I can't get my act together and I don't know why

AlaskaDeb

LOLOL!!

I just got back from a meeting and my daughters made a homemade chocolate cake and homemade fudge pudding to put on top for desert tonight  I have steak tips with noodles and green beans almost ready for dinner, but I may just skip right to the cake in all your honor

Deb C 

wishiwere

You go Debbie!  Mmmmmmmmm....sounds delicous!

Shirley!  Just love to hear someone else's discussions that turn into 'where the hell-o did that come from?' 

BTW.........my vaccum is still sitting in the family room waiting to be used.  Poor thing..........might just have to breath a bit, cause holding it's breath would be a certain death for it!

I didn't do squat today.  Dh said he wanted a 'do nothing' day and I jumped at the thought!   Bad me, but hey!  I am planning a big day on Monday!  A deep, long, and wide drawer WILL get done!   And I might even get at that undie drawer b/c we have money to get undies and socks this week, so I'm thinking I can throw out those holy or thread bare sock pairs that I keep for just in case there's a need IF the laundry is behind and undies who can NEVER be worn outside the house again!   I actually just threw out 2 pair I had cut into when I had ovarian/gall bladder combo surgery 2 1/2 years ago out!  Sad woman....sadder home really!   It will rejoice at having 2, yes, I'm promising 2 clean and straightened drawers come noon on monday!

And I'm just embarrassed, that I actually shared this all with complete strangers when I wouldn't with family or friends!

kes

Hi Ladies,

Just had the last of one tub of Ben and Jerry's. Now there is only 1/2 of the other tub left. Will save that for tomorrow night. Low and behold Grandma folded the mountain of laundry. Now I have nothing to do tomorrow, so I may have to start the underwear drawer. I really need to do my paper drawer, bills and all. That is a huge mess. I used to do tye dye. I can't remember how to do it though. Can someone refresh my memory. I think that I will take all of my underwear and tye dye it. DH will think that I have lost it. I will tell him it was all the Ben and Jerry's that I ate. I got a brain freeze!!!

Will get caught up on all the posts tomorrow.

Take Care,

Kerry

gsg

I wore the cute shoes and since there was no dancing at this reception, my feet were fine.  I also met some neighbors, which was fun.  I never go out arond my neighborhood anymore...and, frankly, I'm not home that much, since I'm happier when I'm not home.   One set of neighbors thought my husband was a single father with a lot of kids.  They were shocked to learn he's married with only one kid.  We always had a lot of kids at our place when my son was home.  That really made me LOL, though.  I guess I should get out more when I'm home.

I didn't get to eat the cake because it was almond and I'm allergic to nuts, but I did a lot of damage to the cream puff display...so I left happy.  Hanna, if I put a cream puff under my pillow, I wonder if I'll dream about interior decorating.  I've always said my house needs a woman's touch. 

Also, I just want to put you all on notice that I might lie to you and say I cleaned out my underwear drawer when I really didn't.  I'm kind of mulling that over.

gsg

kes:  to tie dye, i think you tie rubberbands around different parts of the cloth and then dip it in dye.  LOL'ing at tie dyed undies....they'd go great with a nice pair of clown shoes.

Anonymous

Also, I just want to put you all on notice that I might lie to you and say I cleaned out my underwear drawer when I really didn't.  I'm kind of mulling that over.

I'm sitting here drinking coffee (decaf) and LMAO.  Patrice, you come up with some of the craziest things.  However, we WILL be at your house on Wednesday at 7 PM to check out the drawer!

I'm really losing it.  I thought it was Sunday YESTERDAY and thought no way was I going to get that drawer cleaned.  Well, I just discovered (when I woke up) it was Sunday TODAY.  I guess that gives me time. 

Shirley

gsg

Shirley:  I know you too well.  It just gives you more time to procrastinate until you've missed the deadline....correction:  until we've both missed the deadline.

if you show up here to inspect my drawers, we're gonna have to stand up to have coffee because my kitchen table has suffered a recurrence and, well, you know my dining room table is terminal. 

gsg

i'm starting to crack from the pressure.

kes

Hi Ladies,

I think that I will lie too  and tell you that my undie drawer is cleaned out, that I did NOT eat the last tub of Ben and Jerry's, and that I did NOT tie dye my underwear. I should get the little daughter to clean out the undie drawer and she can have a yard sale and sell all of my tie dyed undies and make some money for herself.LOL,LOL!!  I remember in high school my BFF was not at school one day so I called her from the school to say "where are YOU?"  And she had dyed her hair and it turned out GREEN!!! She made her poor Mom walk to the general store to buy her some new hair dye as she would not go out of the house.LOL,LOL!!!!

Shirley,   I pay the bills and my DH does the cooking and it works out great. He is a way better cook than me. His Mom was like a gourmet cook. He must have picked it up from her. Maybe we can use the car that is sitting in your driveway and drive around to everyone's house on Monday am and check all the underwear drawers and look for cake crumbs also. We should probably take a vacuum with us though in case we have some spare time then we can vacuum the cake crumbs up and also vacuum up the tie dyed underwear. Which ever we see first!!!!

