TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS GIRLS

Angel Wings are a light alternative to jelly donuts...and they're quite delicious...!!!   Found 'em today at Busch's.

I can't take Jim Beam either except in small doses...!!!

Those do look good but I dont think I have ever heard of them. 

Amy

I never heard of Angel Wings either, but they look good!

Uh.....Jack Daniels is a friend of mine, lol!

Hi Ames!

Thank you ladies. I wasn't sure what the deal was with my home state. Amy, I think the lady you're talking about is a friend of mine, not a real close friend but she steered me here for bc support. She is a funny lady if we're talking about the same person.

Susan, so you're from MO. too? How cool is that? I gather there's not very many of us by the reaction. lol I didn't quite understand the one lady but that's probably just me. You all  refer to it as chemo brain, I like that, I'll use that alot now.

Oh for lands sakes, I forgot until I saw my post jump up there. I want to thank a real nice lady, Mzsissy, for private messaging the beautiful picture of the flowers and suggested I could use them for my avatar. That was really very kind. Thank you  again.

Well, if BC.ORG has something against all women with BC in Missouri we've got a real problem!!!  Jill, hope you don't go away... now, according to your DX you're just about at the two-year mark....that can be a scary place to be.  Hope everything is OK!

Miz 

Mizizzy ... I don't understand what you're talking about bc.org having something against women in MO with breast cancer.  Geez, I hope you're joking!   I thought everyone was welcome on bc.org, even gals from VA. 

Hope everyone has a great evening ... off to check the election results.

love,

Bren

Ok, Nicki I saw your comment about the photobucket pictures.  Yes, it was your picture I posted.  I didnt' think it was a big deal.  You copied it from someone else didn't you.  Sorry.  It won't be a problem now if your album is private. Ok?

I work part time at an elementary school library.  Every day I have recess duty with the kinders through 3^rd grade.  I really like to get outside and have an excuse to play with the kids, but there is one part of the job that makes me nuts....

There is a big field where a lot of the kids play.  One of the perennial favorite games it to make "houses" and play in them.  In the summer the houses are outlined as squares on the ground made with rocks, sticks and pebbles.  In the winter they use snow balls or chunks of ice.  They have a whole little neighborhood of house in that field.

There must be something in human nature that makes all the kids covet an especially nice rock or perfectly round snowball from someone else's house.  They snatch each other's house parts whenever they think no one is looking....that is how it starts...then the kids pick sides.  They argue about who had the rock first.  They steal it back, or tattle to one of the adults that people are steeling their rocks.  They form little groups that spread rumors about the person who stole their rock.  They plan raids to get the rock back.  If they can't take a snowball, they will kick the walls of the house down.  They tell intentional lies about the kid they think stole their rock to get them in trouble.  I kid you not, it is like a little payton place.  Pretty soon even the kids forget what started the most recent war....but still they battle on.

That, my friends, is what this thread feels like to me now.  The undercurrents of bad feelings from rocks taken long ago make me really uncomfortable.  The veiled comments and direct nasty attacks, the posts that are deleted out of spite....they just make me weary.  I really like coming here.  I like to hear about everyone's lives.  I feel like you have become, in a very real way, friends of mine. 

Like I tell the kids, it's just a rock.  Let it go.  Go play with your friends...

Hugs

Deb C

This thread is like life.  Not everything that happens is always good.  I cant go back and delete breast cancer out of my life.  It is just something that happened.  Someone may come along and read the entire thread and get something out of it.  We all learn in different ways.  I'm with Deb, its just a rock. 

Mizsissy-nice post.

Amy

Hey all,

I'm going to push my technology "know how" to the limit, and attempt to copy and paste this post to a few places.

I have "met" many women through bco, and particularly through this Circle the Wagons thread. I was accepted with open arms, and as far as I know, I am liked, at least well enough anyway, by all. (Please don't feel the need to disabuse me of this notion! ) I feel like I know many of you well, and some of you just a little bit, but no matter what, I'm always happy and interested to hear about what's happening in your lives.

There was a time when there would be little "scuffles" in the Circle, and I was truly oblivious of who had an issue with whom. (Who? Whom? Who can help me out with that? LOL) Well, while I'm sure there is much more that I don't know, enough has been laid out on the table so to speak, that I no longer have the luxury of being in the dark. And what I've realized is that it is too hard for me to hear your anger and sadness - with each other and with what the Circle has lost. Anger and sadness with cancer, rotten insurance companies, rotten bosses, etc., I'm OK with, but not with each other.

I feel like I've said this before (and that means I may have, thank you chemo brain), but the primary reason I'm just a reader, not a poster anymore, is that I don't feel comfortable posting. I don't like the fact that I might be percieved as "choosing sides" or "making a statement" with what or where I post. And even though I try to keep my importance to you all in perspective (it's not like I think people are runnning around keeping track of what I say, and making life decisions based on it ), it still bothers me a bit.

So for me, I think it's time to try to focus on something else for a bit. Maybe scaring myself up a date even! I wish every single one of you nothing but the best. And I will still be around, reading, hopefully reading about happy things and lots of time with NED, but in the bad times too. So, this is by no means some sort of grand farewell, or an "I'm taking my ball and going home" post. I just feel weird not saying anything. Like leaving a party and not saying goodnight to the host or something.

Hugs to all, A to Z!

Earlier today I posted something from my heart - I apologize.  

I have always felt that I have opened myself to each and everyone who has approached me.  I am not a mean person and do not post mean things. 

I in no way meant to offend or hurt anyone with my post.  It was meant for no one and I regret posting anything.

May you all go forward with your lives and enjoy each day.  As someone said - each day is a gift.

God bless you all. 

Liz

Well I can help you with that mudslide you got there. 

Liz very nice words!  You are not one to speak up and avoid conflict at all cost so it means even more to hear you speak up.

Amy

AMY too many mudslides may provide us with much needed entertainment...hmmm.. maybe Neeked tractor riding...

and Karen baking & Drinking may not mix...lol...so what is gonna end up in the cookies...lol..

thanks for joining me in the cooking tent

holding your hands

MB