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Good morning, Loungettes! Just a quick pop in before heading to work. Getting up early every morning is a habit I'm going to have to work on, I can see, but that's OK.
Undy--Great anniversary dinner! Wow!Juliet--have you asked for a copy of the quality control logs for the MRI machine? How can you be sure the new scan will be performed correctly if it took so long to find out the last one wasn't? I'd be making a huge pest of myself with questions right about now. But probably the best thing to get the scan and reading before making waves. Keep us up dated!
Effcancer--welcome to the Lounge! It's so good to hear how well you are doing now compared to springtime. You don't say where your mets are, but it they are to bone, the oxy isn't going to help a lot anyway, something in the NSAID category, like ibuprofen, will work better. Just a note--you've been on the oxy long enough for tolerance to develop, so you will need to wean off the oxy, not stop it cold turkey. As to the scanxiety, we all get it and know exactly what you are feeling. Many of us here in the lounge are not willing to give up the pleasure of a glass of wine with dinner or a drink on special occasions; we're not willing to give the rat ba$tard that much control of our lives. Talk to your MO about the risks of an occasional drink with the medications you are taking now. While not recommended, it is possible to have an occasional drink without serious side effects while taking oxy, especially long term oxy therapy. And I love your screen name! Have you been lurking for a while? Do you know about our bus and UFO? We go wherever a Loungette is having a test, scan, surgery, appointment, or anything else requiring support. We'll be with you today and Thursday!DorKable--Love the bi#ch bash, you is so funny! Hooray for the new mower, having something that starts is a GOOD thing!
Wahine--I'm looking forward to Pau Hana time this evening, after a great day at work. What shall we dwinkies this evening?Chrissy--dwinkies before work sounds like fun! Can I join you?
BBBBernie-- you are the cheapest travel agent I've found yet!
Princess Glitter Sizzle's DOTD is the Before Work
1 oz Peach Schnapps
3/4 oz Gin
1/4 oz Dry Sherry
1/2 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Passion fruit JuiceDirections
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lol, Juliet, Love it!!
Undy, Happy Anniversary!
Welcome Eff, pull up a stool
So much to do today, getting kiddo ready to go back to school tomorrow. Everyone have a great MonkeyDay!!!
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Kathy, I haven't started the sublingual yet, I still have one more injection left. Get that today, so I can officially say that I will get "poked" by my DH today!
NM, you can be a nosy bi#ch, as I don't think you are alone in that! So I can't declare being "the innocent one" on that front! So glad the new job is going so well. How do you like the iPhone? The more I use mine, the more I like it. Did "facetime" with my mom, she was so excited!
Cyn, you picturing Dork with the bee also reminded me when to told about darting into the house with the lightening and jumping over things in the yard..........LOL.
I love me some Dork stories, and I love me some Dork. Woooo hooooo, new wheels!
Orla and Alli, kudos to both of you on the running and exercise. Sue too, with her swimming and walking. I suppose I could get off my lazy, ever widening , white arse and do some, but it would have to be in the mornings, but that is when I bisit the lounge, so that ain't a happening!
Shannon, Happy Anniversary girl, sorry you are feeling under the weather. No, no bench pressing anything, besides...........have you seen how big my DH is????? Sure hope you and Sue can hook up when you finally make it to Vegas. What pills are you referring to? Cupcakes look awesome, so glad we don't have calories here!
Welcome EFF, although sorry you are here to join us. At least you can do all the drinking you want here. Wishing you all the best today and Thursday. Keep us updated. I think I would ditch the drugs (if you don't need them) and have that glass of wine. Just my opinion.
Thanks for the "before work" dwinkie NM, I need some and then need to head into the office! Happy Monkey Day goils! I'm all caught up. I did not comment on or to everyone, just don't have the time!
HUGGLES
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GOOD MORNING LOUNGETTES!!!
Happy, Happy, MonKey Dey~~~~~~~
Even our furbabies gettin in on de MonKey bizzness...
As we are posting on our drinking thread...
Big Hugs,
Katwinka needz a dwinka
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Bernie, That is an AWESOME picture of Kilkenny Castle....ya know all I saw of it was the front entrance at the street! (For others, its on the right side of the pic, you can see a bit of the road). All I was interested in seeing, was YOU! Didn't realize how large it is, and what gorgeous grounds its on. Neat how the quaint town is just down the street, very short walk....and loved that old, historic pub! Would love to spend time going in all those small shops someday, going INSIDE the castle grounds, and spending LOTS more time with YOU, Bernie!
Funny cartoon, Juliet!
Great post NM....love the Before Work Drink! Maybe tonight at Pau Hana we will all just have our favorite drinks....will keep the Tenders and Wenches bizzy fixing up all sorts of different drinks!
