Storm!
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Postad:21 december 2023 12:01 pm
Senast Uppdaterad:27 december 2023 10:44 am 16084 besök
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This one, was our first winter storm.
I loved it.
Ofcourse i went outside, on my bike!
it was real fun!
Dont be afraid, just do it!!
Hahahah.
And, when it is not possible to ride anymore, i go walking,
no big deal! 
it was a great adventure, at times i thought, the wind is going to win this
from me!
Not so much!! though....
Our "storms" are much different then the storms in the US.
Stay safe.
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Dentists,
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Postad:20 december 2023 1:54 am
Senast Uppdaterad:22 december 2023 10:00 am 14489 besök
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I had to go to my dentist.
Just the usual routine controle.
Talking with my daugther about their dentist, and their dentist says, you need to clean the space between your teeths, with dental floss....
I really struggle with that floss, cant get them in to my last teeths.. always almost chooking, trying to.
Now, my dentist says; you dont need to use that floss.
it is actually too thin, to get to all the right places...
Just toothpicks are fine!
There seems to be this new thing, wanting you to give up your perfectly good wishdom tooth...
WHY?
"just in case" is not an agument i want to go for.
Because in that line of thinking, you could also remove my uterus, bowel, Just "because youll never know"? Just in case.....?
Such a crap argument, reason...
This dentists centre is real great, they have a lot of patients, with fear for the dentist, and they are very kind to me.
Still, no fun going there, it still gives me stress....
Everything was alright!! sooo happy!!!
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I thought so.....
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Postad:17 december 2023 4:42 am
Senast Uppdaterad:20 december 2023 1:40 am 15061 besök
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This workplace is organised by The Salvation Army.
They serve lunch, every day.
Just a very simple hot meal.
The two men, who cook for everyone, just make very simple, mostly pre fab food...
As i thought, for almost all the people working there, it is their ONLY real meal, of the day.
Things like fruit or, real fresh cut vegies?
Or, herbs....?
I asked this R person, those strange things, 😉, called: fruits?
Do you take them?
Or fresh vegies?
His answer; after first, thinking about it; Nah, not so.....
Aah, well......
I take my own hot meals with me.
I cant eat their "food"...
Almost every day, they eat patatos, those are nightshades, i dont eat those...
Or cook pasta, wheat, i dont eat, that either....
And, always meat!!
The cheap kind of meat... sausages and the likes.... always almost pork...
It is great, that people, working there, can get this one hot meal!
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Being sick?
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Postad:16 december 2023 1:01 am
Senast Uppdaterad:17 december 2023 9:09 pm 11618 besök
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Friends, familymembers, they, "who took the needle"....,
Are all, sort of, constantly sick, or on their way, to an other bug, that jumps at them...
My daughter and her partner, are, again sick.
My sister, too.
A friend, too.
At this community centre, there are also alot, "who took the needle," who are, sort of, constantly sick....
Better one week, or two....maybe three... or longer...
And, BHAM! sick again... and, it looks like, they cant fight that bug anymore, as fast as before.....
Really struggle to get their health back..
this is even noticed by a good quality newspaper.
I worry about the health of my daughter and partner, they are young, should not be struggling with their health this way...
They both, "took the needle"- more then once...
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Bash your door in?
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Postad:15 december 2023 11:55 am
Senast Uppdaterad:16 december 2023 12:48 am 12131 besök
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Today at the workshop, during the tea break, we talked about if it was oke, if i came in, on other days, then are sceduled now.
W. told me, you have to let us know, beforehand, because otherwise we worry about you and will come to your house and may bash your door in.
I was totallly suprised; Bash my door in??
Huh?
i wanne see that! LOL
We both laughed.
They wont! for sure not!
I am not as most people there, who have some (many?) mental indication, some mentor who keeps track of theirs whereabouts, and if they take their meds or not and all that kind of stuff.
I dont have a social / medical/ mental indication, for that kind of support.
Most there are heavy on meds.
And most have some sort of drugs/ booze use in the past or still...
Have some sort of criminal record... been inside... jail....
So, i don fit their 'normal' indication, about a persons past and behaviour, and how they have to behave around me.
Most of the days, now that it is really cold, also in this very big shed, i start working with my coat on, and gloves too.
Until the temps are a bit more comfortable, i work that way.
I finished an other kids bike.
Had some problems with the back wheel.
