Weekend Check in Thread: Friday, August 7, 2009
 

Hi,

How have you been feeling?

1. I watched Moonstruck on youtube in 10 minute increments over a few nights before bed.
I can quote lines from that movie -- even with my memory


2. I think my favorite old movies of all time are
As Good as It Gets with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyP8gbb1hw




3. And Witness with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_tvjqSrBk
clip of "What a wonderful world this would be"


I ran some errands today.
More tomorrow.
Also visit with tdoc -- last time until December because of scheduling conflicts with both of us.


Any favorite movies?
Other favorite memories?


M.

movies? nostalgia?
 

Too many favorite memories. My spirit lives off nostalgia. Then again if i didn't have it, i would not know what to do. Maybe this is bad.

I have no plans this weekend just hopes that i can actually do anything with any relative enjoyment and a minimum of light-blocking equipment.

lately i generally cannot manage a whole movie but i did loooove Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets. Too many good scenes in that. :) Musta seen it at least 3 times. But I wouldn't call it an old movie.

To me "old movies" are the b/w ones from the mid 40's and 50's! :p Love those too. Ever seen The Ghost and Mrs Muir (b/w, 1947) with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison? Haunting... literally. :D ooooooohhhh.

Name retrieval deficit in 40's ... other than actor Cary Grant was in many i loved. Later favorites were Desk Set ('57) with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and (also 50's) is Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell.

All actors I mentioned are favorites, too.

now i get off 'puter.

Have a good weekend everyone!

~ waves ~

My weekend consists of me sitting in the living room, sitting in the bedroom, laying down in the bedroom....

I may try to watch a few movies that we have but I have never seen.

I won't be going anywhere.... no car. Mine is in the body shop after a minor wreck...minor meaning no one got hurt. My car took the damage... but it's going to take a week or so to get it back...

I hopefully can find someone to either take me to pick up the rest of my meds or go pick them up for me.

I'll be on and off of here this weekend... maybe this is a way for me to finally rest and not worry about having to go here or there.

:(:o:(
Abbie

Mari, I quit watching movies years ago but the last one I did see I liked was Girl Interupted with Angeline Jolie in it.

Waves, have you seen the old movie Shenendoah with Jimmy Stewart in it? I loved that one.

Abbie, that's ashame you car is in the shop. I'm glad no one got hurt though.

I saw my abuse counselor today and it got me to thinking a lot today which in turn got me to feeling down kind of. Bobby came by this morning to pick up some tomatoes from me and then wanted to know if I'd be in our hangout later. He paid for my ice tea later at our hangout that I had like he's done the whole week when he's in there when I am too. I got some great information from Di that helped me feel better tonight. Friends are such a blessing.

barbara

Dear Waves,
I don't know if I saw any movies like you mention from beginning to end. So maybe if I had, they would have had a bigger impact on me.

Dear Abbie,
I'm glad that you are ok after the car business. That sounds traumatic.
Resting while your car is in the shop is a good idea.

Dear Befuddled,
I didn't see Girl Interupted. I already had done my own stint in a psych ward so I didn't really want to see it on screen. I'm sure that Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie did a good job.

M.

I love old movies...Gene Kelly, Doris Day, Cary Grant...feel good movies.. A really fun one is The Glass Bottom Boat with Doris Day. Or High Society and of course White Christmas..good stuff
I have a family reunion to go to tomorrow.. that means making something to take... today I have to find that motivation. Tomorrow I have to try to pretend I am ok.:eek:
Peace~Pam

Pam, have fun today.

Mari, yes they did do a good job in the movie.

I have 3 loads of clothes in the laundry mat. I am starting to feel better today about things. One of my neighbors came by this morning and we had coffee. I am tired though as I did not sleep enough last night.

