Alternachick chat September 1+
 

I took up Ellis' suggestion and started a September general chat thread.

Sorry to hear about your tea related accident Wildfire:( Yeouch! :yikes: that must have hurt! I've done something similar in the past - not fun :p

My is looking much better these days, she seems to be in good spirits and her colour is much better. We are just waiting for the results of the Doppler test. If there is any sign of a blockage then she will have to have an operation to have it removed.

As Ellis pointed out in the previous we are missing some of our chicks! Wildfire and Wanntolosealot have checked in but we are still missing .....

Ellis' list:
"Sflake, Lidian, Twodog, Chris, Jessica, Ginya, Soozie, Merrylegs, Sandi, ... and everyone else?! And where on earth is Sojo?"

Hey Flower, Punkinseed, Lunula, Sojourner & Lamorgan pop in if you are around and let us know how you are doing :wave:

And whatever happed to Barefootgrrrl and Katrinabgood? :?: Hope the are doing okay.

They've all abandoned us. We've become too boring for words. :D

Wildfire, you are such a card. :lol: So sorry about your burn, darling. :yikes:

Mauvais, that Doppler is great. Everything is going to be fine for your Mom. We're in a great city where medicine is concerned. (we won't discuss politics)

Hugs to all...
:grouphug:

I haven't abandoned you! I have just been frenetically busy - day before school starts, etc. Organizing piles of clothes. Also the 4 of us played tennis this morning so I got in some exercise (youngest and I also ran laps while waiting for a court - we play at a nearby school, hence the track). She is a LOT better than I am - she ran about 2 miles I reckon (she is almost 7). I ran about a quarter of that I think! But a start anyhow.

Glad your mom is feeling better Mauvais!

Lidian

Ellis ~I was exercising...what in the world is wrong with me?

Mauvais ~Glad to hear your Mom is feeling better. :)

Wildfire ~ouch ...I've done the same thing.

Lidian ~ I admire you...somedays I can barely get myself dressed and out the door let alone everyone else.

Well, I hope I can get them dressed and out the door! We have all sorts of fashion crises early in the morning despite picking clothes out the night before...I predict a great panic in the morning. Eldest (almost 10) has elaborate first-day-outfit plans, youngest (almost 7) hasn't any plans - both of which lend themselves to all sorts of disasters!

I have to go now, will be back later. I am going to watch them eat hot dogs, and find something else for me (what, I wonder!)

Lidian:)

OMG, I have been a total slug these past two days!!! :snail: (since we don't have a slug smilie this snail will have to do!) In the past two days I have done nothing productive....I've spent the time reading a couple of books (with an occasional nap thrown in for good measure...you know how strenous reading can be!:yawn: ). I can't remember the last time I read something for pleasure and not to learn something...lately it seems like I'm always reading something related to work/career, diet, health, self-improvement....you get the idea. Yesterday I decided to read a novel, a work of fiction that is not meant to teach me anything!! I finished the book last night, then got up this morning and started another one, which I just finished!!! Talk about having a ME weekend....ah well, back to work (and real life) tomorrow.

Mauvis, from your posts I'm surmising that you Mom is having some health problems? I know how scary and tough that can be, my Mom also has some health problems. :( I hope everything turns out well for your Mom. :grouphug:

Checking in for tonight. :) I watched a few movies - Chicago (which I liked) and Life of David Gale (not bad). I generally bummed around which was nice. I am going to be gone the next 2 weekends. One in Barrie, Ont. with a bunch of Canadian rock star boys. The other at a wedding, actually the first wedding I am really looking forward to.

Mauvais I am glad your mom feels better.

Wildfire - Hope your finger feels better!

Lidian - Hope the first day of school goes well! Is it Tues. or Wed.?

Sflake - I am with you on barely getting myself together. Good thing I live alone though. :lol:

Twodogmom - those kinds of weekends are wonderful. What did you read?

Ellis - we aren't boring, we are just, uh, odd. ;)

Den - HI!!!!!! :)

And Hi to Ruthxxx who I am sure is lurking around here too.


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squeaker, I read Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell and The PMS Outlaws by Sharyn McCrumb.

