how about drinking?

HUGE Headache..so will only just come in for a one drinkie winkie dealio...as if.....  I have to get off this puter tho cause my Rees needs me....He is such a pain in my ass...I said it ASS....I found that rolling up a magazine and slapping it on something to make a loud sound works for biting....SuZ..I used your recomedation the past two days of putting him in the crate while I work.  I never got into the Dark Tower series but Rolan from that series is also the dark one in the Stand.....see..lots of his books cross refrence in some way and i always like to look for him when they make a movie from his books as he always has a roll although very small. 

I hate to vacuume. 

Cyn - Were things better, annoying, a bitch, or what, with putting him in the crate while you work?  I so hope it helps.  The rolled up mag/paper is another good training tool.  Ask Dorfy...j/k D!!  Hope and pray u headache goes away((Cyn))

Cami - don't worry bout me...my prolems nuttin in comparison.  I love you for 'hating that I am in pain'.  But u must understand that it is my choice to be in pain...cuz I dwink toooo much and don't wanna take tooo many pain pills.  They don't work as well as booze anywho..LOL.  It's jes the nature of the beast....but when...and I promise...when it gets to be 'unbearable'...I will ask...and take...stronger drugs...K girlfriend?   And yes...please let us kno when they reschedule...this jes sux eggs...but am glad that u did not hab to 'fast and dwink da yukky stuff' for nuttin honey!

Good morning, Loungettes!  Snowing here, but not hard and not blowing, back to light fluffy stuff.  The "Blizzard" stuff has been moved east, but I may still get some wind today.  Like that's anything new.  Pretty, though. 

Juliet--not good that the scar is still hurting, and I can understand why you want to see your own doc.  Hope it doesn't take long to get all the hoops jumped through.  Maybe you could see the worker's comp doc AND your doc and get 2 opinions? 

Cammy--if your kids succeed in teaching Fred/Sox to wipe his feet have them tell me how!  In the meantime enjoy the entertainment! Your doc has cancelled the procedure AGAIN?????  And I remember the Patty Duke show, it was funny! And you aren't bothering, you are entertaining! 

ORLA--wish I had one like that!

Cammy--the sea salt thing is tricky.  It has just as much sodium, the culprit in salt, as table salt.  It does have other minerals in it that are not in table salt, and some are very important minerals the body needs in small amounts.  IF used exactly like table salt there is a very, very, very small reduction in sodium intake, but most people use more sea salt thinking it's "good for me" or "better" than table salt and end up with more sodium intake than before.  Some sea salts do have a bit of a different taste, and that can be fun to cook with, but generally speaking salt is salt.  Except for Mrs. Dash, which is a good substitute that tastes pretty good, too!

Mema--Yeah, I try to stay away from the chocolate attitude adjusting, but some days I just really need the chocolate.  And it was Valentine's Day, and there was chocolate EVERYWHERE (except at my house).  So I gave in.  I have done journaling before, it does help.  Maybe I should dig out one of my note books and start up again.  Sometimes it scares me when I go back and read what I wrote in the past.  ~  Knowing what is causing the back pain goes a long way to making it bearable, I think.  I praying your back pain doesn't get worse for a very, very, very, very, very, very long time, if ever.  ~~ I was only covering call from 5pm to midnight Friday night.  I go back to work tomorrow am as usual.  The nurse the works the weekends needed Friday off this last week.  Compared to working every weekend covering a few hours once in a while is a cake walk!  ~~Yes, Rolan, Suzanna, Jake, the little thing that was Jake's "pet"--Aha!  Suzanna's Song was one of the stories in that series!  Dark Tower:  I:  the Gunslinger,  II:  The Drawing of the Three, III:  The Waste Lands, IV:  Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole, Wolves of Calla, VI:  Song of Susanna (I almost had it right), VII:  which has no name other than the Dark Tower VII.  NO, I did not remember all this, I found the  official website.  ~~It wasn't Sadie who likes the squirt bottle, she does NOT like getting squirted or sprayed.  One of my other dogs did like it, though, and would come running up to me with her mouth wide open whenever she saw a squirt bottle in my hand!  It did distract her, but not quite the way I had in mind1 

Juliet--I'm with you, hate to hear about someone hurting.  I guess we nurse just keep trying to fix things!

Good night, Cammy! 

Princess Glitter Sizzle's DOTD is The Salty Dog

5 oz grapefruit juice

1 1/2 oz gin

1/4 tsp salt

Pour all ingredients over ice cubes in a highball glass. Stir well and serve. (Vodka may be substituted for gin, if preferred.)

THE ACUUM IS GOING NOW---OH MY LORD THEY ARE OING TO SUCK UP THE NEW CARPETING.