Barbara

hi
 

well... made it to sunday. (it is morning here.)

yesterday i was productive!
-- went to mail a letter to a friend (yes, handwritten kind!)
-- stopped at pharmacy to ask about tailored bupropion caps
-- stopped to get phone credit. my secondary provider screwed up my credit and it hasn't come in yet. so i have to get on the phone and "inquire - negotiate - insist - argue" tomorrow. :o
--i cleaned the fan, to keep my allergies in check. boy did it need it! oddly i had a massive allergy attack in the evening tho! :D:D:D

UGH. yesterday afternoon brought me a sparkle aura and a moderate migraine... mostly slept it off with some med help. the night brought me a "secondary" migraine - which is responding to treatment of primary cause, so i am ok-ish and improving now.

in between tv reruns as ability allowed.

thank goodness the reruns i watch are re-run multiple times during the week so i seldom actually miss episodes.

Barbara
nope, i have never seen Shenandoah but i'll keep an eye out for it. It isn't too often i get to see old movies any more. Used to a lot a few decades ago when i lived elsewhere and had satellite... A couple of channels used to air them frequently, TNT and another one. I don't even know if those channels exist any more. I am glad you are doing ok with seeing Bobby in your hang out. Therapy... can be hard sometimes. I hope in the long run whatever brought you down is helpful to you.

Abbie
hoping you're enjoying your movie weekend. did you see anything you particularly enjoyed? i have been in the straights trying to watch reruns (thank goodness the shows i watch are re-run 2-3x per episode at different times in the week, in between "down time."

Pam
I hope you thought of something for the get-together today that wasn't too hard. If not, you can always stop at a deli and get like a cold cut / cheese / or a veggie take out platter (i know, it isn't quite the same.) Anyway, my hearty best wishes acting "as-if" today! Try to strike a balance for yourself however. After you've stayed a while, if it gets overwhelming, give yourself the credit for getting that far, and let yourself off the hook i.e. go home. You don't want to pay for it triple - today and then the days following. All the same, my hope is that things will be light enough that you can sail through and feel ok. ;) :hug:

Beth
Yo??? where are you? are you farming away in facebook or what? howabout you show your face here??? :p wassup???

Mari (last but not least!)

How are YOU feeling???
What have you been up to this weekend?
Thank you for starting this thread. ;)

:grouphug:


~ waves ~

Hello,

Perhaps Beth is busy out of town or something. I hope we hear from her soon.

M.

process of moving
 

Hi,
I think I like the weekend -- no calls, no appts, no places or things to take care of.

Hubby has been moving some of his things over to the new place every morning and setting up some new bookshelves. He is still working summer school.

I spent two afternoons recently with my work friend who is on a chemo drip in the hospital. He is doing a whole week in-patient.

Fri I saw tdoc. She was good.


On Sat hubby and I started trying to organize and clean a bit ---
=-=-
- cleaned out the portable microwave that we are bringing with us because the kitchen is not built yet,
- are currently defrosting the mini-fridge, . ..
- I took out some garbage bags of garbage to the dumpster . .
-hubby is doing lots of laundry loads. I'm not sure what he is up to -- does not seem like a priority to me but I stay out of his way when he has a project going

--- but Sat was really my first day that I got serious with this stuff.


Sunday morning he wants to clean a little more for me at the new place while I am sleeping.

We are paying a company to pack us up here. But we have to organize as much as we can first before they get here.

We really have a lot of stuff to do in the new place before Monday /August 17 when we start back to work. :eek:

(Whine:
I bought some new shirts and then shrunk them in the hot water in the washer. I am soooo disappointed. :( )

It's past bed time -- but hubby kind of wakes up from a long nap in the middle of the night and then gets a burst of energy and then goes back to bed. It takes him about 1 minute to go back to sleep when he wants to.
I tried to tell him that this is my night time and that I need to unwind.

I hope to be in bed by 7:00 am

M.

Dear Waves,

Good job! :circlelove:

Also, you got quite a bit done. --- lots of errands. Are your feet holding up?

Sparkle would be a nice word if we were not talking about migraines.

