I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • kiley56
    kiley56 Member Posts: 164
    edited November 2011

    Hi Bren, I'm from Central point oregon...about 10 miles from Medford.  I had all my tx in Medford and worked at Rogue Valley Hospital for 20 years 5 exclusivly in oncology.  If there is any thing I can do please PM me and I'll give you my phone number.....Anything I can do Bren!  My thoughts and prayers are with you......Kiley

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    HL - Have a wonderful time in Cancun - I bet that will give you a welcome boost. Sounds just like what you need. It's great to see how supportive your work has been. I have been lucky in that respect too - my supervisors have been very supportive (for past issues). Have a great time and I hope this helps to get you past the last humps of this recovery.

    Bren - I am very sorry to hear about all the losses you are experiencing. Things seem to happen in threes, don't they? 

    (((((Nicki's family and friends))))) 

    Enjoyfool - when are you going to change your name back to "ful" or "intelligent"? I love your sense of humor.  

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2011

    Morning girls - been to the markets already and got 3 lots of fish and some choc fudge. Also got 2 apricot danish from a French stall and already ate them - yummy.

    DH coming home early - he survived the big ride yesterday but doesn't want to climb a mountain today - bummer, now I'll have to make him lunch, or maybe he could take me out for lunch - that's a good idea. Unfortunately I know which one will win.

    ((((((Bren))))))

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited November 2011

    Hi Kiley .. thank you .. that means a lot to me.  We're doing a very quick trip.  In Friday late and leave Monday at 6 a.m.  We will be very busy visiting relatives for two days.  I dread the flight with everything in me.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2011

    Morning Girls - hope you are all being quiet because you are having a great weekend.

    Sue

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  • scuttlers
    scuttlers Member Posts: 1,658
    edited November 2011

    My anniversary today. :-)

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited November 2011

    Scuttlers

    Happy Anniversary. Are you doing anything special?

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited November 2011

    Scuttlers .. Happy Anniversary .. hope you're enjoying the day together.

    Quiet day here today ... too cold to do too much outside.  Tim is in Houston this weekend so it's kind of lonely and boring.  I'm playing on the computer listening to the football game.

    We got our tickets for the travel to Oregon next Friday.  Grueling travel arrangements.  I'm in the middle seat the whole freakin' way.  We also rented a car and will stay in a hotel.  My dear cousin wants to go swimming so we said we'd stay at a resort with a pool and we could have a slumber party together all weekend.  It's so hard traveling when you know it's to say goodbye.

    Hope everyone is having a good day,

    Bren

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2011

    Happy Anniversary Scuttlers!!! How many years?

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited November 2011

    Happy Anniversary S!

    I'm kind of quiet lately.  Too much bad news on the boards lately and I just can't get into my groove.  I'm still trying to keep up though.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited November 2011

    Blue...I hear you and I'm going through the same things. Crappy news...depressing...trying to disconnect for a while. As I've said before...Cancer sucks...hate it....wish it would get the Hell outa here!

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    Happy Anniversary, Scuttlers!

    I'm with you, Blue and artsee. 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    Morning all! Does anyone have anything cheerful to start the day. We've all been terribly glum lately (self included). 

    I will start with the following: I LOVE this weather, and the cold air makes me appreciate the sun.

    Anyone else? 

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2011

    DH is watching a program about lions and warthogs :) 

    Work still boring, but I might have a mini project coming up and might be able to move back downstairs. I don't like where they moved me, the project team aren't very friendly and they haven't been very forthcoming on knowledge transfer - been pretty much a waste of time.

    Sue

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  • sewingnut
    sewingnut Member Posts: 1,129
    edited November 2011

    Indian summer here!!  This weekend was gorgeously sunny.  Loving this Ohio weather....

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2011

    Happy Anniversary Scuttlers

    Blue, Athena, Artsee - it really is a dificult time, both online, and in many of our lives.  I "hide" in my drawing, and painting, find it healing.  Sometimes bc is just too much of my life.  Seems natural to help support women in earlier stages of this, just starting treatment, or beginning to take an AI, but realize too, I want to pull away for a while.

    I go for my 6 month check up at Dana Farber this week.  Expect to get a quick visit, and no changes, they don't do any tests except a very quick physical checkup - but still, we all know what the docs are looking for, hope to  join the BORING list.  Expecet I will, except for "the talk" about how good it would be if I lost weight. 

    Going to spend today "playing" with my new soft pastels - really love them.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited November 2011

    A bunch of my old high school friends are coming over for brunch at 10:30 this morning.

    That should put me in a better mood. We usually end up laughing so much, talking about the weird things we did when we were hanging out. Very mild compared to today's kids.............