Lori, Enjoy your "poke" today...LOL...but really....OUCH! Glad you will start on the sublnguals soon. Funny that it was my vet that told us about them, and we have taken them ever since! Maverick does so well on the Glucosamine/Chondroitin too, runs and jumps like a puppy, even though he has such a bad hip he could hardly walk before. It was my DH that found out about that for dogs, as the vet was charging a TON for the shots and pills he had.
Otay girlies, gotta get moving....have a wunnerful MonKey Dey!!!
katheeeeeee
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good afternoon all, hope everybody is well and happy, shannon-hope you enjoyed some of your anniversary
eff c,trying to be quiet for your appointment today. cyn,by time we finish helping you with your trip,it will be a world tour! alli,wish miss aubrey a wonderful first day of school. lori hope you got poked today and your injection too. kathy is your ankle better today? nm-someone once told me the safest time to fly is after a crash because the planes have been tested and the crew are extra vigilent! so i'm applying that philosophey to the mri but i will ask before they even put the iv in! just to make sure. 0 -
Hi goils. It's late here. I slept til 9:30....never do that. But last night my car got dwunk again. We ate left over chickenchiladas...I fell right out...then at 10p...ugghhh can you say HEART BURN!! It was thunder n lighting and lots n lots of rain...finally...yahoo!! Got back to sleep around 3ayem. I feel goot now.
Unde Happy belated anniversary! I want summa dat cake!!
Lori - Hope you find the right docs to do both scopes and get to bottom of it soon. And your arse is not widening...least not that I can tell in da photos n from meeting you. Sounds like you get lots of phy exercise jes from your work.
D - cwack me up wif da bee den da india call center chit.
Alli - Aubry go to school today? Are you sad?
Juliet - hope da test is right this time. Ya gotta share your letter when u done too.
NM - getting up in the am?? I never thot I'd git used to it after working 20 years graves, but in time it worked out.
Bernie - LOL, and love the castle!
Want to comment but gotta git going. Headed to LV today. Muga in early am tomorrow.
Welcome eff!!
Cheers...n Happy MonKeyDey....lubs lubs lubs ya'll!!
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On a day in 1280, Alice de Kyteler was born in Kyteler's House, Kilkenny to wealthy Norman parents.
Forty four years later, in 1324, she fled to England to escape being burned as a witch and in July of that year, her property, including Kytelers Inn was confiscated.
In the intervening years Dame Alice had married four times, has been Mistress of Kytelers Inn and had become a central figure in a battle between the Church and the Temporal Power in Ireland.
He first husband was William Outlawe, a local banker and they had a son, also called William, who was to feature strongly in the saga of her life. Her husband took ill and died suddenly within a few years of marriage and shortly afterwards Alice married her second wealthy husband, Adam de Blund of Cullen who soon also died suddenly and mysteriously. Having inherited two substantial fortunes, the now very wealthy Alice married Richard de Valle and the pattern continued with his early, sudden and mysterious death.
It was the fourth husband of Kilkenny's ‘Merry Widow' however who unwittingly began a chain of events that would lead to Alice being convicted on charges on witchcraft before an ecclesiastical court. Some years after his marriage to Alice, landowner Sir. John de Poer showed signs of illness. His hair and nails fell out and he became weak and sickly. Shortly before he succumbed to death, he changed his Will to the benefit of Alice and her son William, an act which resulted in anger and resentment among his other family members. Armed with rumours (which may have been false and inspired by local jealousy), they brought charges of witchcraft and sorcery against Alice before the English-born Franciscan Bishop of Ossory, Richard de Lederer. They claimed that Alice had ‘bewitched' her husband and forced him to change his Will. His Lordship convened a Court of Inquisition which included five Knights and several Noblemen which heard evidence that Alice headed a coven of witches and had sex with a demon called Artissen, who is sometimes depicted as Aethiops, the mythical founder of Ethiopia.
What followed next was a legal and political battle in which Bishop Lederer tried, but failed, to get the Temporal Authority to arrest and condemn Alice, her son William Outlawe and several of her friends and servants. The Bishop was himself arrested and imprisoned in Kilkenny jail, but on his release he continued his campaign, demanding that Alice appear before him. She wisely refused and promptly left for England, returning a year later to Dublin where she urged the Archbishop to condemn the Bishop of Ossory for unlawfully excommunicating her. A showdown between the Commissioner and Bishop Lederer took place in Dublin and ended with the Bishop returning to Kilkenny from where he demanded that Alice be arrested. She heard about the request and promptly returned to England.
The Kilkenny Witchcraft Trials did however take place. William Outlawe was convicted and ordered by Bishop Lederer to attend three Masses every day and to give alms to the poor. This light sentence was in sharp contrast to the torture meted out to less wealthy friends of Alice, including her maid Petronella who was tortured, whipped and finally burned at the stake.
