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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 8h

I was so proud of myself for getting my oil changed so I could check that off my list. A couple of hours after picking the car up, I discovered the windshield had sprung a crack. No point of impact. Maybe a pothole-provoked frame flex? Anyway, something new for the list.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was feeling bored yesterday, so I picked up some scam phone calls. After the caller inevitably refused to acknowledge me asking what organization they were with, I'd start intoning that they were doing the work of the devil, God would surely punish them for their evil deeds, etc. until they hung up.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Found the second cardigan in a place I wouldn't have put it: hanging up in the coat closet. I'm guessing I left it lying around in the living room and the cleaners hung it up.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A thorough search turned up one cardigan but not the other. The universe, being the asshole that it is, instead coughed up the shoe that has been missing for months.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Argh, I can't find the two simple, neutral (one grey, one taupe) cardigans that form the core of my cold weather wardrobe. Where did I put them last spring?

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well that's rude: I'm practicing Sarah Bareilles' "Gravity" and every time I land the high note, the cat yowls. I'm not saying he's wrong, but it's rude.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Customer service tried to tell me that the reason I hadn't gotten any EOBs was that EOBs go to the provider and I had to contact each provider if I wanted an EOB.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My curry leaf plant is showing signs of iron deficiency (new leaves are yellowish with green veins) so now I gotta learn about soil pH and chelated iron.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone I love is alone at the vet ER with their heart cat. The cat was my foster. And they're several hundred miles away so I can't go there and sit with the human.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have two potential morning hairstyles. Want me to be somewhere before noon? You're either going to get Wet and Clumpy or Extreme Slept On.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am now out of frozen curry leaves (the plant isn't big enough to harvest from yet). This is a pantry crisis.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Opened the curry season with curry house style Prawn Pathia and Dr. Heideman's.

Shrimp curry over basmati rice garnished with chopped fresh cilantro, with stemless glass of off dry German Riesling. Adapted from https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2016/10/12/prawn-pathia-restaurant-style/

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have arborists working outside, cleaners are cleaning, and the house painter has been here to measure. It's a circus of a morning, especially since the tree work includes dropping a tree across the long one lane driveway.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I suppose I could add in two more compatible gradient sets and then we’re entering sweater territory,

Twenty small skeins of yarn, five of which have been hand rolled into balls. The top row of ten range from dusty violet through plum to golden brown to dark mossy brown; the lower row range from medium dark pink to light pink and then light violet to medium dark violet.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've got a 10-skein, 1350 yard gradient yarn set that I love and I'm trying to figure out what to knit or crochet with it. It's too much yardage to pair with something else for a 2-color brioche shawl, but there's not enough value range in the gradient to split it and pair it with itself. Hmm.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, there's a type of cleaning that goes beyond what professional house cleaners usually do, even for what they call a "deep clean," that seems impossible to hire someone to do. :(

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh no, I'm sorry! Fingers crossed the fever doesn't come back tonight.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chat, is it good when your therapist says "WOW... That is... a lot"?

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks, I tend to stammer under pressure so writing down my thoughts in advance is really helpful.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That went as well as one could reasonably hope, but now I'm full of the icky post-confrontation brain chemicals.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But here's the kicker-- the NP needs elbow surgery. I really appreciate the effort she's made to provide continuity of care to her patients, but I'm just not comfortable having someone else injecting toxin into my head who had never done it before as of my August appointment.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

about my back pain, which I don't have. 5) They waste my time by telling me to do a bunch of stuff online before the appointment which then gets repeated in person. I think the summary is "the patient experience does not appear to be high priority."

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

fluorescent tube lights, and the NP says she has tried but can't get them to fix it. 3) At check in, they ask patients to "sign forms" by signing an electronic pad that doesn't show the form (so it's like signing a blank piece of paper). 4) At every visit I am asked to fill out an irrelevant form

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I really like the HCW and her medical staff, but not the practice. Here's the rant list, to get it out of my system: 1) The practice sent the email address I gave them for official communications a marketing email for their bariatric clinic. 2) The migraine treatment room has flickering

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Haven't posted any food on a while so here is my brunch spread from Sunday. Salmon grilled on a cedar plank and served cold with a dill sauce was the star of the show.

L-shaped kitchen countertop with a potluck meal for 6 laid out: the above mentioned salmon served on a (clean) cedar plank, devilled eggs, a couple of platters of cold appetizers on toothpicks, a bowl of roasted potatoes, or a fruit plate, and a partly sliced apple quick bread

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have an appointment this afternoon where I have to break up with a health care practitioner, so I'm full of messy twisty feelings, ugh.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Correlation does not imply causality, but I ran out of fucks on pretty much the same timeline as I ran out of estrogen, just saying.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can attest that they don't bother with a holding cell, they just assign you a middle seat on a 6 a.m. flight and let you sit there and sob

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dear GenX: Heard on the radio that Bret Michaels of Poison had to postpone some concerts in order to have kidney stone surgery. So I guess we're all old.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sigh, I gotta fight my pharmacy coverage for a formulary exception.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Same. A few are squarely in "you wanna finish it? you can have it" territory.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're talking 'tears about a remembered Facebook post from at least fifteen years ago' weepy

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For several days it's seemed like every little thing was making me weepy. Turns out I accidentally left my antidepressant out when I filled my pill sorter this week. I'd been wondering if they were actually doing me much good; turns out they're weight-bearing.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incidentally, I was mistaken. Someone did ask me a tedious question. When I called the hotel front desk right after I checked in to report that the aircon in my room didn't work, the clerk asked me, "Did you want to switch to a different room?"

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The highway gods are laughing at me. Had a three hour drive take five hours today due to interstate construction. When I finally gave up and switched to the parallel US highway, it was blocked off through the middle of a small town for a festival.

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So, uh, if you heard somebody in the truck stop ladies’ room singing along full voice with Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” like it was girls’ night out karaoke at the pub, it definitely wasn’t me

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Lanabananarama, Regional Director of Deck Chair Rearrangement @named4wool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wonder how early I could fall asleep and have it be for the night, instead of just a nap.

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