how about drinking?

Hi Allison, tanks for tailing us, would not wanna swim in your foot bath. I love ya and ebberyting but...well you know.

Kathy, I would love a pedi right now. I have not done anything with my hair or nails since being out of work and feel so sloppy. I have not had my hair colored and the roots are terrible. I hate going out of the house but I am saving every way I can until I get back to bringing in a decent pay check. I can be very frugal when I want to be. I have a hair appointment scheduled for next week and really need it!

Cyn, never did plant flowers. I went out shopping for food and filled my gas tank but did not have the energy to stop at the flower stand in town. Maybe tomorrow. I is still ascared of hurting meself. I jest did a little sweeping in my pool but used my left arm. I had to stop because I could feel it in my chest. I jest HATE not being able to do tings and it seems like forebber since I could do anything without fear of hurting meself. Dat RB is a nasty basturd. I feel like my yard has gone to chit since BC. I used to love to spend hours and hours working hard out there. But nope, de beast kilt my fun. But enuff of dat....I hope you are enjoying the movie.  I have not heard of that either. Geez, I need to get out of this shell I am under, fo sho!!

I tink I shall wander over to de percotini fountain for a bit. Ennyone wanna join me? And tanks Kat for de dwink....chug chug chug burp, oops, scuuuuze mese!

mese dwinking too. had a rough start, my belly was again not feeling too good but after eating a pbj, I feel much better. i don't know what all dis queeeeezy belly stuff dat going on with mese is about but mese dont like it. I nearly lost my morning meds again dis aye em and i excluded the ones that usually toyn my stomach. but enuff Dork, enuff of dat chit ... wese feels right goodliest right now and dat, my bwest fwends, is DE ticket.

Kat, werember when I told Alli I was coming for de derby and she believed me? Can't tease her, she gits all farcited den gits nessappointed. She so nice and I know she is a great hostess. De Stella tailed me so.

Speaking of Stella, she is going to Cyndie's soon. She is farcited as can be, asks me ebbery dey when she is going. I jest tail her to shut up and I will tail her when de time comes. I know dat not nice but she jest a pain asking me obber and obber and obber "when I going to see Cyn, when i going to meet Cyn's boys, when am i going to see mickey mouse, what do her boys like like, do they look like JOhnboy, are dey rich, when is Disney, what is todey..." I could go on. She make me crazy but mese lubs her.

where is Suz? missing my Mema sue the past few deys. I will have to check on her. I will page her first and see if she come out.

 "MEMA SUE< please repurt to de lounge asapliest, yer presents is requested. Mese miss you! Who else missimg? mese so dwunk and I cant git up off de floor. Mr. Big, give me a hand and I give you one tehehehe, he hot for mese!!

and mese wanna predick that Chrissy on her way into de lounge cuz she saw dose dwinks dat Beanie made. wish mese beans was here too. miss her. miss Chrissy. eberytime she come in, I is out of de lounge or in de bathroom with pants. oops, I mean with my pants down. Oh my, mese better shush before me start tailing all mese secwets. 

Mr. bigger jest asked me who's my daddy? does that mean he wants me? not sure what he mean but I tink he hitting on mese!! 

Cyn, glad you enjoyed de movie. As for Stella, ya see, mema has her body at de moment, I only has her bad attitude hehe. She tail ya when Stella goes in de mail. No wonder she forncused about so much, she can't see where she going when she in de envelope. poor ting. 

Well you goils stay dwunk and bese good and bad if ya want. I'ze going to mese fire by de pool. Yese can join me if ya want! 

Cha cha cha and cheeeeeers! 

Oh oh Shannon....if the Tenders do the limbo sans clothes, mese don't tink dey can get under dat pole. Cuz dere poles will be upright....oops! Good to see ya back, and ya kin pick any Tender ya want. Hope things start looking up for you !

Yuck...very sad news just came on the news. In our small city, they arrested someone who had EIGHTY-FIVE dogs in their home...in a quiet residential area, and neighbors had no idea. Some were very sick, so had to be put down, but they are looking for permanent or foster homes for the 39 remaining furbabies. They said about 90% of them are weiner dogs. SO sad when people let animals just reproduce like that, and then do not take care of them. Broke my heart. Dorkie, you are a weiner-dog softie, shall I tell them you can take some in??? Nah, I know you have enuf pets, but sure hope they all can find homes. Just so sad.

awww, Kathy so sorry about all those wiener dogs, it must have been terrible to see that and know it is in your home town. I am sadliest and wish I could take them. I would have changed the channel or covered my eyes and ears, I can't take those kind of news stories. WDF is wrong with people???

Unde', tell us what is happening, why are you sadliest? We are here for you. I has hugs for you.

