Coffee and...part 4 :-D

By the way, I'm not much better than last night but hanging in there. Took the second round of antibiotics about 9:30 pm so I should be good for 24 hours. Tomorrow should start to show some improvement.

Welcome MOLLY!!! Glad ya found us!

I fell asleep in my chair after I ate my supper, so the brb didn't get done. Just wanted to pop back in before I go to bed to check on Darius and catch another glimpse of your *BEAUTIFUL SMILES* (I've said it before...y'all make my day!).

Darius, I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling much better tonight. It'll take a couple of days for the anti-b's to kick in enough to really feel them. Give them a chance and don't work against them, ok? (GET SOME REST dang it girl!) If you need me, you know what to do.

There were so many comments I wanted to make...so don't forget what you said, I'll make them tomorrow. :-D

Hugs all around!

~julie~

Lurking......
darius, staying at your sister's for a month sounds good to me. You'd better take some doctor's records though, in case you need them down in Florida. Is this the same sister that wants to relocate near Asheville and become your roomy?

Woooooooooo Can I go to Florida too? I've had about enough of this cold and snow and cabin fever is setting in with a vengeance. I do have a good friend down in Fort Meyers area, but they just settled in to their new house and I'm afraid I might be volunteered to do some wallpapering and I've just played that gig!! On second thought, it might we worth it for the change of scenery. We have a little sunshine today..which cheers me up quite a lot. Birdies have found the feeder; now that everything is covered with snow, they need a little help. Saw a really big bunny hopping around the back yesterday, imagine he's not finding much in the way of food either, but trust me, he's not getting any from me. He can live on the hosta he devoured last spring.

I'll just have a nibble on one of those cookies...I'm eyeing a piece of leftover steak from the other night, might be nice with an egg and some english muffin bread toasted. Glad to hear you are feeling a tad better Darius, but take that good advice and don't be pushing yourself, get lots of rest.

MaryE, I grew up in the era of manual typewriters too, and learned on one of those. Didn't much enjoy it, so it was kind of disappointing that my first real job (other than slinging hash and psychiatric aide) was steno typing, Couldn't type worth a darn, but managed to bluff my way into the job. Transcribed blue dictaphone belts for a casualty insurance claim office. Nothing like the threat of starvation to hone your keyboard skills!!! Then electric IBM typewriters came along, guess how long it took for me to stop lifting my arm to sling the carriage back for the next line!!!

Shoot, there are kids now who have no idea what an "album" is let alone a typewriter you have to pound to make the letters appear! Hope this finds everyone cheerful and busy this morning. The washer just honked at me, so I'd better go see about getting the load into the dryer. Welcome Molly, if you want to see what we all look like go back to part two or three, Julie put a photo link in there. We actually all look much younger and thinner, but you know how a camera adds 50 pounds.....or is that 10? No matter, just keep it in mind. (edited for spacing)

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M5 - please, please, pretty please? could you add a few spaces when you post a long one? My eyes decided to do some funky thing in the past year and horror or horrors, someone mentioned bifocals... mwa? no way!! but the truth is 'in the pudding' (or lack of reading ability, whatever!) and those lines keep jumping around on me. I just don't know why they won't sit still!!

psst...pass the coffee please...dummy me sat up til 2 finishing a book I picked up at 'Saver's' - the story of the John Walker Jr. spy ring. Pretty scary guy!

OOPS, sorry, usually I try to get a P in betweeen my longwinded blabber, but I'm not quite awake yet. That's what comes of drinking decaff!! I'll keep it in mind though, and thanks for the reminder!

Kooger....I lived in Virginia Beach when the Walker thing took place....my neighbor (in the Navy) was in on the case. And he enlisted his Navy son! But the exwife did him in.

Kooger....we think alike...while I was reading this morning I thought....how to suggest to M5 that she do some paragraphs so old people like me can keep her place in reading her interesting posts?

M5....when I was a senior in typing class ...about the last week of school they brought in an IBM ELECTRIC typerwriter!! WONDERS!! We each got to use it for about 10 minutes....never saw another one until I had been married twice and had 3 kids,,,,and 2 granddkids!! I finally master it after calling a college student that I knew.....LOL Jo

Good Morning! No coffee for me this morning, but a cup of a strongly flavored herbal tea please. I awakened with some of the stated side effects of this antibiotic... the worst is the nasty, nasty taste in my mouth, keeps making me gag.

