  I know why they limit the customer's ability to provide detail -- it all feeds into spreadsheets and a relational database, so they can data-mine as part of their styling process.  (I read an article they posted on their blog about 3 of their data miners.)  But this means it is harder to provide truly helpful information about oneself, things one could tell a stylist directly if meeting in person.

 

 

I like the idea of Stitch Fix.  I was actually getting excited about that dress, but I couldn't justify spending the money until and unless I found shoes for it, because there was no guarantee I WOULD find shoes that worked for me.  I simply didn't have time to visit all of the footwear stores around here, looking for the right shoes.

 

If the folks at Stitch Fix improve how they interact with their customers this could prove to be a very valuable service.  I know that quite a lot of people would actually quite like the pieces I returned.  I don't think they paid attention to my age and I was again very constrained by character limits in what I could tell them about myself initially.  I know with each time that I give them feedback they learn a bit more about me, but it cost me the $20 styling fee just to give them the feedback I gave this time (the fee would have counted towards the purchase price had I kept anything). 

 

I might try one more Fix sometime, but if I have another bout of sending it all back I'll likely not do it again a third time.  I did manage to tell them that in my character-limited box at the end of my feedback form.  

 

 

Right now I'm still riding the send-it-all-back disappointment, right when I really wanted a treat for myself.  I'll get over this soon.  I have more packages due in, so I'll look at those as "treats": something for my old-lady knees (Cryo/Cuff https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B014R2ALWS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B013HKAFVI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and some discbound notebook supplies (more disks, and some forms to help me track Dad's financial affairs and medical information).  

 

And, thanks. Now I no longer have Stitch Fix envy. You're describing what I fear would happen. Shoes are terrible for me too- I'd probably not even bother giving them a size. (They gonna find me a 4 at cheap as possible prices? Not likely). 

 

We have over a foot of snow on the ground. My morning chores were hard.  On top of yesterday's 4-hour Winterize the Barn extravaganza, I am tired and sore.

 

And then we learned that MIL's anemia is being caused by acute myeloid leukemia.

 

I am having a shitty day.

 

:sad:

 

:grouphug: I'm so sorry. :grouphug:

 

So, a body was pulled from the river last night, right by my house. We were driving to a neighboring town for dinner and saw all this commotion and at least 5 fire trucks and numerous other rescue vehicles on the west side of the river, directly across from our subdivision which is on the east side of the river. Found out this morning on the news that some kayakers discovered a submerged vehicle with a body in it and they were pulling the vehicle out last night. They identified the person and he was from our town, apparently missing since Sunday.

 

That's so sad.  :crying:

 

:grouphug:  :grouphug:   It takes a while to heal from that.  MIL can clean if the house is a problem.  People visiting at this stage should be all about helping Mom, with a side of playing with the baby.

 

MIL's health is too poor to clean, and she 100% would not care b/c she's nice and not Mrs Clean herself, but I may shock her and actually let her help for once. I may let her hold my baby while I do stuff. She'll be stunned and ecstatic because I normally don't share babies or accept help well.

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