I have got to get to bed, it be1:20 in de aye em and I had a nice evening by de fire which is still burning. I hope mese don't set de yard on fire. De fire men here, ..... not hot at'll! Don't know what up with that! and my tit hurts, don't LIKE what up wtih dat eidder! Dorky need rest. Mr. Bigger, carry me please. What, your stiffness is in de way? Arthritis? No??  ohhhhhhhh! we walk then.....

Good night girls. Sending rounds of hugs to all!! 

Kathy and Bernie, thanks for the great stories!

Beans, doze berry cocktails look so refreshing, I will be glad to join you.

You goils is sew funny, I just love you all so much. DorK and Kat on de floor, Alli says no swimming in her pedi spa. Well, not to mistake it for the pewl. Offering free pedi's.

Dork, won't your DH or DD help you?

Hmmmmm.........Shan, thanks for that nekkid limbo party. Sorry for the chitty week, but always glad to see you.

NM, your day sounds delightful and when I hurt like that, I say it is a good hurt, as you know you are using muscles that you haven't and should. Not sure about the ankles and knees, although my knees hurt quite a bit! LOL about the butterfly moving, I had to go back and look! I believe we had one cleaning guy, I believe in the picture he was doing dishes. But I say the more the merrier! I have been saving a lot of our "helpers" in the hopes of doing a little video with them, but just haven't had the time.

Cyn, another party in 2 weeks? I'm game.

Ok, I am Grammy to my grandkids. My mom is Grannlynn to my son, Dia to my daughter, and just Dee to my nieces. When my daughter was little, she took forever to talk. She always babbled with dia dia dia. So my mom decided she wanted to be Dia. Her friend is Naunie, and another friend was Grandma Lady.

Things are starting to fall into place. UPS came out yesterday and hooked me up, so I no longer have to type out labels. That took so much of my time. Today, we are having a date day and going to the movies. Next weekend, probably head back to Phoenix to bring back the stuff we put in storage.

Ooooohhhhh love all the eye-candy helpers, Lori and NM posted! Now I am glad I didn't do that housework yesterday.....hmmmmm.....I'll take him, and him, oh and of course him! LOL about that butterfly....It just looked so unusual so I stared at it for a LONG time, like in those pics you are supposed to stare at....and eventually cuz of da staring, it moved somewhat.....funny! I think anything will "move" if you stare at it long enuf. OH but except for husbands that are lying on the couch....no matter how much you stare it won't make them get up and work! LOL.

Window shopping was NOT fun yesterday...didn't realize we kept the salesman there 30 min after they closed! He actually didn't educate me on their windows, I mostly was trying to figure out how I wanted to do our HUGE (80"x102") set of windows in the LR.  Right now its 3 tall windows (dbl hung) with 3 transoms above, but I decided I want them all fixed (non-movable). Have so much damage around them now, so almost an entire wall will be out while they repair it. Will just do them piece-meal, as I don't want to have the whole house torn up at once. AND it takes about 8 wks to get them in. NOW I need to read aboout their windows, and make sure I pick really good ones.

Bernie, How is your cottage coming along? Sounded like you had a lot of painting, etc to do. BTW, How was the french wine that your DH brought back for you? Hope to get to see your cottage in "person" next time we get to Ireland, oh and OF COURSE, want to have a long visit with you this time! Last time was tooooooo short.

NM, I am envious of your kayaking!!!! So awesome. RIght now I am scared to get on our lake, with all those snakes. We have not had a class about kayaking, and I sure would like to learn how to "roll" and get back upright, just in case. When my DD was feeding when we were in VT, she took a pic of a long snake swimming right near the shore (shore?). About a foot away from where they were walking. IT didn't look like the poisonous ones, but THEY are in the lake too. So glad you had such a peaceful, wonderful time, even worth it to have sore muscles today!

Dorkie, That sounds so relaxing too, to be outside at the pool and by your fire. WISH your pain would go away, though. Doesn't sound right, to be sick to your stomach, along with the foob pain. Would your pain meds be causing your tummy to feel bad? We jest gotz ta git ya well, gurl!

Lori, GLAD that things are getting better, esp since UPS got you all set up with labeling, etc. How much more stuff did you leave in PHX that you will need to pick up? GLAD it is not with the douche-bag X-friend. What a horrid experience.

Sue, sue, where are you?????? Mese tinks youse needed to ketchup on all da dwinking, once de little ones went back to dere parents. BUT also, tink you were going to have to work a lot, too. Hope you are okay, though!!!!!!!

Alli-oop, my toenails luk sew gud now....youse is an expurt, dats foah shuah. Youse wuz sew sweet ta do our nails!!!!! But now my fingernails need fixing up...... (LOL).

Oh, still enjoyin de gud cock-tails dat Beansie brought yesterday. And the DOTD dat NM posted today! YUM......gud dwinks for our FRIED-DEY!!!!!