I have an appt. with a doctor at 3:00 this afternoon. Not my doctor who is working the hospital today, but a partner in her office. Hopefully he will give me a different antibiotic as I don't think I could stand these side effects for 5 more days (the course of the meds).

darius - good to see you posting! Hope that doc has some good stuff for you!! Sorry, I ran out of tea last week and didn't get more yet.

rr - John Walker was a master manipulator. He collected data on people constantly. No one ever really knew him. What's really scary is that his wife and kids knew for years and years that he was a spy and said NOTHING for 20 yrs. His ex still wouldn't have turned him in if he hadn't been so cocky and sure of himself - and had paid her the $10,000 she wanted. He got over $1 mil from the Ruskies but wouldn't pay her alimony. For being so smart, that's kinda DUMB!!

Arghhhhh...I tried to copy the group of links to the 'people pics' from the last thread. It didn't work. But if anyone wants to see the pics posted the links are in the first post of Part #3 here http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/478991

HELLO Everybody! Darius, I'm glad to hear you've gotten an appointment with the doctor. I hope they can find something that will help without giving you more porblems to cope with.

I think we're running low on our stash of 'goodies' here...and all I have in the cupborad is a couple of bags of cookies from Wlamart...how inspiring is THAT? :-D Fresh coffee in the pot over there...and I think I bought a couple of boxes of mixed herb teas. Tea kettle is on the stove.

IT's a beautiful bright (almost too much!) sunny day here...tomorrow it's supposed to get into the 30's and boy I'm ready to get my pack boots on and go outside. I'm with you M5...cabin fever BIG TIME! I think I'll go out and mark out some some line in the snow just to see what kind of a layout I can come up with for 'digging plan'. (Oh lord, I'm in bad shape! LOL)

I planted an OLD pack of Sweet basil seeds sometime last week, and yesterday...lo and behold!...they're UP! Whhhhheeeeeeee! I just love having fresh basil around for tomato and basil salads...it'll only be a few *months* til I can harvest. hehehe

Now, if I can get some Rosemary growing, I'll feel like I really accomplished something.

I think I dreamed ALL night about a BIG beautiful WARM greenhouse. I'm serious! The last thing I saw last night before I feel asleep was the Victory Garden show I'd taped yesterday afternoon. And they had a nice segment in the green house.....Ahhhhhhhhh...I WANT one!

Well...the washing machine just quit spinning...time to load it up again. See ya's all later.

~julie~

Rummaged through the small freezer this morning and found a batchof thumbprint cookies I made for Christmas....help yourselves, they'll be fine once they defrost. Kind of glad I forgot them....maybe I'll smuggle them into the theatre this afternoon for something to nibble on opposed to $3.50 popcorn etc. Must cost them all of 3 cents to make it............so most of the time I take something along from home. Gonna warm up this week and melt all this snow. They say.

Julie does your washer bark at you when it's done? Replaced my old w&d last year when we tiled the laundry room, figured as long as we were hauling out the antiques, might as well replace them. The old dryer had a signal but you could turn it off. The new dryer turns off too ,but the washer makes this annoying BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHT sound which can't be muted. Must be for "old people" who forget they threw in a load. LOL

Off to the movie palace, enjoy the cookies!

Good morning, well, afternoon if you wish, I know that time zone has us guessing a lot. I'm in Pacific time but close to the Mountain time line. When we go to Boise for an appointment we always have to allow an extra hour because they are ahead of us. Even parts of our own county are on Mountain time.

I need a cup of tea, the real thing with some honey and lemon. No cookies left, just a few crumbs here on this plate. If I have enough eggs I will make some lemon bars, they are THE BEST! I need to go grocery shopping again.

This morning is sunny with some fog drifting around. The bushes and trees are covered with a layer of frosty fuzz since it was about 15 overnight and now is all the way up to 25. I hope the mulch protects everything under ground because our snow is going away a little more every day, I see bare spots and even went out to check and see if any tulips were trying to come up in the bed where I always see them first, but they probably won't/can't until the ground thaws a bit. We have a 20 to 40% chance of snow in the next few days so maybe they will get another blanket.

