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I, in fact, would like for everyone to send me a pic of themselves (no kids or hubbies just YOU) please. It's a secret & a surprise.
Thanks!
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Stacey
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
Location: North of the Equator, but south of the Mason Dixon Line.
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Ok, tired and irritable are my names right now. This weeks company arrived early, as in 2 days early, and won't be leaving until tomorrow. I have a backlog of work, and need to finish by end of day on Monday. 7 days of work to cram into 3. DH is suffering from male PMS, and lack of kitchen skills, DS turns 22 today, and I'm feeling very old, and menopause is rearing it's ugly head. I'll be checking in periodically, but excuse my lack of concentration and growly manner. Thanks for listening.
Sharon
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Sharon
May The Spirit Of Christmas knock at your heart And having gained entry, may it never depart.
I'm sorry you're having such a tough day, Sharon. *HUGS*.
Mike had his surgery today...so now he's here at home, allowing me to baby him, which tells me that he's in a lot more pain than is showing. I wish I could do more than I can...
Just a quick note to say "Hello" and "I haven't dropped off the face of the earth", though I'll be out of computer commission for a few days.
Have a nice weekend, everyone, and I'll most likely post with ya'll on Monday or Tuesday...
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~Shanti
Imagination is more important than
knowledge ~ Albert Einstein
It was a routine vasectomy, but still...The doctor prescribed him 2 different kinds of pain killers, and he's been directed to not to a thing for the next 2 days. I feel for him, but part of me is saying "And that's different from every day...how? " He should be better and able to move around by Sunday. He's already talking about going back to work on Monday, though I'd prefer for him to wait until Tuesday...We'll see.
I'm cutting and pasting a prayer request below. It's someone I go to church and sing in the choir with. She's a simply wonderful woman, and deserves so much more than more suffering...
Please pass on the request.
Please be in prayer for Becky Webb. Over the past year she fought against breast cancer, undergoing chemo treatments, a complete mastectomy and reconstructive surgery at various times throughout the year. She recovered quickly and seemed to have defeated the cancer. A recent severe and constant pain in the back of her neck led them to do an MRI, resulting in her news yesterday that cancer is in her spine.
Becky is a beautiful person, inside and out, and a wonderful mother to 5 year old Justin and 2 year old Chandler. She courageously suffered her treatments and wore a smile on her face every single time I saw her! Please pray now for her, her husband Chris, her boys and the rest of her family. Place them on your church prayer chains, please! Also,pray for our whole church family that we will know how to best minister to this lovely family during this time. I'm thankful God is in control and all things are possible!
Thank you in advance, everyone!
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~Shanti
Imagination is more important than
knowledge ~ Albert Einstein
Ok, Sharon, you are a better person than I for allowing them to come early. I think we all know how I feel about house guests after my panic over my MIL. Anyway, I think you have every right to be cranky & should proceed to be so until you feel better. I absolutely hate it when Keith goes through bouts of male PMS, I always wanna' give him a good swift kick in his backside!
Ladies, here's something that we don't refer to much on the board and I want opinions. Ok, I started losing some of my hair a few years ago. Then, I started having hot flashes peridically. Often times my limbs fall asleep for no reason, and I get waaaaaaaaayyyyy too emotional over things. Keith says it's like living with a breathing roller coaster. When this first started happening I was having all those problems with my marriage so I attributed it to stress, but lately I am never regular, if you knowe what I mean, and I am beginning to think that I may be approaching menopause early. What do y'all think? I am intimidated to go into a doctor and tell them all this because, after all I am only 30, but dang it if I'm not getting fuzzy on the sides of my face! It's like all of a sudden I'm plucking white hairs, having problems with my skin, and gettin' furry! ACK! Ain't womanhood grand?
Anyway, onto more pleasant subjects. Is anyone doing anything fun or all we all just winding down toward the fall? I think that's what's going on around here. So much to do to get ready for school and not enough fun. Oh well, such is life right?