Where is Gail, Kristy, Heather, Jaybird, Karen, HunkyD, Dee, etc? (I know I prolly missed someone). Too many empty barstools here today.....come on back, girls! Lets all get fried to-dey, otey?

Bottomz Up!

Katwinka

I had had to avoid red wine, which used to be my fave, once chemo starred because it didnt taste good. However, ive had some white wine and champagne (very tiny amounts) out socially and it was ok. I'd love to do more to relax, but my body seems to be telling me no- for now. Anyone else find their taste changed on chemo for alcohol?

Looks like eber1 had a grand time at da sailabration da udder night.  Mese is way behind but will try to catch up.  I'm FREE.  I Lub my widdle gks but they wore dis ol broad out.  They went home yest afternoon.  I went to be and slept.  Got up only to eat den back to bed.  My house is a mess.  DorKa - send me one of your sisters ...PLEASE!  j/k...I'll get it done.  Slept til 7 this morn.  VERY late for me so been reading and reading.  Have missed you goils sumpin fiercely!

Lori - Dat a funny joke about da purse and how many times her got stole...LOL n da eye candy...yeehaa!!  Did I miss something about your mom?  Is she OK now?  Lori, dat hunk doing da dishes?   Ewe gonna keep him all to eweself?  NOT FAIR!

NM - That's a ‘fine' looking purse you have too.  mmmm.

Lika - What kind of  chemo cocktail will you be starting on the 18^th?  We've all had a huge variety, so keep us posted as we'll surely be able to give you some thots on the se's (side effects) that they don't tell you about.  When I first welcomed you to our thread, I thot, wow, her name sounds like our beanglish for booze, likker.  LOL  Hope you don't take offense, none intended here. 

Bernie - ewes posts jes been quackin mese up.  Loved da ‘Poor man'. LOL  Oh n da ‘men still looking at der thumbs'....ahhahahahaha. 

DorKa - dat was a berry sweet post to CynCyn about not bitching too much.  She is a real trooper and a berry berry wonderful asset to our HTL.  Mese 2^nds dat!!!  You ROCK CynCyn!   

Wawa - yeah...ewes home.  Don't wait to long to transfer them pics to the external hd.  Same thing happened to me 2 years ago.  Lost all of AM's pics from birth to 4 yoa.  Still very sad about it.  Now I have the hd and transfer often. 

Juliet - LMAO ‘adult diapers in a thong' jes tooo funneeeee!!! 

Alli - me too me too...I wanna pedi!!  Gotta make appt before my twip to OR next month and do something with this hair.  All da gray is showing again.  Mayb I'll go red red red like WaWa...I thought it was bootiful!

Undy - welcome back.  I wudda dwank last night cept I was sooo tired.  I'll be here for Pau Hana tanite...dat for shore...so come back...K?

I kno I missed someone or two or three.  Forgive me...gotta a git moving.  Will check in later.

Ohhhh, hate hearing that you didn't feel good, Juliet. Hope the pear cider and shopping therapy helped today! Funny about being "a guest of Her Majesty Queen Victoria"! My dads father was a foreign journalist in Australia, but my dad never talked about him....I think the "prison" stigma was so tabu back then, that he may have thought anyone would have thought he was a criminal. Sad about that, as Aussie has such AMAZING people, like Chrissy!!! And the relatives I have met there are so awesome too. No criminals, thats for sure!!!

mema, Keep reminding me about saving my pics to harddrive....I have to do it soon!!!! Finally got our pics off of camera, so will send to you and we can pick one to post. Gotta run right now though...more "window" shopping...not fun!!! Glad you are resting up from the last few days. So sorry that you lost all your g'sons pics till age 4...hope someone had pics they could share with you.

Cheers Dears! Hope to see y'all at Pau Hana!!!!

KatieThruTheLookingGlass

this workhouse is about 20 miles from where I live- it is now a museum.

Throughout the rest of the famine period, which is generally regarded as ending in 1849, the workhouses never managed to keep up with demand, so overcrowding was always present. A charity worker who visited one workhouse wrote "In the bedrooms we entered there was not a mattress of any kind to be seen; the floors were strewed with a little dirty straw, and the poor creatures were thus littered down as close together as might be, in order to get the largest possible under one miserable rug - in some cases six children, for blankets we did not see".
An inspector to Lurgan workhouse, in county Armagh, in February 1847 wrote: "the supply of clothes was quite inadequate, and it had hence become necessary to use the linen of some of those who had died of fever and dysentery, without time having been afforded to have it washed and dried; and that, from the same cause, damp beds had in many instances been made use of"
 Once admitted, Inmates were required to work a minimum 11 hour day. Inmates were put to work on a variety of jobs. Some Workhouses established Local Trade Workshops for eg. Weaving/Sewing/Knitting/Cobbling/Tailoring/Carpentry etc. Able-bodied Female Inmates would either be given Sewing Duties or Kitchen Duties (preparing and cooking Workhouse Meals, and Washing Up) Cleaning of the Workhouse, Nursery duties, or Laundry Duties.

