Born on the Day of the Dead
 

I find some irony in the fact that I was born on the 'Day of the Dead,' Now Halloween is a holiday and if you are Catholic, you get off on Nov. 1st, but on Nov. 2nd you have to go back to school. There is one day you get candy....the next day is reserved for saints....and I get second string...All Soul's Day.

It's been a fine enough birthday. My husband threw a huge bash for me on my 50th....this one we are kinding of letting slide by. Kind of a mid-decade slump.

Oh I got lots of nice wishes....cute cards and a brunch is in the planning for Sunday.

Rather than ponder aging or the alternative I decided to distract myself. My office is a mess and cannot be navigated anymore...so, I decided to tackle that job of scrapbooking ALL of my 31 years of photos that I had not put in books and given to my kids. ( I have started and abruptly disintegrated into crying on a number of occassions, so I figured I would never get it done...Over the years, between sobbing, I have managed to get them somewhat catalogued.)

Each kid has a baby book and a compliation of pics that they got at high school graduation,but those family vacations and just every day photos added up to this huge bin of just family pics, newspaper clippings etc. The story of a family, not so much just one kid.

They fill up one of those huge bins you use for the storage of fake Christmas trees. Well, needless to say, I am only a fraction done. It is amazing how I can fit those pictures together by which kid was born and by haircuts they had, outfits they are wearing, and by scenery outside of a window on a picture. (Yes, doing this makes me cry, but, it also makes me realize how phenomonally blessed I have been.)

Nowadays, pics are on a flashdrive....hmmm. I suppose that has its benefits, but somehow, to me, somethings need to be in a book. I am not sure I can get all those photos off the flashdrive printed out. $$$$. At least they don't take up all that much space.

Once upon a time................

When you don't have to constantly reload film and count the # of rolls, you have a tendency to take more pix. Last trip to the photo kiosk for prints cost us $80 !!
But you can take as many as you want and then only print the ones you think are the bast, but my wife wants to print all of 'em and send them to relatives (double prints, no less).
Speaking of the holiday, my # 8 grandchild, was born two days ago - on 10-31 at 4:37 in the afternoon. She will have a Halloween birthday too. I'm going to visit, & see her for the first time this weekend.
My daughter says she's 'beautiful', but that's what she said
about her other 5, too.
Yup, its her 6th !! This is her 2nd girl.

Wow!!
 

congradulations to both of you. Cyclops for living to be 51 and nide44 for having the blessing of a new grandchild!! I've lived long past 51 and don't have a grandchild from my own blood. I'm blessed with wonderful step-grandchildren tho. I'm hoping the future is kinder to both of you tho.

Billye

OH! I do think I know about what you speak????
 

Since my total sensory deterioration, I was always a TOUCHY FEELY person...I Had to feel, touch almost talk to any and everything through that sense....I am deprived now. Of that at least...
But smell and sight are still working, and I hope they stay that way.

I still maintain, that the best Pictures are those that are IN YOUR MIND! If you can share that series of visions to others then they might get a sense of some snapshot of beauty that probably could not be captured on film, 'card' or whatever. That is why filmers 'film', writers 'write', and painters 'paint'...If it is not in your mind, it is probably safely kept in your heart. Got that? :hug:

Happy Birthday
 

Cyclelops,been going through the picture thing to..But mine has started in late 1800 hundreds it's a good thing my grandparents put dates and names on
the back...When you said telling the kids by the haircuts and clothes i admit
I cried to..
Now all those grandchildren Nine 44 they can bring tears of joy ,and happy
birthday to your grandchild.
Now every Sat. J i call my 91 yr. old Aunt to see how she is and chat. When
I bring up all those good old days,and always saids it's today why do you want to talk about that old stuff. Ahhhh she's fun. But I get it out of her,sharp as a tack..:)

A belated happy birthday to Cyclelops and a hearty congratulations to Bob for the new grandbaby... You both deserve a happy day and many more to come.

