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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited July 2011

    I had rasberries, macademia nuts but Im starving for food like a midnight meal.

    I have apricots & peaches. I love my summer fruitTongue out

    But what i really want is seafoodSealed

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    enngeeemm69--A late welcome!! Congrats on your path report, celebrate the good news!!

    lynniea--Cel-a-brate, good times, cel-a-brate!! Sending a little Kool and the Gang your way for your end of Chemo dance!!

    Husker-Sooo glad you are happy with your new RO. Its a shame you had to go that route, but glad it worked out.

    As for chocolate--still crave it. would not turn it down. Especially dark chocolate. At work right now we have godiva bars buy 2 get one free. If I bought some, would you all like to share?  I really shouldn't eat it all!!

    Happy Fourth weekend to all!! Think of me, I will be selling books on Monday, to all those people who don't have families or picnics to go to!! My husband and youngest come home this weekend from a week at Boy Scout Camp in Tennessee. D**n, suppose I have to clean the house--ooh wait--it didn't really get that dirty cuz my two biggest messer uppers weren't here!!! Smile 

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    Claire do you work at a BN? My son would be so jealous. He used to say that would be his dream job.



    When my kids were younger we used to go to the bookstore at least once a week. Each one was allowed to get one book and he used to try to talk his brother and sister into getting books he wanted so he was really getting three. But even if they didn't he would still read theirs.



    Well now he works at Best Buy and he does most of his reading electronically. But he still likees to read actual books and God forbid if anyonee borrows a book and folds a page to mark it. He cringes everytime the Kindle commercial is on where the lady shows sher criend she can do that with an actual book lol.

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited July 2011

    It is a peacock feather!!

    El I had my fruit my DH and I prepared 10 quarts of fresh strawberries last night yummy, I also had strawberries in my yogurt for breakfast.  Looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend at home and in the garden.  I have some josta berries and gooseberrie that will be ripe in a couple of weeks, trying to decide jam or wine??? 

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    I think the pic is a ceiling.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011
    Mystery pic guess - looks like a sill screen room divider.  Undecided
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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited July 2011

    Hand fan.

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  • jenn3
    jenn3 Member Posts: 3,316
    edited July 2011

    still trying to figure out the mystery pic????

    enngee- belated welcome, I am sorry you had to find you're way here, but the women are wonderful!

    maralegal - congrats on your mammo!

    Yesterday was my birthday and of all days, I felt like crap.  I couldn't keep anything down!  Stupid me, sucked it up and went to a wonderful restaurant with my Mom and sister and ate lunch, then promptly came home and got sick (again and again).  Thank goodness I made it home. I woke up sick and with breakfast didn't stay down I should have known better..........But, my Mom and sister were so happy to take me out I felt bad not going.   Then I had to cancel our small get together that night with my friends and family.  I was so upset.  But.......the good news! I am feeling much better today, so it'll be like a belated birthday or extended birthday weekend.  I will see friends today and family tomorrow.  I am now 45.......

    I hope that everyone is having a great 4th of July weekend!!!

    Jenn

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    HAPPY BDAY {{{JENN}}}

     

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited February 2012

    seyla888,

    You might have been referring to a Japanese folding hand fan.   I think!!Undecided

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    Happy Birthday Jenn! We have lots here this weekend. We all get to celebrate with our country :)



    Glad you're feeling better today . Still it sucks that you were sick on your birthday :(



    I hate when I see all the typos in my posts because of the stupid touch typing on my nook. Have to resist the urge edit all my posts.



    Still haven't figured out a guess for the pic yet.

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited July 2011

    Jenn sorry he hear you wer sick on your B-day but very happy you are better today, have a great weekend.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    jenn3, made some belated b-day cupcakes...pineapple with gingerale (to settle your stomach.)

                                          

    Yes, I did bake them on the pavement in my driveway, however did you guess?  Cool

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    Jenn - Glad you are feeling better - sucks you were sick on your birthday and can do more today.

                                        

    Monday - DH and I will celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary. 

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011
    jo,  Something tells me you still have fireworks in your marriage...as you cleverly planned!
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  • walker2222
    walker2222 Member Posts: 558
    edited July 2011

    I think it is an umbrella

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2011

    I think it's a skyscrapper with reflective windows reflecting a billboard or something nearby!

    Jenn3-Sorry you were feeling rotten on your bday.  The nice thing about being a birthday celebrant around the 4th is that there's generally a celebratory feeling for a few days, so pretend today is your day instead.  Reesie's tomorrow & I'm Monday!  

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited July 2011

    Happy Birthday all you little Firecrackers! Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th. Someday when I move on to the next big adventure I want my ashes sent up in a big fireworks display on the 4th. My family thinks I am nuts but I love the 4th and fireworks and you can of course actually have this done, my daughter thinks I should have them compressed and simulated into a diamond so that they can say "wasn't Mom a real gem" LOL

    How do you all celebrate the 4th? We will be going out to my families farm eat lots of good food and deserts and then shoot off fireworks, ride go carts and laugh alot.

