For Older People with Sense

dragonflymary

Happy early New Year to everyone!  Today we put away the tree (with the help of the grands).  Then pizza.  Yesterday, got a new oven on sale.  I'm still riding high on the money I saved.  One more surgery in January on the 4th to correct a flaw in one implant.  I'm ready for the down time with knitting projects and old movies.  Maybe a Bogart film festival.  

Lisa, wish I'd done more when I was younger.  Now it's more difficult.  But I refuse to be morose.  I guess we do what we can.  Still, I did love Europe and always wanted to go back.  Now it seems like a lot of work.

Love to all,

Dragon 

3jaysmom

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOUALL!!!......3JAYS I HOPE 2012 IS EASIER ON THE LOT OF US....

Gingerbrew

Marybe is getting her tumor markers soon. We were sort of joking around and BarbE suggested we have a lottery, I chimed in a raffle with the prize being the satisfaction of winning. I wagered that Marybe's numbers would be under 6000. Then I just decided to go make a BCO donation regardless and now, so I did. It is easy the link is right at the top of the page on the right side, just scroll up. So, as at any board meeting where one is absent, Marybe named me in charge of spreading the word about this so we might get a nice pool of donations going for BCO which has done so much for so many of us.

It is tax dedutible too and I did donate in honor of Marybe but didn't request she be notified, she might get a big head ya know. Haha

Here is what Marybe wrote on her thread.

"Just thought of this....maybe you can spread the word of the contest to some of the other threads, I don't know about honoring me so much because believe me, I am really no one special, BUT wouldn't it be great to raise a bunch of money for BCO since it has given so much to us!? Also, I think you can use it as a tax deduction."

I hope you consider joining us and thanks for reading this.

Ginger

Kaara

Happy New Year Everyone!!...We're off on our cruise in a few hours, so will see everyone when I return in about 7 days.  Have fun on New Year's Eve and don't do anything I wouldn't do...lol!

BarbaraA

Have a great cruise Kaara!

chrissyb

Happy New Year all from Australia! 🎉🎈🎆



Love n hugs for a new and better year. Chrissy

duckyb1

Kaara...........my son just called and he was on his way to Miami from Ft. Lauderdale to board the ship..............would it be funny if you were both on the same ship.................he is going to I belive Jamaica.....................Have a wonderful  time.................hugs, and Happy New Year.

SoCalLisa

Alyson

Happy New Year to you all. Even though its not quite there yet in the west.

Leah_S

Happy New Year to all!

Leah

Gingerbrew

Thanks for starting the thread Joyce. I just went there and left my numbers guess too. 

I hope we can raise a nice bit for BCO, it is a tax deductible donation which is even nicer. 

Ginger

chabba

QCA

Happy New Year to us all!!

Kathy

3jaysmom

im suspicious, so wont be donating in Honor of anyone, YET>>> but thats' just me...

   Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!!!!3jays

chrissyb

OMG!  It is already day three of the New Year!!!  If this is any indication on how fast the rest of the year is going to go........well..................hang onto your hats as we are in for a lightening ride!!!!!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

Alyson

Morning all.

Firstly. Chrissy why were you up at that time????  Was it too hot. Heard about the fire risks in SA so just checked and saw you would have 38 today. Wish we could have a few degrees over here. Just humid and cloudy here. We want Summer.

DD and children will be around soon. I was dozing in bed not so long ago and the phone rang, answered it and it was DGD who when I spoke asked; ' Are you a bit sleepy Granny?' So thought it was funny that I was still in bed. So now we have to get organised as we are going to Butterfly Creek to see the animals.

So big hugs to all hoping your day will be good.

chrissyb

Alyson, yes it was HOT!!!!  but the biggest problem was I was so tired I went to bed early but my DH woke me up when he was trying to open the bedroom window to let in the cooler air which didn't arrive....lol.....not happy!   Needless to say, I had had a couple of hours and so couldn't get back to sleep and decided to check the boards.  Thank heavens we are due for a cool change today with a few showers so temps tomorrow should be down to about 25..........now that's what I call nice.

Don't you just love it when the little ones, in all innocence, ask the right questions?  It's almost like they are clairvoyant or something.  Hope you enjoy your day at Butterfly Creek with them!

