While it was snowing...

Today,

while it was snowing:

early this morning

later...this morning

I canned 16 pints of homemade sloppy joe sauce.

I'm not sure my final product tastes exactly like Manwich,

which was my goal,

but I think it is tasty enough that I will force my family to eat it.

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Frank went to the store to get me a couple of peppers that I needed for dinner

and came home with the ingredients for pumpkin pie!

(he also got my peppers)

He says he needs to make a trial pie before Thanksgiving.

It smells amazing.

But I actually don't like pumpkin pie...

so it's very likely that he's going to have to eat it all himself.

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I went to the chiropractor today.

It is so hard to find your network of people after you move!

Hairdressers, doctors, dentists, eye doctors, chiropractors.

We had people we liked a lot back in MA...

but it's still a work in progress here.

Frank hates our doctor so we are looking for a new one.

The eye doctor is ok.

There are two in the office: a woman who I like and a man that Austin said was creepy.

I am on my second chiropractor.

I can't decide if he is just an outgoing, happy kind of guy or if I am creeped out by him.

A lot of people here in the west are more talkative/touchy-feely/open than I am comfortable with

and it is probably just a west-east thing.

But I have trouble deciding if that is what it is and I'm being too stand-off-ish

or if I have just truly found the few people who are too talkative/touchy-feely.

His office is quite busy and no one else seems to think anything is amiss so I'm trying to stick with him for a bit.

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The apartment is done!

I am so glad to be done with it.
Frank went over there today and did the last bit.

I hope I haven't just jinxed myself.

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I put on my pajamas at 5:30 today.

I mean, it was snowing after all.