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It has been exhausting, messy, frustrating but nearly there.
Tiles just finished, and decorating just finished.
pictures on my facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/healthysean
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No more workers please !
what does a good plane or beach novel mean lol-either it is good or it is not.
Sean, looks nice. Now you can get back to reading ;)Rich, good point. I suppose it means one that's not too..intellectual?
I think the designation means that those are the best places to read said books, Rich.
I've had a very busy couple of weeks. Later today I will be posting the signup for Summer Book Pals. I hope that everyone will have the opportunity to participate, especially since you will have the whole summer to read one or more books with another person in the Good Thriller community. Look for the post after 6pm EST today. Happy Reading!!!
The UK is stunned by the horrific attack on Manchester arena last night - I've been unable to do anything much today, spent most of it going on social media & watching the news.
The "Big Bad Wolf" Book fair is back, but this time it's a box sale. Which means you have to buy a box and then fill it with books as much as you can. The small box is 19 USD and the big one is 24 USD. I spent 5 hours there and managed to stuff 20 books in a small box. 
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What fun, Marwan! Wish I was there and participating. It's like Christmas. Love the photos!
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Has anyone read Not that Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham? I am half way through...feels a bit like Are You there God it's Me Margaret for the Millennial Generation, however....just too much for me. I recognize there are segments of great descriptive writing but then large chunks of narrative that I find myself thinking "why?"....
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Today planted 16 tomatoes plants.
Dug up our very first Jersey Royal New Potatoes, had about 19 of three plants.
We have been eating every evening a bowl full of strawberries each, my wife and I, feels great when they come straight from the garden to the bowl after a wash!
Sean wrote: "Great photos, like being in a little sweet shop!Today planted 16 tomatoe plants.
Dug up our very first Jersey Royal New Potatoes, had about 19 of three plants.
We have been eating every evening..."
How satisfying to enjoy the fruits of your labor, Sean :)
Christine wrote: "What fun, Marwan! Wish I was there and participating. It's like Christmas. Love the photos!"And that's not all the books, the rest are under the tables, whenever a space is cleared the staff place new books.
Janet wrote: "That is very cool! I'd love it!!"
It's a heaven for bookworms
Sean wrote: "Great photos, like being in ..."
Thanks, Sean
Gail wrote: "I love these pictures... I would spends hours there. Thanks for sharing, Marwan ....."
You're welcome
Thank God I can use my dishwasher again! Short version is one of the clips for the heating element in the bottom (the one that helps dry the dishes in that part of the cycle) broke off Sunday before last and the maintenance guy was on vacation till today. He said it wouldn't hurt my dishwasher. I'd been doing my dishes by hand since Wednesday of last week and I finally ran out of AJAX brand soap on Sunday.
Hey, Amber! Here's a clip I found on-line I thought you'd like next time you remember your earbuds at the library!Watch John Williams Surprised With an A Cappella Medley of Classic Film Themes
http://www.wqxr.org/story/watch-john-...
Just paused this one from YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhGEG... ), to check your URL out, Kirsten.
Hope you like it, I was humming theme from Superman all day. (Didn't know John Williams did the HP theme, too, for some reason.)
LOL. Happens, Kirsten.Here are sonme other items he composed, though you may not have known he was the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVdcV... (Lost in Space TV series), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNrVF... (Schindler's List), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXXWn... (Empire of the Sun) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7age... (the Spielberg remake of The War of the Worlds).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXHfd... does not mention the musical contribution of Williams to the 2005 version.
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1. Better weather and in the garden
2. Playing tennis
3. Watching the tennis.. French Open
4. So Busy
Also in one month away in London for a week, taking sister in law for her 60th. Plus at Wimbledon.
So lots of planning, shows, family arriving on her birthday, and much more.
5. Work !
6. A lot of sorting out but hope to retire next year. (HOPE)!
Sean, where's your reading time?! :-)
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Usually my lunchtime, music on and read...
When I finish work, I wait in the car for one hour to collect my wife(she works later, I start earlier)so I listen to music and read.
But we only bring one car into town as parking is so expensive (126.00 pounds a month)
Then after we have watched something in the evening, I read.
Usually time for 5-6 hours sleep. But our whole life is rush around everywhere!
Usually play tennis 2-3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Saturday or Sunday)
Saturday from 5.00 a. to 4.00 Jewellery stalls.
Sunday , walks and gardening and tennis.
Gardening and watering the garden every night!
Just had a bowlful of strawberries. (From the garden)
Plus I play snooker twice a week, Usually Tuesday night, and Sunday if no tennis.
Watch lots when I can !
Also update my website 2-3 times a month (www.thestarsphotos.com)
Kitchen Finished today.... Extractor fan and stainless steel casing all done !!
Gardening, more work being done as we have the decking and fence vanished.
Also plumbers working for 6 hours today on new pipes...
Seems to be never ending.
Tomorrow a very important day.. Tennis French Open semi finals and Murray V Warinka and Nadal v Thiem. !
Sean wrote: "Somehow I squeeze the reading in...Usually my lunchtime, music on and read...
When I finish work, I wait in the car for one hour to collect my wife(she works later, I start earlier)so I listen t..."
Wow! I am now ready for a nap after reading how much your day entails. 😴 I came home and slept for 5 hours after spending 3.5 hours inside an MRI machine. You wouldn't think that laying still for that long would make you tired but it did.
Lynn, the stress of a 3.5 hour MRI would have tired me right out, too!