 I have been so slack since the holidays, in fact so slack that the Christmas Tree is still up!  Yeah, I know, you are supposed to take it down on NYday but hey, it was really hot here..........well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it....lol.  Today is the day that it will be taken down and packed away for another year.  Hopefully I will be here to put it up again..........mind you, I have no plans of being anywhere else.

Here's hoping all you girls who are in active treatment are doing well and the treatment is tollerable, to those who have completed, Yay for you and now it's time for healing.

Love n hugs to all.  Chrissy

lulubee

Chrissy, I just can't wrap my brain around Christmas in summer!  It truly is an upside-down world down there! 

We just took our tree down tonight... plus the house lights, wreath, nutcrackers, caroler dolls, Christmas china, yada yada yada.  It's amusing to me that when we get all that stuff put out in early December I always think our house is prettiest at Christmas, but then when we get it all put away in January it's such a visual relief.  Whew!  To everything there is a season, right?!

I get my first Xgeva shot tomorrow afternoon.  I'm fully expecting it to make me totally incapable of cooking dinner.  ::WINK::  I should get my MRI report back, too.  Hopefully that won't make me want dinner on the rocks with a twist.

'Tis what 'tis. 

Say, y'all go see The Adventures of Tin Tin if you get half a chance.  Saw it today with DH and DS, in 3D.  Hands down, best animation I've ever seen and a great story to boot! 

Alyson

Our tree stays up until the 6th Jan which is 12th night or Epiphany. So its here for a few more days. Will probably start tomorrow getting some things away. Need Dh to get the boxes down so that I can pack things away.

It was fun seeing the Butterflies and the other animals. Saw them feeding the crocodiles - wouldn't want to get too close to one of those. By midday it was hot and very crowded. Miss GD is a bit of a handful at present but it was fun. They have actually just gone home.

Lulubee we of course don't think anything of a summer Christmas but it is only recently that we have 'summer carols' and summer images of Christmas but much is still northern hemisphere so as children we all knew of snow and robins and holly but had never seen them. I would love to do a northern Christmas and I do want snow. Here in New Zealand we have a very beautiful tree which flowers late December so it has become a Christmas symbol. It is very large tree that grows around the coast line.

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Must get organised as my sister is going down to visit our brother for a few weeks and so have to get her to the airport soon.

Big hugs

lulubee

Alyson, how beautiful!  Thanks for the show-and-tell lesson!  :-)

(I wonder if schools still have show-and-tell time anymore... it was my favorite!) 

SoCalLisa

Alyson, what is the name of that tree, it is beautiful..

my tree stays up for another week or whenever my DH gets

the boxes down ..

chrissyb

Good luck Lulu with your first shot!  Sure hope you don't have any SE's!  Still keeping my fingers and everything else crossed for a good report on your MRI.  

Will the wanting a good report never end?  I once thought that leaving school would put an end to the on edge feeling of waiting for reports..............but sadly, I think, as an adult there are even more reports to worry over! 

We also have that tree Alyson and yes when it is in full bloom it is gorgeous!!! and the nectar eating birds just love it!!!!

Has any of you heard of a choir called Libera?  It is a boys choir out of Britain and if you want to hear the voices of angels check them out on utube!  They are amazing!!!  I don't know how to do a link or I would.............I first came across them about two years ago by accident while flicking channels one night.  They were doing a live performance and I was transfixed!  I have adored them ever since.  If my memory serves me correct, they are aged between eight and fourteen with the average being twelve.  I'm not sure if I'm a bit of a softy but every time I hear them my heart soars with every note.....please, do yourself a favour and check them out..............their voices are truly God given.

Love n hugs all.  Chrissy

chrissyb

Ooops sorry Lisa, I bumped into you....lol.  Even though the good intentions are there to get mine down today, it will more than likely be there at least until the weekend...........lol.............this time of year I tend to be a bit slack..........but who cares?  I don't!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

3jaysmom

im still hoping the grands will make it here.. they haven't seen ours.. but, we've started clearing the rest   wed. a new dr. for the thyroid thursday.. tried to switch back to the synthyroid, its way cheaper.. been sick as a dog.. oops, just have to add the extra$$$to the "meds budget"...

  i don't even care when this comes down this year... as long as the outside gets done, so the neighbors don't comp;ain, im good..

  we're re arranging stuff again, removing the big tv, which made room for my bookcases, etc. etc.. so, it'll be awhile...

