Coffee and...Part 32...! :-D

LOL, and oh yes I did, Sarv, first one had to learn how to interpret my mother's analogies, I was used to them, then the other thing I was an urban kid brought up in the great metropolis of Vienna and very street wise.
Maria

Just put a sign on my kitch door "Gone to Lunch" later guys

Bon appetit, Madam!

Blooms...you need to WRITE those little bits of WISDOM in a book! I'd BUY it! (And...I'd probably READ it. LOL) I love them ALL.

Kooger...I know what your husband is going through (I'm a diagnosed Manic-depressive...many years ago). However, I also know what *you* go through. My mother was M-D and was suicidal on many occasions. I always thought either *I* was blame for her moods...or there was something I could *do* to change or stop them. It took me many years to discover that I was totally helpless when it came to her. But I *was* in control when the M-D took over my life. It took 7 years on Lithium before I realized that I had the guts to know what it was that set me off...and *force* myself to take an alternative 'route' through both extremes (manic *and* depressive). It takes a very strong person to be able to see the problem in the first place...and a stronger one to actually cope with tackling the challenge of controlling oneself. I don't envy you your situation...but I certainly do admire you for sticking it out. I can only hope your DH learns a few of the lessons I had to learn. It would be in his favor to try. (He's a lucky lucky person to have someone like you who has stuck by him for so many years. (((( ~hugs~))))

Maria...I understood the 'path'. :-D

Gayle...I LOVE the 'Menopause' statement!!!

~julie~

Molly - your seeds arrived today!! Many thanks!! May they sprout next spring and bring me many hours of joy...

I've done nothing today than sit on my duff and snooze - It is SO cold today - I don't want to turn the furnace on, but I am weighted down in clothes and can hardly move. Our wood pile is down to nil and I don't want to start on it!

All our yackings proves a point to me. Just when you think you've got it bad.....someone else has bigger problems!! That's what friends are for- to support each other.... (still sappy here today)

Oh Sarv, what a disappointment. DH always remember to get me something, even if it's awful drugstore chocolate, which he ends up eating because I don't. I think you deserve a "spa day" fingers, toes, mud wrap, the works! (((Sarv))) Drat those guys anyway!

Finally put the last coat of Poly on the front door, did some laundry, spot cleaned the carpet where I tracked mud after I dug in the lilies, ran the dishwasher, and I'm ready to sit down and read for a while. No rain yet, but it's humid and cloudy.

Blooms, that is a beautiful saying. And so true. If I hadn't had so many disappointments in my life,I wouldn't know how good it is now. Maria, care for an invalid 24/7 is a trying burden on anyone, it is stressful and seldom rewarding. I hope that when I get to the end of my life, I obligingly drop dead on the spot,because if I get cranky now can you imagine what I would be like as an invalid???

Menopausal Mother Nature....Snort!! That's perfect.

Kooger , my ex was I'm sure either bipolar or borderline psychopathic, he tried to commit suicide several times and I tried to "fix" him for 25 years, tolerated his daily drinking and foul temper, and then finally realized I could not do it any more. I was close to plowing my car into a freeway column when the moment of clarity occurred....that I wasn't the problem, he was. I'm somewhat saner now. LOL But you knew that, didn't you? I guess that's why I have a short fuse now, I have no patience for bad behavior.

Gonna balance my pathetic check book and then some constructive couch potato nonactivity. Enjoy the day!

Dummy here.......don't get the "Path" thing...

Hap

M5, it was hard but he always was so gentle, never complaned, would have been awful ifit had been me. He could tell when my patence was out the window, he would just hold out his arms for me to come into them,
I think they threw away the mold after he was created.
Maria

AAwwwww Maria...you just broke my heart. ANY man who knows when a woman needs a hug and is there to give one...well...there's nothing more to be said.

~julie~

I noticed that the thread was taking a while for me to download...so here's a link to the NEW THREAD!!
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/546951/
~julie~

Just in case you missed the last message...here it is again. LOL

~julie~