Fuzzy's Romp Room

dunesleeper

teehehehehehe Veggy. Love your gif!

ridergirl

Dunes LOVE it!!!! And Veggy so glad to see you rolling around laughing....looks good on you!!

thefuzzylemon

OMG THAT WAS SOOOOOO AWESOME!!! WAAAHAHAHAAAAA!!

lisamarie68

Just Love it when the tension is lifted .. even only if for a second ... luv u ladies thanks 4 smiles dune and veggy

thefuzzylemon

HUMERUS!!!!!! WAAAHAHAAAAA!!!

dunesleeper

teeehehehehehe. I thought of you all as soon as I saw that. I'm pleased your reaction was as expected. muahahahahaha! I found this humerus.

ridergirl

I broke that in 2006- not so humerus!!!!! 

dunesleeper

Oh noooo ridergirl. A broken humerus is not humorous.

How was your day today?

I am doing that "hike" again in the morning. It is supposed to be sunny and in the 30's. Practically balmy. LOL

ridergirl

Pretty good day today thanks dunes...except have burned my hand twice and cut myself in the last two days due to the neuropathy ... no feeling in my hands...just dropped a full can od iced tea on the floor half hour ago ...but got lots of housework done today and cooked dinner for Mom...tomorrow going shopping to price some home reno stuff..paint and doors etc looking forward to that.

Hope the hike is great, sounds like weather will be fantastic, especiallly after what we've just had.

((()hugs))))

SherylB

Hi all, reading and listening to TV video/music and heard this song. While I already enjoyed the song I hadn't really heard the lyrics until this am. Hope it brings you positive feelings and peace as it did me.

Phillip Phillips was the American Idol 11 season winner and these are the lyrics for his song “Home”

I felt it said what we are feeling so clearly.

Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home

Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found

Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home

Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found

Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home

Hang tough, Sheryl

Lily55

Sheryl you made me cry........lovely words but not sure I have the resources to hang tough any longer

SherylB

Lily, I am sorry for making you cry. As far as having the resources to hang tough, IMHO as long as you draw breath you are hanging tough. Been there so many times where I wanted to go to sleep and never wake up. Through the Grace of my Higher Power, today I don't feel that way.

Love and hugs to you, Sheryl

Linda-Ranching-in-the-mTns

Lily -- Don't want to leave you crying... and I can't say that I nuch want to "make this place my home" -- so here is another take on it:

If you're going through hell
Keep on going, Don't slow down
If you're scared, don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there

Well I been deep down in that darkness
I been down to my last match
Felt a hundred different demons
Breathing fire down my back
And I knew that if I stumbled
I'd fall right into the trap that they were laying...

But the good news
Is there's angels everywhere out on the street
Holding out a hand to pull you back upon your feet
The one's that you been dragging for so long
You're on your knees
You might as well be praying
Guess what I'm saying
If you're going through hell
Keep on going, Don't slow down
If you're scared, don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there.

(Rascal Flats and/or Rodney Akin)

dunesleeper

Linda I like that one so much I am checking it out on youtube.

Lily55

No apology needed Sheryl - I read this today - interested in your comments, does it fit anyone?

In methaphysical medicin breast cancer is caused by blaming another for not loving. Right breast - blaming a woman, left - a man. In most common cases women suffer from left breast cancer for blaming their life partner for not loving them. Sometimes also a father. We must understand that no one "must" love us. We must absolutely unconditionally love and accept ourselves. It is our job and everyday task to make us happy, don't delegete it to others. Like Oscar Wilde said - the happiest relationship one can have is with yourself.

