Glad you’re still here despite having other plans sometimes.
I will give diaring a try?
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You too!
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Today started off good but my brain has been having troubles controlling my eye and hands. I am at my point of needing to shave but my eye is fighting bad so my needing to shave most likely won't happen.
Despite my eye i got some things done like snow shovel-plowing their driveway. I was looking for a metal snow shovel similar to one i had but not one of the many different types of stores big box or local has a sturdy or decent metal snow shovel. My brother in november saw the shovel below and thought it seemed good and i could use it easier if my body was working against me. We had maybe 2" of snow up here last night but this shovel made that light snow push around easy for me. And last week with the 8"-12" of snow fall up here this plow thing made that shovelling of their driveway easy. I did some back and side walkway plowing and cleaned up the quad snow plowing the brother did.
And with this energy today i got the above done then got into their carhole and did my workout. That was early afternoon.
I started looking for a shavette local to me but not really this type of shaving supplies nearby. I have 2 more places to look through, hopefully i find one in these stores then i can push off buying a shavette till march.
For the february GRUME the only gear being swapped out is shave soap. The Vitos (white/red box) has been great for me. It lathered up easy for me and the tiny chunk i took off the half bar should last me 5 more shaves. It's scent for me is an almond and sweet scent more of the almond than the sweet for my nose. And my upper lip smelled nice throughout my shaves. But once the Stirling balm went on the nice to me Vitos smell disappeared. I have limited know-how about scents and either a beer flu or a stroke is limiting my smeller so i don't always get a full scent of anything. So my limited smeller i have to limit room cleaners i use and keep doors and windows open when i use certain types... lol...
but i need a scent change for shaving and i have a Stirling sample left and that will be used probably all of feb's shaves+. Sandpiper is the scent and a first scent try for me.
I also will have a shower soap change soon, a shower for me is a typical pre-shave and something i try to do every other day. I have been using a local to me company Morgan's Essentials M.E. i have tried several of their bar soaps and they have been great, i get a good soap lather/bubbles and a smell not overwhelming to/for me. Smaller bars of soap to Stirling's but lasts me nearly as long as Stirling's and different to me scents, so far M.E. has been a great shower add in. Not trying to over promote a company but some info... they are local to me with a flea market shop and limited variety of items on their online store. Majority of their soaps and scents are not online.
Despite my eye i got some things done like snow shovel-plowing their driveway. I was looking for a metal snow shovel similar to one i had but not one of the many different types of stores big box or local has a sturdy or decent metal snow shovel. My brother in november saw the shovel below and thought it seemed good and i could use it easier if my body was working against me. We had maybe 2" of snow up here last night but this shovel made that light snow push around easy for me. And last week with the 8"-12" of snow fall up here this plow thing made that shovelling of their driveway easy. I did some back and side walkway plowing and cleaned up the quad snow plowing the brother did.
And with this energy today i got the above done then got into their carhole and did my workout. That was early afternoon.
I started looking for a shavette local to me but not really this type of shaving supplies nearby. I have 2 more places to look through, hopefully i find one in these stores then i can push off buying a shavette till march.
For the february GRUME the only gear being swapped out is shave soap. The Vitos (white/red box) has been great for me. It lathered up easy for me and the tiny chunk i took off the half bar should last me 5 more shaves. It's scent for me is an almond and sweet scent more of the almond than the sweet for my nose. And my upper lip smelled nice throughout my shaves. But once the Stirling balm went on the nice to me Vitos smell disappeared. I have limited know-how about scents and either a beer flu or a stroke is limiting my smeller so i don't always get a full scent of anything. So my limited smeller i have to limit room cleaners i use and keep doors and windows open when i use certain types... lol...
but i need a scent change for shaving and i have a Stirling sample left and that will be used probably all of feb's shaves+. Sandpiper is the scent and a first scent try for me.
