Stop and visit, talk all you want. #25

This is Isaboo a/k/a Boo, Badness, Her Sassyness

Sharon, I haven't checked Gary's journal in awhile since I'm trying to catch up on here. How's he doing?

Well, off to start setting up for the RU in a little while. A peice of advice: If you ever want nice tablecloths for folding tables go to the bedding section and get flat sheets. Cheaper than tablecloths and works just as well. :~)

Here is Sylvester a/k/a Mr. Wester, Big Boy, hunka chunka burning merrrawr!

LOLOL!! I'm loving the captions for the pics.

And last but not least

Prissy a/k/a PrincessPrissyLaSue, Priscillasaurus

Pepper - We crossed! Gary is doing pretty well. His tumor markers are still at 7 and 0. He will have chemo until both numbers are in the negative. They found he had zero platelets yesterday after blood work was done. They are doing the transfusion today (started at 6am). He is supposed to get the stent removed from his kidney on Monday, but that might change, not sure at this point.

Yes indeedy, that poor child. All it takes is one simple phone call to his dear 'ol dad and he'll get the idea real quick. It gets annoying to see my brothers wife take advantage of my parents and it's not going to fly if my sisters husband does the same thing. Our parents have good reason to be fearful of what that woman ( my brothers wife) can do, she's doing it all now. I personally, can't get my brother to pick up the phone, he won't answer the door if his wife is home...it's not saved for me, it's all of us. Our parents, his friends, our sister...she only allows phone calls from those that she wants to hear from and only answers the door when it's somebody she wants to see. He's been isolated and it's past being ridiculous. My sisters...I can't type in the word that legally he is...is trying desperately to do it to her. She's been thru that with other men and so far, it's not working. If you want to see my scrap, then watch some moron guy control her. I won't stand idly by and watch. I don't know what to do with my brother, we don't know what to do with our brother. It's a mess.

Sharon, cute cats. I'm allergic, so if you don't hear me talking about cats much, that's the reason. I really don't like it when my eyes swell shut and I can't breathe☺

We're about to set off some more foggers in here. We'll be gone all day. See ya!!

Bye,Terry! Have a better day. Sounds like one heck of a mess. (((((HUGS)))))

Sharon, those are great. Thanks.

I just got home a little while ago. Hosted a RU and had lots of fun. We had about 15 people total and we all had a blast. Lots of plants, door prizes and great food. One member made Brazilian BBQ which was to die for. I told him he had to come and cook for us for the rest of his life. All he did was rub lots of sea salt on some meat, cooked til about medium done and it was just OMG!!! LOL.

Then I had to run and head to a horse show in KC. But I had to drive my mom's car cause it turns out that I have no brakes on the driver's front side. I have been hearing grinding but I figured it was dust. I haven't heard that sound for a year due to all the wet weather we have had. So I thought it was dust til my dad drove it today to get lumber and my mom called to say I have to take her car cause I have very little brakes. Now my truck is pretty much staying parked until I get them replaced. Taking rotors in on Mon to have them turned and hopefully they can be. I reeeeaallly don't want to spend the extra money on them. lol

Oh, you wanna hear about my day, half spent out at my parents house? Seeing what PJ has done, with plants I've planted...sigh Covered up in mulch, at least 6" thick. Will they survive? Doubtful. Mulch? In a prairie?? Wow. So much for burning them, eh? Then I get yelled at, by my dad, as to where are the trees "I'm buying". "I'm buying"? For him? I have to drive 2 hours away and buy him trees? Since when? I had already offered when I went last time, and he declined!!! jeesh. Oh oh oh, and some tree cutting guy told him ALL oak trees IN that state of IL are getting this blight and so now, he doesn't want oaks. Anywhere. Oh no siree, he needs a nice native maple tree, there's tons of native maple trees. Really? Tons of them! Uh. Whatever. Anyway, a maple? Helicopter things flying all over in the spring and those sprouting up all over in the timber and everywhere else? Oh, that's great. Did he listen to me telling him about the sugar maples down in forest preserves in and around Peoria, IL (not even 60 miles south of us) and what the DNR is doing to get rid of them? Anything I had told him 2 yrs. ago? HELLO??? Knock knock, anyone in there??? Dad?? Yoohoo!!! I do a search for oak blight and bring up 2 really great sites, put together THIS YEAR by the state of IL on the oak blight and how it's affecting IL, NOW. Would he look? Nope. The internet is wrong, and the tree trimming guy and of course PJ (he does mow lawn ya know) are right. Heard of a "mulch volcano"? How 'bout a "rock volcano"? Yep, good 'ol PJ made rock volcanoes around a lot of trees. Trees that had always had mulch around them before, because I put it there!! What do I know? Nothing, not a thing. I give up. No more. I'm done. Done done done. Do I have to go back? Puleeeze don't make me!!!