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Linda-Ranching-in-the-mTns

LisaMarie -- If your work schedule ever lightens up -- One way you might take care of your lack-of-pet jones is to check into volunteering once a week at a pet rescue to walk dogs or play with the cats. Most places are hungry for help, and the animals are so appreciative. And, when you find yourself ready to dip your toe into the relationship-pool again, E-Harmony was a life-saver for me... I was able to write to some really nice men (many of whom I never met) while I began discovering more about myself... and what sort of life I wanted to create.) I can't reccommend EH highly enough... I met some great men. Yes, there are some odd-balls on there, too -- but the overwhelming number that made it though the first steps (all keeping your personal info private) were people that I could at least share ideas with... and I was able to look at what I admired about them... and begin fostering the same in me. I ended up having 4-5 short relationships (in 5 years)... Shifting within myself each time to emerge as someone I liked more! Then about 18 months ago I met Les -- the wonderful BF with whom I now live -- sharing a beautiful life in the wilderness that I could never have found without EH. 

Sas -- I'm not sure I understood your last post -- are you saying you booted out your boyfriend? If so, I am so sorry for the turmoil... and am sending good thoughts your way.

To all out there who find yourselves floundering and unhappy-with-life-in-general at the moment, I was SO there for most of my life... and for much smaller reasons than cancer.

I found my salvation to the sadness/lonliness (the wondering 'what is wrong with me????') by beginning to take classes that filled my mind with new concepts, and made me take a step back from my own problems to consider the MUCH larger world.

The most influential of the classes that I took was a Landmark Education Forum: mind-expansion to the max... which helped me redefine all the "tragic" stories of my past into stories of growth-- lessons towards insight and happiness. Landmark-thinking is what pulled me though a year of care-taking my beloved father through his cancer and eventual death... I was able to step back and find the epiphany -- actually experience amazing spiritual growth and find beauty in that otherwise extremely painful experience. Now I have applied that same sort of thinking to my whole bc experience... which (without Landmark ideas) I think would have been extremely hard to bear.

I also took a bunch of community-college night courses (both continuing education and credit courses) and ended up going back to college full time for 3 semesters! Amazingly I had NO income, and still kept the bills paid... it was as if the Universe supported my return to college and my need to get outside of myself... because the "myself" of those old days was such a sad/angry person that I was a miserably unhappy woman, and no doubt miserable to be around!

Now I can see that the "what is wrong with me?" I used to lament (wondering why I couldn't seem to maintain a good relationship) was that my thinking was 'wrong' -- I kept thinking 'miserable', and the more I concentrated on the pain and lonliness, the more pain and lonliness my brain found evidence for.

Our brains are actually trained to seach through the millions of bits of info we are bombarded with every day... searching for what might be important... based on what we (in the past) thought was important. The old synapses form patterns that quickly develop into commonly-used pathways that (like a game of Shoots-and-Ladders) propel our thoughts/emotions up/down to the sorts of thoughts/emotions that we are most familiar with.

Therefore -- If we are used to seeing the world as a harsh/unhappy place -- those are the 'facts' that our brains supply us that sort of information to support.

BUT -- if we re-focus our thoughts to look for epiphany and joy ... our brains begin to search for and provide us with THOSE sorts of supporting evidence!

What a break-through to be able to step OUT of those old (negative) thought patterns and begin to make new thought-connections based on seeking/experiencing JOY. The more joy we focus on, the quicker our brains are re-trained to seek MORE joyful connections. We can actually re-train our attention to see primarily the good-stuff -- no matter how small those good things are, minimizing the time/energy we have to focus on the negative -- no matter how "big" our "bad things" are.

After all -- good and bad are all subjective ideas... even pain is subjective and can be dealt with calmly... which keeps healthier chemicals flowing through our bodies, which, in turn, lessens the pain.

The more we appreciate the positive -- even the smallest of positive things... (and the less we focus on the negative)... the more trained our brains become to support more of what we have concentrated on. When we are focused on appreciation: the brain begins sending out happy-feeling endorphins instead of toxins (like adrenline) which our brain sends out when we focus on fear/pain/sadness.

Anyway -- these are the sorts of reasons that scientific studies show that petting an animal can change not only our mood, but our physical well-being, and increase our capacity to heal. Our blood pressure is lowered. Our brains send out soothing chemicals instead of anxious-making ones. We experience a physical reaction... because our thoughts are turned away from our 'negative ideas' -- distracted by the sweet, soft, warm creature we are focusing our attention to.