    Sun..have a great check up.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited November 2011
    artsee -- If you want to have a REALLY good giggle, tell everyone to bring old high school pictures with themLaughing.
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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited November 2011

    My day sucks. 

    I know Athena mentioned something about a more cheerful topic .. so I'll say the weather is gorgeous today.  The sun is shining and it's in the low 60's!

    My dear friend got the results from her most recent scan today .. and the news is not good.  The cancer is also in her pelvic bones and liver.  She's waiting on word of when they will be scheduling the biopsy.  She doesn't know if they will biopsy the liver or the pelvic bone.

    I'm devastated by her latest news.  My heart is breaking for her.

    hugs to all,

    Bren

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited November 2011

    Oh Bren

    It is too hard. Cancer is the worst thing on the planet.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    Hey Susie, your DH has great taste in television. :) Lions are avid warthog consumers, believe it or not. They are one of their fallbacks when buffalo and zebra hunting don't go well. 

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited November 2011

    Bren, I'm so sad about your friend. I hate cancer.

    Happy news my son is getting married Friday. I love the girl he is marrying.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2011

    Athena - I thought you would like that :)

    Kira - you're lucky. I never even got to meet the DIL from hell first - we weren't invited to the wedding.

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited November 2011

    Ha! Ran across a link today I enjoyed. As you may or may not know, the Constitution guarantees the "right of the people... to petition the government for redress of grievances" and there is a web site where the White House will let you create and/or sign various petitions. A lot of them are petty or crazy, but this one made me laugh out loud.

    https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x

    We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition.

    "Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie."

    OK, I know I have a warped sense of humor, but that's funny!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited November 2011

    That IS funny, Riley!  And probably, sadly, true.  I may start my own petition to change the national motto back to "E pluribus unum."  Hey, if the House can waste thousands of taxpayer money, so can I!  Who's with me?

    Speaking of Congress...my mom and I went to DC yesterday to tour the Capitol and to watch our democracy in action.  Imagine our surprise when we learned that the House is off for the whole  week.  Again.  And Rep Cantor promises even fewer days in session next year!  Go Cantor!  hahahaha

    We visited the Senate and I had to slap a hand over my mom's mouth when McConnell was speaking about our obstructionist president (???) to an empty chamber.  Who'd believe such language could come out of an 85-yr-old's mouth?  

    At 5:30ish, all of the Senators started leaking into the chamber to vote on a Resolution (I think).  It was very casual - one would walk in and give a thumbs up, the person tallying the votes would say their name and the vote, and the Senator would go on to chat with friends.  No formal sit-down-at-your-desk vote.  Odd.

    And that was my yesterday.  All in all, an enjoyful sorta day.  ;-)

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  • painterly
    painterly Member Posts: 602
    edited November 2011

    Just wondering what the Canadians think about Harper's plan (or should I say King Harper) for the British coat of arms to go on the front cover of the Canadian passport? Are most English Canadians happy with that idea? I have heard here in Quebec that the move could stir up the separatist movement once again and perhaps Harper should have let "sleeping dogs lie" since everything is reasonably quiet in the separatist quarter.

    Being a Brit originally, I do find it strange to have the British coat of arms on the front of the passport. We have a friend who has a daughter in London and her visa is about to expire and she will be kicked out of the country, so I don't understand the rationale being this change in the passport.

    Cheers!

    Here's a question for SusieQ. Does they Australian passport have its own coat of arms on the front or do they have the British one?

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited November 2011

    painterly -- I'm looking at my Canadian passport, and the Canadian Coat of Arms, with its motto A Mari Usque ad Mari is on it, (which also contains the Union Jack and the Fleur de Lis).  I hadn't heard anything about Harper (who was not MY choice, BTW) changing it.  Where did you hear about this?

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    Our Congress is SO useless. There is a real crisis of democratic capitalism and it ain't only in the US. We thought we had "won" the Cold War but our system is showing its weaknesses. Parliaments and Congresses everywhere are stalled. Economic models STILL hailed as effective by some have shown that they are the product of a bankrupt ideology.

    The only consolation I have as an American (and this is admittedly lame) is when I look over at Greece and Italy.

    Oh, Mr. Obstructionist McConnell is going to poke out his own eye if he keeps pointing the finger, E!

    Riley, that IS funny!

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited November 2011

    Athena -- This isn't any kind of relief from the situation, but at least it's making inward-looking folk aware of the global economy and how we actually are, in fact, ALL related.  That is, if they're paying attention......

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited November 2011

    ....ah, and that is the question, Lindasa. One knows that some are paying attention but others are not. Anyone who thinks it is just a European "thing" is dead off.

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