The Hermit Club

Jazzygirl

Kathyec- you sound good today! Weather here in the SW good also, nice mild winter day!

I too have great friends I connect with as I can. I find a few have fallen away but in some cases, they are overwhelmed with their own lives, with work, children, and/or elder care issues, etc. But I think some just avoid me now too, and know not everyone is going to be on this ride going forward. I have learned to let go of things with grace and spend time with those who want to spend time with me!

And yes, I saw Niagra falls as well as the ice chunks in Lake Michigan. Friends in CT tell me there are t-storm there today. Crazy weather!

I just finish paying the last of my end of the year taxes I needed to do before we file the annual biz and personal returns. Gotta fill that account up again now.

CCFW

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Jazzygirl

CC- it came off the Hippie Peace Freaks page on FB. I think it is from somewhere in New Zealand. We don't have pretty water like that here.

dutchiris

Jazzy.. I see my PCP for a physical Feb 7 or 10 or 20th?  Who can remember?  Too tired to check.  Currently out of town for dance competition.  It's a busy weekend.

Jazzygirl

Know what I mean?

camillegal

Hi gals everyone sounds OK.

Jazzy I'll always share my stuff---I'm going this week, I was planning on doing some today, LOL but I was to tired to go to see why I'm so tired.

The weather is crazy here too, it did get warmer got loads of rain--and then they tell u if it were snow it would have been 24 in., who cares, it wasn't snow. It actually didn't melt as much snow as I thought it would, oh well it's only January.

Teka

Blah rainy windy day with ice going out in the river.

Jazzygirl

Spookiesmom

Pretty, but sooooooo glad NOT to be there. 

Teka

Lovely Photo!!

Tomboy

...love it cami, "too tired to go see why im tired"!  and i want just a little bitty coma for myself. i do feel better today, it really helped to talk with you all about it, and inspite of not wanting to be here, great to be here! played with my boymanfriend, and ignored bc.

cc, we dont have to paint as dark as it looks, but yeah, i agree. maybe that photo would lend itself more to acrylic than watercolor. at least you ARE painting!

Tomboy

jazz, is that niagara?

Furfriend2

OHHHHHH,AWHHHHH, photo is a beaut!!!

Furfriend2

Hermies,

Just want to share with  you I actually felt pretty tonight at our work holiday party.  I treated myself to a new hat and new dressIt felt good.  I have been feeling ugly/tired/ blah so it was nice for once.  Tried to drink a glass of Pinot but didn't taste right ...oh well soon enough all the taste buds will be back in action. 

Love you gals!!!!

Tomboy

yah! furfriend! that sounds so nice! good for you, n love your name!

Gingerbrew

I just lost a big post. I will return soon, I am such a fat finger person on the leyboard. Crap it was a good post. 

Hugs GInger

camillegal

Good Morning

Furfriend, the doors have opened for u---good for u and u'll feel better and better. YYYAAAYYY

Ginger I've done that so many times, and we all know I  type so it's a forever thing.

Jazzygirl

Kathyec-yes, that was Niagara! I saw the same photo on the news today and thought it was way cool. Maybe you can paint that too? I like that we have ladies here who paint! Glad you got to spend some good time with the boymanfriend. How I love that term!

CC is a very talented artist and has shared some things with me.

Ginger- danged, don't you hate when that happens? I do it sometimes on e-mail too, hit a key I did not mean to and zap, it's gone! Well, share here again. if and when you are ready!

Fur- how nice you got dressed up and out for a party. A pretty dress makes us feel good. Wine tastes funny to me sometimes too, not sure why? 

Cami- I hope you have a good energy day! 

I was tired yesterday and just puttered around home and did house things, laundry, etc. I did get out late in the day for a walk and that felt good. Slept well last night too and waking up feeling good today.

I am heading to a salsa class later this morning, something new I want to try and then later to the spa for some girl time with a friend who is taking me there as a belated Xmas gift (cool, huh?) I will check in later and let you know all about that! 

Calgon, take me away.....

