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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited June 2011

    Stanzie, If you want to see if a PM you wrote, got sent, just click on the "Sent" box. Hope that helps.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited June 2011

    anyone having trouble getting on fb?  I kept getting a message saying the certificate is not valid or something like that.....BBL

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    Karen - nope no trouble here.

     OH Kathy... sheepishly... there is a sent box???umm whoops..... be back later...... thanks

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  • Kymn
    Kymn Member Posts: 999
    edited June 2011

    Had my last pre chemo vampire draw this morning hehe hope all is well that would be terrible if this last one my levels werent good seeing as they have bounced back so far every time.

    Ladies Ladies Ladies I dont think you are getting the point of golf my dears, you get to drink every hole!!!! lol they come around with a booze cart Laughing Now who wants to join me lol

    Hugs Kymn

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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited June 2011

    LOL Kymn, so instead of just dwinking at the "19th hole" we can dwink at every hole!!! That puts an entirely different spin on it....I'm in!

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  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited June 2011

    "Spin" might just be the right word here.

    Now, I get why some golfers aren't that concerned about low scores. - Claire

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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited June 2011

    LOL...yeah we prolly would be doing a lot of spinning (at least our heads would be spinning). In Hawaii, they call it the "19th Puka" (puka meaning hole). Pronounced "poo-kah" not "puke-ah". Although that might happen too!

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    Kathy- You will get a kick out of this, my Mom used to actually be a golfer and apparently pretty good. Well that was in younger days, well she and my sister used to go to Hawaii every winter and they stayed at this hotel with a golf course. So the first day they get out there bright at early... my sister had never even seen a club in person before. So they start trying... well it doesn't go so well, but it is morning but the serious ones are long past them and so soon others start to come who are not so good well they pass my mother and sister by then they are giggling and laughing so hard they wouldn't be able to hit anything.. Then next day they said it was so much fun why not try again - who cares if they are just downright terrible. Well - ha ha- they decide to go after lunch - after some Planters Punch and wine with lunch. Guess what they actually do Ok with the booze! So from then on that was their tradition of drinking and playing golf! So Kymn - hope you not only get perfect bloodwork scores but hope your scores top the others in golf too!!!!

    I think that is the only way I'd play so I can laugh and not have it hurt when the club missed the ball and just goes Whonk into the ground - Ouch!

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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited June 2011

    Oh, that is PRICELESS, Stanzie! Can just picture them having a blast. Your Mom sure was an awesome lady....so classy and talented, yet sounds like she knew how to have a good time! Thanks for sharing that.

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  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,697
    edited June 2011

    NM - What a fabulous post yesterday! Sounds like you have been working so hard but hope you are enjoying the $$ and big dwinkies after all that!

    light

     Thanks for the well wishes too - hey, I'm almost thru June with no doctor apts yet!!! Love the C.R.S. - ha ha ha ha!! And the pooper scooper!! And the umbrella dwink!! Oh yuck, the slush puppy! Love the goody and baddy bags! All so funny...the dip in the road, Karen's itinerary,

     itinerary

    and the Citronella Cooler is delishious!! Yum Yum!!

    AStorm - That looks like an excellent oatmeal recipe...my sis and her bf are visiting next week and they love oatmeal so I will do this cuz it looks like something I would love too!! Thanks for posting.

    oatmeal

    Stanzie - I just love your avatar...so absolutely beautiful...I'm sure I missed, but who is the lovely lady? The strawberry soup sounds just great too, I think I'll make them that too! What a cute story about your sister dressing up in an ice skate costume, that is a great memory.

    soup

    Karen - nice to hear your daughters are bonding so well, and glad DD2 got safely to camp.

    camp

    Wahine - I only went to camp once when I was a kid and hated it so never asked to go again. I sure hope all the kids going this year will have fun, though! Yes, to your dirt question! I have had my big (dirty) girl pants on so much lately. (And dirty as in dirt not dirty as some minds may think!) Now that I'm not in the dirt I have to take pictures of it.  

    dirt

    We are going to put it on the market soon, just have a few final details. Thanks for saying ya miss me, I miss U too and all the galz when things get this crazy in my life. So much physical work that by day's end I'm just major ty-ty go sweepy-bye (after a nice big dwinky-pye). I have also been having a lot of hot flashes and the hot/cold thing at night, pretty weird, but I guess eventually it'll calm down. So a Frozen Flash dwink sounds delightful! Have not heard of a cool towel, but that sounds interesting.

