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

BLUE---Glad your daughter's shower was fun.  I have had a back problem all my life. I had an osteo/md that was really a DOCTOR, he gave me manipulation on a wonderful machine that went up and down the back,pulling my head and legs (stretching me) at the same time. OH!,I wish there was still a machine like that at my PCP,who told me he was an osteo,but done s--t for me. A SOLID mattress or a solid floor are very good for my back a bitch getting off floor.

RILEY---whatever green you go with DONT go DARK green, my living room has been Medievel Forest for 4 years and I cant get going to change colour cuz it is going to take several coats to get to a light shade. Maybe just go 1 wall in your bedroom. Congrats and have fun!


NIPPLEGIRLS---Yes,both of you I never thought I had BarbieBoobs, but I figure I wasnt going to bother with them after I asked my DearSon to tattoo me some. He screamed and went to clean out his ears!!!

EVERYONE---I Love You and this thread so much--------kad2kar

I am just pissy today and can't get out of the mood.  Let's see.....it could be numerous things like (1) Stepson hasn't mowed the back yard in 5 weeks and it looks like crap nor has he cleaned his bathroom in 8 weeks - I won't even go there as far as how disgusting it is. 

DH's ex-wife won't stop calling and leaving us alone - according to her my stepdaughter has in the past 2 weeks (1) been kicked out (2) living with 35 year old man for the past month (3) missing for 3 days (4) went into rehab but left because a homeless woman kept touching her (5) came back but ran away at 5 am with the 35 year old man and yet 2 hours later we get a text that she ran away to CA with some guy or and now......she is supposedly in El Paso in rehab.  Dang all of that in just 2 weeks?

Haven't been able to eat anything I want for over a week due to dental surgery and still having to take pain meds for that....

Haven't been able to ride my horse because of the above....

Oh and the final straw?  We found out today that said Stepdaughter went to the hospital and told them to charge her costs back to OUR insurance which she is no longer on because she is 20 years old and a heroin user and we refuse to go financially bankrupt.  Before you think we are being cold hearted - we spent at least $4K in counseling over 2 years but all for a waste as she lives with her mother (illegally I might add) and does drugs with her mother in her mother's apartment.  Basically we tried as hell but there is absolutely nothing we can do when the mother encourages her to get high.

So I am pissy and I just needed to vent and thank you ladies for letting me do so because I am at my whits end right now. I get angry at my dh for this crap which I shouldn't but sometimes I just get so mad as I shouldn't have to deal with it.  I have disengaged but I deal with my hubby being stressed, my stepson who lives with us and other than being lazy is a good kid - well he is stressed because of what his mother does and so............it is a circle jerk - I get stressed.  I am going to have to refill my lorazepam really early this time around.

Phasers on ignore!

Jancie - that's a lot to put up with. Stay strong.

Hey Jancie - you could move far away

So sorry, Jancie! A toxic person in one's life is the pits. Do you and your husband see anyone to help you cope? (((HUGS)))

Blue back before all this cancer stuff started I had a herniated disk, tried physio therapy, even craniosacral therapy by an osteopath, exercise, yoga, acetaminophen, ibuprophen, then opiates, got referral to Pain Clinic at Mt Sinai in Toronto, tried Tramadol. Then had discectomy at Sunnybrooke, still stayed on Tramadol (to scared to try to stop). Oh and also tried acupuncture before the surgery. I think it was time, after the discectomy, which allowed the healing to occur. I wanted the surgery to be an immediate fix, when it wasn't I was profoundly disappointed. Now in retrospect, I think it was the surgery that helped. Oh yeah and I go to a yoga class twice a week. (I need the discipline that a class imposes on you)

Blue

My herniated disc got sooo much better when my kids got bigger and I wasn't carying them around. I think I've had 2 small flare-ups in the last 5 years. I guess that doesn't help you though.

As for osteopaths, they do prety much operate like MDs now with a back cracking thrown in now and then. Last time one touched my back I was pregnant and he made the pain worse (and not worse and then it got better, just plain worse)

On the political front, I am Catholic and teh American bishops have slammed both Ryan and Obama so I guess I'm on my own. 

Whatsoever you did for the least of these my little ones you did unto me.

Can you guess which side I'm standing on?

I went "hunting" - guess that could be considered "stalking"  Very interesting stuff I found   Ok, I don't know why that smiley says "undecided" because it seems like the perfect one for what took place. 

Feel a little bit better today after my pity party.  Wish we could move FAR away but "she" would follow us just like she followed us to Utah and just happened to get an apartment in this HUGE city not even 3 miles from our home so she could drive by all of the time.  We had the kids here for 18 months before she moved here and started creating a ruckus right away within a week. 

Here is to a better day and new week to everyone!  I am sure it is noon somewhere in the world as I am ready to hit the bar!

{{{{Bren}}}} thanks, I missed you too!  How are your GORGEOUS containers of flowers doing this year.  It is SO dry here, only the nasturtiums are happy.  The wild blackberries are actually like wizened up bits of purple cardboard.  Only thin happy is my sungold tomatoes, and that's cuz I WATER them all the time.  Getting a great harvest. Forgot to water the sugar snap peas, and they dried up SO quickly - plan to plant them as a second crop hoping we get a later frost this year.

Jancie - glad it's a better day - combined families are VERY difficult, we all know that one   Are you still riding?

Bren - don't you have 5 acres of land or am I mistaking you for someone else?  It would seem once you finish those 5 acres - it is time to start all over again.  Have you thought about letting some of that land grow wild?  By that I mean to allowing the natural vegetation of the area to take over?

DH and I will be building in Florida in the next 3 years and the lot is large but we want to keep as much natural vegetation as possible - which right now there are so many trees including magnolia trees, palm looking plants, etc.  I am don't know much about plant names but the land is beautiful and we only want to excavate as little as possible for the house - so not much yard at all.