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Kathy I am always bumping into you in da morning.........but I had to come back and let you know it IS TUESDAY!
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LOL....I mean really ROFLMAO.....thank gawd that you have your thinking cap on, cause obviously I don't!!!! OMG I guess with the holiday and being gone till last night, while I was typing it felt like the day-before-Tuesday (can't even say the "M" word, for DorK!). Knew when I woke up what day it was cause I had to think whether I needed to remind DH of whether or not it was trash pickup day. SHEESH!!!! Thank you, Lori! Also, thanks for not bumping into me toooooo hard, and you didn't even knock me down!!!! ChEARS!
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Lori had a good idea about us all posting a pic from when we were little....here I am at 4...
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Karen - That is so awesome to be learning Hebrew and going through the Bible starting with Genesis. The chewy candy, pretzels and wine sound like my kind of treats! Please take care not to get into the wrong neighborhoods. I really admire you doing this trip and it's so nice that you're taking the time to share with us.
AStorm - I agree, I don't want to meet Junie's friend Polly, she sounds like a total A-hole. My gyno is having me get pelvic & vag US every 6 mo now. There have been some changes since I started Tami but so far nothing to be done but screen. My fam arrived yesterday and we also sipped wine way to late into the eve so I feel a bit "slow today" as you says. We didn't dance though, that sounds fun. I love all the pics you posted and especially all the kitties with their arms around each others backs, so so so nice!
Wahine - I tried to find you for a night cap last night but guess you already went sweepy. I need a good wake up dwink too. Glad you got home safely and I'm so sorry you say a bad wreck. That happened to me last month when I saw a head on collision - it was just awful and had me so shook up. That's so nice your mom is coming back...$1500 for ac in the car OMG that is so expensive, but I guess you gotta have it. Oh, you are just so beautiful too...just love the photo of you at 4, just absolutely sweet and so pretty! Thanks so much for posting, this has been so fun to see us widdle ones.
Kymn - So good to hear from you and I sure know that feeling of wanting my taste buds back, everything tasted so weird...I assure you it does get better, so just keep on drinking lots of water to flush all that crap out. So glad you are done!!
Dottie - I am really concerned about you being cramped up and all, I sure hope you will see your doc about it...I just hate to read that you are feeling bad and just want you all better...hope you will not over work yourself...Take care sweety DorK. Hey!! I just read your hot dog stand has it's first customer! Goldie placed an order - Weeeeeeeeeee!!! And she got the fruit cart going...we will have to get some granola and nuts for AStorm too.
Goldie - It sure remains to be seen whether that 20 acres will sell, our RE market is really bad too...I have mixed feelings about it...I sure like the privacy and all but we put too much $$ into developing the other side. We thought we would build and now that's on hold...it's been crazy. Your place sounds so nice and I sure wish I had a place I felt like I was going to keep forever. I agree, it is so fun seeing us as little ones...sure hope others will post too...
Well gotta get in the shower and get going. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
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Ok, here's my cutie patootie pic. Too bad it isn't in color but I don't think we had color back then... The dress was a wide-wale corduroy in my favorite color (Emerald green) with a satin ribbon and shiny buttons. My mom can take credit for the dress and the lovely bangs.
Not sure how old I was... maybe 5. There's a date on the photo but they used to put that date on when you got your film developed and we let film sit in the camera for years... I still have some film kicking around that's probably 10+ years old!
Went for a lovely walk with DH and dogs this morning to get bagels and coffee. On the way back we went through the park and there were NO kids! Not one! This park is always full of kids... maybe they're sleepin in? On our way to Home Depot now to start a little project... slate for the entry (outside).
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and here's WD's baby pic
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Awwwwwwww,,,,,another cutie-patootie! Such a darling picture, Gail! And I love how you included your WD baby pic too!!!
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AStorm - oh you are such a cutie-patootie!! Thanks for posting, you are so beautiful and I love your dress and such a pretty backdrop, and the WD cutie-patootie pic...so so so sweet! Also want to say thanks for the fabulous oatmeal recipe. My sister and I made it this am and it is really so good. Yum! (on a sad note, my sister's old WD had a heart attach and had to be put to sleep, she was a really sweet dog and will be missed, her name was Sakas.) Tonight I got everything for Claire's Tomato Pie! I have to look back a few pages for Stanzie's recipe and if I'm lucky I'll get that Hawaiian one from wahine!!
