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Mornin' ladies,
Kim glad to hear Sadie's coming with u today. 2AM??? Kim don't give them a chance, u'll be stuck so, just start at usual time, it's early enough.Glad u had dinner with ur mom and Olive garden has the best soup and salad than anywhere.
Sandy sorry about LOLing about ur cat, I have lived with that so I know. And I too agree with all the regime u go thru, but I'm with Lori about exercise I'm happy I can walk as much as I do. Just to much pain.
Illi how's ur DH???
JC ur DIL must really care about u that cake looks amazing. I wouldn't have done that for any of my MIL's.
Ah Lori ur garden. I'm sorry I know how u luv it and all u do with it. I thought we'd see the big tomato, tho. I'm glad to hear about ur DD.
Jazzy get these tests over with. And u know I pray it will all be fine and onward for ur eyes.
Well I'm still in the house of doom, <also known as the ER special> I'm fine with all my tests now but they will "watch it" What "it" is they can go and watch all they want, just leave me out of it. And u all know my DD has to have another operation, they'll schedule it next week and now Marty will have another operation which will be in the next 2 weeks. Of course when Marty told me I started LOLing and then he started LOLing, Yea good thing they have me. Well his throat is closing up and it's his tonsils, so they have to come out. I know at this age it's really different, but this is Marty who always has everything unusual. So more operations around here.
Hope everyone has a great weekend....feel good.
LUBS U ALL
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Thanks ladies, DH is ok, pain is minimal now but the poor guy is still backed up, he’s tried everything but it slow going.
We’re off to Fort Worth now to buy a new truck, then a fishing trip with friends tomorrow 🙂🎣
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Hi friends- went to get my left eye measured this morning for the new lens and got a few other things done. Outside of paying one other co-insurance, I am feeling very ready for surgery number one on left eyeball in mid Sept. The surgery center has provided a lot of good up front info to know what to expect and how to prepare. i am very process oriented in thought with my work, so it really works for me. We are working now on deciding a good date for eyeball #2, which will be in the mid Nov-Dec time frame.
I have not had call yet from the pathology center about getting the thyroid biopsy done. Been four days since the order went in and the plan was to get this done by early next week. Doubt that will happen. I plan to call later today to the PCP office to follow up to find out when I should expect a call from them, The wait, hurry up, now wait leaves me dazed and confused.
It's really hot here still, upper 90s and usually not in this place in late August. I doubt I am alone. Very worried about the burning Amazon right now too.
Ill- good luck with the truck buying. Have some good BBQ while you are up in Ft Worth.
Cami- you are in the ER? What is "it" they are watching? I am sorry to hear about Les and Marty needing more surgery. You and Goldie have had more than your fair share this year.
NM- we had a spring a lot like you, abnormally cool into June and then BAM! July and August have been too hot. By now, it's usually cooling towards fall but not yet. I am ready for the heat to go. Sadie is such a great dog and misses you when you are not around. I hope you can take her swimming this weekend!
Goldie- thank for the good thoughts. Glad to hear your DD is coming along and good advice to help her know to not overdo.
JCS- how are things going for you? And more importantly, how was that cake?
Gotta finish my work week. Everyone have a good weekend. Last full weekend of August already, the summer is going FAST.....
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Hello all! Hope everyone has had a good week. I had a surprise visit from my 85 yr old Aunt and her daughter. They were traveling from Atlanta to my cousin’s home in Maine. My Aunt is the last relative from my parents generation. She is active and has all of her mind. Hopefully she will be around for much longer.
Jazzy - I had my cataracts repaired (?) about two years ago. Best thing I ever did! Other than the many drops daily, there were no other problems. I could see better right away.
NM-No way should you do a training at 2:00am!!!! Is this because the traineesare working the night shift? Couldn’t you do it the last hour of their shift?
Lori - Sorry about the garden. Heat and critters would be formidable enemies.
I did get tired of being at home, so DH and I took a road trip to a state park in the upcountry of SC today. We hiked for a bit, then had lunch at a local pub. I talked him into going to an art gallery and we spent an hour talking to the owner about guitars and seeing some he had built. Then we went to the only covered bridge in SC. Dodged showers all the way home.
Tomorrow is supposed to be stormy so I will sit in my nest, read and nap. Sounds like fun!
