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

    Gingerbrew..............your right...........every afternoon after school, I would go there, (the studio was located at 46th and Market St.s in Philly)  and dance my feet off............then it went to Saturday when Dick Clark took it out of Philly to Ca..............sad day for Philly, and you are also right.......it was not as popular as when it was on in Phila......lots of goofy things, and it became less about the kids dancing, and more about "who could outdo who"............Bob Horn was the originator of BS...........he got himself mixed up in a "payola" scheme, and that caused him to be let go, and Dick Clark took over.......he stayed in Philly for a while, but eventually left....Not sure if anyone knows this, but Dick Clark originally did just commercials............he worked his way up to where he got over the years........................there was a company called "Barr's Jewelers" in Philly, and he did their commercials.....................wow, I am really going back..................by the way for anyone who doesn't know, I am 77.................so I go way back....................hugs, and good memories.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited September 2012

    Ducky----I used to run home from high school to watch American Bandstand..

    The boys were sooo cute and the girls were beautiful.

    Their dancing inspired me to go to the pros.

    Loved loved loved that show AND I was never a tv watcher.

    Veggy-Im so glad you are havin a good day.Savor he flavor!!!!

  • SimplyAudrey
    SimplyAudrey Member Posts: 242
    edited September 2012

    OK.......I threw my neck out yesterday and I'm in the "No NSAID" window since surgery is 10/1.  I can't turn my head.....working with a computer is KILLING ME but it's conference call Wednesday and I'm starting to freak about surgery upcoming ........

    YES I'D LIKE SOME CHEESE WITH MY WHINE!!!!!

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited September 2012

    Have a piece of cake too!!!!!!

  • SimplyAudrey
    SimplyAudrey Member Posts: 242
    edited September 2012

    Granny, that was my allowed 15 seconds.  I shall now resume my out of the box normal work mode.

    15 seconds of whine per day.  Any more than that is bad for me - it cuts into gratitude and humor time!

    But I think I WILL have that cake!!!!!

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

    I love wine! Have some for me SimplyAudrey?

  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited September 2012

    I could use some wine but I'll make do with pain meds. I was trying not to take any today, but the discomfort was just getting too much. Oh well. Maybe no pain meds tomorrow. Have a good day everyone.

  • ridergirl
    ridergirl Member Posts: 443
    edited September 2012

    Cant.imagine a day without pain meds anymore. Can hardly.get thru the day with them. And so i wish you a pain free and pain pill free day :-)

  • SimplyAudrey
    SimplyAudrey Member Posts: 242
    edited September 2012

    Veggy - No wine, no nicotine, no NSAIDS......no nuttin.  I need to go get me some asparagus.  t-19 to the "re-construction zone".  At least I'll REALLY get time off of work.  HAH!  My husband will have to take my cell phone away, unplug the housephone, and disable the wifi (I at least want to be able to read on my tablet!) and turn the computers off.  Then maybe I'll have time "away from all things work".

    ~sigh~

  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited September 2012

    Tomorrow I have a 9:45 A.M. appt with the breast surgeon. Everything seems to be doing OK, so I'm sure there will be no problems. I have to remember to ask about massaging the implant. They talk a lot about that on the Exchange thread. I finally ate a salad today. I've been slacking on that. Had to order more supplements. It's hard to be poor. After the doctor I will head over to school. It is right next door. The teacher won't be in, but I will be able to practice. The student aide will be there to give help to anyone who shows up. I kind of hope I'm the only one who shows up so I can get LOTS of help. LOL.

    I sure wish I would get some news from social services (food stamps, energy assistance) and the State Retirement people about my disability retirement request. Whole lot of stuff moving slow -- except for bills to pay. I will try not to worry. 

    This week I have class on Saturday, too, so I am looking forward to finding out what these Saturday classes will be like. I guess I should do some reading, so TTYL.

  • dogeyed
    dogeyed Member Posts: 884
    edited September 2012

    DUNE, I don't know what it is about you, but I so enjoy hearing you talk.  You are a positive personage, filled with cute stories...little short ones but so charming.  VEG, I'm SO glad your day began so nicely for a change.  AUDY O'POSS, catch me up, what surgery must thou have?  I am sorry about your neck.  RIDER, I been taking medicines in general for well over ten years, my two pain meds are for a tore-up back from a car wreck, and tranqs and anti-depressants for my mental instabilities.  I am not fearless.

    ALL, I've got my new meds and took some yesterday.  Not much difference, but my legs have finally stopped hurting after about six months of them driving me nuts.  I bought some new PJs and socks...anything to keep from doing laundry, but my blue T-shirt says in pink, "You are my dream," and I got pink therapeutic socks with aloe-vera, smells divine to have them on.  Got some maroon sweats.  Then I've put on an old polka-dot flannel button-up in all the colors I bought new.  I was supposed to save them for when I took a shower, but I wanted to wear them NOW.  I gave myself today off.  Tomorrow I'll see about taking my car in, and make appointment with cancer doc and a CT scan.  And like several of you, I'm feeling downright righteous.  SMILE.  And love as always to my owne true sister FUZZY, I hug you from the spirit world.  And love to all my other sisters forever, GAIL

  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited September 2012

    Hey Gail, you sound like you are in very good spirits. That's fantastic! It sure sounds like you got yourself some comfy clothes.

