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Good morning everyone!

Hope your day is off to a good start . . . if you are having challenges today, I hope they resolve in a way that works for you.

Life would be too perfect if we didn't have challenges - and too easy. I know that there are many of you that wish you had slightly easier challenges (health, family relationships, work place dilemnas, loss and grief, etc.), and I wish it were so for you too.

I have a few itsy bitsy teensy weensy issues today . . . ones that I can laugh at . . .

Bad News: Broken Toilet/4 people coming as guests over holidays
Good News: It is a second toilet, and plumber promises me he will be here very late this afternoon.

Bad News: Smoke detector beeping and chirping, and I can't get it off the ceiling
Good News: It is not a fire - I am just self-cleaning my oven and there is enough heat and vapours that it keeps setting it off, also hubby will be home soon and I'm sure he will be able to get it down til oven is cleaned.

Bad News: Door Handle of Stove Loose and you have to take the whole door apart to tighten it, and hubby is not a handy man at all.
Good News: We are hoping it will not get worse before or over turkey cooking days/Christmas Season, as long as we can open oven, we are good. Oh yes, and hubby has a lot more better qualities than being a handy man.

For some reason this pre-Christas season is arising a bit of melancholy over my loved ones who are no longer here with us . . . not overly sad, but just a little bit . . . rehashing emotions and memories in my mind.

How is everyone else? Bustling through the season? Taking time to appreciate the Advent? Struggling with thoughts, feelings, and emotions? Looking forward to family gatherings/dreading family gatherings/or no family gatherings?

Blessings to all!


My B-I-L who passed away several years ago now was a fantastic handyman - he could fix anthing, and I mean anything - and if he couldn't buy a part to fix something, he built a part. Everytime something goes wrong at our house we both say "too bad B-I-L wasn't here - he could fix it in a snap"
 
Was going to try and edit above post, but got frustrated . . . so - in case the BIL paragraph seems out of place - it is! It originally was before the "melancholy at Christmas" paragraph - thinking of him led into how I have been feeling last few weeks.

Also re: stove handle - we are not touching it til after Christmas - better to have a stove/oven door that works, than one that we can't get put back together (of course, then, hubby would just threaten to go buy a new one.)
 
Beloved said:
For some reason this pre-Christas season is arising a bit of melancholy over my loved ones who are no longer here with us . . . not overly sad, but just a little bit . . . rehashing emotions and memories in my mind.

How is everyone else? Bustling through the season? Taking time to appreciate the Advent? Struggling with thoughts, feelings, and emotions? Looking forward to family gatherings/dreading family gatherings/or no family gatherings?
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I'm actually in a more Christmas-y mood than usual and I'm not sure why given the events of the fall. Maybe it's the prospect of enjoying Christmas away or maybe having some kind of resolution to Dad's condition, even a final one, has been as much as lifting of a burden as a loss. We shall see how things actually go once the season is over.
 
Beloved - ironically I decided to turn on the self-cleaner oven today. Despite open windows and the kitchen vent on, it wasn't long before the smoke alarm was screaming. Seelerman disabled it. Just a few minutes ago I reminded him to reset it.
 
Beloved said:
Was going to try and edit above post, but got frustrated . . . so - in case the BIL paragraph seems out of place - it is! It originally was before the "melancholy at Christmas" paragraph - thinking of him led into how I have been feeling last few weeks.

Also re: stove handle - we are not touching it til after Christmas - better to have a stove/oven door that works, than one that we can't get put back together (of course, then, hubby would just threaten to go buy a new one.)
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If worse comes to worse, have in mind one of those moveable handle things for the bath. They have the suction cups. That should work on your oven, as long as there's no lever latching mechanism or something.
 
@ChemGal Well I am ticked right off. When I go to avatar which I haven't changed in a couple of weeks,
all my hearts and pics are gone.
Oven doors are minor.
 
crazyheart said:
@ChemGal Well I am ticked right off. When I go to avatar which I haven't changed in a couple of weeks,
all my hearts and pics are gone.
Oven doors are minor.
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lol CH.
You're probably in the wrong folder. I find computers tend to default to certain folders. The most recent will be remembered for a while, but then an update or something resets it. If you share what version of windows you're using, we can probably help you find them.
 
