Thinking Out Loud.....

Did you get to meet everyone today, Sheila?  I am so, so jealous!  Tell us about it....

Yes, Chris, I am a geologist and #1 defender of rocks!  Glad you find them useful.  We have no real (attached) rocks on L.I....only some that were dropped here from CT. 

Sheila, it was a great day.  We did meet up in NYC as planned.  Granny was not feeling up to coming and we missed her terribly...there were four of us.  We ate and talked and ate some more and had tapas and cheesecake...and then we walked around outside for awhile...totally enjoyable and worth the trip.  I'm up for a tri-state or New England meet-up next.

Meece, you are describing my yard...not sure we planted the trees and shrubs in the right place and I envision trying to move these big boys around in a year or two.  Right now, I just want to get rid of the d-i-r-t.  I have 12 boxwoods in containers to plant and not sure where to put them.  That' tomorrow's task.

nite all

me too Sheila!

me four:)

(((TOL)))
Sheila, I am glad you are having a good brain shift!  (good way to put it)

I was so tired today and not sure why...I guess I need down time after a busy day.
So all the things I was supposed to do today I had to put off for tomorrow. 

Hope everyone is having a good week end. 

Diane, so sweet that Shelby has memories of your Cooper.  So glad you are getting to go back again...
LOL on the faux plants...at least there's no risk of them wilting while you are away...

It was nice to meet up...and to get to know each other face to face...but as Sheila said, I feel I know the sisters here. 

Watching a late movie; have to see the end.
Nite all!

I keep dreaming........

Sheila - the infection got to the bone and they need to get in there and scrape it again.  It's gonna suck.  The infection also impacted the root adjacent to the implant so they have to get in there and mess around too.  This is a bone issue as a result of the nasty pills.  I'll be fine

Sandy - wouldn't it be fun to go for a manicure and act surprised about the fungus

I hope they can take care of the infection for good, Diane.

Glad you are feeling better, Sandy - sorry about the nail(s). 

Joan, do you watch Big Bang Theory?  If so, I hope you don't take too much offense at Sheldon's lack of respect for Geology... 

Glad you had a nice time at the gathering, Sheila.

Maybe we could all get together under my rock...  which I REALLY need to stay under after today. 

My incompetence story of the day for today is...

omg- TODAY - I took my church friends to church and then after church went to Wendy's for lunch with my family and my in-laws.   (healthy, I know - not my idea)  So...."D"H and DS had to leave to go to a Scout thing so I had to take my in-laws home. Well, the line for the drive thru was very long - blocking the door to the restaurant.  i wanted to drive as close to the door as I could since FIL has a cane and MIL has a walker.  So I backed my car up alongside the line of cars for the drivethru.  I stopped and then decided to back up a little more so MIL would walk in front of my car instead of in back - after having to walk through the line of cars for the drive thru.  I was looking at MIL and not in back of me to see that I was backed up as far as i could go before hitting a parked car.  So...I backed into the parked car.  A corvette on top of everything.  F*ck.  I only bumped it since i wasn't far away from it to begin with.  So - since I was already blocking traffic trying to take my elderly inlaws home - I put them inthe car - quickly put the walker in the trunk and asked DD to stay and keep an eye out for the owners of the car to tell them I would be back while I took my inlaws home and then came back.  They were still there when I got back.  So - I saw them come out and ran over to their car.  there wasn't a dent - but there was a mark - it was black - so I wasn't sure if it was tar from the road or was from my car since my car is gray.  Later I noticed a scratch on my car - so I guess it was paint from my car - black under the gray...the guy was annoyed at first at the thought I had damaged his car, but when he saw there was only that black mark he thought would come off and no real damage, he didn't even take my info.  Not sure if I should consider that whole thing lucky or not.  Not lucky since it happened at all - but lucky that it wasn't bad?  A guy at church gave me a guardian angel coin during the passing of the peace (he seems to really appreciate that I take that couple to church each week).  Think that coin helped my screw up be less severe than it otherwise could have been?  I had considered going around the building and back in from the street - (I still would have had to stop and block traffic next to the drive thru line - it really was a dangerous traffic situation...) I knew I shouldn't have tried to drive backwards...duh.  Now I'm afraid to drive forwards too.   I need to stay under my rock.  

DH and I enjoy Big Bang.  Why?  I have no idea.  I was amazed that everyone on the show except for Penny is in their 30s and 40s.

Glad there was no damage, Chris.

So, Happy that you NY ladies were able to get together.

Sandy, you need someone to look after you.  You are just wearing yourself out!

That is funny, Chris.  Saturday we were traveling with a few friends and when we passed by a reservoir one of them started spouting all sorts of statistics about that reservoir (acre ft, depth, etc)  His companion turned and looked at him and asked how he could remember all of that and yet not be able to remember to turn her pump house light off.  We all went into fits of laughter.  Priorities!

I'm back.....no surgery today.  Too many surgeons and dentists involved and they don't agree on what is needed.  But hey, no problem for me to drop $300 here, $300 there, pay for parking and tolls, lose hours of time and still no resolution.  ARGH!  Meanwhile, at least I don't have to plan on broth or cream of rice tonight.

Quiet here tonight....Guess everyone's T but not OL...

Alls quiet on the TOL front.

Worked yesterday in the health office at one of the HSs.  Sent close to 30 kids home.  Word gets out when there is a sub in the health office and kids flock in to get sent home.  There were actually about 5 who were visibly needing to head home.  

One girl said she had severe stomach pain, she figured it must be an ectopic pregnancy. (She had said she had come to the health office with paperwork in Feb, but the lady lost it.) So naively I asked if she thought she's had an ectopic pregnancy since February.  She answered "No, I had an STD then."  Then she went on to show me the Birth Control implant in her arm that she has been begging her mother to let her have removed. Oh, how times have changed.

Good Morning TOL!

Meece - I supposed I shouldn't be shocked, but I still am.  What a glimpse into the minds of young people, not a great one.