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If you felt an unexpected breeze this morning, it was my huge sigh of relief. My oncologist appointment went GREAT! First of all, they re-ran the labs my GP ordered earlier this week, and my WBC is almost up to the normal range! Yaaaay! And my cholesterol numbers are also good. (High cholesterol runs in my family.) Cancer markers were like those for someone who’d never had cancer.

AND I found that is I use copious amounts of artificial tears, I can bear the contact, so hopefully I can keep them in for the duration of the trip to Chicago. Another relief!

There was drama in the lobby. A guy stalked out of the lab and angrily demanded to see someone he could complain to about a “nurse” in the lab. The receptionist patiently told them the lab was independent, so he couldn’t help the guy. This is the lab I went to yesterday. They were super-nice. The guy finally stormed off. Two minutes later, two brawny security guards rushed in. The lab tech said the guy had made menacing threats.

Oh, and a lab tech came out to talk to the patient next to me. “Nothing to eat or drink except water since midnight, right?” “Nothing,” the man said emphatically “except half a beer.” This was at 10 a.m.. You couldn’t pay me enough to be a healthcare worker.

My daughter did, too, but because her mother is a klutz who couldn’t French braid her hair, let alone knit or crochet. At least you were an inspiration!

flyboy, you and Mrs. LA should have a cocktail party in Goo’s honor, or at least celebrate with a Goo-ey dessert.

Oopsie, Bailey is adorable, and so wistful-looking, I don’t see how you avoid spoiling her rotten (not that that’s possible). And I hope the coffee shake works out. I hate when something I like is discontinued. Have fun on the tour!

MetalMouse, I’m with you on sesame buns.

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Happy Birthday Bailey!

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Counting candystriping I’ve been doing it since 1964. I wouldn’t want to be doing it now for all the tea in Sri Lanka. My experiences as a patient are bad enough.

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Howdy Y’all! Today turned out to be a little bit productive. We went and bought a new file cabinet as the old one (one I’ve had for years) was really too small for everything. Anywho, we got it, emptied out the old one and moved it onto the back of twuck, put the new one in place and put stuff back. It was also a chance to get rid of some strange stuff like twenty year old appliance manuals and such. I shall take the old cabinet to the landfill tomorrow as I have been told by the landfill folks that they will accept it, so yay for that. I also make chikin sallit. We barely had any time for sloth and nappage the whole day! Also, I am tryin’ to find a sub Chalice person for Sunday as the one scheduled has the non-plague crud and won’t be there. I would not want her there with any kind of crud plague or non-plague related.

Oopsie Happy Birthday and ::skritches:: to sweet Bailey from Unca swampy.

Nellie in the guy’s defense, he did limit it to only half a beer. That shows considerable restraint. Also, yay on the numbers! I second the idea of assistance at the airport if you think you need to do so.

talkie hope now former boss-unit finds more suitable employment if’n that’s what she wants. Also, hope this is not too bad for you irkwise.

VanGo so the both of you are textin’ how you doin’ back and forth to each other?

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This reminds me of when I was in the pre-surgical unit before my first transplant. The woman in the next bed was scheduled for stomach surgery.

Nurse: Have you had anything to eat or drink since midnight?
Patient: No, ma’am.
Nurse: No water?
Patient: Well, just a couple swallows this morning. I had to wash down the ham burrito.
Nurse: You ate a ham burrito this morning? [It was 7 a.m.]
Patient: No, ma’am, not a whole one. Just a few bites.

I guess some people just round down on this stuff. :woman_shrugging:

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Nellie, glad to hear you’ll be able to see Chicago. Even more glad about your oncology results!

Who are you, and what have you done with Swampy?

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Evening all. Dinner has been dined upon (the aforementioned cheeburger and a banana). Internettin’ and Sudoku-solving will occupy most of the evening. Tomorrow and Sunday I will start transferring stuff from my walk-in closet (where the leak is) to my spare bedroom closets so the plumbers can get straight to work on Moanday.

nellie, good news on the White Bloodcell Count and while you’ve found a temporary solution for the contact, I’d still take BBBoo’s advice and let the airport be of assistance.

Knew there was a good reason I like you… :laughing: :wink: :smile:

swampy, I’ve got 3 wood cabinets that have stuff dating back to when I bought the house…guess I’m a bit of a hoarder (but a neat one) in that I hate to throw any bills/forms/records out, even if they are 20 years old. Maybe working for the Government got me too trained it doing that.

And a most happy birthday to Bailey, Oopsie; 14 years is a long life and she still looks pretty good for her age. Enjoy the walking tour.

Butters, seeing a rocket launch in person is on my Bucket list of things to do. One of these days…

OK, catch all y’all tomorrow.

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That was nice of you to spring for a new TV for your brother butters.

Happy flirting VanGo!

oopsie, please give birthday skritches to Bailey from me.

