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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Mond Monkey Day! The puppers and I had an uneventful weekend. WE got a bit more snow, so now there is a couple of inches of very light, fluffy, blowy stuff around. I got a bit of surprise when I saw the date for today. I keep thinking January has jsut started and here it is almost half over!
MOmmy—Isn't it amazing how many employers require experience and how few are willing to provide that opportunity. And those same employers work to get rid of older employees who have tons of the very experience employers are looking for. Legit work-from-home jobs seems to be very hard to come by. I don't blame you for not wanting to do Customer Service work, that is about as thankless a job as there can be. And I hear you about getting testy with Customer Service Reps on the phone, I've done it too. Writing and publishing books would be a great way to go, except that, as you already noticed, isn't really financially lucrative compared to the work involved. Still, it might be worth pursueing, you never can tell when all the elements will align and make you rich!
MIriandra—LOL at the DH/Son convo! One of the winter sights that still makes me shake my head is a guy walking outside with a hat, scarf wound around his face, gloves, big heavy winter coat over shorts and bare lower legs ending in heavy-duty hiking boots.
Morning, Carole!
Karen—wow, sounds like a long trip to the mountains, I'm not sure how I'd feel about waiting for a tunnel to re-open after some hazmat trucks went through, although it's probably a better feeling than being IN the tunnel with the hazmat trucks! Nothing wrong with getting bundled up to go out for a walk when it's cold! More power to you for still getting out! Good luck with the upcoming hematology appointment. I will be praying for good lab results and answers to all your question.
Morning, Minus! Please say HI to Illimae for us if you see her on the dinner thread.
Baby It's Cold Outside: Bad & Boozy Hot Chocolate Recipe
Recipe
Ingredients
3 cups Whole Milk
1 cup Half And Half
¼ cup White And Milk Chocolate Chips
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 pinch Cinnamon
1 pinch Kosher Salt
½ cup Bailey's Irish Cream
½ cup Bourbon
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All bundled up but wearing shorts seems to be a Seattle thing too. Snow pants sOund more appropriate to me
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Still looking for work, but until I find something, I am reviving a short story I did years ago for a class and going to expand on it to turn it into a book.
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Wren - my son in the San Francisco Bay area also wears shorts most of the winter. At least they are "Bermuda" shorts. In the mean time I have on "32 degree" long underwear beneath my Levis.
I see that Costco has new pre-mixed Old Fashioned cocktails in a bottle. Since hard liquor can only be sold in licensed liquor stores, I won't be able to try it in Texas.
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Just lost a whole post ugh....Karen we saw the Bob Dylan movie and loved it. Long running time not that we thought of that except we had to take a potty break. We thought it was delightful.
Hope to hear from illimae also.
NM that drink looks so cozy and warm! Makes me want to plan an evening Baileys decaf coffee ☕️.
Whatever else I was saying has been forgotten. I have to try to remember to save posts!
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The Bob Dylan movie was quite good and the time did not drag. I was telling my 26 year old that whoever played Dylan had him down quite well and she seemed to know who the actor was.
Saw the Hematologist this morning. I told him I was nervous about the appointment and he said, let me put your mind at ease. MM #'s are good, relatively stable, but creeping up ever so slowly. He is not concerned and if the increase to a point that treatment is necessary (agai), we will go that route. He thinks it will be slow. I'm not in remission (and haven't been), but stable numbers and smoldering.
My Potassium was high, but Hematologist was not concerned. He said to see my endocrinologist or Nephrologist if I wanted to.
Well, Hematologist was not worried about Potassium being elevated, but Nephrologist was worried. After three phone calls from them this afternoon, they want me to go have my labs repeated tomorrow instead of waiting to next week. She told me not to eat any Potassium rich foods - and there are a lot that are part of my diet. No tomatoes, no yogurt, no oranges, no potatoes are just the beginning of the list.There are no appointments tomorrow early in the morning, so I will go as a walk in and hopefully the wait won't be long. I wrote work to let them know I would be late.
I feel like I can't catch a break. Will keep you posted.
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Karen, congrats on smoldering….There's a new drug they are doing trials with for MGUS so it doesn't turn into myeloma. Early days. Makes me wonder what to do. I read that tamoxifen could contribute to higher risk of blood cancers, which made me mad.