So we leave there and go to Peru, town about 20 miles to our east. Go to Target, look up baby registries and find the right one and buy a few things for a baby shower I'm going to next Sat. My best friends daughter is pregnant, again. Over half the items she's got listed, I bought her not even 4 yrs. ago when she had her first kid!! She gave up custody to the babies father and evidently, she gave everything to him. New father to be, needs all new, again. Nope, not married. Ever. My girlfriend is in tears, again, she's about to lose it with everyone in her house. sigh I have ears, so I listen. And I sigh. And I offer what I've offered for the last 25 yrs., my thoughts. At least my thoughts matter to her, which is more than I can say about my own dad.

Come home, finally. I need a shower, take my shower. Get out, phone rings. It's Mary, Phyllis' daughter. She needs to "borrow" my key to her moms house. Yea, right. Tell that to someone who's going to believe you!! Her "key" doesn't work, it's from before. Before? Before what? There were no keys till Bob locked all the doors about 10 yrs. ago and I had to call a locksmith and have him drill out the old and put in new. Then I took him the front doorknob and had him change that too. All keyed alike. Because there were NO keys. Nobody had a key. They were all "lost" yrs. and yrs. before. jeez. If ya want the stupid key back, just tell the truth. *bang bang bang* don't mind me, I'm just banging my head on that brick wall. Yea, again.

I need a dang vacation. My best friend needs a dang vacation. sigh. Maybe I WILL go to AR, taking my best friend with me. We'll sit and cry and sit and cry some more, then we'll laugh. Just like we always do☺☺☺

A day in the life of Terry. Anybody wanna switch?? Anyone at all?? Well, that's o.k. At least you guys listen too. Thanks♥

You know why I'm in a bad mood? I'm mad. I am. But I'm also sad. Tomorrow is Phyllis' birthday. She'd be 83. sigh I need to go to bed. My head is swimming. I think too much.

Oh, Terry! Go take that vacation! I swear...people are so so so...I can't say what I want to here! LOL

I didn't feel well today so I came home early. Got some food finally around 5:30pm. Didn't eat very much of it. I still don't feel really well. Not tired, though. That's the funny part. I think I'll pop in a Mystery Science Theater movie. Anyone heard of them?

I need to talk to my best friend and find out if or when she can go. She just got this huge promotion at her job, so I don't know. I so want to go. I need to go. Flat out, straight up, need to go.

I'm sorry you're not feeling well Celia. How was your movie? I've never heard of them. Titles? I watched a ton of those Forensic Sciences yesterday (after the Cubs lost the last regular division game in the afternoon and after we cleaned) and last night. John had TiVo'd a lot of them.

It's raining this moring and the weather is going to turn cold (60's), starting tomorrow. It wasn't supposed to rain till this afternoon. I guess the Weather MEN all had it wrong. I only watched 3 different channels weather reports! jeepers. Today it's going to struggle to hit the 70's I think. They've probably changed it already..lol.

Good luck, Terry. I sos hope you get to go. And soon.

Okay, Mystery Science Theater 3000. They had 2 hosts starting with Joel Robinson and then later Mike Nelson. Joel was stranded on a satelite, Deep 13, by his bosses and forced to watch really BAD movies. Joel built robots to help him get through these movies, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. Gypsy, another robot, drove the satelite and Cambot filmed everything. So...Joel, and then later Mike, and the 'bots watch these bad movies and kibitz through the whole thing. It's hilarious. One of my favorites is Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. Yes, this movie was really made is AWEFUL. The boys have a good time tearing it down and making us laugh is the meantime. Another fun part is they tell a story during each episode between Joel and Mike and their bosses, Dr. Clayton Forester and TV's Frank. Joel left the show, Frank left the show and Mike came on the scene. Mike accidently kills Dr. Forester and Dr. Forester's mother, Pearl, an evil women bent on world domination, vows to take revenge on Mike. Along the way, we get to meet other inhabitants of the Universe.