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Jazzy, your cataract surgery schedule (Sept, Nov.) was exactly the same as mine 3 years ago. One thing I found immensely helpful was to enter my various eyedrops into my online calendar (I have a Mac, iPhone & iPad, so the calendar shows up in all three devices). That way I knew exactly which drops to start, when to take them, and when & how to wean off them. (The steroid drop is the hardest to wean off, because it feels so good). These surgeries are usually done in early morning (and you'll be NPO after dinner the night before), so be sure to treat yourself to a good breakfast afterward (someone else'll be driving you, right?). After my R one I went to a Polish pancake house/diner near the surgi-center; after the L, to Chuck's Southern Comfort for a tasso-andouille omelet. No alcohol until your ophthalmologist gives you the green light. And especially out there in the Southwest, wear those wraparound over-shades they'll give you whenever you're out in bright light. (I still keep a pair in my car for when my Transitions glasses don't get dark enough because car windows filter out much of the UV that normally turns the lenses dark).
Speaking of surgery, Cami, so sorry about Marty having to go back in for a tonsillectomy. I see many a vanilla malted (or giant dishes of Culver's) in his near future. I had mine out at age 7, and to this day I'm not crazy about vanilla ice cream because I associate it with tonsillectomy.
I got rattled yesterday when I got the results of my lipid panel--except for my total cholesterol, which went down a few points, everything has been worse on this near-keto diet. I darn near lost it when I read the NP's suggestion to "limit saturated fats like steak, chicken skin, cheese, bacon, sausages, smoked and cured meats, cream, egg yolks and whole milk." And she also said I'd lose faster if I give up berries! Nuh-unh. This diet will not work if I have to resort to skinless chicken breast (the cottage cheese of the new millennium), dry pork tenderloin, fish, nuts, egg whites, nuts, olives & nut butters, plus green leafies. I told her as much and she backed off and said to retest in 2 months at my next appointment.
Then I messaged my primary care doc, and he replied the results "don't set off any alarms." He said in his experience, keto or near-keto diets can cause HDL to drop (mine went from 84 to 53!) and LDL & triglycerides to spike (sometimes as high as 400) until at least 10% of initial weight has been lost (not there yet) and usually settle out to normal at about 20-25 lbs. down. He also said he was much happier about my a1c than concerned about my lipids, and to just keep up the good work and not change anything in my diet or add back krill oil. He calculated my Framingham score as 3: a 3% chance of having a CV "event" over the next 10 years (much lower chance than of having a serious fracture). He did say, however, that ER+ bc notwithstanding, a small daily glass of a good red wine would help. (Disclaimer: he's from Sonoma).
Bob got home early enough to go to dinner (but not early enough to keep my first choice of restaurant reservation), so for old time's sake we went up to Froggy's in Highwood, "our" French restaurant for longer than Gordy's been around. Our first meal there was our 9th anniversary in 1980! Yes, I did cheat a little--but mostly ate around the starch & sugar (traded my crab cake & mushroom ravioli to Bob for his seared ahi & salmon sausage). Had a Marquis de la Tour blanc de blancs for my aperitif & with the appetizer; with my entree, a Chilean meritage. Bob was going to finish with a Remy VSOP, but I saw a small producer's "Grande Champagne" (the best area of Cognac) XO for only $4 more. I didn't taste it but the aroma was wonderful (and gave me a contact high).
Got some pet CBD oil for the kitties (very mild, practically placebo). The shop suggested starting with 1/4 dropper for each, but I dialed it back down to 3-4 drops apiece. They wouldn't touch it plain, but when I put food atop it and garnished with catnip... Hopefully, it'll ease their stress-vomiting and fighting; and since Happy's been biting the edges of the corrugated cardboard ThirdLove bra box he's commandeered as his bed, it might ease some of the gum discomfort that may be causing it, at least till we can get him to the vet next week for his checkup & shots.
Seeing the podiatrist Monday--hoping he'll do some creative nail & callus-trimming and cast me for new orthotics, rather than recommend (ugh) bunion surgery.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Saturday! Sadie went to work with me yesterday, she had a wonderful time, got lots of attention, especially when she pooped in the middle of the hallway. Talk about a 3 ring circus, me trying to keep residents out of the area, keep Sadie from walking through the poo, and clean the mess up all at once! She gave me no clue she wanted to go out. She had just been out 20 minutes before we started going around visiting. She almost never messes in the house. The only think I can think of is that we were in a part of the hallway that is painted to look like a forest area, maybe she thought she was outside? Gonna be a while before I dare take her back!Going out for a picnic with some friends today, should be a beautiful day for it. No bean suppah tonight, everyone has other plans.
Cammy Cat--I'm still undecided about the 2 ayem class. If I do it and no one come, I'm stuck, but I've got ammunition--you said that was a good time, no one came, so now YOU are stuck coming when I decide to run the classes. But if that time really does work, it would be worth it to do more.Still thinking it through.I do love Olive Garden's chicken and gnocci soup. Like the salad as long as there isn't any dressing on it.I really do not like Italian dressing!Sounds like your family is keeping the local operating room going all by yourselves!That's lots of operations going on.Praying for good results for all of them.