Brenda wrote: "Lynn, the stress of a 3.5 hour MRI would have tired me right out, too!"I'm just not as young as I used to be. lol I've learned that naps are nice anymore. From pain, I find physical stress puts me in bed for awhile. My Dad had a stroke a few weeks ago. He is doing great and back to work at 82 years old. He was so lucky, it could have gone very bad. We are blessed. My daughter drove 1.5 hours to pick me up then 3 hours to Pittsburgh. My daughter was ready and willing to drive me all the way home later in the day (would have put her on the road another 4.5 hours) but I didn't have the energy for it. I decided to stay at my parents house for the night with Mom and since Dad was still doing great went home the next day. I still ended up in bed for a couple days recuperating from the traveling and sitting at the hospital. I remember when I was like my daughter and could drive 9 hours without a problem. It gets irritating but I've just learned to live with the limitations and build my life around the down time.
I'm glad your father is better and hope your health improves as well. We're all getting older and I know how you feel!
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Over 3 weeks (about 7-8 weeks ago)I had
3 MRI scans, 4 CT scans, 4 Ultra scans, and 4 X rays !!
All to check why I had a DVT and PE !
It was so stressful and exhausting...
Happy to hear your father is better.
He is back to work, and I want to stop working !
Forget to mention also have 34 indoor plants, 28 are orchids, they take a lot of looking after, feeding, spraying, watering!
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It is so good and keep a record of my sleep, the water I drink, my weight, my heart rate and most of all, my steps per day and per week.
I usually walk/run 110,000 steps a week !
Today alone I have walked 22, 200 steps.
I have a yearly MRI of my brain and neck due to MS. Only an 1 1/2 hours though, but quit long enough for me. Can't imagine three hours. Lynn, so glad your father has recovered but I feel for you. I too have had to learn my limitation. Sean, I want to retire too.
Thanks everyone... My Dad is the type of person that will be working right up until it is his time. He's not one to just sit around. Even if he is just at home he is finding something to do. In fact...he was in the middle of having a stroke and went to his golf league. Mom called the doctor and they said to get him off the golf course and into the hospital. Mom called Dad's cell phone and he basically told her that he was golfing and would go after he was done. 😰My MRI results came back great. I've now got proof that my brain is okay lol. My spinal cord is stable, no signs of the tumor coming back. No real changes since my spinal cord surgery in 2010, so I am counting my blessings too. The pain is just something I try to maintain, but it will always be there.
Lynn wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Lynn, the stress of a 3.5 hour MRI would have tired me right out, too!"I'm just not as young as I used to be. lol I've learned that naps are nice anymore. From pain, I find physica..."
I am happy to read you are recovering. I went through this with my mother and my husband. I'm glad you were blessed with such a wonderful daughter.
Sean wrote: "Forget to mention also have 34 indoor plants, 28 are orchids, they take a lot of looking after, feeding, spraying, watering! "I really miss living somewhere that I could have a garden. I do have a few indoor plants, but miss growing my own food.
I eventually end up killing my plants either because I'm neglectful or I'm too attentive. Both have happened.
Belleville's in the national news for all the wrong reasons.
We had many flower tubs back when I was a kid, about fifteen years ago, on one part of the roof of the house we used to live. It wasn't our own house, but we had one portion to ourselves, and my big brother had a hobby of growing and nurturing flower plants. My father then started growing vegetables and herbs like coriander, malabar spinach, spearmint etc. I used to water them and take care them beside my father and brother, I even had a flower tub of my own- cosmos flower... Before that, the house I was born in, we had a "real garden" in front of the house; we had fruits, flowers, vegetables you name it...
Ah those days... they are long gone with my childhood...
Amber wrote: "Belleville's in the national news for all the wrong reasons."I'm very sorry about that, Amber. One man's actions don't reflect on the whole community. I'm sure residents there are in shock.
We are, Brenda, but you know as well as I do that it still reflects badly on my community.
Guess it could have been worse, though I don't know how, other than actually killing off the entire Republican baseball team and half the Democratic team...unless it was Speaker Ryan spewing horse manure about Republican Senators/Congressmen NOT checking their "humanity at the door" when they walk into the Capital building.Every time politicians, regardless of party affiliation (though usually it's the Rethugs), vote to cut funding to programs like SNAP (food stamps) or the EPA they piss away a piece of their humanity.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/15/5329443... Well, damn. It really COULD have been much worse.
Claudia Tenney, who received the "One down, 216 to go" email, is my representative, and she's been getting death threats since she took office. I don't agree with her stance on anything, but I don't want any harm to come to her or her family.
That's why I said it really could have been worse.
Hi! Just thought I'd introduce myself as I'm trying to be more active in these group thingys. So, I'm Stacey. I'm 22 and live in a small town in England.
Have been in a bit of a reading slump but I *think* I'm coming out of it..
Hope you're all well :)x
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Stacey wrote: "...Have been in a bit of a reading slump b..."Hi Stacey, welcome! Whenever I have a reading slump, I'll either watch an exciting movie, or pick a book from a genre I don't normally read, just to mix it up a bit. Or I revert to my battered collection of Lone Pine YA paperback books from the 1980s!
L.J. wrote: "Stacey wrote: "...Have been in a bit of a reading slump b..."Hi Stacey, welcome! Whenever I have a reading slump, I'll either watch an exciting movie, or pick a book from a genre I don't normally ..."
That's a good idea, I may try that! Thank you for the suggestions :)
😊 Glad to be of help! Try hot chocolate too (whipped cream, marshmallows, chocolate shavings...)
Hi, Stacey. Your "Welcome to the Family" URL is Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2I...Hi, L.J. Your "Welcome to the Family" URL is Schindler's List Soundtrack-12 Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfC64...
Amber wrote: Hi, L.J. Your "Welcome to the Family" URL..."Thanks, Amber!
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Yes, that would do it too.