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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited April 2012

    scuttlers -- hahaha!  You have so many sewing machines, you probably don't have any room for a vacuum!

    Sunflowers -- Got my blood calcium levels back and they're normal (you kinda scared me with talk of parathyroid tumours!).  Anyhow, I re-read the label on my Vitamin D3 drops and discovered I was supposed to shake the bottle vigourously before using -- which I hadn't been doing <headsmack>.  So I'm going to to be shake shake shaking every morning, and adding a couple of tabs to my daily intake of supplements to be on the safe side.  Gotta get those levels up! 

    Scootaloo's handsome and extremely articulate brother was on C-Span last evening -- woohoo! 

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2012

    Hi Ladies..................I have not been on this thread for a while, but have it as one of my favorites...........always checked cause you guys had a lot of great topics to discuss............however have been away for a while.

    Question.......I came back about 1 week ago, and did not see "Blue" anywhere, and then came back today..........backtracked, and still could not see any recent posts from her................Is she ok.................really loved reading her.....................someone let me know............hugs.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited April 2012

    Hi Ducky ... it's been about two weeks since I talked to Blue.  She's taking a little break right now.  She was having some troubles with her Parkinson's meds and decided it was best not to post for awhile.  I'm going to call her again soon.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited April 2012

    Hi Everyone!

    It's supposed to rain tonight, but right now it's lovely outside.  The wind is picking up and the clouds are rolling in.

    Susie .. Too funny about all that cleaning!  You would think my house would be spotless with me working from home.  NOT.

    Sunnyflowers .. Are you getting your D levels checked soon?  I know you're worried about the parathyroid, but that may not be the problem.  Hoping everything checks out normal for you.  Are you getting enough sunshine?

    Hope everyone is having a good day,

    Bren

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2012

    Linda - sorry I scared you - glad all is ok with you.

    Bren- I had them tested last week - which is when it was 26 - and that is taking about 7,000ius a day. It was DOWN from the 33  taken 5 months ago  when I was "only" taking 5,000ius a day.  Which is why I UPPED it trying to get to the number 50.

    Seeing doc tomorrow, to test again, and have parathyroid blood test too.  Very important for me as I'm in my 5th year of Arimidex, and gotta keep those dones in good shape.

    The other "reasons" for low blood Vitamin D levels taking the amount I do, are not great to even think about....

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  • Ang7
    Ang7 Member Posts: 1,261
    edited April 2012

    Thinking of you 3monstmama...

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited April 2012

    3monts - I hope you are really boring today.

    I have thought of hiring a cleaner but never do anything about it. It's easier to ignore the dirt. I had to do under the bed as I've got the pest man coming tomorrow and the rest of the house is embarasing enough but I didn't want anyone else to see that - it was scary.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2012

    Thinking of you Sun - I am not half as worried as you are - of course, that's easy to say. :-) I'm wonderfing of your supplements are not that good and maybe the simple lack of sun has gotten your levels down? With 7,000 IU/day, you should be higher than the 30s anyway. I avoid the sun, I take 10,000 IU*s daily and after many months got mine to between 80 and 100.

    (((Scuttlers))) nice to see you posting. How is everything going?

    Scoot - LINK???? You're in trouble for not telling me to tune in. Tongue outSend me a PM if you prefer.

    Athena, Who Lives In a Small Apartment, so She Keeps Her Vacuum Cleaner Under her Bed!

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited April 2012

    Vacuum? Under the bed? Whoever heard of such a thing?

     I am really thinking about how lucky I am today. It is two years today since a friend of my grandson was diagnosed with leukemia. Emma is now six. I read her mom's blog today and it brought tears to my eyes.

     My friend was in the hospital She has pneumonia. She is on oxygen and has the visiting nurse coming. She is still sooo sick. She has never had respiratory problems. And here I sit fighting asthma all the time and I never ever had a lung infection that was that bad. Also, she will lose her job July 1.