Yay for the onocology report nellie! Maybe the guy was mid-beer at midnight and didn’t want to waste the rest. :stuck_out_tongue:

This morning while drying clothes, the dryer just :thunk: stopped. I found that a sneaker had gotten hung up on the door seal. The problem though was resetting the dryer. Like swampy’s Firday project, I went through the manual file, which had my purchase docs for it, but limited info beyond basic operation instructions. By that time, I was hungry enough that my BG was beginning to crash, so while I ate lunch, I googled how to reset. Worked a charm. Like swampy, I half filled the recycling bin with manuals for printers, coffee grinders and vacuum cleaners that I no longer own. I’s a hoarder too. :hangs head:

I was hungry for fried chicken for supper, so schlepped down to Popeye’s (the closest chicken place). They only had breasts and tenders. While I like tenders, I wasn’t in the mood for them and I prefer chicken breasts not fried. So it was on down the road to Bojangle’s. My tummy’s happy. :slight_smile:

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We went to see Minnehaha Falls today with the niece. Nice place. I was totally surprised by the food at the Seasalt Restaurant there. I was expecting typical tourist area fast food, but the shrimp po’boy I got was packed with nicely seasoned shrimp and nearly more than I could eat. It rivaled anything I’ve had in New Orleans, really. My wife said her crab cake was equally tasty.

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We didn’t go out tonight. I had leftover homemade nikumaki, and she had leftover orange chicken from the Thai restaurant. She’s having Jack & water on the rocks, and I’m having ginnintonics (no ice).

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Happy Firday!

Happy Birthday Bailey!

Nice morning at the park. Mostly because of the weather, and partly because no Barky and Humpy. We had a good group too, all the parking spaces were filled, I parked in between the two handicapped spaces, even though there is a BIG SIGN that says not to park there. I think as long as nobody calls to complain, the park people and/or police won’t do anything.
Lily pulled a major Lily today. She did NOT want to leave Her mom was late today, she usually has the first parking spot next to the handicapped spots, but she had to park down at the end. Lily sat and refused to move as she passed each car, and at one point laid down and refused to get up.

I think it would be great fun to have Nelson there. He could come on the big dog side with us. The only big dog I’d worry about is Chucky, and only because he is so rambunctious. Little Rocky, the mini dachshund/yorkie? has a great time with the big dogs.

MetalMouse, if you are ever up this way, I’d be happy to take you to the park and introduce you to everybody. We’ll play the match game and see if you can match the dogs with the owners.
I hope your leak gets fixed.
Ripple refused to go to daycare Wednesday. He squeezed into my lap and hid his face in my armpit. I don’t know what is up with him. He was wagging his tail the whole time but he didn’t want to go. My son dropped Echo off and we brought Ripple back home. I wasn’t dressed for anything other than walmart, so I didn’t want to take him in. Next week I’ll see if he will go in with me. If he doesn’t want to go anymore, well then, I guess he can stay home.
He’s been a bit clingy lately.

I talked with my mother one Wednesday.
She was not very nice, she yelled at me for being a horrible mother, and got snippy over a few things. She sounded just like she used to before she got sick. When she said she had to hang up because of tummy issues I thought that was a really good idea. I was pretty well done talking to her.

I guess she is a little upset that my son is irking overtime tonight and Moonday and we won’t go visit.
Then she made a snarky remark about how I would come down for crabs. Well, yeah, I’m coming for crabs, because that is the family get together. The crabs are not the reason, but they are a nice bonus. But of course, she is going to twist it into something other than it is, like that she has to bribe me to come see her.
Then she got snippy because I said something about 20 people being there. She flipped out on me and said that was too many. Well, I listed everybody and counted them up, 21 people if everybody comes. Then she started yelling at me that this one doesn’t eat anything and my son doesn’t eat crabs and bitching that she is getting only one bushel of crabs and I’m like wth are you talking about? I’m talking about the number of people, not quantity of food. First things first.

She wants a watermelon and a cantaloupe, but they have to come from the farm, not from a store. I said okay, I’ll see what I can do. That is when I realized I have NEVER seen a produce stand in this area. Rural area, lots of farms. no roadside produce stands. She tells me I can stop in Frederick on the way down and get her a watermelon and a cantaloupe. WTH would I stop in Frederick? I don’t know Frederick. So, I am going to get off 70 and drive through a town I don’t know in search of a produce stand? Then she snipped that she bet I don’t drive through Frederick, and I said, no I don’t. I don’t know why I would.
We have a ‘Pennsylvania Dutch Market’ up here, but it is only open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and their watermelons and cantaloupes are from Florida. Not fresh off the farm. There may be a farmer’s market, there used to be, but I haven’t seen the signs for it. They were only open on Saturday, I think.
So, somebody else is going to have to get the damn watermelon and damn cantaloupe. I’m not driving all over the place to get them.

When I talked with her yesterday, she told me that everybody is a bit testy lately. I think that is as close to an apology as I am going to get.
I guess I shouldn’t have let her upset me, but the nastiness came out of nowhere and caught me off guard.