     hot flash

    Love your telling about your late DH and how he could do anything, what a nice story, it is so sweet that you still miss him and have such wonderful memories of him...19 years...I'm sorry your DD broke down doing compressions, that is so understandable and sure wish she had no guilt, I am sure that everyone did the very best they possibly could do, and I'm sure he knew you were doing your best and that you all loved him. Please don't think of telling us these tender memories are in any way a downer, you are such a wonderful person and I love to know what your life has been like. 41 is so young and I can't imagine how awful to get that letter from the surgeon when you had told him and the nurses about the arythmia. Sending you hugs...

    hugshug 

    Goldie - I love your new avatar too, you look so beautiful!! gee whiz, not even trash pick up...we do have that service in our sticks which is a convenience, though a lotta folks burn theirs or go to a landfill.

     bear

    My DH does almost all of the building, and fixing of stuff around here, I too help when I can, but I just can't do as much physically. I was supposed to help him move this huge tree stump to a burn pile and I just really was in the way, I couldn't believe he could move it, I did help a little getting it in the back of the truck, but then I was in the way!

    Kymn - so glad your last chemo will be done soon, what a huge relief, yay! And yes I will join you for golf and a drink at every hole, that sounds wonderful!!

    chemo

    Claire - You still amaze me with how much cycling you could do while on chemo...I remember getting so down at the mid-way point, still realizing I had 50% to go and it seemed like so much. I just kept up with tons of fluids and got my jogging in almost every day. Whew, glad that is in the past. You are right to, I have been enjoying a bit warmer weather, still gets cold at night in the mountains, but days have been warmer. I didn't get back to the west side yet, will be driving over Sunday to meet some fam on the 4th. So glad to hear it sounds like great weather over there too.

    spring

    Junie, DorK, Husker I miss you and hope to chat with you soon on the golf course, hole #19 after all the others with Kymn!!

    golf

    In case anyone is interested, we have 40 acres that we split into 2 20 acre parcels. We spend much of the summers on one side and have now developed the other side. I've been cutting firewood, raking dirt, and still trying to get the damn attic cleaned out. I've gotten some stuff sold and other stuff is going to charity and other stuff just went out in the trash. I can't believe how much stuff we have accumulated in 16 years of marriage. Also been working on my business and I'm so happy my brain is really starting to work again. I still C.R.S. but at least now I can make the little grey cells do a little more complicated math than just 1+1 =...I gotta say, almos 6 months post treatment I'm really feeling so good and really happy. Sure do miss ya when work gets this hectic, I thought I'd be more regular by now, but hoping to get back to my routine again soon. Wishing you all the most beautiful big, fancy, cool, cocktail and to chat some more at Pau Hana!!

    Cheers!

    cheers

    Love & hugs, ~Beans

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited June 2011

    Kymn...I want to play golf with you.....Wahine....you memories of your late DH are so sweet....so sorry that you had to endure such a horrible time when he died....your DD's must have just been little kids then.....Beans....wow...you have some nice property...when we lived in Ohio we had 4 wooded acres....it was "out" in the country but other than aeration system (instead of septic) by the time we moved there in 1979, we had electric, single phone line and city water...Goldie...you are really rural.....Stanzie....how old are your twins?  DD#2 has her own cell phone...we gave her her big sister's phone when big sister got married and she was starting middle school...she will have to give the phone to camp to put in the safe till she goes home....that and her ipod....but I'm glad she will have the phone in the airport for the flight home....

    Mom bought a bottle of wine for dinner...CVS had cheap wine for 3/$10....got Merlot,,,sure hope its decent.....Mom then commented that sometimes she wishes she had a glass of wine to relax, so hopefully she will finish the bottle after I'm gone....of course, I'll have a glass or 2...more like 2!

    It got cloudy this afternoon, so its not as hot...except for the house...finally looked at the thermostat and they keep it at 80!!! and this afternoon, Dad complained he was cold!!!!...its raining a bit out....hope it stops after dinner so I can take a walk....

    Got my boarding pass for Israel....thought I already had seat assignments...wrong!!!...I have window seats from here to Philly and then Philly to Israel....I do not like window seats...prefer the aisle but the plane looks full...I remember picking seats, so don't know what happened....there is just a little more room to stretch out with the aisle...but I guess for sleeping, the window might be better....but for someone who has to pee so often, it means climbing over my neighbor!!!!  oh well it will be what it will be.....