    I had my follow-up with the plastic surgeon. He is such a sweetie. It was weird, though. I was perfectly fine sitting in the exam room waiting for him. I was looking around and I guess I realized that the last time I was in THIS particular room was when I still had 2 natural boobs, albeit with one that was trying to kill me. And my eyes started crying. I didn't cry, just my eyes.

    Anyway, I'm doing great. I can stop wearing the bandage. No need to massage. I didn't ask about lifting, but I guess common sense will do for that. I see him again in 3 months. Did I mention he is a sweetie?

     http://www.franklinsquare.org/body.cfm?ID=559903

  • leggo
    leggo Member Posts: 3,293
    edited January 2013

    dogeyed, nothing beats comfy jammies.

    dunesleeper, I can relate. I ended up in the ER a while ago and it was in the exact same room the ER doc told me I had mets 7 years earlier. I got so worked up about the horrible memory of that room,  I threw up. Uggh, that horrible, horrible room. Your surgeon does have a sweet, caring face.

    Fuzzy, how are you?

  • thefuzzylemon
    thefuzzylemon Member Posts: 2,630
    edited September 2012

    Hello sweet sisters!! I've been "gone" a while. Feels like forever when I "go there"....just kinda feel like crap and sink into a dark place. But today is better! Just want to jump in the RR and give everyone a big ol hug....HUG!!!!

    I'm headed to see my oldest in Milwaukee shortly. It took me 3 hours to get ready. I'm taking the Baby Puppy too!

    My youngest called and she's catching a cold so....she wants mama's homemade soup!!!!! LOL yes, You all were Totally right and I'm very happy for that!

    GG my darling...I am near you always. I keep you close for many reasons...its warming to see you lifted. Xoxoxoxo

    Wow!! Lots of appts and such happening 'round here!!

    Rider...Gracie...muah muah. You both are such incredible women!!

    Teresa...come on home mama.

    Veggy...im in desparate need of funnies....got any?

    Granny, Dunes...in your pockets...even if its just to keep you company!

    Rider...

  • thefuzzylemon
    thefuzzylemon Member Posts: 2,630
    edited September 2012

    Damn phone!! Sorry....if I hit one thing wrong...I'm screwed! LOL

  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited September 2012

    Glad you are feeling better Fuzzy. I do hate that dark place. It's a very dark place. Welcome back to the Romp Room.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited September 2012

    Today was the first day i felt normal...why?cause i didnt take the stupid meds that are givin me such pains BUT my dr. called and told me if i dont take the rest of this damm horific antibiotic that i will die!!!!nice goin doc.scaring the shit out of me that maybe i have this rare kinda bacteria that could kill me...Called my wellness center and he confirmed it OR i can go back to the hospital and have it put introv throu a port.grrrrrrrrrrrrr. no thanks after 4 tries they finally got it in....i only have 2 more days anyway.im in such a bitchy mood and dizzy from the meds.

    end of rant.....Hello everyone...i read all the messages but when i get to the end i forget.....I wish each and everyone of you love,peace,health,wealth and happiness...but most of all NED FOREVER!!!!!!1

  • thefuzzylemon
    thefuzzylemon Member Posts: 2,630
    edited September 2012

    Granny...you can be bitchy any time here!! You also have a ton of humor that I love!! I forget so much by the end of my reading too! I believe this room is special that way...we all get it. No need to hide or pretend...just not part of the package. Unconditional love baby!!

    Great visit with DD tonight and her DBF (dear boyfriend). In no way do I want to discuss the chaos known as presidential debates, but her DBF may be seen in an upcoming Paul Ryan commercial! He's an intern for him. I'm just so proud of them both. They're one of those fairy-tale romances. High school sweethearts, attending the same college, great people.

    Oh dear...puppy's barking....more soon...

    XOXOXXXXOOII

  • thefuzzylemon
    thefuzzylemon Member Posts: 2,630
    edited September 2012

    That infection sounds aweful!!! Honestly, if its not one thing...damn. but, with that kind of threat, you may as well go the distance with the meds...

  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited September 2012

    I think it might be a good idea to declare this a politics free zone. We aren't exactly a group of weak minded, weak willed women here are we? There could be blood shed if we got started. Myself I am hearing enough of it on TV and facebook posts and just unwelcome politicing. IMHO

    Oh I am tired of forgetting things that I know, I know, but they go just outside the grasp of my memory. It is said that learning a new language can help ones memory. I tried learning Haitian Creole, if I were still there often I would do okay. Right now though I can tell you, you are ugly, ou led. Or have big feet, eo ou gran gwo pie. And few other phrases that are equally useful. I can't remember the rest!!!!!

