MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Deborah2012

Hey ladies,

Happy Easter and Chag Pesach Semeach for those of the "tribe".

Elimar, I love your Easter bunny chocolate pic. First time I've ever seen that one. Your kitchen exploits are admirable as well. Love your prankster streak too.

So, Here I am during Passover week cooking an Easter ham dinner for my hubby and I. We'll do Passover next weekend when DD and boyfriend come for a seder. Obviously, not terribly religious and definitely don't keep kosher. However, next weekend, no leavened bread nor ham etc. We do the holidays when everyone can get together.

Hubby and I went for a 16 mile bike ride by the ocean. Then, I got adventuresome cooking in the kitchen inventing stuff. Appetizers and a raspberry version of a pineapple upside down cake. No ready mix white cake in the house, so made some from scratch. I don't think I've ever made a pineapple upside cake in my life ( I do super enjoy cooking, tho'). Hope it turns out. If not- licking the beaters was worth it!

Now, I'm reading a novel in Spanish (with Kindle auto default Eng. dictionary)and in front of the fire, listening to Spanish "Pop y Rock". Having Gen Mai cha since I've already had 2 glasses of red wine while cooking all afternoon. I know. Bad girl- alcohol, could be feeding some cancer somewhere. Too bad. It's my party and I'll do what I want to.

I'm so happy and relaxed. Life is grand!

NativeMainer

LOL at the bunny cartoon!As funny now as ever!Definitely a drool worthy meal, good for you!

Deborah--that's the way to live life, girl!

Eph3_12

Love the topper pic Eli!

Hope everyone had a Hoppy Easter! I spent it on the road, returning from sister's home. Wicked cough, so my driving was rather erratic!

CAN NOT believe it's April!

Eph3_12

All of my favorite threads have very little activity lately. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

MinusTwo

Eph - I agree. Does that mean people are having exciting, full lives and no longer thinking about BC? Or they're too depressed to post?

Tomboy

Me, I swing back and forth wildly between exciting and depressed! But I have noticed that too..

Deborah2012

Hi All,

My girlfriend's husband has to have radiation treatment. He has such a great sense of humor. He commented how numerous Superheroes obtained their powers from radiation contact. Sure enough they did. Spider Man, Incredible Hulk and Mr. Fantastic are examples. So I decided to be creative and ridiculous. I made him a mobile with the typical superhero Kaboom! Whack! KaPow! colorful cartoon "bubbles". In the center is a ribbon that says "Killing cancer cells today". I also enclosed a cut out mask of Spiderman. He can hang the mobile from the ceiling of his hospital room- I sent push pins and duct tape. My husband was laughing at my homemade contraption (I found a sewing button that had a metal loop that I was able to use like a swivel, removed the metal bars from a Pendaflex file folder and raided his fishing tackle box). He loved it! We sent it off to him today. If I can upload a photo of it, I'll try. Wow! I uploaded my first photo to BCO. I hope it makes both of them smile. We met on BCO and our husbands met also. She is so precious to me and her husband is a good hearted person, too.

P.S. The raspberry upside down cake was a hit!

NativeMainer

Great mobile!

glennie19

Yes, great mobile and glad to hear that the cake was a hit!

Eph3_12

BAM! Today's news from Yahoo News. "Experts say the top 5 most addictive foods are: French fries, M&M's, Oreos, Cheetos & Doritos."

glennie19

for me:  French fries and Doritos,,,,,,   and jelly beans,, OMG, once I start with them, I can't stop.

NativeMainer

Oh, my, I am a 5 time food addict!

Loral

Doritos and m&m's for me........

elimar86861

I know you are expecting me to go for the Cheetos, but that came later. I'm off and on with Doritos (just the original "nacho cheese" flavor, mind you) ever since Junior High School (when my girl gang left the school campus to go get Doritos and Frozen Cokes for lunch.) Then, I did have a severe M&M sweet tooth in my 20's, and have some peanut ones in the pastel Easter colors in my candy bowl right now.