    Strawberry soup is so delicious....I've not made it, but always enjoy it when I'm served it...someone made it for me during chemo and it was so easy to eat.....its my favorite fruit soup....I like gaspacho, but don't make it because my family really doesn't like it (or I think I still like it)...

    Beans...love all the cartoons you posted...you and NM are great with that....not sure I know how to do it....as you can tell, I don't have an avatar....I post pictures on fb, but haven't here (or atleast don't remember posting pictures here)...oh wait, yes I did after Isreal...I posted pics of a bco friend that I walked with.....

    CRS....yes its something that afflicts most of us post chemo and then I hear with growing past 50 that is also common.....and I want to blame everything on chemo!!!!

    Mom is cooking dinner tonight....and she is as bad as me...she won't let me help...of course its probably payback, because I don't let her help me in the kitchen!!!! 

    Well, think I'm going to go pour a glass of Merlot....will let you know if at $3+ bottle of Merlot is swill or good!! Hugs...be back later tonight....Karen

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  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited June 2011

    Karen.....you are looking at this the wrong way.  Even bad Merlot is probably better than white zinfandel.

    I like window over aisle so would be happy to swap.  Sometimes, you just have to be glad to have a seat!   That has happened to me more than once.

    Have the most wonderful time!  Bon voyage. - Claire

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  • goldie0827
    goldie0827 Member Posts: 6,595
    edited June 2011

    LOL Mitch.....We make our own power with solar, cell phones work, tv/computers via satelite, post office 1/2 hour drive one way to go 6 miles down our dirt road, town for shopping 1 hour/1way. Before we got our well dug, we had to have water brought in. The transfer station (or dump) for garbage is half hour as well. I burn things that can be burned and we have a semi trailer we keep trash in and I never put anything in the garbage that will smell, so keeping the trash for months is not a problem. So sorry about the lack of help from ex, that is terrible!

    Kathy...........not going to reply, just hug!

    Beans, good to hear from you and glad to hear you are just busy. Being busy is GOOD. Thank you for the compliment and that is Stanzies mom in her avatar.

    Karen, your trip sounds like it is going just lovely! And so glad you got to have some wine! Remind us when you leave FL. How long is your flight from there?

    Grabbing me a Frozen Flash..............or 4! Those just sound so yummy! Luvs you ALL!

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  • wahine
    wahine Member Posts: 8,231
    edited June 2011

    Awwwww...thanks for all the hugs! When I was reading some of the responses, I had tears coming down, then DH got up from his nap and was ready for us to do some stuff at the condo. He never knew I was sad....just kept it hidden! My girls were 14 1/2 and 17 yrs old. They really still needed their daddy then.

    Beans, OMG I was laffing so much at your cartoons!!!! Loved the snowpeople counting down to Spring! And that the drinking team has a golf problem....soooo funny. I hope the acreage will sell, asap!!! Lotta work you have been doing.

    Karen, Sometimes the cheap wine is ok....right when you buy it. Doesn't last in the wine rack, well though. We had some cheap stuff from RiteAid once, and thought it was ok....but a few months later....not! I do like White Zin though....better than Merlot...I like sweet whites and roses. DH is a red wine drinker and bought so much.....and now he gets huge headaches from it, so I guess I need to develop a taste for it.

    Think maybe we can get the Wenches to make up a batch of chilled strawberry soup? Yummmm. And yeah, Lori, I will join you in some Frozen Flashes! BTW gals, what is CRS?

    Happy Hour! Pau Hana! Slainte!

    Kathy

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  • AStorm
    AStorm Member Posts: 1,429
    edited June 2011

    It's raining here. Hard. Like real rain. Free car wash and I don't feel hot so I'm not complaining!

    Claire - I bought the sweetest juiciest organic strawberries this past weekend. When I was preggers with DD2, DD1 and I used to buy a basket of strawberries on the way home and stand over the sink to rinse and eat them. We did that the other day because they do fade fast (especially if you don't put them in the refrigerator, which I hate to do).

    Stanzie - it's like regular oatmeal but richer (probably the egg) and a little thicker. I've always loved the banana-oatmeal combination. Sometimes I just put banana slices on top of regular oatmeal and then brown sugar and I torch it to caramelize the sugar.