How the mood?

M.

wow... a lot of different things going on
 

hehe. yeah. we haven't even had stupid telesales calls.

Well, it sounds as though you are on a roll! i am so glad hubby is seems to be on the ball about this. in spite of summer school and all.

i imagine this is hard. :o :hug: how is your friend doing?

good to hear. i am not sure if i will be seeing pdoc as frequently in the next months either. it seems like most of what i need to do, meds aside, i need to just DO... somehow.

OH NO!!!! :( I remember you posting about buying shirts and how that sounded fun... i take it those were the shirts? arghh! :(

ROFL. When i think about these situations, i just cannot imagine being married. Well, if i were working it wouldn't be a bit deal... i always managed ... somehow. caught up on weekends. But according to that article perhaps that's what got a lot of negativity in me.... lol.
ha! now THAT's what i call a reasonable bed time. :D :D :D Too bad it doesn't suit the rest of the world.

How are you doing with the CPAP btw? able to keep it on most of your sleeping hours now?

you sound more calm and collected than you have in a while, in spite of everything. i hope that is an accurate perception and not just wishful thinking. ;) :hug:

~ waves ~

doing pretty well
 

well... yes, i have to lower the bar... and say yes, i did get a bit done. actually it wasn't much but it was important, hard stuff to do... stuff with a high "hop to it" threshold to overcome. so that counts for a lot, lol.

i have never been convinced they were auras but for the timing and that others have told me they are auras. i have never found a written description that matches what i see. "scintillating scotoma" are about as close as it gets" but those still seem like more troublesome... these do not interfere with my vision. they are actually very pretty except that the light can get very bright and that is bothersome. it looks like bright pinpricks of light (that small) that appear and disappear very fast. sort of like glitter but not as dense, although the more i look at it the more numerous they become - i usually look away so as not to further induce the phenomenon, whatever it be.

actually, good, thank you. but the test of fire will be the last 2-3 days of my cycle and the first 1-2 of the next. that is the major drop. it seems to be associated with a drop in dopamine as well... will double check that... have a book on this... and in that sense wellbutrin is perfect because it inhibits dopamine reuptake.

but more later... now off to watch my last shot at an Angel rerun. was having migraines when it ran the last two times. :o :rolleyes: thankfully ok now in that department too!

~ waves ~

feet
 

oh... the feet are holding up pretty well actually - better than i expected at this point already. :)

I got a lot of work done around my apartment Friday and Saturday. Today I am fixing stuff cabbage and will freeze them individually. I went to the local bar this morning but no one talked to me there. Came home and my neighbor Shirley came over for a visit and some coffee.

Barbara

Good Job
 

Well done on being so productive...

and cooking too. what do you put in stuffed cabbage?

Is the local bar is a different place than your hang out, right? Maybe it was just kind of an off day. Or you never know. How are you feeling? Did you try to strike up a conversation?

Well i'm glad you and Shirley got to chat. :)

:hug:

~ waves ~

I wish I could say good things, but I feel sick, think a new med is making my headachy and stomach-achey. had to clean the turtle tank today and also my closet. Just didn't have a good day today. Yesterday either. I don't expect tomorrow to be any better. Just in a funk and light depression. Hope everyone else is doing well. GOodl uck with the move Mari. :)

GLad you're ok after the minior accident Abbie. Take care. :)

I'm a little stiff which is to be expected... My car looks terrible but it could have been worse... my air-bags did not deploy so I wasn't going too fast.

The insurance and the auto body place says it looks like the truck rolled from left to right over the top of me... I know I was merging to the right and my guess he was too but didn't see me.

I haven't really watched any movies yet...I upped my xanax to another mg., that I take mid afternoon. It is helping me from freaking out...kind of numbing me.

Good thing I only have one thing I have to do this week... take mom to her doc appointment... I'll take my dad to work then bring his truck back, take mom to her appointment and to work... then I will either take his truck back to his work and try to catch a bus home or just wait until it is time for him to get off work and pick him up.