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Wally - it took me 4 years to go from MGUS to MM - In 2024, I did chemo but stopped early due to side effects. Hematologist is not treating SMM with anythings other than just watching me. If things progress, will take meds again. Because I had DNA destroy chemo with BC, I can't do a SCT as that DNA chemo would put me at risk for Leukemia. If you can share the drugs being used for MGUS, I'd like to investigate and ask Hematologist about them at my next appointment in the spring. A side effect of Taxotere is Leukemia!!!! IF one thing doesn't kill you another might!!!
Now just waiting for my labs from today and hopefully there won't be any surprises and the wonky numbers will all be normal. I've been a mess all day starting with waiting as a walk in at the lab - Got there at 7:30 when they opened and finally at 9:00 they took me.
Need to get ready for a 2.5 hour online class that starts in about 20 minutes.
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Maybe not the place to ask for your initial MGUS dx…some are considered low risk vs high risk and I think this drug is for high risk. Of course, I've always been an outlier…so even with BC, never fell into the right category.
here is what I found for mgus and smoldering. The Daratumumab is the drug that is either combined in the 4 drug cocktail (for myeloma/"cure" remission) and for MGUS from spreading. D-prism study….
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Wally - I was on 13 different meds when I was on chemo for MM - many were OTC as well as an inhaler, acetamenaphin, anti- nausea etc. I was on Dara, Velcade, Revlimid and dethamexathone. I think it was the Velcade that I reacted to. The hemtologist said REvlimid is what he would go back to if numbers continue to rise. i;m not in remission since i stopped treatment early but went back to SMM from MM. As long as number stay stable, I'm guess I'm okay. the MGUS was found when Nephrologist was looking for cause of stage 3 CKD.
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I am thinking of watching and waiting since we all know any drug will have side effects. The cancer landscape is changing quickly, for better or worse…less experience but more options. My husband is in the same boat with metastatic prostate cancer. I'm still using a mid-dose range of curcumin supplement to hopefully keep my MGUS stable. We'll see. Wish we had a say in our outcomes, LOL.
Best to you, karen, and I hope you can smolder for a very long time.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Hump Day! Waking up to temps in the double digits today, which is a nice bit of a warm up! Nice to see the sun, though. Nothing exciting going on today. Tomorrow I'm taking Mom out to a Senior Lunch so she can visit with some of her friends and then to visit Aunti Diane. Today will be for puttering aorund the house, reading, playing computer games.
Wren—any kind of long pants would make more sense than shorts in the winter, for men or women, but it seems to be mostly men who do that!
MOmmy—good luck with the job search! And even greater luck with the book!
Minus—have you ever tried buying alcohol on line? Or is Texas one of the states that doesn't allow alcohol delivery via mail? Maine is a bit weird, I can order wine, and some harder drinks, but what I can order and have delivered seems to be dependent as much on where I'm ordering from as what I'm ordering.
Reader—losing a post is a royal pain in the anantomy. A cup of coffee with Bailey's is a great way to end a nice meal.
Karen—glad you enjoyed the movie. HOORAY for stable, if smoldering, MM lab results. There is nothing like the frustration of getting different opinions about the same test result from different providers. I hope the potassium level re-test comes back at a good level.
Wally—it seems like a lot of cancer treatments have long-term effects on cancer and treatment survivors. Radiation for Hodgkins Lymphoma is a known high risk factor for breast cancer in female survivors. Heart disease is a known risk factor for many chemotherapy agents. With people being diagnosed earlier, getting more aggressive treatments, and surviving longer, these longer term effect are showing up more. The first generation of children cured of childhood leukemia are just entering yound adulthood and no one knows what to expect other than increased rates of skin cancer over areas that received radiation. Any radiation damage to my heart and left lung could show up any time now. There's going to be a whole new medical speciality for managing treatment-related secondary cancer someday soon.
Karen—it's been known in the medical field for ages that chemotherapy agents that depress the immune system are associated with secondary blood cancers like leukemia. The original thinking was that the cancer would kill a patient immediately or very soon, and the leukemia probably wouldn't show up for 10 years or so, most patient's would die before it became an issue and so was worth the risk to give the patient a few more months of life. Nobody has really revisited that whole concept as technology has advanced. Praying for good lab results for you.
