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Hi.

My mother is OK, as far as she can be with her bad knees. The right one seems to look worse than before the hip surgery. She can't set it straight any more it just bends to the inside. One can literally see how it must hurt to walk with this.
She will need to replace the joint as soon as possible, but she is afraid because we know so many people who got infections or who didn't heal well. But I also know some who are well. But I have to admit, those are mostly people under 60. Though my uncle is older and he does well with his new knee, even though he is overweight.

I have to go to work now. I am doing the night shift.

'See you soon'
R

[Dina]

Ow, that sounds so painful. I understand the doubts but if it is so bad as you said, the surgery seems to be the best option.

I am so tired. This week I had a couple of doctor and dentist appointments and it tired me. Mentally too, I dislike going to those places.
On the bright side, I just found that Sunday know is the Oscars awards show, so I now I have plans. I live such an adventurous and exciting life 

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I am feeling with you. Too many appointments also tire me. Especially dentists.
Next week I have an appointment to do MRI of my other knee. Doesn't look so well. The orthopaedist said I probably won't be able to keep the meniscus. At the moment, it isn't in the right place and can't fulfill it's purpose. But he is waiting for the MRI to help him decide how to operate.
Funny though, this one hurts less than the other one. He told me which movements I should avoid to not make it worse. Oops. And I did all that. So now I am waiting for the appointments and then he will tell me when the surgery will be. Yay.
But at least after that I have the chance of less pain, hopefully for several years. One should always prefer less pain to more pain. 

Two weeks ago the tomcat has been neutered. Which was perfect timing, because last week little Lisa was on heat for the first time. As we don't let them outside yet, she at least can't get pregnant now.
Da Vinci is well. He is a big and heavy one with thick fur and a broad face. The ladies are well, too. Lisa is the smallest and still looks like a cute kitten, while Mona already looks like an adult. There is some hierarchy when it comes to the food. Lisa often waits until the others are almost done feeding, as long as she is not too hungry. But don't worry, she is getting enough food.

Today, I have no appointments. And also I am on vacation. My boss wanted us all to take a few days during the first quarter of the year, so that there won't be too many missing too long during summer time. So I decided to throw a few random vacation days into March. Honestly, I am quite happy about them now because of all the appointments. I am doing computer stuff and some gardening in my spare time. Sadly the week goes by so fast. It's Thursday already.
My life is exciting, too. LOL


Edit: oh, and I completely forgot to ask my aunt about the colour TV.   But we had much fun together and talked a lot about other stuff.

[Dina]

Hi!
Speaking of dentist, I just made a panoramic RX of my mouth, which I had not done in decades. It is so weird to see your own mouth that way.
I wish you luck with your MRI and with the operation if/when it happens. All the good vibes to help you be pain-free.
I am sure your three cats are so cute, even if two of them look all-grown-ups now.
I hope you enjoyed your vacation and gardening.
About your aunt, well, he important thing is that you had a good time talking with her, even if no colour TV were mentioned.

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Hi, everybody!
I've just watched Sendung mit der Maus, like every Sunday. There was a funny episode of Shaun the Sheep in it.
This week I will start painting eggs for Easter. Maybe I'll let the kids help... 

Also I have started a new book a colleague gave to me. It is called Ever After, is about decendants of fairy tale creatures in modern time London. Well, and after I read a few pages, I realised that it isn't a translation but was originally written in German. I can't say what gave it away specifically, just that some phrasings would not exist in a translation from English. I researched the author and found out that she often gives her books English titles. Weird, but OK. I can't say anything about the quality of the book yet, as I am only in the first chapter, but I am looking forward to the rest. My colleague said it became surprisingly exciting. Though I don't know about her tastes yet. Could be that her exciting is different than my exciting. I've given her the first two books of the Dresden Files. We'll see, how she likes it. The chances are not great, because she only reads in German. And I have told you some while ago, that the translation is not that good in my opinion.

[Dina]

Hi everybody!
Regen, that sounds good. It reminded me to one of my favourite comic books, Fables. It is different though, because in Fables the stories themselves, like Snow White and Cinderella are around, not their descendants. Also, that reminds me I have to read the Fables "revival" which was done several years after the original run.