Illi--glad to hear DH is better!
Jazzy--I can't tell if there's been a sudden drop off into fall weather, or going from such high humidity back to normal is making a few degrees lower temps feel a lot lower by comparison. Definitely fallish feeling during the nights and early ayems, but still summer feeling days and evenings. Thinking about swimming tomorrow if the weather holds.
Librarian--how nice to have a surprise visit like that! Great pics, love the info about the covered bridge. The nest looks wonderful, I be you enjoy it quite a bit.
Chi--isn't it frustrating to be doing everything right and still not have the lab results you want?
Weekend On The Beach
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- 1/4 oz Apple Schnapps
- 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
- 1/2 oz Canadian Whiskey
- 1/4 oz Sweet and Sour Mix
Mix the crown royal, apple and peach schnapps, and sweet and sour mix with ice cubes in a shaker and shake until well blended. Strain into a shot glass. Makes one serving.
Best served in a Shot Glass.
From <http://www.haveacocktail.com/weekend-on-the-beach.htm>
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Hi friends- another weekend is here, thank the good Lord. These past two weeks with work, all the health stuff, etc. have been a bit much. But I find my way through and have some peace and quiet to get caught up on things again.
i was out early to get my lash touch up done, but after this next one with my hair cut the week after next, I am letting this go. The lashes are great and really make my eyes look fab, but the maintenance is time and money I don't have (especially the time) plus it interferes with things like my swimming every time I get a touch up. I may try something else with my lashes in the future, but need to leave my eyes alone for awhile, right?
Chi- this particular surgeon uses drops that have the antibiotic, steroid, etc. all rolled in to one drop. It's the new thing they are doing with cataract surgeries to help patients better deal with the drops instead of having to deal with a series of them, which is what it sounds like you had. But to your point, I need to create calendar and alarms for the drops. And yes, I have my drivers lined up for both surgeries. I just need to finalize the second one on Monday with the surgery center and will be having that the day before Thanksgiving and a nice long weekend to be home both times.
NM- I am working with a team on my project that is doing some app training at odd hours, mostly during ED shift changes that can be very early morning. But I have done go lives where I have had to be up working with healthcare people in the middle of the night. i personally found on my last gig when I was doing data center moves during over night that it really messed up my sleep schedule for a long time. I am too old to be shifting gears from day to night shift work. Well, if you host it and no one comes, or attendance is low, then you said say "we tried it, didn't work, something else please." I hope you get to go swimming, Sadie says yay!
Okay, gotta go. Tomorrow is farmers market and spa day!
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Listening to latin hour on NPR this afternoon. I just heard this and it blew me away and I found the video. Amazing duet, enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF0QihfSzV8
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Sunday Funday! I had a wonderful time visiting with friends yesterday, picnic on the ocean at Acadia National Park, got ticketed cuz I didn't have a park pass. Fortunately, I could get out of the $130 ticket by buying a $30 seven-day pass. Still shaking my head, have to buy a 7 day pass to spend a few hours at a picnic site that my tax dollars are paying for keeping up and managing.I didn't mind so much when you could get a $5 day pass. Still, for the hundreds of times I've got there without a pass while I was growing up in the area I guess I can't complain. And, of course, today is one of the 4 days a year that you can go into the park for free.We should have scheduled our picnic for today! Ah, well, I wasn't doing the scheduling (wouldn't have thought about the pass thing anyway) and it's all done and over now, and I've found one of the few (and often well hidden) places where a pass can be bought. Sadie was not so happy that I left her home all day, but she forgave me when I gave her leftover sandwiches for her din-din.
Jazzy--Overnight hours reallymess up my sleeping, too, so I'd rather avoid 2 ayem classes, but if it actually works it would be worth it. I'm leaning toward doing one, just so I can have the ammunition of "tried it, didn't work." I scheduled classes to start an hour before and after the shifts start (CNAs work 7-3, 3-11, and 11-7, nurses work 7a-7p, 7p-7a), and through the day. Some of the excuses I get are entertaining. One nurse can't attend classes after her shift ends because then she won't get enough sleep for her shift the next night. If she's not working the next night she can't stay cuz she's taking care of grandchildren. She can't come in during the day cuz she's sleeping cuz she doesn't change her sleep/wake times on her days off. (Maybe she babysits while she's asleep?)She can't come during the last hour of the shift cuz that's too busy a time with medications and report. I'm betting she'll have a reason for not being able to attend a 2 ayem class, too!
Oh, my, that duet is marvelous!
