please help

Lisa , how do you wear your hair? Is it long enough to style? I think I am going to try some gel and see what it does. It is just soooo short. If I put it between my fingers from the scalp , it does come up above my fingers. I just wish it was long enough to cut and style...

Your right Lisa , I think coloring it will help sooo much. I have always colored my hair. So this "salt and pepper" look is making we feel old and blah! I have hair on the back of my neck I was thinking should be cut or shaved. But I don't want to look like a guys cut. And it makes me feel like my hair is longer when I feel it. lol , I'm so strange. I crack me up...

I know. It is probably just me. Cause at the grocery store the past two months I noticed mothers telling there children , move and let the "lady" through! I wanted to hug them and say "thats right I really am a woman!lol

Nite , nite Sue. Thats right , how fast the time does fly. Keep thinking of that , your treatment will be over before you know it. Now , do you think God would bring all of us beautiful "friends" into your life only to take you home? NEVER! Love ya Suzy-Qxxxx

Oh my , chips with vinegar , I WANT SOME!!!!!! I just love potatoes , any kind and breads. There is nothing more satisfying that starches!.lol

I haven't wore a scarf since Oct. 19th! I just couldn't anymore.  And my friends said that it was long enough to go without one.I am so sorry someone called you sir. I can imagine how that hurt. You are a beautiful lady , I'm sure that won't happen again.Lisa , have fun at the party!

POTATOES.....I AM THE COOKIE MONSTER OF POTATOES! HAHA...could eat them all the time.

Oh...that comment was not to bad.  It was a young person at the hospital.  I know I looked bad.  I felt bad for her, because I could tell she was mortified!  So, Melody..did you ever wear a wig? Go for the haircut and color...you will be happy you did!

I will have fun, just not staying long.  I worked yesterday from 5:30am until 4pm, then went to my girlfriends house at 6pm till 11pm..four of us made homemade pizza's..20 of them!! yum!!

So..I am very tired today.  Glad I am off tomorrow.

I mostly only wore my wig at work.  But I am glad to be done with it!

Yes..20! We each kept 5, packaged them and froze them. It's an old Italian recipe, all they have on them are onions and cheese.  So they are in my freezer, for whenever I need them.  It was nice of my friends...the 2 of them paid for all of it! Refused any money from me or my other friend!  They are so much fun!

Our party this year is at a party center.  I have never been there, it's about a 15 min drive in the opposite direction of my home.  Before they had it at a restaurant right by the airport.  I think it's a variety of appetizers.  I have only had Boston Market one time.  I forget what I had, but I do remember I liked it. This is a tough time to diet..but I am trying.  I have a dinner on the 10th, then I am hosting a gathering of friends for an ornament exchange at my house on the 17th, then another party on the 23rd, then Christmas eve and day.....never ends..haha.

My dear Mel...you are so sweet!  I feel like you are one of my fantastic friends! How nice of you to offer to look for that ornament!  I am touched.  but, yes...I did find one.  I found several that I needed at World Market.  Do you have those stores near you?  I love it..very cool.  The car is like a vw bug..but I don't care...it's a car.  I found a train for my grandson..he loves trains. 

I have held a cookie exchange at my home for probably 12 yrs or so, but I have not held it since my divorce 5 yrs ago.  Well..this year..I thought, I needed to resurrect it...my friends have been so supportive and wonderful to me.  So...instead of doing the cookie exchange...I put on the invitations..."save the calories" it's an ornament exchange!  Should be fun!  I make allot of appetizers, we eat drink, laugh, enjoy the holiday music etc.

One of the favorite's is my stuffed mushrooms (no meat) and also bacon wrapped water chestnuts..very good, also a zucchini one..very different, but yummy, artichoke dip.  Trying a few new ones this year that I found.  A few of my friends are bringing some this year, to help me with the expense.  I usually serve 10 different ones.

If any sound good, and you want recipes..Ill email them to you.

bacon one is great and really easy!  The sauce is brown sugar and ketchup. The zucchini has parmesian cheese and I think bisquick...I have not made it in awhile, but it's good.  I love zucchini too!  I can email the recipes to you...you may have to remind me though!! haha

Ok..heading off to the restroom to put on something a little more party like!

Hey gals, the guys are exactly like a bunch of roosters in one pen. They warily strut around each other, sniffing, waiting to see what is happening, very suspicious that one of the other roosters will get their hen(s).



No, I know that some men develop very long, strong and solid relationships with other men. Lifelong, in some cases. But for most men, we are it. They just don't have the mental wiring women have.



We are instantly close. Whether it is the total lack of competition, or just a difference in the way we were made, who knows? But it is interesting to me that elephants live in totally matriarchal societies. The head female runs the show, period. And they stay together all their lives. They have sons, and they let them stay in the herd until they are about 15, then they run them off. I wonder why? haha



Bears have nothing to do with males, only to mate. Lions live in mother, sister, aunt groups. The males are just for sex. Then, out they go.



I think it is the competition. Men are hard-wired to be competitive with each other. We are not.



Anyway, I never wanted to be a man. I love all of my sisters, and, while it is easy for me to say, since I am a long ways past treatment, this cancer was almost worth it for the relationships I have formed with so many women. My, we are quite a wonderful group. To hear the heartfelt thoughts, the love, the kindness, every day, makes me proud to be a woman.



Enough sappy stuff. But I really mean it. All of us love our Sue, and we never have met her. But she needs us, and that is enough. I think any of us would walk through fire for her, if she needed it. How wonderful.



And Sue, at work of course, or, trying to sleep. Poor darling. I wish we could all live in a big motel-like place, fix her meals, watch the boys, help her when she is scared. But thank God for this Internet. What a blessing. My my, we are so lucky.



Well, that's all the preaching for one day!



I so love you all, Shirlann

I agree. God bless us all.  I'm so grateful for the companionship.