Well, there you have it...watch a bad movie while 3 wisecrackers make hilarious comments. I didn't mean to give such detail but I feel chatty today. ☺

I have to go to work soon. Have a wonderfull day, all!

Terry, fall foilage is right around the corner!! Come on down here girl!!

Lost my rear in Shreveport and the gal I went with is fun but stubborn and pouty. Next time I'm taking DH on my time when we decide to go. She didn't speak to me for a full 2 hours when I said I wanted to go back to the hotel at 2:00am after losing $70.00. She's a gambling addict and couldn't understand why only $70.00 was a big deal to me, when I could've put that $70.00 into something for myself instead of giving my hard earned money away. She does win more than she loses so I don't blame her for not wanting to leave when she's on a winning streak, but if that's the case then don't stay attached at the hip, when I see that my luck is crap I quit and shouldn't be forced into gambling when I don't want to, everyone should all be able to do what they want in any situation, just my opinion. We took the hotel shuttle from the La Quinta everywhere Saturday night so there was no reason she couldn't have gone back to the casino for a couple of hours while I went back to the hotel. All of that shopping she said we were going to do, none of it. Everytime I mentioned leaving the casinos to do something different she pouted complete with hands on hips, and girls she's 50 years old, just turned 50. We did see a hypnotist that was awesome! We laughed so hard we were crying. Don't get me wrong I had a good time, but I would've rather been getting my garden ready to plant new bulbs, just a perfect weather weekend waisted. Oh Well, enough griping.

Cupboard kitty!!! LOL I have a pic of Monty around here somewhere hidden in a cupboard.

That was in the apartment we rented when we first moved here. She ended up laying down for awhile.

Gggrrrrr I don't have the pictures on my home computer! I'll have to post it in the morning when I get to work.

I'm going to bed ya'll! Have a great night!

Crissy, I seriously doubt that she wins more than she loses. Odds aren't in her favor of doing so. Frankly I've never understood the whole "gambling" thang. I've never gambled, so maybe that's why? I think about somebody losing 70 bucks at a Casino and I automatically think, that with that 70 bucks, I could have bought myself 3 shrubs and a bunch of forbs. Or a tree, shrub and a lot of forbs. Or, I could also buy myself about 35 ton of mushroom compost AND pay Tony for his time and diesel to purchase it for me, etc. etc. Tisk tisk, such a waste...lol..my grandma is a HUGE gambler and I just don't get it. Never have, never will☺

Celia, I've never heard of such a movie and I'm not sure if I'd be able to sit thru the whole movie. I'm not a big fan of aliens and there's dumb and there's dumb. Some dumb I can handle, others are just dumb. LOL

I hope to be able to come down your way Crissy. It is beautiful down there in the fall. I was with my sister last year sometime in Oct. and it was absolutely breathtaking, the route we took back. More fun because she didn't know where she was going and I couldn't have cared less...lol. She has a house somewhere by Eureka Springs, so a route I don't have a clue on. "Go North young (wo)men, go north"...ROFL If I time it right, the whole drive down will be gorgeous. I'll pass thru IL, MO, and then come into AR. Ahhh....

Terry – I hope you get things straightened out with your brother. It’s a shame he is allowing her to control his life. I think we all have friends and family and acquaintances that drive us up that slippery vertical wall…I feel for you. Get your girl friend and take that vacation.
Pepper – Sounds like you had a blast at the RU!
Crissy – Cute kitty! Anytime I’ve ever gambled (super minor league) I’ve lost. I never win, except for the $5 when Florida first got the lottery LOL!

Here’s my beef – My BF, (who I love dearly, but drives me crazy) thinks I am made of $$$. I’ve always put 10% away and don’t touch it. Anytime she comes here (every 6 weeks to get her hair done) she assumes that I will foot her bill for food and drinks. I always tell the waiter/ess separate bills and she pouts. It’s not like she visits once or twice a year…Grrr…I had to pass up an evening with the girls on Saturday because “she” showed up unexpected and stayed until 8pm. She gets jealous when I buy a new piece of furniture or jewelry. She’s always broke these days. I don’t understand because she makes more than I do. She wasn’t always like this. She’s unhappy in her marriage and her job. She has a new SUV that she hates, she’s just miserable. I feel like a fair weather friend, but she’s become a drag to be around.