Mission Impossible
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- 1 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
- 1 shot Kahlua
- 1 shot Green Chartreuse
- Original
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Layer a highball glass filled with ice with 1 shot of Kahlua, 1 shot of Bailey's Irish Cream and 1 shot of Green Chartreuse. Set the Green Chartreause on fire and drink through a long straw.
From <https://makemeacocktail.com/cocktail/3447/mission-impossible/>
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Sunday Funday! I had a wonderful time visiting with friends yesterday, picnic on the ocean at Acadia National Park, got ticketed cuz I didn't have a park pass. Fortunately, I could get out of the $130 ticket by buying a $30 seven-day pass. Still shaking my head, have to buy a 7 day pass to spend a few hours at a picnic site that my tax dollars are paying for keeping up and managing.I didn't mind so much when you could get a $5 day pass. Still, for the hundreds of times I've got there without a pass while I was growing up in the area I guess I can't complain. And, of course, today is one of the 4 days a year that you can go into the park for free.We should have scheduled our picnic for today! Ah, well, I wasn't doing the scheduling (wouldn't have thought about the pass thing anyway) and it's all done and over now, and I've found one of the few (and often well hidden) places where a pass can be bought. Sadie was not so happy that I left her home all day, but she forgave me when I gave her leftover sandwiches for her din-din.
Jazzy--Overnight hours reallymess up my sleeping, too, so I'd rather avoid 2 ayem classes, but if it actually works it would be worth it. I'm leaning toward doing one, just so I can have the ammunition of "tried it, didn't work." I scheduled classes to start an hour before and after the shifts start (CNAs work 7-3, 3-11, and 11-7, nurses work 7a-7p, 7p-7a), and through the day. Some of the excuses I get are entertaining. One nurse can't attend classes after her shift ends because then she won't get enough sleep for her shift the next night. If she's not working the next night she can't stay cuz she's taking care of grandchildren. She can't come in during the day cuz she's sleeping cuz she doesn't change her sleep/wake times on her days off. (Maybe she babysits while she's asleep?)She can't come during the last hour of the shift cuz that's too busy a time with medications and report. I'm betting she'll have a reason for not being able to attend a 2 ayem class, too!
Oh, my, that duet is marvelous!
Mission Impossible
Ingredients
- 1 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
- 1 shot Kahlua
- 1 shot Green Chartreuse
Method
Layer a highball glass filled with ice with 1 shot of Kahlua, 1 shot of Bailey's Irish Cream and 1 shot of Green Chartreuse. Set the Green Chartreause on fire and drink through a long straw.
From <https://makemeacocktail.com/cocktail/3447/mission-impossible/>
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Been without internet, which is why I have been MIA. We are having to use our phones hot spot, which has limited data and we have went once already. Hoping to have it fixed by mid week. Down to Phoenix tomorrow for MO appt. Have not looked at my labs yet, always scared! DH is going with and we are spending the night.
Cami, so sorry to hear about all the surgeries, what is Leslie having done now?
Here is the tomato my brother grew.
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Well chit, my TM's are up yet again.
CA 15-3 should be less than 30, I'm up to 506
CA 27.29 should be less than 37, I'm up to 563
CEA should be less than 3.4, I'm at 18.9
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Goldie, I’m sorry your TM’s are up. I don’t know if they’re accurate for you but hopefully upcoming scans show nothing going on.
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Hi friends- I was out to the farmers market this morning. Got a dozen ears of corn, my favorite melons that are now in season, some tomatoes and some roasted green chili. Ooh and a pretty bouquet of sunflowers too. I added those to a lovely vase of orange gladiolas and it makes a pretty early fall look. I wish it were feeling like fall though, still very hot and supposed to be up to 100 today. Ugh. I am heading to the spa shortly for a facial and some self care time.
NM- we are doing training around the 7 to 7 ED shift change on my project. The young gals that do the training on this one team are so good, and a real joy to work with. My other team I just drag along with me and most of them stare at me with deer in the headlights most of the time. I sometimes like to blame it on being a "millennial thing" but it is not always that either. My worry for you is that if it takes, they may want you to do it all the time. And to the woman who keeps the same hours, it is easier than trying to adjust back. People who travel internationally some times do the same to keep on a regular sleeping scheduling while away on short business trips. I don't think it works though if you are on a longer vaca though.
A lot of people out here in the west have national park passes because we have so many parks and monuments out west. A couple years ago, everyone was scurrying to get one before they went up to $80. It had been $10 and all my friends here said I needed to get one, but I was and still not a senior really (59). When I turn 60 next year, maybe a few more discounts. The average entrance fee to the parks out here is like $30-35 and next time I plan a big road trip around the west, I will spring for the $80 pass. We have state parks but it's like $3 a day or the like. Sorry you got ticketed, but you found your way out! I love Acadia, one of the most lovely of the parks.