I think that I need a dog, to lick up the crumbs off of the kitchen floor.

Kerry

kes

Hi again,

Yesterday I was in my kitchen with my daughter talking to her and I was in front of my shelf of cookbooks that are up high. My daughter looked up over my shoulder and said "Belly Crockett? Mom, what kind of book is that? Belly Crockett!!!"  I said " No, it's Betty Crocker and it is a cookbook. Not Belly Crockett!!!" I thought that I was going to lose it laughing. I felt like saying "Ya, and everything that I eat out of that cookbook goes right to my belly, or thighs or butt"

So, here's to you Belly Crockett, I did the official weigh in and I have 14 lbs. to lose. Starting tomorrow, back to healthy eating.

I was out last night to see Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, a bluegrass band and they do a bluegrass cruise. I think that it is in Jan., maybe at the end of Jan., someone else also mentioned about a BC cruise, either here or on another thread. But I think maybe we should call Jerry Lewis who does all the work for muscular dystrophy and ask him if he can fund raise for all of us for a BC cruise. What do you think? Anyone got his number? I'll give him a call!!!!LOL.LOL.  He would say "Kerry whooooooooooooo?"

Anonymous

Solved the problem of lying about cleaning drawers.  One MUST take a pic before and after! 

Patrice, to heck with the kitchen table.  We can sit in the living room!

Kerry, my dh can cook.  However, he likes to highly season with bacon or bacon drippings.  And he does that sometimes behind my back.  I used to season with fat many years ago before I knew any better.  I learned that bad habit from my parents.  And, he does a fine job of paying the bills.  When we got married many moons ago he insisted on paying the bills.  Why?  Because he was in the military and he thought I'd do something wrong and they'd throw him in jail.  Fine.  He can continue paying the bills.  We have more of them now than then.  I want no part of that stress.  I choose to stick my head in the sand. 

Anonymous

Oh, and he made the first carrot cake we ever had.  He had a piece of cake that his sergeant's wife made.  He got the recipe and made it.  It was good.  And any time we've had carrot cake he's made it. 

AlaskaDeb

I cleaned my undie drawer.  It was actually easy.  I threw everything away, which was not a big sacrafice since I had not worn anything IN the drawer for six months.  The undies I have been wearing have been living in the laundry basket because I couldn't get to the drawer.....SO I just threw it all in the trash!  Well, actually, I saved 2 pairs of new panty hose.  Not sure why as I never wear panty hose, but maybe I will need to rob a bank and I can wear them as a mask.....

Who is next???

Deb C

Bren-2007

Tim got tired of me telling him what the bills were. Maybe it sounded like nagging .. I don't know .. or as complaint.  It just got him too upset and his voice would get a little loud.  So, I solved the problem about 2 months ago.  I stopped writing out the checks to pay the bills.  I just make a HUGE stack and when he comes in off the road, I tell him how much money we have and hand him the stack along with the checkbook!!  Why should I be the one who's always stressed out???

I finally threw out all the thongs I bought when we first met.  He cried ... I was dancing with happiness!!

Hanna60978

I must be weird, but I could never stand to wear underwear that felt like I had a wedgie.  All other women can.  But I just can't stand to wear a thong.  My dh bought me one (a LOOOOONNNGG time ago) and I did wear it for about 2 minutes. 

The End.

kes

The Story Of The Thong!!!!

Here it is ladies. Well my BFF and I go cross border shopping.We live in Canada about  1 hour from Sarnia/Port Huron border. We are in either Target or Wal-Mart and we are shopping. We go by Bras on sale and I say "hey, look at that bra, it is lime green just what you need" Then I see the matching thong for $2.oo. So I say "and a matching thong to boot." So she tries on the lime green bra, but it is a no go. She says " Oh, I wear thongs all the time as they leave no panty lines and you should try one" So I buy the thong for $ 2.oo as it is not going to break the bank. Get home and show my DH the thong that I bought and he tells me "Oh I hate those things, not for me at all" So I tell my BFF that she can have my thong. And she tells me " It wasn't you who did not like it, it was your DH and I know that he turned you off of wearing a thong, he turned you against the thong didn't he?" I said " Really the thong just is not for me, so give it to your daughter or you can have it"  So, this Christmas what was in my Christmas sock,  you guessed it, A THONG!!!!LOL,LOL,LOL .And it was sparkly black!!! So now my BFF has another thong that I will give to her. I should have been wearing these things when I was 19 years old and had the body to do it. Now I would have to work out for a year before I could wear a thong.

This is also the BFF who had her hair go GREEN after the home dye job.

Kerry

gsg

With my added 30+ pounds postchemo, even my granny panties are fitting me like a thong.  alarming is the only word that describes the direction i'm headed.

gsg

Deb & BinVA are making the rest of us look bad, with all your organizing and vacuuming.  i should ban the both of ya.

shirley, come on over and bring the carrot cake.  you're all invited. 

kes can bring her betty crockett cookbook and shirley's husband can bake things for us out of it. 

beastybabe

Hay sorry to hear that you are finding things so rough...it seems like the symptoms that you decsribe are the same ones I am going through and yet i am just starting my journey through treatments.

