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Hello Dollinks, Well with all that hail pounding on the roof and windows and DH snoring like a wild banshee all night I just couldn't sleep until finally about 5 when the alarm went off I was out..stayed in bed till almost 8 - what a lazy a$$! Now I'm way behind.
Dorthy - thanks for the nice words about deserving a nice home. Sorry about all your car problems, man, I would get new cars too, but DH only likes one kind he can work on - old Toyotas with the bullet proof 22RE engines. They are not fast or glorious or even that comfortable, but we clocked 5K miles on our trip on my old 93 4Runner that now has 255K miles on the original engine. She just purred along down Washington, thru Oregon, thru California, over to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and then back up to Washington. Not only did she run great but we got to sleep in her too! Ha ha ha! We had some great nites camping and just rolled the sleeping bags in the back of the 4 Runner! We used to have a tent, but it was a hassle so now days we just sleep in the car! It's kinda cramped, but it's fun too.
I'm sorry about your income drop due to being on disability. The whole financial thing sucks to have to worry about and insurance is so expensive. We've been trying to recover from the '08 market crash which has affected our bizzes, incomes, and now since I had to use so much health ins benefits due to stupid BC those rates are up this year too.
I'm sure hoping that numbness in your arm gets better, that really sucks. I didn't realize I had bursitis until I had some stupid scan last year. I like to think it doesn't hurt if I don't acknowledge it - ha ha ha! I just go jogging anyway and sometimes I notice it and other times I'm dwunk!
As for my new avatar, I'm trying to improve my image, Dollink! Thanks for noticing.
I will be praying for your parents too, so sorry to hear they are having a rough time. Some day I'll tell you about all the dimensia in my fam and though the stories are sad, some of the things they say are quite funny...I don't want to laugh too loud tho as I'll be right behind them, maybe sooner than later.
Claire - I hadda laff too about reshaping someone's bumper - LOL!
Kathy - darn, I'm so sorry to hear they had to tear into your yard, sounds so pretty and then to have to fix a darn water leak. I am so hoping you get it all ready to rent. I'm also wondering where HD and Goldie are. So glad you posted some of your history with the HTL too, and I'd like to second what you said, good luck to Margaret today and to all who have dr apts, may you not get as freaked out as I did - whew! Also, such nice words you posted for Kymn and Stanzie and about sticking with good friends.
Kymn - I never had kids and just admire you parents so much with all you must go through raising them. I hear you on the weather, winter sucks and spring is long over due in my world. So no worries, we're all hoping on the bus with a sh*t load of likker and heading to Canada by Friday! (course jocks or pants will be driving as usual so we can party hardy!)
Chrissy - darn that Internet, it's always so fun to hear from you down under and hope you get that fixed and back here quick.
Karen - sure hope all is well with your dad, that sounds like a worry and I hope you are doing okay.
Junie - what a fantastic post, thanks so so so so very much for sharing what happened. I found this thread last year and it saved my sanity. You have been through so much and you just sound great - hurray for junie!!!
AStorm - LOL Bud-weis-er mom is of kool aid dude!!! Oh goodie more cheez whiz, I've really gotten into the aerosol vapor variety, you can spray it like a nice perfume. And damn you're full of good ideas today, I have some of those fw pearls and I could maybe get stylish enough to twist them into a bracelet, hurray! Hope your coffee didn't suck as bad as mine did today!
NM- LOL at the hi jack cartoon, so funny and smashing valentines and that poor snail! And cuz I got up so late my coffee tasted like it was from 1983, had to nuke it - uck! Love the Chocolate Valentine DOTD with all the melty chocolates, yippee!
Goldie - Yeah you're back!!! Eating with fingers...I'm there! So glad you had a good trip and welcome back, can't wait to hear more about it.
Stanzie - glad you got some roses and had an okay time at dinner...that's a good question about your friend, how do you undo those feelings...can be very hard if you don't feel all had been acknowledged. I've managed to keep my bff since we were both 1 year old...not that we haven't gotten in lots of fights over the years, but we've been able to talk things over and admit when we've been wrong so we both feel okay again. You are so sweet it's just awful to think someone could treat you badly.