Jazzygirl

Teka- this is for Teka.

http://www.hauspanther.com/2014/01/09/amazing-german-designed-cat-climbing-furniture/

Teka

Teka, would so love a cat wall walkway going through the walls from room to room.

Teka

This photo was taken in the North Country.

Wish I could take this good a photo!

Lily55

so far this year have heard of two people who have died of cancer, one first diagnosed six months after me,  and both went downhill suddenly in a matter of weeks - how do you all cope with this? I feel rattled and have lost my confidence against little c, i feel condemned....

Tomboy

lily, that is that dark place our minds go to, but see you are here doing the right thing and talking about it. you do it in such short little bursts, so good for you! i can wear out so many pairs of ears, it is, as camillegal says, recockulous.  it is hard. no-one would deny that. this is the part where we come to terms with our very lives. and especially if we had never done that before. i lost two of my very best friends ever, in just a little over a year, one from bc, and lung in the other case. and both those women were admirable in so many ways. they just really insisted on living and enjoying life as best as possible, and were always wanting to do something. and then they would hermit. and i would think of them and wonder what it would be like to live with this scary diagnosis. well i guess i found out. and it gave me a more profound respect for them. and i so miss them, and yes in the end, it was what i do hope was mercifully fast. we can rage, it is ok and you are safe here, and we care. we KNOW, we get it. but i still wish we all lived on the same block.

Tomboy

grade 2 is nowhere near as agressive as grade 3, and that is good. also, you are not having the agressiveness of her2 positive. someday, 20 years from now (or maybe even a year) you will be answering questions from frightened newcomers to this diagnosis, and remembering where you were, will be uniquely qualified to allay some of there fears. this is just the work we must do, and time is our best friend, because as it passes, much healing is just somehow automatically done there, invisibly. for sure, just try to remember a thing or two that made you happy before all of this, and try to do them again. they still have the power to make you happy, and i think cancer hates happy. it can be a tool in your toolbox. thinking of you, and sending my invisible healing warrior your way, to wrap her wings around you. god i sound calm today, but that doesnt mean i wont be a basketcase tommorrow, or even later today! there is no schedule, nor reason to our feelings or thoughts, and i do believe i have a "bad" habit of letting mine get the better of me.  andiamo, me vo, ma non so dove.

Teka

Watching the "Golden Globe Awards 2014".

Checking out the red carpet!

Jazzygirl

Hi hermits- back from the spa and ahh, great afternoon with my friend Michele. She had never been to this place before and loved it. Everything was divine and my face, hair and feet all look and feel great. Boy I needed that!

I went to a salsa class at the gym this morning and was shaking my thang! My oh my, it was fun but some of the steps and moves were a bit fast for this old gal. I had learned salsa back in the 1980s, when I lived in Puerto Rico for a few months, and it is big here where I live. Doing it for fitness and fun, and it is a great work out. I will go again, I forgot how fun dance is and what good exercise it is too.

The Golden Globes will be coming up son and plan to watch them. I love to look at the dresses!

It has been a good day today!

grammaB

Jazzy, that photo is beautiful! I love the rich dark colors with the moonlight splashed across the water. CC and kathec, I would love to see what you come up with if you do paint it!!

furfriend, glad you had a good time and treated yourself to new clothes and a hat to make you feel pretty.

Gingerbrew, I think we all have experienced that!  It is frustrating to no end!

Jazzy, I was thinking about the colored lights at the falls when I saw the daylight shot. I'm so glad someone got a photo of it.  

(((((lily))))

Jazzygirl

Oh and Kathyec and others, I signed up for a writing class today with a friend/colleague to do another short story course. I know Bob through music connections and have taken courses from him before. I did this one a few years ago and going to do it again. It is four weeks, and something I can commit to at this time.

Some of you have been very gracious about complimenting my writing, and know I have things in me (including a novel) that are just waiting to be written. And so it begins.

I hope everyone has had a good ending to this weekend, and wishing everyone continuing on with treatment, having doctors visits, and all the rest a good week.

Teka

I see no George Clooney (

CCFW

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