Of course, I've had my share of fries and Oreos too, but I could always give those a pass without any trouble at all.

On a related junk food note: Supposedly two of the worst junk foods out there are donuts and chips. Given my other addictions, I feel uppity good that I don't indulge in those two very often.

Cute mobile, Deb2012, and anything that lifts the spirit of a cancer patient get some bonus points++++++++++

Tomboy

When I was doing chemo, it was december, and I was having a major craving for passionfruit, which is hard to find ANY time of year. At trader joe's there were these things I spied near the frozen aisle. And i always thought gummy candies were gross. BUT. It said they had passionfruit juice along with mango and yogurt flavor. Oh.My. God. I have been addicted to them ever since! Seriously!! And there is pork gelatin in them, but i don't care. There is a store called sugarfina in the mall that has the original ones imported from Germany at 3X the price. I know this because a few months ago when there was a strike at the port, TJ's didnt have them for a long time, so I googled them, and , there ARE MANY PEOPLE AS EQUALLY ADDICTED AS I AM. People were writing about them, and very sad. Now I make sure that doesnt happen anymore. I buy them ten at a time. When i was a teenager though, I spent many of my dollars on Doritos too. Remember when you could get like a 3 pound bag for a dollar? I would eat the whole bag at one sitting.

Deborah2012

Ahhhh the memory of Dorito breath as a youth and the kissing dilemma. Solution- both of us would eat the Doritos, then neutralize it with a Big Stick popsicle. We were so very resourceful in our teens.

elimar86861

Tomboy, During my chemo (and the pre-surgery rounds were Dec. & Jan.) I craved real watermelon and paid the premium Winter prices to get some, and it was because it actually tasted like watermelon. Ninety percent of foods (make that 95%) did not taste right to my poor chemo-abused taste buds. The other flavor hurdle was having the chemo-abused saliva glands that just were not producing. Hampered by both of those things, there was not very much that tasted "real" to me, so when I found something, I ended up obsessing on those items. So, do you think that is why the mango/passionfruit gummies tasted so good to you?

Tomboy

Yes, they really did help produce some saliva, but they just had a really neat flavor too. And a different kind of "tooth feel", than any other kind of gummies that i have tried since. When the tjs was out, I tried many other kinds! None would do! There is a certain compelling 'tang' to me. But I am slooooowly weaning myself down. to the point where, last spring, i actually bought a passion vine and planted it. The flowers on the vine are so amazing. last year, there were eight fruits, but unfortunately, it coincided with the rat/garage problem I had last year, so I only got two. F**King rats.

BookLady1

Hi, again! Eph - your comments about the low activity on your fave threads got me on here, again. I agree with you and Minus2. Where are we? I think with me I've been starting and finishing and continuing tx and trying to figure out where I belong. So, here I am.

Elimar - happy year #6, and thanks for the Easter bunny-funny. Last time I was in the middle of my 21 day radiation, and you asked what kind of protocol that was. My RO is going by a new group of studies - giving slightly larger daily doses of rads in fewer treatments known as hypofractionated radiation therapy - works for me as I had a lumpectomy and only 1 node involved. Felt like I was cheating, but I am happy to be done with the slash, poison and burn part and was very happy when the rad therapists tossed confetti on me this week as I left the vault after my last tx. They apologized for confetti sticking to my hair - they dont get it - I was thrilled to have enough hair for it to stick to! Sensitive, burned, itchy - the usual when I finished this week. Not severe, but burned, itchy area, responding to all the lotions and potions. I cant stand for anything to touch the area - my DH and DS will be out tomorrow, so I'm going topless! Exciting times. Starting Arimedex on Monday.