    I think I missed some of the discussion about the chilly towel... wondering if it would be good for hot flashes?

    Kymn - now that I could enjoy! Clearly I missed an important detail based on Stanzie's story!

    Beanie - daaahling! How are you? That looks like a lovely bottle of Bordeaux. Dig those shades you hip cat you. BTW, when I have guests I mix the dry ingredients the night before... unless I've been drinking.

    Karen - I'm an aisle flyer too. DH is a window person which means I get stuck in the middle. One time there was a woman on the aisle (me in middle) AND she has a kid on her lap (about 5 YO and old enough to sit in a seat). The flight attendant told her kid had to sit in his seat which was next to his dad but mom ignored this. I'm thinking, ‘if there is a problem I may have to kill this woman and her child to get out of my seat'... I made eye contact with the flight attendant and then rolled my eyes toward the mom+son. She came by again and asked the woman to place the child in his seat for take-off. No one moved. So I flagged down a flight attendant and asked for a magazine. I was pleased when the stack she brought contained a copy of Cosmopolitan, which I flipped open to an article about sex on the beach with some risqué bikinis and flashed in front of mom+son. That kid was in the seat next to his dad so fast! Dad offered to change seats with her but she insisted on returning to her seat where she was very quiet for the rest of the flight. Now I always pick up a copy of Cosmo at the airport... just in case.

    Well it looks like DD1 has finally turned the proverbial corner and is on a better track... When she was younger she was always happy, loved to help others and challenge herself. She was smart and pretty and had so many friends... but she went through a dark phase as many of you have heard and I worried that she might not go to college or even graduate from high school. She did graduate and get into college and is very excited about it... she is doing well at her job and got a raise after 6 months and they put her on fulltime through summer... and she stopped pining over her old boyfriend who was a serious head case. AND... she went back to her natural hair color, officially today. It took several trips to the salon (which I paid for even tho it was not my idea for her to go red) but I'm so glad she did it. After she went red, I asked her why she did that and she said she was bored. I commented that there are more worthy causes and certainly more productive ways of countering boredom. Then she asked me why I didn't like it and I told her that it seemed like she was trying to be someone else and I love her for herself and I miss her real hair color but also her self confident and happy self ... anyway, glad she moved past that challenging phase and glad to have my DD back!

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  • Beanius
    Beanius Member Posts: 1,697
    edited June 2011

    OoooooooEeeeeeeeeeee! It's a happy happy hour!!

    cHairs!

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  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited June 2011

    Gail....the best story about the flight. Really laughing.

    Ready to wind down for the day.  Indulging in a bacon blue cheeseburger (these were on sale....YAY) with a cab-merlot, and veggies for dessert.  You are welcome to partake DorK.

    Sounds like your daughter is into capitalism as opposed to acting out, Gail.  Good for two reasons, the first of which is she has some direction in her life.  The second is that she looks like she is on her way to being self-supporting.  In this context, investing in a few salon trips is dirt cheap.

    Kathy, if you really can't drink the red wine, wait a few months.  Boeuf bourgignonne, braised pot roast in red wine, coq au vin.....all these will work just fine for using up any excess.  Or if you want to get a jump on things, my mother was known to make wine jelly.  Plain gelatin, sugar to sweeten.  You could put some fresh summer fruit in.  Then serve in a nice wine glass with whipped cream on top.

    I don't have an exact recipe but you can look it up.

    My mother went through a phase of making wine and not all of it was drinkable.  Guess what we got???

    She was also known to have a heavy hand with fruit salad.

    Anyway, I am beyond hungry tonight, so will go make dinner.  Wish now, I had bought more berries. - Claire

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    Oh great posts tonight. Lori- really?!!!! I'm in awe of you !!!!!! And very proud to know you. sounds amazingly brave to live in " no man's land" so to speak but you look so lovely doing it! Now there is something to toast to!!

     Astorm- well... goodness! So we can travel together and Karen of course who started the idea. I love the window seat no not cause of the view. I bring my little pillow and I take my pill and drink a small bit and am so happy to wake up 5. 6 hours later and almost where ever I'm going. Ok so the 27 hour flight was a bit harder to take but love being able to use the wall to prop up against rather than some scary stranger.... off to sleepppppppppp...