Alice disappeared from history following her second escape to England, but her memory lives on in folklore. In 2004, Paddy Shaw, an American artist, painted a portrait of Alice de Kyteler, based on his knowledge of her life and his imagination. She is coupled in the painting with a representation of the demon Aethiops. Some years later, in 2005, Kilkenny writer Claire Nolan completed a novel called ‘The Stone', which is a fictional account of the life of Dame Alice. The painting lay in Paddy Shaw's studio until one day it turned up in the post at Kytelers Inn with a note from the artist saying ‘Alice doesn't like being with me- you have her'.
When the painting was unfolded, it showed an Alice which bore a remarkable resemblance to Claire Nolan, whom Paddy Shaw had never met and who painted the picture before the book was written. The painting and a photograph of Claire Nolan are exhibited at Kytelers Inn for all to judge.
So was Alice de Kyteler a witch, a poisoner or just a woman who became wealthy by marrying and burying four husbands ?. We may never know- but we do know that she ran a popular and hospitable house of food, wine and good companionship at Kytelers Inn and began a tradition which thrives to-day.
Nicky Flynn, to-day's owner of Kytelers Inn believes that the spirit of Alice still resides within its 740 year old walls. ‘You have to be nice to her', she says.0 -
Bernie...I so need to go there and you betcha a$$ you will be on my itinerary. I have sometime to get things together and will explore all options..Love the story about Alice.
Not much time to stick around today ... ((( hugs ))) to all the loungettes...maybe I can get away for a few tonight for pau hana...
Love ya's xox
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Happy monkey day
Bernie u have such a big house lol
Vino awww first day of school.
Happy anniversary Undie cake was good how many years?
pop in Later
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Thank you girls,had a good anniversary. Good dinner too,vietnamese from our fav little restaurant. GOLDIE-I meant the pellets,not pills. No time to respond to all as i'm off to run errands. Driving for the first time since the T.E. sewgery. Have cabin fever like you wouldn't believe. CHEERS!
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A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone.
He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don't do the following, your husband will
surely die." "Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, and make sure he is in a good mood. For lu nch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores, as he probably had a hard day. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse. And most importantly. make love with your husband several times a week and satisfy his every whim." If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely.
On the way home, the husband asked his wife. "What did the doctor say?"
"You're going to die," she replied.0 -
Hi girls,
Popping in for pau hana, enyone here?
Juliet, lmao at yer doctor joke, too funny.
Bernie, loved the Alice story too. and that pub looks so cool, nothing like that in the states, fo shoa! Did I tell you how much i like your avatar, you look gawgoues lady.
unde, i hope you enjoy your first outting in de car, go you. sorry you were not feeling well, hope all bettah now.
Chrissy B in de house, yippee. I miss you goil, you need to stop in and partay with more often. seems wheneber you come in, you stay for a minute and both you and one of de tenders nessappear.
Lori, hoping that tings work out with the booster. have you yet caught up with the reading here? shirley, it moves fast. congrats on de groud breaking, yippee. can i tail about de partay on fridey wese habbing? please please, let me tail!
Kathy, my vet had told me about the glucomasmine condwoiten when I had my mocha, had jest starting the therapy and it seemed to be working until de end. I still miss dat baby. how old is your maverick? how's de house repairs coming along?
Allison, give your DD a big hug from me and tell her to make sure to do her homework and make her auntie dork pwoud.
Suz, I sure hope that you do not have any issues with nausea after yer treatment tomorree. do you need us to come to lv with you? I wuz jest dropped of by de ufo after staying with Eff todey. oh bdw, I is sorry that i made noise and eff cancer got blamed, ya see, no one could see me cuz i was hidng in her pocket and was teeny tiny as could bese. love you back suzie goil.
Orange, how's tings with you? wanna join my "i dumped my man club"? it is a fun club fo shoa. I hope all is well, is the drainage slowing down some? do i ax too many questions?
cyncyn, what are you doing all dey where you could not be here? rabbit someting or anudder while tinking of dat other D goil?
NM, wuz a pleasure to see you post dis morning. I hope you had a good first dey of work and continue to like, no, make it love de new job. i wish i had a job i love. i love your passion for everything you do.
Juliet, love how your short posts say so much and git right to de point, I can't do that likeyou can. you are another goil with a wealth of good info for de goils here, I tank you for being here - we so blessed to have two nurses in de lounge. i can be de doctor. well i can play doctor and have de tenders play patients hehehe. snicker snicker boom chicky wow wow.
Eff C, how did your day go? sorry I got you in trouble, I could not tail that it was mese making all dat noise in yer pocket cuz i'd get tossed out and needed to keep you company. but sorry me got so drunk that i can't remember what happened. really though, let us know how you made out. i hope you come back again even if you have to dwink voyshirley.