Simply developing the habit of putting a smile (instead of a frown) on your face actually sends a message to the brain that you ARE happy ... and then the brain responds by sending out endorphins. Soon you actually are FEELING happier... it is an easy trick that we all can play to get our brains to switch from complaint to appreciation. (Not to mention that if we are smiling, others around us soften to our smile, and smile in return... which triggers our brains to send out even more 'happy-juice', and our smile becomes more and more genuine!)

Sas and Linda-n -- I am sure you can explain these things in more scientific terms... but this understanding of what negative-focus-thinking can do (set in motion the establishment of semi-permanent short-cuts to MORE negative thinking in our brains) was a real eye-opener for me!

Has anyone here seen the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?"

It is entertaining -- but also almost like a mini-course about the power of the brain -- and how to harness it for happiness (rather than suffering more than we need to). 

Anyway -- I have been lurking for several days, but unsure what to post ... 

This came to me ... so hopefully it is food for thought and might help those of you struggling today. I am sure that most of you already know most of this stuff -- but we get busy -- and we are ingrained in our 'usual' thinking -- get so wrapped up in seeing 'our struggles' that we forget that we have choices about how we will experience life. 

Why do some young Veterns who have lost a leg spiral into despair and become alcoholics, while another gets fitted with a spring prosthesis, and enters a marathon, providing an example for all humanity? The difference is only their thoughts. And we each have the power to step out of our negative thoughts and create a new (more joyful) reality for ourselves.

Every single second we have the opportunity to choose joy and beauty.

We can spill our coffee and curse (seeing it as a rotten start to another rotten day) -- or we can laugh at the spilled coffee and get on with our lives -- thinking that our one floob-for-the-day is behind us and surely now the Universe will send the good stuff flowing our way.

But our society trains us to dwell on the negative, and that is the habit most people foster.

Hopefully this wasn't too "Goody-Two-Shoes" for 'yall... It seemed to be what I had to offer. So many of you here are facing serious challenges. Loss of love, deteriorating health, broken furnace in sub-zero weather -- these are all REAL. But each still comes with the opportunity to choose joy. 

Keeping moving through hell -- and you might get through it before the Devil even knows you are there.  

Love you all...

Linda

thefuzzylemon

I really connected with these today for some reason.  I mean...really connected.  Hope that's a good thing.

Sassy...yeah, it did sound as if BF got the boot....what up girl?

thefuzzylemon

  This is a biggie right now...

Anonymous

I have almost all of pg 182 to read, but I will have to later, dinner now. Was checking lotto for oour winners, none yet, and noticed I left my bco page open and was editing my no driniking the drunken bugs post but did not hit save, so I did now. 

Glad Granny's son is pulled through this one and on to the next fix.  On the Goddesses site is where I noticed she was going through a fix.  Hugs Granny.  Laughter is the best medicine, I need more.  Too stressed lately. 

lisamarie68

Linda , I really appreciate the E harmoney stuff , but I was on there already and noone really spoke to me , so i am relived my subscription just ended ..also all the matches were far from me . That's okay now . I was also told of the landmark education they have that in NYC and I am seriouly thinking of doing it . I have pets at work that i adore .. 2 dogs and 4 cats .. I see wildlife on a daily basis at work as well.. I am not alloud pets in my apartment , or I would consider a cat ..I know they can amuse themselves while I am work for long hours and give me the peace and comfort when I am home . I just moved in so don't wanna push buttons here .. Maybe in a few months I will ask my landlord about the cat . I'd like that a lot .. I am in a tiny place a studio .. one room that is my bedroom , living room , and kitchen then a full bath .. but suitable for me at this time in life .. and affordable .. anyway I had a fabulous day with the granddaughter .. she always makes me smile .. I am happy grannys son is ding well ... love all the sayings and pics .. Hope you all have a great sunday evening Hugs and Love 

Anonymous

Going for a PET scan this morning. If the weather holds up I'll be going to see the plastic surgeon in the afternoon. We are ging to get freezing rain and ll that icky weather. 

