What's Happenin' (Part 2)

[Jo6]

yes indeed it used to be jumping all the time and I have missed it so much. I do hope others will post soon. Jeannie, you have so much going on all the time and I have a hard time not being jealous. I think I just have iron poor blood. Cut my finger on a med. box this a.m. and bleed like a stuck howg!!

My youngest great grand just turned 1 years old. She and her mommy came last week and that little pumpkin just wore me out. She has such good manners, into everything, but puts things back when she is finished playing with things. aaaawwwww, Jeannie, I know what you mean about the little ones. My Ryleigh is 3 and she has grown so fast. My son Harvey has taken me to see her when I am out of the hospital. when she see's me
she runs AT me and good thing I don't leave my walker or we would both be in the floor. She yells, MY Granny, MY GRANNY! Makes me old heart just pitter-patter.

Well, will come back sometime later to tell my story. It's long and I'm tired out tonight. I have 2 DRs. appointment's this coming week. That in itself wears me out. Granddaughter Jenny told Ken she would help him do Thanksgiving this year. He was relieved, he does all the cooking now and I'm not too happy about that. Dr. Put me on sodium free diet and it's the pit's. I cheat if I see I can get by with it.

I hate this computer. Will log off until I feel like fooling with it. Will be in touch, Julia s

[joy]

hi everyone. well i had hubby help me get logged into computer and wouldn't you just know it....i sit down and don't feel so good tummywise. must have been the chocklate mild i chugged down, lol. well my surgery went fine. i am now rid offibroids and a lot more and no sigh of cancer that they could find this timee soo a big old yay. i said it was my early Christmas present. peace of mind is good.

i hope everyone is doing okay. i will try and get back into computer another time. i am use to my recliner chairs still so the computer chair makes me uncomfortable.
I want to find Pati's phone numbers so bad. i did find her cellphone that i had but i got no responce when i called it. i tried only once tho and then it was time t get ready for hosital and all. so will have to backtrack to find the numbers again. i am so worried that she may have not recover so good from that stroke she had?

well i say prayers are good for all of us would not be out of line. hope everyone is hanging on and that all will improver with a little more time. love and hugs to all.
clouds i hate that you are depressed. my kitten that i got before surgery is such goood company for me. i am tryiung to beatdepression with staying busy watching kitten play and see old movies. hope things improve cause i know depression is so badfor all over health wise.

can't wait to hear more about dawn's babies and jeannies decorating. Jo i kniowgoing to doctors is dull but go if they give you an appointment, ok?

[dawnmn]

ITS A BABY GIRL!!!!!! just found out this morning. I'm so excited. My daughter sent me the ultra sound picture and it looks like she was sucking her thumb.
Can't believe how great the pictures look now a days. In my time you couldn't tell anything. For both of my girls they didn't do them then. Now I guess they do it for all babies. Boy, how things have changed. My daughter is telling me what she has to do and it's totally different than when I had mine.

I'm glad joy that your surgery went fine.

Thanksgiving is going to be quiet this year for us. It will just be my daughter and her husband. We are staying home instead of going to my sister-in-laws. She hasn't had it for a couple of years now. She would rather go out to dinner than cook. Which is o.k. with me. I can't take many people at one time.

Hope everyone has a nice thanksgiving.

[clouds z]

happy thanksgiving

[clouds z]

happy dont buy anything day

[Jo6]

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, Clouds Yeah, Black Friday is not for me. I didn't go shopping on Thanksgiving either. I think so many have lost sight as to why we celebrate Thanksgiving. Tis a shame too. then I think of the Native Americans!! they were here first. My paternal grandmother was I think half Indian. She sure looked the part. Beautiful lady. Jet black hair very thick, short, less than 4' feet tall, had a beautiful smile. I loved her so. I helped care for her when she got sick in her 80's. So funny, she kept me laughing. Always wanted me to sing to her. My brother, 2 yrs. older than me thinks I look like her. course I have very little hair, it was blond before it turned gray. My features are more like hers.

Joy, I'm so thankful your surgery turned out ok. I know you have a ways to go to get over it all, but we'll keep praying and thinking those positive thoughts!!((JOY))

Jeannie, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Jenny made Pumpkin muffins and they were very good. Her 1 year old daughter was the only baby here. She is an angel and she loves her papa!! Sometimes she calls me papa. lol She has such good manners, doesn't leave the house in shambles, blows me kisses when she leaves. I'm glad cause I'm such a germ freak!! Some of the mama's insist their babies give me slobbering kisses. I love them, but I have been too sick to pick up everybody's germs. You can call me the !! Grinch!!

