MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

NativeMainer

cookie--a one portion blender?  That sounds like something that would be really useful for me, can you tell us more about it?

barbe1958

I caught on that too! I know they make baby-food blenders and stuff, but a one-person smoothie without having to clean out the huge regular container.....hmmmm do tell!

PauldingMom

Just returned from Wisconsin/Illinois. I come on here and see the new pic. Very nice, but then I hear there is a man in the picture so now I'm suffering from intense eye strain! Thanks a ton ladies!

barbe1958

I can't see him, not to worry...

cookiegal

NM..it's a small, inexpensive blender with one setting, and if you want to you can drink out of the cup. Got it at target, but I've seen things like it before. Really designed for beverages more than hard core  food processing I think.

Ironically there is a juice bar in my building, but I like being able to control the portion and ingredients. Hopefully I can sub out the cookies with some smoothies. I hope losing weight can help stop the lymphedema progression.

smithlme

Nope, no call from anyone from the place I interviewed with. Someone told me that in a lot of small towns businesses usually hire someone they already know or a friend of a friend. Great. Thanks for the pep talks. My DH took me out to dinner on Friday to get away and I spent all weekend doing yard work. I took my frustrations out on the weeds, plus planted some new flowers to lift my spirits. This weekend is our End-of-the-Month party so getting together with friends will help.

I also made my 6 month appointment with my Onc for August 23. I truly hate those appointments...

NativeMainer

I'm sorry you didn't get the job.  I'm sure another will come along soon.  Those appointments do a good job of bringing back memories and not letting us foget about the beast.  I hate them too.  Get nightmares starting a month before.  Yuck.

elimar86861

Who knew a pic of a peaceful little grotto with some waterfalls would propel such flights of fancy?  Better there is a submerged man somewhere in there than a snapping turtle!  That only comes to my mind because a great big snapping turtle was in our street a few days ago, causing an uproar.  I don't mean Galapagos-big, but like the shell was about 10" across and the mouth looked capable of snapping off a finger or toe easily.  Kids were getting too close, parents were warning them; then forming an ad hoc commision on how to capture and relocate it.  I don't live in the freakin' Everglades, so this falls into the category of the unusual.  (No offense, my Everglades-dwelling sisters!)  Anyway, a brave (read: foolhardy) teenager did grab it by the shell and off it went to the lake in a cardboard box.  The End, or is it........

If my turtle story is out of place on the thread, just substitute the word tumor for turtle and the word surgeon for teenager and it pretty much sounds like my surgery.

Meanwhile, back in a more boring reality, my back has been hurting between the shoulder blades.  I mean my vertebra are hurting.  Typing away at the keyboard is not at all therapeutic.  I'm procrastinating going to a doctor, meanwhile thinking, "Which one do I even call?"  Before I would have went with chiropractor (will have to start with a new one, if I choose that) but now I can wonder if my radiation to one side of the body is throwing off my musculo-sketetal balance or did a few mets get loose and head for my spine?   That stupid B/C!   I swear it makes every previous ache and pain I ever had feel different!

elimar86861

Sorry smithlme.  Keep your chin up.  I have friends in some of the most economically depressed lines of work, laid off for over a year.  Think autoworkers and construction.  Two just went back to work this month.  Things could be beginning to rebound.  I would like to think there is a job out there for you that will be a better fit for you.  Hope you will find it soon.

Eph3_12

The guy swimming underwater, naked, is glad there isn't a snapping turtle there either!

elimar86861

Snort...snort! 

PauldingMom

 Good News Eph3_12!!!

The job wasn't meant to be Smith. Let it go and something better will turn up.

I'm so upset. My middle DD was suppose to water my plants while I was gone and she didn't. I've lost a bunch of Salva I had in pots out front. It took me forever to find the purple ones I wanted and now they look like heck  I'm glad I didn't put her in charge of taking care of the dog. 

cookiegal

PM what a funny way to put it.

Well y'all I am off the grid for about a week. Faith I will wave to you in WI. Time to pack for breast camp. Hugs and be good!

NativeMainer

elimar--I hear you about the uncertainty of who to call with which ache or pain.  I try to keep my appointments spread out over the year so that I've always got an appointment coming up that I can ask about non-urgent things.  For everything else, thank God I've got a patient and understanding PCP--I can call her office and she will listen to my problem and tell me if she thinks the onc or the breast surgeon should be the one to handle it.  Most of the time she can, and most of the time I just need reassurance.  I've turned into such a baby since diagnosis.  Oh, well. 

smithime--even though I kind of depend on the appointments, I hate them, too.   Weird, isn't it? 

paulding--so sorry your plants got neglected. I bought a rare yellow lupine to transplant into my yard and it did not survive the process, but I can only blame myself.  Still, it's very dissapointing to lose a plant it took a long time to find.  

cookiegal

OMG...trip nearly fell through...my ride from Rhinelander to the retreat cancelled. I think another lady can pick me up. I still can't drive very well due to my shoulder. Heck I will hitchike if I have to. Keep fingers crossed!!!

barbe1958

Hope you make it Cookie!!!

PauldingMom

Ugh, the post chemo./age related menopausal problems are literally driving me crazy. I feel like I have cronic PMS that never ends. 
GP says not to worry about it, but I am slowly driving everyone around me away. I can't blame them, I'm such a grump.

Good luck Cookie. Just came back from Wisconsin. Lovely this time of year except for the bugs at dusk.  