Darius, I'm glad you are getting yourself to your doctor. I think the warmer Florida weather would be good for you, I know it is humid there but at least warm and away from those furnace fumes. Would you have access to a computer there?

This fall I saved some seeds from a red lily and put them in a bag of damp peat moss on my referigerator and they sprouted. They were carefully put into a pot and out to the greenhouse where they would get better light and now they are getting their second leaf. Since I have never done this before it is pretty exciting. In a couple more weeks they will go into the referigerator for 9 or 10 weeks of "winter" and then get to warm up again and be planted in a flower bed which by then should be thawed out enough. Has anybody done this to fool the plant into thinking it is older than it really is so it will bloom the first year? Who knows what colors I am likely to get, I understand they could be anything and everything!

Now I'm off to plant more radishes and lettuce in the open bed in the greenhouse, might take a chair out there and just sit and enjoy the warmth for a while. See ya.

Hi all, thankyou for getting this thread going - y'all are taking the edge of our cabin fever. Yes, I've been lurking in this edition, but around 3 or 4 am I'm best muzzled.

Meezers, snow tracks say our bunny(s?) are staying around the compost pile, which is where the 6'plus Lagenaria siceraria 'cucuzzi caravzzi' wound up after their crash to earth from the magnolia last fall.

What a delicate show of fragrant, fringed, night-blooming flowers against the twilight all along the top of the yew hedge. But delicate became gallompiing monster which fortunately delighted our neighbors. Won't do it again. But the snow tracks help lift me out of cabin fever back to last summer.

I love the grousing about cabin fever on this thread. Keep it up, yall. Darius, hope things improve for you and that you keep posting.

Bluespiral...LOL...Next time I'm going toask Dave if there's a way to make the 'lurkers' at least *sign in* so we know we aren't alone. HAHAHA Good to see you here. And I can promise you, we aren't going to give up 'grousing' about cabin fever for a while yet. ;-)

I think M5 has the right idea...we *need* to go to the movies! Not rent one, not watch HBO or the movie channel. We need to GET OUT and get some air. hehehe

Sheila, my washer doesn't make a "completion" sound at all. In fact I've never had one that did. But man oh man, I wish my dryer had a buzzer. (Mine's the cheap builder's version) I always forget the last load and it stays in the dryer until the next time I do laundry. hehehehe

Mary, I've never tried anything that begins as a bulb from seed before. I do have a few things in WS containers so I'll be watching them as closely as you're watching your lilies. I did plant some garlic that sprouted on my kitchen counters, does that count? hahaha Actually...it's GROWING! Looks kinda nice too.

I just finished entering my Winter Sowing log. 83 different kinds of plants isn't bad. LOL And that's just the beginning of what I have planned...there's still the stuff I have to start indoors or outdoors after the last frost. When spring finally gets here, I'll have to start a "COOL drink and sit a spell" thread. IF any of us have time to sit around. :-D

~julie~

Hi all - bit late dropping by. Here - have a whole batch of peanut butter cookies to share! No - they aren't on the diet - but sometimes you need comfort food (DH was down yesterday - headache, blah).

I have news! Don't know if any of you remember back last spring I was worried about my job as outsourcing was announced for my department. Well - I got a new job in November only to immediately be assigned to a special project dealing with information systems security - which I love and which wasn't related to my new job. So - went off to do that for Nov and Dec - and now - I've just been offered a permanent position there becuase they can't live without me! I'm so excited because it's really what I want to do. And I'm lucky enough to have a new manager that wants me to be happy and is letting me go - even though I've done very little work for him. So - happy news....I start next week - although really - I've not stopped since November. LOL!

Darius - you're at the dr now - so let us know what happened.

All others - please have a cookie and celebrate my news with me!

Love to all!

m.

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Welp, it ain't morning but I am having a cup of General Foods International Coffee, French Cafe Vanilla. One way I unwind and spoil myself and get a second wind.

