Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

Yes Sandra- that looks very familiar.

Jackie- what a long day- I would be totally useless for the next few days. I have always needed 9-10 hrs of sleep a night. When the kids were little and got sick enough that they couldn't sleep, I stayed up with them the first night until we could get to the Dr and get meds for them. After that, if they still couldn't sleep - Daddy took over. He could handle a 12-14 hr workday, be up all night with the sickie, then head out again to work the next day. He could do that for several days if needed. One night without sleep and I was a weepy basket case for days. Still need those 10 hrs at night.

I was supposed to head over to my DS's tomorrow to spend some time with sweet Lucia, but weather report for tmrw is awful- rain and wind all day. So I am going today instead. What a problem- an extra day with GD! Poor me! Such a sacrifice. Sit here another day, all alone, nothing to do or have a tea party with Lucia??

Only real problem is I haven't begun to pack. I want to leave no later than one because it is a 3 hour drive at the very least and I want to get there before dark.

Anne

Jackie, hope things settle down with your work and you get back to a routine that suits you.

Anne, enjoy those tea parties with Lucia.

A gray drippy day here today.  DH and I went to the gym and it wasn't my best workout.  My favorite ellipticals were occupied so I used one that I don't like as well and also put in some time on a recumbent bike.  Better something than nothing. 

This afternoon I took my mother to her hair apptment and then got her a fried catfish dinner for her supper.  She was hungry and really enjoyed it. 

DH cooked a split pea soup for dinner.  It smelled really good in the kitchen when I got home.  It's nice to have someone cook dinner.  I'll make a salad to go with the soup.  Maybe I'll even mix up some cornbread batter. 

Hi to everyone.

Sandra,

I do remember those.  I wasn't quite that old -- well, maybe I was, but it seemed if I recall that they were in the homes of others who had a little more money.  We did not get one until the really old portable players came out.  Still we listened to Chuck Berry, The Four Tops, Fabian and most of the mid to late 50's and early 60's while I remained in high school.  Graduated in 1963. 

Anne, I did sleep quite some time -- went to bed at 9a.m. and did not get up till almost 620a.m. this morning.  Then off once more to my employer's and put in 9 hours today.  I won't go back now until Saturday night.  In all fairness -- I did sleep Tues. night ( ran home here while my Dh stayed at the house ) and got pj's and tooth paste and brush, and clean undies, and other necessities at my employer's.  At any rate --- it is a bit wearing but I stay in one piece pretty good and I am fortunate to always sleep well for the most part -- have to admit though, I do the very best at that when I'm in my own bed. 

So today's quote is quite late, but thank goodness  I'm glad to be home early this evening and get caught up with all my computer work.  Hope you all have a really great day.  I'll be back in the morning.  Should be a pretty good Friday. 

Blessings,

Jackie

We never had a hi-fi console like the one in the picture but the "rich" folks did. I would visit my friend whose parents had one and listen to Andy Williams sing, "I Can't Get Used To Losing You." The Kingston Trio sang a song about how Charlie couldn't get off the MTA because he needed a nickel. What was the name? I can still sing most of the words, "Will he ever return? No he'll never return and his fate is still unlearned." Was it called The Man Who Never Returned? I listened to another favorite song, "Standing On The Corner Watching All The Girls Go By" by not sure who sang it. The Four Freshmen?

At home, everybody felt rich because we had a record player. It wasn't a hi-fi, but we didn't care. I bought 45's and put little plastic yellow things into the holes in the middle and stacked a bunch up. My parents had some 78's but they were old fashioned so I never played them. I remember getting an album, 33 rpm, by the Monkees in about 1965. I graduated from high school in 1966.

Sandra: I graduated in 66 as well, and I remember all the songs you listed. Thanks for the blast from the past.

As for sleeping.....I go to bed about 9:30, watch TV till about 11 and fall asleep listening to Chicago on the police scanner. (I tune in to broadcastify.com on my Kindle) I'm usually awake by 7am in the winter, 5:30 in the summer. It's 8:45 pm now and I'm sleepy.

