I'm bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

Hot Water FTW! Happy for ya!

Barbe ~ you make me laugh!!!  Glad you got GAS, but not the kind I first imagined!  And you'll have clean clothes too!

Barbe - That's the best news I've heard in a long time!  Wonderful.

I'd be in there using the 1st batch of hot water on a looooong relaxing bath!!!!  You certainly deserve it after all your troubles.

New washer and dryer in RED will be delivered tomorrow!!!! About to have my FIRST shower!! Didn't want to have it last night until the sheets were clean, so bought new sheets too but was too tired when I got home to stand in a shower. Can't do the bath thing as I can't get up-and-out of a bath....sigh.

Bedo - Talk about crossing the line!

Barbe - I'm jealous.  Red.

Me, no real crap, just have no get-up-and-go.  I've worked maybe 10 hours in the last 2 weeks.  After taking a shower, can't make myself get up and get dressed.  Hoping it is just the Arimidex fatigue hitting.

Navygirl..........................I'm right thee with ya.........................stay safe..........I'm fighting the battle with my shore home in Cape May, and my home in Pa.............................for me its gonna be a double whammy .....................Hey no one ever said it was going to be easy, but we have fought worse battles then this one........................luck to you, and prayers.

Navy girl, when Hugo came through NC in 1989, it roared onshore at Charleston late at night and headed across country. We had alerts prior that we may experince some wind from the storm. When it got to Charlotte about 5 am, it was still a weak hurricane but the power was out in Charlotte and we got no warning from the news channels. The power went out here about 6:30. We saw the winds change directions indicating the eye crossed over Lenoir, some people went without power for 2 weeks. we were fortunate we had power back on within a week. This time Irene is staying on the coast and we have beautiful weather today with some breezes and fluffy clouds.

Hautie - You described me to a "T" and my drains have been out 3 years!  My family knows to leave me alone. I feel sorry for them. They never know what will come out of my mouth. Pi**ed off all the time.

I had a great vacation and came home to suckage, which I won't go into right now as I would like to eventually go to bed!  But Sue - so sucky!  And I could understand if you had asked or hinted you were anxious to know the results, but to just blurt it out?!  AAhole.  I know you don't care right now - but you asked where my gallery is - it's at 1317 Madeline Place - it's a home turned gallery right off Camp Bowie just west of the Cultural District.  We're debuting on Fall Gallery Night, September 10.  I'm a bit stressed.  I'm not ready and neither is the gallery.  Yikes!  Of course, I have to be at my day job gallery at the FW Community Arts Center that night, which is a bit disappointing.

Barbe - I also went straight to the OTHER kind of gas.  My mind is truly warped.  I'm so glad you're back on the grid, so to speak.  I have been there, done that.  It sucks!

Yes it does suck... insomnia that is. Hi everyone. So sorry for the suckage!

Sue - so sorry for another dx. I was hoping it was just scar tissue. We will be here to help you face this head on. yet again. I'm so sorry. And glad you ratted out the tech-no-dummy. 

BIG YAY for Barbe getting the Gas turned back on. YAYAY ... I was trying to think of a way to take up a collection to get your gas back. Thank God for the little things. Hot water, waht a relief!!

I'm doing better, I think. Now that I think about it. I'm staying away from mothers house, good for me!!!  And thanks for asking! My son is settling down here and has a job. A night job, but a job. I'm going to call and write to pull some strings and see if we can get him employed at the college where I worked for 18 years and he graduated from. He would be the ideal candidate for a job in the industrial design shop. DD#3, with the baby and another one due in January has settled down a bit too, I think she's finally learned that she doesn't have to do anything she's uncomfortable with in regards to the baby daddy of the 2 year old. They were together a long time and he knows how to pull her strings. He doesn't pay any child support, but has enough $$ to buy another POS car AND a cell phone. ARRGH. He wants the child to call him "Daddy" (and she does), but she calls the new man in their life "Big Daddy" hahahaha. So now, instead of calling the SOB an SOB or "the jerk" or "meathead" we refer to him as little daddy cause hes a teeny excuse for a man and he does little for his own daughter. the jerk. Same DD just graduated a 2 yr. program in accounting and cannot find employment. Nobody is likely to hire a pregnant gal. Our DD#1 is working hard, waiting tables and tending bar, attending all of her AA meetings and Recovery program meetings so she is not stressed right now. And we're good with her downtown apt. too.

What a relief. When the kids are calm, mom's life is much calmer.Still broke, but calmer. Maybe it's the heat. It's just so hot. This was a hot, hot summer and I'm glad to see it go. My grandmother called these Dog Days, the spent shortening days of summer, still hot. Wildfires still burning and the heat drags on.

OH for the energy to do some desperate spring/summer cleaning.  WOW! That's totally great compared to the suckage of others. Specially those in Vermont where that hurricane tore up towns and lives.

I will check back in more often.

~Connie

Bookart,

I was just in the area yesterday!!!  Had to pick up art supplies (for dd who is taking an intro art class at TCC northeast) from Asel Art Supplies - checked out the brochure online for the Fall Gallery Night.   I didn't see a website for your gallery.  Would love to see the type of art you do.  I hope to swing by and see your and your fellow artists' work.  Not sure on my schedule though. 

Sorry to hear of suckage after vacation.

Hugs to all.

Trish

Oh Hauntie, so sorry to hear about your BAD day!  {{((BIG HUGS!!!!!!))}} 

I hope you did you get something to sooth and heal the cornea burns?  And...Switch saline solution or wear glasses until it heals?

An echo is a great diagnostic test.  Glad they could get you in as early as Thursday, even though that probably seems like a long time away, right now.

You hang in there!! Hugs and Prayers for You!

Thanks - the cornea burns are being treated and will heal. I don't know how this happened. The solution was a bottle of all purpose solution, I had used before. The lenses had been soaking a couple of days, because I hadn't been wearing them. My MD and I can't tnink of anything else that could have caused this, since I was fine until I put them in this morning. I've had multiple painful surgeries, including hand surgery, known to be very painful due to the large number of nerves in the hand. But, this was by far the most physically painful thing I've ever experienced. I was literally screaming in the car on the way home. My vision is better, although my eyes are still very irritated. They should be much better in a few days.

Re the heart thing - As long as I have the support of family, friends and BC friends I'll get through.it.

IT'S 5 AM AND I'M WIDE AWAKE. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Hauntie... let us know your test results and may the force be with you! (((((((HUGS)))))))))))

Problem;  I signed up for an internet marketing course. Feeling really stupid about it right now because they keep screwing with my head. I started the program July 1 and was quickly derailed from the program I signed up for and directed to another type of sales online, and not what I signed up for. I'm old enough to know and check things out before signing anything, and I did, but the promises have been broken and my patience with their customer service dept is not happy.Hope I don't have to get a lawyer to end the agreement since they already broke their end, but I'm not expecting passive compliance with my wanting to quit all together. Monday will be the telephone interaction with a honcho that can make it easy or make it hard. Praying for a reasonable compromise. Nagging me all weekend. I'm just trying to find a way to bring in some additional income. Things are at penny-pinching levels here for us now.

You try to do a positive thing and get screwed over by some geeks. WHAT is this world coming to?

~Connie.