INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

MarlanaB

RonnieKay--very crappy bedside manner but in my experience, very sadly true. I've lost 5 maternal aunts and uncles to this beast called cancer as well as apaternal uncle. One uncle was undergoing treatment for stomach cancer, was told on a Friday afternoon that it had spread and he was gone by 5 AM Sunday. One aunt I had dinner with on a Saturday and she was gone 7 days later. Personally, I suspect that my mother and another aunt, both RN's, knowing how much pain their sister was in (lung cancer with mets to her spine that cracked vertebrae) may have helped her on her journey with the liquid morphine her MO prescribed.

But enough serious stuff.

Q: Why did the owl, owl? A: Because the woodpecker would peck 'er!

source: http://www.jokes4us.com/animaljokes/owljokes.html

MarlanaB

M0mmyof3

Here we are again another early Saturday morning, up early with my precious kitten Princess! Little bugger has to wake her mommy up at 5 a.m. no matter what day it is! Oh well, at least she is quietly sitting in a window watching for the birds. Going to get up in a few a make me my daily cup of wake up and get moving!

 

Chevyboy

Aw GEEZ! So good morning December and Diana! Where you BIN? I gotta run outdoors and work in the yard, because it's just getting light!

But then I will come back in and post more... That's my JOB! When you guys are all not feeling well, all I can do is talk about everything useless..Ha! I just hate to think of you guys, all scrunched up in bed, hardly able to move, and just feeling chitty!

So hold on... I'll be right back!

And where did you get that rafting gif? Tell me where to look! I will send it to my crazy rafting Brother... Also the Johnny Carson memories...Hah! Priceless... !!! xoxoxo

M0mmyof3

Got my daily cup of wake and and get moving

Spookiesmom

Quack quack quack

I heard there's a guy building an ark......

queenmomcat

Spookie: keep an eye out for the animals lining up two by two!

Spookiesmom

LOL

M0mmyof3

But don't forget to get a couple of unicorns for the ark, Noah forgot to get his!

Spookiesmom

Supposed to be like this till Monday.

Quack.

sas-schatzi

Hi, moving slow, I had a post go to the netherwold.

Hi December, sorry about the sleeping and everything. It's always a bit slow around here on the weekend.

Spookie not wet yet. Heavy yesterday

Rosie what you want is basically an Irish wake/ So, I dub you and Irishlass.

goodprognosis

Ha Ha Sas - good one.

Great idea. How about it Rose? You ready to live it up at an Irish wake????

No dying allowed though - only good times - and whiskey of course!

Loveroflife

Tell Noah to leave all the pythons,snakes, flies, and mosquitoes behind

Loveroflife

Wow! Very angry looking patches of orange there. You should be building your own ark Ms Spookie!!

Welcome December. I'm surprised Ms. Chevy hasn't changed your name yet. She is like a mom to most of us. Warning: watch your grammar. She got our editor,aka Queenie, a few days ago. I think she gave up on correcting me along time ago. I noticed you were talking to yourself last night. It's ok. I did that when I first joined too-couldn't sleep because of post-op pain and I was rambling away as if I was on a stimulant. It was a paradoxical reaction to Norco. Rose thought they discharged me from the hospital with Amphetamine or something. Don't believe Marlana. She is the mischievous one.

Ms Sas, I showed the video of the lady in the blue mask whose reflection startles her to both of my DD. Dd1 got a good laugh from it. Her words, " I have to be honest, I have scared myself a few times like that lady.

magdalene51

First thing I learned when I arrived in Cancerland: ya gotta laugh. So here goes.

First one is for Spookie:

This is for December:

And for Rose:

sas-schatzi

Rosie, don't listen to Goodie, if someone doesn't die it can't be a wake. Otherwise, it's just an ordinary regular day.The irish or rather the American and Canadian  Irish of my line have standards. Wakes, Christenings, graduations,Weddings, fourth of July, July 1st, Cinco de Mayo,all national holidays, Mondays and Fridays., Tues. and Saturdays. Rest on wed and Sunday. large family--90 first cousins, aunts and uncles  and 60 second cousins aunts and uncles. now that's a party.

I had a first cousin marry a Mexican national. He called our family the rabbit family. All good Catholics they were.

Spookiesmom

OMD. GOOD ONES MAGS

sas-schatzi

mags the tits one is my personal favorite.

