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

wishiwere

Thanks! Give us the heads up if you do then! So?  What do you do all day while there? At work I mean?  What is your position, if I can inquire?

gsg

Hi, Wish.  I PM'd you.

So what's everybody NOT doing today?  I'm not doing anything....and I can't wait to get started.

wishiwere

Thanks Patrice!

Today...I have to get outside stuff done before winter sets in. Since dh is not around to them, it falls on your truly and if I don't get it done, things will literally be falling down around us!

So, today is the mowing of 2 acreas out back, and finishing staining the arbor...Hm....do have to take the trash out, so there is housework, or I'll never want to come inside again! Ooops!  Kitty litter changing is on the short list.  Beyond that...Nuttin honey!

Hope you enjoy your day off doing nuttin, b/c you deserve it girl!  And the rest of you!  Hope you're sunbathing and enjoying the last of the beautiful weather before winter hits! All too soon this year!

sueper13

OK, now it's me at the end of treatment, started Tamoxifen just three days ago, burned from rads that is affecting my sleep....but I'm not depressed yet.  Should I be worried?

Sue

Harley44

Sue

Sorry that you are burnt... Da*n rads!!  When I first started Tamoxifen, I wasn't sleeping very well either.   In one month, on Nov. 18, I will have been on Tamoxifen for ONE whole year!!  I can hardly believe it!

Hang in there,

Harley

gsg

Sue:  YAY!!!! for being at the end of treatment and no depression.  (Sorry about the rad burns, though)  Congratulations....you've made it!

Don't you dare get worried about no depression...rejoice in it and if you find you have some extra energy, have I got a job for you!

 I'm on Arimidex, not Tamoxifen...I hope that things go smoothly for you with the Tamox.  I've had no side effects from Arimidex (and have been on it for almost 2 years now) and I hope you do as well with the Tamoxifen.  I do have weight gain but can't completely blame the Arimidex for it.  I have noticed though that it does make it more difficult to lose weight when I'm being really good and exercising every day.  It comes off much more slowly than it ever has in my life and for the first time in my life I have a stomach.  But I haven't been exercising and eating a lot of crap, so must take responsibility for it.

Hi, Harley! 

I must confess I'm starting to think about cleaning my house.  Something about the change of seasons this year is making me think more seriously about it than I have since treatment.  Mind you I'm just in the thinking stages, so don't anyone panic.

wishiwere

UtOH!  GSG!  Don't you dare clean!  You're the overseer of us lazy ones!

Besides, it's fall, not spring, no whole house cleaning allowed in the fall. 

I miss you all!  SUE!  Congrats on the no more RADS!  YEAH!!!!!!!!!!  Hope you do well on the tamox!  Did you get that test to see if you metabolize it?

Arimidex has been a bite and a half for me, but it's seemingly getting different stuff.  Not as much stiffness in the morning as I had (not nearly as much) but more headaches and such.  Weird stuff that estrogen....lack of causes so many problems for SOME of us. Hope you do well as Gsg does on her Ai'! 

Anonymous

So, another weekend went by with me doing practically nothing. I used to get the kitchen cleaned and laundry done, if nothing else, but I  have advanced to doing nothing at all.

Oh Saturday, I went to an all day Scrapbooking event. My friends had to beg me, because normally I just stay home and watch movies and take naps on Saturdays. I am glad I went, as I am far behind in my scrapbooking! However, when I got home, I fell asleep. So I did nothing on Saturday. Well, I did get the pile of mail off my living room sofa. Yes, it's still blue.

On Sunday, I did look at my dishes in the sink. I caught a horrible cold and just went to bed. I planned to do something this morning before work, but I felt like crud. My son actually turned on the vacuum and ran it over the carpet. Hee!

Now I'm working and I refuse to do a thing on work days. Tomorrow the furnace guy is coming to make sure I'm ready for the winter, so I have to get up. Blech.

Could I possibly be any lazier?

