Hi GingerKibble hey thank you about your stepmom still waiting (not impatiently ) for the doctor's crummy news I hope your head cold is gone and yay for the good news about the volunteering spot!

Hi Monica ! I do very much value your opinion..but I have gone ahead to solidify with the plans. I just have to deal with the limited options in this area and hope for the best

thanks for sharing the bride story! you have really interesting anecdotes, I'd love to hear more.

I hope things are good with you Monica, how is your winter? we've been getting alot of snow, ugh. At least it's good exercise

My keyboard isn't workng. Need to get something else. Typng hard.

Coop, you are SO considerate that you 'held back' with your own personal grief, because you didn't want to appear inconsiderate concerning Jessika's grief over her mother. blessing to you!! However YES I would also be very upset if my dad met someone after only a year. It's a really difficult situation because everyone should have the right to be happy but it doesn't make you happy I guess you just have to honor your mum's memory and keep loving her and nothing will take from that.

Nerdbling - oh ABSOLUTELY you can talk about anything to us and there is unconditional support here. You make a ton of sense that you see that you have control over your physical health and good for you for working hard on that!!

JesikaBeth, oh gosh honey you are having such a tough time now Losing your Mom is SO hard. it will be affecting everything in your life for a while unfortunately. There WILL be a time in the future when you are able to look back and be glad you got through it though it doesn't seem like it now. I hear you about the difficulty of introvert/extrovert and discussing your feelings. And oh gosh the red tape aspect of handling someone's passing is adding insult to injury, sometimes. You WILL get through it. you will

* the best advice i got from someone, regarding having to take care of my dad's estate, was to request MANY certified copies of the death certificate, if you haven't already done so. *

good to hear from you Lisa! good luck with your keyboard!

Gng to wal-mart tomorrow.

I just have to pat myself on my back and tell you about taking care of our driveway today!! we had snow, then it rained, then ice pellets on top..it hardened down to the ground and it was almost 4 inches of almost frozen slush/snow. I couldn't just shovel it..had to chop it with a pointy-type metal shovel, then remove it with a snow shovel..I went outside at 9:45 and finished at noon. I don't know what we are going to do when I am in my 80's, lol, but I am proud of being able to do it now!

We have had some super busy weekends at work, as the average working slob I have to say it sucks that you get paid the same to be frantically busy and efficiently taking care of customers, as when it is slow. But then I guess it's nice to be paid for when it's slow time. See I am being 'glass half full'

Yesterday at work, I made the decision to close the store an hour early, it was approaching 5 pm and it was snowing, and it's hard enough for me to see at night when it's clear, let alone wet or snowy. I left a note for the boss saying I owed him an hour. I don't think he will try to chastise me, he lets other employees get away with all kinds of crap, I am usually a model employee and I have enough dirt on him to bring down the whole organization bur I must say it was sooo good to drive home before it got dark. Come on Spring!!!!!!!

Hi holly, I am using Jennifer little HP until I can get a new laptop. My Mac is toast. I cannot even type on it anymore.


I am so tired tonight, I can't quite yawning.

How are you feeling, Holly? I hope you are good. Have you been exercising? I know you usually do several times a week. Just remember you are lovely just the way you are.

Moving day went fine, Holly. It was tiring and i'm glad it's done.

I am not living in my new place yet. Probably the last week of the month, I'll move in.

Jennifer is going on vacation the 19th-26th and I have to baby sit her fur babies. There is no reason for me to move out before that happens.

I'm still here, Coop. Had to borrow Jennifer's little laptop. Mine is no good now. I can't even type on it.

I am so sorry about your OH having celiac. I don't know much about it though. What does it do to a person?

Jesika, just keep taking care of yourself and be gentle with yourself. It sounds like you are, just keep it up. You are still raw from this loss. Give yourself time to heal and it may take a while.

i miss my mom very much. Time has enabled me to realize that as much as I love and miss her, she is not in pain anymore. I would never in a million years want her to live in pain. She did not take very good care of herself, she was very stubborn and did not go to the Dr as much as she should have. I love her so much but she was a difficult woman. Once she got something in her mind, good luck changing it. It will be a year in March, that she passed.


I can think of her now without crying. Therapy has done me a world of good. It's still sad but I know I was so lucky to get spend time with her and I know she loved me to the moon and back.

Just continue to do things for yourself, take care of yourself and post here as much as you need to.

Monica, thank you so much. Once I get all moved it, I think I'll really like it.

It's a gluten intolerance - kinda like an allergy, but it's not an allergy it's a big sensitivity. You have to avoid cross contamination (so things like our toaster will have to be binned because it's had gluten breads in it). It's going to make it really difficult for us - we can't have anything with flour in it anymore, we can't eat out unless they're gluten free either, and if we go to a friend's for dinner, we'll have to ask them to sterilise their kitchen... It's a real pain.

It's not as dangerous as a nut allergy, but it causes intestinal problems if you have even a drop of gluten. If you carry on eating gluten then it turns into a bigger problem with time.

I just keep thinking about all the things we can't eat anymore, because we can't have any gluten in the house, and I'll have to avoid it when we're out to be considerate to my OH too. We can't have Cake, most chocolates, pizza, pasta, Chinese food, some Indian foods, cookies, pringles, gravy, burger buns... On the one hand, almost everything that has to go is pretty bad for us, but it just sucks.