Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

Great news about your mammo, L_C!  Big sigh of relief for you, I know.  Mine's coming up at the end of this month, right after Thanksgiving. 

Marybe, love you in your fangs!!  My DD and DIL are into Twilight, but I'm not, in fact haven't ever seen the show.  The Death by Chocolate cake looked to die for, that's for sure.  Chocolate is one of my vices and I always buy chocolate Halloween candy so I can eat it between doorbell rings, plenty of it too.  This year I must not have gotten enough or we had more kids (or I ate more) but by 8:15 we were out.  We're in a small development on a dead-end road and it must be a good trick-or-treat street since we always have caravans of cars with multiple kids in each.  The little ones are so cute, but by the time they're 6' tall I think they need to stop!

My lasagna also comes in that red Stouffer's box but I do like to make homemade chicken pot pie.  Nobody likes it except me, so I rarely make it.  I do make a beef pot pie during the winter which is very good, out of left-over beef stew.  Just heat it and put a pie crust on top and bake.

Kathy

I'm working on an inexpensive gift for my grown up children.  There is a gadget at the office supply store that will translate slides or negatives into jpeg format (It was about $100). Now there is a reason for having saved in a somewhat organized fashion the negatives from the children's growing up years. Eventually I will be able to put it all on a flash drive or DVD so that they each will have in a very tiny format most of the photos from their childhood - instead of that great huge collection of albums in a cupboard.

I put some tunes on the computer, have my coffee, my pjs and do some whenever I feel like it. If it isn't done by this Christmas, it will be by the next.

oh gosh!!  Here I was feeling pretty smug about my progress. It turns out that the organization of the negatives stops with 1986. Not at all coincidentally, that is when #3 child arrived.  From then on they are all jumbled in a cardboard box. Most certainly this project won't be completed for this Christmas!  I did manage to scan 30 years of my father's slides a few years ago and gave those ones to my siblings. 

Next project after this is to figure out how to digitalize those old family videos. Clearly it will be some time before I get to that one.

It's  one of those things I do instead of knitting - or eating.  With the slide project, it was just a half hour or more as it suited me.

Prior to that, my first project was scanning into text some old family news letters written by six siblings, their parents and some aunts and uncles weekly from  the late 1940s through to the early 1970s. I haven't ever printed it off as the whole document is a few thousand pages.  Eventually I put them on a CD, inserting photos from the times of some of the letters, and made them available to my siblings and cousins.  It took a few years to get through all of it because I was working at the time but it was interesting reading.

It's easier not to think of how long the whole project will take but just to go at it when it's fun. If it ever gets to be a job instead of entertainment, I will shelve it.

No doubt someone would do it for pay, but given the number of hours involved it would be pricey. I don't save every photo any more than every one of them made it to the photo albums.

The ramble through family history is interesting to me.

Barb, Surely you are back from your cruise by now....are you resting up from it?

   3jays....what can I say?   And Isabella, you too, but at least your DIL invited you even if she did probably think you would not go because of pets and all.....the other child, well, maybe one day she will grow up or else be the talk of the town as the old women who dresses like a teen.  I am always inviting people for holidays since my family is so small and sister is so far away we never get together.....we are going to my Dad's this year for Thanksgiving and I will invite my single friends there and his cousin and I hope to use that weekend for decorating for an Xmas party at his house and sure do hope I am up to a party the beginning of Dec.   As of now, no treatment plan since the onco in TX is STILL waiting for the correct records and reports....I went there again yesterday and told them what he needed and just left the place really tired after having someone show me mounds of paperwork and what they sent.  In the meantime my imagination is going wild and I am feeling new aches every day.....now I have one under my rib cage and could not sleep on my side last night.  I had an appt with my financial advisor yesterday and told him what is going on....plan on working as much as I am able until the end of the year and then will apply for my SS and take money out of the IRA as needed.  I have resisted this for a long time, but think the handwriting is on the wall......I also need to see when I can get started with that other onco here at home.....hopefully he keeps better records than the current one..

So far as my pics go....I have albums and boxes and drawers full of them and they are probably all going to end up in the garbage one of these days.  Anything from the last few yrs is in the computer.  I really do need to start cleaning out all those boxes of stuff in the basement. 

