Bonfire of the Goddesses
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beccad - I have not had a red beer in many years. These days I'll take a glass of white zinfindal or a frozen strawberry daiquari.
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I am going to toss in the insurance people who keep threatening to send my student (who is in the hospital in the hematology ward) back to Saudi Arabia....hello....blood transfusions? spiking fever? not stable yet? What are they thinking??????? so tossing in greed....A-holes! (sorry but there you go)
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hi all...been laying kinda low in my pity pot but wanted to pop out and say I was thinking of you all:)
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Sandee - Sometimes I think ALL insurance people should be tossed in. Most of them are idiots and only care about profits and saving money.
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I have someone named Rebekkah who is a nurse and she poked me several times to get blood but she was soo stupid with no results.
There she goes in the fire
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Good to see you annettek. How have you been doing.
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VR you are a dear one-------you are trying to get me going...... I read all of everyones suggestions. Making my thread rounds tonight, and realized, I had already forgotten your suggestions. It sucks. But I did get several things accomplished today. So, today was a good day.
The book I have been reading for the last 2 years is " For The Love Of A Dog" by Patricia B. McConnell. PH.D. It's about dogs, but is as much about humans. It is very science based.
It was June of 09, and had been reading it for several months. I opened to the chapter on "Happiness" I read for awhile and I sat straight up in bed and said OMG we're depressed. I had the name of a great counselor, from a trusted nurse friend that I had gotten for a neighbor. I was able to walk to the roledex an make the first appointment. Three weeks, ugh, needed it to be a now thing. Greg and I saw him up until a short time before he passed away. I started back about three months. later and have continued ever since. 10 months since he passed and our 39th wedding anniversary would have been June 24th in 3 days. That sucks.
I'll probably be reading this same book for along time b/c I can only read a bit at a time till it goes to fog. But the positive is she is so good. . I started the chapter again on Happiness, to see what triggered my reaction about depression. Nothing has been triggered. OH well. If it means anything to ya'll and I think you will get it. Is when we would play trivial pursuit, if I fell asleep, I would get woken up if my team got stuck. So, not to be able to recognize the trigger Bummer.
Long term memory quite good. That should be rephrased previous long term memory good.
I read each Harry Potter book in 2 days. The last one I had a bit of a sore butt for days. Dear Greg would keep me fed and watered in bed, so, I'd have no distractions until I was done. My GUY. I was a Princess. Now I have a silent house. We'd talk so much. You know how you'd be in a restaurant and see couples , they're out to dinner and they would just be there. You wouldn't see them exchange words. We always wondered about that. What was the point of them being together if they couldn't find something to talk about.
Vr I have checked a bit ago with my friend thats on the library board, I'm actually ready to give up my college & nursing textbooks from 68-74, and they will take them. I'm rambling now.
So, what shall be put in the fire. MY old boss who continues to wreak havoc on the nursing staff .I've put her in there before, but she continues on.
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Sending back ill students and bothering nursing staff deserves a very hot bonfire
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Remembering captain Kangaroo and the pin pong balls. Wish I had ping pong balls that could fall on stupid people LOL
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SAS --- I knew you were also dear to my heart. We both share the same wedding anniversary day, June 24. Furthermore, both my mother and sister are nurses! I'm passing along the McConnell book to a friend of mine. For some reason, she isn't a fan of The Dog Whisperer...though I wish she was. We walk her dog every morning and she's NOT the best leader of the pack...although her dog is extremely loveable. This dog was given to her by Canine Companions. She attempted to train her, along with a previous dog...unfortunately, without success. Canine Companions does an amazing job of trying to bring working dogs and physically challenged people together. The only problem is that too many of the dogs that are in their program DO NOT graduate. I've read books about how there are people who make it their business to discover what attributes in puppies make trainable working dogs. Facinating subject.
SAS...come on down to the Bonfire on June 24th. We'll toast Greg's and your happy, long marriage!
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I loved Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans.
We had a local show called Land of Play, I loved it
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Sas, I'm so sorry to hear about your pain. You were together for a long time and now all that's left is memories.
Try to find people you love to be with on June 24th. It's going to be a hard day and you'll need love.