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  • Huskerkkc
    Huskerkkc Member Posts: 536
    edited June 2011

    My nurse navigator got me an appt for a 2nd opinion on Thursday. Can't believe she was able to get a time for me so quickly. Wll keep me on track with treatments, but it does mean a 90 minute drive one way rather than 30 minutes as originally planned. but I could not in good conscience go back to the RO who was so awful. Got a recommendation from a friend that is 3 months ahead in the BC treatment regimin, and she loved this guy. Also my parents are in the same town, so will have a place to stay if I need to.

    May need to kick up the Ativan. Have only taken at bedtime, but I have been so weepy lately. Am getting a 30 minute walk in every evening but am having trouble not cryig at any little thing. Or nothing. Am hoping that I will like the new RO as well as my friend did and that I will feel better getting treatment going, even though it is evey #$@* day. Will travel to South Dakota to my brother-in-law's lake home for the weekend and that will be my big get-away for the entire summer. But it is a get-away and I will take books and magazines and find a shady tree (or if I'm lucky a REAL hammock!) while the rest are golfing or boating.

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  • Dara_Diverse
    Dara_Diverse Member Posts: 5,144
    edited June 2011

    who is in for a round of rounds?

    my goodness, I just read the last 36 hrs of posts and have so much to say but no time.  Time is my enemy...hmmm, wonder if my people can take care of that enemy...thoughts to ponder by dork.

    me tinks it took un hour to read and my sweet lord, you gals have been busy. was touched by each and every comment.

    sorry, it is end of monf and things are wild n crazy in dorkland. wanna tell you gals that my employer is going to be featured on the morning show soon. The camera peeps and media where swarming our building. Sad for me, the big story is about our company's wellness programs. our gym, caf and heathmiles for dollars is the big story....but I am po'd because my employer's insurance company, CIGNA, whom I was employer with for 14 years prior to my current job, has f'd over anyone that is NOT healthy. The media will make us out to be the best place to work but I know the real deal, it is a good place to work for those who are healthy, if sick, f us. that is my rant. 

    I love you girls and have soooo much to say to all of you as I read todeys posts. But sorry...oops, I mean sawry to be behind (aka ass). haha. 

    I will catch up in three weeks or so when I go for surgery....uh, a sore subject.

    Stanz, did you find how to find sent mail lol. I had issues finding that too.  RW, what a touching story about your dear former DH. Again, loved what I read but frankly (or is the word hankly...who is frank anyway)....oops digressed, I mean who is Frank? Loved the camp stories, many memories of camp with my dd have just entered my pea brain.

    Must find a hammock. I have been hiding in the corner of the htl...I was caught in a fetal position, sucking my thumb and rocking.....damn, Pants will never feel the same about me.

    Rounds of rounds for all of you...you gals are De Bestestezz......CheerZ!

    Dork aka lights out...

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  • AStorm
    AStorm Member Posts: 1,429
    edited June 2011

    Yay Beennees is in da house! I'm having a yummmy chardonnay from my Sonoma trip. Ready for a glass of white Beans?

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  • Dara_Diverse
    Dara_Diverse Member Posts: 5,144
    edited June 2011

    Karen, did I miss seeing you at PHL? Gosh, I could meet you on the other side of security and waved to you from 200 ft away. SOunds like so much fun.

    Kristy, I would drive further to see a doc I trust, you are doing the right thing. 

    Chrissy B, we gotzta tawk. 

    Lori, so cool that you have your own grand piece of America!

    Gail, enjoyed your posts today, you and the girls are phhunny! 

    Claire, hope the ankle is better.  And be patient, Mr. Right is very close by, you just don't know it.

    Beanie, great pics and post. We missed you and happy to hear you are feeling good. You sure endured a rough ride but YOU DID IT.

    Kymn, wishing you the best with the final treatment. Hugz to you, keep up the great work, you are doing beautifully.

    NM, omg, I cracked up at your awesome post.  We missed you sewwww much. My fav was also the dog in the bathtub getting royal treatment.

    So who did i miss? Just ramblin n drinkin.....anyone in for a golf game, I am super fantastic at each hole...I think so anyway but yes, I drink at each one too.....love it love it love it.

    Peace out friends. I know I missed some of you. Also thinking about HD, Junie and Kitty, have not heard in a widdle wile.....

    Ok, meet me at the 7th whole, I am ready for 'ber 8!  Love you girls, you are each so darn cool in your each and own way.

