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

Hanna60978

Hey g!!  Wuz up?

I cleaned and I'm on a roll here!  I'm like a 1950's TV housewife! 

Ironing the pile...finding kids clothes they outgrew since landing in the ironing basket....washing dishes like a maniac, the floors, throwing things out. 

Get this....I even cleaned out the refrigerator AND the shelves and veggies bins and snack drawers and it is sparkling!  (Who am I?)

Now all I need to do is wear a dress to make meatloaf and mashed potatoes for dinner and I am "June Cleaver" from Leave it to Beaver. 

hanna 

AlaskaDeb

Who are you and what have you done with Hanna??? 

 I think there is an alien inhabiting Hanna's body ladies....we need to call out the FBI or something.

Oh, and just for the record, I think June must have had a few drinky-poos before Ward came home for dinner.  That is the only thing that would have explained that smile.....

Deb C

KLynn

Okay Hanna if you are wearing pearls while doing this we really will have to come over and knock some sense into you LOL... You're making the rest of us look like a bunch of slackers...I really should clean out the frig too, the onion skins are piling up in my bins as we speak..Whats with those skins being everywhere ??? Now I'm starting to sound like Jerry Sinfield !!!! And whats with those parents calling their son BEAVER anyway???? LOL  Okay Ladies have a great Mothers Day. Hope everyone is feeling good....Hugs to all KLynn

sam408

Sounds like we may need an intervention at Hanna's house. Hanna, slow down. . .it just all comes back.

Man, I just can't get into cleaning. I'm even checking out vacuums that run themselves. MissShapen, I'm looking at the Roomba specifically to get up the dog hair that's taking over my house. But sounds like I'd be creating more work than I already have. Oh well, guess I'll stick to nagging my family to run the Dyson. It works wonders but is so heavy I'm not sure when I'll be able to use it again (if I'd only known I was going to go through all this before I forked out all that money for it).

Happy Mothers Day to all.

kes

Hi Ladies,

O.K., I think that Hanna has turned into a Stepford Wife. The old Hanna is gone. Please come back and tell us what the weird teenage girl is doing under the lamp post. My fridge is in dire need of a clean so anytime that you want to come over and clean it out, please do. We used to have a peanut bar in town. Fresh peanuts on the tables and just throw the shells on the floor. It was just a big mess by the end of the night. Crunch, crunch,crunch!!!!!!!

Going back to work on Tuesday. I am ready. Tired of geing the lady at home with breast cancer. It will let me get back a little bit of my life pre breast cancer. It will feel good. I am outside all day, driving.

Everyone have a Happy Mother's Day tomorrow. Take the day off and let the DH's and the kids do everything. Hanna, put the Stepford Wife in the closet for the day.

Kerry

iodine

LOL, Deb, you said it all! Drinky-poos did it every time!  LOVED that.

sueper13

I loved when they showed June Cleaver in her pajamas--you could tell she was wearing a BRA and PJs and a ROBE==I was like, where's the pearls?

And who sleeps in a bra?!?!?

Happy Mothers Day to the moms.

Hugs

Sue 

otter

Sue, one time I complained to my GYN that my left breast was sore and achy all the time.  He said I should quit drinking coffee.  Then he said I should wear a bra that provided more support than the Warner's "Friday" bra I had on that day.  (Keep in mind that I am/was a 34A.)  THEN he said maybe if the aching continued, I would need to wear a tight-fitting, supportive bra even at night--that is, 24/7.

This is the same GYN who told me 1) he could not feel the lump I felt in my left breast; and, a year later, 2) he could feel the lump in my left breast but it was just fibrocystic tissue like I always had, and it was symmetrical with the right side, and I should just have my regular (i.e., screening) mammogram ... which came back BIRADS 2 (with no follow-up needed) because of the fibrocystic tissue.  Of course, the lump turned out to be a 1.8 cm IDC for which I had a mast and am now getting chemo.

So, yes, some people sleep in bras.  Apparently my GYN thinks it will make BC go away.

otter 

Bren-2007

Otter,

He should try a jockstrap 24/7 and get back to you on that!

I can't clean... can't work ... can't focus.

Happy Mom's day to all,

love,

Bren

Hanna60978

Happy Mom's Day to you all here! 

