new and future flat sister, with questions
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Bobo - you'll be furious if you don't have cancer? You are definitely over stressed to make a comment like that. I mean, I think we all get what you're saying, but you really don't want endo cancer and another surgery. Well, I suppose you and Glennie could opt for some sort of 2 for 1 special. Hospital wouldn't know what hit them... 2 rebels in 1 room demanding Vitamix soup.
I think it's settled.. at our reunion there will be Southern Comfort! M will be the hardass drinking it out of the bottle, Glennie will have the discreet wine flask that we all used back then.. and I'll be providing the cranberry juice and umbrellas for the pretty drinks that look so innocent. What is a wee dram? BTW.. I am proud to say I did get the Aussie 'fannie' comment from Bobo earlier in the thread. I feel so worldly and all now.
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Talking about shopping for things we "need" I was so thrilled to find these warm slippers at a Festival in...wait for it...Canada! They make them and I have had a pair for many years and they are so worn out, with the winter coming in a couple of months these will be my constant companions!! I really need these, but that isnt saying I wont buy other things I dont need, I am kinda like Wren, dont go to many fancy dress up places anymore. When we were younger went dancing, parties etc. Doesnt happen much anymore but like it that way.
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What lovely slippers! They look so warm and comfy. And you went to Canada again! I love that. How far are you from the border??
2 for 1 HX's??? hahahaha,, The 2 of us in one room, that would be a scream.
No discrete wine flask for me. We had these big Gator cups that they sold at the games. You would sip off enough Tab to pour in the Southern Comfort and then stir with your finger. Think I still have one of those cups,,, let me go look and take a piccie for you.
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oooo. Still have two of them! Must have a beverage in one during this week's game against Alabama!
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ND, Love those slippers. I had a pair of moccasins that I loved and wore to smithereens. Couldn't throw them away even then.
Bobo, Afraid I would have to shoplift EF. Doesn't fit my retirement income - nor my working income come to think of it. Yoga attire is a wonderful idea. I have one pair of yoga pants that fit and are wonderful. I've been looking for a second pair forever. If Penney's ever gets them in stock, I plan to get more than one. I've tried on Marika and found large which fit and extra large that were way too tight. Either would need hemming. WTF! Who wants to hem yoga pants? I did recently score a pair of EF pants and a pair of Calvin skinny jeans; both need hemming, of course.
Cat wars continue. Not really war because it's all on Goldie's side. Squealers just shrugs and walks away. I think he would love a friend to play with. I'm going to see if his harness fits and take him outside if it does. He's built like a lab with a broad chest and short tail, so the medium harness might not be large enough.
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Glennie, I am only 2 miles from the Canadian border, explains why I am always popping up to Canada!! We are known as the north border towns, years back, (not so much now) the Canadians would flood our town and any town along the border to come and drink at the bars. Booze was cheaper and rules at bars here were alot more relaxed than theirs. Our local bar would be jam packed with Canucks
bar owners loved it and they had to be back at the border crossing by 10 pm, so in the summertime our little town had a curfew whistle that blew at 9:45 so our kids could get off the streets before the "exodus" of Canadians blew out of town. Remember that is doesnt get dark up north here until almost 11 pm so they were still our playing. The Canadians really cracked down on drinking while driving laws and so now they either have to have a dd or they dont come down. The "foreign" traffic has slowed down to a low roll anymore, not many drink and drive anymore, which is a good thing.Wren, mocassins are great! love your cat stories.
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2 MILES!! You are close! You could walk to Canada. I love that!!Bobo: tonight's shake experiment:
4 oz Naked juice orange mango 8 oz coconut milk. 4 ice cubes. protein powder. 1 spoon flax seed 3/4 of a banana (Ava must have some)
Pretty good!
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Ooh those slippers look fabulous, much nicer than the Uggs we have here! I still love it when you say you are going to Canada ndgirl!
Wrenn, can you post a pic of the kitty on the lead? You are right about the Marika sizing. I have had some problems too. I have never had to hem pants, but I too, have had some Marikas that are dragging on the ground. I can live with that, when they are reduced down so damn cheap. I love the capri length and the leggings too.
The drinking age here is 18, so there wasn't too much under age drinking for me. It was the late 60's and 70's so it wasn't such a big deal.
Hx x 2 I love that! Colin and I were in Raffles Hospital together in Singapore, he broke his hip and I had massive UTI infection and asthma. It was a scream. They dressed us in pink and blue jammies. They pumped me so full of drugs, I thought I'd never get out of there. Glennie and Bobo together would be hysterical!