Last week I finally broke down and bought a 5 cupper coffee maker and switched my morning coffee from GFIC to Maxwell House brewed and sweetened with Splenda. So, I just cut my sugar intake by 50%. Can you imagine I have been drinking that GFIC 4 cups a day since 1977. Price is up to $4.05 per 6 oz can.
So not only am I reducing my sugar, I am saving money. But...I cannot give it up entirely, I have already sacrificed the Snickers bars for the sake of this bubble tummy of mine. I can't give up all my vices just yet.

I am very proud to announce that I cleaned my office today. You think that's no big deal? My house is always very neat, except for my office. When I moved here last September, I just picked up all the racks and stacks, moved them over here and put them back down on the desks and cabinets. No doubt I even brought the dust with them.

Well today I finally purged all those estimates not accepted, and all the completed work invoices for 2004 and took them out to the storage boxes. I worked that shredder pretty hard, it was a moaning and groaning, shredding all paid household bills for the past 6 months and all those reminder notes I constantly save thinking I'm gonna need that later.

I look around and think wow, that wasn't so bad, why did I put it off so long (like 5 years)?

BTW, my washer doesn't have a reminder buzz, but my dryer sure does! I keep that thing turned off, I don't need some machine nagging at me to fold clothes, if I run out of clean knickers, I just go get a pair from the dryer. (Gotta be careful tho, my W & D are out on the screened patio, can't go out there knickerless.)

I put together that chicken soup today, that soup pot is huge and full. I thawed some salmon out yesterday, but got involved in card games and didn't cook it so will have to do that tonight. I also bought a prepared portabello mushroom stuffed with crabmeat and I need to get that cooked and ate. I gotta quit doing my grocery shopping when I'm hungry. I end up buying these things that need to be ate ASAP.

Well, I better get to that salmon, it needs to sit in spices for a bit before I grill it. Oh yes, it will be grilled then covered with warm Pineapple Salsa. The recipe I have is for 20 servings, so I need to cut it by 20, it's just me eating.

Molly
:^)))

P.S. Darius, you should be home from the Dr soon, let us hear from you.

Marcia B!!! That's WONDERFUL news!
CONGRATULATIONS!
I'm glad you shared it with us...and I'm very excited for you getting to do something you *like* and get paid for it! It don't get any better than that.

Molly...I started using Splenda in my iced tea this past summer. I've always loved 'sweet tea' but as much as I love tea (gallons a day in the summertime!) I knew I might as well drink soda...I could gain just as much weight. LOL I decided to try keeping my blood sugar under control, and really missed my sweets. Well, I'm NOT one who can handle the nutrasweet kind of antisugar stuff...so I tried the Splenda. I loved it! Now, I even allow myself the occasional Pepsi 'Edge' (A 6-pack will last me well over a month. :-D)

~ And GOOD going girl! I know about moving stuff into my "office" complete with the dust from the last place. hahahaha I've done many times! The last one was clearing out my office at work...and I've *still* got PILES of that stuff all over my desk. But now my "office" is in the basement, right next to my winter gardening. WHO cares about the dust! :-D

It's supper time here...and that salmon sounds....WoW!!!

I'm waiting to here from Darius too. Hope she gets some good news and some GOOD medicine!

~julie~

I'm home, with a new prescription (same one I was on in the hospital in Nov.) and the encouraging words of the doctor that I'll probably live, LOL. Actually he was a very nice, compassionate and funny young man. I do have an inner ear infection, and he thought it's probably in my sinuses as well as my bronchials, but it doesn't appear to be pneumonia. One lung sounds wheezy, not the same one my regular doctor was worried about the last time.

But, I'm feeling SO much better than I did Saturday night, and the phone calls from Julie and Kooger have entertained me and cheered me. I hadn't realized quite how alone and isolated I am here.

marcia... GREAT news! Congrats!

molly... have you read what I posted about splenda on the health forum?

Karen (bluespiral)... QUIT lurking and join us crazy Glorious Old Broads!

MaryE... do I have your lemon bar recipe? I know someone posted one in Recipes maybe last year that sounded delish.

Julie... I'm imprssed that you have basil sprouting. How will you keep them growing until it's warm enough to plant them outside? I never could.

good news all around then m and darius. I would like that lemon bar recipe too.
finally got above freezing today and lots of sun.
Work was easy today, but dear God, let June come soon...

Hi Darius,

I was looking at the threads you started in the Health Forum, but I can't find one titled anything about Splenda or sugar. Do you remember the title of the thread?

