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Taking a few moments to just relax. Taxes were filed, rejected, filed again, rejected again, before I realized TurboTax had made some major errors, which their support community says has been happening a lot this year. I'm trying another service, and if they're still rejected, I'll mail 'em in. It'll take longer to get my refund, but that's the way it goes.

( three things, stolen from firecat, along with some of her answers )

Want to help me out?

[no local filter, sorry]

Hi, gang,

My surgery's in a week and my house is a pit. Would anyone like to come keep me company some evening this week (or any time Sunday) while I try to:

1) get the kitchen clean; or
2) box up and ready for mailing the last several boxes of booksale books; or
3) clear away the general clutter; or
4) clean the bathroom; or
5) clean the bedroom?

If you want to clean, I won't say no, but it's not necessary. Mostly, I need motivation, and having someone over is often enough motivation for me. I really really really want the place habitable before my surgery, because I really want to come home from the hospital to a clean house, and not feel any need/desire to jump right up and start cleaning things.

(p.s., I know it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things if my house is messy. I'm not a bad person for having a really super messy house. But it adds to my peacefulness when my surroundings are tidy, and I can't really even see tidy from here.)

AKICILJ

So tell me, those of you who used to have high blood pressure and don't any more: What did you do to lower it?

[I am going to screen responses. Tell me if you want them unscreened. I'm interested in all responses. CAUTION: There may be some answers like "I lost weight" in the comments; I myself don't advocate weight-loss dieting -- actually, I'm an atheist where weight-loss dieting is concerned, if you come right down to it -- and am not going to take advice of that nature.]