About Emma. We have an appointment tomorrow morning. Hopefully it won't cost me an arm & leg.
Have a good afternoon everyone!
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Stacey
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
Hi, Stacey, I'm glad you decided to post again. Like I told you, this forum strikes me as safe, and it had nothing to do with what was going on with the other areas...so, welcome home!!! I use a journal, quite often in fact, and yes, it helps a lot, lets out some of the feelings I don't know how to cope with right now. As for crafting, right now I don't feel like doing anything. Books and magazines are always a good escape, tho. So what have you done with your new van? Gone anywhere fun yet? Oh, btw, you are SOOOOO right about the dental insurance, too...we have it at work thru our BC/BS, and it sucks. Period. I sure hope you don't end up having to pay $400 for a baby tooth, that's just ridiculaous.
Pag, I just don't know what to do about you, girlfriend! Listen...I just htought of something. Get on Kimmyo's case about a picture, ok? When she, mouse, rose, and navywife came to the Waffle House, one of them, and I think it was Kim, took a lot of picutres....and I'm in at least one of them, I think. Kim? Mouse? Navy? Can one of y'all help us out here? Pag has decided she wants a photo of me, and I don't have a recent one for her...nor do I have one of just me, either. And now Stacey is askign for photos...help?!?!?!?
Kim, good ideas, but can't utilize them except for the book, darn it. We only have a shower stall, no tub, I don't drink, and I'm out of chocolate...doesn't thaat qualify as a National Emergency? But that would be nice...getting drunk on good wine in a nice hot bubble bath reading a good book and eating good chocolate, sigh. OH, to be rich!!! What a lifestyle, eh?
Oh, well, at least I got dressed this AM, made the bed, swished the toilet, washed some dishes, so I'm not totally non-functional...that's good. And I'm going to cook dinner...maybe...yeah, guess I'll ahve to, if I want to eat tongiht...probably just turkey burgers, tho, something quick and easy.
Overlook all the typos, please...I'm using a new keyboard...still...should have my old one hooked up by tonight.
Oh, my, I just found about five posts that weren't there when I started reading...wonder how that happened? It's happened to me before, tho...ever happen to any of y'all?
anyway, Shanti, I hope your DH recovers from his surgery. Routine or not, that's a delicate area of the body, and he's probalby in a lot of pain, even with the pain killers. And, we all know what wimmps men can be, so this is most likely going to try your patience to the max. Good luck!
Stacey, you could indeed be going thru early menopause, and that's exactly what it sounds like to me, altho I am NOT a doctor. I think it can be corrected with hormones, etc., from your doctor, so get thee hence, young lady. No sense in suffering when you don't have to, y'know. E. is still very grateful that I've gone thru the change, lol, so I know how Keith is feeling with your roller coaster.
Sharon, (((((HUGS))))), that's terrible that your company showed up early. Very inconsiderate of them, I think. You have my sympathy, you really do.
Ok, I just went back and doublechecked, and I don't think I've missed any posts now. Mouse, Navy, Marti, Linnea, y'all have a good week-end, hear? do something fun. God bless.
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"If your life seems to be all tangled up, stop struggling...sit still...God will untie the knots." __author unknown
Okay Kim etc who ever has a picture or pictures of Joyce or any of you would love to see them.
Someone asked me how far apart Navywife and I are. Actually depends on what part of VA Beach or Norfolk they live at. I am a good 20 mins away from Hampton Roads Tunnel leading to that area. Same with Monitor/Merrimac Tunnel leading to Portsmouth, Chesapeake etc. I am looking forward to meeting with her and perhaps going out to lunch BUT honestly right now is not feasible (sp).
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It has been a busy, busy last couple of days with trying to get ready for school and get in on the tax free days. We had to take Michael's laptop to Rome to be serviced. Since he has the desktop that he built I will be using the laptop and I wanted all his junk cleaned off. Well when he cleaned everything off and was just going to reload the stuff that is suppose to be on it he found out Circuit City has to reload it. We bought Matt a new desktop, Lacy will get his old one. Jerry parted her computer out last school year when we caught her making a fake ID and age and bidding on stuff on E-bay. I think she has learned her lesson, having to go so long without her own computer.