    Cheerz from the 8th hole...yay, I made it but stumblin' all the while....see you all on Fried-day or Moondey. Ok, over and out for wheel dis time.  Hugz from Dopey aka dorK.  

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  • Dara_Diverse
    Dara_Diverse Member Posts: 5,144
    edited June 2011

    Gail, did not mean to bump you and knock you down, oooops. I have a high school friend who lives in the Sonoma Valley, I am now envious of both my friend and bwest fwend.

    I will dwink some wine with you....i 've already samlped one of ebery-tang. Oh my, do I weally have to wake up at 5:56am? Perhaps I can snooze it a few times and hang out sum moore?

    Any new news on your new neighbors?? You are in a tough position with that situation. Yikes, I don't know what to say....perhaps I should not send my people to "do things to the man">>>>? 

    ~~disclaimer to the FBI....jk....

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited June 2011

    Claire...most definitely, cheap merlot is better than expensive white zin....The merlot actually was decent....decent enough that I had a couple or was it 3 glasses.....mom also had 1 1/2 glasses and dad had a glass.....Dad stayed up tonight till the news was on...thats 2 or more hours later than ususal.....he asked when he would see me again and commented that about him being 80 and how much longer did I have till I missed him...I told Dad that his friend in the pool was 90!!! so I had lots of time with him!!!  This is my 2nd trip to FL in 2011 and my folks came to me in April so I've seen then every 2 months this year....I have a long week-end in October and think maybe I'll come then...actually I have a long week-end every week during the school year, so will just have to look at the calendar.

    Storm....love your story about Cosmo and the kid finally getting off his mother's lap into his seat...DH and I often each get an aisle seat across from each other...a couple times, poor DH has gotten a very large person in the middle seat next to him and its not been so comfy, but we both like aisles....the window is much preferable to the middle....I have one of those travel pillows that I often put behind my back....Since this is an international flight, they have pillows and blankets, so I'll use my pillow for my head and their pillow for behind my back.  My flight leaves FL at 2pm tomorrow...I fly to Philly and my flight leaves Philly at 9 something.  I get into Tel Aviv on Thursday at 3:15....Total travel time is 18 hours...I think the flight to Israel is 11 hours.

    DS has started painting the house....Tonight DH had a BBQ for DS, his best friend (who I call my 4th child) and best friends grandparents....DH told DS that maybe they could all get together for a BBQ thinking it meant just the boys!!!  But DS said he had a nice time with everyone, but he had to be more organized.  The grandparents consider us their Denver family.....Best friend's mother was my dearest girlfriend...she died suddenly going on 8 years ago....I feel so blessed to still have this connection to her....Best friend and his wife will be in Israel the last week I'm there, so I hope to be able to see them.  They live in NY, but she is from Israel and they are going to visit her parents....

    Husker...glad that the patient navigator got you an appt with rad onc so quickly...I do hope that things work out well for you....will you be done rads by the time the new school year starts?  I finished one year still in chemo and started the next year doing rads!!!  Enjoy the long week-end in N. Dakota....sounds like you have a relaxing time planned for you....

    DorK....too bad you can't speak your mind....could you write a letter to the editor (or if its TV, I forget which you said send in an editorial type comment) after the story hits the news.....The true test of a good insurance policy is how well it treats you when you need to use it....Every policy is good when you are healthy!!!!

    I am so bloated again tonight....I told DH that I ate too much and Mom said that I didn't eat too much...yet I are a bigger piece of chicken than she did!!!  Two nights in a row that I'm miserable....plus the wine gave me a headache...think I should take some ibuprofen, plus my ambien...and maybe an extra nexium...but not sure if the nexium will help....

    Going to get in bed and read...have DD#2 book, Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul....think I might leave it here for her as she is coming to visit and go on a cruise 10 days after she gets bac from camp...I won't have finished the book, but wondering if I want to schlep it with me....I have a couple other books to read plus I brought knitting...I guess I can decide when I'm all packed....my checked back is at 50#, so no room to put anything extra in...some room in the carry on...Will need to be careful with my shopping as I only have a Le Sport Sac duffle to bring home goodies....well just realized when I take it out of my carry-on, I'll have more room in it.....

    Sweet dreams to everyone....Will check in tomorrow....I have a 4 hour layover in Philly, so time to come and visit....Hugs, Karen

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  • AStorm
    AStorm Member Posts: 1,429
    edited June 2011

    Hey, DorK! have a widdle chardonnay. It'll help you sleep! I slept so well last night I had to drag myself out of bed at 8:30 this morning.