Butterfly Effect
Lemon vodka 2 oz
Velvet falernum liqueur 1 oz
Green chartreuse 0.25 oz
Lemon juice 1 oz
Butterfly pea flower tea
Edible flowers
1 Steep Butterfly Pea Flower tea in hot water and let sit
2 Allow to cool
3 In a shaking glass with ice, combine lemon vodka, falernum liqueur, green Chartreuse, and lemon juice
4 Shake well
5 Strain mix into a glass over ice and top with a butterfly pea flower float
6 Garnish with edible flowers
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NM - yes I ordered on line once from our local liquor store for local delivery. Total Wine often offers free delivery. I made the mistake of adding the tip to my on-line order instead of having cash for the delivery guy, but it was the first time I'd ordered anything delivered from anywhere. (Yeah, I know I'm a dinosaur)
I tried once long ago to order wine from the West Coast but they wouldn't ship to Texas. That may have changed by now.
Wally - I can't remember…. Did I send you one of the newsletters from the Loma Linda center regarding prostate cancer treatment?
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Minus, I don't think you did. No worries. I can google it.
DH's onco visit went well…he needs another scan to see how much progression there has been, then we can determine next course of treatment. I asked him about MGUS and he seemed to think it rarely progresses. Unnerved me since I know several people who did.
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Wally - here's the Loma Linda newsletter.
My brother went with the Proton Therapy. He's in good shape 8 years down the road. My ex-DH had a total prostate removal. He's fine 5 years down the road. Because of his age he didn't really care if he would perform sexually so that didn't matter. A friend's husband with with the hormone treatments but dropped out. Was not a positive result.
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Thanks, minus. DH is stage 4 from the outset. Already in his bones. They did castration but did not remove the prostate. We thought it was odd, but since the cancer is already everywhere in his bones, doc said no point. Lots of new clinical trials….thanks again.
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Staying in the house as much as I can until Wednesday. It’s going to be bitter cold here. Stocked up on pee pads for Nugget so he won’t be outside much until warms up.
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Denver is getting snowed on again. So of course, we have multiple things we have to drive the kids to this weekend. 🙄 Their high school JROTC is holding a pancakes breakfast fund raiser at a nearby Applebee's, DH has a funeral to attend in the afternoon, and boy-child has a birthday party at Boondocks. Normally, I would have karate classes on Saturdays, but all the other schedule obligations have overridden them. Considering the weather, I might not have gone anyway.
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Don’t blame you.
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As it turned out, the dojo cancelled all classes today anyway. Bushido does not include driving in stupid weather. 😆
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Wise thinking on their part
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Sunday Funday! I talked Mom into trying the online ordering/pick up service at the grocery store for this week's trip. We compromised, she wants to pick out her own produce and deli items, which I can get along with. Saturday was spent putting together the grocery list and working through getting the order put together. There's an option when you start shopping to reserve a pick up date/time at the beginning or at the end, I should have opted for at the end. The reserved time hold ran out twice while we were shopping! We ended up actually picking up the order Saturday. Mom had just a few things to pick up herself inside: bread, onions, potatoes, fruit, sandwich meat. She was in the store for TWO HOURS. The in-store time is down an hour but the whole thing ran over 2 days!
Sounds like a decent amount of snow coming in overnight tonight. Right now you couldn't tell a storm of any kind was coming. Very pretty, and not as cold as I was thinking it was going to be today. Or maybe the cold is coming in after the snow. It's funny how Zoe, the multiple breed of Husky mix, is the first of the puppers to get cold outside and come shivering to the door to be let back in! Or maybe not, she is a short haired dog, doesn't have the undercoat and all the fluff that I tend to associate with Huskies.
Minus—actually, you aren't such a dinosaur as all that. Local home delivery of groceries and such has only been available in this part of Maine for a few years. I did learn from some of my hospice patients that local taxis would pick up and deliver from all sorts of stores, including liquor stores, which surprised me very much at the time! I think different states have different rules about shipping wine and alcohol. It seems kind of random sometimes.
