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Patty, get better soon. I could come share a room with you and you could point at my face and laugh all day! You guys all make me smile!
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Sassy, We had those chairs and were able to order new seats and backs. They were easy to replace.
Love seeing all the trees. Ours is artificial. I always cried about the ones that were cut down but not chosen. I felt so sorry for them. Luckily I never had the room to take them all home. DH was OK with the artificial tree because it came with lights already on it. My book club is meeting at my house on the 12th and I'm trying to decide whether to decorate before or after. I have a lot of other things that need doing before the meeting.
We went to see DS & family in Oregon for Thanksgiving. I've been reading for hours trying to get caught up. It was sunny but quite cold. We went up to a sno park and there was enough snow for sledding (provided you only wanted 3/4 inch. The boys and DS enjoyed it. There was a teen visiting from Calif who had never seen snow before. He was convinced to try one of the inner tubes and his family filmed the look of terror on his face when he realized how fast it was going. Traffic returning on Sat. was horrible and it took an extra hour to get home. I think we're staying here for Christmas.
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just checked back in. Hope everyone had a great holiday.
Just cut our tree down today. Yeahhhhh. Last year I was to sick to go, hubby did it by himself. Went together today....we don't agree on tree shape. He prob had more fun last year...lol
We had a great thanksgiving, very small group for us, but much less work and lots and lots of laughs. The egr(extra grace required) people didn't show up
Hoping for a repeat for Christmas.
Going to bed early. Night night
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Today was just a good day! Met friends for some vino and tapas before the concert, then enjoyed a wonderful holiday event with the ABQ Jazz Orchestra. It was all just perfect!
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Wow is it cold. DH drove us to the bird sanctuary and most of the ponds were frozen! We saw 2 large greatblue herons, kestrals, hawks and ducks. We have a spotting scope and binoculars.. nice to watch the herons preen themselves in the sunshine. None of our animals want to be outside.. too cold. Wren I know what you mean about the trees not chosen. I feel the same about seeing them lined up on xmas eve. Wish at that point they would give them away. Some of those snow parks have some wicked fast runs! Fun to watch the kids scream and yell. I haven't done that in years... used to when the kids were little. Smarty- I am sore but up and moving. Stiff as a new shoe in the morning..and very patriotic red white and blue.
Sassy I bet you are sorry you gave away the Kandinsky chairs.. ching$$. I remember when we took our solid teak Danish modern chairs and table/chairs down to the Assistance League for consignment. The older gal said well I don't know about whether we will take these. I stared and said they will be gone in less than a week. The woman sarcastically said "doubt that." (Clearly she was no fan of modern) I laughed when the entire lot was gone in 24 hours. They went in on Thursday and got sold Friday.. The woman said to me.."oh you were right they went super fast." After 25 years I was sick of Danish modern and wanted back to colonial and shaker. Real solid teak they don't make anymore and collectors will jump. We had found a solid colonial cherry table and chairs and hutch on Craigs List and pretty much drooled. After some negotiations we got it. I spent 300.00 to have the top of the table refinshed professionally (there was some sun damage) and it is just lovely. Love the fact we can extend the table 2 leaves.. nice. The wood is just gorgeous.
Mema4 you are brave to have cosmetic surgery... sounds painful. I hope the misery is worth it. After the lovely effects of Aromatase inhibitors sucking out all the estrogen I have, I would love to have chin hairs permanently removed... but I am too cheap and to afraid of pain to do it. :-)
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Rose- I have started going to the local nail salon to get "defurred" every few months. I used to just do my brows, but now they suggest I need the lip too, but also saw I have a pretty nice peach fuzz beard thing going on too! In Sept before I went to the family wedding, I had them wax my entire face. It lasted a good couple months and was smooth as a baby's butt, but then noticed it is coming back now. I will be going in for some holiday nails and a holiday defurring in December!
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Awww Rose, bummer about the fall and about all the troubles and challenges. I am glad you are up and about. Amazing that no bones were broken and your draining apparatus was intact (at least that is what we are hoping) after hitting the cement ground that hard. Tough decision about the Ibrance.....tough chess move. Have been praying for strength and grace for you. Sorry I didn't respond right away because of the heaviness in my heart....didn't and still don't know what to say to comfort you. It's ironic that I am here in what people called paradise, but I don't feel like it. It's not that I am not grateful. I am. It just seems so unjust that there are more and more boutiques are popping up here in Waikiki to satisfy the appetite of wealthy tourists, yet at the same time Hawaii is having more homeless people than before. It seems like evil people have long healthy life and continue to prosper while loving and caring people suffer so much. Okay, I am starting to sound depressing, but just want to share what I have observed. My wish for everyone here is that we all will end up in heaven when we are done with this short journey on earth.