I've been wanting to see Chicago but haven't done that yet....it sounds like a movie I would enjoy....I've heard that you either love it or hate it.

Yup! I'm a lurker.

My problem (well, one of them) is that I need to check posts in the boards I moderate, post on three of them and on another website and try to do my Journal AND get the day cranked up with the Dogs and the Old Fart! Too damned much to do first thing in the morning and I refuse to get up any earlier! I am trying to train myself to sleep until 6 because it's damned dark at 5 in the winter! Oy!

Today is underway. The slipcover is washed, dried and back on the couch and The Girls and I have walked. Now I need to do three months worth of flossing and take myself off to the dentist. Life is just too frassing exciting!

Never mind! My salsa is done and labelled.

Happy alterna-day!

Oh Ruth... 3 months worth of flossing... :lol: I can relate.

Hi to you all! Well, we survived the frantic first day of school morning which included standing around for 15 extra minutes after the bell, with seemingly twice the usual number of kids and parents, beset by yellow jackets, until at long last they decided to let everyone go in. I hope they have a good morning! It is a little strange to have things so quiet around here...I am going to run/walk tomorrow after I drop them off, will go Tues,, Thurs & a weekend day I think, until I get up to speed. (I am pretty well out of shape at this point!)

Ellis, how's the first day of school going for all of you? Quiet, isn't it!

Ruth, I start flossing only about a week before my twice a year dentist appt & last time they were all impressed and I thought, if you only knew...!

And to all the Alternachicks, hello! How's it going?

I am going to get more coffee...have to get used to getting up nice and early again! Lidian

Lidian and Ellis-ENJOY YOUR DAYS!!!!! I didn't get any work done last week when my kids started because I just wanted to enjoy the silence. Now I have to get down to business!!!!!

Ruth-I can relate TOTALLY about the flossing!! And my gums are a MESS. My dentist is really mad at me.....WOW!! you already have the slipcover washed?!? I'm not even dressed yet!!! (Today was a late day for DH so he took the kids to school, and just left himself an hour ago.)

Yea, what up with Dentist's scolding you for not flossing. That just ticks me off. I figure their my teeth, leave me alone. I am paying you (the Dentist) to clean them not give me attitude.

Yeah, and why do they always ask tricky questions while your mouth is full of dental implements?

Lidian

I hate the dentist. I just switched mine. Hopefully this guy will be better then the first. For some reason, I didn't like paying a guy money to make me feel like an idiot.

Hi chicks! :wave:

Just popping in really quick before I am out the door again.

Managed to stay OP so far, and even went out for a walk for lunch.

Squeak, I think I'm on my 3rd Dentist :)

Thanks, Den! :wave: Had a great day! Funny... it went by fairly slowly, but it still wasn't long enough. ;)
Did you get anything done today, or did you take it easy?

Lidian, how was your day? I'm going to the Y again tomorrow. Going to walk there and back and just do the Life Circuit machines. My muscles are KILLING me from yesterday. A good sign. :D

I haven't been to my dentist for three years. I'm afraid to go...
He's REALLY nice, but his hygienist is a ****.

I just went to the dentist a couple of weeks ago and had no cavities - yay! :cb:

DH and I finally found a good one that doesn't try to get you to do expensive procedures that your insurance doesn't cover -she will offer you two or three different options- and she does a really thorough exam and a check for oral cancer -first time a dentist has done this for me :rolleyes:- and my hygienist was really good - no pain and no bleeding gums. I am considering a bleaching and possibly adult braces but that wont be for a while due to budgetary concerns.

Haven't been to the dentist for about a year. We didn't have coverage, and basically just tried to keep the kids current. With DH's new job we will have coverage again!!! So now I have to start working on my gums to toughen them up again. I got REALLY lazy.

Ellis-didn't get much of anything done today. I REALLY need to get working again.....

I HATE the dentist! I have really soft teeth and so have had a lot of problems. I'm waaay overdue for going back in (I'm not even going to say how long since I've been), but I just can't force myself to make that phone call. And of course, the longer I wait, the harder it is!!

I'd rather have 10 PAP smears than go to the dentist once!!!! :(

Twodog, is it longer than my 3 years? :D
I hear ya... PAP test over the dentist ANY day!

