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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 4:31 pm 
EMail done, socials done enough, LOL. Then I went to spend my OTC money from Kaiser and apparently that got taken away this year, $240 free money, which doesn't surprise me but was very hard to find out.
So I had to go buy my joint supplements from Target, I think they were cheaper, LOL.
And I finished up my ballot ... amazingly there are 63 people for Governor, I don't think I have ever seen that many before, Now I have to figure out where to drop off my ballot so the post office doesn't lose it.
Oh, I did my Lazyfit exercises!! I am trying for 30 days in a row, so DAY 1 - done.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Friday, May 15, 2026 - 9:44 am
Friday's Mission
https://www.flylady.net/daily-mission
It's Clean you Car/Purse Day AND time to shine the tub and sink and wipe down the washer/dryer.
I did the usual kitchen cleanup, fed the kitties and grabbed some yogurt and the paper.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Friday, May 15, 2026 - 12:47 pm
Dragged the laundry into the house, it is amazing how heavy clothes can be. It is on my chore list for today to put all of them away and load up the bag with the dirty sheets.
Also need to sweep the kitchen, when I got rid of the flowers yesterday a bunch of babys breath fell on the floor.
I got thru most of the paper and initial computer games. Now I need to do my lazyfit before I get to play Arrow Out. I can't believe I am following Biebers' practice of chores for games, LOL.
I am sore from yesterdays lazyfit but on we go.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Friday, May 15, 2026 - 1:10 pm
DAY 2 Lazyfit done!! I am amazed at how out of shape I can get so quickly. Looking forward to better balance, stamina and strength. These arm exercises are hard for me, LOL.
Now I can play my game.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, May 16, 2026 - 11:41 am
Saturday .... A day for fun ...
Got the kitchen cleaned up, did the litter boxes and got Sylvester his 2 pills and apology Churu. So I am working on email and a Safeway order before I put away the laundry and hit the showers.
Off to email.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, May 16, 2026 - 1:56 pm
Got the laundry all put away, dustbusted the bathroom, showered, brewed some Coffee and did my Lazyfit exercise. Now I can play Arrow Out!
DAY 3 is done!! Yeah. Oh, I did a Safeway order and I am going to go down to dinner tonight to see what is going on in The Bistro.
Not sure what other chores will be done but I feel good that I am making progress on everything.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, May 17, 2026 - 12:11 pm
Sunday ... a day to reflect and relax.
Oh I forgot to report back yesterday about the Bistro. It was a disaster, apparently our chef has departed with no notice or information so yesterday there was no manager and no servers.
They called in a Manager who used to work here but got promoted to another facility and she had to ask her daughters to come and help her. Since the "acting manager" didn't do a thing to help it was a basic nightmare. And our residents are "stupid" and can't read the room if their lives depended on it, so they made things worse by being demanding. I swear I want to make all the residents attend an etiquette training and I want someone to tell them the world does not revolve around them. That is not included in their rent.
A temporary chef, Karen, will be here on Monday, so now I am going down to brunch to see how that goes, LOL.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, May 17, 2026 - 6:56 pm
Crap, I just lost a long post. I guess Sonia abandoned her job, never called back to explain what was happening. And supposedly she didn't know how to order foodstuff, so god only knows what supplies they have in the kitchen.
The menus have been a bit erractic. The TempChef's work for 10 days and then have 4 days off, so Karen will be back Monday to try and sort things out. But we don't seem to have any servers, no one is sure who still works here and who doesn't.
Brunch was good but nothing special this week, just bacon and eggs.
So I got the kitchen cleaned up and the dishwasher running, opened up and sorted 5 boxes of catfood. I don't know how that happened, LOL, I thought I skiped a couple. Won't need any for awhile now.
Then I opened up the other boxes I got, the new comforter, a big box for 2 bottles of pills, and some contact paper. I have my chores for next week all worked out -- change out the bed, put down the contact paper and take out the multitude of boxes I have - most are broken down already.
Now I need to finish reading the paper and play some games. I gave myself permission to skip Sundays on my Lazyfit quest.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Sunday, May 17, 2026 - 9:49 pm
My last days of leisurely reading the Sunday newspaper were in San Francisco over 25 years ago. My absolute best days of leisurely reading the Sunday newspaper were in Miami in the early to mid 80's when Carl Hiassen, Dave Barry, and Gene Weingarten were feature writers for the Herald's Sunday Magazine, The Tropic. Two of my (civil prosecution) cases were featured in The Tropic. They were all around my age then.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 18, 2026 - 2:56 am
Dipo, your residents act just like the customers I deal with everyday. It is very exhausting.
Juju, The Tropic was the best. I couldn't believe they killed the golden goose for that paper for no good reason.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Monday, May 18, 2026 - 1:09 pm
Monday's Mission
https://www.flylady.net/daily-mission
It's Home Blessing Day AND we are in the master bedroom, closet and bathroom. Time to clear the top of the dresser, if you have one, I don't, LOL.
Getting a late start but I got a surprise, someone threw up on the bar, and down the bar stool, onto an unopened bag of kibble and then all over the floor. It was quite something.
So I cleaned up the kitchen, loaded the dishwasher, brewed the coffee, scrubbed the sinks and then threw the dishrag over to the office so I could start cleaning it up.
Got that done and then dealt with the litter box and did a bit of dustbusting on the office rug. I think I need to pull out the vac and go over it.
I have on my list ... take out boxes, trash and recycling. Change the sheets and put the new comforter down, do Day 4 Lazyfit and unload dishwasher. So one task is done.