Dawn, can't wait until your little bundle of joy gets here. I can see that smile on your face all the way down south! About 5 more months and we will be greeting another great grand. Oh Joy!!

Marion, I'm glad things have been looking up for you these days. Let us hear from you more. Sly, get on that computer and let us know how things are with you.

Oh how I miss Pati!!!! Has anybody heard from her? Prayers are going up for her! {{{{{{{{ PATI }}}}}}



I love you all and hope to hear from you soon. Julia s

[Jo6]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN

I do miss my brother Ben since he passed on to a much better place. He was 10 years older than me. My father died at such a young age and Ben was like a father to me. Yes, I do miss him so and hope to see him some day!

All my love, your little sister, Julia s

[joy]

Pati you are in my prayers. I would love to hear from you.

Jo9 it is wonderful to see you have bbbbbeen here more. I do so0 miss you very much. Dawn a baby girl, I am so happy for you. I can't wait to learn more later on. You will have plenty to tell us when baby girl gets here.

Hubby had t help me log in again today. for some reason i cannot get into braintalk or my mail by myself any more. I hate not being able to sit down and take a look see into here to red up on how everyone is doing. Jan you are on my mind often too and so are ou Marion. well let me just say anyone wgo haS POSTED HERE FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME i MISS KNOWING HW YOU ARE DOING. sorry about caps My 6 weeks are not quite done yet with surgery and I think it is going to take to whole 6 weeks to stop spotting etc. I hve been outside of my house only to go to see my doctor since surgery. (oops fprgot thanksgovomg. daighter made lunch for us) what a drag and I am getting to be sorta like a cat that wants to run and hide now if the doorbell rings, LOL. I hope everyone is doing okay. lots of love to all

[clouds z]

its cold here but its colder in other places

[tic chick]

hey everyone !

nice to see everyone checking in!

clouds, cold to me is like below 20 degrees. i always put on layers of clothes, it helps to keep me warmer . joy, i'm glad you're feeling good enough to post here! i understand you feeling cooped up. i hope you'll be able to maybe take a walk outside soon! the sunshine always helps . julia! i'm so glad you had family over for thanksgiving. it does seem that babies give you so many germs. i remember when my kids were growing up that everytime one of them got a cold or something, everyone in the house got sick. of course now that i've had about 300 colds and a few cases of the flu, i rarely get sick anymore ! i'm glad you have such good memories of ben! my grandfather is the person who i always think of. if i have a dream of him, i consider it a message that he still remembers me and i feel warm inside. you seem to be feeling better and i hope you keep posting more . dawn, are you busy shopping...lol? keep us posted. i so did love to buy my little girls clothes, before they developed their own taste . you have so much to look forward to ! marion, i am so happy your critters are such a comfort to you when you are depressed !

well, we had a 50 degree weekend last saturday and sunday! i had to go shopping on saturday and my son's wheel rim was bent, but drivable, from sliding into a curb hard. it happened when he was picking me up from the mall on friday. there was a quick snowstorm and it turned the roads icy fast. thank goodness cars were going slow on the freeway! anyway, he got the rim fixed on monday.

so sunday was a beautiful day! about 52 degrees and sunny. i went outside and put a lot of summer stuff into the shed, i cleaned up my driveway and put stuff that wouldn't fit in the shed by the side of the shed and i covered it with a tarp. i shoveled the few piles of dirt i had around into the wheelbarrow and put it alongside the fence. i'll use it next spring in the back part of the yard for planting grass. i worked outside for about 4 hours, but everything is done for the winter and put away and clean!

it was just my son and me for thanksgiving. quiet. i watched a movie later. we had leftover for about 3 days. i have a turkey carcass in the fridge and i am going to make some gumbo! i have never made that, but i can follow a recipe. it's more or less southern veggie soup, right ? i'm going to make it with okra and not a roux. i'll tell y'all how it turns out. if you got any tips, write them here quick, cause i'm making it tomorrow!