Have a good day ladies.....today is my early day at work.    MB

 Oh thank you, Amy Jo, but even though I get disgusted with the office and their lack of organization, I would never do anything to get my current onco in trouble.....I think he's gotten a bit lax with me, but I still give him full credit for keeping me alive for  13 yrs after I reached Stage lV.  I seriously doubt that he knows half of what goes on in that office. I signed the papers for release of records several weeks ago, but the people in medical records just don't know what they are doing.  I think they may have finally gotten some info that was useful to MDA as I got an email from the doctor there tonight and he was talking aobut my alkaline phosphatase and how it had risen, but then dropped on Xeloda  and he is thinking maybe the Xeloda still might work if given in a much higer dosage .....guess I was getting a low dose, although it seemed like a lot to me.  

A lot of the election returns are coming in and it looks like we may be getting a street car here after all.....I myself think that is the last thing the city needs as it has a lot of other bigger problems.  It will be nice to not come home to an answering machine full of political messages every day. 

Looks wonderful Barbara!! I remember your pic from last year on the stairs going down. It's a slow way for us to get a fashion show from you, but we're patient!

Hi everyone, I am back from the BCO Chatters get together in Florida, what a wonderful experience to meet so many of the ladies I have had the opportunity to chat with over the many years..

For each of my boys 40th birthday I make a collage of their photos I have taken over the years, one more to go...

It is so good to be back home and my own little bed..

Barb it looks wonderful Sorry about the weather you ran into though

Lisa how wonderful you got to meet the Florida girls. Someday I hope to be able to put people with their on line persona together. 

Dog story. I was on the phone with AT&T and needed the checkbook to change my auto pay to a WA credit union. I go into the bed room, unzip every pocket on my purse and not finding the checkbook there I go off to the kitchen. A few minutes later I am sitting in the living room still talking to AT&T when I hear, tear tear crunch crunch. I hurry back to the bedroom and here is my poodle puppy emptying my purse out onto the bed. Yes, I was still on the phone with Brian at AT&T, he was starting to feel like a member of the family today,  

I should just stop getting purses with lots of zippers. I always think I will be better organized  with zippers but I never ever remember what I have put in which compartment! 

Have a good day, we actually have some sun here!

Ginger

Barb. So pleased you enjoyed your cruise. It sounded fabulous. I wouldn't have enjoyed the heavy seas tho'. Think I would have had to be sedated ! Back to work for you now !

Ginger. had to laugh at your poodles antics. The puppy chewing is the only thing that gets me about dogs! Luckily my breed aren't really chewers, so don't have much of a problem....they just empty waste paper bins, and kitchen rubbish bins...sausage dogs, that is...they have fantastic noses on them and are always sticking them where they shouldn't. My Cavaliers are just not chewers at all, don't often get any trouble from them. ( they just leave me little puddles, if they are that way out, EVEN THO' the doors are wide open, and they can get into the garden pretty much when they want....very lazy dogs !!)

Phyllis, how are you doing ?  Taking it slowly ??  Thought not !!

Isabella.

OMG Barbe - you made me snort at the screen with that one....

my little chiuhauas' use piddle pads.. my divs is blind now, and has no interest in going out, unless she's in her carrier.. she spends most of the time now, in my bed. DH mur, gets her up in the morning, locks her in the kitchen, says " pishy pishy" and she goes on command.. she knows she's getting cookies as soon as she does...

    Glad you're home safe and souund, Barbara.. getting caught in a huurricane is no fun, in those big boys.. i have motion sickness for sure, everynight they blow the " ballisters?SP.. so, i would'nt have had fun..

    i thought they turned around and avoided high seas//// the suite, of course, was just as i knew it wojuld be.. congrats fitting into your wedding dress. it looks wonderful on you!.......3jays

Huh...piddle pads! Kind of like a period napkin...how many piddles does it hold? Do you have to replace it every day or does it hold a couple of piddles? Do they have crap carpets? or shit sheets?

Barbe, you are funny.

Between Ginger's delivery guy peeing in the bushes & the dog training, I've been laughing....

My DB & SIL have small dogs & use the piddle pads for everything.