I also will have a shower soap change soon, a shower for me is a typical pre-shave and something i try to do every other day. I have been using a local to me company Morgan's Essentials M.E. i have tried several of their bar soaps and they have been great, i get a good soap lather/bubbles and a smell not overwhelming to/for me. Smaller bars of soap to Stirling's but lasts me nearly as long as Stirling's and different to me scents, so far M.E. has been a great shower add in. Not trying to over promote a company but some info... they are local to me with a flea market shop and limited variety of items on their online store. Majority of their soaps and scents are not online.
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8-12 inches! Ouch, I'm glad I went to northern Europe, so I could avoid all that.
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Sorry i forgot something in my last post...
I had a doctor's appt. this morning. One thing they do is take my weight. Since a january 16th or 19th (they did a head scan on me) i have dropped 6 pounds (U.S.A. weight measurement not other countries weird money name, lol).
I have been re-remembering my weight was never a concern or worry for me. But my 5 month health improvements that have been happening not only just gave the doctor a positive result, some more tests will be done, but i felt good after i was given this info. 200-194
I had a doctor's appt. this morning. One thing they do is take my weight. Since a january 16th or 19th (they did a head scan on me) i have dropped 6 pounds (U.S.A. weight measurement not other countries weird money name, lol).
I have been re-remembering my weight was never a concern or worry for me. But my 5 month health improvements that have been happening not only just gave the doctor a positive result, some more tests will be done, but i felt good after i was given this info. 200-194
Congratulations!
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I have always been a cold and snow hater, even when i played hockey. And moving to a warmer State i only tried 1 time and i couldn't get out of NJ with that attempt..... hahaha....
Glad to hear it. You have nade multiple reference to your memory in your journal. Is there a story behind that you'd like to share?
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Sure, i thought i did before...
From what my family and friends have told me with this time of my life....
I made a thread on B&B "hospitals are useless" feb. 6 2023 (i can't post the link for some reason).... so the following dates might be off... late january 2023 till april 2023 i could not hold down anything to eat or drink. What went in twice the amount came up. As in that thread i had some pain or whatever in my throat and tongue. Endish of april 2023 i collapsed or whatever on my bed. My dad "found" me and i was sent or brought to a hospital.
At the hospital i was revived(?) twice. I spent 1 month in that hospital and 1 month in a rehab. center of some kind. I could of had 1 or 2 strokes before my "collapse" or sometime before i left the rehab. I feel/think i had 2 strokes or being renewed did somthing as well. I have memories from rehab maybe 2 weeks. Hospital and beginning of rehab. My body had to be fed by the nurses, my body moved but very limited even being fed my body had to be propped up and held by a nurse so i could be fed properly. But my body cooperated a little because it chewed and swallowed the food.
Again limited info i have been told mostly...
Wow,what a awful experience. What was going on in your life before that?
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I worked for 3 auto parts "companies" for about 20 years. The first one was Auto Parts Kingdom a mom and pop store that had 3 sister stores. It was 2004 when i started there on an almost need to work there basis because of some not so fun tummy problems. I started there as a part-time delivery driver, my brother worked there and helped me get the job. I was against working for a corporation or big box company, so this job i blindly chose. I was also working night shifts as a cabby, that shift ended 3am mon.-thurs. 6am fri.-sun., started 6pm on those<--- days. And i started at APK 8am.
I learned sooooo much about motor vehicles and got kind of addicted to it. That store i learned about how engines worked, how parts were used and installed for vehicles to work good again, slight customer service type stuff and APK did rotor/drum cutting and a few other "shop" services which i tried to buy APK's shop tools in 2014 when the 2 brothers had to close their father's stores. And i can probably say my career was born.
I worked for a big red box store for just under 3 years, a joke to me because a district manager of their's i hated, told me that employees of their stores only stayed for 3 years before quitting so pay rates and raises rarely happened but the bonuses are available to those who "help" customers complete the whole repair job...