Haha PRB, I want to be at that reunion!
Bobo, where are we at now, with the Biopsy? Have you decided yet?
Cool and cloudy here, but my Fig tree has the start of leaves coming and teeny weeny figs at the end of each branch, it is so cute!
Take it easy girls...catch you later. M x
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Ooh! Good updates!
G, I love how your smoothie starts with a smoothie. That's cheating! I know I have told you that.
Birdie, squeakers update! I will play with him. I want to kiss his face! I can tell by your description that you looooove him.
Please note birdie: EF sale tomorrow only, $30 off a $50 purchase, free shipping, and 10% of proceeds goes to girls. If you get, say, a 3/4 sleeve organic tee, those on sale for $29, you could get two, then $30 off and free shipping. That's $15 each. That's usually how I shop at EF.
Okay, nobody buy the cropped yoga pants yet. M. I am getting them and I don't want them to sell out. **Marika sucks**
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M, I thought you were going to help me decide!
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Naked juice makes it easy to change flavors!! I love Naked Juice.
OMG: M!! You and Colin in hospital at the same time???? Yowza!! And you have figs??? **jealous**
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Shit Bobo, that's a big responsibility! lol
If you were Bec, you know what I'd be telling her!
I need the link for this EF sale! Those are amazing bargains, every time I have looked at that range it's like a thousand bucks a piece!!!! Well maybe not a thousand, but exxy!
Glennie, I just had Vegansmart with banana, mango, coconut yogurt and home made almond milk with nutmeg! Yumm
I want to walk to Canada with ndgirl..how cool is that!
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I want to walk to Canada too. I think that sounds WAY cool.0 -
Glennie... ahoy matey, those are some big cups! I'd say jugs, but that doesn't seem quite right now does it? I'll take some of that smoothie - I love Naked mango juice, but you are measuring all wrong.. it's big bloops and little bloops. What's this 4 ounces thing?
M - you better start saving up for your flight for the party. I'm curious as to how many foobs you'd bring for your stay.
ND - those moccasins look so comfy. We are close to Canada and there were always the Minnetonka moccasins available growing up. Now they are everywhere, but back in the day, you didn't see them much. I had a ankle high pair in high school and I swear they caused my feet to go flat...no support, but I loved those things.
DD has a sore throat and runny nose. I hate when she is sick..and tonight she wanted to play tennis. She insists it makes her feel better.. so we played. I hope I don't regret letting her play in this damp weather. Might look into that olive leaf stuff M likes so much.
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Come on... lets all walk to Canada, our weather is 75 trees are turning beautiful... would be a great walk!! Now there are camera along the fields that at one time we could sneak across if we missed the port closing... did I just admit that? nope. now we may get shot! so we will just saunter up to the line! We occassionally see and hear helicopters at night and also daytime flying over town. Border patrol.. your tax dollar at work! Bring your passports and we will all go get slippers!
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**goes searching for passport** I don't look anything like this picture!! My hair is really long in this photo!! **need new photo**Yes, big cups!! Very easy to get drunk on one!! Sometimes I do bloops,, tonight I thought I would measure,, I dont know why.
Cameras in the fields,,, hmmm,,,, I'll have to tell you my Canada smuggling story one day. No handguns allowed? **whistles** Nothing here,, nothing to see,,,,
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Passing the hat around to raise bail money for Glennie. Do we have any lawyers in the group? We might need some legal advice. I'm thinking M could pull it off with her suit and briefcase. Judge would probably wonder what all that noise was in Glennie's pocket.
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PRB: you are so funny!!! **what's all that noise?** shhhhhhh,, Judge is talking.
Do you live in the UP? it's on my bucket list. I want to go to the shipwreck museum and take a cruise on Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald and all that. I don't want to drive over that huge bridge,,, that's really scary looking!! Have you done that??
*cues Warren Zevon* **send lawyers, guns and money**
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The medium harness did not begin to fit Squeakers. I hope it comes in extra large. Dog legs are different, so I don't think a dog harness would work on a cat. All is not lost because I sew, but it takes me forever to get around to it.
I looked at EF today and did not see that sale. I'll look again tomorrow. I think a knitted linen T shirt would be fab in hot weather.
We went out for pizza tonight (vegetarian) and had nutella gelato for dessert. It was delish.
