ohhhh painty!!! i am sending the good vibes to you for that bad Thelma---she is such a brat!!! i am so tired of cancer---i am sure you are beyond the pale---i have a new friend just diagnosed with breast---just had a mastectomy six days after the biopsy---chemo to start next week----i have a friend who is not doing so well with it,she's on palliative chemo and another friend with colon cancer in remission---everyone is around fifty----AND my dd21 has a swollen lymph gland that has been like that for a year and they are finally going to see if it's "cancerous" as they so frighteningly put it for her last week----it makes me mad that er docs can casually say something like that to a kid but i am sick thinking about it---------it is a lymph gland that is just located under the area where she has had a terrible problem with a root canal that has been worked on for a few months and is still not resolved---that is why they haven't 'checked' it cause she has had infections in the area----i am praying that this is the reason---i don't appreciate the scare she has been given and in turn MY scare------------EFF!!!!!

Too many scary things! I'm sending healing thoughts for all these tests.

Those are lovely pansies.

Oh, and I like that pantry too -- very nice and easy to clean. My pantry is in an old narrow closet. It's too deep to be convenient, although it does have 2 shelves that are angled slighty down and are divided, so you can put cans in it and they roll down to the front. Unfortunately when you have to clean it, it's not at all fun. Rather painful as a matter of fact.

I need someone to tell me what to do. I am aimless.

DD and bf got home from their romantic getaway (as I insist on calling it to annoy DH). They had a good time.

I'm sweaty. From sitting still. Blecch.

Painty, put down that

no painty---don't put it down---pass one over here. kiwonk---with this heat,aimless is all we can do----painty---we have pansies from spring til winter---never too hot for pansies but often too cold~-----i am going to the seashore {down the street} to cool off----ds wants to frolic in the ocean--it's freezing cold--no one swims in it -----mostly just running in and out of little waves--------

Bill Clinton is coming here and anyone who will donate $2,300 to Hilary's campaign can go to the dinner where he'll speak. So...... if anyone here will lend me $2,300, I promise not to spend it on hearing Bill.

I am depressed again. I called the principal of the potential school and felt he was giving me double-talk. The director of the whole string of these schools is on vacation til next week. Enrollment may be down. They need a certificate from me. Truthfully, I know they don't need a certificate and I can't get a certificate without a job. I have what they need but it's not sorted out nicely and the DOE will probably take another 30-35 days to get around to me. I don't want to feel like this again.

i can't believe how effed up this system seems to be--you would think they would want everything all sewn up asap----doesn't school start soon??? you should be in your classroom getting organized!!! KEEP BUGGING THEM!!!=== someone must be able to get to the bottom of this bureaucratic crap!!!===dd went to dr who said the nodes are soft and moveable and supposedly malignant ones are hard and immovable--whatever---she is being referred to and ear nose throat specialist--dr didn't seem too concerned as she has had this type of problem off and on for years----still perplexing---------------

Could swear I've posted once or twice in the past day. However, I am having Firefox crashes and since I have no memory to speak of, I probably just forgot to finish posting...

It must be the heat. Or maybe it's all the beer I've been forced to drink due to the heat. And the socializing.

Yesterday I had to lie on the kitchen floor for a few minutes after I finished emptying the dishwasher due to the fact that I was hyperventilating from the heat. This morning I woke up feeling like I was suffocating. Lucky for me we had a storm blow through a couple of hours ago which cooled off the outdoor temp from 92 to 71 in the space of 20 minutes. Unluckily, we only got a splash of rain and the sun is back out trying to make up for lost time.

Tonight we are taking all the out of town visitoires (please note they are not staying at my house, they have their own camp) to the restaurant/inn where DD works. She doesn't have to work tonight so she and bf will be there too. She can tell us what's good.

Tomorrow the visitoires leave and I am to be left to my own devices. How depressing.

ta Going to post LOLCATS

Kiwi

Kiwi, that is scary. Hyperventilating is not a good thing to do. Are you drinking iced tea and sitting in front a fan??? This is what we did before a/c here in the south. You should know that.

I am going to facebook to try to post a picture of when I was skinnier than Bagz. Maybe not my butt but my arms and face were. And my ears.

Here is a rundown of my last 24 hours:

DD banged up her foot in the accident and can't walk well on it, so she is hopping or on crutches (or being carried by her big strong man), but nothing is broken, just bruises and scratches. The SUV rear-ended a pickup truck, and she landed, tipped over sideways almost, in a ditch. The pickup, which was going really really slow when she hit it, flipped over, nearly broke in 2 and landed on its roof. Incredibly the man in it is fine, no broken bones or anything. He was unconscious when DD climbed out of the car and she really thought he was dead. She was terrified. Fortunately some nice guy came along and called 911 and stayed with her until the ambulance etc came. And yes, it was her fault, it seems as if she was going too fast and couldn't stop when she came around a curve and saw him. It's all a bit hazy for her, but to look at the vehicles, they are so lucky to be alive.

Gotta go.

Kiwi

Ohhhhh Kiwi. Every mom's fear there. I SO GLAD eveyone is ok and that you're able to appreciate that. Was it your car?

holy crap--this is unbelievable--THANK HEAVENS SHE IS OKAY AND OF COURSE THE OTHER GUY IS OKAY---POOR YOU!!!!-----it's so weird how all those irritating things were happening to you ,just to colour the day grey and then that call comes----needless to say you can imagine how we all feel for you---heart in the throat---thanks for letting us know that she was okay at the first of the post! xoxoxoxo

Wow, Kiwi, I'm so glad everyone came out of the accident all right!! What a nightmare! DS18 is making a trip from Wisconsin to Michigan and then Iowa with his GF... they had some training in Wisconsin in July. Speaking of him, the phone just rang and it's him!

Painty, *hugs.*

Hi everyone!

Save travels to all... and glad that (so far) everybody's OK.
DH is on HIS way to CA.

Wishing everyone's loved ones safe travels.

We have finally turned the corner on the beastly hot weather. The storm on Friday seems to have swept the heat wave out. Yesterday was beautiful, sunny but not too hot. Ah, relief!

DD is doing well, foot is painful but getting better. She's still working it all out in her mind what happened -- can't stop thinking about it, you know? Of course neither can I. We went to a family picnic yesterday and got the full treatment - by which I mean all the love and support and all the heavy religious pronouncements <insert weak smile here>. We are thankful for the love and support. Every time we come home there are more messages on the phone asking after DD. She can't help but feel cared for.

I have to decide what kind of car I want to shop for. My prerequisites are: 4 wheel drive (non-negotiable), room in the back for the dog and/or lots of luggage, comfortable for 4 passengers, good accident record (might as well face reality--I've had 2 Explorers and both were totaled). I can't seem to get beyond SUVs, but there must something else, right?

kiwi

Oh oh oh oh Kiwi! So glad dd is OK! Wow, what a shock for you all.

Anything else I could say would be entirely too boring so I'll just go to bed instead.