Monday Monday...so what's UP

Good Morning Monica, Debbie, Grammy Lew, Boo and those I might have missed or to come,

Congrats Monica on 145 days! 

With the weather you are having, it must be warm there, as here it is just plain old cold, so tired of this cold weather, nothing springlike about it, but the sun is shining brightly and things are starting to bloom, so I know it's just a short while away from warmer days.

I had a wonderful weekend at the AA convention I attended, great speakers and feeling shored up and reinvigorated from all the good stuff I heard.  One of the speakers had quite a story, came from a very supportive and loving family, well educated, yet suffered from that sense of not feeling it within, began drinking in college, did several geographic changes, Europe, Japan and ultimately wound up serving 5 years in jail for vehicular manslaughter, when the car she was driving hit a concrete embankment, killing her passenger, the man she loved, breaking her neck in the same place that Christopher Reeves did, as well as the bones in her ankle, losing her license permanently for life and her teaching credentials taken away as a result of a felony conviction. . .  through recovery, she has learned to make peace with what she did and when she got out of jail, she went back to school, got a degree in social work and subsequently was asked by the dean where she attended college, mind you she applied 4 times, before they accepted her application, and she was asked to teach there and was voted top professor last year. . .  miracles do happen for those who get sober and continue living the life they were meant to live, some more profound than others. . .  So I guess Charlie Sheen needs to re-evaulate his thoughts on AA.

After the convention, Tony came down to spend the rest of the day with me and I did laundry, went to bed at 10 and here I am at work today. . .

Hope you all have a wonderful day and wishing peace and strength to those facing the living challenges that require it.

Hugs, Laureen

What a wonderfully inspirational story of the speaker at the AA convention!  It is always so hard to see the light when we are shrouded in darkness.  It helps to read that others have risen above the situations they find themselves in - whether made by them or others.
Thanks for posting this.
Margaret

Aloha and good morning OFF friends.....

Monica.....I love your posts. You are changing your life daily and sharing with us. It is so wonderful to see you blossoming.

It is 7:30 a.m. on Maui and I am eagerly getting ready to go have the last two stitches out of my left eye after catract surgery complications almost 4 weeks ago. I can't wait!! I'm so tired of weepy eyes and the irritation of feeling like a small stone in is my left eye. I am so hoping he'll take out the last two stitches this morning.

It is a beautiful morning here....the sun has just come up and is shining on the ocean making it appear silver, and it will turn orange soon. Love sunrises here. I wish one of our visiting humpbacks would leap out....that is so unbelievable. They did a whale count a week or so ago, and we have over 3500 whales here this year...up from 2800 last year. Oh yeah!

I want to comment on everyone's posts, but don't have the time and my rememberer isn't working so good lately.

Here's hoping today is great for each and every one of you.
Lately I have trying to live by the Golden Rule....."Do unto others as you would have them do unto youl" NOT EASY....but better than stewing in my own irritations which doesn't do a bit of good.

Aloha nui loa,

Karen

Hi Monica and my OFF family:

It's nearly 1:30 p.m. and I'm still in my jammies ... not in the mood to get out of them. I actually got out of work at 9 p.m. last night, after I got done with my sports pages, because there wasn't anything else to do (or no pages assigned to me). So I came home, watched a little TV and went to bed to read ... then hopefully to sleep ... didn't work. Couldn't sleep ... but eventually I did go to sleep ... only to woken up at 9 a.m. by pounding outside my bedroom window. Apt. complex is replacing the fencing and this was the day they decided to do my yard ... arrrgh! After hearing that for 15-20 minutes, it stopped and I went back to sleep til 10:30. So today I'm draggin' ... but I don't have to work for two days. Don't think I'm going to get out of my jammies other than to get the mail.

It's gloomy here too and feels like rain but it hasn't rained yet, but it's cool ... 52 degrees.

No plans for today ... I want to do laundry and get my Easter stuff up but we'll see how ambitious I am. Right now, it doesn't look that I'll be very active. I'm still drinking coffee ... made a big pot and added some to my protein to start my day. Waiting for the caffeine to kick in ... feeling very lethargic and achy. Obviously a fibro flare. Oh well, have nowhere to go, so I'll just veg out.

I always loved "Lawrence of Arabia" ... one of my favorite actors, Peter O'Toole ... yes, the major powers screwed up in the Mideast; maybe we can get it right this time.

Monica, I'd love to meet you sometime. You are an awesome woman.

Well, that's all for now. Have a good day.

Hello to those that already posted and to those that MIGHT come in and read yet tonight...hahaha

I am in so much pain in my hips and in my foot its unreal!!!! I can't wait til wednesday morning!!!! I will finally get to see the pain dr about this pain I am having!!!

Still waiting for the vet to call me back on the dosage of Kaopectate I can give to Bandit. Said they would call me back in a few minutes...well that was an hour ago!!!! Anyone know how much I can give to a 11-12 pound dog??? He is still having loose stools and its been over 3 days now. He isn't going alot its normal times but its loose yet. Still feeding him just the boiled chicken and rice and nothing else. Not sure why he is still having the trouble of loose stools. Guess if they don't call me back I will have to make appointment tomorrow and take him in. Just doesn't make sense to me that they can't return my call like they said they would.

Going to color my hair again and this time thinking of doing it a dark auburn color. Need a change. Never tried this color before. Be different...LOL Will it be to red for me? Hummmm

Got my blood test results back today. All they sent me was everything is NORMAL. Nice huh? I called them and asked for another mailing of my results with the facts! Now I wait to get them. I want to see how Normal I really am!!!

Well nothing else happening so will get out of here.

Thoughts and prayers....HUGS