I asked my Mom one time why did they party so much at funerals or rather after funerals. She said that a birth was mourned because a child had to face so much trouble in life, a death was celebrated because it was a release from the troubles of this life.

goodprognosis

Ah yes! An ordinary regular day.....with enough singing, laughing, drinking, talking, shouting, fighting and dancing to wake the dead......see, I said ...to wake the dead...! Ha, ha, ha...

Edited to add. Sas, so sorry to hear you have such a small family circle - I'll lend you some of mine for your next party.

queenmomcat

December: sympathies. Worries always seem worse in the silent depths of the night. Stress gives me insomnia/sleep disturbances like whoa, and I've been struggling to reset my sleep/wake cycle since surgery #1....starting with the flock of nocturnal Clamoring Whatifs

Lover: (pretending to sulk like a pre-schooler who missed her nap) STILL don't think it's my fault what others read into my grammar unclarities. See how YOU all like trying to get cats to quit wearing your corrective lenses.

Sas: sure, a wake is predicated on a death....but whose? Now I'm stuck with the Dubliners' "Finnegan's Wake" as an earworm..

sas-schatzi

I added moms description of a wake to my last post

Goodie good, your thinkin'

Quennie, hate those ear worms. Had Glenn Millers band in my head one time. for two hours. Technically it's called a hallucination. So happy it stopped. Those horns were really loud.

sas-schatzi

Spookie the dogs are going to the closet

luvmygoats

Is Sassy going also?

Spookiesmom

Poor Kris has been under the table for 2 days. Spookie won't go off the deck. Thank dog for pee pads.

sas-schatzi

Not yet

Spookiesmom

ok

dunesleeper

Hi everyone, especially Rose. I know you requested lightness and humor, but I'm not so good at that. I can be good at gallows humor - which has gotten me in trouble around here more than once - but I can't think past this kick in the gut. I didn't know you were so sick ; apparently you didn't either. (That was gallows humor.) Oh man I'm so angry; but I've had a few days with such pain, back a couple months, that I do understand about being ready for the release of death. Transcendence sounds really nice. When you talked about how fast it grew I thought of how my lymph nodes appeared, grew, then the next and the next, right up my collar bone and neck. The receptionist at my MOs office called me paranoid, and I was looking in the mirror at the time and my mouth just dropped open. It was crazy. I couldn't get them to move up my appointment. When I finally talked to the nurse I asked if it could grow that fast. Her lack of reply spoke volumes. I'm very sad, and I will miss you- and geez it's hard to see this keyboard with my eyes all wet. I'm sorry for being so maudlin and I promise to refrain from doing it again (today), and I will party with the girls and be as irreverent as permitted.

M0mmyof3

Mags- love the note from the unicorns! Had me laughing and thinking of the song by The Irish Rovers "The Unicorn"

MarlanaB

Mags--funny!

Hi, Dunesleeper--my fellow May Chemo-ite. Or Chemian or, well, whatever we are.

Queenie--I've got Weezer's "Buddy Holly" song in my brain. Just when I think that I've gotten rid of it, that stupid Honda commercial comes on again. I used to like that song.

Queenie's comment on "The Dubliners" the band and all the wake convo's got my brain rolling over to James Joyce's The Dubliners and the story of "The Dead". I'm now having PTSD flashbacks. I had to read Ulysses in high school and I hated it. First book I ever despised. I tried to re-read it a few years back when I started my quest to read the "100 Greatest Novels" and I still hated it. I was so dumbfounded by Time listing it as the #1 book that I switched to The Guardians version of the top 100.

Sas--sheesh, I thought the 27 first cousins on my mom's side was bad!

Spookie--tell Noah to take the unicorn but leave the platypus. The whole "I'm a duck, I'm a beaver" thing will just encourage the other species to try to get it on with each other. The next thing you'll know, you'll have a floating animal porn palace that will be deemed the new Sodom and Gomorrah and then ⚡️⚡️⚡️Zot! BBQ on the beaches of Florida, courtesy of an Angry God.

queenmomcat

Marla: stay away from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Far away. Very far.

Sas: "Finnegan's Wake" supplanted the realization that NewBoyCat looked just like the illustrations for Eric Litwin's Pete the Cat books, and concomitant alternating between "My Buttons" and "I love my white shoes".

And just discovered that EstablishedGirlCat loves the vanilla whey/soy protein and milk combination. Great. Now another set of glasses I need to check for cat spit.