Here is "my" beach when TS Fay came through last month

By the time we left to come home I had lost $10.00 so that's not bad. Gambling's fun for a while, but the novelty wears off of me and I want to go shopping. As far as hitting $300.00 and gambling it all away, I don't get that. A long time ago I was playing this nickle slot that had a wheel on it like the Price is Right's wheel, I hit $550.00 on that and I immediately cashed out and took it home. If you win like that you need to stop playing immediately, you can't just feed the machines, and that's what she did with her $300.00. Sad.

My friend has a friend like that, she says they're best friends but are they really? I don't want to say anything out of turn, but friendship is always a shared experience. All of her money is going into that new SUV and the gas for it, and whatever shopping she does to keep her half way happy. Just because someones life is in turmoil doesn't mean that the friends on the other end should be treated like crap, or used. Don't let anyone run you into the ground, I did that once and it will never happen again. I would just not do so many things with her. For example, say you go to dinner every other week together and she wants you to pay for it. Change it to once a month, if it continues change it to once every 6 weeks, and so on, she'll get the drift and maybe start paying for herself in the mean time. It's not your fault she has choose to live beyond her means.

Here's the picture I was looking for last night.

More cupboard kitty! LOL Too cute, Crissy.

Sharon, sorry about your friend. When my BFF left SLC to move to Nevada, she was doing the exact opposite....rying to pay for everything. I finally had to tell her point-blank...STOP. You don't have to pay for everything because you feel guilty leaving. We're chock full of advise here, asked for or not (☺), and mine would be , you might have to be blunt.

Might have to be. I had to be blunt last night, DH cousin is into Amway and is trying to get everyone else into it. They called me every half hour and drove me nuts! After we got done having dinner, shopping, back home to put the groceries away, what-not I called her back, of course by this time I was annoyed, I simply told her that I have many things on my plate right now and that is not one of them. I'm finding that most of these women around here who have been married for 20+ years are disconnected from their husbands and either they do whatever to stay away from home or the husband does whatever to stay away from home, but they never do anything together, it's sad. Me and Dave have been married for 2 1/2 years and we are very attached and hopefully it will stay that way. The women who are unattached and have been for awhile don't seem to understand that I want to see my husband for the 3 hours a day I get to, and if I go anywhere I want him to go with me because we enjoy doing the same things. So I explained this to her and she sounded a little upset and basically hung up on me without hanging up on me. When I tried to start a conversation she would cut it off by saying, Well, I'm going to get off of here..." If you only want me to be around you to support you, don't call me cause I don't support anyone except for myself, not even my husband.

When Crissy says it's a shared relationship, she means that you share everything. Not monetary because that's not important to friends, but feelings of the heart. I too had a "best friend" like that. Her name was Jody. I gave and I gave and I gave. She always was ready, willing and able to take. She never gave me anything. I had time, always had time, to listen to her gripes. When it came time for Terry (me) to gripe, she had no patience and didn't want to hear it, mostly she'd turn it all back onto me. I did something wrong. We were friends since 8th grade, but when we hit our early 30's? I couldn't do it anymore. There was an incident that broke the camels back, so to speak. I realized that I was her friend, she was not my friend. She thought we were best friends because I always did, but no more. Again it was something that I felt was seriously messed up and said to me by a third party, I drove immediately to her house, in tears and I told her about it. I tried to talk to her, and somehow I was wrong. There were a lot of ins and outs about the whole incident that I will not go into. It ended with me finally speaking my mind to her. Telling her what I thought about the whole thing. Friends don't talk to friends in the manner in which she had always done, so she got a piece of my mind. 3 yrs. later, she apologized. Too little too late. I had met Teresa (the best friend I spoke of in another post up above) before any of this went down with Jody, and with Teresa, I realized what I knew the true meaning of friendship is. She listens when I talk and pour out my heart to her, and I listen to her when she pours out her heart to me. Even though both of us have insane moments (sometimes months), she really keeps me sane by listening to me, and by offering her advice. Sometimes she has none and that's alright too. Your night out with the girls? The first friend from long ago, I would have had to give it up. But with Teresa? No, she'd go with me☺and have just as much fun as I did. Teresa and I went to a native plant sale earlier this year, in the spring. The place claimed to have not received my order and I couldn't remember what all I had ordered. I saw plants that Teresa needed...lol..and so I bought for her. She put up a stink, not because they were native, but because I was buying. Then we went to a native nursery and again I bought her a couple of plants. When we stopped for lunch? She insisted on paying. My turn for a stink. We don't argue or get mad or pout, we just say it's not necessary, she or me, doesn't need to. We always let it go though. It's not a big deal. When she brought me home, she came into my prairie and I dug up a bunch of plants for her. I know what I get and what I receive from Teresa, my best friend. It sure isn't that same thing as I got from Jody! I too hope I haven't spoke out of line, I seem to start typing and don't know how to stop☺☺☺