Wally—Glad to hear DH's appointment went well!
MOmmy—good thing you stocked up, don't want poor Nugget to get his nuggets frozen!
Miriandra—boy do you have a busy day! Drive safe. OK, it’s been cancelled. Good thing Bushido has some common sense!
Frostbite Cocktail Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 oz blue curaçao
- 1 oz vodka
- 1 oz coconut cream
- 1/2 oz simple syrup (adjust to taste)
- 1 oz fresh lime juice
- Ice cubes
- Blueberries or mint leaves for garnish (optional)
Instructions:
Prepare the Glass:
Place a martini glass or any other cocktail glass in the freezer for at least 10 minutes to chill it.
Fill Shaker with Ice:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. This will help chill and mix the ingredients effectively.
Add the Liquors:
Pour 2 oz of blue curaçao into the shaker.
Add 1 oz of vodka to the mix.
Introduce Creaminess:
Measure and add 1 oz of coconut cream to the shaker.
Sweeten it Up:
Pour in 1/2 oz of simple syrup to balance the flavors. Adjust the sweetness according to your preference.
Squeeze in Freshness:
Squeeze the juice of one fresh lime into the shaker. This adds a zesty and citrusy kick to the cocktail.
Shake It Up:
Secure the lid on the shaker and shake the mixture vigorously for about 15-20 seconds. This will ensure the ingredients are well-mixed, and the cocktail gets nice and chilled.
Strain into Glass:
Remove the chilled glass from the freezer and strain the cocktail mixture into it. Use a fine mesh strainer to catch any ice shards.
Garnish:
Optionally, garnish your Frostbite Cocktail with a few blueberries or a mint leaf for a pop of color and freshness.
Serve and Enjoy
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For Those Who Like My Stories:
Helping Mom with Grocery Shopping, Part 1: The Pre-Trip Adventure
When I arrived at Mom's apartment, I knew the first order of business wasn’t heading to the store—it was hunting down all her grocery lists. Mom is a fan of distributed data storage, with each list lovingly scrawled on random scraps of paper, the backs of envelopes, a small notepad, and a larger notepad. Her lists were scattered across key "hot spots" in the apartment: by the fridge, on the kitchen counter next to the sink, on the breakfast bar, the side table near her easy chair, and for reasons unknown, one in the laundry room.
My task? To combine these fragments into one master list, while eliminating duplicates. This is where I learned that rice cakes are not merely a grocery item—they’re a lifestyle. Rice cakes were on all six lists. Bread, milk, and fruit made repeat appearances too, along with a rogue entry for "that cheese I like." After meticulous consolidation, I presented Mom with the list.
But we weren’t done yet. Mom needed to rewrite the list so it matched the layout of the store. This involved a 15-minute brainstorming session about whether rice cakes were in the snack aisle or the health food section. Once the list was organized to Mom’s satisfaction, she announced, “I’m ready to go shopping! Just need to put my coat on.”
The list was placed carefully on the back of her easy chair, where it promptly fell to the floor. I retrieved it, gathered the reusable grocery bags, and thought we were finally good to go. Silly me.
Mom headed to her bedroom to change out of her slippers and into socks. Socks on, slippers off. Then socks off, slippers back on. Back to the living room. She retrieved her boots, sat down, took off her slippers (again), put the socks back on (again), and finally managed to put on her boots.
“Where’s my list?” she asked, suddenly alarmed.
“I’ve got it,” I reassured her.
“Good,” she said, visibly relieved. “I’m ready now.”Gently, I suggested she grab her purse. This was followed by a thorough excavation of said purse.
“What are you looking for, Mom?”
“My grocery list.”
“I have your list,” I reminded her. “Let’s put it in your purse next to your checkbook.”That settled, Mom started rummaging again.
“What are you looking for Mom?”
“A pen to cross things off with,” she replied, triumphantly adding a pen from her side table to the three already in her purse.Then came Round Three of purse spelunking.
“What are you looking for Mom?””
“I’m just checking for my checkbook.”
“It’s in your hand,” I pointed out.
“Oh, so it is. I better put it in my purse.”We headed toward the door. Almost free! But not quite.
