INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Chevyboy

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/gallery?section=null&id=7056386&photo=2

I found some pictures of that 1989 Earth Quake..

.I remember going to see my Dad, after Mom passed away, in about 1998???  And one morning it sounded like a TRAIN coming through the house!  Man, I yelled, and ran down to my Dad's bedroom and flew into bed with him!   He barely opened his eyes, and said  "It's okay honey, it's only an Earth Quake!".... I was just shaking! 

No big deal to THOSE guys.... they're just used to it.

camillegal

Well I'm not always up, now-- u r--And we have loads of snow and cold--WAAAAAAA It better be all gone tomorrow. I have to go out---This is such stay in weather OK I just read the last few words that I wrote, I have no idea what that means, whatever I don't think I finish my thoughts. See I'm tired already, going back to sleep.

Teka

mostlymom,

Best damn photo of a blue bird!

May I please post the photo on the "Bird Watching Club" thread?

Holeinone

Enerva, I hope you pain/soreness is controlled with good meds..it sounds so uncomfortable....no experience with it...geez, looking at your bio, you were dx a year before me. I am ready to be done, I bet you have had enough. Hoping for a speedy healing process..

Wren44

My BIL lived in San Mateo and worked for CalTrans during the Loma Prieta quake. He had the sense to change his phone recorder to say he was safe and out inspecting bridges. Took days to get thru. I remember the newscasters in the dark studio illuminated by hand held lights. There would be an aftershock and they would both grab the table and look really scared. I still have the willies about the collapsed freeway. We have one here just like it, same age, same construction. I will not drive on the lower deck.

Chevyboy

People are so excited here, and that's all that's in the papers!   I'm just wondering how getting high on weed, will affect the people that get drunk  or are taking Meth at the same time?    I know they have probably done that anyway, but  now with it so easy to get, I wonder if there will be more "accidental" overdoses.  

It just can't be an "accident" when they know what they are doing.....  Life is just so precious..... So many women AND men are fighting for their lives, and these people seem hell-bent on living like there is no tomorrow! 

I think I can hear my Grandmother saying to me.... "The world is going to hell in a hand-basket." 

Okay.... I'll get off my soap-box.... 

Smaarty

for Chevy and SAS (hope I got that right)

camillegal

I'm back----OK now about Pot--I think those that do it have been doing it for a long time anyway and normaly the real pot smokers don't do much else except pot so they will be all right. Those on hard drugs are just so different pot doesn't do it for them so they will continue, unless they get help. But I do hate to see people get in legal trouble over pot, that never seemed fair to me, but there might be less people on the streets selling it and more money for the government to spend as they want. They should give it to all the unemployed pot dealers. Or they can pay them to grow it someone has to be really busy with that now. ooohh good idea--Chevy u do well with gardening, put in u'r resume and u'll have a job from home--they'll supply the lightening. Sounds like I know a thing or two. There's a funny British move, where an elderly widow needs money and decides she'll grow pot--It's hysterical--Of course I can't think of the name, but I think it was Maggie Smith so it's possible.

luvmygoats

Oh gosh Smaarty just what I need another page of smart stuff for my Word files. Housework and packing up that Christmas tree may just have to wait. Just kidding of course. Thank you. DD was looking thru my Word files for something (yes something I wanted her to find) and said what are all these pictures/files. I said those are my pics/gifs stuff I have saved. Don't mess with them unless you can give me a better way to save them. Lol.

This is one of my favorite songs and what DD was searching for - the file to make it a ringtone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7pg-AOlA4

Today Is Mine by Glen Campbell. There is also a version where he is walking the land where Disney World was soon to be built.

Cami - I don't know that movie, will have to look for it.

Wren44

When I have nice music for a ringtone, it doesn't trigger me to answer the phone. I just think what pretty music, wonder where it's coming from. Now I have crickets, but crows can do a pretty good imitation and we have a lot of crows.

Smaarty

my ringtone is Stronger by Kelly clarkson. Used to be bagpipes. 

Luvmygoats-glad you like.

Blessings2011

During the Loma Prieta earthquake, I was in the Central Valley of California, and my dad was in the Bay Area. I had talked to him the night before, and he said he had a meeting in Oakland the following afternoon. I was sitting in my rocking chair watching the news, when all of a sudden, the rocker took off rocking like it was possessed. I immediately called my dad, and of course, couldn't get through. Then I saw the images of the freeway that had collapsed, and I knew he was on it. 