Thanks,
Molly

Molly, I don't which thread it was but I do know that Splenda is made from sugar and is the healthiest of all the sweetners. Aspartame (Equal) is definitely to be avoided and unfortunately, that's what all the diet sodas I've seen are sweetened with.

Well done Marcia - doing something you enjoy makes life so much better. You actually look forward to going to work in the morning!
Darius glad you are mending, keep it up!
Is that coffee still hot? I have some dohnuts here if any one would like to share.
I've just been on the longest round about trip all to spend $5. Yesterday I tried coconut oil on the palms of my hands (have a bit of a peeling skin problem there) courtesy of DIL. This morning although not better there was a 200% improvement so I decided to go buy some.
There is a health stuff store about a mile from us but of course they didn't have any, but suggested somewhere 20 miles away. So I rang DIL who told me where she got hers, only 12 miles but in a different direction. I set off, drove the 12 miles and got there to find a "For Rent" sign in the window, so had to turn round and go to the other place now 32 miles away. They had it but I got the last jar - so thats a 65 mile trip for one jar of $5 oil! It better work!!
My seeds are germinating by twos, I now have 3 different climbers up and potted on. The peppers are doing something but haven't quite cleared the soil. Nothing else is doing anything.

Well now I have my breath back I better go and do something about dinner before I get complaints!

Glad you're still kicking Darius! Those new meds will get you better in a flash. Weather is still the pits here - winter has never seemed so long and dreary. Plus I've been fighting the ' aphid' fight and I think they are winning... I long for warm weather. My mom is in Fla, and I even think about taking that LONGGGG drive to see her and enjoy some sunshine. It's 27 hrs from our house and I hate the trip!

Still have a few of those peanut cookies left - I'd like some chocolate (the choco chips from the freezer are beginning to taste waxy!!) Gotta go look thru the cupboards and see if anything catches my eye - can the diet for tonight!!!

Okus, Thanks, I'll have a donut... and coffee!

Molly, the thread was about diet sodas and waaay down in the thread are 2 links I posted for Splenda information. Yes, as woodspirit says, it is made from sugar... BUT it is produced by chlorinating sugar (sucrose). This involves chemically changing the structure of the sugar molecules by substituting three chlorine atoms for three hydroxyl groups.

My main thrust in thread is against artificial sweetners like aspartame and stevia.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/477572/
or here are the links if you don't want to read all the combined information in the thread:
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm#
http://www.mercola.com/2005/jan/8/splenda.htm

Darius & Woods,

Thanks for the direction. I'm going over there now to do some reading.

Molly
:^)))

Hi again, just sticking my nose in quickly to see how Darius is doing, good news! I think the Lemon Bars recipe I use was posted on the Recipe forum about mid December 2003 by Lenjo but I started the thread asking for a recipe. Somebody else posted one later on it but I had already made Lenjo's so I never tried the other one. I didn't get any made today, but I see we have some doughnuts! Thanks, I'll just grab and go because it is time to feed the horses and then I have to get dinner. See you later.

Ahhh, thanks, Mary! I do have Lenjo's recipe, but just haven't made it yet. Intended to last week but I caught a bug instead.

Thanls ALL OF YOU for caring, and good wishes for me!

Darius,

I just finished reading all the info you posted. It's all really scary.

I have never been into the artificial sweetners much. I do not drink diet sodas or diet anything (except Diet Budweiser)Occasionally when having ice tea in a restaurant I would use the pink or blue sweetener because it dissolves in cold liquids where sugar does not.

It was a nuitritionist who recommended Splenda. Wow, after reading that experience about the man who went into depression, that's really scary. Although I have had a lot of depression these past 5 months, I am getting much better and I really don't want to get back to uncontrollable sobbing etc.

I have 3 stevia seedlings growing right now outside (I started with 5), but they are not big enough yet to make use of. I absolutely cannot drink coffee without some sweetener and I cannot give up coffee either.

As you know I quit smoking going on 3 years ago. Having fallen back on the gum again, I plan on quitting that again too, soon. So many obstacles keep popping up over trying to do the right things in life.

I guess we have to figure out when the lesser of the evils are.