Thanks for making me crave every food y'all have talked about! I lost 30 pounds (i could afford it) over chemo - but my appetite and taste buds are back, Baby! Easter candy gorging, and Doritos and Frozen Cokes sound wonderful! Elimar, were we in the same jr. high group? The Dixie Dog (yeah, I know) in Burkburnett, Texas for that healthy lunch M-F. Best wishes for a good weekend, and thanks for being here! Linda

elimar86861

Must've been, BookLady1. Remember me, I was the one that had white eyeliner and white lipstick all thru' seventh grade.

Congrats on finishing up the dreaded Rads...it sounds like you fared about the same as I did with the 33 Tx. All in the fractions, I guess. I like the confetti touch (read: jealous!)

MinusTwo

Eli - I love your header. The only problem is I start to hum Meatloaf whenever I check into this thread.

heartnsoul76

MinusTwo - you must be talking about a different picture than the one I'm seeing.

I don't even know what I'm seeing. Surrealist art is what it looks like but I can't even make up a story to go with it. Well, I will say the woman is the real thing in the picture. And the men think they're real but they're really bugs and she's about to squash them. HAHA!

Yes, where is everybody? For me, I've actually been working in my yard for the first time in YEARS! Well, it's not much of a yard - it's really like living in the forest but I do have some landscaping close to the house and I've trimmed it, fertilized it and planted about 2 dozen annuals here and there. And I feel like doing more but it's expensive!! Especially since I just found out for the first time in a long time I owe $2000 in taxes. Ugh! What a downer! Now I'm just going to have to get in debt to get my new patio furniture. Haha, nothing stops me from a good deal!

Speaking of being a shopaholic - okay, I'll call it retail therapy - I'm getting ready to open my own store selling everything I bought over the last 5-10 years that is just too nice to give away. And I think I have enough stuff to keep that store open for about 8 months! I know, I'm ashamed. But I got some great deals! I'll never forget this designer coat that didn't fit me so I called people up and said, "Hey, it's regularly $220 you can get it for $20!" Twenty damn dollars and no takers! So I bought it! Now I have to sell it. But I'll get a lot more than $20 for it. So I'm kind of looking forward to getting some of the clutter out of here. Whatever I don't sell I'll give to Salvation Army (or whichever one it is where the founder doesn't make over $600,000 per year from people's donations, for crying out loud!)

And while the store is going on I'm hopefully going to do some renovations around here. I have an English Tudor style home with huge attics and I want to bump out one of the attics and make a room out of it. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

Oh, wait! For me the addictive foods are French Fries and M&Ms - especially the peanut butter M&Ms. And no matter what people say about McDonald's, I still think they have the best french fries. Everyone else tries something different, but no cigar! Is that a saying or did I screw that up?

Tomboy

heartandsoul: close, but no cigar! thats magritte at the top, and nothing he paints is real. he was the one who painted the pipe, and then wrote on the painting that it wasn't real. But i AM curious as to what elimar was thinking...

i think i finally ate enough mango gummies....

MinusTwo

heartandsoul - yes, last weeks header picture was "objects in the rear view mirror..."

elimar86861

Well, sister art afficionados, to me that image at the top (Magritte--so A+ Tomboy!) was a woman discovering her cancer (although her face isn't really horrified enough for that, is it?) and the little men represent the doctors who have not yet found a cure; therefore, the cancer is bigger than they are. The rock (cancer) does look a little chipped away tho' and has a few dents in it. Also, the woman's world is turned upside down, otherwise, she could be looking straight in. That's what came to my mind.

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You know I like to find appropriate art to suit us. Otherwise it could wind up as a whole thread of cat memes (and the apologies to all my cat-meme-loving BC sisters just go without saying!!!)

glennie19

Excellent interpretion of that painting, Elimar.

Tomboy

yeah, AND the woman is bigger than the docs, tooooo

NativeMainer

Great interpretations!

Eph3_12

Her look is from the initial conversation that occurs before the horrifying part hits. It's the "WTF did you say?" look.

heartnsoul76

Haha, I think my interpretation was skewed by the man-hating mood I'm in right now. I want to squash them!