Hope you all have a wonnerful dog beer day with coffee that doesn't suck! cHairs and cheers!!
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ok one of the ladies on another thread just posted a pic of her hair growth after 4 weeks and I just started bawling right here at work, I am not ready for this, there wasnt any hair how could that be 4 weeks. OH God let me get off this bus
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Kymn, If that is you in your avatar, you are so beautiful! In case you should lose any hair, I know your big smile and beauty would shine through. I think some gals don't even lose hair, but those that do have gotten beautiful scarves and wigs and looked just fine. I am not making light of this, as it is a very hard thing to deal with, but I don't want you to be so upset. And besides, your hair might even grow back faster (that is if you even lose it). I know if someone told me when I first got my bc dx that it would take 2 yrs for my surgeries, expanders, implants, and then 3D tatts, I would have fainted on the spot! Good thing I just had to face 1 thing at a time, and that was do-able. You are newly dx, and everything is SO overwhelming, but we love you here....just try to take one step at a time, and try not to (I know...easier to say than to do) worry about the "what ifs". AND....there is always drinking!!!!! You will do fine, I know you will. (((Hugs)))
Kathy
IS IT HAPPY HOUR YET????
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Are there any UNhappy hours in the HTL?
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Kymm...... I had hair half way down my back. Although thrilled to have it growing out, I have to say it's more gratifying watching grass grow. One thing that helped me was one FUN wig. So both the same style pageboy, but one had red streaks in it.
Don't think I ever cried about it though other than when Main Squeeze made it clear I was equally exciting to him w/o hair.
I just sent off the last of the rewrites of all the work I have been buried in. Now, I get to worry about the next bit. But I need to be on to something else. Didn't get something I was working with another gig. Rats!!!
I really have to step back and do a career think, but have been too busy to point my brain in that direction. Think though it needs a rest first
Junie.....am so sorry about your journey. Puts the everyday frustrating stuff into perspective. You sound like you are on the mend. FINALLY.
I think I will sneak in a longer walk today, as finally caught up with most things. Also not raining so really do need to seize the opportunity. And I will be able to devote time to my other consulting gig tomorrow. YAY!!!!! - Claire
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NM....LMAO....."Are there any UNhappy hours in the HTL".....sooooo funny! Weren't you the one that several days ago asked if there ever is a time we are supposed to STOP drinking??? So funny! Having a down mood right now, so was glad to have a laugh!!
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Kymn, I must repeat what Kathy said...you will do fine! It is a horrible part of the journey (No Hair). I didn't like it at all. You will just take a step at a time and find that after a while, it is over. You will still cry as I think most of us all still do. Lori has a whole series of her hair journey on her profile. She had some very cute wigs and it has a very good timeline on regrowth. Everyone is different depending on their chemo regime. I had TAC X 6 so my hair didnt get to start growing until the very end of it all. I didn't like the wig thang much, but had one that I used when I needed. Dorothy, hope your dad is doing OK and your mom can handle it. Thoughts are with ya. Coffee! Lordy....I am spoiled. I buy mine every damn day. Sorry, it's a very good/bad habit. Junie, I love ya, and could barely read your post through my watery eyes. Please stay strong! All of the rest of you too, Beans, Karen, Chrissy, Lori, Kathy, AStorm(which by the way we are having), NM, Claire, Stanzie, Jaybird, Dee, meet me at the bar, they are having a special Cheeze Wiz Wednesday celebration! HD
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Thanks Ladies, yes kathy that is me in my avatar was taken this summer. I know you are all right guess the sight of that lady just made it all so real and scared me. But I will pour my Rye and diet pull up my big girl panties pull up my pink leopard bar stool up to the bar and have some of that Cheeze Wiz
. Maybe I could find a pink leopard scarff. Maybe a pink wig. Just making dinner for the family so will join you all later for a drinkie poo. Thanks again Love you all and am so very thankful for each one of you. 0 -
Kathy and Lori - I was thinking Lori and typed Kathy. See what happens when I don't get my coffee.
