New Want To Play A Word Game

hmmmm, quiet thread

Hoping she doesn't stick to her plans and returns shortly

was supposed to be stick, didn't do a good job proof reading

Good catch!

welcome, FlowerLuvr, glad you could join us. We make a new word and try to incorporate into a little narrative (real or made up). Have fun with us!

We have an earthquake a couple hours ago, so I'm sitting and watching TV about it. While I'm here, I have a cat who I'm training to touch my hand with her paw to let me know she wants a treat. When I feel she's had enough I raise my hands to say All gone. She usually jumps off but now she licks me to try to get my attention. She's funny (oops, they're saying we just got a after shock but didn't feel it).

Curve, why are you awake at this hour? No can sleep either?

My white cat (Siamese/flame point) is short hair, she's the one I'm training. DD's cat is medium-long hair and  she's a dark calico. She's very soft and silky and after I brush her, which she loves, her fur is very slick.

Here is Nikki:

Sorry this is so large, can't figure out how to crop photos on the iPad.

@2TA, I got my Doxil infusion a week ago Thursday and ever since then I've been sore, achy, tired etc etc. I get tired and take a nap in the afternoon, and if I sleep for a long time in the middle of the day, I don't get sleepy until very late at night. Anyway, my natural tendency is to be a night owl. I have been really slack since then, not exercising and barely keeping myself supplied with food and clean clothes. I had Zometa (bone medicine) this past Thursday and just sat there and cried from sheer tiredness. I made another appointment with the palliative care doctor. Maybe he can help me with some of this. Maybe I need to use some services instead of trying to do everything myself.

Right now, I just have no energy. It seems like this year has been one step forward, two steps back— make some progress and then have a setback.....I really thought I was doing better the week before my tx. Maybe I was. Now I have two weeks with no treatment and maybe that will let me get my feet back under me again.

FlowerLuvr, please don't take this the wrong way. You have been on BCO since yesterday, have made 11 posts and are providing no information about you at all. Some would say I am distrustful, but I think it's just that when a person's profile LACKS info, I feel the need to question it. 

Please don't take it personally. :-)

ok, I need to come clean: I was awake almost all night (darn that earthquake), I know I saw 4 am come and go (Good Morning America), fell asleep after 5 am. Alarm woke me up at 7:30. We had a health insurance expert come and help us get signed up (and save us lots of money in the process) so I got up early to bake some quickie cookies (box of cake mix, 2 eggs, some oil) for her. After we got signed up, met a local BCO gal (and her DH for lunch locally at Olive Garden). Came home and found myself crash for a couple hour nap. Hopefully, not awake all night.

Oh, Curve, anything I can do to help you? Your attitude totally amazes me! Chemo is crazy that way, never know what to expect and just when you think you have a handle on all of it, my body would react a slight bit differently the next time. Please don't beat yourself up over it all, BC does NOT come with a handbook. 

About Flowerluvr, here's what I know. I have a friend, a caregiver, who I have gotten involved with BCO so she can better help me. To be honest, she probably reads more about BC so she understands what's happening to me (she lost a family member to BC years ago and now has a better understanding) than responds to the info threads. She has enjoyed some of the lighter topics, like the word games (as she is now going thru another female cancer and chemo, a lot of things are in common with BC and what she's going thru). Maybe ladies just want the companionship and want to keep their anonymity, that's ok too.

@ErinBrocko, that must have been before my time. I've been on this thread between a year and two years, and when I first started it was just make-a-word. The running story started later on—I looked back once and I think it was about the beginning of 2013. We have fun either way, with or without a story.

@2TA, my attitude is really not amazing, at least not all the time. There's a certain amount of self-censorship in what I write, especially on this thread since it's for fun & games. Several years before I retired, I had the opposite cubicle to a guy who was really negative. He was always complaining about something. Maybe my memory is not 100% accurate but I don't remember ever hearing him say a positive word about anyone or anything, and because the cubicle walls were only about shoulder-high, there was no getting away from it. What a bore! I could feel myself getting all tense when he started off yet again. It was such a relief when he finally left. I hope (for his own sake and whoever he ended up sitting next to) that he liked his next job better! That experience taught me a big lesson: nobody wants to listen to someone else complain, complain, complain. So, I try to to avoid griping a lot online. But sometimes I get to the point I can't seem to shrug it off any longer, and then I mention it. Even so, I try not to be the person who is always at it.

I hope you got more sleep last night and no aftershocks.

@RedReading, if I'd had someone try to sell me stuff on bco, I'd probably be gunshy too. I hope you reported whoever it was to the Mods, it's a blatant violation of the forum rules. I've ratted on many a spammer myself, those ones who send a bunch of links to World Cup Soccer or streaming movies or something. Seems to me the forum software has gotten better at catching them before their threads even appear. Lately I haven't seen them nearly as frequently as I used to.

Well, well, well. I can think of two words but no way to work either of them into the rest of this comment. One of the words is units and the other is rings. Take your pick!

hi Erin, good to see you here. Glad this thread has evolved to more than just a change-a-letter games, there are lots of those on BCO. I guess I'm the newbie here, not even a year for me. 

I wouldn't be happy for up welcomed solicitations either, have to admit I've turned a couple in the mods (as well as blatant perverts who attack in the middle of the night. They must have been checking to see who was awake in the night and found me)

Red, glad you're home safely.

Went to local produce market a bit ago to stock up on healthy fruits, veggies, and grain products to have in the house. This weight isn't going to disappear by itself even though I wish it would.

can't think of a word as my brain is tired. 

that's good Curve, charge those batteries! My crazy sleep pattern as of late (sleep a couple hours, awake a couple hours, then repeat often) is a drain on my energy.

And thanks for the word, something new I can add to my vocabulary.