It's called "volumetrics" haha sounds like a workout video!
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It's called "volumetrics" haha sounds like a workout video!
Where are you located? Fage is good for cultures (amount and strains), few brands actually measure. There are other good brands but some are local to the west coast.
This is true. If one likes Kefir, the culture count is much higher than in yogurt. Most of the lactose is gone in many types of yogurt, it just depends on the type. In Greek yogurt it is drained out (like in cheese), in regular yogurt it is digested by the bacteria if the culture count is high enough (like in Kefir). People should be aware of the sugar content of some commercial flavored Kefirs. Kudos to you for making your own. I would never do it
This is beautiful! I love this color scheme.
I'm not inclined to compare myself to others who may have a hoarding habit.
And they're no starving movers, rest assured. 
I think I'm going too slow as is with my decluttering!
Having a spirited LO doesn't help!
Did some decluttering myself. I had to move things out of my linen closet recently so it gave me a good opportunity to go through it all. I ended up giving away sheets and towels that are no longer useful to me, but perfectly good for other people. Some clothing and some beautiful shoes *sigh* and boots, some of which I had never worn or wore just a few times and no longer fit. I seemed to have gained a 1/2 size in shoes after my broken leg. I know there is more, but I will let it go for another day. My biggest accomplishment in all of this was now being able to have the linen closet much more organized and spacious.
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It's a challenging process, gk, but rewarding. Or so I keep telling myself.
Depressing really. I think of the $$ I spent on things I never wore.
My DH was kind enough not to point this out to me
The sheets were fine to give away since they did not fit the new mattress which is deeper. I did keep some flat sheets to use in case I need to cover something up. A few extra pillow cases don't hurt either.
A new neighbor once asked me if my home decor had a theme. I told her that the theme is "Try not to trip over the clutter."
Depressing really. I think of the $$ I spent on things I never wore.
I completely understand this feeling, gk. My DH is also kind about this. He's a finance guy, so he says prior purchases (1) are "sunk costs" (don't cry over sunk costs); and (2) should be viewed as past entertainment expenses--the finding, purchasing, and receiving was itself an experience, now over.
These perspectives help somewhat. Also, vodka.
Love love love his point of view! I'm looking for some orange juice.
Hm. Now that I think about it, maybe I started at 1000? It was a couple of weeks on-the-bus/before-bedtime kind of thing. I'm not sure it was the most productive use of my time, but y'all are interesting!
Wow! That's great. It's probably really funny when you read it all at once. We're certainly all over the map as far as subjects go, and it moves pretty fast. We never seem to talk about anything for more than a page or two, but I find the pace is kind of like calisthenics for my feeble brain. The great thing is that if there's something you're not particularly interested in, you only have to wait a few hours and the subject changes again.
This is true. If one likes Kefir, the culture count is much higher than in yogurt. Most of the lactose is gone in many types of yogurt, it just depends on the type. In Greek yogurt it is drained out (like in cheese), in regular yogurt it is digested by the bacteria if the culture count is high enough (like in Kefir). People should be aware of the sugar content of some commercial flavored Kefirs. Kudos to you for making your own. I would never do it
Thanks for the info. I did not know that about culture count and lactose. I've never tried kefir, but like Fage.
Wait, you're not wearing teal? I read through this thread from the beginning a few months ago and eagle==teal in my head.
I get a complete fixation on lavender every spring, only since I moved here. I think it's because the winters are soooo gray. (They warned me: "Hamburg winters are gray and rainy." Me: "I'm from Seattle, how hard can it be?" Holy cow, they weren't kidding.) Every year I crave the color for pillows or something and can't find it anywhere, just through the month of April. Now I have a couple of scarves in the perfect color - maybe that's enough?
Fizzy, I think it's fun to nudge the gray weather along by wearing lavender! I remember how pretty the lilacs blooming in the cool gray rainy springs of Buffalo were, when I lived there as a kid.
Thank you for remembering my teal fixation! I was deep into dark blue teal during May and June. That's b/c I had sewn up 3 pieces in a dark teal taffeta, had an HS, my Prussian Bleu kelly, and a couple of necklaces in dark teal and that meant I was totally into OCD happiness. (My philosophy is that it is fun to be really really matchy).
By early July I was starting to get mentally exhausted by the dark teal fixation so I moved on to Chinese blue, a color I haven't glommed on to for 20 years, but still remember fondly. There is an HS called Bicycles which is an airy pattern featuring a woman in an 1890s bike; the blue border was what I considered a Chinese blue.
If anybody has a precise definition of Chinese blue, I would appreciate it.
One summer I wore nothing but black to work. I'm not goth, but maybe I was a bit steampunk since I also wore Victorian silver jewelry and the black was airy and lightweight, sheer sleeves in a black blouse trimmed with lace, an ankle-length black skirt, etc. (Nobody said said a word about the continuous black but it was fun to feel very Miss Havisham -- except she wore white). What exactly does the term steampuck mean?
There's been a pale lavender gray that's been around for the last year or so, have you seen that? It's a silvery lavender color, half palest lavender and half pearl gray. Very pretty. I have some fabric to sew up in that color.
I am starting to get fixated on mauve, preferable a brownish-pinky mauve. The thing about getting fixated by colors is that I then have to acquire the accessories and outfit components that match exactly. It's like a treasure hunt to go shopping with an exact color in mind. However, I believe mauve is coming back into style because navy is also and the two go together in an interesting way.
Letting go of appealing pristine shoes is tragic. So sorry you had to do that. Congrats on linen closet.