I could sure enjoy a little of that brunch Sunday... :)

Cathie

A late, but a Happy Birthday wish for Cyclelops :) i am finding the only trouble with having birthdays now is they seem like only 6 months apart :eek:.:D
I try to stay away from old photographs too, as they don't seem that old to me, scary :D:D
all the best
Brian :)

Oops--missed this at first--
 

--but happy birthday, Cycleops, and congrats to nide44 on the 8th grandkid (and you're saying it's the sixth for one mom? How do they all handle the bathroom in the morning?).

Happy Birthday Cyclelops:

Tomorrow is MY birthday. I will be 60. I have no scrapbooks, I took lots of pictures but they are in the drawer. I never take them out any more. There is no reason to. I've been taking care of Alan's foot. It finally stopped bleeding. We rigged up a bacitracin bandage and took a sponge and cut a hole in the sponge to actually change the Cam Walker to an oft-loading Cam Walker.

I mean, something has to work so he can walk a bit without a spot of blood coming out. He sees his podiatrist after next week. The guy's away for the week. This spot of blood thing is no emergency. His foot looks completely fine, just as long as he doesn't walk too much on it.

Alan is thoroughly disgusted with all this. He went from going to the gym, to not being able to go anywhere. I try and say "hey, at least you have the option of going to see the Orthopedic Surgeon". I mean, this is the final option, but it IS an option. Maybe they can shave down the bone and that will be that. But two years of this ulcer crap is finally getting to him.

He is also thoroughly depressed at how our son does absolutely nothing with is life. What a shame. Alan feels he wasted all those years. I feel the same.

So tomorrow I turn 60, (it's a gloomy day here today, something about a hurricane named Noel coming our way). My right knee is driving me crazy with the change of the weather, but heck, I've lived with arthritis for 20 years, I'll live with it another 20 years.

I watch Dr. Oz on Oprah. I learned about Telomeres (I knew all about those anti-aging things from years ago), but the way Dr. Oz explains stuff, well, he gets you going. He even had a whole dead body standing upright (on the Oprah Show). I saw where the hypothalmus, and the adrenal glands are. He showed the liver...etc. Absolutely fascinating.

Oh, he gave a brain test. I got 36 out of 36 in 40 seconds so my brain is aging just fine, thank god for that.

And I know all about healthy eating because I've been doing that for years, so that was a no-brainer.

But what I didn't know was that Tumeric in Foods, (well they think it does this anyway), it prevents Alzheimers in people. The people in India live on food loaded with Tumeric and they have the lowest incidences of Alzheimers in the world.

So when the weather gets better, I'm going to buy Tumeric and put it on my chicken and fish.

Hey, maybe I'll get as smart as some of you guys.

Anyway, I will be entering my 6th decade (or finishing my 6th decade), depends on how one looks at it.

In my head, I'm still 30.

So Happy Birthday to anyone who has a birthday in November.

We are Scorpios and we rule!!!

lol

Melody

P.S. Alan saw American Gangster, Gone Baby Gone, and many other things on that free movie site that I posted on the thread "ON the Lighter Side",
If any of you guys like to go to the movies but find the expense a bit much, you can see thousands of movies and tv shows on the computer (FOR FREE), and it's legal. You don't dowloand the movies.

I have seen all the old episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (from over 45 years ago) They were crystal clear and in high definition.
God, what a great thing, the internet is!!!!

Thanks Melody
 

My 47th birthday was yesterday November 2nd as well. A Grand Happy Birthday to you!:hug:

pssst...julie....go check out the social chat forum. you might find a little surprise. :D

Happy birthday to
 

all you Scorpios!

Mel,Brian,Julie K
 

I'm glad you feel thirty Mel that's a good thing. Brian i really understand,the pictures,do seem like yesterday,at times. And just Happy Birthday Julie K,
47,was a good year..Would you mind passing the cake and muffins???
:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: And Bob i forgot 8 little one's and bathroom time..heh heh Sue

Thanks Julie K

I can't believe how many Scorpios we have on this forum.

SCORPIOS UNITE!!!