Linda-n3

Veggy, hoping the PET shows no new hot spots and resolution of any that were! How far do you have to travel? What part of PA are you in? We lived in Pittsburgh for 9 years - probably my favorite place we have ever lived, despite the weather! Except maybe Vermont, but it tends to get so VERY cold!!!!



Thanks for the inspirational posts above!



I don't know if I confessed here, but I discontinued ALL my meds a couple weeks ago because I just couldn't tolerate the SEs any more. I have been feeling much more like myself, but the fatigue has been persistent, so today I took my morning ritalin dose to see if I can get through this dreary Monday morning and get the paperwork done that was due a week ago for insurance, etc. All of my meds were for treating symptoms for now, not sure what is in store for me for active treatment, which will likely begin later this week, so I am enjoying my medication holiday until then.



Granny, thinking of youy and your son.



Best wishes for a few moments of joy and peace for each of you on this Monday morning.

sas-schatzi

Linda ranch--how astute re:"packed him up and out". Yes put him out friday. Two major problems could not get his attention, that they were non negotiable. We made up Sunday and he's back. I wrote him a 5 page letter redefining/restating why the two items were nonnegotiable. Plus, defining why i loved him and why he's so lucky to have me LOL. We shall see if he finally gets the importance of those two items. What was ironic though is how I put his clothes at the door. Folded his laundry in baskets. Then packed the rest that I didn't have time to do. Made a toiletry kit with toothe paste and new packaged toothbrush. New cologne, shaving cream, hairbrush. Shirts laundered and on hangers. In other words What was that? Did resist putting the stuff at the curb on that am for garbage pickup. The first way said "I still love you! The second way would have been a finality. Chose the first. Time will tell, time will tell. Poor Dini, DBF's dog, went with him, I don't know who was happier to be back. Dini had to be outside at the other place. Here he's pampered to the nth degree--inside, soft beds and couches. Food left out all day. There are those that believe dogs will overeat with this method, my experience is they don't. Done it this way for about 40 years and none of my dogs became over weight.  Back to DBF, he has had a sucky life, here he gets much of what dini gets, unconditional love that has well defined rules. That's not a contradiction. I keep rules to a minimum. I'll share what the unconditional rules were. The "call". Not coming home overnight, call. His first time doing it almost lead to an end. Then two occurrences recently. The other is money. Told him from the start I'm not the "bank" and that the number one cause of failed relationships is money. So, again time will tell.

To your question re: happiness. Attitude can immensely impact feelings. The brain imput from our senses and all the feedback systems in the body are filtered through the grey matter upperbrain(sight, smell,taste,touch)  to the midbrain i.e thalamus, hypothalumus, pituitary, limbic system, amygdala, not particularly in that order . Somethings go straight to the midbrain. Each of those areas affect the rest of the brains work.

When you mention endorphins, which many have seen in writing as being associated with runners high. Reminds me of a time in the 70's when I had a really bad neck. Bad enough I had to sleep in 10lbs of traction each night.  In a time of extreme pain, I started to picture the part, and chant silently  "it will be numb, it will be numb". Within a fairly short time, the direct affect was that the body part was as numb as if injected with lidocaine. Very nice. Pain site was numb for hours. The side affect was that I got VERY high. Had never heard of such a thing, but the pain was gone and I was VERY happily MELLOW . Couldn't do anything, though, that required coordinated thought or action.  Two things I analyzed about the situation were: I could only do it when the pain was extreme and if I had taken ANYTHING(drug) to alter the pain, the method DID NOT work. Approximately, roughly 7-9 months after starting this routine, the first reports were made of endorphins and endorkins(sic?), and what there description of action was. I tried to find someone to test my blood to see if that's what I was producing(can't remember if it could be measured this way?). Too young to know how to get to researchers that would take me seriously. The first docs, I talked to about this, looked at me very blankly. The blank look. I have since learned is associated with--I don't know, I don't care, and don't care to find out. The true researcher is one that is excited about hearing something that hasn't been defined--the unknown. May sound silly now, but I was very careful about when I would use this method b/c I was afraid of getting addicted to it. One anecdote: I was in extreme pain at work on day, I had told my cohort of the method. He convinced me to do it. I did. It worked. I was worthless for work, but the pain was gone. He had to drive me home LOL. Last time I did it at work.