Hi hunkydory! Peet's to-go is my coffee of choice too. I just hate to reject DH's token of affection, unpalatable though it may be.
I got hailed on today! Right here in California.
Glad it wasn't as big as this hail:
Can someone help me get the cork out of this thing?
... oh, DH just handed me a glass of chardonnay... I'll bring it out to the pool cuz there's always sunshine and a comfy lounge chair waiting at HTL.
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I am here at the lounge and have one eye open and the other closed I must sleep, I just had a lil dnsnooze here at the computer. Had to see the tax man tonight, what a long day. wishing all you ladies peace and happiness good nigth my dear friends. gOODNight Astorm good night Kymn, good night jon boy and mary-ellen too. Join me at the bar now, I refuse to dump my nightcap. hahaa. ok, must go for real. 0
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Good night Dorthy, just popped in to have a quick one with you ladies. Meeting my oncologist tomorrow so I must be extra rested so I look really good and he says heavens no we cant give this lady chemo.....HA FAT CHANCE....anyhow I really want to be able to pay attention to all he has to say.
Love to you all
Kymn
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Kymn, good luck tomorrow if I don't get on here to post. I'll be thinkin of ya...and Margaret....gawd I hope you got off with jsut a small slap. Your health is what you need to worry about now...not a license suspension or fines. My thoughts are with you too. HD
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just big hugggsssss and sloppy smootches to you all!!!! Have read all your great encouraging posts with tears in my eyes and I so appreciate the wunnerful love and support!!!!!
Good luck manana, Kymn--actually, I really enjoyed being bald. Had a few cheapie, fun wigs I wore for work but yanked them off on the way out of the office...was mostly a bald or bandana babe except at work.
...sounds like it's time to share my fav aging parent story (both mom and dad have been gone now for several years...) My parents were both in their 80s, living independently in their own home and doing well. Whenever I visited (at least once a week) I would always be watching for signs of advanced dementia........soooooo, one afternoon I'm in the dining room with my mom and DH is in living room with my dad. DH asks how are things going? And grumpy dad starts in on all his current ailments and makes the statement that next week he has an appointment for a pap smear! I could not see DH's face and about fell out of my chair....before I could say anything, dad yelles in to my mom--"that doesn't sound right--what am I having next week?" and, my mom yells back at him--"You're having a mammogram!" Now--I was ready to commit them both--BUT--I had just read an article about bc in men and turned out that my dad did have a lump that showed on a mammogram, was biopsied and was benign. Bless their hearts!!!
Big day today--hooked up my portable oxy and we went out for dinner. Was kind of scary but doable and next time will be easier. Lord, what a bizarre journey. nuff 'bout that crap....
Jpcks has my dog beers iced down and I'm heading to the pool--know there will be a vacant hammock for ME!!! or, am I supposed to get on the bus??? maybe tomorrow I will figure out if I'm coming or going!!!
bottoms up/down/cheers/chairs/chEARS.........
*****if you're not going to snort, why even laugh?*******
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Hi Junie, Glad to hear you are making great progress, cheers to you. Your story about your parents was entertaining. I hope each day gets easier for you. I always pray for you.
Kymn, I hope all goes well with your oncologist. I wish for all good news from you.
And I wish Cherokee Margaret would pop in and give us some good news. I am having pants page her now.....
I met with my accountant 2night and it is good news, we are getting a nice refund, most due to my DD in college. And OMGawd, I have a story which gives me goosebumps and it is two-fold. While in the waiting room I read an article in US magazine about a FOUR year old in Canada who was diagnosed with BC, had a BMX and will get implants at adolescence. She was the youngest ever with this dx. Gawd, so un-freakin-fair!! So I proceed to get into my acct's office and she tells me about a girl friend of hers who passed away last year from BC then three months after her death, her twin BROTHER was diagnosed. This stuff hurts as I think of what could be and also worry about my breast friends that are not able to drink with us due to being very ill. I'd be sorry about the rant if apologizes were permitted but I will get away with ranting here ahhh, thanks girls.