    See you all later

    Ginger 

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

    It's the middle of night, cannot go back to sleep for 2 hrs now. Will nap tomorrow.

    DD was in an bad accident, she is all right.

    Soooooooo yesterday I was up at dawn, been up at dawn every day this week, working all day.  Often talking to DD for an hr ea morn though.  She is usually wrapping up her night newspaper delivery.  (Makes $3600 mo on these delivery routes but I hate the night ones, will be glad when she is off that route and makes $1100 a mo less. She loves this job, all the customers she befriends, stray kittens she rescues, lost dogs she gets back to their homes, walking small towns at night in the quiet.)

    Yesterday she did not call, I felt uneasy for about 30 minutes after dawn, something, something..... but I didn't call her..... I figured she got done on time and to bed early for once.  At 8am I get a text video from her, looks like a UFO (you know, shiny hubcap). Mind you, she always did like the drama.

    I text, UFO? Or your car stuck in mud? 

    She texts back, Stuck in mud?

    I text, Looks like it, what is it?

    She calls.  Mom, that is my car upside down. I rolled my car at dawn.

    Every mother knows. The air goes out of you, there is no breath.  

    But she is unharmed, her and dog were all right.  The paramedics had to cut her out, she couldn't do it.  She had just left town, on to the next, one minute out.  She says she over-corrected on a hill / curve when driving into the sunrise.  She knew she was going into the ditch.  She next remembers sitting on the ceiling of her car in the back seat with newspaper bundles all around her. Seems the car rolled two to three times.  She was driving a little Honda Accord, seems to be built like a little tank, except for the way it rolled, hitting the front roof the hardest.

    No she did not have her seatbelt on, she doesn't when delivering, and I think she should when out on the main roads.  

    But not having her seatbelt on seemed to have saved her, she would have been crushed if stuck upright in the front seat.  She was somehow released from behind the wheel and she is a big woman so that in itself is a miracle.... and rolled around inside and ended up in the back.

    • When she was 19 after our day together she was on her way to work and hit by a van, totalled her car, totalled the van and stopped an entire six-lane expressway, but she had not one scratch. 
    • Mother's Day four years back, the brakes went out going down a hill coming into town, raining, brake line seemed to be cut, neighborhood crap.  They were on way to see me.  They hit two trees head on, the compact car wedged between them and lessened impact, baby in back seat.  Totalled the car.  Everyone was fine, save some whiplash.  Happy Mother's Day, the family was alive.
    • Two years later, she was driving home from Thanksgiving when car came in their lane, totalled another car, everyone fine. 
    You have no idea all the other mishaps and strangers trying to attack her and so much goes on, I worry too much I know, but then this.  But she is fine.

    Thanks for listening.  I will be blogging this story when it is polished.  There has to be a calm after the storm.  With her, never happens.

    LOVEEssa

  • dogeyed
    dogeyed Member Posts: 884
    edited September 2012

    LOVESSA, good grief, your child has had quite the car war going, those newspapers must have softened her fall, but as for the others... when I was in my wreck, the car I rode in left the snowy road and fell down into a ravine, fractured my spine in three places & spent two months in the hospital, and my grandmother woke up in the middle of the night at the exact time of the crash, she knew it was me.

    I know I put a lot of links to videos for ya'll, if it cuts in and out, just hit the pause button on the bottom of the video and let the bar extend out an inch or so, then start it again, and it should play straight thru.  I know it will be familiar to you all.  It's for the tears of my sisters who, it seems, keep living right thru the fog and everything else that's scary about our disease, sometimes it hurts us so much...

    http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-13167-Adele-Someone-Like-You

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    edited September 2012
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  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited September 2012

    Are you OK veggy? Sending you a hug.

    Gail ... going to watch your video shortly.

    Essa ... I sure am glad your daughter is OK. That's like a miracle. If one can make that much money delivering papers, I'm going to have to check that out. I am just about to hit the wall financially. By next month I will have to borrow money from my mother -- unless I get a miracle (like Maryland State Retirement authorizing my disability retirement).

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

    No, I'm not ok. Thanks for the hug.

  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited September 2012
    Hugs for all who need them.
  • SimplyAudrey
    SimplyAudrey Member Posts: 242
    edited September 2012

    Doesn't it feel REALLY good to be somewhere where you can say NO, I'M NOT OK and it's absolutely wonderful because everyone understands?????  Where a good day is cheered and people mean it? WHere you can tell people really DO care?

    I hope that made sense, because it gives me goosebumps.  This board is awesome.

  • SimplyAudrey
    SimplyAudrey Member Posts: 242
    edited September 2012

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