Is dere enybuddy in de house really named shirley? shirley, dere is a shirley out dere lurking hehe. I love that name. I had a bff back in 2002 when I bought mese first home, she was my neighbor. she was in her 60's and I was barely 30 but we just clicked. de rat bastard took her from me, FU rat. her son is my realtor and whenever we are face to face, I see my friend when looking in his eyes. it is chilling yet wonderful. I will nebber ebber foyget my friend shirley, shirley won't. ya see shirley means many tings. it can be a name, it can mean shirley as in surely (hard werd to type) or part of de work voyshirley meaning virtually but dat anudder hard work to type.
speaking of hard, where b mr big's bigness, I need some.....uh, more JD, straight up, no chaser. speaking of, has anyone eber seen that a-capella group called straight no chaser? i love them, saw them in Atlantic City with exDH #2 a few years back. HA, I said it, exdh2, yippee~still no cummunication in de nation of dork, obber a week now since we spoke. i miss him a widdle but olny miss his hotness, not his big fn mouth. oops, me ranting agen, sorry! oops, dat a bad word, mese apologiezes on behalf of de goils in de hot tatty lounge. let's dwink, cheerS ma deeers!
Love and prayers to all my goils, specially for our newbie, Effy. wanna play a game of let's guess eff's real name? my guess is .... (drum roll please).........
nancy.
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Oh Bernie, such good memories seeing the inside of that pub again....it was truely awesome! Nice reading that history too....we just don't have things that old here, so it really fascinates me. We need to fight the Rat Bastard just like the "Kilkenny Cats"...
There once were two cats of KilkennyEach thought there was one cat too manySo they fought and they fitAnd they scratched and they bit'Til (excepting their nailsAnd the tips of their tails)Instead of two cats there weren't any!Pau Hana time....lets raise our glasses and pretend we are in that wonderful Kyteler's Inn!
*kachink*, *glug, glug, glug*, *hic*
Katwinka
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Shoot, Hope I didn't bump ya so hard D, dat your JD spilled. Oh well, pwenty more, right? Loved your post, can I just "ditto" it? You iz alwaze soooo funny you cwack me da hail up (yuppers I stole dat line from youse).....mese gonna dwink wid ya, OK??? Hey de tenders put a BIG bottle of Seagrams and a BIG bottle of Jack Daniels, and an icy bucket of Diet cokes...jest fer us! Whoooooppppppeeeeeeeee!!!! *kachink*
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Me again....just realized Phyllis Diller died today. She was soooo funneeee and poked fun at herself too. She was the same age as my dad. Couple of her famous lines...
The outlandish Diller always shined best in nightclubs, showrooms and
concert halls, where one of her favorite targets was her domestic life,
including her fictional husband "Fang.""I don't like to cook; I can make a TV dinner taste like radio," she'd
say."Fang's idea of a seven-course dinner is a six-pack and a bologna sandwich.
The last time I said let's eat out, we ate in the garage.""I put on a peekaboo blouse. He took a peek and booed."
Then she'd launch one of her patented guffaws: "Ah-HAA-haa-haa!"
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Hey Hey...Im here Dorkie Doo....and I was bizzzy shopping for my gd's birfdey..and cleaning my house and making dinner...all the domestic things I have to start doing again...oh..yeah and of course talking to the other D girl and I dont have a pet wabbit..I got a rocket ship instead. Shirley yoiu understand...lmao...good lord girl...you get on a tangent and it just flows...I love it..you missed your calling honey as a stand up comic...I think they are all dwunk too.
Eff...hope all goes well. did someone load up the UFO?
Bottoms up for pau hana ladies..
Hugz and kizzes.
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Too dwunkin to read anyting. Jus thot i'd say halllooeee! How is ebberybody? Mese is dwunk. Fo shoa.
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Mmmmmmm., scuse mese, jus hab ta sy I Lub u all.
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My DH outta town, kiddo in beddo, Habbing too many dwinko,, love life Fo Shoa
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Did we miss a good chance for a lampshade partay? Alli, if you are "home alone" again tamarra nite, wese all shud show up wid our lampshades! Partay, partay, partay!!!!! Gonna get Pants to load up de UFO wif de likker, and Jock and the Wenches can get all the food ready, and wese will be dere!!! (OR be square).....or dwink outta square glasses....or sumtin...
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Berie you are definitely a breast friend as you often make me laugh so much that I pee a little.
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so true chrissy
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Morning ladies. Man, I was left hangin out all by myself last night. That's ok though, I wasn't really alone, Mr Big was with me, wink wink.
Wahine, absolutely, we are overdue for a lampshade party. Lookin forward to it. I just posted the staples commercial "it's the most wonderful time of the year" on FB. Too funny. Don't know how to post it here.
Gotta get Aubrey on the bus, bbl. Happy Twosday! And Bernie, thanks for making me wet myself so often, hehehe
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