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How 'Bout No Sneezing?

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Most of my days are spent barefoot, wearing leggings and a t-shirt.  Today, I'm wearing slippers (which is just not me), socks (less not me, but stil...), leggings, t-shirt, hoodie jacket (sometimes the hood is up), handwarmers (they're really cute*), and a knit blanket around my shoulders. I'm sick.  My head feels like a bowling ball with all the finger holes clogged.  My ears hurt on the inside.  My throat's not sore, but I've sneezed for 2 days.  Y'all all know how it feels. At any rate, the questions must go on. No talking daily from 9 AM to 5 PM OR No eating daily from 9 AM to 5 PM × * ×This is a coin flip for me.  I don't do all that much talking as it is, and I surely need to cut WAY back on eating.

Deep Fake

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 Would you prefer access to a time machine  OR access to a teleportation machine?` Bought some super  cheap fake nails and put them on my left fingers tonight, trying to channel 70s Cher: I didn't think about, after having nails on the left, I'd need to put some on my right.  I haven't gotten around to that just yet. The glueness of the whole thing is all that "worries" me.  I don't want my actual nail to come off when the fake one's removed. `Time.  Going backward.   Not to change anything (because where would you even start...), but to see certain people and events.

Technological Choice

You can receive text messages, but cannot send them OR You can send text messages, but cannot receive them^ I've felt off-balance, out of sorts today.  I almost cancelled my therapy appointment.  It feels like maybe one (or more) of my medications isn't effective anymore. The process, though, of coming off one and trying another, new one is so laborious, so time-consuming, and there's no assurance that the new one is going to work.  Depression is just awful. ^Send, but not receive.  Obviously, the phone works, so they can call me if they need to.

Wet All the Way Through, or Just in Spots?

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 You're stuck in wet jeans for the day OR You're stuck in a wet turtleneck all day◇ The new  Stitchery  catalog arrived today, and I love the cover piece: I would love to make it, but my patience runs out so quickly with things lately, I don't know if I could.  Plus, the kit is $68.  There is a little piece with foxes that I might could do: I'm kind of into foxes lately. Also, I'm lately fascinated with/by food art. This one boggles my mind.  How do people think of, then manifest, these things? ◇I'll assume they're both soaked through.  Turtleneck.

So. . .

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 You can occasionally wake up not knowing who you are÷ OR You can frequently wake up not knowing who anyone else is Hello to October.  Although it is marginally cooler here, it still doesn't feel like Fall.  You'll get a slight whiff of it some mornings, but that goes away.  Thankfully(?), Tap still needs air conditioning every now and again to cool him down, so I can slip on a hoodie or sweatshirt and pretend. ÷This one.

The Future Might Be Bright

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Would you rather: Eat the same thing every day for the rest of your life OR Never repeat a meal for the rest of your life* One of the glow-in-the-dark booties is done: You can tell where I held it on the back of the heel to take the picture.  Tap is very slightly interested in the smell.  He absconded with this when I left the room.  One fun thing is that my fingertips would glow a little after I worked on it for a while.  Dye transfer, obviously, but disconcerting when I saw it the first time. *Never repeat a meal for the rest of my life.  Variety, plus, the pressure to even choose what the same thing might be would be immense.  Just don't serve me liver.  Or turnips.

Experiences and TNT

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Adventures with wild horses  OR  Adventures with wild dolphins?* Cross-stitch-wise, Santa is done except for backstitching.  Now on to a snow-covered tree and kittens on the sled.  (Or "sledge," as the English designer calls it.) The fabric is light blue, though it looks dirty grey in this picture.  Santa has little chicken legs, which is kind of endearing.  There are loads of snowflakes, which I may freestyle rather than strictly following their placement on the pattern.  As long as it's snowing, right?  The fabric is 18-count, the first time I've used it in a while, and I'm having occasional trouble seeing.  I have one of those light sets that goes around your neck, and it's helping. *Horses for me, due in very large part to the fact that I can't swim.