Molly

Darius...I'm SO happy it doesn't appear to be pneumonia. Those inner ear infections can be pretty hard on a person, especially in combination with sinus problems.
~ Last year I started a couple of Basil plants on my kitchen windowsill. It faces west, so got a lot of afternoon sun. It still stretched out pretty bad. This year I have a light system so I'll probably keep the plants going until spring in the basement. One thing I learned about basil is that it roots from cuttings *real* fast, so if the plants stretch this year...I'll just make MORE! :-D

Hi to everyone who dropped in ...yep, there's still hot coffee...but PLEASE STOP ME from eating any more cookies!! :-D I feel like a kid who just *can't* quit with the cookie jar. And I'm *not* talking virtual cookies either. LOL

~julie~
Pass the lemon bars...(they're *not* cookies! :-D)

LOL Julie, you may be able to fool yourself but you can't fool us! We've been there, done that. You can have some lemon bars if you promise to work them off on a treadmill or shoveling snow. That done, you can have some more and your clothes will still fit. Such a deal !! (space added so you can see the !! after the l) I originally typed it all together and went cross eyed reading it.

Darius, you inspired me to cook bean soup, so I dug around and found a package of mixed beans, peas, lentils and rice, added a package of bulk breakfast sausage and an onion and it was soup after a few hours simmering on the stove. We had garlic bread with it. My hubby never met a bean he didn't like.

Welcome Molly, and better to use the gum for a while than to start puffing again. Might be cheaper too (haven't priced the stuff but I do know smokers spend a small fortune buying cigs) but as I understand it, nicotine is a poison so I hope you can get off it soon. Are you the same Molly that played a guitar at the Ky roundup?