Mom stopped to pat her coat pockets. “How cold is it? Do I need my gloves? Where are my gloves?”Fortunately, I remembered which coat she wore last time. I retrieved the gloves and handed them to her. She slipped them into the pockets of her current coat and announced, “Now I’m ready.”
As we drove to the grocery store, Mom began rifling through her purse again.
“What are you looking for, Mom?”
“My grocery list.”
“It’s in your purse next to your checkbook,” I said.
“Oh yes, I see it now,” she replied, satisfied.By the time we arrived, Mom had her gloves out of her coat pockets, her grocery list, checkbook, and pen out of her purse, all held tightly in her hands. When I stopped the car, I went around to help her put everything back where it belonged so she could safely get out of the car.
I asked if she wanted me to come inside.
“I’ve been grocery shopping longer than you’ve been alive. I can manage just fine,” she replied, a hint of irritation in her voice.After double-checking that her cell phone was in her purse, I watched her march off to conquer the store. Knowing how this usually went, I stayed in the parking lot with my book. I read a few chapters, played some games on my phone, and read some more.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Mom called to say she was ready. I went to the door, loaded her groceries into the car, and helped her climb back in.
As we drove home, she mused, “It seems like I was in the store for a long time.”
“You were in there for THREE hours,” I told her.
“Well, I’m not surprised. I couldn’t find anything! They’ve moved everything around, and there wasn’t anyone around to help!”Mom began searching her purse again.
“What are you looking for, Mom?” I asked.
“Making sure I have my grocery list.”Helping Mom with Grocery Shopping, Part 2: The New Plan
Mom was still recovering from last week’s grocery shopping marathon but had already started talking about the items she couldn’t find. Determined to avoid a repeat of the three-hour odyssey, I picked up the missing items on my way to her apartment and sat her down for a heart-to-heart about grocery shopping.
“Mom, three hours is way too long for an 88-year-old with a bad back and artificial knees to be wandering around a store,” I began.
“Well, I didn’t mean to be in there that long, but they moved everything!” she replied, clearly still annoyed with the store’s layout.I told her about the grocery store’s order-and-pickup service, emphasizing how much time and energy it could save. At first, Mom was adamant. “I don’t like the idea of someone else picking out my food,” she said.
“Funny,” I countered, “you don’t seem to mind when I pick out food for you.”
“That’s different,” she said, waving her hand dismissively.It took some coaxing and a few reminders of how tired she’d been after last week’s adventure, but she finally agreed to try the pickup service—on one condition: we’d use it for prepackaged items, but she insisted on going into the store for deli and produce items. Small victories.
With that decided, the list-making began. I rounded up the usual suspects: scraps of paper, envelopes, notepads large and small. Then I asked Mom to check the fridge, snack cupboard, bread cupboard, freezer, bathroom, and laundry room for anything she was low on. “We’re not leaving anything off this time,” I declared.
Next, I introduced Mom to the wonders of online grocery shopping. We went through the website together, item by item. At first, she was skeptical, peering at the screen and muttering things like, “Are those the crackers I like?” or “That’s not the kind of soup I buy.” But when she realized she could choose exactly what she wanted—brands, sizes, and all—she started to warm up to the idea.
When I explained that the store employees would bring the groceries to her car, her eyes lit up. “You mean I don’t even have to go inside?” she asked, sounding both surprised and delighted. She quickly added more items to the list, getting downright enthusiastic about the process.
This part took a while. In fact, it took so long that the reserved pickup time slot got canceled. Twice. No problem—I simply rescheduled, but by then it was getting late, and Mom doesn’t like driving after dark. “It’s too dangerous,” she said gravely, as if we lived in a high-speed car chase movie.
I booked a pickup for the next day instead. Knowing there might be items unavailable, I waited until morning to write out the short list of things Mom would go inside the store to get. “This should be quick,” I thought, blissfully unaware of what was to come.
The short list seemed foolproof: bread, fruit, onions, potatoes, lunch meat, and coleslaw. After reloading her purse with her list, checkbook, and a small arsenal of pens, I helped Mom out of the car and into the store. “This won’t take long,” I thought optimistically.
