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Marginal
Weather: Much cooler finally. The AC and fans are turned off. Overnight temperatures dip down to low 50sF and even high 40sF. Days are sunny and not humid. Gorgeous! But we still need rain. The leaves started to change color already in August. Current projects:
Projects on hold. I'm bored with these!: A lace scarf out of hand painted Merino. This is a test project for the business. I might start to sell this yarn. Haven't finished it. Not crazy about the colors. Maybe I'll make it into socks instead. Charcoal gray alpaca sweater. I have misplaced the instructions. Should be interesting to finish it without them. No quilts in progress
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I'm better now. I seemed to have been under a tremendous cloud of
depression. We've had more minor financial setbacks this month, but
we'll survive. Our savings is depleted because of the unfortunate string
of incidents. Creditors are knocking on the door, but we will
survive.
We brought Ryan back up to school on Saturday. His new dorm is beautiful. The building is only two years old. It looks more like an apartment or hotel. He is in a "quad" unit. It has a living room, four separate bedrooms and their own bathroom and shower. He knows two of his room mates already. The third is a transfer student. The best part of the dorm in my opinion? His room is GROUND LEVEL. No stairs or elevator to haul all his stuff up. We completely unloaded the car and trailer in an hour. Ryan is thrilled to have his own bedroom. His own space with a desk, wardrobe and dresser. He says now if he is tired, he can shut his door and sleep. Or do his homework undisturbed. He swears this will help him do better in his classes this semester. The building he was in the past two years was right in the center of campus. It was a party building and very noisy all night long. This building is on the far north of the campus area. Actually about two blocks to walk to school. It faces the north so they can't even see the school from their room. Steve is still smoking. Today his is going to start Chantix. His new pulmonary doctor has a different approach to getting him to quit. He is younger and more positive and upbeat. Steve likes him so hopefully this doctor will be successful. His last pulmonary doctor? He died suddenly. Yep. We went for Steve's appointment in August and learned that Dr. W had gone in the hospital for routine surgery in July and died on the operating table. Needless to say it was a bit startling. Bunnies are good, just a lot of work to keep up with. I've changed their brand of kibble. It's less expensive and they seem to like it better. It's only about $15 for 40 pounds. The previous kibble cost me about a $1 a pound. This new kibble is a "wool" blend to help their fur. I've noticed that their fur seems more conditioned and it doesn't tangle as easily. The 40 pound bag lasts me about 10 days. The manager of the new small market (Westchester Market) that opened near our house in May, orders kale by the case for me and only charges about $18 for the case. The case lasts about 10-12 days if I keep it cool. Scott (the manager) thinks it's amusing that I keep all of these rabbits for fur. I was in there yesterday looking over the fruit while he was putting out fresh produce and pulling the old and damaged. He gave me a big bag of assorted apples that were not saleable (bruised or overripe) for free for the bunnies. Scott is bald. I think I'll make him a hat and line it with angora as a thank you for the little treats he sends for the bunnies. Needless to say we do quite a bit of shopping in this little store. They don't have every brand or product, but they have enough variety to satisfy us. The do not carry seafood except frozen. But they have a butcher shop and the meats there are hand cut and fresh. Ryanne has been working in the deli there since they opened. It is such a pleasant little neighborhood store. The cashiers are even sweet! Their prices are competitive with the larger change Grocery Store from Hell up in the center of town. The only way we would get better prices would be to drive to Norwich to the large grocery store there. But that is some 20+miles from here. We'll do that trip about every other month to stock up on staple goods. Work is busy. Since the beginning of July, we have had 6 people, including both supervisors, quit or transfer to other areas in the company. At the moment, our unit still is without a supervisor. It's a bit unnerving when there is no one to turn to with a problem. But again we will survive. Our business site is still down. We haven't gotten to do the complete inventory yet. We have dropped some of the behind the scenes extras that were costing us monthly fees to save a bit of cash for now. Steve has been working a ton of OT which will help with the finances once it shows up in his pay (OT can take several pay cycles to show up at our company). As a matter of fact, his pager went off this morning early and he is on the phone right now with work. How am I? Okay. About the same. I'm still prone to depression. I came to realize that it is one of the side effects of the new Fibromyalgia medicine I am taking. Normally I can pull myself back up when I get depressed. That was so difficult to do this past month. But I feel better now. More positive. I even lost 5 pounds!
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