Hope everyone is had a wonderful weekend...
:hug:
Abbie

Waves, the local bar I went into today is not the regular hangout I normally go to where I see Bobby. That place is a restaurant and not a bar that I see Bobby in and is the place I've talked about here. I went back to the local bar and spoke with one person. Then I left and went to a 2nd bar and a guy was giving me the eye and I looked back. The 3rd bar I went into I spoke with 2 different people. I am trying to broaden my hangouts. I drank sweet tea in all 3 bars as I do not drive and drink.

I put hamburger with rice in it inside my cabbage and cook it in tomato sauce.

I also made up a poem today.

Hi everyone

I've been in Kokomo again. Its not been the best of visits this time. I seem to have caught a bug. But hopefully I'll start to feel better since I'm back
home and can take the medicine for the throwing up.

I left Derrick there he is going to Indiana Beach with my nephew tomorrow.
And they should have a great time. I'm picking him up.

I don't have much news, just need to catch up on work things.

Donna

I am sorry I thought I told you guys we went to florida for the weekend.:winky:
I took the day off friday and we drove 6 hours to pensicola and spent 2 nights at a motel, the one story kind. The actual place is on santa rosa island, the motel is on the sound side and we can walk right across the street to the gulf side, it is a very narrow island.
We had great food and met up with my cousin and her family so that was fun....got rained on a bit but ended up sitting in the tiki bar and had too many "bush whackers"....its a vacation right and the hut is on the property so we walked right home. Walked on the beach at night watched some kids look for sand crabs with flash lights...what fun.
We got back this evening and the kitties are all glad to see us.
Abbie,I am so sorry about your accident....
Mari, you do sound like you are a bit more grounded even with all of your stressors, I hate it when I shrink clothes...
Waves I wish for you migraine free days, glad to hear that your mood is ok.
barbara, it is good to get out to try to meet new people, are there any singles groups out there, maybe one of the local churches have one?
I used to do that when I was single and met some very nice people.
pammy, I am sorry taht you are in a funk.
Donna, I hope youstart feeling better, colds/flus can make you feel just miserable.
beth

Bizi,

I've tried the churches in the past and they are all full of older woman. I have enough woman friends but need some men friends.

barbara

Barbara
Dear Befuddled,
Ah yes, but women have men friends and relatives that they can introduce to you.

Beth,
Santa Rosa is beautiful I have heard.
That's good that you enjoyed your trip.


=-=-=-
I'm tired.
I can't write much.
I'm reading and appreciating people.
Sorry.

M.

It's ok Mari
 

I can see that you are here...
and I appreciate you too. :hug::hug::hug:
as I'm sure everyone else can, too.

Be kind to yourself.

And know that in so doing, you are being kind to all of us. :)

:grouphug:

~ waves ~

oh boy there were more replies than i thought
 

Pamster and Donna, i hope you feel better soon. :hug:

Barbara, your stuffed cabbage sounds good... well-balanced and nutritious too!

Beth, needless to say we missed you... sounds like you had a great time... (almost too good :eek:) .... (Well at least somebody's drinking tasty cocktails! I can't until this stupid med is stable again.)

Abbie, glad you're hanging in there... so it sounds anyway. I'm glad you don't have too much to do this week. Maybe you can get some of those movies in that you didn't get to this weekend. ;)

I am doing ok today so far. I had to reset all our digital and all our analog channels because of some glitch. i won't get into it. it was very simple, just tedious.

~ waves ~

Hi all, I am feeling better today. So much so I better never for get
me med again.

But anyway, I'm working on getting the SSI online filed for Derrick,
it keeps kicking me out. Ugh, I'm not happy. I really don't like this.

DOnna

Hi Donna
 

Good to hear you're on the up and up! :D

Good luck with this.

~ waves ~

Thanks got his Medicaid filed for today. Now to wait for it to go through.

Donna