Run-on sentences and paragraphs, spelling errors and bad grammar, sorry Lori hahaha.
Ok, I am going to bed, for really real this time. Nighty night girls. I hope it is a great Thirst-dey for you all :-)
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Junie- wonderful story about your parents! That is just wonderful and I'm sure you and your husband's faces were priceless! You are so brave to go out and I can imagine a lot of what all you had to manage but I agree now that you have done it the next time it will be easier! And I love your signature!
We adopted my daughter from southern Siberia, Russia and when they brought her out to us she took one look at us burst into a huge smile with laughter and a snort - my husband at the time - turned to me and said Yep she is ours , sounds just like you!
Beanie - admire you wonderful recap and acknowledgement on everyone! one day I'll get the hang of it all.
I did not have to have chemo but I did worry about the whole losing my hair - I still think if you have BC and have to lose breasts why on earth can't them at least come up with a chemo that lets you keep your hair! just mean isn't it? But I understand the whole principal behind it so I told myself if I had to do chemo then it was just a way to make sure and kill that horrid cancer and make sure it doesn't come back. Anyway, hope your oncologist apt goes well and he/she can help you with your worries and concerns! Just hate this BC!
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Good luck tomorrow, Kymn!
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Beans....thank you.....off to bed....early flight in the morning. Karen
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Kymm--the trick is too look too BAD to get chemo! But good luck with your onc appointment.
Dorthy--run on, rambling posts are just another version of Beangish--makes perfect sense, just takes a leetle bit longer to read!
Last day of work before Winter Break! YEAH! EXCEPT: tomorrow appointment for fasting lab work, Monday eye doc appointment, Thursday dentist appointment, week from tomorrow appointment for annual physical. I swear, I am going to start making break weeks off limits for medical appointments. But for now I just have to get through the encounter with the dreaded needle tomorrow am. Not fair to have to deal with that without even a cup of coffee to help! I guess I'll just have to depend on EMLA cream and xanax. . . .
DOTD: Huge Scary Needle
1 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1 splash 7 Up
2 oz Pineapple Juice
1 1/2 oz Sweet and Sour MixDo I sound a little obsessed?
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Junie I can just imagine your face when you heard your parents say that! Sad though that he REALLY did have to go for a mammo....good the results were B9. That was funny to hear! Yeah, Dorothy I heard about that little girl too....soooooo unfair. Hope Kymn does well today, and Karen is having something too (?), and Margaret from yesterday, etc. Some family drama has hit the fan (not involving my parents), and I am very down and trying to crawl up to the surface. Lotta crying last night, so headache now, and more tears. SH!T! Think I will skip the Huge Scary Drink (cute though NM), and look for the percotini fountain.......or hjack Junie's ML truck.....
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Good morning girls, am sitting in bed drinking my delicious coffee oh how i love coffee.The beans i buy are called kick ass suiting isnt it. I took the whole day off today, could have worked this morning before my appt but figured what the hell I need a relaxing morning and I wanted to get my housework done before they cut me up again. DH says he will do the housework while I cant but ummm welllll bless his sole what he did after my last surgery was not housework lol.
Junie that story about your folks made me giggle, my parents are just like that dad always calling out to mom, what are we doing? Where are we going? what was the name of that? lol and then she gives a big sigh I told you...... lol you get the picture
Dorothy I heard about that story with that 4 year old broke my heart.Here in Lethbridge there is an 8 year old who just go dx that hit home because my DD is 8 and of course I am now worried about her haveing to go through this one day. thats great about the return any plans on how you are going to spend it a nice holiday perhaps
Hi Stanzie, how old is your DD now? that is a cute stroy isnt it funny how their little personalities come out so early.
Astorm and NM thanks for your well wishes, I will let you all know my fate later on today.
I am off to start laundry and do the floors. Have a great morning all . Hey does anyone know if its ok to have a little drink tonight even though I have surgery in the AM? if not then I guess a sleeping pill it is
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Good luck today, Kymn!!!!!!