While she tackled her short list, I drove to the pickup area, where the staff loaded her online order into the back of the car. Efficient and easy! Feeling rather smug, I parked nearby, expecting Mom would emerge triumphantly in a matter of minutes.
I wish I’d remembered to bring my book.
Minutes turned into an hour. Then two.
When Mom finally came out, she looked pleased as punch, pushing a cart brimming with groceries that slightly exceeded the “short list.” I got out to help load her purchases into the car, asking gently, “How’d it go?”
“Well, I got almost everything,” she said, looking sheepish. “I couldn’t find the bread I wanted.”
I glanced at her cart, which now included a watermelon (out of season), a bag of cookies, a can of pineapple chunks, and several items we’d already ordered online.“What about the rest of the list?” I asked.
“Oh, I found everything else—and a few extras. But I couldn’t find the bread! They keep moving everything around, and there’s no one to help!”On the drive home, Mom complained good-naturedly about the store’s layout, the unhelpfulness of the staff, and the confusing labels on packages. “It’s a miracle I found anything at all!” she declared, holding court from the passenger seat.
But as we pulled into her driveway, she admitted, “I really am happy this trip was so much shorter than the last one.”
Two hours in the store versus three. Progress!
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I do love these stories. My DH is in memory care now but I remember shopping with him the year before he went in. So much junk food.
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NM, you're a saint. Or at least a model of patience. Your mom stories make me smile.
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Nugget is very happy that he is not going out until this brutal cold snap is over
Had to get those heat therapy patches. I’ve had some pretty bad neck pain that started Friday night. Woke up yesterday and it was worse. Tried Advil and Icy-Hot which didn’t even touch it. So hubby and I braved the brutal temps to get me some relief. It’s gone down a bit but the pain is still there. Think the brutal cold is making it bad, probably giving me the start of arthritis in my neck from injuries suffered in a car accident in my early teens.2 -
I'm baaaaack…..
No, not in my house (interior demo done; finally just got the construction permits but winter is getting in the way of beginning the rehab). Best guesstimate is that, given the extensive code-compliance work that needs doing in a 1908 house, besides restoration, we will be stuck here in Lincolnwood till June.
But if you were thinking the worst, fear not: I have been too lazy (and busy) to use a laptop and so have been doing everything on my phone, like a Gen-Zer; and typing other than texting on a phone is a royal pain. Pontiac Peggy knew I was okay because we were corresponding on Facebook.
Since I last checked in here, I sprained my L ankle and broke my L 5th metatarsal. Ironically, it was because I avoided falling: I lunged for the banister of my sunken living room but my rubber sandal stuck to the pile of the carpet even as I went forward & to the side. I plopped into my recliner instead of on to the floor, but the damage was done. Spent 3 weeks actually living in the living room (except for going to the powder room—where I washed because the bathrooms with showers were either a flight of stairs up to the 2d floor or down to the basement) and 7 weeks in a CAM boot, with 3 more weeks in a lace-up brace. Amazingly, the Bar Show wrote me some parts that did not require dancing and let me sing into an offstage mic. But I was eventually able to not only do rudimentary choreography—ok, organized gesturing—but even played guitar onstage! The show was a huge success and I can't wait to do it again next year. BTW, at 74 this coming Thurs,, I'm the second oldest woman in the cast and third oldest person, period! Our chief costumer, who takes bit parts because she barely sings, just turned 80.
It is brutally cold here, but we have had very little snow. Going down to -2F overnight, and we won't see positive double digits till Wed. morning. The hot-water heating system here dates back to the 1950s, when this place was built. Downstairs, the radiators are baseboards and do an adequate job (assuming we bundle up). But the bedrooms have mini-radiators in wall registers and are definitely not up to the job. We have to crank the thermostat to 80 in order for the ambient indoor air to stay above 65. We just bought sleeping bags to use as extra quilts.
All in all, though, it beats floods and especially wildfires. My friends in the L.A. area are safe and back in their intact homes—but I've been unable to reach my cousin in Altadena (his landline is kaput, likely because the house is gone; I don't have his mobile; and his office phones in Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades…well, you can guess). Bright spot is that neither his nor his wife's names are on the list of dead or missing.