Meece

Paulding, sorry that you are feeling "Yuk".  Isn't it amazig how drs. always seem to say, it's nothing to worry about.  Is that because they haven't been through it?

cookiegal

 An angel came through with a ride for me. I can drive straight, I can do curves, Turns...not so much. A hard left is ok, but 90 degrees is tough.

Oh and can I boast? While I am gone check out the insurance and finances forum which was....(ok I am being obnoxious now) MY IDEA!!!!

Hugs, cookies, and skinny upper arms to all!

Fried cheese curds here I come! On Wisconsin!

faithandfifty

Have a tempted a speed-read to get a tad caught up.

I seriously can't believe that Cookie flies into the airport at 11:00 pm, but we will be flying out at 7:00 a.m. That seriously has to be a Murphy's Law addendum of nonsense.

Headed to Austin Texas. I get to give the keynote. Seriously psyched. Car packed.

This morning was my 'personal-yoga-session' right here in my living room. The woman is brilliant. She is a 5 year BC survivor so she gets where I am, or am-not, as the case may be. What a joy.

I have my compression shirt, my compression cami, my compression sleeve & my compression gauntlet all ready to hit the skies.

Ya'all take care of yourselves.

Smith. I, too, will lend my voice to the finding of something-yet-more-perfect ahead. I know you're ready now. Disappointment is a real slap in the face..... Be kind to yourself for getting out there, polishing up, 'practising' the interview process. Better days are right around the corner.

Cookie will probably share some fried cheese curds with the rest of us. A WI delicacy that I have somehow been able to resist. LOL.

Travel mercies to you sweetie. Hope the retreat is simply brilliant. Pack for WI. Bring some bug spray. We are now experiencing THE most precipitation in a single July in the history of the state. [Elimar, that is reference about history, not a weather reference.]

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Keep the home fires burning.

Eph3_12

OK, my middies!  I'm taking a poll.  Pretend for the moment that you are a 15 yr old girl & your full-time working mom leaves you notes in the AM re: your chores for the day.  Let's say the note you read today says, " Please keep picked up after yourself today, finish your laundry & clean your tub, edges, inside, etc."  I am curious as to your interpretation of the last part of the note about the tub.  What do you think your mom means? Thank you in advance for your participation.

suzwes

Ha, Ha, Ha.  I'd like to know too because I have a 19 year old COLLEGE SOPHOMORE who doesn't know what the heck that means either and thinks that the 15 minute outside job I gave him was going to take 5 HOURS to do.

Sorry Joni, I've obviously about had it with my DS#2.

Eph3_12

Elimar - the new thread picture is GORGEOUS!  I literally sucked in my breath!

barbe1958

Eph, I would say the job involved VIM and a sponge...am I right?

Eph3_12

what's VIM?

elimar86861

That is clearly mom-speak for "clean the entire tub."  

Don't feel too bad, Eph.  Your daughter still has two years before she must pass the reading comprehension test on the ACT.  Strangely enough suzwes, in her response,  has given you a question straight from the ACT math portion.  "If your mother gives you a 15 minute chore to do  outdoors, how many hours will it take?"  Her son also supplied the corrent answer, 5 hours.  It's the "new math." 

suzwes

Elimar,  I just laughed so hard I fell off my chair!!  Thanks for making my day end with laughter!

Eph3_12

Well you win the prize Barbe & Elimar& Suzwes!  Indeed-the instruction was to clean the tub; in my mind that meant with 409 & a sponge or Lysol or some such cleaner.  What I got was-the clothes on her bathroom floor directly next to the tub picked up ("the edge") & the shower curtain pulled across shielding one's view of the tub itself as well as the inside of the tub. 

A conversation earlier in the day had had a question -"If I get my chores done, can I walk to A.'s house & swim?" Upon my arrival home from work, DD was called and ordered home from aforementioned pool & required to clean the tub.  Took 10 minutes.  Am I a bitch?  

suzwes

At least you didn't get the "I couldn't find the cleaner" whine!  I think it's our duties to be bitches, otherwise we won't get productive human adults.  What did she say when it only took 10 minutes? 

I must admit my DS did show a wee bit of adult behavior when he abashedly came in from his 15 minute/5 hour chore and apologized for his abhorant behavior toward me.  He's number 4 in the line thank God!  However, he's 7 years younger than number 3 child (a daughter who I remember at age 15 as being like yours Eph) and it's hard to remember.  Prayer and Wine helps a lot.

chrissyb

Eph, don't feel bad, my DD still recounts the time I asked her to clean her room as I couldn't walk in there without tripping over something.  She wanted to go to a friend's house and she was told not until the room was clean.  About an hour later she came and said that it was all done so permission was given for her to go.  She was 15 at the time.  A bit later I went to her room to put away some clothing that I had ironed and when I opened the wardrobe everything fell at my feet, she had cleaned? alright, everything into the bottom of the wardrobe.  Needless to say, all of the contents of her wardrobe, chest of drawers, every thing from under the bed, behind the wardrobe from the top of her dresser ended up being piled into the middle of her bed and there it stayed until she arrived home and was told that if she planned to sleep that night she had best clean her room.  Of course I had the usual tantrum that teens are want to give when they don't want to do something but much later that night, the room was really clean, the clothes hung up the top of the dresser well organised and everything sparkled.  Needless to say the room never and I mean never was not done properly again as she realised that I would if needs be do the same thing again.  The funny part is,  she has done the same thing with her boys....lol.

chrissy