My heart was in my throat until I finally reached him that night. He'd gone up to Oakland earlier in the day, and was back in his office when the earthquake hit... just missed being killed or injured! That was a very sad time for the entire Bay Area. Seems like everyone knew someone who died or was injured.

When the Northridge earthquake hit, I was listening to the radio, and didn't think too much of it, until I saw the images on TV. The gas station at the end of my girlfriend's block was in flames, and I knew it wasn't good. Fortunately, her husband had set up a telephone tree, and got one message out that they were all o.k. I found out that night when a relative called me.

My girlfriend said that when it hit, it sounded like a jet engine had crashed. The dressers toppled over onto their bed, missing them both. Their toddler son, who wasn't feeling well, had been sleeping in between them. Good thing, as the walls had collapsed in the hallway to his bedroom and they wouldn't have been able to get to him.

They got out, taking as many blankets as they could, and putting their son in the car to sleep and keep warm. She said the entire sky was red with flames and smoke, and all the neighbors huddled together as if a war had started.

Eventually, their house would be condemned, along with most of the others on her block. Because apartments were also affected, there were no rentals, so they lived in an RV in their driveway the entire time their house was being rebuilt. Must not have been too bad; 9 months later their daughter was born!

Spookiesmom

Mostlymom.  Love it!!

Smarty what tune did you have for the pipes?  DD is a piper

Chevyboy

Blessings.... that was an intense story.....  My Mom was crying, when she called the next day.....  She had heard about all the fires in San Francisco..... she had retired from working on the SFOB Bridge, and told me it took just forever for people to get back "home" again.....    When we drove across that other bridge that collapsed, things were being rebuilt and repaired....  I mean there were still sections that were  gone, but rebuilt again. 

I love that song too, Littlegoats!  I also loved Whitney..... anything by Whitney.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU

And this crazy one! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z727wXHEJMg

Chevyboy

Smaarty.... This ones for you....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euWfTiYwRB0

My Mom and Dad's favorite song that I remember them singing together in Church!

Smaarty

I'll check when I get back. Doing a quick check here before I go down to the hospital to watch my niece have her 4th boy.  Haven't seen a baby born in 8 years!

Teka

Ouch!

sas-schatzi

Oh pages and pages, hands broke out. At least know culprit this time. Hair mousse.

Smarty, drop and fluff, I'm not the best to ask b/c they were lot bigger than suppose to be, between 300-350 cc MORE THAN EXPECTED. , lots of unknown stuff. Wish they had stayed put.

Enerva call doc on pain meds. bE CAREFUL TO CHECK AMOUNT OF ACETAMINOPHEN/APAP/TELENOL IN YOUR PAIN MED       SHOULD BE LIMITED TO 3200MG IN 24 HOURS. TOO MUCH CAN HURT LIVER & KIDNEY. cAN CAUSE FAILURE OF EACH ONE.

MANY PAIN MEDS HAVE THE ABOVE IN THEM.     PERCOCET, TYLOX, VICODEN, LORCET, lots more , but those are the most common.

Gotta grease up BB L&H&P's s

grammaB

Mostlymom, that bird is so darn cute! In the winter I always put the bird seed under the fir trees to protect it from the snow. They are so cute to watch flying in and out! It really entertains my indoor furbaby too!

Chevy, boy were those photos a walk down memory lane!

Enerva, hope you are feeling better.

Cami, I think I know the movie you are talking about, can't remember the name either. Wasn't David Tennant in it? I'm not having any luck with IMDb or google to find it though.

I'm so boring, my ring tone is a phone ringing.....

Blessings, totally agree, earthquakes are frightening!  And the death and destruction left behind just awful!  Glad your Dad was safe.

Smaarty, we as women give birth all the time and each is a miracle to be sure.  I had 2 children.  But there was something absolutely awesome and magical about watching my first grand child being born!  I walked out of the hospital awestruck!  Hope all goes well with your niece.

Hugs!

Holeinone

Smaarty. Wow that is a statement, have not seen a baby born in 8 years...I have never seen a baby born...I did push 2 out, but never watched someone else, videos, but that doesn't count. That would be amazing, I think...emotional & exhausting...I hate to see anybody in pain...have fun ! 

Cami, the movie with Maggie Smith is Saving Grace.

