Text 27830, 103 rader
Skriven 2009-08-24 18:48:34 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: lifestyles
==================
->  RH> Pre-kids would make a difference.  Post-kids too.  A pinched nerve
or
->  RH> the MS (hard to tell the difference) has been making my right hand
->  RH> tingle all day.  It's happened before.  It was pretty numb when I
woke
->  RH> up, so I'm
-> 
-> No un, if it's either a nerve or NS.  I've had minor tingles when I hit
-> the elbow wrong--did it the other day with the left one and got a tingle
-> that I'd not had in years.  Maybe the nerve is getting  better?
-> 
Or just getting.  It can tingle if it takes too much pressure too, no
healing required.

-> I'll just have to give him lots of tea & sympathy.  He's on his owm for
-> paper typing since I'll have my own to worry about.

And brownies?  That always seems to work.  
 
->  RH> I've got the paperbacks on smaller hanging rack whatsits suspended
->  RH> between two shelves.  It keeps them out of harm's way.
-> 
-> OTOH, the greater share of mine are in paperback.  Moving around, having
-> to make a weight allowance, made me go that route.

Mine are a total mix.  Charity cookbooks, assorted languages, hardbacks,
you name it.  I think I paid retail for precisely one of them; the rest are
from used book sales, thrift stores, etc.  

-> -> Anything interesting?  Ethnic? I'm thinning down my sewing/craft
books
-> 
->  RH> Those tend to be the keepers, except for some rather bland
Caribbean
->  RH> stuff. The one is from Bermuda, but the recipes are all British.
->  RH> One's a
->  RH> Pennsylvania Dutch hardback, but it's a book club edition.  Another
is
->  RH> a classical French book, but it's from the Plaza or some other New
->  RH> York hotel rather than France.
-> 
-> IOW, sounds like good fodder for a library donations sale.  When my mom

One guess where they came from.

-> worked at the town lbrary, she said that cook books were the hottest
-> items at book sales.  She retired from that job several years ago so I
-> can't get a sneak preview.

They always used to be, but these days with the Google Cookbook they're not
as hot.
 
->  RH> Sewing down the stash is a thankless tast. I try, but it keeps
growing
->  RH> back, rather like toenails and hair. I clip mine, but it keeps
growing
->  RH> right back.
-> 
-> Sounds like here. I boought the fabric to back a quilt for Sarah since
-> we moved up here. (G) I made an executive decision the other day--clear
-> my sewing room of all non sewing/crafting stuff and other things that
-> have found their way in but not sewing related.  I'm also going to store
-> my thimble & shadow box collections while here; we just don't have that
-> much wall space.  That, and the time I need to set it up/take it down
-> when we move is quite labor intensive.  I need the time for other
-> projects at the moment.  Fabric will stay in the room, to be sewn up as
-> time and energy permit.

I have quilt back fabric all over the place.  Quilt front too.  
 
-> -> If you have enough of them sitting around.  As I've been cleaning up,
-> -> I've found lots of little note pads, sticky back and otherwise.
-> 
->  RH> I can't keep track of them around here.  They keep popping up.
-> 
-> 
-> I have note pads everywhere, from everywhere it seems.

Advertising pads, gimme letter nonprofit pads, political pads, and some
actual sticky note pads that you actually paid for.  Yep.  About right.
 
->  RH> That'll change.  A few classes with a few hundred page papers
and....
-> 
-> Not any of mine, that's sure.

You hope.  Every once in a while a paper turns into a book.
 
-> -> decided not to take it the step further for now.  It's saved so we
can
-> -> pull it up later to re do if we want to embroider a name tag.
-> 
->  RH> Sounds like a plan.  Then again, anything that saves people from
->  RH> reading my handwriting would sound like a plan.
-> 
-> Only requirement was that it had to be readable.  BTW, I saved the test
-> print outs, just in case I need a template for another project.

I've got the original drawings for just about every applique project I've
ever done.  It's been useful a few times.

--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Doc's Place BBS Fido Since 1991 docsplace.tzo.com (1:123/140)