I have booted June Cleaver out of my body and am rejoining the group here!  No pearls either!  (I'll hang onto the drinky-poos though if you don't mind...I could care less what ol' Ward dear thinks!)   

Here's my recipe for a good Mom's day...get some good carryout, a tall iced tea with lemon, a good book or magazine and lay around.  I don't want anyone cooking in the kitchen cause I will end up with the dirty dishes and I just got done cleaning.   Who knows when I'll get possessed by another 1950's TV housewife again?....unless it's Joan Jetson cause she had a lot of cool tools to play with but I think she was in the 1960's. 

Thanks to all you talking about that Roomba vacuum cleaner, I think I'll get one and let him loose in the house!  I'm going to glue a picture of the dh's face on it.

Have a carefree day you all...or at least stay outta trouble!

love you girls!

hanna

drcrisc

Oh, Otter that story belongs on the "sucks" thread along with the bad ps someone mentioned a few days ago!  Have you ever noticed that the treatment for prostate cancer doesn't involve cutting off men's b***s.  Yeah, that'd go over well...

I really hope you have a new GYN now...

Anonymous

drcrisc

Nicki - I love it, soooo true!!

Hanna60978

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kes

Hanna,  Glad to hear that you have given June Cleaver the boot. We like the Hanna who tried to swim to Alabama.

Otter,  Honestly, the GYN person!!!!And he called himself a Doctor!!!! I could do a better imitation of a Doctor!!!!

Nicki,  Love the pic. That was me trying to get ready for Mother's Day. Put away 10 loads of laundry. I need a big closet on the main floor so I do not have to truck all this laundry upstairs to put it away.Should just keep all of the clothes in the laundry room on the main level where the iron is. What a waste of time to put it all away upstairs.

Act is not together yet. But I always work best under pressure. Tomorrow is my day to go shopping and buy new comfy sandals for work and some sports bras so I don't sweat my tissue expanders off wearing the tank tops from Old Navy under my tops and blouses that were needed for the winter that just about never ended.

Kerry

mke

If I get infested with a 50's TV person - it's going to be Lucy for sure.

wishiwere

Girls, I just had a great idea!  Since so many of our families are basically living partial or fully through the laundry baskets, or getting out of the pile on the w/d or from the hangers in the laundry room already.  Wouldn't it be perfect, to just enlarge the laundry room, place everyones dressers in there and have it more convenient to doing, w/d'ing and wearing the clothes?  I mean think of it? 

Each person could have their own little dressing room, like at the clothing store, with a curtain to add privacy.  Then WE wouldn't have to hunt down, carry down/up, and such, and to gather or put away laundy. what do you think? Would it work?  Is this NOT ingenious?

sueper13

wishiwere,

i wish you were at my house.  we have sock baskets (one for the white socks and one for every other color) and boxer baskets (self-explanatory) that live in the laundry room all the time.  If you need socks or boxers, you go get them out of the baskets--and mom (that would be me) doesn't have to figure out who belongs to which socks or boxers--I would rather not touch socks or boxers at all, if the truth were known.  I have a better idea--we should all have laundry elves like our husbands and kids do--we could throw our clothes into a hamper (if mom is lucky) and they would magically appear, folded, in our bureau drawers....... 

otter, once I went to the GYN, it was my first visit with him (it also ended up being my last) and I was wearing knee high leather boots.  He told me to leave them on "so the stirrups wouldn't make marks on my feet" (creepy......) Then I asked him a question and he told me I didn't need to be worrying about that...that was the end of our medical partnership.  Some people are so incredibly arrogant.  My current GYN told me my lump was not a classic exam for breast cancer but at least sent me for a diagnostic mammogram which did detect it. 

Hanna you are an incredibly gifted writer.  PLEASE write us more poims.

where is g?!?!