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Pattycake, listen to your doctor, young lady!! Have they tried Emend? It would be great if they could keep you hydrated at home, huh? You don't have to worry about picking up other bugs from the hospital. What does your MO think about Neupogen for your low counts? Hope you feel better soon so you can be home with the boys
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Wren, I thought I was the only person who felt bad about Christmas stuff that didn't get purchased in time for the holiday. I thought it was just one of those weird things about me, but apparently I am not alone!
Susan, I like the expression Extra Grace Required people. I'll keep that one in mind!
Rose, glad you are recovering from your accident.
Loverly, there is a sad side to Hawaii, isn't there? One of my co-workers has relatives who live there, so I've heard a bit about the problems on the islands.
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Ay! Lost my long post.
Hey Cubbie! You are truly a night owl. Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas is one of my favorite too! I am weird also in regard to the left over or unpurchased Christmas trees. I feel sad for them...not to the point of crying like Ms. Wren though. You actually cry, Ms. Wren? Bless your big heart.
Jazzy, I looked up Gregorian Christmas Chant....love them!! Thanks.
So sorry to hear about the bad weather all around. It looks like it is going to be a cold winter for us too, Ms. Smaarty. It is kind of cool now on balcony of our hotel room. Feels like 75* with the breeze. I don't remember it was this cool in Hawaii in November last time we were here.
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Ms. Sas, you are the second person I know who leaves the Christmas tree out year round. Hah! The cover looks like a petticoat...very creative. How often do you need to have it dusted? I like the cast iron clock. My decor is somewhat traditional with Thomas Kinkade paintings on few walls. I'm getting tire of the style, coincidently around the same time as the circulating news of his marital affair. I find the modern Swedish or Scandanavian style more appealing to me now. Less clutters means less things to dust and clean.
Ms. CHEVY, I did laugh when I read your post on the homemade compound. You are amazing! Bummer to have problem on long weekend holiday. Hope DDS can get you in soon. Oh, I LOVE the embroidered clock your dad made...such beautiful work.
Rose, I like Chanticleer, Anonymous 4, and John Doan. Family will complain if get Jessye Norman. She has a beautiful voice though..
Susan, love the "EGR" expression! Wonderful that you had a good time with family.
Goats, your goats are your babies...makes sense. Hope you get your heater fixed soon.
Ms. Spookie, congrats on your Christmas trees
Where there is a will, there is a way.Look what I saw at the general store...
I'm flying home Monday. I will miss the beautiful beach, the smell of Hawaii, the sound of crashing waves, and the lovely cool breeze. But there is no place like the comfort of home .
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sitting in the hospital bored out of my mind. Anybody still up. Won't be long and Chevy be up. Love looking at all the Christmas trees. Makes it when I get home and get ours up.
Hugs all around.
Hootie hoo
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I'm up! I've been up since 3:30 watching my fever rise. Only .3 to go before I have to call the OncallMO. I caught a cold over thanksgiving and now my chest hurts and my temp is going up up up.
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One thing about hospital is you can't sleep at all. As soon as you fall asleep, someone comes in to check your vitals or you are so miserable you can't rest. Morning Patty and Tres, sorry you both are not well. Tres, I hope you don't have pneumonia. Don't wait until you hit the mark. I would call the MO. Don't know why I woke up after a few hours of shut eyes and wide awake now. Very unusual for me.
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Ok I'm going to try to go back to sleep now. Loooong day for me today.Wishing you better days. Hugs to you both.
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tres - I agree. Don't wait too long to call mo
Lovely. - love the pics
Anybody else up yet?
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This is Jessie a few years ago. She's almost 13 years old now. She's not doing well (damn cancer) and it's getting close to "decision time". It's going to be extra tough on DH as she's been his baby. Her care has fallen mostly on our DD who lives with us and it's getting almost impossible for her to handle - she & I both tried to get her to take her pain meds tonight, but no luck. Then DD had to give her a bath cause she wet herself. I sat in the puter room with the heater on plus I used the hair dryer on her as much as she would let me. It's been a looong sleepless night so far - 4:12 am.... I hate it when our pets aren't feeling good.
I've been lurking, as usual, and am sending healing hugs to everyone.
Love, Martha
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. So sorry to hear about your dog. I know we get attached to them like family. Our dog 13 years also has breast cancer. We refuse to treat it. I had a lab a few years ago that had cancer and we did treat her with 1 chemo. It did give us an extra six months with her.
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Thanks guys. I have a call in and waiting to hear back. I hit 100.6 and made the call. My voice is gone and my chest feels like someone is sitting on it. I was sick for a few days but the fever is new...