Seeler said:
Beloved - ironically I decided to turn on the self-cleaner oven today. Despite open windows and the kitchen vent on, it wasn't long before the smoke alarm was screaming. Seelerman disabled it. Just a few minutes ago I reminded him to reset it.
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Hubby came home and disassembled mine . . . it is sitting on the kitchen table so that I remember to put it back up after the air has cleared.
 
Mendalla said:

I'm actually in a more Christmas-y mood than usual and I'm not sure why given the events of the fall. Maybe it's the prospect of enjoying Christmas away or maybe having some kind of resolution to Dad's condition, even a final one, has been as much as lifting of a burden as a loss. We shall see how things actually go once the season is over.
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There may still be a bit of "shock factor" involved in your grieving process, Mendalla - although you knew for a very short time that your Dad was going to pass, it still maybe has not quite registered in part of your being. You may experience some times ahead when it hits you a bit harder. But, whatever happens, it is your grieving process, and there is no right and no wrong . . . it is whatever you are feeling and dealing with.
 
ChemGal said:
If worse comes to worse, have in mind one of those moveable handle things for the bath. They have the suction cups. That should work on your oven, as long as there's no lever latching mechanism or something.
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Good idea, should it be needed ChemGal.
 
We don't have a self-cleaning oven (and don't really need one, we don't use the oven much) but I find that the BBQ sometimes sets ours off. And, to keep things really fun, we have the interwired kind with one on each floor including the basement. When one goes off, they all go off. :oops:
 
crazyheart said:
@ChemGal Well I am ticked right off. When I go to avatar which I haven't changed in a couple of weeks,
all my hearts and pics are gone.
Oven doors are minor.
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Oh no! You are right, crazyheart . . . losing your hearts is of greater significance - hope a computer fairy is able to retrieve them for you. (However - keep in perspective :)- definitely not as a bad as an earthquake, mudslide, flood, or such :love:).
 
Beloved said:
There may still be a bit of "shock factor" involved in your grieving process, Mendalla - although you knew for a very short time that your Dad was going to pass, it still maybe has not quite registered in part of your being. You may experience some times ahead when it hits you a bit harder. But, whatever happens, it is your grieving process, and there is no right and no wrong . . . it is whatever you are feeling and dealing with.
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Oh, it still hits me at times to be sure. It just doesn't seem to be factoring in to my feelings about Christmas. Then again, I had an uncle die pretty much right in front of my eyes on Christmas Eve so maybe after that, it takes a lot more than death to suck the joy of Christmas out of me.
 
Toilet fixed - wonderful plumber!!! (Replaced the inerds in the toilet tank :).

Oven clean . . . leaving door alone til after holidays.

Smoke detector back up in place, with a new battery. When hubby installed the smoke detectors when we moved in he installed the one in the hallway too close to the kitchen, and everytime we make toast or sometimes when we are using the oven we have to have the fan on or the smoke detector will go off. So I like to replace the battery every so often cause it gets lots of use :).
 
Beloved said:
Toilet fixed - wonderful plumber!!! (Replaced the inerds in the toilet tank :).

Oven clean . . . leaving door alone til after holidays.

Smoke detector back up in place, with a new battery. When hubby installed the smoke detectors when we moved in he installed the one in the hallway too close to the kitchen, and everytime we make toast or sometimes when we are using the oven we have to have the fan on or the smoke detector will go off. So I like to replace the battery every so often cause it gets lots of use :).
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Ours is in exactly the same location (ie too close to the kitchen). We keep a large piece of cardboard nearby to wave at the smoke detector for crispy toast, hot frying pan, or open oven door.
 
I must get moving....I must get moving....I must stand up and get dressed.....lol. Yup, one of those mornings.
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I am playing scrabble through xbox/tablet, and have most mornings 20=30 plays to do. It is a nice way to start the day and wake up my brain. (Each night I have about the same..again, a nice way to break from work)
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Last night was a retirement party. Tonight is another one. Monday, i heard a friend had given notice on Friday and was walked out on Monday. This sucks but I get it on all sides. Lots of goodbyes, but retirement parties have the added plus of wonderful visits with retirees. I sat at a table with 4 retirees from our engineering area. All good guys, some retired for 20 years, others 10...and it was wonderful to catch up and laugh with them.
 
Seeler said:
Ours is in exactly the same location (ie too close to the kitchen). We keep a large piece of cardboard nearby to wave at the smoke detector for crispy toast, hot frying pan, or open oven door.
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We wave a tea towel LOL! (I will think of you the necxt time mine goes off).
 
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