INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

dutchris....meals on wheels is great. I cook a little extra if I am doing soup or a casserole and deliver to my widowed or newly divorced friends. Or wait for them to get their hair done by me, and pull something out of freezer. That's my lazy way to do meal on wheels...lo

All right!

Everyone to your rooms!

We are supposed to be here to support one another.

Watch this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFqti3rCXY

ah ha. Before today I hadn't even looked at block user tool. Am now proud to say it works well. Thanks for the info SAS

jWoo, just saw the video.......always telling my hubby to knock it off....he enjoyed it more than me...lol loved the words....very funny.....gotta send it to my daughter...thank

Unplug the mouse then plug it back in Sas

It is from some Disney movie that came out last year. Pretty annoying at this point, but the parodies are funny, and I thought that one was the funniest of the potty humor ones

Teka, my first parakeet was the color of the water at St. Thomas, so I named him Thomas. However, he never got that blue coloring where the nostrils are; so for most all her life, she was a parakeet named Thomas. She died of a tumor on her testicles. LOL. It's tough with birds. So, Spookie, one of the primary ways of determining the sex of a bird is how much they verbalize. Verbalization can be whistling, tweetling, or mimicking sounds, including words. If, in the first six months of life, the bird starts verbalizing a good bit, tapping its beak a lot, bopping its head, these are all signs that the bird is male. Of course, nothing is an all the time thing. Thomas wasn't terribly verbal, but he was my first bird and I did everything wrong with him. He was probably terrified poor thing. A couple of my parakeets have been vocal (but did not mimic), and a couple were not terribly vocal. I guess they did all get going at times though. I never got any eggs from them. I assumed they were male, but Soebe is different from those others. Soebe has the deep blue cere. None of my other parakeets did. However, we know Thomas was male due to what killed him. Soebe is the most vocal parakeet I ever had. Between him mimicking Dusty and Dusty mimicking him and the two of them mimicking me and my neighbor's dog, I don't know who is making all the noise half the time.

sorry beaxhbum, wish I had some good info for you. I know the people I have met in all the fundraising areas...walks, runs, and we have college basketball games, and hockey games we are invited to from the msnbc site. It's always a mixed group and everyone is very supportive. Maybe that could be a start of a connection to someone who would know someone . Hope you have events like that around you.

I had an aquarium to once. Salt water and all. It was very pretty.

My house would be a zoo if hubby let me.....lol.....I miss my snake

Beachbum, yes he is a total jerk. I, too, am single. When I think about dating, I first run into the body image thing from the mastectomy. When I overcome that, figuring anyone bothered by that isn't worth bothering with, I run into the stage iv wall. Maybe if I get a better idea of how treatments are working, I can move past that. My latest scans show mixed results with lots of bone mets getting better but some new ones showing up. I look forward to reading some of the answers you get. I just really want a friend. Someone to grab a bite to eat or a cup of coffee with. I miss Richard, who I was spending some time with. He was married, so it really was just friendship. However, he finally was able to move back to Lebanon, where his family had been for about a year while he was trying to get his house sold. I'm disappointed that he hasn't skyped or emailed. Sometimes I'm down right angry. I get let down so easily.

Hi dunesleeper, I keep telling myself some day this may be funny. Like the day I went to meet a friend for coffee and took my hat off and my wig was still in the hat! Or the day I tried to "fix" my boob and got upset so I just shoved the form in and left to go shopping. And it wiggled itself up and out of the bra. That was hilarious, I felt like I was trying to figure out my first bra in junior high school. I should have used socks, it worked then. I know that I don't feel so pretty and sexy putting on my wig, painting on eyebrows, gluing on eyelashes, and stuffing my bra. It's hard for me to be all confident when I'm waiting to see what part falls off. LOL I have issues just trying to assemble me, I'm not sure how I would handle a relationship right now. At stage IV I'm not too sure I have time find a man and get him trained. I think a friend would be well, just nice!

Thanks, nice knowing I'm not so alone.

Susan3- we make Chinese food at home all the time - even potstickers. I learned how to make those from the internet. Just buy the wrappers. I buy the broccoli slaw, shredded carrots and snap peas for stir fries - add seasonal vegies. Sometimes we visit a Chinese market and buy bags of baby bok choy - so yummy. I steam it in a steamer. We make spring rolls with rice paper, lettuce, carrots, fake crab and fill them. We make our own peanut sauce - out for you. You can buy pickled vegetables and get rice vinegar and soy for dipping. I absolutely LOVE the Chinese eggplant. It's firmer and makes excellent stirfry. You really need to get an Asian market that has all the rice noodles, wheat and tofu.

beachbum - those are stories you should share on the "You Know You're A Cancer Patient When..." thread.... https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/67/topic/755825?page=142#post_4268923 - only 142 pages to peruse if you want to read other peoples' experiences that only other BC patients can relate to.....

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Miss Sassypants and others who know their antique glass and porcelain and china.... I'm going to post a picture of my Nana's hot chocolate set that is now missing a lid, but was passed down to me years ago. I love it, and will see if any of you can give me some info on how to research it.

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Miscellaneous ramblings.....

Song: "Let It Go"

Movie: Disney's Animated "Frozen"

Sung by: Idina Menzel

She Was Called: "Adele Dazeem" by John Travolta

This movie got on my nerves the very first time I saw the trailer. Then the tsunami of "Frozen" covers hit, with every single parent in America posting videos of their children singing "Let It Go", mostly not very well. And every second piece of merchandise in the stores was some "Frozen" - related item. I thought I'd scream if I had to see any more "Frozen" stuff.... and then...... I discovered that Santa had left me the DVD in my Christmas stocking!!!!!

I did a good imitation of excitement.

Sass, about Melatonin.... I took it for sleep issues while on Tamoxifen.... But then I started with the big D! Could hardly control it.... except by taking 4 Immodium AD a day!

Finally figured out that with ME, and taking Tamoxifen, it did NOT work! I slept better, but could not keep from running to the bathroom... So I quit the Melatonin, and then I didn't have any more problems... except the hearing issue.... so THEN I quit the Tamoxifen.

I just know that everything you take, might affect something ELSE with you.....

Also, I heard from the CAMMERS! So I'll post a little more later! I was really worrying about her.... but she is alright, but not her Brother's, and Joey is still driving her dog and cat nuts with the Clarinet. I told her to lock him out-doors when he practices.

I make my own sweet and sour chicken. I never bread the chicken like they do in the restaurants and in the sauce I add pineapples, cherries, carrots and green peppers.

My paternal grandmother had two parakeets (one green and one blue) when I was small that she called Starsky and Hutch.

My house is a mini zoo. Besides Princess and Jackson, I have a 20 gallon fish tank that has a betta, and several tetras and two catfish.