IT'S WEDNESDAY - What's new with you?

Good morning all.  It is really good to be here.  I am quite tired (only got 3 hours sleep yesterday), but I will survive.

Tonight Josh Hamilton is signing copies of his book near my home.  I am debating about taking off work to get a copy.

Looking forward to the next couple of days.  The temperature in Dallas will be in the 40s on Thursday morning. Love that kind of weather.

Jeanne and Paulette - as you can tell, I feel for you with the lack of sleep.

Margo - Hope Chico is doing better

Susan - Checkup go okay?

Paulette - Do you knit or crochet?  Just curious.  My mother knits and my wife crochets.

Pat - I hear ya about dealerships and dealing with women.  It never hurts to get a second opinion.

Joyce - How was the chili?  Any secret recipe you want to share?

Connie - If I was your daughter, I would still be pitching a fit.

Karen - You make us more and more envious with every wonderful description you post of your life in Hawaii.

Annette - Hope things are going better for you today.  I really hate seeing someone who does not understand you had WLS and some things are different for you.

Linda - If I send you my address, would you come and do my laundry too?

Eileen - Hope the kitty is doing better for you.

Judy - What kind of fish do you prefer?  I myself am partial these days to tilapia.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Good (very early) morning, George, and the rest of the gang!

Here I sit...creating mandalas. 

I had a productive day today, a business meeting/lunch with a potetntial client, a business meeting with my webmaster...I submitted my mandalas for the colouring books to be created.  They will be published within a few weeks now. I have over 200 mandalas drawn now.  I will announce when they are ready.

I ALSO HAD A GREAT CHAT WITH A LADY (Adele Alfana) WHO IS BRANDED AS ONE OF cANADA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN...iM ATTENDING AN EVENT SHE IS PUTTING ON, OUT OF TOWN, called Kiss My Tiara,  AND iVE GOT A TABLE FILLED (OF EIGHT).       iM ALSO PULLING TOGETHER A FUND RAISER WITH HER AS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER (okay..just noticed that I used caps..sorry..too tired to retype...please forgive a tired old lady). 

Anyways, Im creating a huge fund raiser for the Spring using that lady as keynote speaker, coupling that with a  Wine & Food Pairing luncheon  at a local winery and having venders tables as well...should be a good turnout as it is involving the entire southern Ontario clubs and Niagara on the Lake is THE place to go.

Then I went to CCAC (the social worker system who deal with placing the elderly in longterm care facilities).   Mother will turn 89 next month and the waiting list to be placed in a nursing home right now is so endless and so many seniors languish away their last months in hospital wards before a placement in the suitable home can be found.  I can't let this happen to Mother.  So I signed her up for the nursing home waiting list starting now. 

She doesnt NEED one yet, but at her age, things can change so suddenly from one day to the next.  As mother told me today, another of the residents in the retirement home where she now lives, "went to bed last night and woke up dead." 

Apparently they've lost a few this past week.  It's only natural, due to the age of the residents there, and that's life, but should Mother suddenly have a stroke or break a hip, at least she is already on the placement list and that might save her a few months of waiting.  She certainly cannot manage my house (a split level) with all the stairs.

So I will take the paperwork to Mother this week and we will discuss what SHE wants to do. 

Then on the way home, I stopped at the cemetery and visited my Dad's grave in the Veteran's section, straightened his flag and the eternity lamp and pulled weeds.  Darn it was COLD!

And okay. I HAVE to acknowledge this..I saw SNOW FLAKES!! arrgg!!   Im not ready for that "S" word!  Derek is almost ready with 3 dumptrucks and articulated V plows and a pickup with a blade plow, extra drivers, a new salt resevoir for storage that he is bulding and several new large contracts.

Tonight I spoke with my cousins in Quebec and verified our arrival date for Oct 29th, JBs 65th birthday....apparently there will be a party for him there *s*.  Tomorrow I will book the same wonderful B&B where we stayed in August..that way we dont feel like we are imposing TOO much.  I hear they already have the white stuff there.

I have to get my bloodwork done this week sometime (and some other tests).  I still get awfully tired lately. And now Ive got my appointment with the gynocologist for possible bladder-uplift surgery.  oh joy!

Well, I have another report to write and then off to bed where my wonderful mattress-pad heater is warming things up while I type...it's amazing how well I sleep when Im actually warm enough!

see you all soon (adds some extra lovin' for Janet)

Nancy B & Rufus

"went to bed last night and woke up dead." 

I hope it wasn't wrong of me to laugh.  I thought that line was funny.  Should be in a movie.

LOL.....it's a family joke.  We had taken Mother up to Quebec to a family party this summer and we were talking silly while driving.  Mother had been her usual..fussing over whether she MIGHT get too tired or too worn out and cant get out of the car or cant get into the B&B where we had booked a floor suite...the usual negative thinking she does.

So JB hubby, being Amsterdam, Holland-born Dutch, and known for his wit and sarcasm, asked Mother -

''so what do we do if you go to bed tonight and wake up dead?"

and she replied, just cremate me, stuff me into an envelope and mail me down to the funeral home and when you guys get back from your vacation, you can toss me in Harry's (my Dad) grave too...then you only need to visit ONE grave."