Leah
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Thanks gals. it.s a good idea. The 24th should be Friday Okay out to dinner and then to the bonfire.
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Now that I can truly see the light at the end of the tunnel - I want to throw in all the hours I have spent in cold waiting rooms and all the paper gowns I have had to put on so I can be groped by one more doctor. How about all the stress and anxiety while waiting for test results. All the side effects from the medications.
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yes jo, all that bl**dy stress...into the fire please, and throw mine in with yours too. thanks to those here for some of the few laughs ive had on this board...they were alot of fun...:)
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SAS did you know that Patricia McConnell is a Wisconsinite? She used to be on WI Public Radio every Saturday morning. The show was "Calling All Pets" and people would call in with their animal behavior problems. Went off the air a few years ago and I still miss it. I'll never have an iguana or a gray parrot but loved hearing about them, and of course cats & dogs. {{hugs}}
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After today the chemo chair is going in!
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That's life Got a chuckle out of your post saying bl***y. We spent about 1/2 the year in Canada and 1/2 in the US when I was growing up. So, I picked up on that particular word along with r**dy. (Of course, also tack on an eh? at the end of a lot of my sentences.) So, anyway, I'm in the States now and a few times at work when I was getting frustrated but I wanted everyone to think I was calm and patient, I'd say, "I'd like to get this bl***y thing going" with a smile, and everyone was clueless and just thought I was so calm and patient. Well, my luck, I was saying that one morning when a new person transferred from Britain walked in the room. He was shocked "what did you just say!" I was busted. Too bad, it had been a great stress reflief valve up to that point.
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Happy to help you heave ho that chair in too Merilee
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Merilee - Let me know when you are ready to throw in the chemo chair and I will help you.
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kmmd, I cracked up when I saw you write that word as r**dy. It's my sister's name. And, yes, when she went to England for a visit a few years ago I suggested that she introduce herself there as Mrs. W.
Leah
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Okay what letters do the asterixs represent---I have now idea, except for ruudy. I personally love the english word Bollicks, here it's spelled bollix and is in merriams as "to foul up" , but in England it means "Testes" to them it is the equivalent to our F***. In England it is one of there worst swear words So, here it is quite okay to use bollix b/c it doesn't carry the same meaning.
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good morning SAS, I thought it was "ruddy" which to me means a reddish complexion.
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Badger----yes -she talks about WI in many places in her book. About field trials with the herding dogs, with examples of why to have different types of dogs on an active farm. Great pyrenees and Border collies. AND her love for LUke will bring tears to your eyes. She's a very visual writer and makes WI so beautiful and self suffiicient. She had Luke with her for those shows or maybe it was the TV show. I remember that the name of her farm is REDSTART farm, but she never explained why and never explained where she was close too or I just missed that part. Where are you in WI. Thanks for the hugs same back-sas
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The way I was taught it was a less severe way of saying bl***y, rhymes with it, but not quite as outraging a thing to say. I've heard it used to describe a complexion too. I like bollix too, just never used it like i have bl***y, but same rules would apply
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Speaking of "bollicks," I'm reminded of my favorite movie with the English actor Rufus Sewell (who plays the part of Tom Builder in Pillars of the Earth). If anyone wants to be delighted, get your hands on the BBC DVD, Shakespeare Retold and watch the third episode, The Taming of the Shrew which features him and Shirley Henderson.
http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Retold-Bill-Paterson/dp/B000OY9VFW
Shakespeare Retold consists of four 80 minute episodes of Shakespeare stories retold in modern times using modern English. Not to be missed!
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chabba- thanks for asking- am slowly crawling out of my pity pot before I toss it in the fire...:)
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Ok ladies time for the chemo chair to go in, ready? Heave HO! Never to be seen again!
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Merilee - Congrats on finishing chemo and getting rid of the chair.
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Merilee congratulations, I can see the chair is cinders now. Ash to the winds
Annettek what can we do to help pull you out of the pot? would a little olive oil loosen the pot?Would jokes help? Nancy and TL and I got crazy a few pages back. There are some very funny stories I could C&P?
Kmmd-------okay what bloody point are you getting on about, is it ruddy? It just seems bollicked to me
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