I don't like going out and cry over silly things and as for the housework well I do it but not as good as before.

I am sure that you will be fine...you have always been encouraging to me and helpful.....maybe you should think of what advice you would give someone who posted your message and then do exactly what you would tell them to do.

As for housework....my dad lives with me and he tries to help with the housework...I go into my kitchen and can't find anything or he does the washing and it all comes out fluffy as hes put the towls in with the black clothes.....the only thing I can do is laugh.....

I have only known you a short time and think that your amazing so hang in there and know that we are all thinking of you

wishiwere

Oh crud!  I'm am so beat from working in dd's patio garden all afternoon! Between turning over sod into soil to plant and then planting, I'm dead!

It will be a stretch to get 'er done, but I'll at the very LEAST get my undie drawer done!  I promise!

AS for the cake?  Dh just made us sundaes!  Mmmmmmmm....what a guy!

Bren-2007

Please let me have some carrot cake.  I left the vacuum out for 3 days before I even plugged it in!!  Picture the grossness with three dogs!!

I hated those stupid thongs.  I go commando.  Undies just make my pants even tighter.

kes

Talk about alarms in stores,

I am setting off the alarms at the drugstore when I go IN!!!!! Must be my tissue expanders as I have cut all the tags out of my clothes. Must be the metal ports on them and I think that I actually set the alarms off the other day when I went into Old Navy. Great, watch the shoplifter coming into the store!!!!! A great way to be noticed in a crowd!!!  No, I really didn't steal anything. It is just these damn things in my chest. They are called tissue expanders. What do you mean you have to call the police? My story is true, I swear!!!

Carrot cake sounds GREAT!!! I tell ya, it all starts tomorrow. The healthy eating. The last of the Ben and Jerry's is going tonight and then it is NO MORE!!!! I will be on the road to loosing this 14 lbs one pound at a time. I sound like Valerie Bertinelli!!! I am reading her book now and it is pretty good. Bye Bye Ben and Bye Bye Jerry, I will miss the 2 of you, my sweet little pals, so long!!!!!

Shirley,  When I was a kid (only 5 years ago!!!!) I can remember my MOM dipping her bread in the bacon grease and eating it when it was still warm and liquid. She used to do that all the time.

 Kerry

AlaskaDeb

g-  if it makes you feel any better I didn't get the trashbag of old, worn out panties and nylons actually into the trash can in the garage.  It is still sitting in the closet.  And instead of vacuming, I had cake.  Now can I stay?  LOLOL

Deb C

AlaskaDeb

With my luck, if I went commando I would split my too-tight pants amd be flashing the whole world.  At least I would look "neat" ... Brazilian by chemo......LOLOL  I know....TMI....

gsg

thank you for the sweet post, beastybabe.  my original post for this thread was made over a year ago.  i think my attitude is getting better...i had my kitchen table cleared off for several days.  it's a little junky right now from weekend traffic, but i'll throw everything out in th emorning.

how nice that your dad is there with you.  i laughed when you mentioned what he does to your laundry.  my husband isn't good at laundry.  he either overloads the washer or puts in 2 pair of his underwear one pair of socks, a tea towel and washes it on extra large.

wishiwere:  i could go for a sundae right now.  i wonder if it's worth getting dressed and driving someplace for one. hmmmm. 

Anonymous

Okay. I did it. I cleaned out ONE drawer. I chose my slacks drawer. This drawer holds all slacks and capris that don't go on a hanger. The odds and ends I found in there: a boob, tissue paper for gift wrapping, buttons, two missing tank tops, and a heating pad. Now it's all clean! Thanks.

I also vacuumed and went to the grocery store!

Thanks for the encouragement. Now I have to get the energy to haul the rest of the groceries inside.

Miss S

gsg

whoa...i hit "submit" and there were a bunch more posts. 

kes

Miss S,

Wow, I am impressed!!! Maybe I can do mine tonight at bedtime. Pictures to boot also. I don't know how to post pictures. I'll see if I can get it done in between eating that carrot cake that Shirley's husband is going to make for us and after all the Ben and Jerry's is gone.

Kerry

gsg

BinVA:  After I gained weight, i was going commando for a while for the same reason.  Then i discovered some really light, stretchy underwear, I think it's called barely there or something.  It can easily double as either underwear or a car cover for a VW.  Never binds.

Deb:  Pathetically, the fact that you still have the trashbags hanging around  did make me feel better.  Okay, you can stay. 

 Kes:  Like there isn't enough humiliating stuff that goes along with this disease, now your tissue expanders are getting the cops called on you.  It doesn't end, does it.

Miss S:  Great job!  Your drawers look fabulous!  Now, I shall ban you.

p.s. j/k  Your picture actually is making me think about going in and tackling mine. 

beastybabe

Im glad that you are better....whats with the tidy draws thing....my draws are never that tidy....mind you maybe thats the problem, if I straighten out my draws my life will straighten out tooooooo