What's Up Tuesday?
Annette 
That rain that I was talking about is now coming down solid and white!!! You guessed it!! It is snowing down here!!! We are only 35 miles from the ocean and snow!!!! Wow, It looks so pretty and I know that those of you who see it all the time are sitting there saying yeah right! We see so little of it here it is an event and they close down everything! Which is a good thing, because most of the idiots on the road don't know what they are doing! Having moved around as much as we did we are accustomed to driving in many different conditions including snow, but I know to stay home because of the others out there around here!!
Well I am working from home today! So see you all later!
Hugs,
It's so strange to be up when the sun rises, but beautiful. The last couple of days, there was this beautiful pink glow over the snow-covered golf course that I look over as the sun rose. I don't usually get to see this because, when I work late and stay up til 2 or 3 in the morning, I don't get up this early. It is quite a lovely site. If it wasn't below zero at the time, I would have snuck outside with my camera and taken a photo. But I'm not stupid.
It's now 1 degree above zero. Still too cold. I'm bundled up in three layers. I have my electric fireplace on, which I now know is not functioning properly. Which may be why my electric bills have been so high the past two months (or it may be the Christmas lights ... I don't know ... this thing was supposed to take the electricity of a coffeemaker, but last month's bill was as high as a summer bill with the air conditioner going). I called the HeatSurge place and told them what was happening with it (it's not flickering anymore), and they said it was malfunctioning. I bought the extended warranty (it wasn't that expensive), and the customer service rep said they'd send me a new one, as soon as I'd send the old one back. She asked if I still had the box. It's been nearly a year, I don't have a lot of room and no, I don't have the box, I told her. She told me to go out and get one ... I would have to purchase one, then get this fireplace into it. And all with one hand on a cane. I told her I just had knee surgery (all right, it's been a month, but still, I have a minor handicap at this point). So she said they'd send the new one first, then arrange for the old one to be shipped back ... so I could use the new box. OK, I can handle that. I can have my cleaning lady help me (she helped me get the old one out of the box ... it's not really heavy, just awkward).
I did better junk-food wise yesterday ... stuck with good snacks, although I still did too many, but I tried to stick with healthier ones. Nuts and raisins, for one; my turkey rollups, for another. Made another batch of those. I think the problem is I'm just so bored sitting at home, I want to eat all day. No matter that I have things to do, I either eat or sleep. I really just want to get out of the house, but it's so cold (so why do I want to go out? Good question ... I'm bored!)
Also called my health food store yesterday and they still have two cases of AchievOnes for me ... yippee! I was afraid they had sold them when I didn't come for them quickly enough. I'm going to go get them after PT on Thursday ... big trip for me to drive into Grand Rapids.
Cleaning lady is coming today at 1, and I'm going to talk to my psychologist also at 2:30 over the phone ... I really need to get my emotional eating under control or I'll start gaining weight, and it's something that terrifies me. I haven't started to do that yet, but I'm so afraid of doing it. I don't want to go back to old fat Eileen ... it's so easy to drift back to those old habits. She was really a sad person, so unhappy in so many ways.
Carla is on my mind today, too ... I hope she can come through her pill OK. Carla, I know you're not reading this, but know we all love ya, and this is the beginning of the end of the that nasty cancer.
Well, I want to go watch the inauguration ... now the temperature is 0. Geez, it's getting colder, not warmer ... and wind chill is -10. Is it ever going to get warmer?
.....drum roll......"MADE IN CHINA".....omg can't the usa make anything here?
Hope you get your replacement soon.
Pat
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morning vera and OFF family....well sorry i was missing from the board yesterday morning but we had a slight problem here....had to call 911 for rick...he was having severe chest pains....ambulance came and took him to er had blood tests done and chest exray and ct scan...seems its a chest wall pain he was having and NOT a heart attack but felt like one....its like a pulled muscle i guess...sent him home and told to rest and use warm compresses and take motrin for the pain. he is doing ok but still in pain. glad that he is going to be ok...i was so afraid i was going to lose him!!! at times yesterday he was incoherant and that was scarry for sure!!!! with the pain subsiding he came back around...thank GOD!!!! all i know is i was scared to death for him!!!! now that he is going to be ok....its the rent money we are worried about along with this hospital bill....his boss never turned in the paperwork for his health insurance!!!!! GRRRRRRR and now missing not sure how many days from work we will be short on the rent money!!! and if we are late its a penalty tacked on!!!! not sure how we will come up with this money now....but life does go on....