Okay, but answer THIS one: MAMMOGRAM or dentist?

I'll take 5 mammograms rather then 1/2 a dentist! That reminds me that I have to make my yearly mammo apt...Thanks Den (insert sarcastic tone) :)

oooooooh... I haven't had a mammogram yet. Where's that "joke"...

I HATE MAMMOGRAMS!!! Rather go to the dentist..... Between being large breasted and short, it is UNCOMFORTABLE, and I always feel trapped. If a fire started I'd be at the mercy of the technician.....just hope she'd remember to let me OUT before fleeing!!!

ah... here it is...

Preparing For Your Mammogram

Many women are afraid of their first mammogram, but there is no need to worry. By taking a few minutes each day for the week preceding the exam and doing the following practice exercises, you will be totally prepared for the best. And best of all, you can do these simple practice exercises right in your own home.

EXERCISE #1: Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Press the bookends against one of your breasts. Smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Set an appointment with the stranger to meet next year and do it again.

EXERCISE #2: Open your refrigerator door and insert one breast between the door and the main box. Have one of your strongest friends slam the door shut as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure. Hold that position for five seconds. Repeat again in case the first time wasn't effective enough.

EXERCISE #3: Visit your garage at 3:00 a.m. when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off all your warm clothes and lay comfortably on the floor with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled. Turn over and repeat for the other breast.

CONGRATULATIONS ! Now you are properly prepared for your mammogram. Isn't it FUN to be a WOMAN !!

Ellis sweetie you are a laugh riot! :)

ellis, yep, longer than 3 years :o I love your mammo joke! :lol:

den, I'd take a mammogram over the dentist any day. I read a story a while back (can't remember if it was really true or not, but I'm thinking it was) were a fire did break out when someone was having a mammogram....the fire started in the mammogram machine, a short or something!! The couldn't get it open to "release" her because the machine shut down when it shorted out, and she kind of "hung in there" for a while until the could manually remove her. I think that would be the last mammogram for me! :lol: :lol:

Twodog - Has it been longer then 6 years? (which is a guess since I couldn't actually remember the last time I went). I just went back for an inital visit a few weeks ago.

Sure am looking forward to my first mammogram, whenever it will be! I WOULD take a few Pap tests over the dentist though...

Sounds like you are doing a great job Ellis - sore muscles are very good! I just about got out of bed this morning - not used to all the walking! And I went for a tiny run after I dropped the girls off, about 15 minutes' worth and my muscles are feeling it! We'll be back up to par in a few weeks -

twodog, what a story! As if mammorgrams didn't sound appealing enough!:D

Lidian

THAT"S IT!! NO MORE MAMMOGRAMS FOR ME!!!!!!! (snicker)

can you imagine having that happen to you...I would just die. or gnaw the darn thing off to get free!

Ouch! I haven't had one yet, and now I am scared....

I am having a bad boob day. :lol: They just looked huge in the shirt I was wearing, and my bra was doing a funny rippley seam thing.

Squeak....that's a pretty good estimate :o ~hanging head in shame~ I have promised myself that I will make an appointment before the end of this year.

AW 2Dog, nobody here is going to judge you. I've gone longer than that in the past myself. We love you!!!

Thanks den! That's what I love about this place....everyone's accepted for who they are, good and bad all together, and no one is judged. I don't have to hide all my foibles (that's my new word for the day....), and believe me I have a few!

I've had a mammogram already due to a health scare I had a while back. I didn't find it that bad - maybe cause my boobs are small -but the darned machine was freezing!

I know it is more and less painful for different people. Glad your experience wasn't too bad!! My MIL once had the top panel FALL on her breast.....OUCH!!!!

:yikes:

Just wanted to pop in and say hi! :wave:

Not too much going on here - same s:censored:, different day. I did pick up Zoo Tycoon, which is a lot of fun.

Twodog - It took me 6 years to go back to the dentist. I still haven't made a doctors appointment - and that is probably 6 years too. The only doctor I see on a regular basis is my GYN.
And you don't have to worry about us judging. We don't do that :)


I may pop in during work tomorrow - but I won't be home until Sunday. Have a good weekend chickies!