Finally, a date for the gathering, the 28th. My son will have to take a few vacation days.
Now somebody needs to tell me what to bring. I think the menu has been trimmed. My son is going to bake cookies. Everybody, but me, loves his espresso chocolate chip cookies. He’s going to make those and thumb print cookies. I’ll probably make deviled eggs and something else.
That is Echo’s birthday, so we’ll have to get a special treat for her.

I can crochet, but not knit. My aunt taught me when I was 7 or 8.

The last movie I saw as an adult was Tron. That tells you how much I like going to the movies.
I took my son to see Monsters. Inc, which was cute, and Spiderman, which I slept through.

One of the newbies at the park told me her place of employment is looking to hire 24 people. It’s a irk at home, talk on the phone job, so I’ll fill out the application. I think it will take me all day to fill it out. I said would they really hire me at my age, and she said they are so desperate that as long as I have a pulse and can talk on the phone, they’ll hire me.
I haven’t filled out an application in years, and haven’t even used a resume in even more years. The company I irk for now was very small when I got hired and everything was very informal. Now they have quadrupled in size and are, well, just not the way they were. I’ve been a little irritated with some of the changes, or maybe I’m just burned out.

I’m glad you got good news at the oncologist’s office Nellie

Cool on the rocket watch Butters, and happy you are still among the living.
Hope the lost package woes get resolved soon. That reminds me I have to get back to da jungle about a refund. I contacted the seller and got no response, so time for the next step.

Don’t let productivity become a habit Swampy

Sorry about the inlaws FCM . Maybe you can drag them up here to make it easier.

I am so grateful for Niece1 that she is doing all the heavy lifting. I tell her so often, how much she is appreciated.

{{{Talky}}}

Taters, you make me tired just reading about your day.

Happy news Wheelz

Happy sales VanGo

I am up way past my bed time.

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Had to reschedule appointments, wasn’t feeling well enough to go. Now scheduled for Moanday and Tuesday.

Buddy is pretty seriously Velcro kitty today. He’s in my lap now, with my computer balanced on raised knees across him (I don’t think there’s any significant weight on him) and is contentedly sound asleep.

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So they brought me 6 carts of stuff to sort through. they brought me out of center. They brought me stuff that could have gone to the package cars. They brought me stuff that had already been delivered to departments in the building. Then the overgoods printer had a stroke. But unlike Sisyphus, I get paid for rolling the stone halfway up the hill. :crazy_face:

Happy birthday Bailey! She looks a lot like the late Maggie Wonderbeagle. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Yay nellie!

Crosses fingers for the job app, sari. And sorry Mom is being snippy.

So you have a warm vibrating thing on top of a warm vibrating thing on top of you.

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Oh, my gosh. I was walking past a hardware store, and a chihuahua came up to say hello. They’re usually nice to their owners and wary of anybody else, but this one was sooo sweet. No collar. A very nice man offered to watch her while I went into the store to ask them to make an announcement. Her owner came out and apologized. He said he thought a few treats would keep her occupied while he dashed in. Then he told us SHE IS DEAF! OMG, sir, it’s bad enough to leave an able dog alone. Do not leave a deaf dog! He said he took off her collar because it was so hot. When I left, Very Nice Man was talking to the owner about cooler collars. At least she was chipped and looked well cared-for. Oh, and she had a great name: Hiccup.

I walked to the big box store. The young guy who checked me out winked at me and said, “Have a beautiful day.” Lest I took that as a sign I’ve still got it (and I didn’t because I don’t), as I walked home, someone yelled at me out a car window, “Hi! Mom! Mom! Hi!”

Butters, sorry I screwed up. I thought “SIL” was your son-in-law, but of course it’s your sister-in-law!

red, glad your craving got satisfied! Years ago, I read we crave things that have nutrients we’re short on. I doubt there’s any science behind it, but it’s been my go-to excuse ever since, so your body clearly needed fried chicken. :slight_smile:

Sari, sorry your mom is so difficult . She’s proof positive that serious illness doesn’t make everyone kinder or wiser. (Life hack: a bad mom saying you’re a bad mom=proof you’re a good mom .) And how would she know if a melon came from a farm? If I were you, I’d get one at a supermarket, scrawl a price on it with a grease pencil or Magic Marker, and tell her I had to drive miles to find a farm stand, so I hope she’s happy. She’ll bitch that it doesn’t taste farm-grown, but she’d do that anyway. Besides, all melons are farm-grown. It’s just a matter of where the farm is. :slight_smile: Hope you get the phone job!

Nettie, hope you’re OK. I’m concerned about you .

That’s a cocktail party ! All you had to do was toast Goo. :slight_smile:

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I vote for this strategy.

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nellie The collar on the dog would be too hot? I know chihuahuas are small but a collar ain’t gonna make that much difference. But a deaf chihuahua might be a nice change from the typical yappiness.

Happy birthday, Bailey! A wise looking pup, I must say.

T’was a long day at the shop today. I managed to fill 2 trash cans with router chips between noon and 3. I’s tired. But I have new orders for more o’ my stuff.

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Buddy has found a new favorite spot around the apartment:

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Buddy is very, very cute!

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He knows. (grin)

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave

“We like the dizzy warm bed.” - Buddy