    Long day even though it started late... forgot to feed the corgi! what?

     she would have been really hungry if she didn't eat WD's food. WD wasn't hungry cuz he got treats for going outside in the rain to wee.

    Hope it stops raining before Friday when the painter is coming to paint our wood windows. Yup, Kathy, I hired a contractor. I just hate painting wood windows.

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    Aw Husker - ((hugs)) - I hope you like your new RO as much as your friend too. I think trusting and feeling comfortable is huge going through all this.

    So hilarious - Dork - Hankly??? HA HA HA !

    And the Corgi picture !!! I laughed out loud - did you put those captions in somehow? 

    Hey is HD alright? 

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited June 2011

    Been up since 6...that is after going back to sleep at 4...mostly packed (again)...but of course its pretty easy when its just putting everything back in the suitcase....Think its going to be along morning....dad stayed up late last night, so mom wants to let him sleep....so will just hang around the apt.....I asked Mom is Dad wanted to go to the pool this morning....we would have to go by 9:30 so we could be back at 10:30 to give me time to shower etc.....I don't care if I go or not....just something to do....so I told Mom ask Dad at 9 and see what he wants to do....just don't like sitting around doing nothing.....Well....Mom just said she wants to pass on the pool.....wonder if its too hot out to go for a walk...going to go stir crazy doing nothing for 3 hours....but its probably best..otherwise, Mom will be too stressed.....Just me thinking about sitting for as long as I'm going to sit!!!  I guess with a 4+ hour layover, there will be time to walk the airport....

    Last night, I wrote my cousin telling her I would be in Isreal..she mentioned getting together for Shabbat while in Israel....it is a strange invite as they are going out for Shabbat dinner, but I can't join them (not sure why) but she would cook for me before she left....then spend Saturday with them....So was thinking what I wanted to do....and she just called me about it...and I said yes....had it been just email, I would have probably said No....part of me wanted to have free time in Jerusalem, but that will have to wait....Now I need to let my friends know that I won't be there till Sunday...friends neighbor have the key to the house...

    Well....going to go shower and eat breakfast...not one who likes sitting around in jammies....

    "Talk" to everyone later today when I'm at the airport....Hugs, Karen

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    Wow, Karen - you are amazing.... and you sound so calm. I'd be running around like a chicken with it's head cut off in utter panic about now. Can't wait to hear all about your trip! I'd so love to be hiding in your suitcase to go along. Have a wonderful and very safe trip!

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited June 2011

    So sitting here wondering why the mortar guy asked if " coming at 8:00am was too early for me?" I said No, of course not - thinking on one of my only mornings to sleep in.... but have been waiting almost 3 weeks for you to show up so great come on... Really come on it is now 8:49am.... Huh? Why do workmen do this? Women would at least call.

    So my friend's friend whose daughter I went to Charleston with last year just had that horrid sterotactic biopsy and the results came back - not cancer per say but abnormal cells so now she goes in for a surgical biopsy. This family has had it rough. The youngest daughter was on a waitlist for a new liver and they almost lost her. They said something like she would probably need another transplant in about 10 years which is now. I thought once it took you were alright - well with the anti-rejection drugs I guess. Anyway, then the husband lost his job for almost 2 years. Luckily has found a job and now this. I'm hoping that means it is just precancerous and that will be it. what do you all think?

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  • goldie0827
    goldie0827 Member Posts: 6,595
    edited June 2011

    Gail, that is so funny about the magazine on your flight. Well I am the window person and DH is the aisle person and when we fly together, I usually get stuck in the middle as someone else will need the seat if it is a full flight. Well my DH is quite a large man so I always end up being squished, especially if it is another large person wanting to sit down! Glad your DD figured it out....they usually do.

    Stanzie, our lifestyle isn't for everyone. It is very secluded. There have been several people that moved out like this and with in a year or two, leave. Just DH and I 24/7 except on Fridays when we go to town or the other times when we venture out. As for sleeping on a plane, I CAN NOT. Can't sleep in a car either. I just can't sleep sitting up.

    Kristy, good luck with the new RO. Soon it will all be behind you. Hang in there.

    DorK....you bizzy bizzy girl. Sure wish you could slow down, but I know you need to grab that cash while the grabbin is good.

    Karen, safe travels yet again today.

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