STFU (Shut the F*** UP)

Chevyboy

Oh good Lord, it's that animal again! That has to be the WORST butt in the world! EEEeeeks!

Shells, put that on as your desk-top, or screen-saver, and see how fast you change it, Ha! Front of those monkeys isn't any prettier, either. That pic is probably the ONE that I won't "save-as".....:) I wish we had smiley faces again!

Mary, your trip does sound like fun.... even though "she" got you mixed up! Last year we were going to the Flea Market with my Grandson from Orlando. Well, DD told us to go THIS way, and we did, but then failed to tell me to then hook a sharp LEFT! We should have SEEN you, we were ALSO in BFE! (I didn't know what the gals I worked with were TALKing about when I heard that one, but they TOLD me, and I cracked up!)

But DGS whipped out his ever so ready IPhone, and so this gal tells us to "turn left"..... (get off the f***ing highway) and then stay on that road (you stupid bitch) for another 5 miles! Actually I was really amazed! Couldn't believe THIS person knew where I was! Because I sure as hell didn't! GS just laughed! So we had a blast that day!

I just donated to this site..... You gals mean so much to me.... and I'm glad you are all here.... Yes Juliaanna, we ARE all family.

Cammi, you little lazy brat, wake up! And 4! You are usually causing trouble by this time! Oh wait! You have all that family stuff to do still!

Littlegoats! You see dancing bears? Ha, ha! They are passing a law here, something about keeping "little goats" in some county! So if I see you anywhere, just give a shout out! I told you we were driving around, and I saw a whole flock of them! So cute! Is it "herd" or "swarm"....or maybe "cluster"????? No, it's "gaggle of goats!"

Good Morning Alyson and Chickers! Everyone else is still in bed! Sleepy-heads, the whole bunch of them!

Chevyboy

sas-schatzi

HELLLO HOOLIES AND CHEVY, I'm up had a GREAT SLEEP. sleep has been good for awhile now after years of insomnia or interrupted sleep. Didn't wake up once for 9 1/2 hours Yay. If the rest of the day is this good I'll mark it on the calendar. Everyone have a stellar day. Don't let any recockulously hard thing bother you today. )))))))

Chevyboy

If I slept that long Sass, it would mean I didn't drink a THING the whole day! How do you go all night, without getting up to go?

sas-schatzi

Chevy I do usually get up, but last night I didn't don't know why. Just a nice sleep. I treasure them.

IllinoisLady

Lilli

luvmygoats

Amen Lilli. Time to refill the cup.

Di2012

GG....2001 earthquake: I was in my car on Pacific HWY S just finishing my weekly therapy dog (with my dog Belle) visit to the elders at the Masonic Home health care center (now Landmark on the Sound)

http://www.landmarkeventcenter.com/home.html

.....I didn't really notice anything, except a few people were pulling over, but I kept going and saw the hwy roll and when I turned I noticed the light standard was swaying....when I pulled into my driveway my son and husband were standing on the lawn and the guys who were remodeling our kitchen and living room were standing hold on to their new truck....they thought it was going to turn over......very uneventful for me.

Sas-Yes I am seriously thinking of finding a new Doctor....in fact I had requested my medical records the same day I had my labs (oct.9) she didn't give me results....and did not tell me she wanted to see me, until I called 4 times and emailed once and talked to her nurse....now I have to wait until Oct 28 because she wants to see me ....I am anemic and is not because I of iron deficency...what does that mean?

I have gone two different ARNP practices....but was all about "beauty"....quit a few of ARNP practices springing up as esthetic/beauty/spa....Last year, (pre cancer DX) I had my rosacea from my face last year removed with laser at one ARNP practice and recently I had my cherry angiomas removed Laser from my tummy (amazing results) at another ARNP practice, so I now can put on my mardi gras beads and flash my foobs (insert wink).....never saw the ARNP at either practice.

ChickaD

Morning ladies....yep I said morning...just got up...woohoo..must have just been a good night for sleeping...(Sas )

Tonight I'm going to a clambake...I hate clams...but this is my first real adventure out seeing my friends, etc

Have a good weekend!

Di2012

I love most clams....but never have tried gooey duck clams....OBSCENE!