It's a great line...Mother must have loved it because now she is using it all the time.  And living in a retirement community, she has plenty of opportuntiy to use that line too. *s*

Good Morning to you all.

I had my fourth appointment with my dietician on Monday. Have lost four pounds. Only two more months to go. I finally got some pictures up. Not real clear but it's a start.
Today I have to go to the breathing doctor. I have a feeling I will be doing another sleep study. I am also concerned he will turn me down to have the surgery because of my COPD. I smoked for years and  I damaged my lungs. My lung capacity is way down. Blowing out  candles on my birthday cake takes forever----there is so many of them. I sure hope he okays me.
I finished my election work yesterday. What a job this year! Very abusive calls. I am looking forward to November 5th.
I hope everybody has a great day!!!

Nancy

moring george and everyone!
we have frost this morning! not sure what the temp is but there is frost on the grass when i took roxiedog out!!! brrrrr.

spent a few hours yesterday trying to get all of the plants in--michael has hugamungous hibiscus plants -5-- and in ohio they have to come in! two he has had forever; two are trees that he dentist's office threw out saying they were dead -you should see em now! and one was his BIL's mothers and we were honored by it...then some spiders from his brother and a swedish ivy from my mom as well as two bougainvillea and a few other miscs...as you can tell if you know plants, he really still wants to tlive on hawaii!!!! anyhow- all are in but two - which made it into the garage at least..... our kitchen is overrun with hibiscus right now!

chico is doing better -most of the time...thanks all, for your kind wishes...if you have any pets you can understand ...and with the history  of michael and his mental health, gosh, i cannot bear to think what this will do to him if we lose this bird....their life expectancy is 45-60 years and he is only 12...i mentioned yesterday taht what he is suspected of having is similar to lou gehrigs....it seems to be something he would have contracted in teh egg before birth so no way to prevent it..used to be called macaw wasting disease...i didn;t even catch teh new name but it sounds horrible and we can tell he has pain--did i mention he is on celebrex???  he seemed to have a quiet nite in our room last nite.....i dunno if he ever will be "all better"....anyhow thx for your kind words.....

i finished baby alaina's birthday scarf last nite-even used the crochet hook to take it off the loom ! and made fringe!! whooo hooo-i'm exhausted after all of that new stuff!!!

found out yesterday about a FT job within the county- downloaded the app and filled it out so i can simply drop it off and then wait! they have it posted since monday and are done friday so they want it filled- it would be my same supervisor but a totally diff location and scenario--i am qualified -just have a feeling he already has someone in mind! soo...what will be will be but i have to try! pay would be great and would make up for the gas involved and it has bennies!!!! if i even get to being interviewed, i will give it my best shot!

george; yesterday i think you mentioned newspapers from home--i know you moved extensively in the service but don't remember where "home"  originally was????

well; needing to get dressed-am going in a half hour early and leaving two hours early due to dr appt-michael sees his ortho about his shoulder AND his hip today and the "white spot" on his femur...results from CT...

i'll look back in later at all y'all !!!

hugs and prayers...............

Copiague, NY.  The town right next to the infamous Amityville.  On the southern shore of Long Island, 100 miles west of the eastern tip (Montauk Point).

George!

OMG!  I lived in Copiague, NY back in 1970-72, with my grandparents, went to Copiague HS.  I lived in "Little Venice" on Doges Promenade. . .  down from B&B Fish Market. . .  Too funny. . .

Small world. . .

Hugs, Laureen

From 1958 to 1963 my family lived in the American Venice West.  We lived on Lido Promenade.  Then we lived on Pleasant View Court, then Molloy Street, then Williams St, and lastly Trouville Rd.

I graduated in 1969, but I had family that were later on.  What year did you graduate high school?

The local newspaper is the Copiague Weekly.  They just nominated the top 10 Copiague-ions of all time.  I knew 3 of them from school.  Edith Eide, Walter Reese and Nicolas Bicotti.   All from the school system.  Mrs Eide was my guidance counselor, Mr Reese and Mr Bicotti were both teachers of mine.

Actually, my Mom brought me home the summer before I would have graduated, as she was feuding with her father and my step grandmother, which would have been June 1973. . .  So I never graduated from there and when I went home, I met and married the man who became my children's father. . .  got a GED in 1981. . . 

I started in Copaigue HS the year it was closed early due to a series of pranks and some things that were not pranks.  I can't say I stayed in touch with the people I knew from there, as I was gone so suddenly, though I have fond memories and think those were my best HS years . . .  I was a pawn in my Mother's angry relationship with her dad and his wife. 

I remember Lido Promenade, it was the next one from Doges if I remember correctly. 

I did go back a number of years ago to see the house, as my grandfather died in '86 and my step grandmother died a few years later.  God rest her soul, but I think she would be diagnosed with bipolar or borderline personality disorder in today's world, as her behavior and demands pretty much alienated everyone in the family, so when I went to see it, it had been a cape cod, now it looks like a big old box house, which was kind of sad, but nothing in life remains the same. . .  as I said, I have some fond memories of living there and having attended high school there. 

Thanks for taking me down memory lane. . .