Gonna go read now, started one of James Herriot's books today. They're so good. Bye

~~~~Waving-glad to stop in for a cuppa; was in bed yesterday (probably sinus only) the furry four foots Love it when I sleep in, I am such a fluffy mattress.
Marcia-so happy about the job.
Julie-does it root in water or just in soiless mix?
HI, Molly-trying to get one room cleaned-with the remanents of my workplace and everything else-really want to get it done this month-.
Darius, so glad to hear that you are better and going to stick around-Stay healthy.
Waving to other folks, think that I will hop upstairs soon and have some of the cabbage/sausage soup that Donna made yesterday. Smelled great and I am getting hungry for something warm. Maybe pop by later for something sweet to top it off.

Thank you all for the warm welcomes.
Mary, yes that would be me playing the guitar at the KYRU. Had a wonderful time there. As for the gum, yes I will have to get off it soon, maybe when this box runs out. And no it's not cheaper than cigs, definately more expensive. Certainly not very ladylike, like a cow shewing its cud. Yep, I think this needs to be the last box.

Time to get some sleep, see yall in the morning for coffee......

Molly
:^0 (yawn)

Good news, darius. Glad to hear you plan on stickin' around awhile! (and I do not have an accent... lol)

Molly - have you ever tried the 30 day no-sugar in your coffee plan? My sister convinced me to try it. Sugar-free coffee for ONE month. First week you gag and grimace and by the 2nd week it's tasting better and you're thinking, only 2 more weeks to go, and starting the 3rd week you're thinking, hey, I can do this, it doesn't taste so bad and week 4 arrives and you're anticipating the joy of that coffee with sugar and finally, here it is, a big ole' sip and YUUUUCK! It is so sweet you can't drink it!! So I haven't had sugar in my coffee since, over 2 years now. I feel like a grownup already! (sorry, if you are one of the ones whose palate can't get used to it in 30 days, you probably never will)

night-night time........zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

darius, I'll bet that nausea you had with the anitbiotic is related to the other infections, as well. Take care.
My sister went in for her pre-op and even though she had an MRI about 3 weeks ago, a nodule showed up on her X-ray yesterday. I hope it isn't the return of cancer....

Mornin all! Thanks for all the congrats about my job - yes indeedy it DOES make it easier to come to work when you truly like what you're doing - AND are appreciated for it. So - I feel blessed

DARIUS - I'm so glad and relieved that you're gonna live - LOL! Sounds like you're on the way to recovery and that's great news. Just don't overdo - rest and relax.

MOLLY - good for you for cleaning up. I've got a whole house that needs that - wanna come help? LOL

Wood - I'll be prayin for your sister - let us know, kay?

well - all for now - just checkin in!

Bless you all and have a GREAT day!

M.

Marcia, I missed your post about the job, you clicked when I was putting my post in and you didn't show up as new.

Anyway, congratulations, you certainly sound very happy and thats a good place to be.

Kooger, that brings back the memory of when I started drinking coffee. I was 16, had my first boyfriend with a car. We would go to the coffee shop and I was trying to act all grown up and ordered coffee because Jim did. I couldn't stand it black and suffered in silence with a smile.

I talked to my big brother about this and he suggested the sugar, so I'm 51 now, how many years ago is that? don't even tell me. A long time anyway to be hooked on the sugar.

I will keep the cure in mind when I'm ready to deprive myself of yet another pleasure.

The drip coffee makers are definately faster than the percolator. I'm on my second cup now and have to turn the heat off, or that strong coffee I make will turn to mud in short order.

I'm thinking about chicken soup for breakfast. It'll warm me up quite nicely for these cooler temps out there. I have to pick up some wood trim today to bring home to paint for a customer. It better warm up a bit. My fingers tend to go numb when I paint outside when the temps are below 70. (Its 49 right now.)

Well daylights a burning, better get to it.

Molly
:^)))

P.S. Oh yeah Marcia, I have a lady who comes in once every 2 weeks, she cleans but I kind of restrict her from messing with my office mess. Between her visits I tidy a bit, but don't want to go overboard by really doing any cleaning. I sure wouldn't want to endanger her right to free enterprise. LOL

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Morning all! I really slept in this morning, unusual since I'm normally awake before 5...not by choice, it's just a habit. I thought when my kids were gone and I retired, I'd happily snooze until 9 but it hasn't happened and now I regard 6 hours as a good night's sleep. Maybe if I quit falling asleep in midafternoon while reading????????

Hope everyone is feeling chipper today. I woke up with a "kink" in my back however it's not uncomfortable enough to interfere with sitting at the keyboard or doing housework. I did that thing about putting it in the trash, but housework keeps showing up like a bad virus. My house was never so neat as when I indulged in a cleaning person back in the eighties, I kept running around picking up our clutter so she could really clean. Now I pick up when I can't see tabletops etc. for all the junk. DH never complains either!! Last night he came home with a bouquet of cymbidium (sp.) to help with my gardening withdrawal.

Inspired by Molly, I am going to clean off my desk this morning. The real desk, not the computer desk. Computer desk stays fairly uncluttered due to lack of surface space to pile things up...but the other one is a chronological nightmare. Plant photos and articles, rebate offers, recipes, mail, bills (have to check those first...last month I piled up so much stuff I had to pay a couple on line in order to meet the deadline!) and other miscellaneous dreck that just didn't have an immediate home.

Okus, that was quite a trip for a $5 jar !! I hope it helps. I discovered something that seems to have cured my splitting and peeling nails. When I was young....sometime in the last century...my nails were strong and long and I never had a problem but for the last 10 or 15 years they've just weakened and have broken down to stubs. Then, at the salon where used to get my hair cut (but not after they raised the price to $40!) they were doing "free" hand massages using a product called "one minute manicure".' It is an odd mixture of dead sea salts and olive oil and who knows what else.
I must have been feeling rich that day because I bought a jar and have been using it for a couple of months now. I use it just before I go to bed, and apparently the oil has penetrated enough to keep my nails from breaking. and as a result I HAVE NAILS. We'll see how this prevails once I start getting into the dirt in spring!!! And you all get to share the flowers, just put them right in the middle of the table, and we can all look forward to Spring!!!

Ummmmmmmmmm wanna see the nails? LOL Don't enlarge it unless you want to see 69 years of wear and tear on the rest of the hand..... Hand me a lemon square, I can't believe I'm even posting this photo! (hanging head in embarassment)

M5, lovely bouquet and thanks for sharing them with us... however, they are Alstroemeria, sometimes called Peruvian Lily. The last about the longest of the cut flowers so I often buy them.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55272/index.html

Hey, M5... check this out... Pets Forum, HAMLET'S CAT'S SOLILOQUY
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/481104/