Miss Sluggish S

gsg

Miss Shapen, the description of your weekend sounds like all of my weekends...minus the scrapbooking part.  When I'm not working, all I do is lie around and watch television.  I'm still only thinking about cleaning...all thought, no action.  At least you got up and got rid of a pile of mail off the sofa...so, yes, you could be lazier.  I don't even get that far.  My kitchen table is back to being a mess.  That clean-up didn't last long.

Yesterday morning I fell down the steps and have kind of screwed up my knee.  Still debating about whether to go to the doctor...may give it another day.  My point in talking about that is now I really can't clean and really can't exercise.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I like having the option at least to get up and do stuff even if I choose 100 percent of the time to be a slug.

Wish:  You make a good point...cleaning is for spring.  Fall is for not cleaning.  Kind of like daylight savings time only different. Spring ahead...fall back.   

wishiwere

Yep...fall back on the lounger and get a morning nap in dear!  I finally got a few hours sleep after dh got up at 5.  He's making us breakfast now! ROFL  I"m not one to go all out for breakfast, so it's always been fend for yourself for the morning.  I"ll pay later with the mess!  I hate EGGS!  Especially on the stove top, counter, floor on the way to the sink drips and down the front of the stove!  UGH! Love him, but...I hate eggs!  and yes, a strong word for a good egg!

Harley44

Hey Patrice!  I haven't seen you on CSPAN2 lately, but I don't know what time to start checking in to see you.  I must say that you always look lovely!

I am looking for a job in earnest now.  The only skills I have are clerical, and this is a golf resort area, so all we have around us is a bunch of (retail) stores.  Yesterday, I went to the unemployment office, because they also have a job service to help people find jobs.  I will turn in an application today for a CLERICAL POOL TEMP- p/t position with the county government offices.  I hope that they call me.

I am too busy job hunting to clean.

Hope everyone enjoys the cooler weather. 

gsg

Wish:  I'm icing my knee every 2 to 3 hours.  Hopefully, that'll do the trick.   And you can send your husband over here...i LOVE eggs.  In fact, now you've made me hungry for eggs and I think we only have one on hand.  May have to send my husband out for some.  I don't care how they're made and I obviously don't care about the mess.  My husband once completely destroyed our kitchen making hot dogs for him and my son.  It was incredible...4 hot dogs and a can of baked beans.  There wasn't one clear spot on the counters and every cupboard door and drawer was open when I got home.  He didn't know how it happened.  

Harley:  Good luck on your job search.   The Senate has been out of session for a bit now and we don't go back to work until November 17th.  When we first get back, I won't be down there too much.  But when I do go down to the floor, I'll post and let you know beforehand.

Harley44

Patrice,

OMG!   I totally missed the part about how you fell and hurt your knee!  It must be my speed reading sucks!

I hope you are feeling better soon!! 

Hugs

Harley

wishiwere

Yes, watch that careful that you don't get water on the knee or something. IF it starts changing color, gets really big, or is warm, get thee off the lounger, into semi-presentable clothes and to the doc, K?   {{HUGS}} it's doing better tonight!

Anonymous

I hope your knee is starting to mend, gsg!

Miss S

Hanna60978

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wishiwere

RICE (Rest/Ice/Compression/Elevation)

 Smoochy, smoo!

gsg

We have a winnah!   But I'm doing RIEY (Rest/Ice/Elevation/Yell at Husband)....didn't feel like wrapping it and so far I'm really not swelling.  Using google, I've diagnosed myself as having a Stage 1 Medial Collateral Ligament Sprain.  (It's nice to finally be a Stage 1 with something).  My symptoms exactly mirror what's listed for that.  So I think if I keep doing the ice packs, advil and stay off it for 72 hours it'll be okay.

 Nice to see Hanna posting!

Thanks for your good wishes Miss S.  I've never met a stairway I couldn't fall down, a hole I couldn't fall in, or a curb I couldn't fall off of.

 

wishiwere

That sounds even better, I'll try to remember RIEY...would be easier if it was RILEY?  (Rest/ICE/Lay there Moarning/Elevation/Yell) at whomever is present and within hearing distant or NOT!