Hugs

Sue 

kes

Went back to work today. Only 4 hours, but I was driving all over the great green earth. Loved being outside for the day. My boss was so HAPPY to have me back and announce that I was coming back. I thought "Oh NO!!! What is going on here? It must be very busy".And sure enough it was. Told her that next surgery was June 6 but I did not have the heart to tell her that if that one gets done then the next one is booked for July 10.She will have a BIRD!!!! Poor little DD was up ALL night with the flu. Worst one that I have seen her get. She woke up at 1:30 am to puke and proceeded to puke every 1/2 hour (dry heaving also) until the sun came up this am. I had not been to sleep and it was 3:30 am so I woke up the DH and said that he had to take over for me as I needed to get some sleep before work. Slept from 3:30 to 8 am and then got up for work. Bedding had to be stripped and put in the wash. No wonder why I cannot get caught up on anything!!! When it rains, it pours!!!

Where is G?

Hope that I don't get the flu or DH.

Kerry

otter

I can't find that g has posted anywhere since May 7th... (?)

otter 

Anonymous

Patrice..... we are all getting kinda worried... please check in. You can't still be cleaning drawers!

Miss S

Harley44

gsg,

PLEASE post, so we know that you are ok...

Harley

wishiwere

GSG!  You need to report in lady!  It was a week ago yesterday right?  So where does one go when not here?  I don't have a life away, so....can't say, but come on lady!  you've got all of us worried about you?  Please come home from that vacation and check in?  Pretty please?  With a nice cherry on top as the kids say.

gsg

OMG!  I'm sooo sorry...sure didn't mean to worry you guys.  The last week I had a whole bunch going on and had to stay off the board so I could get it done...work related.  When I log in, I get sucked in and sometimes don't get done what I need to. 

Next time that happens, I promise I'll check in and tell you all I have to check out for a bit.  I've missed you!!!!  Sorry for worrying you..but also thank you for worrying.  You are the best!

AlaskaDeb

g-

Glad you are OK.  I was going to call out the national guard and see if you were lost in a dirty closet or something

Deb C

gsg

LOL..Deb, if I went deep enough into my closet it would take the national guard to find me.

kes

G,  Glad that you are safe and sound. So I guess that it also wasn't a trip to Italy to ride in a gondola, or a trip to France to drink lovely french wine, or a trip to Australia to see the great barrier reef, or a trip to Brazil to see the rain forest. It was just WORK!!! Isn't life sucky sometimes?

Kerry

P.S. I took DD who is 8 to see the movie "Nim's Island" and I just loved it. A good flick if you have young kids. Jodi Foster is just priceless in this movie.

Anonymous

You gals are too funny!

Patrice, at least you've been up to SOMETHING...work!

Hanna, shame on you for making us feel like slugs.  Have any of you ever watched "Little People"..something like that?  I like her house...it's always messy!

Wishiwere, I really don't take many clothes.  It's just all the other stuff and sometimes I don't use it because I try not to have to "do" my hair again...wash, dry and curling iron it.  But I have to take all that stuff IN CASE.  Or I could buy it. LOL  Last time I forgot my moisturizer.  THAT'S A BIG NO NO!

We had a nice Mother's Day.  I didn't life a finger.  SIL cooked ribs.  His mother brought over potato salad.  His brother and wife brought fresh green beans w/potatoes.  Found out after they left that his mother fixed them and his brother picked them up so the rest of us would think they cooked and brought something.  Gotta laugh out of that one.

My dd who wore the thing around her neck....she'll be coming home in about a couple of weeks.  Yep, THEY'RE COMING HOME!  Then, they'll move somewhere..she'll get a job and he'll stay home to write the book.  Of course their plans change all the time.  Anyway,  I will point her to the posts about us discussing the "thing" she wore around her neck.  SHE'LL KILL ME!

So, now I need to get Hanna's energy.  Need to do some cleaning before they arrive.  I'm slow.  I can clean their bathroom, change their bed in a few days, vacuum their room and dust. I'm already tired!  His mom and dad live here so he'll probably stay with them and dd will stay with us.  Who knows!

Ya'll have a good one.

HI HARLEY!

Shirley

Harley44

Good to see you again, Patrice...  We were getting worried about you! 

Shirley, HELLO!!  Glad you had a good Mother's Day, and enjoyed your visit. 

Now that everyone is back, and we know where they ALL are, I can relax, and breathe easy.

Harley

Anonymous

Whew! Everyone is back where they belong and we can get back to being messy without guilt! I'm just glad all's right with the world!

Miss S