Linda-Ranching-in-the-mTns

LisaMarie- If you find Landmark even 10% as inspirational as I did -- YOU WILL LOVE IT!

It is so PRACTICAL -- and even the very first exercises they teach you are mind-blowing! A lot of big corporations send thier management members (some even ALL their employees) to Landmark to learn about human nature and develop team-building skills -- and it is really astonishing to see these 'business' people (who expected to be going to just another 'boring-show-up-and-do-nothing-business-seminar') go into shock and then THRILL to what is being offered. It is all about personal growth -- they never talk about spirituality -- it all stays on a very practical plane... so that anyone of any demonation or Athiests/Agnostics can fully embrace the concepts... but at least for me (past Agnostic)... Landmark-thinking opened new places in my heart and mind for God and the Power of the Universe to exist. 

For me, it was as if all the bits and pieces of information I had been collecting for years and years and years suddenly flew into place. "OH! So THAT is what 'that' was about... like I finally got the concept of EVERYTHING being connected -- including all of us (humans). I finally 'got it' that every old adage (which I had always tended to dismiss as trivial) was once some original person's epiphany... that through revision and too-many-repeatings lost its 'punch' -- but on second consideration -- the core of the adage still has merit... and is worth contemplation.

And -- even while puzzle pieces were flying into place -- at the same time... all the 'baggage' I had been carrying around (about 'the way I was' and 'the way men are' and 'the way life is')-- suddenly I could see as complete garbage and (unchained from all that previously-negative thinking) I was able to just leave all that behind as a part of my past -- and not even be angry with myself for keeping myself in such a small (angry) box for so long -- because I could clearly see that every step of the way -- I had (and we all do) just been doing the best I could with the information I had at the time. 

Once that concept can be fully embraced -- it becomes instantaneous to 'forgive' everyone in your life for pretty much anything... including 'forgiving' ourselves for every single 'wrong' move we have ever made... because in that moment of decision -- we now can realize that we honestly were doing our best. At that moment, we may have had a headache (or heartache) which clouded our thinking, or some old (kinda-crazy) attitude based on some (negativelky-interpreted) past-experience ... or we may have been in a rush because we were late that day, or worried about our child -- or whatever may have distracted us in that moment from thinking about our choices they way we might today -- in hindsight -- now -- when we are judging our old-selves so harshly for making some 'wrong' choice.

One Landmark exercise shows how some of our most ingrained ideas about life come from flash decisions we created as a 4-5-year-old-child (!) -- and that these (mis-interpretations of a child) have defined our personality -- have become concrete in our head as "How things ARE". Then the exercise frees us to (now as adults) reassess and in effect "CHANGE THE WAY 'THINGS ARE' for us. We understand completly why (as a child) we once thought 'it', but can now see that 'it' no longer serves us -- and we are able let those old (very limiting and often negative/fearful) ideas float away from our current thinking. >POOF< Gone. And with those ideas goes a TON of weight off your shoulders!

Another HUGE shift for me was to completely release the whole concept of 'should'.

'Should' is just a big waste of time! If you are saying it about someone else... then you are just judging them based on your own personal biases and vision-of-the-world-and-what-is-important, instead of allowing other people to make those choices for themselves, based on their OWN biases and vision-of-the-world-and-what-is-important. "Respect' and 'Love' mean (in part) allowing other people to have their own opinions and make their own decisions!

Imagine how all your relationships could heal if you could drop the idea of 'should'! No more expectations -- only appreciation when someone actually is kind/generous/thoughtful/loving... and NOTHING (no interior-negative-feedback-in-your-head) when someone doesn't behave the way you expected!