You sound like my mother.  Got thinking the other day... the times she has fallen off a ladder while we painted her upstairs spare rooms (first wall) back when she was my age and sprained her ankel horribly. Or 3 days after my mast last fall at 80 when she came to be with me after dh returned to work.  First day she came down with a UTI that kept her puking her guts up and not keeping anything down, even sips of water down, which meant her BP pills either.  Finally the 3 day, I was up at 5 am with her puking and called my dd and her bf to take us to the ER, b/c I thought seriously I would lose her!  My mother is the type that is NEVER ill, so when she is, she gets it really bad! What I was starting this all for, she too, fell when my sister (3rd child) was born on the way out the door down 2 steps and broke her leg.  No help with 3 kids (all under 4) while dad worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week. Then fell walking out from a cinema with my sister and her bf when she rounded the corner of a sidewalk and caught the corner of the grassy area and had nearly 20 stitches in her chin, about 78 then!  I think some are really prone to falls for some reason!

 We'll blame it on bad eyeglasses? Have you had them updated lately?

gsg

It's not my glasses...I'm just clumsy.  I wasn't home.  I was walking down my mom's steps in the early morning, in the dark (didn't want to turn on the light and wake her), carrying a glass of water, so wasn't using the handrail.  There's a landing and you have to turn a corner on the steps...I turned and then stepped off the landing and became airborne, landing in a heap at the bottom...fortunately I landed on carpet, but my right hand came down on her ceramic kitchen floor and the glass shattered from one end of the kitchen to the other. And here I was trying not to wake her.  LOL.

What's amazing is I've never broken a (major) bone and this is only the second sprain I've ever had.  Have never had stitches.  I sprained my neck once diving into a swimming pool.  I broke a toe once as an adolescent.  I was running away after toilet papering someone's house with my cousin and her friends.  The sidewalk was raised in one spot and I hit it.  So I've been very lucky.  I usually walk away with injured pride and scuffed knees.  Sorry for your mother, wish.  She's really been through the mill.

 

Harley44

gsg,

HA HA HA...  THis should be the world's worst clutz  thread!  I also am clumsy, and don't watch where I'm going, and sometimes, ...  BOOM!  I will feel myself falling, but won't be able to stop myself, and suddenly, I am face down on the concrete floor!!  OUCH!   I haven't broken a bone, so I've been very lucky! 

wishiwere

I wonder? Do men do this too, but only when we aren't watching?

GSG...thanks, but seriuosly.  My mother has always been able to run circles around anyone.  She used to outski my dh and I at 30!  She's an A personality and fit as a fiddle....just slower these years....81 next year!  My hero in many ways!

Hanna60978

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gsg

LMAO...oh, man...I wish I had been there to see him fly off the treadmill.  Of course, that would involve me getting into spandex and going to a gym, so that could never happen.

 I saw my husband fall off a ladder while hanging drapes.  It looked like a funny movie.  He came down and the drapery rod and drapery cord was all wrapped around his head, etc.  I could NOT stop laughing, which angered him, which made me laugh harder.  I also saw an electric wire go up his nose...it simultaneously knocked his glasses off somehow and they were hanging off the wire. (He was installing a range hood).  I completely lost it.

wishiwere

Oh my!  You have more bunns than me, laughing at your man, hanging 'YOUR' drapes and he falls off the ladder! ROFL  I would have had to help him up first, and laugh later, or the job would stopped there and then, I'm sure!

Poor men, they are just the bestest of BUTT jokes! 

Hanna60978

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gsg

LOL.

My knee has started clicking now when I walk.  Anyone know if this is this a forever thing or will it go away.  It's distracting as heck.

Hanna60978

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Hanna60978

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gsg

LOL<-----real one, not a fake one.

It doesn't hurt per se, but it's a nuisance. It's distracting the way, say, if you're walking and your sock slides down under your heel, inside your shoe...it doesn't hurt, but you can't concentrate on anything else.  I really don't think I've torn anything...at least I hope not.  I'm at the point where unless I think something is cancer, I avoid doctors.