Gayle...My prayers and thoughts are with you. Keep in touch, don't isolate yourself.
Daphne... Thanks for keeping us informed about Dana. I hope you are well and everything is going good for you!
Ann...I hope you are doing well! Keep us posted !
Dana...It was good to hear from you. We all got an email from Daphne about you dealing with the storms...I hope today is a better day for you. How did your Dr. Appointment go? I hope everything is okay with you! It is good to hear that you and DH are getting along. How did your parent/teacher meeting go? I hope Ivan is not pounding your area...I didn't get a chance to watch the news. Keep us posted.
As for me I am "So Happy" that it is FRIDAY!! My boss came back today and the Program Director was very complimentary to me about how I have pitched in and did administrative work and was quick and fast..etc...(the is Randi...one of the people who wrote me up) so although these compliments were great to hear...they are worthless. My friend Mila, works over in the executive office and she said that Randi and them are trying to see how I can only be the Office Coordinator (which I am) and have someone else be a receptionist, but Randi said there just isn't money to hire another person (so I am not holding my breath). Mila told me not to look for a new job that they want to keep me...but I really don't trust Randi---she is the one who told Bobbi that they would have a place for her and then turned around and told her they want someone younger. I spoke to Bobbi about what is going on and she got her letter in writing, but it is full of legal jargon and so she is taking to a lawyer..she is going to have to pay $150 for 1/2hour (Outrageous)! I also found out from Anna (HR) that Bob will be leaving at the end of the month. So he is out of here in a couple of more weeks! I am telling you, I feel happy that Randi recognized my hard work, but I still think I need to keep my ears and eyes out for something better.
This weekend I am going up to Oakland for the Executive Board Meeting with the Union. BJ is coming up this evening to take the kids for the night and to keep them tomorrow. This Sunday is the JCC's community day. I am not going because of the E-board.
I am kind of Excited because I went into my new apartment today and got to look around . It is filthy right now and has some water damage and needs painting and new carpet and linolium, but it was just great to know that once it is cleaned and renovated that I will have it. I heard that the Painters are going to be out on Monday and then the Floor crew will be out! I can't wait!!! I might be able to move in by the end of the month...if they get it done! It would be great if that is the case, because I have the 30th and the 1st off!!!
As for my weight I was at 253 this morning, I am down from 256. Yesterday, I out...the Senior's had their holiday celebration with food and of course I had to have a plate. I must of ate over 2200 calories yesterday It has been really hard for me to get back on the wagon. I know BJ will be down tonight and we might have dinner, but at least this time she is counting Points so it will be easier on me.
Got to Go!! Have a wonderful weekend all!!! I am going to be tired after all the driving...lol
DRINK WATER
Deborah
YEA Deborah!!!! I am so glad you got to see the new apartment. Your friend needs to sue for age discrimination. That is totally ileagle to do now days. Let us know how things are going. So they want you to do the job of 2 people now? Are they going to pay you at least half salary more? Breath and relax.......
Dana i am so glad to see that you got to post. Galye I really am worried about you as well. That is just to much stress for you sweetie. Accept the offers of help. Heck let them help you clean mamas place. If they didn't want to they would not offer hun.
OK I am of to make dinner and hmmmm yea I made a lemon cake thingy.OMG it is just tooooo good!: I started to read a new book yesterday and :lol I finished it today. I will have a headache from reading it. I love to read and do not understand anyone that doesn't.
Daphne
Have a great weekend everyone. My weather forcast is calling for rain for the next week.
Daphne...It was good to hear from you! What Book did you read? How are you doing up there? You said you were expecting , does it get you down? For me, I like to be in the house and watch the rain outside...but after a couple of days of it...I have had enough! How is Tony and your other two? How is school for them?How is dh?
Well, this week is a short one! Thank Goodness!!! We close early on Wed and are closed Thursday and Friday. I am going to try to go down to San Jose to SJSU and see my old professor and work out a plan to get my BA. I have two classes I need to retake to get it and I was thinking about seeing what kind of work I would have to do if I wanted to enter the Master's program. Other than that, Joseph's teacher sent home a note that Joseph is not turning in his homework he has only received 3 out of 10 assignments. I talked to my neighbor Kim (who he is going over to her house after school) and she said he is working on it every day. I don't know why it is not making it to school. It is stuff like this that makes me frustrated with working all the time. I feel like I am failing my children, because I am not at home to help them with their work and to make sure they have their backpacks together for each day. Well, I have to get back to work. I hope everyone had a good weekend!
Gayle...how is your mom? How are you? Post soon let us know.
Dana...Did Ivan cause a lot of problems for you? Did you get you phone lines working? How is the family?
Daphne...How are you doing? How are the kids? What id going on with you?
