Archive: March 2001

Falling down

Posted by Katja on 15 March 2001 | Permalink
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Got up this morning feeling pretty good. Didn’t use the shower chair. After my shower when I was wiping down the walls I tipped, smacked into the wall, fell down, hit my head. Great way to start the day. When I tried to get up, I couldn’t. I had this horrible squeezy feeling all around [...]

Cleaning house

Posted by Katja on 10 March 2001 | Permalink
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What a week - we rented a 4 cubic yard dumpster from the city and filled it with junk. Many boxes of books went to the library, and many boxes of clothes went to Goodwill. The house is actually starting to look decent. We realised we couldn’t possibly get it clean enough ourselves, so Thursday [...]

On the market

Posted by Katja on 6 March 2001 | Permalink
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Waiting to see about our offer. Now we have to put our house on the market - I’m going to take the rest of the week off work to help whip it into shape.

Making the offer

Posted by Katja on 6 March 2001 | Permalink
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We think we’ve found a house we can modify - all the bedrooms are upstairs at present, but the former 2 car garage was converted to a family room, and that could probably be converted fairly easily to a ground floor master bedroom. We’re making an offer.

Earth to HR?

Posted by Katja on 2 March 2001 | Permalink
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I had the most bizarre meeting this morning with upper management at work. Several months ago, I asked to have an automatic door opener installed on the exterior door of our building. I was so naive, I thought that if I just made people aware of something that was needed, they would see how sensible [...]