Terrific THURSDAY

[Sunny]

Hi Everyone! Thanks for the get well wishes, and I'll take the ((hugs)) - any kind, and the fresh breeze to blow away all the germs! I've made no pretense of wanting to be doing much of anything. The last few days I've straightened the bed covers and crawled right back in again. But I am getting tired of this, so I must be getting better!

Blessed, so sorry about your duncle. He's in my thoughts and prayers.
Helia, I'm sorry your dfamily has lost one of its pets; that's never easy!
((Kthryn))!
Lucy, I liked the quote by R.W.Emerson.

I haven't read Aunt Bee's cookbook, but my dh and his three dbros were always hunters. My dmil had cooked, deer, rabbit, and squirrel. The one time I was there when she had rabbit she had also fixed chicken --- I ate the chicken!

Planners: In Aug 2013 I found a planner on sale - my favorite color turquoise - with an 18 mo. calendar in it, so I got it. It was the Day-Timer Family Plus, 5.5 x 8.5 size. I couldn't find the replacement calendar pages for it so got the Coastlines 2-page per wk calendar pages refill. http://www.daytimer.com/daytimerstore/m ... odId=13483 (yikes...long web addr.) It's almost as nice, but I like the Family Plus design better.

RRose, sorry you are not feeling well! Sending well wishes to all who are feeling ill at this time.

Nancy, your apple muffins sounded delicious!

LadyM, I like the new bathing suit!

Harriet, hope you get over the doldrums; we're supposed to have rain tomorrow and Saturday! Happy Birthday to dd you've taught your dsonil well!

Talked to ds#2 this evening. He called to see how we were doing and to ask if we would take dgd13 to school tomorrow morning. Dh said I don't need to go, but we'll see how I feel. I think I need to get out for a bit and that would be just long enough.

I wasn't sure how to do this either; here I am, practicing:

Feel free to practice if you want and we'll cheer you on!

I'm tired again - going to lay down again. Good night all!

[lucylee]

Oh my -- I do hope Harriet's dd feels better soon! Happy birthday to her -- and (((big hugs))) for her AND dsil!
Typing on the phone now -- but had to say re: pep rallies: ugh.
For the most part pep rallies are on the list of Things I Do Not Miss.
I do not think a coach invented this torture, btw. DH here always looked upon them as a necessary evil, and hoped they would not cause too much distraction for his teams.
We did have a few meaningful moments -- but they were few and far between.

[blessedw2]

I am sorry I haven't been able to really say hello to you individually today... i hope you had a good day and I wish you sweet sweet dreams

[Ramblinrose]

I think I may have strept... A trip to the mini-clinic is planned fro the morning. No sense in putting it off cause if that is what it is it will only get worse and take longer to get over.

No need for harriet to chase me down the hall.. I have my own bottle of pro-biotics thank you very much

I dont use any type of planner... Never have ... Oh they can be pretty and enticing, but past experience has shown me I will never use them. Good intentions gone in just a few days. My handly dandy calendar blotter serves me well ... I write, very neatly, all sorts of interesting do-dads on it... Books to read, music to listen to, places and things to look up on the Internet, appointments, phone numbers a bevy of "stuff". Once the month is over I tear it off the blotter, fold it in eights, write the month and year... Jan 15... And stash it in a folder in my desk. Then at the end of the year I transfer it to a "calendar" box. This habit started while I was teaching and has saved my neck on many an occasion. Once it even save the school district 75k and a lawsuit. Don't think that information was placed in my school personal folder though. I didn't even get a thank you dinner out of it.

And as for school rallies I've had my share. I was always the teacher students would pick to make a fool of. Thirteen hundred Juvenal kids hollarin' your name can be quite a convincing thing. Once there was a race to see which team of students could completely wrap their teacher up in the most toilet paper in the shortest amount of time. I was dandy lookin' in the yearbook that year. And I know many a young lady who could produce a scream... And usually in my ear.... That would scare the pants off of Jason the wacko killer. Such talent gone to waste.

[Harmony]

Feel free to practice if you want and we'll cheer you on!

Well look at that! It was the right click in the reply screen I never tried and didn't know about. Wonder how long before I forget how... Of course, looking at the quote above, it isn't in a box or anything and looks just like I typed it myself.

LOL folded.
Dishwasher emptied.
Dinner / dishes done.
One bank account reconciled.
One file cleaned out and ready for permanent storage.

RRose, hope the dr. is able to help your throat.

