I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

We have a good crowd tonight.

Sandy - in a way I can relate.  My sister was dying of lung cancer and had mets to the brain.  My biological father stated "if she doesn't die by x date then I have to leave because I have a trip planned for Europe and I already paid the airfare"  He was more concerned about losing $1000.00 versus being there for my sister when she was dying.

He has no idea about my BC.  In fact I haven't had contact with him for 12 years.  He is no longer in my life by my choice.  I don't have room for toxic people in my life.

Some people are just flat out evil as far as I am concerned and as you get older the list gets longer.

Blue, their are toxic people in my life.  I try to stay away from them as much as possible.  When I do have to see them--family get togethers, I speak to them as little as possible.  I also reveal NOTHING about my life.  I keep the conversations to the weather.  It seems to work.  

I want to have a lazy day today, but I have so many errands to run.  I may do all my errands and correcting today, and then veg for the rest of the weekend!

Not too many people here this morning. Are you all recovering from last night at bcobg?

I'm recovered and ready to do it again. DH's band is playing at a beach bar from 2-7:30 so I will head down there and drink some beer and hang with friends. Maybe catch a few rays, if I can stand being in the sun (it is still HOT here).

The toxic people in my life are mostly gone with a couple exceptions. I do as Mary does and keep conversations to the weather and stay as far away as I can.

Morning Peeps!

I was up early .. then went back to bed.  Had to let the dogs out and decided it was too early to start the day.

I don't have any toxic people in my life.  I guess I'm just lucky.

I'm going to head up north to Roanoke today to Petsmart (the closest  one is an hour away), then meet my sis for lunch.  My old dog Winston can't control his bladder and I need some Nature's Miracle for one stain that is driving me nuts. 

The traffic should be pretty wild this holiday weekend.  Yikes!  Thank goodness I drive slowly and take my time to enjoy the scenery.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Bren

I know it is not Thanksgiving but I just wanted to say how grateful I am to have the women on this thread in my life. Everyone is so supportive and welcoming of new posters. Everyone, have a great weekend!

Blue - that was great!

I am leaving shortly to clean my trainer's house that should have been cleaned on Thursday but I had the issue with Jazzy's eye and I couldn't bear to leave her alone until it was resolved.  Ok, I admit it - I was a huge basketcase that day!

So clean the house and then lunge Jazzy over some jumps and poles.

The cardiologist will not let me ride until after my nuclear stress test.  I was told not to do anything at all that would exert my heart and raise my blood pressure.   What do I do when the stress comes from within the house????    Is he giving me permission to  live in a Hotel for the next 5 days?

Thanks for the HL update, Enjoyful.  I hope you two have a great afternoon.  Re: beams of goodness and fixing the world in 10 days . . . someone at the farmers' market this morning was sporting a great button: "I Oppose Bad Things."

To the point, yet versatile, and always appropriate!

(Had an amazing vegetarian sandwich for lunch just now . . . fried eggplant slices, mixed spicy/lemony greens, ripe garden tomato, smoked mozzarella and olive-walnut tapenade, all on a crusty baguette.  Messy but delicious.)

L

E     THANK YOU for the HL update.  Please tell her we're taking good care & the BCOB&G is well stocked with her favorites.  Oooohhhhh....tales from the dark side, don't scare her too much.  I shudder at even the thought of 5 drains....brrrrr...I had to wear my 2 for almost 6 weeks way back when BLM, and I was NOT a happy camper!   As long as she's off most of her pain meds, we don't have to stock pitted prunes at the BCOB&G   Happy Healing.

But for anyone who IS on drugs, maybe the BCOB&G should create a special pruntini (vodka and prune juice) and stock it for emergencies!

Linda -- You eat so wonderfully exotically -- that sandwich sounds so delicious!

E -- thanks so much for the HL update.  Remember when we thought drains only existed in bathrooms and kitchens?

It's hot and humid here today but I hear cooler weather is on its way.  Must go out to my favourite market and buy some fresh corn -- it's been amazingly sweet this year, just like all of you!!!

Hugs to everyone! 

Sweet corn sounds great - I should have picked some up today, but didn't.  (I do have plenty of eggplants, peppers and greens, though.)

My "exotic" sandwich was just good Detroit food.  When I first moved to this city almost twenty years ago, the big farmers' market ("Eastern Market," a legacy of a time when each quadrant of the city had its own market) was a wonderful place to shop, but the local produce on offer - while farm-fresh - was pretty standard, and a lot of the stalls were occupied by wholesalers rather than growers.  It's gradually been revamped, and now there are a lot more growers represented, and a lot more organic and unusual produce.  And some of it is REALLY local, from urban farms within the city, which is becoming a big thing here.  (Heaven knows we have the land for it.)  And there are lots of little food businesses springing up - artisanal sausage makers and bakeries and picklers and coffee roasters - that have stands at the market.  But it still hangs on to its blue-collar, workaday feel.  It's still a place where you can buy mountains of collard greens for cheap, or a bushel basket of tomatos to can.  I love going there, and there's no better place to people watch in the city!

L

My personal jury is out on the pruntini concept, though I've been known to steep prunes in Armagnac, eat the prune, and then sip the Armagnac.  That's more of a winter thing, though.  Doesn't appeal on a day like today.  (The weather app on my phone informs me that it's 95 degrees as I'm typing this.)

 L

Anne - We Canucks celebrate LaboUr Day too!

Well, I'm going to have to try the prune Armagnac thing -- that sounds just TOO good, and tastier than a pruntini!

So, it's fresh corn, broccoli from our garden and BBQ'd organic chicken legs for dinner tonight -- with Italian tomato salad to finish off a lovely summer meal.  I look forward to fall too, and am hoping thisyear it will be sunny and mild.  Is that too much to ask?

Susie -- hope the weather clears up for your loch cruise.