If anyone is interested, I can PM the chicken recipe I made last night, Chicken Kebabs Paprika. It calls for tarragon which I'm not crazy about so I used a serrano pepper instead, it was really good and just a bit spicy. Also had some great merlot.
cHairs! c ya 4 Pau Hana!
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Day two of learning done.....figured the way to only take one bus.....and the walk.....so will keep doing that in the morning....since I stayed late, took the 2 buses home...but will do the walk tomorrow afternoon.....only about 6 to 7K steps today...not sure cuz battery of ipod died (thought I charged it last night), but far less than the previous two days....do want to step it up a bit tomorrow......Left a bit earlier this morning and the bus was less crowded and faster so will definitely leave at 7:30 every day......Not sleeping well at night, so going to take an ambien tonight......really need to get 4 or 5 hours straight....Speaking of sleep......going to go to bed earlier than I've been going to sleep....its 10:30...going to try for 11 instead of after midnight.....Hugs from Jerusalem.....Karen
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Hi Beans......
Hope you found just fab tomatoes. I am waiting a month before making. However, I am doing chicken legs with sherry, balsamic vinegar, tarragon and shallots. Will let everyone know if edible. A Delia Smith recipe and she is usually very reliable.
Reminder to buy red wine to have with this. Then all the summer veggies. YUM.
I will do a walk to Trader Joe's as the cheapest place for sherry, and also the bottle of Communion Wine I still owe my church. (The congregation supplies port twice a year.) That way, I get in my walk.
Just so glorious here. Last night, I stayed in, and made myself a gourmet dinner. Then I watched the fireworks across the Sound. Still a bit of light, so the mountains were silhouted against the sky with the fireworks here and there. A crescent moon was slowly setting. Just magical.
And so much more fun than being part of the "scene" viewing the fireworks on Lake Union.
So just sipped my wine, and then turned in. One of those perfect moments. - Claire
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Oh My Claire when I first read your post I thought my goodness how much wine can you drink in a sip at Communion that you had to replace the bottle! LOL! Shows where my mind is. I've been reading but haven't had a chance to post. My friend is here and we are having such a lovely time! Girlfriends can really be the perfect medicine for anything and everything.
So we are in this store as I'm helping her with her bathroom and I'm one aisle over and I hear - Now remember we are in this store to shop for me! I bust out laughing and so did the woman next to me who said well now that is a good friendship!
So the tomatoe pie just came out of the oven and it is soooo gorgeous, can hardly wait. She brought her little dog and she says poor thing as inappropiate bark syndrome! How funny is that.
Ok, so on trying to keep up. pink snow? Love the posting of childhood pictures - I have one I want to post but can't do it yet so wait for me all, ok? Beanie - have missed you! Your picture is just so totally sweet and adorable, And AStorm - I think I might have thought that was you - so love that sweet smile - well on you and baby WD. Might have to find a baby liesl too....
Missed the dreadful neighbor Poll, I guess a good thing, I mean to miss. NM.- hope you are having a wondrous time!
Dorothy- you are opening a hot dog and fruit stand? really? So sorry about all the pain of Aunt Flo.... it has been so long for me I can't even remember... But I never had cramps at all but have seen friends totally incapicated by them....
Beanie- hope you are able to sell the property but know it will be hard these days. Wow, both you and Lori are almost pioneers, well at least to me who thinks of going to the Ritz ( I wish) as close to camping as I've ever been. I'm in awe and admiration!
Junie- did you find a mattress?
So, yes Kathy we did get huge storms and lightning but somehow heard all the fireworks going off?? It was total think clouds so people were sitting in the pouring rain and lightning watching ?? HUH? Well so don't get that?Looked out the windows but obviously didn't see anything. Kathy I second Lori, you Mom coming back sooner is good, yes?
Made a cake for my ex's birthday and took the presents from the kids over to his next door neighbors who are the most fantastic of people and my kids God-parents. The cake tasted fabulous but one side sort of slid a bit so madly made extra frosting got "fix it". And sent off a goofy care package to my son - saved up comic's from the newspapers, silly puddy, a scrabble card game, a rolling fake roach and a tiny dragon!