Joyce I am sorry you are feeling so blue, I wish I could do something to make it all better for you and if I had a magic wand you know I would. One thing I know thought is NO ONE should go without chocolate, especially when they are feeling down. And I do thank you for the help with my cookies. See you knew more than me, I just though it was family corner since I hadn't done anything different to my computer.
Stacey I don't think I have a picture of just me but I'll see what I can do. May be one in some of the vacation film we just took and I'll be finishing that roll this week-end and will get it developed. Enjoyed our phone conversations. Geez I've been losing hair for the last year or so and getting a few white hairs but I didn't know that had anything to do with menopause which by the way I would more than welcome. Oh and my face has been breaking out also which it never did when I was a teen. No hot flashes, fuzz or emotional roller coaster though. About Emma I would get a string, tell her to open wide and YANK. $400.00 is a LOT of money for a baby tooth. You know I wouldn't really pull it out but ouch, that would hurt my checkbook especially this close to school starting. Glad Joyce and I were able to help pick you up but that is what we do around here, pick each other up. As soon as you get new tires on that van you need a ROAD TRIP. Anywhere will do, just get away somewhere for a day or two. It will do you, the girls and Keith good before you have to settle into the rigors of another school year.
Shanti I will keep Becky Webb and her family in my prayers. And also Mike. Are you going to be able to get Grey's meds. Sunday? You shouldn't feel bad about medicating Grey, you are only helping him to concentrate and pay attention and making his life less frustrating. All three of mine are either ADD or ADHD and all three improved so much in school after getting them on meds. They were wanting to hold Michael my oldest back a year before he got on meds because they thought he was a slow learner. Well he is going to be a SR. this year and he has made straight A's all through high school and received all kinds of honors and he is not just taking easy classes. For his SR year he signed up for Trigonomentry, Analysis, Anatomy and another computer class, plus he will be leaving half day at the high school to take classes at the Technical college. The only class he needs to graduate is an English class and electives, so those other classes are his electives. Yuck!! My electives would have been art, and all the easy subjects I could have picked for my SR. year. We struggled with Lacy and school and her grades last year but I think that was more just hitting 6th grade and friends and boys suddendly became more important than school to her. Hope she is back on track this school year.
Mule, I mean Pag I don't know what happened to the pictures we took at the WH. I do believe Joyce is right and Kim took them. Maybe when she took my picture I broke the camera and the pictures never came out. I'll tell you what Joyce looks like though, she has long hair, she is tall (at least compared to me), her eyes sparkle when she laughs and she looks as kind as she sounds on the boards. Was IMP sad to see the summer camp end? It sounded like they did lots of fun stuff with the kids.
navy after the first day of no modern conviences it wasn't to bad. When we weren't in town running around we hiked, played basketball and we had taken several board games with us so it was kinda nice spending time together without the noise of the outside world. My baby is 12 1/2 now and that doesn't seem to kill me as much as my oldest growing up and falling in love.
Sharon trying to cram all that work into 3 days don't forget when you get to stressed to get you a cup of tea and go sit out on that beautiful porch of yours and watch the deer and wildlife run around for a few minutes. Hopefully all your company will come and go and you'll still have some of your sanity left (and some groceries also).
linnea, kim, martie hope things are going well for ya'll.
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I wish I could do more than I can...
" He should be better and able to move around by Sunday. He's already talking about going back to work on Monday, though I'd prefer for him to wait until Tuesday...We'll see.
Anyway, I think you have every right to be cranky & should proceed to be so until you feel better. I absolutely hate it when Keith goes through bouts of male PMS, I always wanna' give him a good swift kick in his backside!
Ain't womanhood grand?
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