What's Happenin'

[joy]

sorry you are down Clouds but it is good to hear from you. long absence and makes us wonder just what is going on.

[tic chick]

clouds,

try and get outside more when there is some sun and ask your doctor if vitamin d3 might help that depression a little.

nice to see you here.

jeannie

[houghchrst]

Jeannie I wondered where you were. You must be psychic lol.

Today was rainy and dreary, perfect day to do bupkis. So therefore I did.

Got a letter from my caseworker at DHS and my health insurance is back on thank God. then i opened the big envelope and there was one of their dang blue books. I immediately called their supervisor again and told her that I just filled one out last month so needed to know what to do. well she is finally going to have a face to face with my caseworker. Uh duh....what the heck did you do last time, interoffice memo? Must have so hopefully somebody will get this broad out of DHS.

I am wondering if I really should start taking my meds again. I have my fibro med and while my trapezius hurts still I am not getting headaches. Then again I am in full flare right now. I will need to go on my thyroid med and Potassium but I have an AD, Singulair, a birth control that supposedly was helping with hormonal depressive episodes and an anti anxiety med that I take daily and I am wondering if I should bother even starting again. I don't feel this driving need for my AD. I think I am doing okay right now and I know I have the option of starting if I need to. After going through all the withdrawals I really don't want to do it again lol.

Today was the first time in about a month and a half that I had dinner and didn't get sick or have an IBS attack of some level afterwards. Yay! Means my Digestive Advantage is working like I hoped. Which reminds me Jeannie I totally forgot my coupon. Figures.

Gettin' our tree this weekend. Hopefully Saturday afternoon. We will prolly get it from Home Depot. I like to take a sad tree and make it happy.

CJ is going to try to get in to see his doc on Friday for xrays. His ankle still hurts. You would think that after all my issues he would understand that it is going to take time to heal. Guess he thinks cause he's a man he should heal in some magically fast amount of time. He is forgetting that age diminishes his powers lolol. Maybe when he was 12.

Anybody have any idea how long it will take a box of gifts to get from Flint MI to Jefferson GA lol. I am thinking it needs to go here shortly like Friday at the latest. His gma sent him something like Thursday and as of yesterday it still hadn't gotten there. I think he said 5 days unless I pay extra. Wish I could ask my mom she would know lol. Never forget those zip codes once you work in the post office. I may be able to find a site that will tell me.

Okay I have started to ramble and managed to cook dinner and watch a movie during this post so I think it is time to go. For now....alright now....

[tic chick]

hey chris!

well, i spent a couple hours this morning looking for my nice, new crowbar that i bought about 3 years ago. i spent several hours looking for it yesterday, too. but, i found a similar older crowbar today, so i used that. i will prolly find the new one where i least expect it to be .

so then i spent the afternoon pulling off the old vinyl off my kitchen floor, plus the rotted parts of the plywood underneath it and then the REALLY old vinyl underneath that. i got about half of it done, i'll do the rest tomorrow after they pick up the garbage. my washing machine rubber liner to the front-load door broke, so i'll have to stick around the house and wait for the repairman to call and come.

chris, did you get that deal for your digestive advantage from drugstore.com? just curious, cause i thought it was a great deal. and i'm throwing a swedish meatball at you for forgetting the coupon ! (thanks for the recipe, looks really good...i assume you can use the reduced fat cream cheese also? i always use that, can't tell the difference. i put sour cream and mushroom gravy in my swedish meatballs.)

i heard a little medical report on the local tv news tonight that taking probiotics helps reduce cavities and gum disease!

okay, it's late....

goodnight all,
jeannie

[houghchrst]

Jeannie consider that there meatball caught and eaten thank ya very much. I got the Digestive Advantage from Meijers pharm. dept. on the spur of the moment while xmas shopping. CJ was the only one who I had to actually go out and buy for. No online cause he sees the bank account. Whew and then I spent too much.

I am jealous you are getting to do work on your house. I would much rather do work on the house than in the house, laundry, dishes, dusting all the bane of my existence lolol. Maybe over winter, there are a couple of things I have on a list to get done. Wallpaper to do, things that still need to go on the walls. Still not really completely moved in. Been a rough couple of years lol.