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ND, If you live that close to Canada, you would probably like the book Border Songs by Jim Lynch. The main character is a member of the Border Patrol with autism. Some great scenes. I thought the ending was a cop out, but the rest of the book was great.
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Glennie, Colin bought me a cruise a few years ago, for Christmas, on the new, at the time, Cunard Queen Victoria. It was from Sydney to Singapore for 28 days, it should have been the trip of a lifetime. We went to New Guinea, Marianas Islands, Japan, South Korea, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand. This ship was massive and luxurious, but it had some issues like overflowing pipes in the laundry that caused mold in the carpets near the laundry. Heaps of people were sick and considering the average age of the passengers was about 73 we had quite a few deaths on board.
I caught a really bad UTI, the Doctor on board just kept dosing me up on antibiotics but never tested to see if they were the right one, they weren't and finally 2 days out of Singapore, I came down with what they laughingly called the "Cunard Cough" long story short, this bug gets passed around all the ships in the Cunard fleet because these passengers, really never go home. They just take one cruise after another, New York or Southampton and start again, around the world, they and the crew, who move from ship to ship too, just keep infecting everyone again. Add to that the fact that the bug is a Micoplasma and just laughs at the Amoxicillin that this Dicktor kept handing out, it was a festering mess.
The other awful part of this was that unbeknown to us, when Colin bought the tickets, even though they were well aware of his disability and inability to get out of his wheelchair, they docked at container ports along the way and because Colin couldn't get on the buses they supplied to get passengers to the cities, he had to stay on board the ship. I began calling it the ship of the damned!
Anyhoo, we get to Singapore, check into a Hotel and I am so sick I have to go to the Hospital for a nebulizer. This went on for a few days and I was to sick to go out. Colin goes out on his own for a look around and gets jostled by the moving crowd on the street and shifts badly in his chair. The next morning when I am getting him up I see this bulging side and he's broken his hip. Ambulance to the Hospital, they xray and offer to strap him up for a plane ride home, or they can operate there. He chooses to have the op there. I continue to get sick and the day he is to be released to go home they check me to see if I can fly and say I have to be admitted. There isn't anyone to look after Colin so they have to admit him again too.
They discover I have a superbug that has to be treated with a heavyweight lV antibiotic and I have to be in Hospital to get it, every 4 hours for a week. So there we are, like the bobsie twins in our jammies. I have never been so sick in my life and the 400mg of steroids each day are terrifying. I can't tell which is worse!
We finally got home and were going to our local Hospital to get checked out and Colin got into his car. I heard a horrible sound, like he had broken the seat, yep, you guessed it, he had broken his femur where they had screwed the rod and plate in too tight. The nightmare started again, because we couldn't find an Ortho that would operate on him to repair it. I chased surgeons for 8 days before I coulld get one who would do it. Surgeons don't like to operate on quads, because they can have terrible issues on the table, Colin never has any knock out anesthesia, just a block to stop him from spasming. Anyway, are you sorry you asked, yet? lol
Colin comes through the surgery and on day 2 they get him up into his chair, only to discover they have put his leg together the wrong way and it is 20 degrees off and he can't get his foot onto the footplate of the chair. The next day they give him a blood transfusion and back to surgery again for a 3rd time in less than a month. It was horrific, huge surgery, trying to stabilize the bones that had shattered. I was still sick and couldn't even visit him in the Hospital.
As you can imagine, my anger is rising and although I have kept it together, so Colin gets the care he needed. In the end it turned out to be the biggest "Dance of the Humpyback Spider" in a looong time.
The cruise line were quick to refund, I had video footage of the laundry, with the overflowing drains and the lack of information to disabled passengers, was well, just plain stupid. Colin wasn't the only one. We would never have gone, if we'd known Colin couldn't leave the ship.
Well there's a novel for you Glennie, yep we were both in Hospital together and thank goodness we had great insurance. That little Hospital adventure cost the insurance company $60,000.00!!!!!
Yep, we have the most sensational Fig tree! It is big and it is old and it is unbelievably prolific. We give away bucket loads when it is fruiting. I have so many jars of preserves from the people who make stuff from the fruit! Of course I don't do anything, but eat them off the tree. Colin doesn't like them!
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I just saw all those posts, I started mine, and left it for a while.
You lot are so funny, I am reading it out to Colin and telling him, I want to go over and walk to Canada!