    Like I said I am feeling very lucky. 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2012

    Rosemary do you remember that song that went

    "Livin' in a box.....I'm a-livin' in a cardboard (well, actually, the place is nice) box..."

    It means your vacuum cleaner has to share space with the spare pillows. :-)

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited April 2012

    Athena

    I meant the action of using the machine to clean under the bed. How can the dust bunnies mate if you disturb them?

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2012

    Hadn't thought of that, Rose.....I wonder if there's a revolt going on under my bed? Oh Dear! Never do I want to be one to get in the way of romance.

    Putting paw over mouth and wondering now.....

    Off to inquire about the freedom of mating living creatures in my lair....

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2012

    Looking forward to hearing from BORING 3M's - Boring lack of news is the best.

    Athena - I get Pathways from The Apothecary - really is the HIGHEST quality I've ever found, which is why I still get it now, even tho I can't walk to their store on West Cedar Lane!  D3 is in rice bran oil, which I take with a whole BUNCH of other supplements, all Pathways.

    BTW- I too have a vaccum - it's in the cellar, with the duct tape holding all the bits attached, the stand up kind, still taped from the move 6 years ago. And there's one of those wee little hand ones down there, and also an iron, I think.  Maybe the mice are enjoying the bag on the vac???

    I do use those swifter thingies on the bare floors - where the H does all this dust come from?  What is dust, anyhow????  Except for turning into bunnies, it really does seem to be a very not useful thing.

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited April 2012

    Marriage equity for Dust Bunnies!!!!

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  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited April 2012

    The dust bunnies must not be disturbed ... they chase away the monsters from under your bed!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2012

    OH, WR - is THAT why there's all that noise & growling under my bed....hhhhmmnnn....

    I DO leave the spider webs in the corners of the ceilings, and they seem to be happy collecting all those little flies - I name each spider web Charlotte, so it's getting hard to tell one from the other. ;)

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited April 2012
    LOL  - you are so funny Rosemary - I never thought I was interrupting the reproduction process. We don't have a mattress and base thing - we have a wooden slat bed, so the space underneath is bigger than for a combo thingy. Maybe I should store the vacuum under there and it can do it's thing automatically when it needs to.
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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited April 2012

    Back when I used to live in homes and apartments with carpeted bedrooms, I suppose I vacuumed under the bed a couple times a year.  Why bother doing it more often?  Out of sight, out of mind, I figured.

    Then we built a house with tile and hardwood floors -- no carpet in the bedroom.  I have to sweep/swiffer/dustmop under the bed every time I sweep the bedroom floor.  Otherwise the dust rats get huge. (I think they're rats, not bunnies.)  I cannot figure out why they grow so much faster when there's no carpet under the bed.  Does carpet inhibit their reproduction?  Does it limit their size?  I just don't understand...

    As for spiders, I'm pretty tolerant.  They don't get to stay in the house if discovered, but I usually try to catch 'em and toss 'em outside.  The exceptions are black widow and brown recluse spiders.   If they're found in the house, they die.  Sorry.

    OTOH, I walked in the bathroom the other day, after we'd been gone for a week.  Clinging to the wall was the biggest wolf spider I've ever seen.  It was big like a moderate-sized tarantula, just not as hairy.  It didn't move.  It was so big that I couldn't come up with a way to squish it without being bitten (okay, I did consider squishing it).  So, I got a fruit jar and a sheet of cardboard; and I clamped the fruit jar over the spider and slid the cardboard across the mouth of the jar.  I heard it give a great sigh of relief when I tossed it outside.

    Sunflowers, 3M, rosemary, scuttlers... I hope things go better for you.  Negative/stable/improved test results, friends who get to come home from the hospital, all of those things.  And, blue, we're thinking of you and hoping you're more comfortable.

    otter

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2012

    Thanks Bin................i was worried, cause I know sheis so active on this thread...........I need to visit more.......................today was 1 year since I began Rads, and yesterday was my birthday, so it was bitter-sweet, but I 'm glad to hear she is ok, thanks for responding............hugs

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited April 2012

    Happy Birthday, ducky.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited April 2012

    Every year or so is fine - I think it must have been 10 years - oops :)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2012

    Happy Birthday, ducky.....