sas-schatzi

Di you've probably googled anemia by now, as you have likely found there are multiple sources for the problem. I'd start with my PCP. But if you don't have a PCP that you have faith in, ask for an appointment with an MO that is also a hematologist. In my Mo practice there are 7 docs. Each are MO's Plus another specialty. The senior partner as the practice enlarged planned this approach from the beginning. All bases are covered. It's the reason I chose the practice. MO's that are also hematologist are very common b/c of the commoness of the blood disordered cancers. Plus problems can be caused to the hemopoetic(sic?) works of the body by chemo and rads. So, looking for an new MO---find one that is Mo/Hematologist:). PM me with your CBC report or we can talk on phone. Hugs sassy

gardengumby

oh Di - you've GOT to have geoduck. It's absolutely the BEST. The neck not so much, I pressure cook it and make chowder (it smells really strong when pressure cooking, but the chowder is quite good after all is said and done), but the breastplate is divine. I slice it in approx 1/4" slices dredge each in flour, dip it in egg and then dredge it in flour again and fry it quickly in butter and OO, then serve it immediately. It's one of our very favorite dishes. But it takes a LOT of work to get it - or else a lot of money, as you can get it at Uwajimaya, but it's (last I saw) $22/lb live in the shell. And you throw away most of it - well, not most, but it seems like an awful lot when you're paying so much a pound. The shell and guts come to probably 1/3 of the overall weight. But you're a northwesterner - you've got to try Geoduck at least once in your life!!

I missed the 2001 quake. We were just coming home from Mexico when it happened. We landed in Phoenix and saw that every flight to Seattle was cancelled. The talking heads on TV made it sound like Pike Street had slid into the bay. At that time I was on the disaster recovery team for my company, so kept trying to get through to find out if I should rebook and fly to Philadelphia instead of Seattle, but could never get through. So finally when Sea-Tac was re-opened we flew home. We were prepared to see a disaster at our house, but it didn't look like anything had even moved. Work was a different story though - we were immediately moved into a different building, as the building we had been in was a disaster zone. I never went back into the building I had been working in. It's all rebuilt now, of course, but at the time it was closed for about about a year.

Two weeks to retirement. Today is my last ever overtime and this is my last ever on-call week. It's starting to feel real....

Edited to add...

Shells - though we're still going to Hawaii in two weeks, we aren't going to be oh Oahu other than at the airport. We decided that we needed some serious downtime, so won't be visiting family at all. We're just jumping right over to Maui for the entire 2 and a half weeks. We'll be there sometime in the spring, though, so hopefully we can meet up then.

4sewwhat

I will take yesterday's mushrooms AND the baboon ass over today's clams!!!

Good Morning here too! Kids didn't even wake us. I have been keeping very late hours working and DH is sick and on antibios.

Going in search so coffee...........

luvmygoats

I love seafood but clams not so much. Canned clam chowder OK. And this is coming from someone who ate sashimi and abalone as a child. Did I tell you we have a sushi bar in our little grocery which is rapidly becoming a mini Albertsons (not a bad thing). It is all cooked none raw which might be d/t town health management.

Yay GG - 2 more weeks. I was on call Sat. my last weekend. Worked all that Saturday and was called out at 1:30 am Sun. for a pronouncement. I was overjoyed to leave. Like I said I'll eat beans and rice the rest of my life if needed. The twin to our house around the corner has gone up for sale. Well, not quite twin. Ours has garage turned into den and totally remodeled kitchen (thank you Lowe's) and bit more acreage. Saw pics online of interior but noticed no pics of the tiniest bathrooms I've ever seen. I crack up at Yahoo stories about tiny BRs - they need to see our 2. LMBO at the price they're asking. Don't know if I have the cojones to go to open house there. DH says if it sells quick will indicate they got asking price. Not so sure; elderly couple I think gone to AL/NH but then again may need max $ for their support so they may hold out for it. Surely long paid off.

I have finished the pot of coffee I made at 6 am (couldn't get back to sleep) and may make a little more. Beeeutiful sunny day here.

Been watching cooking shows this am and the decorating commercials are too much for me - read that as extreme jealousy (Home Goods, Pier 1, new Target line). Must go accomplish something to stave that off. Have DH home for 4 days starting Monday though he will be painting outside.

Shellshine

gardengumby

I love all kinds of seafood - except for seaweed. I just cannot bring myself to eat it. One of the things I love most in Hawaii is the fresh poke - and they even sell what I consider to be really good poke at Costco!!

We've (I use the word "we" extremely loosely as I really haven't done a d*mn thing) got the house ready to start moving stuff in. That's what I was supposed to be doing today - instead I'm sitting on my butt at work doing really nothing. We needed to staff the center as they are doing electrical work in the building. So IF something I support should be affected then I'd have to work. Otherwise, I've got one project I can do some work on. But I can only edit a firewall configuration for so long before I start seeing letters and numbers upside down and backwards - then it's time to distract myself doing something else. I'm hoping to spend some time tomorrow moving and doing a little painting (two walls in the kitchen and the master bath). I always think I've got more energy/time than reality proves out, though, so I'll probably only get done about 1/4 of what I intend.