Ann....How are you doing lady? How are your dds and your dh?
I am sorry ladies that I have been MIA...but work is rather busy and home life is also crazy. Let me tell ya all what is going on.
First Work--Bobbi (my walking buddy and friend) is taking "vacation" until the 4th of Oct. She is terminated as of Oct.31st and will probably take sick time until then. Her Supervisor Randi is totally jerking her around, and lying to her. They gave her a crampy 3 or 4 line "reference letter" that doesn't boost any of her talents or accomplishments while employed here. I can't believe how cold-hearted they are being. Also, my boss's "husband" died last Thursday, so I am left to pick up the slack around here. I torn between feeling sorry for her and being angry at her for writting me up. I did send her a condolence card. Our staff is just dwindling day by day here. And yet, Randi (Program Director..one of the Big Bosses) had our Maintenance man put a WINDOW into her office ...you know that cost a pretty penny. The bad thing about it is that we are renting these portables and I don't think she got permission to alter their structure and install the window...not my problem...but it just shows you how good people are tossed to the curb and the Mucky mucks are splurging on themselves.
I am still fearing that with one wrong move I will be fired...and it is really hard to work under this pressure.
My home life is not much better....I just found out last night that the Manager of our apartments was fired! and I don't have the fact that I am getting the 3 bedroom in writing :0 I am really worried that I might not get it now. I have to call fair housing and get on the ball.
As for my kids...still having problems getting all the homework and housework done by them. It is an uphill battle.
On a brighter note: I went to my professor and she is going to find out if I can take two classes over winter break than I can petition to get my degree!!! I have to get off of here.
Deborah! You definitely need to get out of there. I'm so sorry that things are no better with you! I was hoping you were packed and moving already! You are still in my prayers.
Mom is doing ok. I took her to the dr's office that next day like I said last. We filled him in on what we heard from Cleveland - because, of course, they never sent the records to him! So, anyway, he prescribed Vicodan and it is really helping. He also suggested she have a bone scan to rule out bone cancer. The results suggested a compression fracture in the thorasic region of her spine!! It's right around where her bra hits. No wonder she's been in such terrible pain! There was also something that looked suspect in her left shoulder. After he got the results, he had us go and have her spine and shoulder x-rayed to confirm or deny. They confirmed the fracture and said the shoulder looks ok. That really eased my mind, because Daddy's cancer moved to his shoulder and I know how he suffered. Now, they want her to go to the Cancer Care Center here in town and get radiation. I'm confused, though, because I've never heard of using radiation to alleviate pain from a fracture. I'm afraid that the girl who told me the results of the x-rays (over the phone) may have made a mistake and there is bone cancer there somewhere. I know they use the radiation for pain management for that. So, I'm keeping my questions to myself till we have the appt at the Cancer Care Center. The doctor said that she should go to the navy reunion next week (Mon - Thurs) if she feels up to that. So, we're going to Cincinnati, Ohio this coming Monday.
She is doing fairly well for now. She gets exceptionally tired by just lunch in a restaurant and riding a scooter once around a store. We did that yesterday and she had to spend the rest of the day in bed.
I'm keeping up pretty well with cleaning her apartment. Mine is not slovenly, but certainly not clean and tidy! Ivan is really suffering. He's missing me so much since I have essentially moved down to mom's. When I come up here to check email and try to get some recipes entered for the recipe book, he's pawing at me to lay down in the bed and "cuddle". Poor guy! I feel so sorry, but I can't do anything else but take care of Mom right now. I've tried to take him down a couple of times, but the first time, he attacked Mom's Annette after about half an hour. The second time it was at least 1 1/2 hours before he ambushed her! I'm going to wait til we get back and try it again and let them duke it out.
Mom is real unsteady on her feet now, too. Two days ago she twirled around and ended up plunking down on the coffee table. She didn't get hurt, but then again yesterday, she turned to quickly and lost her balance again, but didn't fall. So, needless to say, I'm uncomfortable leaving her alone. She finally was prescribed a cane and uses it outside the apt, but I told her I think she'd better keep it closer from now on.
I never did get the newsletter printed, colated and stapled, and distributed! I have it on a disk, but the 24th is a little late! I don't even have one started for October yet! Oh well, they know why. . . .
We went to a family reunion last Sunday. She was able to stay for about 3 hours. While we were there, I saw some of the kids outside riding one of those electric scooters and said, "There Mom! That's what you need!" My cousin heard me and came over and told us to take it and keep it as long as we need it!!! This is a miracle. There is plenty of room in the van for it and they had a heavy duty aluminum ramp to get it into and out of the van! It's not hard for me to manage, so this will keep us able to get out for quite a while. I don't know how long it will be that she'll be able to go out and do things.
