Daily Ooo's: Wednesday September 28

[faerywings]

happy birthday to my MIL! My MIL is awesome, one of my best friends. I always say that I don't understand MIL jokes/ hahah! Wishing her a happy day!

Maureen, the last thing I need is butt enhancing jeans- what i need is "smoosh the jelly belly to the boob area", did you see any of that?
It has been really hot and humid. looks like the rain is going to cool things off a bit today but rain in The Naked City isn't much fun either.
Have you gone/going to the WTC Memorial Pools? I would love to take my dad (45 years as volunteer firefighter), but I don't drive in the city and I can never count on Gary to be feeling up to stuff like that.
I hope you are going to post pics of your travels!

hey Terry! Hope that it is cooler for you today. Some days I think that a boring life would be nice! :rofl:

Phyllis- good luck with the A1C. Do you take insulin or just pills or diet? Gary (type 1, so I know it is very different) is on a pump- since 97- and it has improved his control so much.*fingers crossed for a nice low number*
Eek- good luck with the neighbor. Hope he is just looking for a place to store vintage cars and not backhoes.

Good question about dinner- anyone have ideas for tonight? :hungry:

Clara- that is how I felt about the kids watching Lion King- i could watch that over and over too. Hope that you day turned out ok in spite of your bratty husband

Trudy- I have the solution- you need to move to EST so the world can revolve around you too. Clara and would love the company.

Phyllis ound:
I am completely with ya on that one!!!!

Maureen, you are making me hungry! But do I want to know what crack pie is????

Kristy:wave:

laurie- that is the worst! Feels like you never get rid of that dust!!

WWW:
I want to clean my house and decorate for Halloween!
I wish it would stop raining.
I wish that Scott would not hate school so much.


PS: Can you tell that the Catzilla is locked in my bedroom this morning? I can actually type and have it make sense. Relatively speaking

 

[LaurieW]

Morning Chris & All! I have oy just begun to clear the dust- the kitchen took the brunt- except I have not even gone in the basement- where the shop vac is and I cannot imagine what is now lying on/in my treadmill and all the stuff piled in that basement room. The door was open because that is where the dehumidifier drains- oh my I think I will wait until tomorrow and pray that they are done with the sanding- I bet I could be a great halloween ghost by the time I am done. Okay- I have depressed myself with the thought of cleaning- one 15 min at a time and it will get done- right? I have to clean before I can paint, and I want to paint. Well, full day of work today. I will see you guys later.

 

[whatnext]

Laurie, my husband did that once when he was sanding a floor in my absence. he covered NOTHING!! men. i swear they can only see ONE thing at a time.

i'm currently hung up on a few projects because i can't go ahead with MY part of the project until my husband does HIS part. this is frustrating! :frusty:

gray day today. and fog. and i have to go to the funeral home for one of my neighbors who died suddenly last week. not looking forward to that, but it's so necessary to do that sort of thing, i think.

Chris, i try to do it with diet. Usually i do well, but i can't get used to the sheer RANDOMNESS of this disease, no matter HOW closely you watch it and try to figure it out. about a month ago i had an entire week (changing absolutely NOTHING i was doing) where my levels were almost NORMAL. i'm good with if-i -know-what-i-need-to-do-i-can-do-it. it's when i do what seems to be the right thing and i get no clear and relatively consistent cause-and-effect that i get p*&&^%!! but i'll tell you what always talks me down: i think of the extraordinary difficulties of Type 1. then i tell myself to suck it up and get on with it.

Happy Wednesday, ladies!

 

[clarabear]

Good morning!!

Addie is still sleeping so I am trying to get some computer time in real quick. I was just chatting via text with my friend who had the monster baby and am reminded how much I hate extreme medicine. Whether it is extreme on the hospital side or on the naturalistic side. She is on the naturalistic side and so her midwife has her all freaked out about stuff from going to the hospital and getting an epidural and all that. People are freaked out when they have a baby anyway, they don't need the extra stress of that. I remember when I had Ethan the doctors being so worked up about feeding babies every two hours when there is nothing wrong with the baby. I understand with jaundice issues or other stuff like that but if a baby is letting you sleep for 3-4 hours...sleep. Baby will wake up when they are hungry. Geesh!!

For some reason bells keep going off outside. They have gone off twice now. I am used to the military music...raising and lowering of the flag and Taps at 11, but I haven't heard the bells before. Weird. I do love the music....ugh but not the artillery. It is better here on post than at our last house but the house just shook a second ago. Ugh!! Thankfully it doesn't wake me up. So a couple months ago it was 5:00 and they were lowering the flag at the hospital and Derek was leaving the hospital. If y ou are in uniform you have to stop and stand at attention and then salute. This kid was running towards the hospital in uniform. Derek totally freaked out on the g uy who kept saying he had an appointment. Derek was unimpressed and ripped the kid a new one. That's just something you don't do in uniform...ignore the flag. Big giant no-no. I doubt he'll ever do that again. A lot of people try and avoid it by staying inside until after it plays...but we had a friend who would intentionally be outside as often as possible to catch it. In Italy people used to actually get out of their cars. I just love it.

Sorry...random tangent there. So, today is early release for the kids. I hate early release. I have a hard enough time with Addie's weird hours that throwing in an extra set of weird hours just throws me off completely...plus I think early release is stupid. Oh well. I can't do much about it...ugh...the bells again. What the heck??

Chris - Happy Birthday to your MIL!! I love how close you guys are. I know how much she supports you and your family and how much you need her in your lives. It is awesome that you guys have a great relationship.