   AND, we haven't even taken pictures yet!!!! we spent most of our energy getting it done, and after the choing thing, no enrgy to get it fown...yet... one day at a time.. if its aug, and its still up, i'll get worried then!..........3jays

chrissyb

Awe 3jays, hang in there girl, you know we are with you.  How come you are seeing yet another doc about the thyroid?  I thought you had found the right one for you........maybe I misunderstood................anyway, whatever it takes to get you well.  What a pain in the a$$ that you are adversly reacting to the synthroid again...........take it easy and rest as much as you can and need.  Sure hope you get to see those grands soon............I'm amazed that J#1 has been so slack with that particularly after what happened with your choking and all.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

barbe1958

Alyson, we do NOT have robins around at Christmas in Canada!! They are long gone to warmer climes. Interestingly enough, the plant symbol of Christmas, the Poinsettia is indigenous to Mexico!!! Go figure..... We are just faking the perfect Christmas....

3jays, if your tree is still up in August, leave it up!!! You will be first at Christmas time to turn on the lights. I finally saw Zach on New Years Day. He'd been sick with croup and an emergency ambulance ride to the hospital to get the diagnosis! He was turning blue as per my DD. I'm glad I missed all that as I couldn't have stood the adrenaline dump. I just try not to shock my system as I await the surgery on my neck.

lulubee

I've just now made a decision that has me feeling a little wave of silly joy.  Waves of silly joy must be shared, so read on if you need some.

Years ago, when my daughters were tiny dolls, we had a treetop angel that was a little Barbie-looking thing in a cheap white lace gown, with a Gibson Girl blonde 'do that I suspect had been frowsed up a bit when I wasn't looking.  The girls thought she was dreamy (my daughter still has her atop a bookshelf).  

One year I took one look at Angel Barbie and realized the poor little ratty thing just looked tired. I decided that the kingdom of angels deserved a more magnificent representation atop our tree.  So I went on the hunt for a Magnificent Angel.  

I found her at one of those massive Christmas stores. There she was, up on a high shelf, over a foot tall, a glowing Baroque beauty.  Golden wings, a gown of sparkling bronze with a russet sash billowing around her arms. She looks off to the side as if she has seen something Magnificent... and of course, that is the point: she has. 

I always imagine her calling out, "Fear not! Fear not!" like the angels in the Bible. 

Well, last night came the moment to box her up and banish her again to the attic for eleven months... and for life of us we cannot find her special box anywhere. It is just gone. Poof.

I looked at her on the coffee table, bidding peace and joy to the whole living room while we tried to figure out how to store her magnificence away. Then it hit me: I think I want her to stay. We just might need her this year.

So as of this morning, she reigneth o'er the foyer table. When you enter our home, there's this glorious, sparkly, winged being beholding your entrance with a beneficent gaze.  Welcome, she says, and Fear Not.  Above her, high on the wall over the doorway into our living room, is a sign that says, simply:  Rejoice.  

I wonder what angelic being hid her box from me?  I'm just going to claim that as a bona fide Christmas Mystery.

 

barbe1958

Love it Lulubee! I have a couple of ornaments that I keep out all year as they `talk` to me too...

Alyson

Awh Barbe, you are destroying my illusions of robins sitting on snow covered mail boxes delivering winer cheer. Hehehe.Didn't realise about the pointsettia but it makes sense. We have them here specially grown so they are red.

Love your angel story Lulubee. I have some little angels that sit on the matel piece in my bedroom because their box went missing so I understand. They stay all year.

Must get breakfast then decide what we are going to do for the day. DH has a couple of days off and sister has gone on holiday. 

Big hugs to all.

Isabella4

chrissy..Libera have beautiful voices, never heard of the before, but some lovely songs on Youtube.

Lulu, what a great story about the angel. I like Christmas angels, but keep the grotty little cardboard and sparkly ones my kids made 40 years ago...wouldn't dare do Christmas without these, and the lopsided stars they made me !

Isabella.