Hopefully the weather will be nice and my friend and I can fix a nice drink when my munchkins go with their Dad and we can relax in the pool and then eat Tomatoe Pie! Happy Tuesday.....
Karen- you are just so lovely to share all your stories. Hope you can send some pictures as I'd adore to really know what it is like. I love how your trip is not just visiting but really living and experiencing being there! Just wonderful!
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Oh wait, that doesn't sound appropiate - I've been helping my friend renovate her bathroom by email and pictures so now we are decorating it.... just thought I'd clarify....
Cherokee - hope you can get things sorted out and check in when you can.
Claire sounds like you had the perfect spot last night.
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I've lost a long posting TWICE now! gonna give up on the long post with pics and just drop and say hi to everyone I can until I pass out from trying one or two of each drink mentioned over the weekend!
Sadie and I went to my Mom's place,Sadie, litterally dove right into the lake. She loved chasing a ball thrown into the water by the neighbor's kids. While we were eating lunch with the neigbors she was barking a bit at some dogs at the next camp. I was working on getting her to stop when my mom just took her off behind the camp where she couldn't see anyone and tied her up. I was so upset, I left early. Mom did call later in the evening to apologize for embarassing me, but then she went on an on about how embarassed she was and how she "just couldn't stand it anymore." It's all about her now I guess. Needless to say I'm going to have to find somewhere else to take Sadie to swim and play. Also needless to say I won't be taking her back to Mom's place. I'm 52 years old, there's no reason she had to treat me like a child with a noisy toy. She could have said something to me. Im STILL upset with her.
I didn't mean to go off on a rant like that. I'm just so upset with my mother and that isn't something a dutiful daughter does.
DOTD: WetDog
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4 oz Sangria
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Awwww NM, here is a BIG tall icy dwink with several shots of likker in it. But lots of good flavors so you can't tell how potent it is. Sounds like you need it. I know how you feel about sometimes being treated like a little kid, and be expected to do whatever your parents think you should do. Sometimes I want to shout "Hey, I'm an adult too, I should get to make some of my own decisions!". Sometimes I do stick by my guns, because the times I had to act like a dutiful kid (as an adult), when I was with people I didn't want to be around, it was so uncomfortable. But I guess when they get older, maybe it matters more what others think. Too bad, as it seemed like a nice, fun place for Sadie to play and swim. Since its Pau Hana time, I think I will join you in a "Wet Dog" drink....here's to you NM, and to Sadie *raisng my glass*!!!
Stanzie, So glad you are having a great time with your friend there....although I knew you would! Sounds like some fun shopping, dwinking, chatting, and eating. What could be bettah???
Beans, are you here??? It is Pau Hana Time!!!!!! Dwink up.
Bottomz Up!
Kathy
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You could have brought me along, NM. I would have dove into the lake and chased the ball. Then barked.
Sadie would have then been off the hook.
Actually, it was my SISTER who was the one who was the party pooper. She was always complaining about how unruly my mother's dog was. I thought Dixie was just fine. All of us deserve to have a good time in the summer.
Dixie is having a wonderful summer BTW. She lives with my friend Kathy in Vermont and has a pond she can swim in whenever she wants to. And no one to complain when she barks at someone. I am sorry my mother isn't around to see what a wonderful life she has, and the great dog she turned out to be. - Claire
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LOL Claire at offering to be the dog, and get Sadie off the hook! I like the name "Dixie"....since we live down south, we named one of our quarter horses "Dixie". I was surprised to hear she is still alive, as I sold her to a good friend of my vet (who was our good friend), about 17-18 yrs ago. We also had beautiful "Star", who was so gentle (Dixie could be stubborn at times), and sold her and Dixie as a package, but Star passed away a couple of years ago. They were so beautiful!
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Dang, NM--sorry to hear that Sadie got you both in trouble with your mom--just by doing what dogs do naturally! We have similar problems when taking Pancho visiting with us....seems like every where he goes, he gets in trouble just being the dog he is. I got to where I couldn't handle the visiting stress so won't go anywhere unless we board him--just makes life easier. On the flip side, we have had countless kids/relatives/friends visit and bring their dogs....there are a few that I detest but I would never make waves on anyone's visit by grabbing their dog and removing them from the scene.......you and Sadie come visit me and we'll take Sadie to the lake to swim and she can sit in the back yard and bark her head off--and then we'll bring her in for treats! LOl!!!