Thanks for the help from Ronald, he is a great teacher.
We worked as a real team, today.
Both working on the same bike, trying this and that and the other thing.
Putting the back wheel on the bike again, and then, get the wheel off it, again
because there were other elements that did not work the way we wanted it.
And do that some more times!
Back wheels can be a pain in the youknowwhat. 
We fixed it!!  )
Now i am starting on a very old bike, the brand name is; Mustang, 
i told them, i want to fix this bike and have it, as my own, pay for it.
I have to demolish it from bottom to the top.
I am looking forward to go ahead with this project.
The energy today, was really very crazy, i dont know, what was going on,
but what a randomity.... very restless.....
It is not a full moon..... so that could not be a reason, for all that randomity... restless energy....
This one guy, one of the staff, mentioned it too....
I just keep myself to myself, doing what i like best.
And when i cant fix it, i just walk out of the shed, breath in and out, in the outside...
and go in again, and get on it, again.
Or talk about it, with Ronald, he has always some good ideas, to try it this way or that way...
Sometimes it is just about muscle power! I hate it, when that happens! sighs.....
incompetence....
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My Etsy adventures,
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Postad:14 december 2023 9:37 am
Senast Uppdaterad:15 december 2023 12:07 pm 11763 besök
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Since i try to cook by that sour-base book.
I found one great recipe, it are Rosti, made of sweet patatoes and parsnip, onion, eggs, some buckwheat flour, and some cheese + some herbs...what ever i like to use.
I love it!!
BUT, it is a lot to grate!
With just a small manual grate....
So, i went looking for some oldfashion Moulinex hand mill...
One, i used to have, long time ago,
I knew what i was looking for,
it is very the 60 ish, in orange! I love it!!
Could not find it, in any of the thrift shops around here.....
So, Etsy was the next place to look.
I found more then one Moulinex grate mill.....
I bought it by one person, but got in contact with an other seller, of
the same Moulinex grate mill....
At first i did not noticed i talked to the one and had bought it by the other person!
Then some hick-up came on, about the payment.
I go contact the customers service.
I had a great contact there, the man was very helpful,
and told me, the payment went through and you will have this thing
within 24 hours, if everything went well.....
So, i tell this to this one sales woman and she told me, i did not get any notification,
So, i check payment again, and then, i see i bought it by a totall other person!
I was totally surprised!
How did i do that!?!
So, i go back to this one woman, we had a very nice conversation going on.
and tell her, the fault is by me,
I ordered it by an other shop.
I found that very hilarious!!!
I made my excuses, about this terrible stupid mess up.
So, that was all settled, then i came into the workshop again, went to the thrifshop, and there i see the same grate handmill!
Very cheap!!
So, now i have two of those vegie grate hand mills
I find that very hilarious!!
Using that handmill makes the workload a lot less.
I dont have to stand in the kitchen for 3 hours, anymore
but now, only for 2 hours! Há!
Me and Etsy...
It is a real adventure!
I am not sure if i want to order there again....?!  
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ExNameForUse?
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Postad:10 december 2023 12:01 pm
Senast Uppdaterad:14 december 2023 8:59 am 12690 besök
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Anyone heard anything from her?
Is everything alright with her?
I did not read a blog from her, for some time now, and i just wonder....?!
I hope everything is alright and she is just busy in her new job, getting used to the new work situation.
Making home decorations for this Christmas thing, coming up? 
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The other day,
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Postad:10 december 2023 11:41 am
Senast Uppdaterad:20 december 2023 1:30 am 12163 besök
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This one person from the staff, W, was asking me why i looked so mad?
I was totally surprised.
Mad?? Me?
I looked at him, and asked him, how you mean, mad?
Well, you look so mad!
I kept looking at him, and asked him; i dont have to smile all day, do i?
No, no!
So i told him, i dont look X mad X, i am totally concentrated on the job ahead>
How is that, for looking mad?
He got confused by my answer, and walked away....
I never have heard him ask that to one of the guys working there!
Never, and they can look real "mad"/ totally focussed on the job a head.
Especially when the bike does not want to do, what they want it to do!
Or the mechanics are old and rusty..and you have to use a lot of force.
to make it work, again.
This is one sign of unaware sexism, at the work place.
Internalized sexism, this is something, that is soo deep ingrained in people, men and women alike...
This guy, W, is not even aware of his sexism, toward me and my facial expressions.