Going back to watch the above videos.....Golf Girl

grammaB

Holeinone, Yes!! That is the one I was thinking of too!  It was Craig Ferguson not David Tennant (both actors I adore).  Thanks, it was beginning to drive me crazy not being able to find it.  Very funny movie!

Anonymous

Holy crapamole!  I am 18 pages behind!  (thud) M<>X - that is the sound of me smacking my head on the keyboard.

Anyway, hello all of you Lady-olas.  Just so you  know, I have NFI what is going on here.  However, that is not unusual for me.  Chevy and Cami usually help me out, and Sassyfras also.  And really, Teka, PLEASE stop deleting your posts before I can read them.   Things are bad enough already in my brain.

I found out today that my prescription benefit is hosed up for another few days.  I stayed amazingly calm.  I didn't even need to get out my paintball gun.  That Lexapro is good stuff!   I hope they don't cut me off.   I felt so good that I made some Beer Bread.

 It will probably be dinner tonight...with butter, lots of butter.

Phyllopian

luvmygoats

Phyllis - I be right over. I can smell it from here. I think bread is my middle name.

Holeinone

Phyllis,   That looks good enough to eat, I am on a food frenzy, 5 weeks post chemo, & all the sudden food sounds good, looks good, taste even better....I cannot stop eating, I lost 20 lbs during chemo so I am not sweating it or really care....

Anonymous

Girls the movie "Saving Grace" starred Brenda Blethyn, not Maggie Smith. Great movie.

Paula

camillegal

Hi Everyone

Oh I see Phyllobeer made her specialty--looks great...I love bread and butter anytime, anywhere all the time, I forgot about beer bread I used to make it a lot around the Holidays the only ingredient I remember is beer, I know there is much more. Just wondering ahem......

Oh my phone, I missed about 5 phone calls, I'm screwed I can't even keep a job from home where no one sees me looking like a slob. I forgot there is some numbness in my upper legs cuz of my back, so I never felt the vibration--yes good vibrations--I loose track here anyway my SIL retrieved the messages and I called back reaching a couple of people but not all and a couple said they got someone else--all furnace related, they weren't going to wait. I told them I didn't blame them and wished them a Happy New Year----I was going to give them the evil eye but I figured it really was my fault--no it was cuz of cancer--see how this thing just never lets me forget LOL OOh well it was OK while it lasted

I find myself very ware of my app't tomorrow, I see Drs. all the time, but I did take most of Dec. off, now I don't want to bother and I put off all my appt's--chit--I hate going, just so tired of them. Oh well something we have to do cuz of cancer--see what I mean. LOL I know moan, moan, moan--I'm good at complaining and I'm proud of it.

camillegal

I just read---Yes Saving Grace, oo I thought it was Maggie Smith oh well it was so funny, her and her MAN doing all they did to make money, It made me want to do that too. Looked easy enough. And another one of my favs was always Auntie Mame with Roslyn Russell, which was hysterical especially that is was based on a true story. Oh everyone should have an Auntie Mame in their life. it was fun to watch. I kind of did and she was amazing, did so much, lived different parts of the world married 3 times (which those days was u know) when she was young she sang in a niteclub and just loved life and I was like 10 and was enamored with her and she was so kind to me and she took me downtown Chgo for lunch--big deal then--no one did that. hhaha Oh well

Wren44

I have my 6 mo appt with the onc equivalent on Jan 23. I'm just planning to complain about aches and pains. I have a mammo in Feb on Valentines Day. That one is a little more anxiety producing. I think I have a DEXA scan in the spring sometime. Anxious to see what A is doing to my bones.

blondiex46

Cammie you are so funny!!!  Do you still have the job?

luvmygoats

Wren - you sound on my timeline. MO arranged for mammo gosh knows why he jumped on it. BS always does it, but who cares so long as they all get the report. End of January, then BS 1st of Feb. I too need an Dexa this spring sometime, MO says b4 I see him again in June. I may just get my gyn. to order it; I'll see him sometime in the spring. My MO says I see too many docs. Let's see - him, BS, gyn, PCP, glaucoma doc. Doesn't seem like so many to me. Insurance hasn't complained, pays what I expect it to.

I'll have to see if DH can get that movie online. He watches lots of stuff - watching old Dragnet episodes yesterday. I don't have Netflix or Hulu (?maybe). At least not anything else we have to pay for. Just good old DirecTV which is going up so they can provide more HD that I don't have. DH threatening to cancel it. I bundle with phone bill so may not be that bad.