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Got "lucky" with a parking spot but I don’t dare move my car. I went to get the carpet for the balcony thinking I could get it in the car. Called my brother, he said why did’t u have them roll it the other way (5×12 vs 12×5) Well it came off the roll that way! I had to leave the carpet to pick it up after he gets back from the dentist. He’s not happy but baby sisters are a pain in the butt!!
Knee is not awful but it’s not happy either. I will manage just fine.I only bought a few things to get me by so I only had to carry 4 small bags.
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Hi Guys,
Based on what little I know from FB he never married. As for the rest? No idea. He was a stand up guy when we were growing up-and I hope he has remained much the same.
Just touched up the rails and need to go get the wash-3rd load. Thats what I get for being lazy last week.
They are working on the drive/lot today. If I move my car I may not have a spot to park in when I get back but I need to get grocerys.
I don’t want to have to walk 2 block with grocerys but I may have to.
bettie

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Hi Guys,
Well Carole we are talking about me and a "date" of sorts. Talk about excuses-he had a good one. Bomb threat at the airport he was to fly out of! Well at least it was true-I heard it on the news last night, He is not coming in until Friday PM and has suggested Sunday so maybe we’ll do lunch then.
My sleeping has been total cr*p. Up at 6am on my off day-again. Lots to do-cleaning and washing. Time to drink lots and lots of coffee!
bettie

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Hey Deb,
Spend next week getting ready to put your plans to action. I know state side landlords are working to get tenents-some waiving security deposits and reducing rent payments.
I’ve been thinking Michigan should be pretty in the fall. We could meet half way and do a weekend.
Something to look foward to!
bettie

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Hi Guys,
I was outside finishing the painting and my brother called. I told him the painter was not allowed phone calls when she was working-he said yea well I’m the supervisor and need to know what the lazy *ssed painter was doing! lol!
I think I am done-and even if I am not I am done!
Got an interesting email from a very old friend from grade school. He is flying in tonight to suprise his mom for her birthday and hoped we might be able to get together for at least a drink. Since I am off tomorrow I hope we do get a chance to meet up. He brought me my first Valentines Day Rose when I was 15. I haven’t seen him since Jen was a baby-he moved away from the area. I still have the last birthday card he sent me sometime in the 1980’s. What a nice suprise to hear from him again.
bettie

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I should be getting dressed but here I am!
Carole we will rent wheel chairs if we have to! lol!
Velvet I think Marilee may have posted to Kathryn no so long ago.
Deb I think the coffee is better than the beer!
Now if I could just get this darn paint off of me…..
bettie

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Hi Liz,
Just stopping by to say *****.
I think when I get back from vacation I am going to join a weight loss group. Very expensive-but HEY! I’m worth it!!
OPAAT! ( One pound at at time!!)
bettie

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Hey Deb,
Make sure you "phone home" a couple ***** during nap time! You could even be a sneek and block the caller ID and just hang up when answers!
I am tired and cranky this morning. Sore and stiff from the painting too boot!
When I am tired I can be really unreasonable!
bettie

[bettie]

Here’s another good one.
Brother called and he is making dinner.
It’s offical-he is a workaholic!
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Hi Guys,
Gotta laugh. My brother called at 10am wanting to know if i had the scraping and sanding done. I asked if he was crazy-as I have morning sun. He said ok enough excuses so I got started. 1 & 1/2 hours later I am inside, dizzy and nausious and he shows up at my door. "Taking a break already?" So he proceeds to finishing the scraping and does the primer. I bought him lunch. No more painting here today but he went back to his house to give the panels a 2nd coat of paint.
As little as I did I am worn out.
Jen might be by later. As soon as I recover I need to do some house work.
I have such a good brother!
bettie

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Hi Guys,
So I made something out of my day. I called my brother-also down in the dumps-and started ripping my balcony apart.
My condo assocation-in their infinate wisdom decited that every unit owned needed to maintain their own balcony. They are rought (sp) iron raillings with wooden inserts. The metal is rusted away at the bottom of the squares that the wood inserts sit in. The wood is rotten. So with no instructions besides just do them I have been putting this off and the deadline is Aug 1st! I wanted to start scraping the metal but couldn’t get the wooden pieces out so I had my brother come over. Mind you I was just going to slop a coat of paint on the rails and call it a day-LOL! Not with my brother-the master task master taking the reins! Now I have to scrap, sand, prime then paint the rails. He made me buy proper paint brushes too! No cheapies from the dollar store! He has measured the inserts and will be cutting them out tomorrow. A gallon of paint was $40! I spent over $100 on supplies and still need to buy carpeting for the deck. That will be another $45.
The assocation is having the drive sealcoated and we are getting new carpet in the hallways. It is a big pain in my butt but it will be nice when it is all said and done.
My coffee pot died today (RIP MR COFFEE!!) so I bought a new one today too. ( Welcome New Mr Coffee! )
At least I will have coffee to start my day tomorrow.
I am pooped.
bettie
 

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Hey whats stopping you? Oh yea-that whole ocean thing!!

[bettie]

It’s funny how some people dream big dreams. The car, house, spouse and kids. Simple things really, kind of a right of passage so to say. You know what I dreamed about last night-weight loss surgery.
I’m having one of those hormone driven down days-Feeling blue. It is beautiful outside. If I had someone to go with I’d drive to the beach.

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Hi Guys,
Just out of the shower and should be getting dressed.
Laura I do question a lot of things and of course I have no answers. Some days I am ok with "me", some days I’m not. I know I am so much better off than a lot but I do resent some of the things most people take for granted. I have been overweight since anout 6 years of age. Even more than being a CG, this is the one thing that has always plagued me. It has defined me my whole life. As a child, being told by well meaning adults, "you have such a pretty face", "don’t eat that candy" "hey chubbs". I have been on some kind of diet since I was 11. I have had little success mantaining weight loss. If I could change one thing, ask God one question, that would be the one.
I can’t help wondering what life would have been like if only I could have been "normal".
bettie

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Hi Guys,
Brother of the person who opened the account Wednesday came in and opened an account w/100 thousand dollars. Needless to say I didn’t get that one either!
Jen still had no word from the job.
I feel like cr*p. Home resting-no meeting for me tonight.
bettie

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