Goldie- I can here the anxiety in your voice about your upcoming visit to the MO. Although I hate to see things like this on line, I usually like it better to see them in advance of the doctor visit so I am not blind sighted with something. You have been under enormous stress this year, but hoping that your doctor has some good insights on anything that needs to be adjusted for your care. We will be in your pocket and let us know how things go as you want to......
Okay friends, wishing you all a good funday sunday. It's Labor Day already again next weekend, before you know it, it will be Xmas (and ugh, I see stuff in the store already for Xmas, pa-leeze.....)
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Goldie - that is a beautiful tomato
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Lori, bummer about the TMs. Hope the scans don't correspond. In your pocket for the upcoming MO visit. That's one amazing tomato--your brother's garden obviously is not overrun with hungry squirrels. That one 'mater would make a Caprese for a crowd!
Kim, I hear you about the Nat'l Park pass. You'd think that at the entrance there'd have been a ranger to sell you the $30 pass rather than patrol the lot later and hand out costly tickets (or maybe that's the new revenue-raising fiscal model to offset Interior's budget cuts). The closest one to us is Indiana Dunes--which until this year was a free IN state park. Haven't been there in decades--we aren't beach people (we burn rather than tan), and getting there from Chicago through all the construction mess that is endemic to IN interstates is a major PITA.
This morning we both slept in, and the kitties gently awakened us. No cat-puke on the floor, which was a surprise because Happy gets hunger pangs if he waits longer than 8 hrs to eat. When I got downstairs, with the kitties leading the way, I saw why: Heidi was stalking a big green grasshopper that somehow had gotten into the kitchen overnight. Happy joined her in tag-team torturing it till it became too weak to jump, so they got bored and ate the wet food I put out for them. They perfunctorily resumed the hunt together for a few minutes afterward, but once it crawled under the radiator, they gave up.
Last night was the year's penultimate Navy Pier Sat. night fireworks display (this week is the last Wed. night one). We went to Riva Crabhouse on Navy Pier--took a Lyft because we feared the garage would be too full for even the valet parkers. So much traffic--especially jaywalking pedestrians leaving the pier in droves due to high winds--that the driver had to drop us off at the rideshare area by the Grand Ave. entrance to the pier because the line to get to the rideshare area in mid-pier by the restaurant was a half-mile long and not moving. We had a half-mile indoor walk through throngs of tourists. (Made me remember why we almost never go to the pier unless we have a dinner cruise for one of Bob's hospitals).
With our meal (keto-friendly) I had 2 oz. of Rotari brut rosé, and 3 oz. of a Tuscan vermentino (I actually prefer Sardinian, but few restaurants offer it, especially not by the glass).
Grilling steak tonight, and Bob wants to open the bottle of Federalist Cab. Sauv. he bought last month at Independent spirits.
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Monday Monkey Day! 40 something degrees this ayem, talk about getting up to chilly! Yesterday never got very warm, only into the low 60's, but it was sunny and beautiful. Seems like fall has dropped in all of a sudden.I'm sure it will warm up again soon, though. I know it got chilly during the night, Sadie dumped over a basket of dirty clothes and made a nest with them in the closet. Silly Dog, she could have gotten into bed with me and cuddled! Ah, well, still miffed about me not taking her with us on Saturday, I suppose.
Goldie--WOW, what a tomato!Sorry to hear about the internet trouble. That is always a pain in the anatomy.Not so good about the TMs. Not sure what to think. Prayers for you to get answers soon.
Morning, Illi!
Jazzy--If the 2 ayem class time really works I can deal with that, it's only once a month and not necessarily even every month. I understand about the lady who keeps her sleep schedule the same, and I don't blame her, but she's not consistent in her stories--how can she go home and go to bed and also have to home to baby sit the grandchildren? And like she has also said, it's not like anything will happen if she doesn't stay for a class. As to the park pass, I'm going to have to keep an eye out, sometime in the winter there is a time when residents can get a half price annual park pass just for the once in a while I stop at a park picnic area. There's been so much traffic in the park the last few years that they are talking about setting up a reservation system to visit many places, that's going to make impromptu trips to favorite places a thing of the past. So sad to see nothing but bumper to bumper cars on the park roads nowadays.
Chi--One of the things I don't like about the park pass situation is that you don't drive through an entrance station to get into the park, you have to seek out the places where they sell the passes, the nearest one to where we were was off the road at the entrance to a campground.If the location wasn't on the back of the ticket I wouldn't have known it was there and would have had to drive miles to the nearest station I knew of. There is a small sign that a day pass is required at the entrance to the picnic area, that's been there foryears. They've only begun enforcing it the last couple of years. Annoying, but there it is. Funny pics in my mind of the kitties stalking the grasshopper!