Jeannie I think I have used reduced fat and it made no difference. Prolly during one of my many diet phases lol. CJ use to complain if we went grocery shopping and I bought low fat but he has no idea if he isn't there to see it so he got a lot less fat than he hoped. Now he does the grocery shopping so there is more fat but since I hardly eat anymore it doesn't really make a difference.

I guess I still feel like I am going to be displaced at any moment. It's not really mine. Just something else that sits in that little part of my brain that constantly niggles at me whether I am thinking about it or not.

Holy smokes it is almost 60 degrees out. Cloudy and windy, no wonder I hurt so bad. Tomorrow is supposed to be barely above freezing.

Happened again, got sidetracked and here I am a couple hours later finishing a post.

spent lunch time with shortcake and the rest of the screeching heathens at his school then took him Christmas shopping at their little Santa's Secret Shop that they have every year in the library. Those are his gifts to everyone this year. Then I went to the pharmacy to get my meds. I need to get my butt around and get B's gifts wrapped and in their box so they can go this weekend.

[Buttons2]

well just discovered I actually did something SMART. when I opened a large trunk to get out decorations I was surprised to see a complete list of everything dated last Jan. hopefully I did that in all the trunks! my son is coming for Christmas so now I will go ahead with the tree,meal,etc. afterall.

now am wondering if I could use half sour cream & half cream cheese in those meatballs?

Chris,you need to get the package in the mail ASAP.

[clouds z]

im saying hello happy holidays

im saying hello happy holidays

[houghchrst]

Danger Will Robinson Danger.......I slept like a baby for the first time in months and for the first time in a long time I'm not my usual grouchy self.....yet

[joy]

Buttons I am happy you are having compan for the holidays. I have tried labling my boxes of ornaments etc but I found with hubby helping, he must have a reading problem as he always unloaded EVERYTHING, LOL. I have some pink stuff that does not need to come down if I am using the red ornaments etc. Anyway with granddaughters suggesting it, I DO have a tree down and partially decorated. And a whole lot of those containers just sitting around, unemptied and in the way. But oh how I am enjoying the lights and what few ornaments GE put on tree. It has been a long 4 or 5 years if not more. I may be one of those ole crazy ladies that leaves her tree up all year.

[joy]

Christina it must be something going on as I too got plenty of sleep finally last night and a lot more today. So I am awake now nd doubt I get any until tonight or later because of it. But oh how I enjoyed the sleep I did get. I hope you are feeling better yourself and have gotten all your meds etc straightened out. Well really the person responsible for the hold up in trouble is what I truly mean.

Poor lady fiend I have that has cancer is having a lot of trouble with her insurance etc. What good is insurance if you hav cancer and they won't help you is what I am thinking. And also expecting a sick perso to traipse all over the place gathering records hen THEY lose what you send them. Not right at all i s my thinking. And that is my opinion for any kind of illness truthfully. They should do their jobs right or else.

[Jo6]

Lets see, you guys sure do have strange hours. You are either posting in the middle of the night or at 6:a.m. in the morning. Mine are so screwed up it's pitiful and dilbert doesn't help matters!!

OK. I'm grouchy. Its almost Christmas and I have done very little shopping. I can not stand, sit or walk very much. Poor pitiful Pearl, thats me!!

Pati, you mean you didn't push the tree down on HM? You missed a great opertunity. Ken atually got the piece off the double windows, washed the side of the house and is going to put new ribbon, its already made into a bow, then put the golden magnolia's on it and hang it back up. I've got my little trees done, get the swag and a wreath up in living room, need to take center piece off mantle and figure out what to do with it, threw some ornaments on the greenery that was still on the buffet from last year. Got all candles arranged in the top of Buffet that has a mirrow on it that needs re-silvering. It's an antique that came from Mary's house. She gave it to us a long time ago. All I've done to it is polish it with tongue oil real good Still has some work to do on it, but that will wait until another time.

I have a cameo of my mother hanging around the neck of a pretty angel. I get it out every year and it always goes near the top of the tree. this year it won't fit so I'm trying to decide where to put it. It makes me feel Mothers presence like she is still with us. I've got fruit ornaments on the top of the buffet. Everything looks like I threw everything where they are cause that is what I did.

I can't even turn the Christmas tree lights on because of my knee's. I haven't gotten my Christmas dishes and crystal out this year and don't think I'm going to.