Happy Hump Day tomorrow!!!! huggsss to ALL!!!
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Oh NM! I am so sorry! I can tell how hurt you are and I would be too. Not only to be treated like a child but also upset for Sadie - I mean dogs do bark and from what I know about you it can't have been excessive. I do know that when parents get older they are less tolerant of things, and I mean so many many things. I know traveling with my Mom was always such an amazing fabulous esperience but as she got older, she got less and less tolerant of so many things that we could tell immediately if the afternoon or evening was going to be bad just by the look on her face. I don't think she meant to be that way nor did she even want to be that way but I think it was so much easier to get to the over the top, can't take the noise, stimulation,slow service, rooms too cold or hot type situations. I can only begin to imagine how upsetting it was for you to be taking time off to relax and talk to people and how much fun Sadie was having in the water and then to it abruptly stop. I'm glad your Mom called to apologize, I'm sure that was hard for her and at least she understood why and how upset you were. Doesn't fix or change anything but it is something. I'm sorry.
Now just cannot get the picture out of my mind of clair on all fours at your knees barking... and barking quite impressively..... Oh my then what would your Mom have done?
Anyway, my friend's dog barks too so come on down and we'll just have to have a bark-fest! and maybe if it is a full moon Astorm will really grow that tail! Oh gosh I so need to go to bed.... and I'm sure you all agree on this one. So surprised no fireworks thought there would be lots of left overs!
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Beanie - glad you liked the oatmeal. I just love to smell it baking... I make it with different kinds of fruit (whatever is in season). Several years ago I had an awesome breakfast at a convention - oatmeal brulee! Oatmeal topped with bananas and crème brulee but wasn't sure how they got the brulee on top of oatmeal cuz your supposed to steam crème brulee but I just made a yummy custard with caramelized sugar... more like a dessert than breakfast but I serve it for brunch sometimes. Anyway there is probably less sugar in it than the syrup my kids pour on their waffles, plus there is the fruit which is almost a vegetable LOL. So sorry about Sakas. It is always so sad to lose a pet but it is a reminder to us of how precious our time with them is. I don't know how I have managed to move past the grief of losing pets and it never gets easier. A family visited us a few weeks ago and the husband said he was looking forward to their corgi's "departure" as he was getting tired of the dog. ! I wonder what kind of karma that brings and how sad to not enjoy and cherish each day with your pets. My DD2 has such a gentle heart... she mourned the loss of her hermit crab, Sir Edmund (Hillary), so badly that I was afraid to expose her to more loss when we had to put our other corgi to sleep. We were all devastated but it made me realize that I want my kids to be devastated by their losses. I want them to care about the pets and the people in their lives and to cherish the time they can spend with them.
NM - I can just picture Sadie jumping in that lake! Where is Mom's sense of humor? My mom thought dogs belonged outdoors so I was a little worried about visiting her with my cattledog who never left my side. When my dog had a litter the following year, my mom wanted a puppy so I guess some old dogs can learn new tricks. There are dogs barking and kids laughing and screaming all the time in our neighborhood - a park and school close by. The only time HAPPY noises bother me is when I'm trying to sleep. Here's a little pillow for Sadie...
Oh, and I have a cat on my lap right now who is purring too LOUD and trying to type ... could be worse him usually types with his butt...
Claire - that is so sweet about Dixie. We have friends who just loved their little 20+ YO dog but sadly it passed and they replaced it with a really "obnoxious" dog. The poor thing needed more exercise than they were willing/able to give it so, yes it was obnoxious. They ended up giving him to a friend who had kids and property where it could run. It was a difficult decision for them but they could not love this dog and the poor thing would never have been happy either.
Stanzie - I so enjoy my time with my friends, including all my breast friends of course. One time, when we were in our 20's, my BFF and I both dumped our bad SO's at the same time. It was a really tough time for both of us because they were long-term relationships and we were living with them. Actually we both waffled a bit, but it really helped that we had each other. We talked about what we should do that would be really good and healthy, and then supported each other by working out together at the gym and encouraging each other to take positive steps with our careers and relationships... all the things an SO should do. 25 years later we are still friends and both of us are living great lives.
We had such a wonderful first day of our vacation! Went on a short hike at the Buddhist retreat and decided to go back later in the week for a longer hike with DDs.