Goldie men ugg like babies or they do as they wish its hard to even get them to the doctor

Cammie hope u feel better stay hydrated

Nm more snow eeckkkk

Hi cyn and mema  wheres dork

making sauce and watching halloween pasta tonight yum

Oh I love chanane in orange juice makes me feels good.

Lori I'm laughin cuz u explain everything better than I do or could and when I reading it I think boy does she get me. hahaha And I think this is the one about my scan that she means----when things started and got the usual questions my Dr. asked about why I finally decided to get all these tests done and waited so long. As it was I told them I had a cat scan already---they were???? and I said yes my cat found these lumps and kept on pushing them so that was the cat scan, I guess pet scan too and I really don't remember the whole story just that thst's what I said to the Drs. Lori u'r so cute and u can prolly tell that story better than I can, cuz I told u quiliest so I did little splainin' here before. But my cat was 100% right with both tumors and she knew where they were--I have to say tho now she's going to m stomach sometimes and pushes on it with 1 paw--haha another cat scan and I didn't tell her about all this either.--Lori u are so sweet just like here and it so easy to talk to u--like we've known each other for a long time.

And all u gals I tell u everything even my way of looking at this crazy world and I'm just as crazy--but u don't make me feel that way cuz well u'r all a little off too--that is not an insult when I say that.

at senor frogs

Hiya girls! It has been a wild n crazy weekend in Dorkyville. My Mom fell out of her chair and hit her head last night, went to the ER from about 10pm until nearly 4am. Then today, my Dad missed his flight back to South Carolina. talk about a goil who needs to dwink! We are all bothered that my Mom has a boil on her butt and the nurses at the ER said that her rear is not being properly cared for. I am going to have a talk with the nurse tonight about that. The Dr put her back in the restraint. Get this, he ordered it the first week she was there but only for 48 hours. Mom has been trying to get out of her chair almost every time we are there. She told me last night a few times that she was leaving. I was a bit upset that my sisters did not agree that she needed restraints. It is the homes policy to be restraint free but in my mom's case, with her strong will to get up, it is needed. One of the nurse that I really like helped me tie her down with a scarf last week and tuck it under her clothes. THe nurse said she could get fired but saw that Mom wanted to go go go despite being off her feet for three weeks now and not able to stand on her own.

I still have to work tonight, my life is craaaaazy right now. I have thought about taking some time off from work but that will mean not making any commission. I have freaking almost 200 hours of vacation time left and have not even used my four floating holidays or sick time. I am going to think about it. I am a bit scared as there were firing on Friday when I was out of the office. it is not common for people in my position to get fired but the two girls that i knew were not doing their jobs so I do understand.

ok, this is supposed to be a fun lounge so..... can someone pleeeeze pull mese finger?? Camille?

I have not done too much reading, did read about Cam's exploding hiney, hate hate hate that. Saying prayers for her now.  I JUST HATE missing anything here but just do not have the time. I lub lub lub mese goils and am so tankful for all of you and your continued support. I will be dwinking later, hoping somebuddy will joineth mese for a few (hundared) rounds !

CheErS and lottsa love to ye all!

Cam, you are right. Craaaazy IS the only way for me. I am wishing that I have off tomorrow but I have to work, it is not a holiday for us. I do think that I need to get back into the routine to keep my mind off of my family issues. I am, no matter what, grateful to have my parents still alive. It is said that children of alzheimer's patients suffer losing their parents not once but twice. I have to agree. Tonight was not bad although my Mom said she was feeling terrible. I did not tell my family that, I just told them that she was relaxed which is true. I asked the nurse to check her for a yeast infection. we are all prone to them and MOm has been on anti b's in battling the UTI.

I jest love you Camille and de rest of you too. I am so grateful for all of my goils!

Good morning, Loungettes!  Boy what a job getting onto the site and onto the right page of this thread this ayem!  I kept getting bounced out to another site, very irritating, but I was more stubborn and out did it and got here! 

Cammy--no, my rememberer isn't that good, but my web search ability is still pretty good!  ~~ Some people  do sweat a lot of salt and need ot replace it, especially in the warmer months.  ~Pyridium ( a brand name that is not sold in the US anymore) is phenazopyridine, a drug used to calm bladder spasms in people with bladder infections.  It will turn your pee a very odd orange color, and can stain contact lenses that same orangey color .  We don't know exactly how it works, but it is considered a topical anesthetic that works on the inside of the bladder.  It is very useful for making people more comfortable . ~~ That ER doc was probably mortified when he realized that he asked about something you didn't know about.  We are definitely here for you, on call 24/7! 