The cats (BangBang & Roxy) are a handful. They have become addicted to the laser pointer and follow me up to the bedroom and won't let me sleep until I've played with them for 15-20 minutes. I used it at first so they'd chase the dot into the hall, letting me close the door so I can sleep unmolested; but they wised up pretty quickly. Roxy then goes to sleep with Bob and BangBang with me…and wakes me up in the morning by aggressively nuzzling me till I can go downstairs to feed them.
OK, DOTD: Joseph Drouhin 2021 Bourgogne Rouge (with salmon for dinner). Meanwhile, gotta skate over to the other forums to let them know I'm ok!
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Sandy - so good to hear from you. I wanted to reach out on FB but couldn't remember your screen name. It's late, so I'll write more later.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Monday Monkey Day! Well, out big overnight snow storm left us with just enough snow to need to plow the driveway. Just a few inches, nothing major. Now I guess the deep freeze starts moving in. Not looking forward to that, but not much that can be done about it either. At least the weather guessers aren't calling for lots of wind and potential power outages during the freeze off.
And there is more to the Grocery Shopping with Mom saga. She called me yesterday because some items were "missing." Bread, peanut butter, cream cheese, only one sleeve of rice cakes and not 4. Pulled up the order, I didn't put in bread or peanut butter, only ordered 1 sleeve of rice cakes, and Mom never mentioned cream cheese at all. OK, no super big deal, I put in an order to be delivered to her apartment. Opted for free delivery in the evening. I happened to be on the phone when the delivery arrived, good thing because they needed a code number to verify the delivery with. I finally found that in the text message the store sent out saying the delivery was on its way. First time I've had this happen, but ok, no biggy. Would you believe I forgot the bread, again? Now I've got to work that into a story!
All I can do is laugh. 😊
Wren—I remember you telling about some of your shopping trips with DH!
Carole—I wouldn't call myself a saint, not with some of the thoughts that run through my mind during these episodes. I am exercising my patience muscles a lot, though! Glad my stories make you smile.
MOmmy—glad you found something to ease the neck pain despite having to go out into the deep freeze to get it. I'm going to need to get something like that to try on my knee, it's really be complaining with the temperature dropping. Last night I could barely walk on it to get to bed. It' a bit better this ayem, but still bothersome.
Chi—Welcome back! Glad to hear there is progress being made on the house, even if it is slower than desired and anticipated. I hear you about typing on a phone. Many phones have the ability to dictate rather than type, and while it takes a little getting used to it is easier and faster, at least for me. Proofreading dictated text is very important, however! I've caught some hilarious and some potentially embarrassing typos/mistaken word mistakes. Good grief for the ankle and metatarsal! So good the BAr Show could accommodate your injury. Congrats on a great show. Happy Birthday coming up. Third oldest person in the cast is pretty cool. What's the average age of the cast, do you have any idea? And, ah the joys of living in an older home. Makes me wonder how people managed to keep warm before sleeping bags and high tech, heat retaining clothing was invented! It sounds like Roxy and BangBang have you pretty well trained. It doesn't take the fur babies long to get us in line, does it?
Morning, Karen!
Arctic Circle
INGREDIENTS
1 oz Finlandia vodka
1/2 oz lime juice
4 1/2 oz ginger ale
DIRECTIONS
To craft this exquisite cocktail, begin by gently stirring the following ingredients: 1 oz Finlandia vodka, 1/2 oz lime juice, 4 1/2 oz ginger ale. Once blended to perfection, pour into the highball glass and enjoy. The process is as enjoyable as savoring the drink itself.
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Good morning. I welcomed Sandy back on another forum. Our forecast is for 5 to 8 inches of snow early tomorrow morning. Our last snow storm of this magnitude was back in 1960, according to the tv reports. Dh's knee surgery (set for today) was rescheduled to Wednesday but I'm doubtful that will work out. Highway conditions will probably be hazardous on Wednesday. Weather like this causes widespread closures of businesses, schools, hospitals and the recommendation is for everyone to stay home. Hunker down. I'm sure people are in supermarkets today buying everything in sight.
Mommyof3, hope you get relief from your neck pain.
Everyone stay warm and safe.
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