Able-bodied Male Inmates worked much harder, quarrying and smashing stones, building workhouse boundary walls, chopping wood, and grinding corn, tending the Workhouse Vegetable Gardens/Farms, digging cess pools, burying the dead, stoking the Workhouse fires, etc.

The Daily Routine for Adult Inmates was as follows:

Inmates were awoken by the sound of the Workhouse Bell at 6am each day. The Workhouse Master then took a "Roll-Call" at 6.30am just before breakfast.
Breakfast usually consisted of a bowl of the cheapest porridge/grain with buttermilk (which was cheaper than normal milk).
Work commenced at 7am and inmates were required to work through to 12 noon when they were allowed between 1/2 and one hour for lunch.
Lunch usually consisted of a pint of Buttermilk and a piece of black bread.
Inmates would continue working from 1pm until 6pm.
Dinner was served between 6.30-7pm and often consisted of potatoes and Indian Meal. As you may have gathered, Buttermilk was given with everything. Soup was also given during the Winter months. Fruit may have only been given at Christmas/Easter, and was usually a gift from one of the Key Residents of the Local Town (eg. the Doctor's Wife). Meat was bought, but was usually kept for the Workhouse Master, Matron and his key staff.
Lights out at 8pm.
Children were sent to the Workhouse School, and those children over the age of 12 were usually "Boarded-Out" with local Members of the Community. Usually Local Residents would write to the Workhouse Master asking for a child to be boarded out with them. Children were often boarded out with a local tradesman's family, where they would work as apprentices, and attend the Local School.

Workhouse Punishments

Punishments for any breach of Workhouse Rules were very harsh. An inmate who refused to carry out their Work Duties would be given 24 lashes plus no Dinner for one week. An inmate who used abusive language would be put into solitary confinement plus no Dinner for One Week, or more. Female Inmates who breached rules could often be forced to break stones for One Week.

HAPPY FRIEDEY Goil fwends!!

It is Pau Hana here in Jew Nersey and we'se been dwinking since oooo about seben aye em.

and yippee, de Mema is back and iz partaying too! Missed ya here Suz!  We gotz to throw a few extra down to make up far lost thyme dwinking togedder. Cheers! I betcha enjoying de quiet but know you also miss dose widdle wons. ehh emmmmmm,, still waiting for a pic of AM!

Kathy, I can't wait to see de photos of you and Suz together. I hope you are able to find de poyfect windows for yose crib. Also hope that yer search does not take away from yer dwinking thyme. It so nice to have you back in de lounge, dat is til yer next vaacation which prolly soonly. Whatcha dwinking todey? I'ze habing wodka and lots of it. Since about six aye em or sumting. 

Juliet, I am sawry yer bad boob hurt. I can shirly relate though. I wuz pissed today cuz jest washing mese hands made my chest hoyt and it suckliest. But time will make us feelz better. And likker.

Hi Lisa, welcome to de lounge. Here is a yummy glass of wine with yer name on it. I wish you were not in de club but it is nice to dwink with ya. I did not have chemo either but menny goils here did and I know it is not easy. Hugs to you. Come back when you can. De more, de maryier! hehe!

NM, have a good werk weekend. No full moon, woooo hooooo. As always, I hope de looonie tunies stay away. Keep up de good werk as always. will mis ya but ya know i always dwink for ya! Loved your post an pics as always!

Lori, glad to hear that tings are moving along with the transition. And I am praying for your Mom and you too. Was glad to see you todey and miss you when you are biddy. And did I eber cogratulate ya on de NED?? 

Cyndie, did i see ya todey? I can't remember. I hope ya can join me for a beer?? 

Bernie, I am really enjoying your educapational posts. I've told ya before that I wuz nebber interested in history or culture in school. And that is my kind of pilates!

So who dwinking with me? and who'd I miss? okey, enuff questions.

WooHooo...mese dwinkin!!!!  

Lisa - welcome to da lounge, not goot you have to be here, but since you are...pull up a stool and join in da fun.  I did have chemo and taste was a BIG issue.  I found I could tolerate a vodka/gingerale about 4 days after chemo dose.  But as my regime continued, it took longer, up to 10 days after dose, before I could taste/stomach likker.  Never been a wine drinker so it may be diff with you.  When you feel like sipping...do it...when you don't...jes come n hang and drink cyberly.

DorKa - still workin on da pics.  But mese here fer da pau hana

Juliet...sad bout da booby but glad ewes hanging out wif da pear cider.  I hate shopping!  jes had to say it :-(