Also picked out the tile for the entry and all set to start that project tomorrow morning... after coffee.
This post was a bit doggy... maybe I am growing a tail!
Sweet dreams ladies!
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Kathy, you are beautiful, even as a child.
Beans, I sure hope your property sells for you. I thought you and hubby were doing things yourself there? The cabin is on hold? Sorry to hear about your sisters fur baby.
Astorm, you too are a doll! I had the same bangs, how funny is that! So neat that you remember the color of your dress and all. And your WD, too cute. A hermit crab as a pet? Never heard of that, but you are so right about wanting your girls to be compassionate. Adorable picture of the little girls walking on the beach.
Stanzie, so glad you and your friend are having such a good time together. I can see you glowing! Great care package that you sent for your son.
Karen, glad you got your transportation all figured out and things are going so well. And yes, stay away from those bad neighborhoods!
Awwwww NM, so sorry about the incident with Sadie and now you are upset with mom. Knowing you, I think it will pass, but understand your hurt. Can you explain to her, just what you said to us? And of course you can rant, WE ALL DO at some time or another.
I too laughed at Claire diving into the water chasing balls! Nice of you to think of your moms fur baby. I'm sure she is watching and can see what a sweet dog Dixie turned out to be.
Junie, so sweet of you to offer Sadie (and NM) a vay cay at your B&B. I'm sure they both would have a grand time.
Wow, have any of you seen the dust storm they had down in Phoenix. HUGE, they say the biggest one ever. Wind even blew a semi over! Knocked out power.
YUCK!
Along with our "Wet Dog" we can have "Sandstorms" today too.
A third shot of each, Kahlua - Bacardi Rum - Malibu Rum
Pour the two rums into a shot glass, then add the Kahlua. Let the Kahlua sink to the bottom, take it back and enjoy the ride!
Bottoms Up!
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Lori, Yes I just saw the video of the humongous dust storm on the news....hope you are not affected by any of it. Such awesome pictures though....and what strong wind! Scary, yet awesome to see. Thanks for the kind words....I think all of us have had cute pics when we were young....so nice to see. Good dwink for today!!!! YUMMMM.....I'll have one, puleez.
Gail, Loved your pics and your post. Hope things go well with your project today! Are you doing it yourselves? Bet it will turn out really well if you do it. I think I need to concentrate on getting our house organized....nothing gets done when I am doing big projects, and it shows! Gotta work at the condo too though....that isn't fun!
Tonight I will start the stained glass course....once a wk for 4 weeks, 3 hr classes. I am sure we will just make a "sampler" or small type of hanging, but will be fun to do. It was a "Living Social" deal, and I just realized I had forgotten about the dance classes I bought for both of us that expired last month (groupon).....shucks! The deals are good, but not if they are not used......
Happy Humpity Hump Day Loungettes!!!! Having a Wet Dog and a Sandstorm! Cheers!!!!
Kathy
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I always ask people what they would come back as if they couldn't be human on the next visit... Claire could be Sadie.I'd be a fat lazy cat.
Yes, the plan is to do the tile ourselves but we woke up at 7:15 this morning and DH says maybe we should have coffee and read the paper and wait until tomorrow to start the project so we have a full day with the saw rental (like we need 24 hours to cut 12 pieces of tile)... and now it is almost 9:30. I'm going to pick up supplies today though and put everything right in front of the door so he has to trip over everything to get out. I can prep the area too.
The coffee was good.
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Karen - Sorry to hear you aren't sleeping well, I hate that. I was having some trouble when I started Tami and exercise seems to help. Sounds like you are getting a lot of walking in, maybe just all the excitement of what you are doing. I think that would prolly make it harder for me to sleep all night. I've never had ambient but sure hope that helps. Hugs to you in Jerusalem, Take care!!
Claire - I also wondered how much of the communion wine you sipped to owe your church a whole bottle, so funny, and I loved your offer to NM. Sounds like you had a super nice 4th! LOL at your offer to dive in the lake and chase the ball! That's a nice story about Dixie too and I'm glad she is doing well.
Stanzie - Loved your shopping story about your friend, so funny, and the dog's inappropriate bark syndrome. I do hope you will post your baby pic and also a baby Liesl! Crazy weather for the 4th I do hope it gets better soon. I like your son's care package, that sounds so fun, cant wait to share about the tomato pie too!