Dead Grasshopper
Ingredients
- 1 part Creme de Menthe
- 1 dash Cinnamon Liqueur
- 1 part White Creme de Cacao
- 1 part Milk
Shake creme de menthe, creme de cacao and milk with ice cubes in a shaker. Pour into a cocktail glass and add a dash of aftershock. Do not stir.
Best served in a Cocktail Glass.
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NM - We did get the national parks pass a couple of years ago before it went up in price. We have only one national park here, the Congaree Swamp. It has a nice boardwalk through large trees and swamps. Once a year the lightening bugs do their synchronized mating dance. It is really fun to see. Our son gives us the state park pass each year for Christmas. We do use it a lot. There is always a guard shack, but never anyone in it. Once we did not have the pass with us, someone was in the shack and we had to pay! Sorry you got such a huge ticket.
Goldie - Did you get any results yet?
ChiSandy - One of our cats does this strange thing I call reserve sneezing. He also has issues with hairballs. The vet says not to worry. His sister hasnone of the issues. They sleep with us and we do wake up when the noises start. Makes for some interesting nights!
I did have an appointment this morning with the MO. Ended up seeing the PA. She is very nice and quite talkative. She explained that insurance will not cover the Neulasta patch if given during radiation. Radiation works against bone marrow. Neulasta is trying to get the bone marrow to make more white blood cells. Insurance doesn’t like wasting them and will not pay if used at the same time. It does not matter where you are getting radiation or at what amount. They just won’t pay for it. My WBC count has not fallen that much since chemo over a week ago. Should be ok to have an infusion on Friday. Did schedule a PET scan for the end of September. We’ll see!
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Grilled steak last night, so Bob wanted to open a bottle of The Federalist 2016 Cab. Sauv. I poured it through the Vinturi aerator, which softened the tannins immensely and made it delightful.
No alcohol for me today. Watching the calories.
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Twofer Tuesday! Happy chilly ayem! Another night with temps dropping to the 40s. Time to turn off the fans, maybe even close a window or two. The season seems to have turned awfully quickly. Sadie likes it, though, she can run around the yard longer without gettingso hot. Looks like the long weekend will be mostly pretty nice. That will be good.
Librarian--I didn't have to pay the big ticket price, I bought the $30 seven day pass as was allowed. Got lucky that way. I've heard of the synchronized lightning bugs, that must be something to see! That's really interesting about the radiation affecting bone marrow even when the bones aren't the target. I remember being told the opposite, that radiation only affects the areas it actually hits. Another example of how far medical research has come and how much more we know about things now. Glad your WBCs are holding on.
Chi--I bet the aerator is fun to use!
Lightning Rod
Ingredients
Pour both ingredients over a few ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass, and serve.
Best served in a Old-Fashioned Glass.
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Good morning all - a lovely, sunny but chilly day happening here. It is canning season and I have so many things I would like to preserve, but no real 'ambition' to do it so we will see what happens.
goldie - hoping all is well?! Is today your birthday? IF so - best wishes, if not, I still wish all good things for you...Do you pickle green tomatoes? if so, as a pickle or a relish?
Jazzy -- your farmer's market sounds like it has a huge variety, ours is pretty piddly here the last couple of years. I am lucky to get produce from friends should I want to do anything with it, still deciding.
Hi NM, illi, chi, teka, mema, JCS, and everyone I am missing! Cheers...
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Hi friends- wading away through all my continued apt for everything. I finally got my thyroid biopsy scheduled for 9/11. Also got my second eye surgery apt schedule for 11/27, the day before the Thanksgiving. Yes, they come in the morning of to check on the patient who had surgery the day before. Because my surgery is super early on that day, they may want me back later in the afternoon. Progress.
Librarian- so how much does the patch cost? is it an option to pay out of pocket for something or just advised to not do?
Goldie- I am thinking of you and praying that your MO gives you some news to help you with anything else you need to be doing. I am praying hard on this friend.
Chi- are you and Bob going on any trips soon?
NM- OMG, temps in the 40s? I want that so bad right now. It was 102 yesterday. It looks like we will be going in to Sept in the mid 90s and really need some cooler weather. Oh pa-leeze.....
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Jazzy, glad you have a date for the biopsy. The fact that they're not rushing you in there is a good sign.
We're going somewhere for the week of Thanksgiving (leave Mon., return Sat. night), because the Bar Show doesn't have rehearsals then--they know people are getting ready for or visiting family for the holiday. Have to be back in town Sun. morning because that's the rehearsal with the band in the morning and running the show in the afternoon (last year it was a "trial run" dress too). We have 1800 RCI points expiring 12/31, and we can't convert them to HiltonHonors points or redeposit them into our HGV timeshare.
