CANDICE--Of course it was easy for you to gain the wt, you cookie lady, you! LOL

I'm signing off for a couple of days. Tomorrow we will be going to a shelter where we can take our dog. No more sitting at home. Frances is a strange critter. Up and down. so we don't know just how long we might stay there. We are putting plastic over our beds etc, just in case that our roof might leak. Since we lost so many shingles from H. Charlie. This has been an unusual mess. Have a great Labor day weekend, and I'll check back when we get home. Pray please! Ann

A quick hello. We have been without power for 4 days, but we are okay. No more additional damage to the house. Just a few more shingles lost. The shelter was an experience. No food in the house, as we had to toss most of it. So going out for breakfast and some shopping. Not too much tho' until we see where Ivan is going to go. More later. Ann

I've been thinking about you Ann, you have been in my prayers, and it looks like you might just get a visit from Ivan too.

Sorry, I've been MIA but sometimes I feel like I don't have anything to say. I guess SIWA is away on her trip by now.

The angle cookies sound wonderful. I think I'm going to try them. I wounder how the come out nutritionally, as opposed to points (grams fat, carbs etc)

CJ I see you found the graphics. Isn't it fun. I could spend all day playing with them. I went to a meeting of the Dallas Chapter of the Sjogren Foundation and the doctor that they had was very good. He said the pain with SjS, Fibro, and RA is basically the same, but what makes them different is that with the SjS you have the dryness, with Fibro you have the trigger point pain, and with RA you get the deformity of the joints. He said that basically that's how the make the difference in Dx of the three. He said the pain, and the lab results etc, were pretty much the same. I thought that was interesting. (and I can quit worring about my hands swriviling up)

Well, it's time to get read to go to the health club for my walk and my water class. I'll try to check back in quicker next time.

My hips have been so bad, just can't sit at the puter too long. got to the dentist, had my bloodwork done and bone density, go back for results next week.

Gonna make those angel cookies, just haven't felt like it. DH ahs a Birthday Mondaya nd I am not doing anything specail for him since he works that evening. Of course he is pouting around! Men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I went to the store an bought the angle food cake mix and the coconut, just need to get myself up and make em.

I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy next Thursday so I've had to come off my arthritis meds, so I'm really hurting today. What will I feel like by Wed?

It appears that we may have 'dodged the bullet' with Ivan. But the poor people up in the Fl. panhandle will probably be the ones to have to put up with the difficulties of Ivan. I think we folks in Central Fl. just were not ready to have to go through it all again. Not much other news from here. I decided that it might be safe to add a few things to the freezer and refridgerator. Didn't want to take any chances before.
I will be having a colonoscopy the end of the month. Not a fun thing, but necessary I guess as a dianostic tool, and in a precautionary way. Hope Siwa is having a great time. I have to make cookies for a Memorial service next week, so I'm trying the angel cookies. More another time. Ann

Outside painters are finally here, so I can't sleep much in the day, they make too much noise!

BArb....I hear ya with the pain, my MIL has to do the same thing with her tests.

Lizzie, I have not made the cookies yet either, but gonna. I am still blaoted from the mobic, just can't tolorate many meds.

Made the cookies but only got 4 dozen so not sure they are sitll 1pt. They are really good! Thanks Siwa for the recipe!:D

Hi: I made the cookies for the service today, and they were all gone. I got 54 cookies, and I think I made them too big. So I figured maybe a point and 1/2 for the larger ones. Nest time, I'll make them a bit smaller. But they are really good. A lot of people wanted the recipe. They would work well for diabetics who are allowed Angelfood Cake in small amounts.

Not much happening here.

Barb: I loved that Charlie Daniels piece.

I'm set for a colonoscopy next week. Oh joy!!!! 'See' you later. Ann

Barb: This must be the day for you!!:eek: Hope all goes well.

Candice: did you make the Angel cookies yet? They are really good. Hope you are feeling better.