NM - Cr@p about your post lost 2X, that just is so awful...but so glad you got to stop by and rant...I'm so sawwy it didn't go well with your mom and it was so upsetting, I totally understand. I'm so sawwy poor Sadie had to get tied up...that just sounds awful. I have my fam issues too, some of them are visiting for the week and I'm trying so hard not to get my buttons pushed, but it seems every other conversation is peppered with hints about how awful my lifestyle living in the mountains is and how awful my DH is for making me live there...this is not the case and it is upsetting for anyone to dump on my DH as I was the one who twisted his arm to do this. We have a lot of fun together and I like my lifestyle. I could go on a long rant, but will just say...let us all put fam bs under the bus! Love the WET DOG and I'm knocking back a few this am! Thank you!
Wahine - That is it exactly, I want to say I'm an adult! But I'm the youngest sib and have posted before about how I will always be the dumb little sister who can't do anything right. And it just feeds this bs more that I'm the one who got cancer, more to blame on my poor DH! It isn't his fault I got cancer! It sure does seem that as people get older they get a little less tolerant...I'm joining you in raising my glass to Sadie!
Junie - Happy Hump Day to you, glad the dogs (and dog beers) are welcome at the B&B!
AStorm - yes, the oatmeal was so nice and I especially appreciate since I wish I were one who liked regular oatmeal for the health bennies, but I just don't like it, bleck! So this is one that is healthy, easy and taste fantastic! Sick man to say he was looking forward to the corgis departure due to getting tired of the dog, how sad! Cute story about the hermit crab too, I had gold fish and would sometimes have a hermit crab get in the tank, they are so neat. Those are nice values you've taught your DDs to value and respect the pets. LOL at the Queen of Not Quiet and your cat usually types with his butt!!! And the pic warning about giving espresso and free puppies to unattended kids, so funny! Glad you have you long term friend too who has been good to you and supportive of a healthy lifestyle. Hey, I'd be a fat lazy cat too! Good luck with tiling!
Goldie - We were going to build the cabin ourselves, but then our carpenter friend got cancer dx and is going thru all the fun stuff and my DH hurt his arm and we just thought it best to wait again...maybe next year..thanks for the awful dust storm pics and the Dust Storm dwinky! I'll take a few of those this am too! Those storms just look awful and I hope it will calm down soon.
Hope everyone has a great Hump Day!
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Gail, Funny about you setting up the tiles so DH has to trip over them! LOL. But since you will have everything ready, that will make it go much smoother tomorrow.
Beans, I am the youngest too, but this year I feel like rebelling and not going along with the flow. Hey, sometimes the river branches off into different directions, right? I just felt like standing up for some things this year, and not going along with situations that are very upsetting to me. I need to try Gail's oatmeal too.....sounds yummy! One way I like to fix it which is quick, is to use 1/2c quick oatmeal and 1 c water in micro for 90 seconds. Then I add 1/2c or more of frozen blueberries, 1/2 of a sliced banana, some walnuts, and some choc chips....YUMMMM! Tastes like dessert. I just got the bbq recipe, so will send it to you in a PM right now.
Hump, hump, hump....humping along,
Kathy
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I like steel cut oatmeal with maple syrup and cream! Don't make that often for obvious reasons.
True confession on Communion Wine. I usually attend the early service on Sundays, so just a handful of people vs over 200 for the main service. Usually I end up towards the end of the rail. So when I was doing chemo and no alcohol otherwise, I would look at the cup, and if a fair amount left, I would take a major gulp!!
One of the benefits of the breast cancer experience is that I am so much clearer about what I will and will not do. Or can be described as "boundaries". I think because in order to manage your way through treatment, you have to set priorities.
I see this very clearly now as I figure out this portion of my career. There are things I am extremely good at, and other things best left to others. I need to play to my strengths.
As for my two sisters, I have learned that the less I expect from either one of them, the better off all of us will be. And I am also very happy not to hear from a friend who in the end is an energy drain. I don't think she has forgiven me for not taking her side against her DH. Well, I have a clear why she might be a trifle difficult to live with. And no, don't put me in the middle of your stuff.
I had a long phone conversation with another old friend yesterday, but really glad not to be dealing with her silliness on a regular basis.