I don't know what houses are going for here in the NW now. Once we got our house I quit looking as I didn't want to find something I liked better for less money and get all depressed. I'll probably look again soon, though, as my BIL is looking for a condo, and he relies a lot on hubby and me to point him in the right direction. When we bought our house it looked like prices had stopped rising - at least at the rate they were.... But jobs are still doing well up here, so my guess is that come spring housing prices will start back up again. I doubt at the same rate as they did this year. At least I hope not, as I'd hate to see another crash happen in our lifetime.

luvmygoats

Housing is doing OK here but access to Ft Worth from here is the pits. 4 lane controlled access (a misnomer) which in Texas means magnet for wrecks. We've been assessing our insurance, esp. flood insurance since house paid off. I went to tax appraisal and house value is down some but then I think it was wayyyy over inflated. Housing in FW I think is still going gangbusters esp. suburbs out towards airport and straight NW towards Denton. 'Course Dallas area esp. Collin Co and north is great. Allen ISD just recently built some super duper football stadium. Our little town finally built a stadium (though I think not the greatest use of tax dollars) to replace the "bleacher" stadium they had. Making some $$ back in renting it out.

Poke I don't remember eating. I had both the Hawaiian and Chinese influence from neighbor/landlord and a teacher that became a dear friend to my DM. Not so much the Japanese esp. in cooking though I do certainly love it also. I buy Hawaiian cookbooks when I find them, more the community type. I have had fun reading back on the Honolulu Star Advertiser's food column archives. Reminds me I need to eat up the salmon I cooked the other day.

gardengumby

Last Christmas we were in Hawaii and had the WHOLE family over for Christmas dinner. My son made poke. My MIL who has never eaten a fish she hasn't wanted overcooked actually tried some - I almost fell off my chair when I saw her eating RAW FISH, as 2 nights earlier I just about broke my heart overcooking some ahi so she would eat it. The difference, of course, was that my son (who she adores) made the poke - it's a different kettle of fish (pun intended) when cooked by her DIL LOLOLOLOL

For the most part we get along, but we've had a few "avoid each other" times over the 35 years, but by and large I think she's odd and she thinks the same of me... LOL

Spookiesmom

What is this poke you're talking about? A fish? My dad would go in the woods springtime and cut greens, he called it poke. Mom cooked it like spinach. Remember the song Poke Salad Annie?

Chevyboy

Yes! Elvis Presley sang that!

I looked it up on Google Images, and yes, it is a Poke plant, growing tall, kind of like the taller Dandelions you see... I don't have sp.check on Internet Explorer, so don't know if that's right....

Chevyboy

Hawaiian Poke Salad.....

gardengumby

aaaaahh - different poke. What I'm talking about is pronounce po (long o) kay (long a). It's a hawaiian way of fixing fish (often ahi). It's raw fish with a variety of other ingredients - usually garlic, ginger and soy sauce are among them - sometimes fish eggs. It's something that many people need to aquire a taste for but I loved from the first taste. Hubby wouldn't eat it until it was cooked for a long time, but he's converted now, too. It's probably my grandson's favorite food.

Edited to add:

Here's one recipe for it...

Ahi Poke Recipe

Ingredients:

2 large sashimi grade Ahi tuna steaks (1 1/2 lbs.)

1 shallot, sliced

1/2 cup chopped green onion

3 Tb. soy sauce

1 tsp. sesame oil

1 tsp. chili garlic sauce

1 Tb. sesame seeds

Directions:

Pat the Ahi dry, then neatly cut it into small 1/2 inch cubes. Place in a bowl.

Add the shallots, green onion, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili garlic sauce, and sesame seeds.

Gently toss. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate.

*For another variation, omit the chili sauce and add 1/2 tsp. wasabi paste and 1 tsp. honey.

Chevyboy

luvmygoats

Poke sallet grows wild here. One growing right beside goat yard with huge berries. Goats won't eat it. If you goggle poke salad the image that comes up from Google Images looks just like my plant. Nice assortment cause besides it is a long area of ragweed. Sneeze.

Been out chopping out wild grapevines that are invading my hedges. Goats do love them.

duckyb1

looked it up too.......it is also a fish........usually marinated, and eaten raw....but can be pan fried...

Shellshine

I like mine with a little mayonnaise and chili over room temperature brown rice, with a sprinkling of dried grated nori.

Shellshine

I think we should plan a Hawaii get - together in a year or two - take our time to find a nice beach house to rent and chillax. If we plan it far enough in advance, we might find some great airfare, and maybe a donor foundation to help those that could use a little fairy dust.

luvmygoats

Shell - I have always wanted to go back but my DH is not a traveler. My DF and DM separately after they divorced did go back, she with hubby #3 (long story) and DF went back for business. We lived on Kalanianaole Hwy just outside Aina Haina.

sas-schatzi

Hi I had asked Kira re:LE and flying. The following link is where she reposted her PM response

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/64/topic/811841?page=1#post_3747682

Binney4 reposted it to Bonfires as a kindness in case I didn't see. I'm putting the link here for future reference as binney answered several questions while she was on Bonfires.

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topic/763848?page=154#idx_4609

marywh

Im coming back. Soon I hope. That was my favorite place ever for vacation. Dh and I do things on the spur, who knows I might need a break after ds wedding. It might just tire me out and I need a vacation:). Be prepared Shells.