Off to bed.

[Harmony]

Feel free to practice if you want and we'll cheer you on!

Well look at that! It was the right click in the reply screen I never tried and didn't know about. Wonder how long before I forget how... Of course, looking at the quote above, it isn't in a box or anything and looks just like I typed it myself.

LOL folded.
Dishwasher emptied.
Dinner / dishes done.
One bank account reconciled.
One file cleaned out and ready for permanent storage.

RRose, hope the dr. is able to help your throat.

Off to bed.

edited and tried to put the sentence in a quote. I only highlighted the ONE sentence and look what I got. Sheesh. I feel so dumb.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Harmony: keep playing away. You can't break the boards. Only I can do that! (I have an additional button that allows me to edit other people's posts and every so often I hit that instead of the quote button and nearly delete things that people say.)

I do quotes by hitting the quote button on the post I want to quote and then delete the stuff I don't want to quote. (That's how I can get into trouble if I hit the edit button by accident.)

Ordered a swimsuit (apparently they aren't called bathing suits anymore although, since bathing can be Brit for swimming, maybe I just grew up using the British term.)

This is what I got. It is basically what I have now but the sleeves are a bit longer, and the neck higher. I'm hoping I can get out of it OK. My old one was hard to get out of once the sleeves were wet since they wouldn't slide down easily. But I haven't had issues with that for ages, not sure if the material got thinner or my shoulders more flexible.

http://www.swimwearplace.com/women-suns ... es-en.html

They have free shipping to Canada. It worked out to be $10 more than the one at the store (there exchange rate was crazy-good) but I'll get hit with border charges most likely. We'll see.

This one protects from jelly fish stings. Although only the bits it covers (you can get full length ones too.) It will be nice in the pool on the ship since my shoulders won't get burned while I'm swimming for my 30 minutes exercise.

[Harriet]

I like these links today.

Sunny, I am so glad you are ready for the next step beyond the covers. Bless your heart.

Ramblin', I hope that tomorrow you get a speedy appt and smart dr and find out what's going on.

blessed, rest well tonight. I hope your dear uncle sleeps all night long and gets his needed rest, too.

Harmony, you're not dumb! try it my way, too. (BookSaver posted it before me I now see.) I think it's a little more straightforward, and will "pick up" (ctrl C) words from anywhere on the net to bring them here to be "put down" (ctrl V) and quoted (Quote button).

[Nancy]

Dgd & I made cookies from the dough in the dairy case the valentines one we were having story time while they bamed her mom came she sort of groaned auwhg made my day because she wanted more time here. A big girl moment for her dgson was home ill she came here on the bus without her bro.

Dinner was left overs.

I carded a basket of fiber.

[FelineFriend]

Just a quick C. I. here. My colonoscopy was today, I did great, I was awake throughout the whole thing, and have no pre-cancerous polyps, so don't need to do it again, until 7 years from now, at age 70! I have no Chrons, no colitis and my colon is full of too numerous to count, diverticulosis pockets. I'm on a lactose-free diet, as I'm lactose intolerant, and have a special high fiber diet to do now, to help this problem. This was a different hospital, than a close-by local one where the G. I. Dr. DRUGS YOU OUT OF YOUR EVER-LIVING GOURD! THIS Dr. doesn't drug you, until he starts, which was 15 minutes and he STOPS drugging you, when he's done! DH was so impressed, NOW HE wants to go there, too, for his this summer, even if it IS 35 miles/minutes away. This other G. I. Dr., we've both had, 6 years ago, does overkill on his medications. DH told me today, when he had his done, he couldn't even walk, he had to think for a minute, what foot to put in front of the other, before his foot would move! ACK! That's not a good way to be with your patients, I don't think, IMHO. So, we are both very happy with this new Dr. I had. He's the best. It was a very good visit there, from beginning to end. I'm very, very happy that my new insurance company refused to allow this old Dr. we had do our colonoscopies, several years ago, to be not referred to. Sure, we may needed to have drive further, but it was well worth it. I sent my Dr. and his staff a thank you card, the the 3 women, who tended to me, before, during and after the procedure, got a good report, from me, on my review paper, of them, too. I'm so glad the old Dr. was not in the network. It was a blessing. I made a list of groceries for DH to get, from the lists I was given today, for my new diet, too. He'll go to Costco tomorrow and another grocery store nearby. I wasn't on-line yesterday, as I was tied up with "other things."

Have a great evening and Friday, too!
TTFN.