The other night, she was crying because she was thinking that I want to go out and have fun. I told her that taking care of her is the ONLY thing I want to do right now! That is the God's truth, too. I have no desire to be doing anything more than I'm doing right now! Besides, I know that if I NEED to get out, I can. There are tons of people here in the apt bldg who want to do something to help. All I have to do is put them on alert and dial their phone number and she can call them if she needs help.
Well, I've been up here for over 3 hours and feel like I need to get back down there. Besides, I have to rest a little before getting supper. We're having ground sirloin steaks grilled, spaghetti squash, and leftover baked beans (I made them for dinner early this week). I got weighed the other day, and I have only gained 4 lbs all this time, and I've eaten anything I want and all of it that I want! I must be doing enough work to keep from gaining! I know it feels like it!
I hope that everyone else is doing alright. Dana, I have been concerned about you and Ivan, too. Are the kids getting back into the swing of school?
Daph, is Tony ok now? And how are Megan and Robert?
Ann, what did Ivan do to you?
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! "Charly" caused bad flooding in my county and Michael and his wife lost everything. Their house is about 4 steps off the ground, and it not only came up to the deck, but 4 FEET in there house! He told me that the authorities say that they can't live in the house any longer. At least Bush FINALLY declared it a federal disaster area and FEMA can now help! I don't know how much that will help in the end, but they were talking about maybe buying out the owners in the flood plane. I pray that's what happens. They have to stay with his brother and wife and kids in a little house for now!
I must, must, must go and get back down to Mom's.
I'll check in as soon as I can. I'll let you know what happens at the Cancer Care Center.
Hi Ladies,
Gayle, you and your mom are in my prayers
This is a quick reply. More time tomorrow.
Ivan gave us a lot of wind and rain, downed trees and power lines
MIL we were taking days abouit with her then my Mom got sick and ended up in hospital, got her out and next day MIL went back in hospital, I;ve been taking care of my mom and MIL got out of hospital and she goes to live with my BIL. In the meantime I have a job interview at a nursing home in housekeeping. Don't know if I can do the job or not but I will try. I go tomorrow for a TB test. Mom is doing lots better, has congestive heart failure and anemia. DD are doing great. Hasseling DD#1 to have a baby. well got to go and I promise I will get back on and up date more tomorrow
Hi guys. I wanted to give you some information... Daphne has started a new thread "not new anymore but old friends". It's an effort to combine the 2 threads we were both posting on in order to form a bigger thread. Most of the people on our other thread left it and it basically came down to just me and her and now one other single guy posts every once in while. Anyway, it's a fresh start so gayle, ann and deb, if you would come over there and post with us. I think we needed a new thread anyway.
Ann, how are things with you now? Were you saying you were "hasseling your daughter to have a baby" or is she pregnant? Is she the one that married last year or so? Are you excited?
Deb has things changed for you at all?
Gayle how if mom? My grandmother lost her brother in law to cancer 2 weeks ago and then this past wed. night one of her brothers died. Not cancer related on that one but evidently he had a bacterial infection to go undetected and he lost brain function. Sad story but enough sad things in our family already hopefully.
I had my car (my favorite all dependable car) repossessed unexpectedly on friday. It's only temp. though cause it was paid by western union yesterday but it's still in a storage facility over an hour drive from here. I miss it like a child. OK maybe more, it's not loud and doesn't get on my nerves. You can read my whole story on it on that thread I mentioned. We've posted about a page already between me and daphne. Hope you will join us over there.
Hello Everyone!!!
Gayle...My prayers and thoughts are with you. Keep in touch, don't isolate yourself. 
Daphne... Thanks for keeping us informed about Dana. I hope you are well and everything is going good for you!
Ann...I hope you are doing well! Keep us posted !
Dana...It was good to hear from you. We all got an email from Daphne about you dealing with the storms...I hope today is a better day for you. How did your Dr. Appointment go? I hope everything is okay with you! It is good to hear that you and DH are getting along. How did your parent/teacher meeting go? I hope Ivan is not pounding your area...I didn't get a chance to watch the news. Keep us posted.
out...the Senior's had their holiday celebration with food and of course I had to have a plate. I must of ate over 2200 calories yesterday 
It has been really hard for me to get back on the wagon. I know BJ will be down tonight and we might have dinner, but at least this time she is counting Points so it will be easier on me.
: I started to read a new book yesterday and :lol I finished it today. I will have a headache from reading it. I love to read and do not understand anyone that doesn't. 
Daphne...It was good to hear from you! What Book did you read? How are you doing up there? You said you were expecting 
, does it get you down? For me, I like to be in the house and watch the rain outside...but after a couple of days of it...I have had enough! How is Tony and your other two? How is school for them?How is dh? 
Gayle...how is your mom? How are you? Post soon let us know.