Trying to find someplace in the RCI portfolio where the weather is pleasant in late Nov., the resort is decent (not have to drive miles for a good meal or cook everything ourselves, rooms in good repair, no bedbugs, etc.), there's good sightseeing not too far away, and it's not Orlando. (I am theme-parked out). We're not beach people (we burn at the drop of a hat), we don't golf, we don't ski, and we're foodies. The resort has to have availability, and if 1800 points aren't enough we need to be allowed to pay to make up the difference.
Last year we went to the Berkshires in late Oct. for leaf-peeping (unfortunately, everything was still green in SW MA but windstorms blew away all the color up in VT), but the weather can be iffy in the mts. in late Nov. Our fave RCI resort--San Diego Country Estates in San Vicente--is out-of-network now. There's an old-fart resort in Palm Springs that might be available, as well as a Holiday Inn in Hilton Head (we have friends in Charleston, and it's also close to Savannah. We're already going to Myrtle Beach this March (freebie HGV trip). There's a cute litlle resort in TX hill country--convenient for day trips to San Antonio, the wineries, & Austin. But the amenities are sort of primitive and it had flood issues two autumns in a row. There's one on Lake Chelan in central WA--could already be snowy, and it's too far from Seattle & Spokane to be practical. There's one in NOLA on Tchopitoulas (I've walked past it several times), but reviews are brutal. We may settle for a small resort in Glendale, AZ, near where we stayed in 1998--I like the Phoenix/Scottsdale area that time of year.
Or if all else fails, we can forfeit the points and go to SF, Seattle, Portland or Vancouver and stay at Hilton hotel properties to save some dough.
Kim, that Vinturi is fun: it has a lucite stand on which base you put the glass or carafe, and put the aerator up top. When you pour, it swirls down and makes gurgling noises before it drops into the glass. (Pour too fast, though, and it's splatter-fest).
As to DOTD, I finally am starting to get the hang of steaming & frothing Califia Unsweetened Barista Blend almond milk. Gotta use the espresso machine's steam wand slowly and gently--the Nespresso Aeroccino will only heat it. (Pacific Barista Series froths beautifully, but it has too much sugar: carby-er than regular milk and nearly as carby as Oatly). Of course, my more "woke" friends diss me for using dairy (I found Organic Valley's version of FairLife and it's delicious), soy (monoculture soil depletion & agribusiness), and almond milk (10,000 gal. of water to grow one almond). If I were to boycott everything that is insufficiently socially responsible, I'd be wearing rags, putting up a windmilll & solar panels, and eating roots, twigs & leaves.
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Good Morning. Loungettes!Happy Hump Day! I am so not liking the bedroom being so dark when the alarm goes off.Time to set the third alarm, one that wakes me up enough to turn on the lights 15 minutes before the actual time-to-get-up alarm. Even Sadie knows I don't get up on the first alarm when it's dark!
Janky--here's to hoping you find the ambish to can the good stuff for winter use!
Jazzy--getting things scheduled is a good step in the right direction. I'll see what I can do about sending you some of the cooler temps, I'm not ready to give up summer yet.
Chi--wow, lots to consider when planning a fall vacay.The Vinturi must be a blast to play with, as long as the splatter doesn't happen!
Morning to every one!
Lemony Summer
Ingredients
- 3/4 oz Amaretto
- 1 oz Whiskey
- 1 oz Lemon Juice
- 1 oz Orange Juice
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice, and serve.
Best served in a Highball Glass.
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JCS, you can get a Nat. Park pass for free if you are disabled. They only asked us for a DL and either handicap plate or placard. They gave us the card right on the spot! Here is a link that tells how to raise platelets naturally.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322937.p...
NM, temps in the 40's? We are still in those darn 90's and low triple digits! Been a very hot and dry summer for us. Funny you set an alarm to turn lights on. What about a timer that will just turn them on for you?
Janky yes, it was my birthday yesterday, but not anything I make a big deal out of anymore. I do not pickle green tomatoes, never had them either. I made fried green tomatoes once, didn't care for them. I mostly do spaghetti sauce, salsa and just plain tomatoes, and I have made zucchini relish.
Jazzy, we will be in your pocket come 9/11 and the other dates. Of course the 9/11 will be easy to remember and you will need to remind us of the eye surgeries.
Well, saw my onc, we are not changing treatment just yet. Besides being the captain of my ship, he also tells me that we treat the patient and not the markers. So staying with Xeloda for another 6 weeks. But if they jump as much in another 6 weeks, he said we will change. And I did have scans on my chest and abdomen when I was sick for those 2 months, which didn't show anything. So if anything IS going on, I think it's in my bones.