Siwa: You must be having fun on your trip. Waiting to hear all about it.

Not much happening here. Today is my birthday, not saying how many, orther than 39 and holding. Going out to dinner tonight, and I have to be good since tomorrow is my weigh-in day at Curves.

See you all later. Ann

Where is everyone? since my last post, we have survived yet another hurricane. Jeanne was not nice at all to many people. we were without power for 2 days, and there are still many people who still don't have any power. It is very trying, and then of course all the doom and gloom people keep saying the the hurricane season isn't over until Nov. 30, so there might be more. We all just say Enough is enough.

Barb - I'm doing the colonoscopy thing tomorrow a.m. Hope all was well with you.

Candice - Are the painters finished? How are you feeling?

When is Siwa coming back? I'll be anxious to hear all about their trip. Ann

We're home again, at last. Gone just 3 weeks and it feels like 2 1/2 months. Didn't make it to a cyber cafe while gone. We saw a few but never went in. I'm kinda tired since my body tells me it's 2 am but trying to stay awake a little longer to adjust to MN time. That means I'm trying to do 2 Wednesdays.

ANN--I was thinking about you with all the hurricanes. We were w/o news and didn't know where they were coming ashore. I guess Ivan hit Gulf Shores/Orange Beach, AL pretty good. That's where we were last winter. We hadn't made a decision of where or if to go this winter so no down payments made or lost. It certainly seems like this is a tough year for the coasts--gulf and atlantic.

How about Alice and Bernice? Anyone hear how they fared with the hurricanes?

We had a lovely time visiting friends in Russia and the Netherlands. Those Tsars certainly did lead a lavish life. It's easier to understand why the revolution took place after seeing the excesses of their lives and knowing that the common folk were starving. They had huge diamond studded decorative combs for their horses hair, for goodness sake!! Unbelievable--the carriages that put Cinderella's to shame, the jewels, the huge palaces with gilt rooms galore, the jewel studded gold wine goblets!! and on and on. Lovely to look at now but not nice to think that so few lived so lavishly while most suffered. I always disliked history while in school but learning thru travel is wonderful. I learned SO much on this trip and had fun doing it.

Today's Russia is a lot better than we knew about. The food was excellent and the people smiling and friendly. Still I'm SO thankful that I was born in the USA. We are so fortunate!

Glad to be back home where I can just sit and not walk for several hours to see the sites.

Lizzie...glad you survived the hurricanes and yes I made the cookies just before you did! How was the colon test?

Siwa....your trip sounds just wonderful.....that situation sounds like Iraq kinda. We had a freeze last night! Had to use the furnace for the first time this fall.



The yeast thing is much better but still itch but no pain down there for once! Now I'm sitting here with an ice pack on my head...I banged it on the fuse box in the basement cleaning up after a sick cat, hit my head so hard it knocked me off my feet, I scraped my left arm from the elbow to the shoulder and cut my finger (on a rusty old bed frame), twisted my right side so I bet Im gonna be sore.....I am trying to stay awake for a few hours to make sure I do not have a concusion or anything like that..then I will take my meds and try to get some rest! I'm getting pretty darn sore now.....I fell on my but and have no cushion back there! Maybe I should go bake something?????? ;)

Doesn't anyone ever post any more? Why not? What's wrong?

We went to our cabin earlier this week to see the leaves and they hadn't changed yet. They are a little late this year. We usually see nice colors about the 3-7 of Oct. So we're going again on Sunday-Tues. It's so nice to be there when no one else is there. Peaceful! Lots of leaves have changed around town and it's 100 miles south of the cabin. We haven't had a freeze yet. Threatened to one nite so we picked all the tomatoes and now we have 4 large bowls of them. Need to do something with them fast or they'll be too far gone. I heard that while we were gone there were also lots of tomatoes. Luckily we've had a mild fall to they were finally able to ripen. Seems like Aug and Sept were reversed--temp wise.

Somebody, please write something.....anything.