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Awwwwww Geez... I was almost getting happy with you guys, and then I see some of you are REALLY sick, and just not feeling well! You need to get in Tres...! Get some antibiotics FAST, because that chest stuff is nothing to mess around with.... Probably either Bronchitis, or Pneumonia, or some other thing like that!
And MMom.... I'm sooooooo sorry about Jessie... It sounds like our "girl" little Lacee .... She had a lot wrong with her... but you keep holding on because it is just too painful! And she would wet herself, and I just wanted to believe it was an accident.... and I didn't want to embarrass her... So you just clean it up.... then I would pick her up and carry her the rest of the way home, when we went for even shorter walks!
I took her in all the time.... for IV's for her meds, and no matter what we did, she just kept slowing down and getting worse... Finally, that last morning I drove her there alone... Left DH at the garage door, trying not to cry.......I had to carry her in.... but I stayed and held her until she "just went to sleep"..... I was with her.... so she wouldn't be afraid.... but she just laid there, like she knew........ Aw geez.......
Do you guys watch Dog the Bounty Hunter? A lot of the times they were either here, or back in Hawaii.... but you could see some of the parts of Hawaii that are having a rough time..... And it's been in the News here.... We see a lot of beggars at the Intersections here....but I guess that is everywhere....
And my Partial is GREAT! That's because I don't wear it! I'll call later today, and go in...... I know I can't wear it as it is.... something has to be done.... maybe he can "coat" it or something? Or re-do it? My lip is much better... doesn't "burn" or swell up. ANYway...... damnit!
Okay.... probably stay in again.... more snow of course... and that ice!
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Mostlymom- your Jessie is a beautiful dog and can tell it is breaking your heart to know you may need to make that decision soon. I hope you can have some sweet time together before. Goodbyes are important, and will be for you and her. Hugs sister.
Rose- are you feeling better from your fall? I know the soreness can really set in a few days into something like that. I hope you were able to rest and feel better. Not sure if you can take baths with the device you have for draining fluid?
Loverly- when I have traveled to 3rd world countries on vacation, I have never come away feeling particularly good about the things I saw while having my own holiday experience. Unfortunately, much of the US is turning into a third world country with the haves and the have nots. I live in a city with a lot of poverty and see it every day. Maybe make a donation to something while you are there or when you get home? Sometimes seeing that helps us want to help.
I have a new contract coming today (after waiting a month) and have to turn some things around fast on that so wishing you all a good start to December!
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Jazzy, Rosie, and Wren I loved them too. Hated that I couldn't use them. I should find the table that I bought them with, the were perfect together. The space was very small , I think only 8 ft wide. The table spread apart and the leave(f) was pulled up. It's only wide enough for place setting on either side. Almost no room in the middle for serving pieces. The table was glass, chrome and wood. I still use the table. Computer table by day and dessert /hors doevers for company. Very functional. I spent time looking for the table and then had a DUH moment--take a picture. It only partially does it justice. If you can imagine the breuer chairs around it. LOL another duh moment--put one of the chairs next to the table. I'll post it.
Wren THANKS, they're scores of places to buy replacement pieces. YAY. Your snow adventure sounds wonderful. Love it when someone sees snow for the first time.
Mema, I'm still on the eye thing. Can't think how many times you told me face. Okay I'm just worried about you. Hope the pain stops soon.
Think New Years Cellebration with a new you Cubbie the Kadinsky chairs were divine to site in. They molded to your body. Yes Rosie, I saw a used one in yesterday's looking for 2100$. It took guts to totally change your style, but so fun at the same time
I think I sent condolences about the fall. Soory. Hate them.The Breuer chairs have stood the test of time. 1928-29 and they simply will never go out of style.
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Loverly, Hugs, None of it makes sense. More Hugs...........
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Loverly, the cover does look like a ballroom dress. I put it in the dryer two years ago and some of the drawstrings broke. Bummer. It's about 12-13 years old now. Surprisingly not dust or dirty.
Smarrty, my tree dress is sateen. Would that have anything to do with why it doesn't get dusty. Maybe it's the place where it sets--airflow? You would have had such a laugh. I had the design in my head. My friend that sewed it took awhile to get it in her head even with a drawing. Once she got the 'picture' straight, her sewing ingenuity took over. She reversed the cuts for each panel. There was minimal wastage. We hung it off the central fan to work on the length and the gathering strips. I used an embroidery hoop for the top and placed it in a pocket like a curtain would have. When it was done I said to her that I thought we needed to add another couple of feet for the gathering strips. She later told me she almost killed me
The material was high quality sateen and on sale for really cheap. My mistake is I bought bridal lace that I was going to dye for a lace topper. It's still in the drawer.0