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Mornin' ladies,
Oh Lori I pray the have answers for u to get these numbers under control somehow. This as to be so stressful for u. Sometimes times it's OK then this...they have to have some answers in their bag of trix, I pray they do and it will .be good for u and bring numbers to where they should be, or at least close. OY. <HUGS> I wish I could be there for u.
Jazzy can u be any more organized??? It's really good for u to make sure everything gets done on ur terms. Then this thyroid thing messes u up. But somehow I know u will be on top of all this. Oh they're just going to watch numbers, no big deal. on my blood work, that's all right now they're kind of scattered and off.
Oh that bridge looks like every scary movie that I've ever seen, but it is kinda rustic cute.
Illi ur on the go again.
Kim this 2am thing sounds like it's taking u all over the map, I thought about it don't even bother, don't start doing something u really don't want to do in the long run. And -----that would drive Sadie crazy.
Sandy ur another one that so organized, I don't have a clue how u gals keep that up. Lori Les has to have another cuz under her arms there is some kind of entanglement that PT won't do. And the only way is to open her up and cut and tear so she'll have movement in her arm again. She has very limited movement now and can not work at all.
OK tomato time, do u really eat that??? It's so unusual u hate to cut into it, but sandy ur right. It could feed a block party for sure.
Dan came b yesterday and I told him never buy me more than a 50.00 cert.. and sure nuff he buys me 100.00, he feeds into my addiction of shoping. One of the guys was so sick so I told him what to do, he was trying to work so I gave him some extreme measures. I was talking to Dan and told him an Idea I had <stupid me> he thought it was great for ME to do. Why do I ever open my mouth.
OK this puter is showing super large letters so I don't know when I send it what it will do. but I couldn't get it smaller so now we see.
LUBS U ALL
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OK I fixed it, it came on huge.Some things are great huge, this is not one of them.
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Hi friends- well it's feeling cooler out there this morning and I am hopeful that the weather will continue to be more late summer like. They said we are past the extreme heat (meaning over 100) but also it's still in the mid 90s. I think I will be wearing my summer dresses well into the fall, but that can work too.
I have to laugh sometimes about my work as I work with two providers on my clinical communications project that I like a lot, but man do they drop the f-bomb sometimes and stun me. LOL. Yesterday I told one of them about a project that touches our world that did not get funded for next year and the one provider stopped as we were walking in the hall and yelled "Eff, what, why not?" I felt my eyes get huge and I don't surprise easily either. Anyways, I understand why she is upset and will get her with the right people to talk about it.
Goldie- I like your MO's comment about treating the patient and not the markers. Sometimes we get lost in the world of healthcare around our blood work, scans, and other things. I am going to keep praying for you for the current meds to work. You might want to ask your MO about denusaub for bones too, I think think current medication is for that and know Prolia shots are made from it too (still get that twice a year and another shot coming up in mid Sept, oh won't sept be fun?) And yes, I will remind everyone of the surgeries as they approach.
Chi- if you go to Palm Springs, I have all the great places to tell you about to eat there. My sister has a second home in PS and have been out there a couple times to their home there since they bought it a few years back. There is a fabulous Jewish deli there called Shermans, I bet you even know about it. The food is the best and they have fabulous desserts too, many sugar free which is what this girl wants. I know you are super careful about your diet. I hope you find a great spot to go for the holiday.
NM- that drink looks so good but I am not fan of whiskey, Darn it.
Cami- yes, getting organized will get me through the busy fall. This fall is going to be busy with all this medical stuff, planned and beyond. Then my nephew is coming in mid October for balloon fiesta and his birthday, then I have my second surgery in November. The crunch is going to come in the next six weeks, and I am getting ready. But this weekend is my last fun get away to Santa Fe and the Eddie Daniels concert you and I have talked about some. Going to embrace the last of the summer and then dive straight in to the fall.
Janky- thank you for the good wishes. Are you back from your travels?
My only question about the last farmers market visit was this- I think the lady I got the corn from was selling GMO corn. I like the natural stuff but my place for that did not have any this week. The woman was selling it pre-bagged and no chance to really look at it, or I would have known. But i did the minute I took the husks off on Sunday. Well now I know and won't buy there again. There will be corn in to Sept. I don't think farmers markets necessarily ensure the stuff is organic or where they get their seeds. Live and learn?
Ill- did you buy the new truck last weekend? Any good eats while you were up in Fort Worth?
Busy day ahead but going to out lunch with a couple guy friends from another job who work at the current healthcare group. Everyone have a good Wednesday. The long weekend is coming. Labor Day weekend is my favorite of the long summer holidays, here is to us working stiffs in all our form and function......
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