Today is the beginning of the Holy Week. It is the day we remember Jesus in the Olive Tree forest and it is traditional to have a few olive branches (they are sold for whatever you want, as a charity thing) and have them blessed in the Holy  Mass. We have a super long weekend this year. Good Thursday and Friday are off days, but we also have the following Monday and Tuesday off, because Tuesday is the day we remember the Malvinas (Falklands) war and then Monday is a bridge.
On this Tuesday I begin dictating my classes. Looking forward to meet the new students!

[Dina]

Happy Easter Sunday for everyone! 

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Happy Easter Sunday for everyone! 

Thank you. You, too.
We are partying a bit today. It's Micro's birthday. I got her some Lady Gaga music and we are listening to her right now.
My husband is behind the house to finish setting up the big trampoline. All the relatives collected for that and she doesn't know of it yet. We had planned to set it up yesterday while she was with her grandma, but it proved to be more difficult than expected, lol. So it will be done today.
I guess she will be outside soon and jumping in the rain and wind.

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Sorry for the double post: update.

Micro jumps a lot and has a lot of fun.
Today, my cousin visited with her sons. The older one has a brand new diving licence now, and he was allowed to drive the car. When they left, he had a proud grin on his face for being able to get out of the parking spot on one try. Very cute. 😍 He seems to have fun driving a car.

[Dina]

I hope she had a great birthday and enjoyed the trampoline 

I've been sick since several days ago. A nasty stomach flu, made worse by the fact that I decided to eat a few pieces of chocolate egg for Easter Sunday. I knew I was already ill, in fact that is why my Sunday forum post has been so brief, I had not energy for writing. But I love my traditions, and I was not going to cut that one, no matter what. So I am paying the consequences now. It is fair, I am not complaining. I made my bed.
On the bright side, still is holiday days, so no problems yet. I will probably take a sick day tomorrow and be back at work at Thursday (when I have classes). That assuming I will be better...
I took the time to watch some tv though. I watched Wonka, which was cute and nice. Also, watched a movie that I had long ago in my watchlist. It was called all the bright places I think (Violet and Finch in my Netflix). It was with Elle Fanning. It was about teenagers and their mental health, suicide included. Even when the themes are sad and dark, the movie itself is quite gentle and bright.
Last, I began watching X-men97 (which is a new animated show that follows the story of a show from the 90's that ended in 96 I think. So this is as if the show has continued organically but it is actually done now). I remember having watched some of the seasons of the old show, but I do not think I watched the last one. Anyways I enjoyed the few episodes that aired so far.

LOL! We were posting at the same time.

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Mine came first. I won. LOL

[Dina]

I know 
When I went to send mine it give me the warning "someone else posted while you were writng". It made me happy because it reminded me all times when I saw that warning all the time.

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Aaaaw, I'm so sorry. Now it's basically just the two of us and occasionally fcrate. I am sure there will be more activity once the next book will come to an end. But everywhere else here there are always the same few people posting. Where have they all gone? Reddit? When you look there, there are several new posts each day, even if most of them are just some memes.

[Dina]

I imagine other media like X or Instagram. I do not know about Reddit, I checked it from time to time (I have an account but I am not subscribed to the subreddit, There was some movement in the Cinder Spires subreddit, but not too much either). It is really sad. I wish you had met us at the time. It was super fun to post. I remember, for example, watching the 2012 olympic games opening while posting in real time here. I asked for Mary Poppins and I got it and Shades of Grey and Pilgrim Dan had a serious laugh. They are part of the British chapter.

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Must have been fun times. 

We've had guests this week for every day now except today. I am glad to be at home alone now without any other people than my closest family.

I did some Spanish lessons today on duolingo. And my husband is making Gulash for us all. We've had a lot of cake and pizza this week so I am looking forward to something else now.

The cats finally destroyed our sofa. Ok, it was old already and falling apart, but now it looks that way. We are going to have to replace it soon, but I am afraid they will just treat the new one the same, lol. But maybe when we let them outside they would prefer to destroy trees instead.
But first the females need to be castrated, too. We prefer them not to produce more cats.
LOL, our neighbours once had two female cats who got pregnant at almost the same time. Each gave birth to 5 kittens. So they had 10 kittens in the house. Both cats had each one grey, two grey and black striped ones and two black and white ones. And they helped each other out with the kittens. It was very cute, but we would not want that. It was hard to find trustworthy people to take the babies when they were weaned.