I worked for big red out of desperation. APK closed, i got a tire delivery job at another small company. It was a decent job until the one warehouse worker got the warehouse/dispatcher position, he hated me, i had no idea until he got "promoted". I worked there 7 months before his attempts at trying to make me quit or fired failed i had left a fully loaded work van unlocked in Newark NJ. My friend picked me up. That morning that dispatcher loaded the delivery van with 5 of his son's route stores and when i had to pull tires for a last minute order in another part of the warehous he followed me, threatened me both verbally and physically. Not a fighting type way, i was reaching to take down a tire and he pinned me against the metal shelves.That company wasn't bad just a couple if it's employees.
I tried to look for a job again, South Amboy Taxi had no spots opened. 6 months i couldn't get a job and got an interview at a NAPA store after the interview which i was hired during, i had to go home and wait a few days to get my hourly pay rate my idea and asking pay rate was at least $3 lower than what NAPA's minimum for that job was. I was amazed and estatic. Maybe a mile away from that store in New Brunswick NJ my latest newsed(new car to me but used) car decided it didn't need the transmission and blew pieces out of it. I took pictures of what happened and texted them to the manager of NAPA, thanking him for the offer of the job but i couldn't work for him or any of their stores. Public transpotation was available but because of my tummy problems bus rides were not an option for me.
I got back to my apartment several hours later, one of the times being junior worked out for me. I went online to fill out unemployment stuff and had to wait to see if i could get it. I did and another maybe 5 months later i got an interview at big red. Big red was/is across Route 9 about a mile away from my apartment, i had to get a job close to me, buses weren't safe for people with my belly and SAT i could get free rides from but knowing wait times i only went to apply at places within a 20ish mile radious. And i knew 2 people working at big red stores my brother and another APK counterman. It took them 5 months to get me my paperwork through because red's online application and approval blocked me from an interview.
Big red hired me and i was "given" the store across the highway from me, dm said they put me at that store because i couldn't get to the other store he wanted me in. I walked to/from work for maybe 3 months when a fortunate thing happened, my friend's auto repar shop had a customer give my friend a car as part of the payment of repairs he did. He also got the car as payment because of me. I stayed in the Parlin big red store for a yearish. Somethings happened in that store, i got a transfer to another store but not out of that dm's territory. I got 1 raise $0.10 and a few bonuses in the 2+ years there...
I was in the other store for several months and i finally got another NAPA interview. The first person for the new interview was giving me a kind of fun interview and i told him my first NAPA interview story. He excused himself out and a few minutes later came back with 2 other people. One was the HR lady the other one was the recently promoted manager i had the first interview with. I learned this (i am terrible at names and faces) when he took out his cellphone and showed us my text with that car's picture in it. We all had a laugh, i signed my employment documents and was give an hourly pay rate that nearly put tears down my face. To me, i never thought i could get that kind of pay, a difference in my pay rates i went from just over minimum wage to over double.
I worked for NAPA for 5 years and 3 months (i just remembered). I received bonuses every month, a few extra bonuses, they give raises every year and i got raises for completing different tasks related to the job like ASE certification. I got promoted to assistant manager within a year. I will keep this short...
That was almost like a promotional ad. Sorry, but i wish/pray/or whatever people say, to be able to work for corporate NAPA in NJ again.
Great story! I'm so glad you were able to turn things around!
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Did i properly answer this question?
My health prior to the collapse was just mostly i didn't know much about or cared to know. I developed anxiety, had and still have a little bit of reflux or that nastey vomit burp thing is called. My kidneys make kidney stones. And have high blood pressure that i don't know how long i have had it for. I had an urgent need to use a bathroom alot and most times as fast as possible.
I only went to a doctor for things i was concerned about like the first kidney stone my kidney made but the first one was an ER visit. And i had only a few jobs that offered health insurance i could kind of afford.
My diet was/is junk food when i'm "allowed" some once in awhile now. And this diet is because that is all i like or can eat....
So i caused most of my problems in my life and my body. And it wants to pay me back...
I hear you on the payback part. Glad you are doing OK these days. I hope your health holds up!
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Todays shave was good. February GRUME #1 a 9/10 from Rapira.
Pre-shave was a shower.