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Good luck Kymm.
Unless your house is a biohazard, don't worry about the housework. I am drinking my tea and checking out the webcams that show snow in the mountain passes. So skiing it is this weekend.
NM.....doctors appointments are a sucky way to spend time off. Can you fit them in otherwise next time?
Need to warn everyone about a new type of spam I got this AM. Purports to come from a friend stuck somewhere and needs money. It's done via an e-newsletter type program. (I have used these so know how they work.) Of course, if you hit "reply" it will go to an unseen third party.
So thought I would warn everyone. So if you get one of these, you need to forward to the person for confirmation.
I need more tea........ - Claire
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Quick pop in - Thanks Claire I'm so gulliable!
Kymn - Thinking of you today!
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I am driving myself crazy waiting for this appt.Our minds sure can play awful tricks on us
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just popping in quickly from work...thinking about you kymn and hoping all goes well.
I hope all you ladies are having a good day, okay, this drunk has to do some work, I'd much rather dwink! Cheers girlz~~
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Hi gals, wow, Kymn, I sure feel for you. If my story is any help, I got the stupid BC dx almost a year ago, in fact it was a year ago today I felt the lump and on Feb 18 I went to the doctor about it. My first surgery to remove the lump was in March last year. So much has happened since then and so many freaky scary feeling and tears, but little by little you get through it. I'm now 1.5 months post treatment and had a good check-up and my bloodwork came in excellent. All of this sucks, but it's doable and you will get through it just fine. I am wishing you all the very best!!
NM - Love the Huge Scary Needle Cocktail...yesterday eve I realized there was a message on my cell phone, when I looked at the number it was my med oncologist's office, terror went through me
as one of those huge scary needles had taken two tubes of blood outta me just on Monday (va-va-va-Valentine's sh1tty day) and I was sure they found something new wrong with me that they missed at the appointment. Anyway, the message was that all my bloodwork was excellent.
Then I wiped all the perspiration off my forehead.
Dang I can really get wound up!!! I have a 3 month reprieve and I can hardly just sit here and think everythings okay for 3 months! Need more fukitols!!!
Hang in there, ya'll...
How bout a Dog Beer?
Cheers, cHairs, and Titz Up! ~bEaNsiEs
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Ok, I am half way through the last page of posts. Junie you have me LMAO at your parents story. Girl, so good to have you and your humour back!
Kymn, keep your glass half full! It's not fun by any stretch of the imagination, and it never seems like it will end. But it will! I never did get sick, not before, during or after. I sometimes wonder if I wasn't mis-diagnosed! But the path report says otherwise. I also took tons of supplements during chemo. I also had long hair, you can see by my photos on my profile, and I hate the hair I have now.............BUT..........I have to tell myself, "It's better than being bald". So hang there, and we will all hang with you.
Whoever posted the black berry video, (Stanzie?) That was cute! British humour so different. But I loved it.
I remember about someone going in to court, I believe it is "Margaret" that everyone is wishing well, but haven't see her back in the lounge. Cherokee, I think? Anyways, good luck to you!
Also, I thought someone was having surgery this past week. Maybe a newbie we had....Beacher? I wish you (whoever it was) the best as well.
Ok, time for a drink at Pau Hanna and I'm sure by tomorrow morning I will have another whole page to catch up on!
Would it be wrong to tell everyone to STOP until I ketchup? Of course it would, so carry on dahlinks!
Love you all and see you in the morning. Sorry to not respond to everyone and everything, but there is TOO MUCH!
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Claire - thanks for the heads-up! You'd think there are enough problems in the world that people don't have spend their time creating new ones...
NM - thanks for the Huge Scary Needle. What are you so worried about? Looks like fun to me.
Lori - Funny about the thought of maybe being misdiagnosed... I was just thinking that today. Wouldn't that be a hoot.