It must have been a long day for you two. I'll bet Mike sleeps well tonight.

Hi Ladies!......got the flu today, even though I HAD a flu shot, and will get go to go doc to get Tamiflu tomorrow at 11.....to make my day worse was my American Express card was HACKED by someone buying something at Walter Drake....but because I have a -0- dollar alert....I caught it with only one charge, and 2 additional charges ( At AT & T) happened when I was talking to AX.....I HATE dishonest people!

Sandra, Mike really has lost a lot of weight since we met him in Aug-Sept. ! I was wondering if his port was going to be in his chest or his arm, as I remembered Robin Roberts had a port in her arm and then people were sending her all different colors of port covers that she was wearing while she was still on the air.....but I think she got a port in her chest later. Her MDS was due to her treatment for her breast cancer years before.

My dad got a kit and made a stereo unit like the one pictured but decided against putting a TV in it, the center part had doors that was space for the records....My 96 year old mom still has it.

My 50 year H. S. reunion this summer at a hotel near SeaTac..... Hubby is 73....think he graduated in '59 in Thief River Falls HS

Getting the chills again.....brrrr.....At least my Mom is not pinning a wool sock around my neck with Ben Gay and throwing an extra Army blanket on me......little did she or I know that I was allergic to wool!

Di

A few more days Jackie!

I didn't read all the posts yet, but half way.

Sandra this is so difficult for u and Mike and I pray it can settle down a bit. This disease is vicious I know and I hope u rest whenever u can. Even tho I'm not here believe me I pray or u 2.

Termite I can't remember al of it so Rita might pop in if I'm wrong

Can of peach pie filling----------small can of crushed pinapple crushed and drained--------can of condensed evaporated milk-----------1/2 cup  o mini marshmallows, and an 8 ounce thing of cool whip---this is by memory so we all know what that means. But it's so darn easy and everyone loved it.

BTW Jackie I didn't notice any of my words of wisdom with all o u'r quotes, as u know I have many. 25 HOURS that's longer than a day--Oh u must have been exhausted. please don't overdo.

Carole I'm sorry u'r having a saddish time. Hope the sun shines quickly for u cuz that is not u'r personality.

Anne I can't keep up with u, u travel so much, it's tiring reading all u do, But I'm glad u'r able to.

Oh Chevy u will never catch up to all my frangances----It's not just bath and Body works for me--It's HSN and QVC--the shopping channels that I get the very very very best named products around from Sephora too.So there and keeping up with u'r posts is the easiest--u do about as much as I do. Let's face it

Blondie u sound better I hope u feel better.   (HUGS)))

OK on to the next page.

 

 

CAMMERS! Can you beLIEVE all that is going on with these guys? I mean first Sandra, with Mike... then Blondie, and now even SASS has issues!

And Di! Yes, you DO need that piece of wool, on your chest, and ben-gay or Vicks underneath it! And a T-shirt on top!! That's what holds it in place! I had that too... I think anybody over 50 knows about that "sure-cure" for the "bug"!

Janie got Tami-flu also for her bad case. But YOU got the shot? I just heard where that shot I got doesn't cover all the strains of flu! YOU must be one of those!

Cams, we are going to make these gals sick with our fragrances... You and I know it makes us even more lovelier and desireable, when we take showers and baths with 3 different bottles of scents... but there are THOSE that frown on our frivolity! SOME people have "issues" with tart-like gals like us.... They pretend it is our rather extensive use of fragrances that drive them crazy.... makes their nose have fits, etc.

So we have to put a damper on our saloon-type behavior from now on... WHERE do you get yours? You buy them ONLINE? I haven't tried that yet! You buy your weed online also?

Sandra, I'm sorry for Mike..... His beard and mustache are VERY nice! So who shaves him in the hospital? No Cammi, I ain't puttin' the moves on him, but even sick, he looks pretty good there! Just tell him to smile for these pictures.... okay?