1959 Gillette Fatboy loaded with Rapira Blade gave a small patch of irritation on my neck. As i did WTG on my cheeks i noticed the Rapira was on it's last pass, it was sounding heavier and it took extra passes to remove beard WTG. I pushed the blade too long and the right side of my neck got a blade size red dotted irritation. I felt the irritation before i saw it when i lathered up for my ATG. This side was on the 6th shave. And for ATG and XTG i turned the Gillerre around to finish the shave passes. 4th Rapira Blade 1st edge was good just don't push them.
Stirling Sandpiper lathered up good and fast and slick as every other soap sample from them i have tried. The scent i can't describe well, sorry. I also didn't get a big smell so it scented in the background.
Yaqi 24mm Mountain Lake(?) Whipped Sandpiper well in the Captain's Choice Copper Bowl.
Omega Alum and Stirling Deep Blue Sea finished off the shave. Omega is at a diameter small enough to fit in my eye, not Omega's fault but ow... lol...
Not that good of a rating post but i have 2 more chances to make 1 to my liking.
Pre-shave was a shower.
1959 Gillette Fatboy loaded with Rapira Blade gave a small patch of irritation on my neck. As i did WTG on my cheeks i noticed the Rapira was on it's last pass, it was sounding heavier and it took extra passes to remove beard WTG. I pushed the blade too long and the right side of my neck got a blade size red dotted irritation. I felt the irritation before i saw it when i lathered up for my ATG. This side was on the 6th shave. And for ATG and XTG i turned the Gillerre around to finish the shave passes. 4th Rapira Blade 1st edge was good just don't push them.
Stirling Sandpiper lathered up good and fast and slick as every other soap sample from them i have tried. The scent i can't describe well, sorry. I also didn't get a big smell so it scented in the background.
Yaqi 24mm Mountain Lake(?) Whipped Sandpiper well in the Captain's Choice Copper Bowl.
Omega Alum and Stirling Deep Blue Sea finished off the shave. Omega is at a diameter small enough to fit in my eye, not Omega's fault but ow... lol...
Not that good of a rating post but i have 2 more chances to make 1 to my liking.
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This morning i did my "workout" i also received an email from my friends with pictures of the things i use to do. And 1 i want to get back into again. And those memories came in like a flush. And as i wait for the Pony to pick me up i'm now in my diary talking about it i think i have to find a diiferent forum. This is a shaving forum, mostly. Pony just called now to stumble down their stairs and outside. "See" yous later...
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This morning and day is terrible with this storm, my problems are extreme today...
I wanted to shave today and i did. I saw a shave cream sample in my dopp(?) bag. And away we went...
I lost the already used sample cream pack, somehow putting a sample shave cream pack on my lap just made it disappear... hahaha... i don't know the lather's thickness but it was slick for me. The Yaqi made a lather for 2 passes. It wasn't unpleasant but something i don't want to do again, unless i have to.
The 1959 Gillette Fatboy loaded with the Rapira Blade i only did a ATG & XTG passes but my face is tiny beard hair free now. And as smooth as a full 3 pass shave.
No Omega Alum but Stirling Balm showed up and finished off the shave smoothly...
When i went into their bathroom i saw nor felt any irritation or any blood, nice...
February GRUME #2 shave and a 10/10 for the gear used today.
I wanted to shave today and i did. I saw a shave cream sample in my dopp(?) bag. And away we went...
I lost the already used sample cream pack, somehow putting a sample shave cream pack on my lap just made it disappear... hahaha... i don't know the lather's thickness but it was slick for me. The Yaqi made a lather for 2 passes. It wasn't unpleasant but something i don't want to do again, unless i have to.
The 1959 Gillette Fatboy loaded with the Rapira Blade i only did a ATG & XTG passes but my face is tiny beard hair free now. And as smooth as a full 3 pass shave.
No Omega Alum but Stirling Balm showed up and finished off the shave smoothly...
When i went into their bathroom i saw nor felt any irritation or any blood, nice...
February GRUME #2 shave and a 10/10 for the gear used today.