Internal sexism.
Even women, show it, in their way of talking about other women.
it is all around us.
So, to fit in his picture, of how "a woman" should look, i have to think about smiling all day?
So i will fit his internal image of women?
Hell no! Get real!
I had on other technical problem with an other bike, i could not make this thing work.
I knew, it was not my lack of knowledge, i used all the right tools.
It is, on its own, just a simple task, to finish.
Not difficult at all.
but something in the structure of the bike, was just off..
An other bike repair man, told me, it is in the structure of the frame of the bike, and you have to adjust it...
Yeah, duh! i already discovered that!
He did not tell me, how?
He told me, the Stockroom man, know how.
Yeah, that is a great help, when the Stockroom man is not there! LOL
I cant stand it, when that happens
So i was looking "mad" again!
I wanted to solve this problem!!
I was thinking real hard, to find a solution!
Now i know, i need to use some kind of plug to fill this space, so things will fit, as it suppost to...
The Stockroom is a mess, only the Stockroom man, knows where everything is...
That, too, can drive me mad! Hahahaha
For as long as i am in the Stockroom.....
I will find my own solution, for this problem.
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It happened.....
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Postad:9 december 2023 11:34 am
Senast Uppdaterad:14 december 2023 10:47 am 11850 besök
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Group pressure?
Nah, i dont think so....
Just like it too much....
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stealing
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Postad:9 december 2023 11:12 am
Senast Uppdaterad:10 december 2023 11:08 am 10979 besök
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Another day at the workshop.
My friend in the Stockroom was not there, friday.
I missed him, he is my go-to person, when i am not sure how to handle
certain bike problem.
He is also, the only one, who thinks, about more then the last beer he drank.
He has some history..
My oh! my! and i thought i did some weird, scary stuff?
Há, he is from an totall other category...
Anway, we get along fine, also talk alot about the political situation, now,
In Holland, with the extreme right wing government coming up...
I am known, to have some real extreem oppinion,
He?
Well, he is even worst then i am!!
am not easy shocked, by things people say, i always think; Yeah, well , thát is an oppinion, too.
Nothing more.
Anyway, this day, i had to do it on my own.
I got it done, pretty well!
Almost finished an other children bike.
There are some small tasks left to do, but the majority of the repair is done!
I fixed it!
Light, brakes, sadle, back tire, the chain, too
I want to check something, about this bike, too...
I am not sure if it is in a good condition, but for that
to know for sure, i would like to hear Stockroom mans oppinion...
I think, i can do it on my own....
Just for reassurance.
The sour man was not there, the atmosphere was totally different.
I dont believe they let him repair bikes anymore.
He is scheduled to make little packets for summer houses.
The people"working" there rob and steal almost anything, from about anyone, they can get their hands on.
I never take my phone with me, always wear my wallet on my body,
my keys too...
Some almost look like "normal" people, but if you start a conversation with them, you
notice there is something going on, something strange,
others, you can distinctively see, there is something wrong in the upstairs department.
Most are on drugs, anti depressiva and the likes...
Heavy mental cases.....
There is this woman, she needed her medicine, but they had mixed her recipe up, so she was without medicine.
I did not know what was happening!
Shouting and screaming and very, very ....hmm, active, let me use that word....
for her behaviour.
The staff talked about it, in the cantina......
The other day, she had the right kind of medicine, again, and she was a totall other person.
One flew over the cuckoos nest in the light version!
I am just minding my own businiss.
keep a low profile.....
and a watchful eye for the folks around me...
I very much like it, that i found someone, who i can talk with, about politics, and also economics, worldwide.....
He always tells me, all(most all) about his past, hmmm, not all was very "nice",to say the least.
Tells me, about all his scars all over his body,....
We talk about how badly Holland treated the people from Indonesia.
And still do.
How the Japanese soldiers? tortured the women in those horrible camps.
Sooo much hate !
Talk about the Orange head in The Us or the old man.....
It is refreshing to have found someone, i can talk with, about the politics, worldwide criminal acts...From Shell, Esso and the likes....
He knows almost as much as i do..that is really nice!
We never talk about this, when there are others around.
They have this bike plan, for real poor familys, they can get a bike, if they have a paper for the local government, to show, they have a right on a bike, for their children, to get to school on.
I am working on those bikes, too.
Make them all nice and shiny!
as good as new~!
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