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  • leggo
    leggo Member Posts: 3,293
    edited April 2012

    Happy belated Birthday, ducky!

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  • jancie
    jancie Member Posts: 2,631
    edited April 2012

    Ducky - hope you had a great day!

    Otter - REALLY?  SERIOUSLY?  You got up that close and personal with a spider?  I would have turned tail and ran so darn fast - slamming the door behind me hoping the spider doesn't chase me.  Yes, I have a deadly fear of spiders.  I deal with mice just fine.

    I am still confused about dust bunnies.  I don't know where they come from.  I actually pulled my bed away from the wall - took the mattresses off the box springs and looked in there after living here 11 years.  OMG!  It was so embarrassing.

    I have hardwood floors in the living room and how those rats (Otter's words) get there I have no idea but it is though all of the dust runs underneath the sofas and lives there safely where we won't step on them.

    Another beautiful day here.  I am home doing laundry and housecleaning.  I had my day at the barn yesterday riding my horse so today is a chore day for me.

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited April 2012

    jancie, I actually thought about taking a picture of the spider... but I couldn't muster the nerve to hold a ruler that close to it to demonstrate the size.

    I'm pretty sure you're right about the dust rats hiding under the furniture to avoid detection.  They probably burrow into the carpet, don't you think?  I'll bet they hate bare wood and tile floors.  I do wonder what generates them, though.  OTOH, I've always wondered what generates plain ol' dust in the first place.  I've heard dust -- especially in bathrooms and bedrooms -- consists mostly of dirt, lint from fabric, and skin cells.  No way.

    otter

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  • jancie
    jancie Member Posts: 2,631
    edited April 2012

    Don't we wash away the skin cells?  The clothes in my bedroom are the clean clothes.  The dirty ones are in the basement so how does that figure out?

    What is really gross is having a Dyson vacuum cleaner and seeing all of the pet hair and dust accumulate in the carpet in just a week.  You can't physically see it but it is down there hiding.

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  • leggo
    leggo Member Posts: 3,293
    edited April 2012

    I have to recommend the "Schticky" for those impossible to reach dust storms. What really grossed me out was when I ran it across the ceiling. Ewww! Freaked me out to see how much of that floaty crap lands "up". Here I've been spending my entire life priding myself on a spotless floor and my ceiling was the dirtiest thing in the house. I never knew.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited April 2012

    Otter .. I am totally freaked out about your wolf spider.  I saw one in Belk the other day and nearly had a heart attack.  Damn thing was as big as a tarantula.  I just could not believe that stupid GIANT spider was in the department store.  I was afraid it was going to chase me.  Thankfully, I alerted another shopper and she stepped on it!

    Just got back from a wonderful lunch with my sis in Roanoke.  And then I went shopping and found a pair of Levi jeans that actually fit me.  All my jeans are too big in the waist now.  I've dropped two sizes!

    It's been rainy and chilly all day today.  I haven't even checked on the mating bunnies under the bed.  It's a hardwood floor ... geez .. you'd think I could sweep under there occasionally.  NOT.

    Hope everyone is having a good day.

    Bren

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2012

    Thanks ladies for the birthday wishes...................you are all so wonderful, and I am happy to call you all "friend".............................hugs and have a great day.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2012

    BinVa..................I could grow tomatoes sometimes under my bed, and in the corners of rooms.........But doesn't that come under the heading of "housework"...................I avoid that as much as possible...........I can't kneel (knee problems), thus no scrubbing..........Can't bend down (bad back).......so no baseboards.....................No ladders  (77 years old, my kids don't want a cripple on their hands).....that covers high places...........Can't bend sidewards..(vertigo)..so that covers almost everything else......................Good God, when I see it in writing, I'm a friggin train wreck........................Guess I better hire a cleaning lady..................or "grow tomatoes"...........hugs.

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