I healed (in an instant) all my anger/self-pity/disappointment about my ex and my divorce. It is important to mention that HE didn't take Landmark, so he isn't exactly trust-full of the new me -- but Landmark helped me to see that I actually set most of the negative stuff in motion -- by expecting him to be like me and value the same things to the same degree as I did! Therefore I was constantly disappointing MYSELF -- by expecting him to fit into my 'mold' of who I thought he 'should' be. And the important thing (for me) is that I suddenly (in an instant of epiphany) was able to let all that anger/disapointment float away from me like a helium-filled balloon. The weight of Twenty years of blaming and shaming (both him and myself) just floated out of my head and heart -- leaving SO much room for new (hopeful/joyful) ideas to flow into the (now-vacant) old angry place.

And if you are 'shoulding' yourself -- it's an even bigger (and more hurtful) waste!

Instead of chastising yourself, you can simply say -- "Next time I will handle that differently. I see that 'that way' didn't work out as I had hoped... and now that I have had that experience/lesson -- I now can handle that differently in the future! Now the "error" (negative experience) becomes something positive. There is no shame in doing your best, and then learning a different choice would have worked better!

Life's 'struggles' become 'lessons' that help move us forward to become who we want to become, instead of negative-shaming-feedback-tapes that we constantly run in our heads to beat ourselves up. Even the very 'worst' thing that anyone you know (or you) has/have done... in my way of thinking ... they/you were doing their/your very best at the time, given the exact circumstances of that moment, their/your physical/mental state at the time, and the way that they/you had (at that point) synthicized their/your past experiences.

All the venom and dissapointment comes out of EVERY old experience -- if you can embrace and apply that new way of thinking. 

Well -- as you can see -- I get pretty excited about these concepts. This sort of thinking absolutely freed me from being that past version of me -- the me who was angry at myself most of the time and SO judgmental and dissapointed in others. That constantly-talking 'superior' voice in my head -- the one that CONTINUALLY judged others (and myself) harshly -- the one that caused me to 'tell-people-off' as I drove (alone) in my car every day -- that voice suddenly just lost all its power -- almost like the cartoon of the little devil or the little angel sitting on your shoulders... they BOTH >poof< dissapeared -- leaving me with peace-and-quiet and ... contentment! I suddenly had a peaceful mind with the ability to think new thoughts!

I am SO thankful for now having these new thinking-tools in my toolbox!

And -- about E-Harmony -- my early experience on there was much like yours. Almost no men approached me, and few responded when I approached them. But as I shifted my thinking, (and became less opinionated/less judging of their ideas and more interested in what I could learn from them) I had to re-write my introduction for E-Harmony over and over to represent the 'new me' that was developing ... as I grew out of my old limiting ideas.

I noticed that the men who contacted me got 'better' as I presented myself in my new ways... with my new (still evolving) understanding. 

Frankly, if I had met Les 5 years ago (early in my EH 'career') I don't think that either of us would have been attracted to the other! I was much more superficial, and domineering... I wasn't 'ready' -- hadn't matured into the sort of person that he would have noticed, and I don't think I would have been able to recognize what a gem he is. I still didn't know what to look for in a man. But mostly -- I didn't like myself -- and I complained all the time -- Hmmmm -- not that attractive. 

Not saying that my description of my old self describes you at all -- but I bet if you were to write your EH intro after taking your Landmark Forum -- you would have totally new things to say and the shift in your energy would be palatable. Suddenly you will be interesting to an entirely different sort of man.

Anyway -- obviously I am stoked about Landmark and one last thing I will say is that once the shift in thinking occurred -- I became an 'epiphany-junkie'. Suddenly everything I read or saw or experienced seemed to become inspirational. All of life became 'an ah-ha moment'! And -- The Universe/God seemed to support everything I did. Financially I was able to manage fairly effortlessly, even without steady work. Emotionally, I was happier and more inspired to explore new ideas and new people with an energy I had never experienced before. Spiritually, I was finally able to let down my wall of cynicism and connect... to Everything... and to peace.

When I went to Italy (10 years ago) I tasted truffles for the first time. Being a chef, I thought it was DIVINE to experience a new taste at the 'old' age of 46. For several years, my highest compliment was "This is as good as tasting truffles for the first time!". I would say it about lots of different experiences -- not just about taste...