Well I'm having a crappy little day so far... not that I will ever have the crappiest day of my life cuz I've had that already, but sheesh. I had to be in San Francisco early this morning so I left my house before 7AM which is uncivilized to begin with. Put gas in my car and went to Peets for my coffee. Left the client's office this afternoon and was thrilled that I would have time to stop at Bed Bath & Beyond and pick up a new tea kettle that actually boils water hot enough for a French press. When I got out of my car at BB&B, an hour and a half away from the client's office, I realized I left my trench coat there. It is raining of course. Then I go to pay for the kettle and my ATM card is missing. Had to stop the card cuz I keep too much cash in that account (silly me) and have no idea what I did with it. Last week I lost a nice pair of shades that never surfaced... where does all this stuff go? The ATM card is really a hassle... it will take "7 to 10 days" for me to get a new one and it's from an out-of-town credit union so the only way to make a deposit is to mail it or drive 45 minutes to the credit union. ... URGGG. Went home after retracing my steps to the gas station and Peets and now it is pouring. I try to get out of the car with my kettle and my purse and my briefcase but I left the darn door is ajar so I have to juggle everything for a free hand... then I pressed the wrong button on the magic key thingy, repeatedly, and all my windows went down. So I'm standing in the pouring rain without a coat and my hands full, trying to figure out what to do with all this stuff while my leather upholstery is getting drenched when the mailman drives up on the curb and splashes disgusting gutter water on me.
... YUUUUUUCK!
Did he apologize? No, because I am invisible. He just shoved the junk mail in the box and kept driving.
... it happened about 15 years ago. .. being invisible to men... can't say that it is always a bad thing.
ah, the wisdom of da wiener...
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Goldie, so nice to see you. And I think your hair is gorgeous. I checked out your hair pics and OMG, you looked cute without hair. Some people can wear it well. I thank God that BC did not take my hair as I have a long face and a high forehead and would look really ugly without hair. Anyway, so sweet of you to share your very personal photos. I have a photobucket album of my BC journey. I took pics starting with the biopsy bruise, then a few the night b4 BMX including one of my girls floating in my pool for the last time (boo hooo). I have pics of twhat I called the bullet hole which I took the day b4 removal of one expander due to infection, pics after each expansion then finally the implants. If anyone wants to see them, message me and I will share.
Girls, the bus is coming to the East coast first then will round up the rest of you girls, we are going to Canada!!
Beans, your pics are fabulous. I hope you are nice and drunk tonight and not sad about "this time last year". If you have to think about it, think about how much you went through and you did it, you really did it. Your posts are always entertaining as hail! It felt good to pick you up when you were down.
Where is Kathy today, I don't see her. Was she going away or sumthang? Maybe she is building a house??
Well, the bus is loaded with likker and we just got a trailer hitch and are towing a trailer so we have enough booze for our Canada trip, aye?
Kymn, I will check back later for an update from you. I hope your onc appointment went well and that you love yours as much as I love mine. We will be there for you while in surgery tomorrow and stay as long as you need us. I hope you are able to sleep well and relax this evening. Don't forget to stop at the perco-fountain, hope to see you at the lounge real soon. and btw, we will even tell you everything that is said about you while you are asleep. Try to visualize yourself and your team of doctors and caretakers all waking up in a great mood, feeling on top of the world. They will be saying "wow, look at her, everything looks perfect, she sure is a beauty
As for drinking tonight, you are not supposed to but I can say that I did night before bmx, just had to.Stanize and NM, I love your pics too. Everyone is so creative and fun. And drunk, that is why I love it here.
Claire, I hope the snow is great for you this weekend.
KK, enough ramble, I'd say....feel free to fast forward ......hugz to all!!♥♥
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Dorothy, do I need a VISA to go to Canada? I have a mastercard....LMAO! I am ready to go! HD
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... oh, DH just handed me a glass of chardonnay... I'll bring it out to the pool cuz there's always sunshine and a comfy lounge chair waiting at HTL.
... YUUUUUUCK!
... it happened about 15 years ago. .. being invisible to men... can't say that it is always a bad thing. 
ah, the wisdom of da wiener...