I always wanted to say that....lol

Melody

Oh, guess what we did this morning. I took a plain magnetic insert and cut a whole where Alan's foot ulcer is. Then he put bacitracin (it's healing nicely, but this doesn't mean anything, it ALWAYS heals nicely until he puts pressure on it). So while we are waiting for his re-fixed orthotics to come, I figured, why not turn his Cam Walker or Slipper or whatever he is wearing, well, why not turn it into an OFT LOADING THIGAMAJIG, right??

So I knew exactly where to make the hole in the magnetic insert thingee.

Alan put some bacitracin, a little bandaid over it. Then his sock. Then we put the insert into his slipper. He's doing just fine.

If he has to go out, he'll put the magnetic hole thingee into his Cam Walker which will then allow his ulcer to roam free and not have any pressure whatsoever. At least, that's the plan.

He goes to the podiatrist next week.

He hasn't bled all day. So we shall see.

Oh the stuff we have to invent when no one else does!!!!

lol, Melody

UPDATE........ he just told me, this thing is not working, so I just pulled the slipper off, pulled the sock off, then I put the insert (with the hole), right over his bandaged area. So I then put his sock OVER THE FOOT INSERT. Then he put it back into the slipper. He said "oh, this is better. So try and picture this. Alan is wearing a foot insert INSIDE HIS SOCK and this insert has a hole in it, so his ulcer (which only has a small bandaid on it because it looks perfect fine), is able to roam free.

We shall see.

Melody

I believe that Mel's 60th birthday--
 

--is an important day that should be noted by all endocrinologists.

She's so much better than she was years ago, and an inspiration to us all.

Happy birthday, muffin lady--and remember to go watch the marathoners tomorrow.

Many happy returns of the day to Julie k :)
& wishing a great day today for Melody :)

MUFFIN POWER. Melody! And best wishes to all you birthday girls! Why don't ya'll go out on the town together and knock back a few? A few lyrica, a few fentanyl patches..... Party on!

BTW, I lived to be 55....in my family, to do that with full faculties ain't that bad.:D

Well, I just had a most unusual experience. I had a cry. I had been wandering about my house just thinking of my son (who left us 6 years ago and whom I haven't seen in all that time). I kept saying out loud "my god, he just up and left us and never looked back". Alan came over and saw that I was having a bad time of it. It hits me sometimes. Doesn't happen often, because I have boundaries put up (a psychiatrist from the neuropathy association told me to do this a long time ago), I have had great practice doing this.

But once in a great while, maybe it happens on a holiday, Christmas, a birthday, whatever, sometimes, the feelings just wash over me and I get, well I guess the correct terminology would be melancholy. I haven't heard or used that word in a long long time.

I'm not trying to hijack this thread or have a pity party, but it's just that by the time I reached 60, I thought I would have completely different life. Life throws you curves doesn't it??

Alan will take me out to Dunkin Donuts, and later on we'll go to our favorite Japanese Restaurant around the corner for our early dinner. I'll have my usual grilled Salmon over bean sprouts and brocoli, with some miso soup and a small ginger salad. It really is a nice Japanese Restaurant. I would always wonder if I could sit with my legs folded under me like many of the patrons do but I'm afraid with my arthritis, I'll get stuck.

So after tomorrow I'll be back to my usual cheery self.

I do thank all of you for your well wishes. I only wish I could feel like a mother again. You see, i just told Alan, "I don't feel like my son's mother", I can't help myself... and my legs and feet were burning. This happens when i think of my son. I have to get more control over this.

Alan has told me "you have to make a choice, you either have to sever ties with Frank and go on with your life, or you have to accept his calls and deal with it.". He thinks I should sever ties. I really wish I could this. He is not good for my health or for my neuropathy, beleive me.

But the guilt a mother feels (even though I just wrote that I dont' feel like a mother, well it has to come out of me. I'm entitled to my feelings and I just vented. Feels a bit good to say what's on my mind.

So to my fellow Scorpios, I hope you all have a very merry Birthday. Hope it's filled with lots of kids, lots of noise, and lots of gifts.

Bye for now, Melody

Nothing can cause us pain like our children, can it? Whether they are hurting or they are hurting us. I hope your melancholy passes soon.

Happy Birthday Melody
 

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:hug:

have a wonderful birthday dinner.

Thank you, thank you, thank you...profusely!!!:)