kathikins...WOW!!!!! what a change in you!!!!!
paulette and earl...so glad that you are both on the mend!!!!
nan h nice to see that you are also getting better now!!!
cheryl i know what you mean in this eating the wrong stuff and snacking...i am also doing that and hate it!!!! its so hard to stay away fromt he wrong foods especially when you don't dump on them!!!
jeannie (lightswitch) where in ohio will you be coming to?
george your cooking sounds soooo good!!!! i never really had the talent to cook like that....
well we had another dumping of snow over the weekend...about another 6 inches or so...atleast its the fluffy kind and not the wet heavy stuff....patio furniture has about 3 feet of snow on it now...can't wait til spring gets here!!! i am so tired of this cold and not getting warm!!!
well need to get some laundry done and make some breakfast for rick. did a load of clothes sunday night and when i went to dry them the dryer had someones clothes in there...so i took them out and placed them on top of the dryer so i could dry our clothes...not sure when the person came after their clothes because i was in shower i guess but rick said he heard swearing out there....LOL hey its not like they are the only ones using the washer and dryer!!! i had no clue there was clothes in the dryer til i went to put ours in there!!! what else should i have done??? toss them on the floor??? i was nice and put them on the dryer for them...sighs....so off to wash last batch of clothes and make breakfast....have a good day and keep warm!!!
hugs and prayers....; )
thankyou floyd!! rick said he will take any prayers that are given to him....he is feeling a little bit better today still has pains when he moves to fast or turns over. but the color is back in his face so he doesn't look like he is gonna die....
hope you and brenda are doing better....think of you often!!
thanks again!!!
hugs
Carla...love and prayers coming your way!!
Oh what a day!! I haven't worked since 10:00AM on Thursday. I have so many messages on my work phone it is taking hours to catch up!! Sure did love the long weekend .....it is worth it!
Many, many thanks again to all that replied to my Nic's Speech post. I called him this AM and read them to him. He was so touched, as was my daughter Jamie. You are all such wonderful people. I am so blessed to have you in my life!! I don't know where I would be if I didn't have all of you to share with. The love and support on this board is just amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!
Special prayers and blessings to those in need.
I have to make this short as my job awaits me. Have a wonderful day my friends!
Love and hugs to all.....connie d
Hello Vera and all of my OFF family,
We spent the weekend with the grandbabies who AGAIN have a nasty cold. They were sick Christmas too. Seems like about every 3 weeks they get a new one. They go to daycare so I guess it's to be expected. Anyway, they felt so bad and have fevers and Erin works from home 4 days a week so to make a long story short I'm still here. Mike had to get home so he took Maggie and went home and left me stranded by choice. I'll take the train home on Thursday afternoon. Hopefully Hannah and Clara will be well enough to go back on Thursday morning. They are feeling better but Clara is still running a fever. They are so congested that it's hard for them to sleep and their coughing keeps everyone awake. I remind myself that "It's just a cold" and they'll have many more of them.
I'm so thankful that so far they are healthy with no significant problems. Reading about Connie's Nic's battle with cancer from age three humbles me. I know we would rather go through it ourselves than have to watch a little one suffer. Nic is such a trouper. I guess that is about all he knows. He so deserves to be whole and healthy and I so hope that he is on his way to that. What an appreciation for life he must have.
Clara's catching a short nap and Hannah's playing in the pile of dirty blankies in the laundry. No favorite yet but her pink "silkie" is in the pile and she loves to rub the satin binding on her cheek.
Erin's trying to get an hour or so of work in upstairs while I mind the fort down here. So. . happy Tuesday all wherever you are. I hope to reply to some posts later. Seems like many of us who are 1+ years post surgery are finding out what we are made of. The honeymoon is over and we need to reach down, pull up our hip boots and wade through the muck! We can do it with a bit of help from our friends. Hang in there and have a good one.
Karen C
I don't know if this would help but my children's doctor told me eons ago when Matthew was a baby and stuffed up to use sal****er, an eye dropper, and a baby suction thingy to help clear his congestion. I was up with him in his infant seat and me napping on the couch all night because he was so stuffed up he couldn't breathe which of course made him cranky and the resulting crying kept everyone else up. I would use the eyedropper to put the saline in one nostril and then immediately use the suction thingy to suck out the loosened mucus. Then repeat with the other nostril. It didn't last forever but it gave us both a couple of hours sleep until I'd have to repeat the process. It's been ages since my children were babies so there might be better more modern ways to accomplish the same thing but I just thought it might help,