We had one of those TV's... In the early 50's.... Before there was "color" TV... And before we could buy one, my Brother and I would walk down to the corner, and in this store window, there was a TV!!!!!!!!! And we would lay on their parking and watch TV! It was the most magical thing EVER!

Remember that piece of izing-glass we used to put on the glass screen? To make it look like color TV? But I still remember eating "supper" and listening to The Shadow, and Innersanctum" and The Red Skelton show!

So okay, you guys are thinking that I am at LEAST 100....! Close.... but not quite!

Oh Chevy I don't think u'r 100, I know u are. But I remember too---I think that piece of screen was ordered from the Willie Winkle show, and I also remember everyone watching TV on the sidewalk and no one said move along. And of course our fragrances are our signature as I put it--Today I am peaches--u notice mine are a lot of fruit. When Joey was a baby and after  I'd give him his bath I had my type of lotions and one u could use for babies so I bought it and he always smelled so good--It was from Perlier rom HSN but they had the best prices, it was always 1/2 of the store costs even with discounts so I could afford everything then.---oops there goes my phone

OK or another minute I remember those phones and our first number was 8159J and oh yes party lines, they were usually u'r neighbors and boy it was sometimes fun to listen.

What? You mean you are "working?" Hah! Yes, I remember Jergens with that Almond scent! My Grand-son Chase always loved that too! But now we are more sophisticated. Remember Blue Waltz? And Evening in Paris? I mean we could hardly afford THOSE when we were young! And Chantilly, and White Shoulders?

We've been tramps all our lives! HaaaaaaaahaHaaaaaaaaa!

Our babies always smelled so good! And they loved when we put "their own" baby lotion on them...

And we would play outdoors AFTER DARK??? And run playing hide-and seek all over the neighborhood? And then we grew up, and SMOKED!????? We lived dangerously!

An optimist is the human personification of spring.  ~  Susan J. Bissonette

Jackie, I had several clients who swore by tanning booths. Someone found out that the skin on the back of the knees is thin enough for the light to have an effect. I would never do a tanning booth, but it's an interesting concept. The gray affects me the same way. A week in Mexico will keep me OK for weeks afterward. Yay for Di sending you a light. Use it fairly early in the morning so it doesn't interfere with sleep at night. And you don't have to look at it. You can sit and read the paper with it on near you.

We had a party line phone in Houston in the 60's. They kept wanting us to get a private line. DH told them it wasn't a problem because it never seemed to be in use. They admitted we had the last party line in the city, which was effectively a private line.

We had a TV like the one on legs. DM & DF gave it to us just before DS was born. Just in time to watch all the JFK coverage after his death in Dallas. He had been in Houston that morning and my boss attended the breakfast. When he found out, he had tears in his eyes.

I remember all the old stuff since I'm 2 years younger than Chevy, which would make me ummmm 98.

Yes, the Cuban crisis was not good. My Dad worked for the Air Force at a SAC base. They called him to come in and he didn't come home for 3 days. Mom was rightfully worried sick.

I don't remember the end of WW2. I lost my mother in 1945 and perhaps our family wasn't all that happy about anything. I do remember my uncle coming home in his navy uniform. I was peeling whitewash off the brick in front of the house when his taxi pulled up. He didn't rat on me either.

This is what I copied when the Peach Fluff was first discussed. Rita - is it yours? I'm going to note that Cami found it better with 2 cans of peach pie fulling.

Fluffy Peach Salad:
1 can peach pie filling
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1 medium-sized can of crushed pineapple drained
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
1 medium cool whip

Mix well and place in the refrigerator for at least four hours before serving!
It makes a generous serving. We had 10 guests that night.

I copied this word for word from the other thread where I put these quotes because I believe it so strongly.

 

Sometimes you need to take time for you -- the glorious inside of you.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass
on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching
the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
 
John Lubbock

Things like this can bring alive the most wonderful thoughts, and deep feelings that are inside and don't always come to the surface easily.  The above things so often help you and you barely have to try -- just close your eyes and let you come out, gradually and gracefully.  Maybe a lot of surprises about you too.  Brings wonderful peace and contentment with it.  Good restorative.