My gf who still has flying rights was talking about a trip to visit a friend of hers, in Vegas, she wanted me to go, but we are on "High Alert" for terrorism at the moment, so she is rethinking it. M x
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I want to walk to Canada too!
OMG, M. That is just a terrible story! Yikes. I hear terrible cruise stories quite often, actually.
How much do I love that Squeakers story? He is too manly for a medium harness. I am just waiting for you to post a picture, Birdie, of your man in his hand-sewn harness!! Oh I cannot wait!
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I reply to myself. You don't need a link to the EF sale, M. It's just eileenfisher.com. It's tomorrow only. Coupon code EF30.
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Ariom, what a nightmare, omg, i cannot imagine how you both made it through all that stress... wow, but the cruise sounds so wonderful. We had a wonderful time on ours to the carribean, i didnt want to get off the ship.. unlike colin!! you have had so many adventures you really need to write a book.
Wren, thanks for the book advice, i love to read and will find it. Another one that is written about our area is after the rain, it is a fictional story about our area in the 70's when the abm (missile site) the author did a good job on researching the area, i usually dont like thriller books (life is scary enough) but this was good. Not sure why i can only get a capitol letter on the beginning of each sentence... stupid computer.
Road to canada is ready for bobo, suppose she will be wearing ef...and i will want to swipe it from her.
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OMG,, M,,that is a horrible story! I know a lot of people like cruises,, but I don't like the feeling of being trapped on the boat, and can't get off when I want to,, and you often hear of illness and similiar things that you described! Poor Colin, never able to get off the boat and breaking bones, and they put him back together wrong !! OMG!! How could they do that?? Horrible.I wish to come and eat figs off the tree. **high alert** WTH? I really have to start reading the news, don't I?
Night 2 of 6 is over!! 4 more to go!!
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Glennie, w
ould you believe, it hasn't put us off cruising. For us, it is a really easy way to travel. I love ships, my Dad was a Chief Engineer in the Navy and on the Cruise ships. He used to do the Hollywood Cruises in the Carribean and was an assistant to Max Baer snr, in the Gymnasium on those ships when he was a young apprentice. He had the most amazing stories about the actors of the time, Claudette Colbert and Bette Davis were favorites of his, who apparently took him under their wing, because he was young and pretty green!
Cruising for us, means I unpack once and with me being the only carer, which means 24/7, it is a breeze compared to what I have to do, if we are flying and I have all the baggage, passports, tickets and worrying about Colin's chair being damaged and the getting him into an aisle chair, getting luggage into transport when we land and juggling everything. Then there is the lack of equipment in Hotels, just a bed that is too high or too low ,causes all kinds of problems. We have traveled a lot, with no help, for extended periods, so we have devised ways to do stuff, on our own, but I have to pace myself, because of the Rheumatoid. If I get a flare up it makes things very difficult. We have carers who come in daily when we are at home, so I don't have to do everything.
Fortunately, Colin is really easy going, never gets stressed or upset and although he is very disabled, there are many things, like driving or being skipper on the boat, that he does very well, so I can relax. He's nowhere near as volatile as I am, which is a very good balance. lol
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I can see your point about cruising. It does make an easier vacation which is why a lot of people like it. Guess I like things the hard way!
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Glennie, I meant to say, the High Alert for terrorism, is because of threats by ISIS. This stuff makes you a little skittish about getting on a plane:)
I used to travel a lot on my own, either for training, overseas, or as a break after a 6 week roster ended. I loved to just pick a place, take a carry on bag and go. I would also sometimes go with another girl from work and if someone was doing training for work, the company paid for their accommodation and the 2 of us on a break, would stay in the room too. It wasn't unusual for 4 of us to end up sleeping in a king size bed, to save having to pay for a room! It was a lot of fun. We had a friend living and working in Singapore so we would visit him, a couple of times a year too.
We get longer vacation time over here, I had 5 weeks a year plus 4 or 5 days off after a 6 week roster ended. so if we were sent somewhere for training, which happened a lot, we could just add a few vacation days to the allocated time and have a little holiday. Those were the days!
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Ooh. We get no vacation time. DLLP and I have never been on vacation. It is always one thing or another.
I am also volatile. And DLLP is also incredibly easy going. Today is our 17-year anniversary, in fact, and she is making me coffee. The kids came into our bed because they sensed us wishing each other Happy Anniversary, actually having a moment to look one another a face, and giving a kiss. And then bobo came in too. Our princess reeks of pee pee.
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