Ah, I don't really need another credit card. I have 3 major ones already, two with points/rewards, which is why I use them for larger purchases that I pay off right away so I don't pay interest, but get lovely rewards.

ms_belle, I admire your strategy for getting rid of clutter and make money off of it. I tend to make a huge pile throughout the year and then bag it all up in December to donate to Goodwill and then claim it on my taxes.

ION, I now have Meyer Lemon Pudding Cakes in the oven. Having the oven and the crockpot going has heated this place up too much, I succumbed and turned the air conditioning on. It's 79 out and usually I can survive that, but not today.

Mmm, that sounds delicious.

A friend gave me the gnome eating dragon a few months ago. I adore it. It sits on the trunk on my front porch.

this is my stuff, I am still adding, but decided I should eat since I skipped lunch.

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What makes that first one a refrigerator dish? I probably end up using it as a candy dish. It's what I used my compote dish for, for years, until it broke.

that is just what I have always seen and heard them called. what leftovers were stored in before tupperware and the like.

I can see that. I know my grandmother had some depression glass, but I never really paid attention to it. I wish I had, now! I had a few pieces over the years, but I haven't taken very good care of it. Somewhere, I've got a pickle jar that hasn't been unpacked. I used to keep my cotton balls for taking off make-up/nail polish in it.

I have several pink pieces. If I find anymore green, I'll be selling it also. My goal is to decrease my kitchen holdings over the next 4 years by at least a third. A lot of that will be straight to the thrift stores, but I do have a lot of vintage stuff.

I have been putting off decluttering in the bedroom, both from the endless memories and the lack of distraction in there as I work. The radio isn't sufficient, I need something with a storyline I can put my mind into. So I went and bought myself a portable DVD player, which I've been thinking of doing for a while. I found one that also takes USB and SD cards, so I've also got a way to play all the BBC documentaries I've been downloading off You Tube.

It's much much lighter than a laptop and so much easier to work with, and when it's running off an SD card I can pick it up while it's playing and shift it around without messing anything up.

I think I might even get rid of the second laptop I've had on my desk, because I was primarily using it as a DVD and video player, and this takes up much less space. I know young people who would be delighted to have a decent laptop--once I make sure I've pulled all the porn off of it.

ION, I now have Meyer Lemon Pudding Cakes in the oven.

WANT.

The bad news is, I think there were only maybe 4 people behind me in the 10K. The good news is, I was still FIVE MINUTES FASTER than the last time I ran one--and even faster, per mile, than the 5K I ran just three weeks ago!! So, that was awesome.

Then I went and walked around the outlet mall and tried clothes on. Though at one store it was so crazy I tried things on and by the last thing was almost glad it didn't fit because I didn't want to stand in line to buy just one thing.

Other bad thing, though, is that driving the hour plus home from the mall meant when I got out of the car, my knee was horribly painful. It had been slightly twingey, but apparently REALLY didn't like driving. Ow. Have taken NSAID and have ice on it.