    Mystery Pic: vertical blinds

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Accordian?

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  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited July 2011

    mystery pic - a fabric hand-held fan

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011
                                        
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  • JeanH
    JeanH Member Posts: 281
    edited July 2011

    Have a great fourth everyone,

    Welcome to the new members

    Claire my son leaves for his week at BSA camp tomorrow, he goes update NY

    marlege congrats on results

    Linnea congrats on finishing chemo

    Elimar my skin is holding up a bit pink but otherwise ok. I have been using a rx steroid cream on the advise of the dermatologist at MSK. It seems to be working so far but I suspect it builds through the treatment.

    My guess on mystery pic is. ??????

    By the way anyone know how long the joint pain lasted after taxol and nuelasta?



    Enjoy the weekend.



    Jean

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  • JeanH
    JeanH Member Posts: 281
    edited July 2011

    Jo,



    I just noticed you also had 25 rads and 5 boosts, are the boosts much different? I am getting both lying down on my stomach.



    Jean

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  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited July 2011

    jean, my joint pain stopped pretty soon after taxol...i did fine with the neulasta so didn't have a combo effect, it was only the taxol that whipped my ass!!

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  • Huskerkkc
    Huskerkkc Member Posts: 536
    edited July 2011

    i had trouble with joint pain days 3-5. Aleve and Clartin a day before, day of and day after works for some although i did not find it effective. I ended up asking (and getting) a half-dose of Neulasta after the 3rd treatment. No cost break because it is a one time dose, but that seemed to help. don't know if that might be an option for you but it did help me.

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited July 2011

    I'm late as usual, but congrats, Marlegal, on your clear mamm!

    Jenn ~ Happy, happy Birthday!!!!!!!

    Jo ~ Here's an early "Happy Anniversary" for Monday in case I forget. I celebrated my 38th just this past May. Seems like I've been married fooorrreeevvveeerrr........ Ha-ha! He's a good egg, as my Grandma used to call him!

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  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited July 2011

    happy birthday jenn reesie and marlegal....world is a better place for you being in it

    congrats jo....that is something special

    sherry....sorry you had that *crap* literally:) I got struck down in DC this past week with food poisoning...it was not pretty but par for the course for me these days it seems....hahaha

    so many pages to catch up on...brings me to the same conclusion...you are all the best:)

    surgery on thursday...so at least I have something else to obsess on...although with my current run of luck or lack thereof...perhaps I should reschedule...the PS might put the nips on my back and the fat grafts into my butt to enhance the cellulite ......

    :)

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited July 2011

    On this past weeks episode of "In Plain Sight" on USA, Mary McCormick said this & I want to share it. It is.... well, it has made me think.....

    ~~~~~

    There are times in your life when all you can do at the end of the day

    is turn out the lights -

    flop on your bed -

    and throw in the towel - raise the white flag.

    For some, that kind of surrender is hard to even comtemplate

    and harder to accept.

    And there's a dignity in that -

    In fighting to the finish - to the red-faced bitter end.

    But, in those moments - in bed - right when the lights go out

    A solace can be found.

    The very act of giving up becomes a starting point.

    You clear your head - 

    you still your beating heart

    you navigate the rocky shoal of setting out again.

    Call it surrender - or serenity - it doesn't matter which.

    Because the thing you never thought you'd do

    or say

    or ever have to face

    becomes more than what you have to do,

    it becomes the way it is. 

    ~~~~~

    When I heard this, it spoke to me. Crazy ?? Maybe, I don't know.... It wish I'd written it, it's powerful to me. Maybe this is my new "starting point".

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  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited July 2011

    wow valjean...spoke to me so loud I had no choice but to hear it....

    thank you

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    Happy Birthday to all of you Independence gals! Isn't it nice the country throws a party for you with fireworks and all!!

    Jo--Happy Anniversary, your husband is a lucky man!!

    JeanH--My boys just got home last night from western Tennessee. The entire camp consisted of boys from Florida except for one Tenn troop. Floridians will do anything to get out of the summer heat!! I can't remember where but I went to a GSA/BSA camp in northern NY in the early 70's. It was on a lake and was absolutely beautiful. Don't remember much except they kept the boys across the lake--we kept making plans to sneak over there, but never quite made it!!

    Reesie--yes I do work at that store that shall remain nameless--internet policy at work about posting personal/business postings on the web. Blah, blah, blah. I see you have a nook, l love mine. Its hard to explain to people that they still will read real books, this just gives you more choices. I totally get your son's complaint--mine is when people read books while in the store and then leave them on their chair--splayed out open. Damages the spine and then peeps won't buy it. Once they purchase the book, they can destroy it all they want. Don't get me started on the -we aren't a library rant!!!!

    These pictures totally confuse me, first I thought it was some kind of Japanese high rise. Then a fan. Now I'm leaning towards a cover for a heating/ac unit. Tomorrow, I'll think its something else!!! 

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