my sister and i bought a silk chirstmas bouquet for my mom's vase on her niche at the cemetery. they don't let you put fake flowers in the vases, just fresh ones, but at christmas time they order evergreen and red ribbon decorations for graves and niches. i'll go down to the cemetery before christmas and see the bouquet and mom. i think about my mom, but i am not sad. alzheimer's is such a terrible disease. she was gone long before she died. little things remind me of her. i went shopping at meijer and i passed by some nice clearance clothing and i thought of how i used to pick up something for her to wear and i teared up. it always ticked me off that the nursing home people never saw the nice stuff hanging in her closet, or just "misplaced" it, cause she always wore stuff that other people had left when they passed. there was a brand new pantsuit my brother got her for christmas maybe 2 years ago. it still had the tags on and was in her drawer! my mom is in my thoughts, so she will always be with me. i feel bad that i don't miss her, but maybe that has more to do with the fact that i always took care of her and i never realized how much that took out of me until the burden was lifted off. now, i just feel at peace...and pray my mom is, too.

i'm missing pati, too! i hope she is okay . and chris...i don't even see her post on facebook anymore. i hope she is ok . and you know, i really miss bob snodgrass! it was a shock when he died. he always had something to contribute here, in the football thread started by jan every autumn, or in the alzheimer's forum .

so, come on all you people that we haven't heard from in awhile! we are here for you and we care!

thank you all for sharing and caring ,
jeannie

[tic chick]

hey everyone !

okay, i made the gumbo. a good soup, but nothing special.

i feel it needs a little more kick, a little bit of spice of some kind. when i think of gumbo, i think of cajun/creole cooking and i know that always had a bit of spice to it. i have half a pot of soup left. what can i do to spice things up......cayenne pepper?

thank you for sharing and caring,
jeannie

[clouds z]

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[Jo6]

Jeannie, the hot pepper may just do it. Beth's partner Susan makes the best veggie soup. I ask her how she made it she said she went thru her fridge and took everything out that was getting near it near time to throw away. Course she wouldn't put anything bad in it. Every time I went to hospital she would bring me a potful . I would freeze part of it and eat the rest. It was so good. Then the Dr. put me on the no sodium diet and that nixed the soup. She asked Ken of course and she try's so hard to make things fit to eat. So she thinks he knows every thing. She does make a veggie Lauzanah?? It is also very good.

I'm going to stop talking about food cause it makes me want REAL food. Some things just aren't fit to eat without a little salt.

Clouds, I hope you have a good holiday. It's not good to be alone on holidays. My holidays the past few years have been different and I know how depressing it is.

I'm getting very tired so I better hang it up for awhile. Joy, hope you are feeling better.

all my love, Julia s

[Mal L]

Just checking in. Have made several trips to FedEx, which is where I get my Internet access from. Have been a shade on the depressed side -- not too bad. Going to the Forum sure helps. How is everyone else doing?

[tic chick]

hey everyone !

hey mal! glad you get out and come to the forums! go out on sunny days, it helps depression. i take vitamin d and fish oil for depression...well, actually i take a bunch of supplements. one of my friends once made fun of me for taking all of them. i researched them all, i know why i take them and i'm okay. still kind of blue, but these are the worst months.

okay, so i tossed caution to the winds and ignored some of the people who said you either do gumbo with a roux or with okra, not with both. i made a roux, which is basically flour cooked in a little oil until it's color is that of a dark penny. you stir it constantly. i have been making roux since i was about 12 because we use it in one of our family's polish specialties. i added the roux. then i cut up some andouille sausage, it's just a tad spicier than smoked sausage, but i wanted that smokiness. i added smoked paprika and a good spoonful (cough-cough, watery eyes), of cayenne pepper. i let the soup simmer for about 45 minutes. i ladled the soup over rice. VOILA! perfect! this is definitely good now and i can make it with a chicken carcass, too! i always make a whole cooked chicken for sunday for dinner and have leftovers for the next day. now when i want gumbo, i will save the carcass.

well, i am putting the vine tree i got 2 years ago up for Christmas this year. nora, my dog, was smelling something in it when it was newly made, so i decided until she lost interest in that smell, i wasn't going to put up the tree, lest i find a pile of vines when i got home from shopping one day. so, she has been upstairs where i put the tree and she hasn't even bothered it....so downstairs it came. i am putting lights on it tonight.

i hope you all had a good weekend! joy, i hope you got outside for a bit of sun and are feeling better!

thank you all for sharing and caring,
jeannie