Ken's sister finally came last week and got Mary's clothes. Now I can finish cleaning up the guest room so somebody can go in there without being afraid they will fall.

Well, that's about it. I'm depressed to no end, feel like I'm going to start crying for my Mommie!!

Guess I'll see what kind of mess I made in the living room when I opened the trunk and got the flowers to put on my outside wreath. *Dilbert better get cracking and get that thing up!!

Happy Holiday to you too, Cloudz! Merry Christmas also to you and everybody else.

all my love, Julia aka Jo

ps to Joy, I am that Crazy lady that leaves her tree up all year!! How did you guess??

[joy]

not one gift bought yet and the boxes that hubby brought in to decorate (he brough anything he could reach without reading what it said) is still just sitting around. I have lost a week, I thought there was one more Sunday before Christmas Yikes!!!!

Jo I am sorry you are so down. I am too I just do not want to admit it.

[tic chick]

hey everyone !

well, i just decorated my mantle with candles and fake ivy and beaded gold and glass tree strings. it's smack in the middle of the mantle and looks nice. i have a smaller candle decoration to the side of the mantle and then on one of my end tables i have my crystal bowl and my deer baskets filled with pine cones. i am not going to do a tree this year. i can see better ways to spend $40-$50.

i baked 3 dozen cookies this evening and will bake 3 dozen more tomorrow or tuesday. they are everyone's favorite's, so those are the only one's i make. i didn't get around to the second part of my floor. i think i'll wait until the week between christmas and new year's. i found a class at a church that teaches you how to do a dance called "the hustle". there are several different variations on the hustle, so just because you learn one doesn't mean you stop. you learn all the other hustle's. the classes are on wednesday's from 630-830PM. i don't know if there's a class this wednesday, or if they're taking a break for the holidays. i'll have to call and find out. i just need to get out and move! i walked last weekend. i dress in layers and by the time i am half way through my walk, i am taking off my fleece jacket and tying it around my waist by it's arms. it's so peaceful that i walk in the street cause it's asphalt and not as hard on your knees when you jog as concrete is.

i'm not going to paint the hall trim either before christmas. i need to shop and cook this week and clean out the inside of the fridge from all the stuff that hasn't been used in ages and is growing penicillin . i am going to bed too late...yeah, it is 132AM now, julia so we don't post at weird times, we post at REALLY weird times....

so, off to bed i go. funny, i slept really good one day last week, but i think it was because i gave in and took a pain pill for this sore spot on my neck that i've had the last month. i have one more massage certificate left from my birthday, so i think i'll use that soon. i have to get rid of that muscle knot, cause it's driving me crazy. yes, i am a closet stomach sleeper...there, now that i've come clean i feel so much better. about the middle of the night i turn on my stomach and bunch up the pillow so i can breathe,,,lol...and i turn my head to whatever side feels best. that's how i got the knot right by my neck on my shoulder. i know that's the worst way to sleep, cause your back hurts you too....but mine only hurts until i start moving in the morning, then it goes away...but the neck pain doesn't.

i'm trying to not get down...God knows it is hard with all the chit going on here.

hopefully the new year will be better for us all....i do hope so .

thank you for sharing and caring,
jeannie

[Jo6]

Joy and Jeannie and everybody else, I am sorry to complain and be depressed all the time. Ken has slept in his chair all day and that is not usual for him. I've taken a few naps myself. Maybe at last we are getting some rest??

Anyway, this is the season to be happy and the month we celabrate Jesus Christ birth . I apologize for making everybody else feel down.

I will be jolly and while I hang on to this Electronic cig. I'll be thankful at last something seems to be helping me in my stop smoking campain.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanaka and Blessing to everybody. From the words of TINY TIM, May God Bless us one and all!

Julia s

[joy]

Julia you are NEVER to feel that way. It does NOT make me sadder. The fact you would not tell us makes me feel worse than you being truthful with me, anyhow. So if you are having a rough time, please say so. I am the type that might imagine you feeling bad ALL the time otherwise. Now that the truth. and as one who feels bad often enough myself, I truly meant what I said, I might think you were ready for hospital just any ole time otherwise. I admit I do not take full limit of my anxiety meds most of the time but starting to worry might change that. So promise???