But now I can see how TINY and insignificant discovering the taste of truffles actually was -- it has become a symbol for me -- of how limited my world had become -- that a taste could have been so significant for me.

Since Landmark -- I have experienced epiphany after epiphany -- about love and death and God and even love-THROUGH-death -- and love-after-death. My heart and mind are brimming with excitement and appreciation every single day -- even through the illness and death of my wonderful father (who was the person on earth I was always closest to... my kindred spirit) AND my own breast cancer/BMX -- all of it was amazingly intense -- but NOT NEGATIVE.

In fact, I can honestly say that the last 2 years of my life have been the BEST years of my life. 

Now -- I know that all of you here can realize that THAT is really saying something!

And -- even better -- I know that there is only better stuff to come. No matter what happens with my health, or any external events that may befall me. I have never in my life felt this capable of not only 'handling' -- but of finding the joy in -- absolutely anything that the Universe may bring me next. 

Enough babbling... anyone who would like more is welcome to PM me.

Linda

Linda-Ranching-in-the-mTns

Sas -- I am so so late that no real time to respond (all the juice/time went into the post above which I was writing as YOU posted).

BUT -- So glad that you and BF worked it out... clear expectations and defining boundaries are pivotal in relationships! So many people have no idea -- having been raised without respect... in dysfunctional families. Sometimes training (like with a puppy) is necessary.

Loved your example of mind-over-pain -- we can 'will' SO much into being -- humans are amazing creatures!

Later,

Linda 

duckyb1

I googled Landmark Forum. There is a $600.00 charge to attend the forum, unless your employer pays the tab...as an individual it's "cost on you", plus to continue is another fee.....a good suggestion would be purchase or go to the library and read the Eghbert Tolle series of books. He is fantastic. Teaches you the Power of Now, but start with his first book. I first heard about him from the Oprah book club. I am not a follower and usually take suggestions with a bit of skepticism, but she was "dead on" with this man..........just food for thought for my ladies. Hugs. Hope your all well today.



I always check google. Also read reviews before I take an endeavor.

lisamarie68

Thanks Ducky .. wow I didnt know landmark was so expensive , guess I am not going .. well im a crabby, cranky .. biotch right about now.. I want to ly my head down and sleep .. I am going without smokes and or patch or aanything today .. cold turkey and really crazy and mad and sad and omg I will just shut up and find me somethin to do here at work ... I am here until 8 pm .. 

Cia for now ... sorry for the lil bitch session .. hopes that everyone is okay this MOnday ..................

dunesleeper

Positive vibes going out to you lisamarie!

sas-schatzi

Linda R, you always blow me away or is that Blown away--carrie underwood, You can feel your energy jumping off the page.

If DB had any clue that I was using training techniques used on puppies, he would react hhhmmm unexpectedly. Unexpectedly b/c he is amazed what I've taught his 5 y/o lab to do in such a short time. Without hitting. DB was never around anyone that trained animals without screaming or hitting. I can snap a finger, wave a finger, say huh-huh or many other ways of no. So, can't wait for your thoughts and advice

Off to run the pups sassy.

duckyb1

Linda-ranching......I began Femara in July 2011, after much hesitation because of what I had read about the SE. Finally 6 weeks after Rads decided to give in and try it.....the SE were nasty. No flashes, but much body aches and fatigue. What hurt before, doubled in hurt after the drug........Femara became very expensive when I fell into the "gap".......so I was forced to Letrozole.........took it, and had much less aching...still have it, but not as bad.......of course now I said to my kids........hey, maybe I feel better cause it isn't working........they just shake their heads and turn away......lol......hopefully you do as good on the Femara as you did on the Letrozole with the SE's.



I worked in Pharma research and development for 15 years, so I know what these drugs can do......good and bad..........just wish I could be my old self again.....Mymother use to say when I was a kid and would say......I wish.........she would answer........"wish in one hand....shit in the other....see which gets filled first......she was so right.....and sure had a way with words. Lol. Hugs