Laurie - Good luck with all that dust. I know the feeling on a smaller scale. I vaccuumed a bunch of baking soda out of my oven (yes, I caught my oven on fire) and the filter in the shop vac didn't work and the baking soda covered my kitchen. I can't imagine that through my entire house. Good luck cleaning it up. Maybe you could get the Amish women to come in and clean it??

Phyllis - Good luck at the funeral home. Those are never good days. I do like it when those days are gray though. For some reason I like it to be gray on sad days and it makes me feel better not sadder. Strange I know. Enjoy your cooler weather. It has been hot and humid here in NC. I hope your husband gets his stuff done so you can finish stuff up. Right now I'm waiting for my husband to fix the washing machine so that I can do laundry.

I hope everyone else has a fabulous day.

 

[CookingMyLife]

Morning all!

Laurie - All that dust sounds awful and brings back the horror of our renovation with the drywall dust everywhere. In hindsight, the contractor said he could have sealed off the area with plastic but... 15min at a time is wise, Flylady style? I know that works and sometimes I surprise myself and find that something I've put off doing ends up taking less than 15 min! kwim?

Phylis - I totally agree on the vagaries of why x works one time and not another in our health. The only thing that explains it to me is something that I get from the JinShinJyutsu energy work I do. I hate this reasoning even more but...our attitudes affect so much of our body's functioning. I'm as bad as the next person in holding on to bad attitudes even when I know it does me no good. Anger in the form of irritation at 'not doing it the right way - my way!' is my big one.

Chris-We went down towards Ground Zero but it was so crowded we only got close, and spent most of our time in an 9/11 art exhibit there. The heat and humidity have really been a pita, but what are you gonna do. I also felt an overwhelming sense of grief as we came near. I've only had that twice before...once at Antietam and once at Vicksburg. I almost had a panic attack at Vicksburg with the feeling, and had to drive out of that battlefield as fast as I could.

Crack pie is a recipe that comes from Momofuku restaurant. I saw the recipe on line and wanted to try it before making a pie. Good? oh boy was it. It does have whole oats so it has to be good for you...right? http://almostbourdain.blogspot.com/2010/03/momofuku-milk-bars-crack-pie.html

I make dinner for dh and some of his friends a couple times a month and I suspect this pie would vanish even with the one cardiologist who doesn't eat desserts. I've seen him have three pieces of something like a peach cobbler...bwahaha!

Ok, Apple store this am ...just cause...and then window somewhere below 20th st for me. ciao all!

 

[CookingMyLife]

Clara - way back when I was a new bride and xh was a lowly airman, people got out of their car in West Texas too for the flag. The sooner that young man learns the proper behavior the better! I don't think he knows what a lesson Derek gave him.

Totally agree that most babies tell you just what they need. Poor first time mothers need reassurance not worry.

 

[terryb]

Just stopping in real quick. Nothing exciting going on here but work. My afternoon is going to be filled with conference calls---makes for an unproductive day.

Better get after it if I plan on getting any work done this morning.

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning lovely ladies!! The sun is out this morning, hopefully for the whole day!
We are off to MIL's and FIL's tonight for turkey dinner. She wants to have Thanksgiving way early this year as our brother-in-law is feeling pretty good right now and is in between chemo treatments. So my husband's sister and BIL are down for a few days to visit. Damn Cancer!! I hate it!! Have lost one Aunt and now have an Uncle and BIL with cancer. Anyway.... it will be great to visit with them again.

Chris - So nice that you love your MIL I love mine too!! It's my FIL that drives me crazy!! But that's another long story that I don't have time to get into today.

Laurie - Ugh on the dust!! I wish I could come and help you clean up! Don't know if I have told you before, but I am very "Monica" about being neat and clean and tidy !!

Phylis - How sad that you have lost a neighbor!! You are a good friend to go to funeral home!!

Maureen - Hope you are enjoying your NYC holiday!! I wonder if you are a bit physic the way you feel the grief of such a place of loss?? A gift that perhaps you did not know that you have? I am a believer, but I know that not everyone is.

Clara - hope your kids schedules don't throw you off too much today! Bells going off?? Hmmm wonder what that is all about? I think that is so awesome that some people get out of their cars for their flag!! I just love how all of us Canadians sing our hearts out with the national anthem at hockey games and other sports! But love how patriotic the Americans truly are!! Have a great Wednesday Clara!!

Terry - Ugggh conference calls!! Hope you get some other work done today too!

Off to work until 2:00 then home to get ready for turkey dinner yay!! Oh yeah, went to the doctor yesterday and had a great check up!!! Thyroid levels are back to normal weight the same (darn) Still working on that lol. Bone density of a 30yr old Horray!! blood work to be done yet for cholesterol and such. All and all not bad for an old gal!! :wave:

 

[whatnext]

Maureen, that pie looks dangerous to me!! but then it would.... it looks like the kind of thing i'd have for breakfast (BD) until it was all done!

 

[CookingMyLife]

Terry, back when I had conference calls when I still worked for $$, I could do a lot of net surfing while on those calls. One ear listened, one mouth spoke and two eyes enjoyed other things.

 

[terryb]

Maureen--sounds like my kind of conference call. Too bad I was the one leading these calls! After one call I now might have to travel out of town for a meeting next week. Yuck! Plus--it's a short week for me because I'm going out of town on Thursday to a retreat. Guess--I'll be a busy bee the first three days----really, as if I'm not already busy.