Off to deal with email/socials, then Lazyfit. Oh and I just wrote a little editorial about The Bistro. I will post it below for comments and changes.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Monday, May 18, 2026 - 1:10 pm
My Op Ed piece about The Bistro ...
Have you opened your eyes and looked around lately? The Bistro is having some issues right now, no permanent chef/manager, few servers… Are you part of the problem? Have you treated the servers rudely? Been impatitent. Demanding, acted priviledged and entitled as if the world revolved around you and your needs? where are you going in such a hurry you can’t wait your turn for dinner service?
Try some patience and kindness while the problems get resolved. … Just my Opinion.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Monday, May 18, 2026 - 1:40 pm
Boxes out to the bins, bag of trash and two bags litter. I had been waiting for today because usually the trash men come. But!! the trash chute is full, so I can't take any more trash out, but I can still take the recycling and I have two big boxes to take, didn't have any room on the rollie, LOL.
Back to email/socials.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2026 - 10:31 pm
Opinion on the Op-Ed:
Possibly a tad too harsh on the residents, because they thought they moved in and are paying a LOT (because it is California) to have certain standards met, like reliable food service.
Oh Hell, Dipo, I hope you don't have to take over again.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 2:14 am
She's gonna have to.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 8:09 am
My worst fear.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 12:55 pm
Tuesday's Mission
https://www.flylady.net/daily-mission
It's Planning Day AND time to spend 15 minutes decluttering your closet top shelf.
Earlier I cleaned up the kitchen, grabbed the yogurt and paper and watched Perry. Then I started working on my project for the day. Rotate the mattress pad, change the sheets, put on the new comforter.
So I got most of the stuff off the bed, then I needed to dustbust the kibbles and fur. So I had to go to the kitchen and put the dustbuster together, I took it a part and cleaned it yesterday. That led to a further cleanup of the kitchen, loading the dishwasher and brewing the coffee.
Got the comforter dustbusted, then started to work on the wool blanket that is at the foot of the bed. I am going to put a different blanket there so the wool one needed some clean up. I used the flea comb to comb the fur/stuff off of it so now it is clean enough to put away. I was amazed how much fur came off that you really could not see, LOL.
Now I am working on email, while I take a break from the bed - I will do it in stages.
Having some coffee, watching Colbert and dealing with email/socials.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 12:57 pm
Hahahahahaha, my op ed may never see the light of day. I felt better just writing it here.
Sometimes I just want to Slap them Bald-Headed!!! They don't know when they have it good. It seems like they just want to complain so much that Carlton will say ok, then we won't have it anymore. Fend for yourself.
I am hoping once the temp chef gets here it settles down a bit.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 2:33 pm
Email/Socials done, Day 5 of Lazyfit is done, I stripped the bed and just finished flipping the mattress pad.
It is one of those padded ones and I realized that just like when I rotate the mattress only two corners were being used. So I figured if I at least flipped the mattress pad all four corners would be used.
Time fora break and playing Arrow Out.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 4:50 pm
Fresh sheets, new comforter all on the bed. I have been getting tons of phone calls from my sister and my friend, they seem to both be having a bunch of doctor visits. I am thankful that they are taking all the appointments so I don't have to, LOL.
Need to move the pink blanket onto the bed and I will be done. Taking a break to fed Sylvester and go down to the Bistro to see what is going on.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 1:07 pm
Wednesday's Mission
https://www.flylady.net/daily-mission
It's Anti-Procrastination Day AND go thru your makeup. It seems like we just did this recently.
I cleaned up the kitchen and got the old kitty plates soaking. The food it drying up quickly since it is warm out, so not much is getting eaten.
The Big Boss is here today so I am taking my tablet and paper down to have some lunch and see if I can find out what is going on. He is here every Wednesday but I keep missing him.
So, I did a quick run thru email and now I am off to have some lunch.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 4:17 pm
Ecellent lunch ... I took my paper, tablet, a book and my phone. It wasn't too long before Jon, the Big Boss and Marnee, the acting manager, noticed me and came to chat.
I was able to find out a bit about changes coming and asked some questions that hadn't been asked - like is the new Culinary Manager a Chef? I was surprised that nobody asked that. She is at least a Nutritional Person. So Jon left with a bunch of other questions to ask and ponder.
So I'm back, now chores .... I took out the trash, put the dishes into the dishwasher, dustbusted the kitchen floor, then dumped the ice trays -- it's been hot, and refilled them and refilled water bottles too.
Now I am working on email and Lazyfit and watching last night's Stephen Colbert.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 4:46 pm
Oh, I forgot, I set up my Zevo, I have had a lot of flies probably because of the old dry cat food.
And I just finished Day 6 of Lazyfit.
Stephen Colbert was very funny. Jon Stewart came on and gave him a very nice LazyBoy Recliner, at least I think because its the one I have seen on QVC, that had the Stand Up feature. Cracked me up.
And David Byrne was on and sang burning down the house, Stephen even joined in. I loved it.
Now I am going to take my tablet, the rest of the paper and climb into bed and watch some TV.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 1:28 pm
Thursday's Mission
https://www.flylady.net/daily-mission
It's Errand Day and Time to clear off the bed side tables.
Got the kitchen cleaned and the dishwasher is running. Read the paper and had my yogurt so now I am having my coffee.
Not much on my list for the day. I need to do my Lazyfit and water some indoor plants. I am feeling tired, which doesn't make much sense but maybe a nap would help.
Off to email/socials.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 5:44 pm
Day 7 of Lazyfit done. Had to start a new program and they tried to switch it to a bed yoga, LOL. Nope, I want the chair yoga.
Now working on email and socials, then figure out some dinner.
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