The picture of "your" beach is breathtaking. I don't live there and don't know the fear that comes with hurricanes or tropical storms, I can only imagine a small portion of what it must be like. That's why I see beauty in your picture☺

Crissy, I swear I look at cat/kittie pictures and I start itching and my nose starts running!☺☺☺


Oh oh oh!!! Guess what I've finally ID'd in our yard?! A Gray Catbird!! How cool is that??

Is your nose itchy when the catbird comes to your house? ☺

LOL Terry, I'm sorry but I have to post her once in a while. She was hilarious this morning, I sit in my closet when I put on my knee-high's. I had my right leg extended to pull up my nylon and she walked over my ankle. I guess the feel of the nylon against the fur on her belly didn't feel right and she sprung straight up, then again, then again! It was hilarious!

And you are absolutely right about the friendship thing, and I get to typing and can't stop either! It's like "Help!! I can't stop typing!!! Somebody stop me!!!"

What is a Grey Catbird?

A Grey Catbird is a bird that terry is allergic too because it has the word *cat* in it. LOL

Here ya go!

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Gray_Catbird.html

ROTFLOL

It's missing a cat's head.  LOL

OMG LOL!

Looks like something my cat can catch and have for lunch!

LOL Mine are too big to catch anything but what's in the food dish anymore. ☺

Tiga stays at 9 1/2 pounds and as much as she eats with the steroids I'll never know.

Lucky kitty. I hate her. LOL I'm kiddiing. ☺

I guess she's good at maintaining her weight lol!!!!

My babies are not! LOL Fatties both. And we're trying to get them on the treadmill but...

Whiskers, my older cat is probably about 10 Ibs.  His belly sways when he runs.  lol.  Curly is getting up there in weight but he's also bigger than Whiskers and I swear he's still growing.  Curly though won't get fat like Whiskers cause he's very active. Whiskers will sleep the day and night away if given the chance. He's lazy. lol

I guess Monty isn't really fat, just HUGE. Isis is fat. Her belly sways, too. It's funny to watch her run. LOL She's got this funny rabbit hop 'cuz her belly is in the way.

: ) No one is talking out of turn. I’ve already started shutting her down when she comes here. She’s become one of those people that “drain you dry” and I can’t handle it anymore.

My neighbor always tries to get me to buy Mary Kay. I’ve told her for a year that I’m not interested. Doesn’t work. She actually called Jeff (DH) on his cell one day and asked about Gary then asked to talk to me about her upcoming Mary Kay party….made me so MAD. She used Gary’s cancer to ask me about Mary Kay…Grrrrrrr. I’ve used Bare Minerals for years.

Here kitty kitty kitty!
Celia – I had to laugh about you saying Isis and Monty are too big to catch anything but the food in the bowl! That’s the way I feel about Mr. Wester. He weighs 21 lbs. I told him he is not hiding in the middle of the lawn; the birds and squirrels can see him because he’s this big black and white blob wiggling his big butt and then launches into a “trot”. You can hear him grunt shen he has to bathe his back or lower belly.

LOL Sharon! Monty is 26lbs. and he thinks he's hiding, too! Monty plays with Darrell at bedtime. The Chasing game. Monty gets all fluffy then runs away. D chases him and back and forth they go. When I saw "runs" away, I mean trots away. He hasn't "run" in years. Unless the bedroom door slams because of the wind and I forget to prop the door. Then he teleports!

Tiga has what my next door neighbor calls a "fat patch." As she's aged she has got this sagging skin that hangs below her belly, it's not huge but definately noticeable.

LOL I have an email that has a video of cats running on a treadmill, it's hilarious! I would love to send it to ya'll. Let's see here...

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