Now, to get the remaining stuff for the Seattle-to-Portland. I was going to try a sale for a sheet I will be using as a sleeping bag liner. Now realize that Value Village is the place to get this item. Will bring home and wash, and who cares what happens to it after I use it Saturday night?
Just glorious here. Happy hump day........ - Claire
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Beanie - I think some people can't understand how anyone can be happy without the things that make them happy. They must really care about you and want to spend time with you if they put themselves out to visit you in such a wretched place! My sister keeps hinting at visiting but she doesn't actually do it... thanks to whoever is looking out for me on that front... she likes to remind me that I am wrong about a lot of things, like health food and clean air (obviously these things caused my cancer) and about how unprepared I am for real life because I didn't run away from home in my teens but went to college instead... and how I was the favorite... blah blah blah... I just don't need it. The Dalai Lama would want me to use her visit to work on training myself to forgive and to respect her superiority. Thankfully someone knows I'm not ready for such an exercise and keeps her away somehow.
Kathy - mmm, chocolate oatmeal! Here is my absolute favorite (should be the HTL breakfast of choice):
Oatmeal with caramelized bananas, orange zest, macadamias and a little bit of rum. You wouldn't even know the oatmeal is there!
NM - your mom sounds a lot like my SIL. She used to correct my parenting too. She was terminally ill so I had to just take it. Her kids are a mess and mine are fine thank you very much, but I just thanked her for her concerns. She also got rid of a dog that she "couldn't train" and a few years later had a puppy put down because it bit her. Once when the ILs were visiting my old corgi attacked her dog (food related territorial issue I suspect) and she hit my dog with a chair and told us we should have it put down. He was usually the most gentle dog I've ever had. I think I'm a fine dog mom - I was told that dachshunds are hard to train but our WD rings a bell to go outside and when the bell doesn't get our attention he makes one sharp little bark and then wags his tail and runs in the direction of whatever he wants. BUT he is a dog. He chews up things (they forget) and he gets so excited when I come home that he howls which I'm sure the neighbor doesn't like. Have you read The Art of Racing in the Rain? I just finished it and I thought of you and Sadie while I was reading it, and another of my friends who has a real connection with her dog.
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The end of the first week of formal learning....tomorrow is a "field trip" learning to the Jordan Valley...so far haven't taken too many pictures....a few in the north by my cousins of the B'hai Gardens and today of a gorgeous pomegranite tree....Hope to get pictures tomorrow....and hoping that it won't be too terribly hot....they told everyone to bring 1.5l bottle of water...I laughed to myself as that is what I always have with me here but another small bottle...but might have to get another bottle as well (but as I write this, wonder if it will get hot on the bus). Got 11K steps in today....racked up extra miles by pacing back and forth waiting for the bus this evening, but it was better than sitting....the food at lunch has been really good, so really didn't eat much for dinner but that is okay....and I've been pretty good about not snacking.... Realized on my way home this evening that I've now been gone for 2 weeks!!! doesn't seem like that long!!!
5 years ago today was the last time I was "poisoned"...my last chemo!!! I also marked my first year post chemo in Israel!!! I took a picture of myself by the pomengranite tree....didn't want to ask anyone cuz, I didn't want to explain why. One of the ladies in my afternoon learning group is in her 70's...we were talking about smells and she said that she can't smell...then says that she did chemo many years ago....she is a 30 year BC survivor...said that she had terrible stats (big tumor, 9+ nodes)...and here she is 30 years later!!!! May we all celebrate 30 (and more) years together!!!! I did tell her that today was 5 years for me since finishing chemo!!! Got to get off the computer....roasting from the heat of it!!! Have a great day....hugs, Karen
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Gail, I think you should let Pants, Jocks, and the Wenches have access to your recipes, as you are one heck of a good cook!!! That oatmeal sounds amazing....and of course I do like anything and everything with chocolate!!!
Oops, didn't mean to bump into you, Karen! You are not only having a great learning experience, but getting all that exercize.....thats great! Thanks for letting us know about your trip, as it is *almost* like we are there...but I would rather not be out in that heat!! Take care.
Kathy
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Dorothy, Are you okay???? Very concerned, since you were having some problems last time you posted. Pleeeeeeeze check in and let us know how you are!!!!!
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