Goldie--the hot flashes have pretty much gone away.  Every once in a while, like once or twice a week, I have what eels like a hot flash, which is possible since I was premenopausal all through treatment.  I haven't had a period in 6 years, but I have polycystic ovary syndrome and only had 2 or 3  a year before bc, so I can't really go by that.  Hmmm, I need to remember to ask for an FSH next time I get lab work done and figure out where I am in that regard.  ~~Making bagels isn't really very hard if you are used to making bread, it's just a bit more time consuming 'cause of the extra steps of forming the bagels and boiling them before baking.  I had fogotten that they do NOT rise after forming and boiling, so this batch came out skinny.  Hard to cut in half to toast, although I am managing.  I need to make a note on the recipe that when it says it makes 6 bagels, it makes 6, and NO MORE!  ~~I counted the sodium in the foods I was eating for a while.  I don't add salt, grew up with a Mom with high blood pressure, she never put the salt shaker on the table and didn't cook with salt, and still found I was getting more than I needed.  It's amazing how much sodium is in things like A1 and hard cheeses.  ~~Auntie Linda describes Sadie as 4 going on 14.  She definitely has rebellious teenage traits at times!

ORLA--Actually, I haven't got much more snow overnight. The wind, however, is another story.  Gonna need extra time to drive to the office this ayem.

Adey--me too!  I champagne, too!

Cammy--LOL! THAT"s the way to get a Cat scan!  AND a Pet scan! 

ORLA--YUMMY!!!!!!!

Juliet--What an eye popper!

DorKable--Your poor Mom!  I hope she gets better quickliest!  In most states facilities cannot use restraints for more than 48 hours by regulation, using then ongoing is a really big problem for them license-wise.  It creates a huge problem when someone is like your mom and trying to get up and go without having the physical ability to do that safely.  There are some things that can be done--wedges in the wheelchair, with the thick end to the front, seat belts with the buckle in front (it's not a restraint if the person can unbuckle it, even if they don't have the mental capacity to do so).  There are also alarms that clip to the person's clothes and connect to an alarm box that hangs on the bed or chair that goes off when someone tries to get up, so staff can get to them before they get all the way up.  ~~I can imagine being frightened about the firings last week.  I don't believe that you can be remotely in the category of not doing your work.  And it must be hard to decide about taking some time off.  And it's OK if you miss something here, we repeat stuff often so you'll ketchup before you know it!

Wahine--you are entitled to a gripe going through all that!  I think I'd be crazy with stuff going on with my eyes like that.  I am so glad the end result is going to be just what you wanted! 

Princess Glitter Sizzle's DOTD is the Crazy Monkey Monday

1 oz. Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay Coconut Rum

1 oz. Vodka

1/2 oz. Banana Liqueur

1/2 oz. Blue Curacao

1/2 oz. Peach Schnapps

Orange Juice

Pineapple Juice

Instructions

Shake Parrot's Bay, vodka, banana liqueur, Blue Curacao, and peach schnapps together. Strain and pour over ice in highball glass. Fill with 1/2 orange juice and 1/2 pineapple juice.

Good Morning all u beautiful peeps.---I love u all so much and I just realized we have our own personal medical team here, I mean I knew it but it's for real--Wow Nm u splain so so understanding for me I get what u'r saying--u know when I was young (yes u'r going to here this) and get a bladder infection everyone would be like oooo to much sex??? Now it's a whole different reason and I'm constantly getting them with kidney involvement. but I get no one kidding about to much sx any more Hmm times have changed.

Kat I would imagine it takes a little bit of time and specially around the eyes cuz tht's a moist area, I remember my GF's taking time off of work when they did their own tats so it might be puffy or peely for a while, but when it's u'r eyes don't u want to just rub them--I think I would. And how is u'r DH?

And I too hope Dork has gotten a good nights sleep last nite cuz she needs it. NM I for got about the alarm thing on the chair and blocking the foot things that does sound so much kinder--and they did use a seat belt on my Dad cuz he was in a wheelchair the last year, just in case--but his mind wasn't to good but he always remembered he wanted his likker which he got. It's just a sad situation I think cuz we don't like to see our parents helpless, cuz they were so strong and helpful.

And I'm anxious to hear about Lori's DH--she's having quite a time with his BP. It's always something.

OK I'll be back.

I have no idea why it says that on the bottom of the pic all the time oh well

Juliet you look great and that drink looks yummy

Goldie glad u and cammie talked and get each other thats important

wheres bernie

pop in later

Orange (I love thst name) those are unbelievable pics. and yea I wondered the same thing about what it said LOL--that first one looks like a snow castle--is it?-It's all amazing to me. And Yes Lori is such a please and happy to talk to--really.