I was thinking that we've now got so many threads that it's hard for people to go back and match up the new username to the old BT1 name. Some are obvious, some aren't - so here's a thread for you to say who you were before, for anyone who's recently found us.

Bet no-one can guess who I was before..
artist, formerly known as "the artist"

[Cake]

You sound like Prince, he's now "the artist formerly known as Prince" , and you're the artist formerly known as artist!

I'm Cake (that's what my neice calls me coz she can't say T sounds)

On the old board I was just "Kate" I think, or maybe "KateH"- my memory is a bit buggered up! lol

x Kate

[lisashea]

Kate,
you were KateH if my memory is correct.

Glad to see the old timers again. What were the terms the Joselita came up with - newbies, old timers, lookers?


Lisa

[Abbie]

I was on the old BT board but due to some pretty bad memory problems couldn't remember what my name was on there. I'm just glad I kept the link to the old board and was able to find this board.

[emilys gramma]

boo422317 but that was such an informal name, i switched to 'emilys gramma'.... as she is the life of our lives.................
it is good to be able to 'see' all of you again, as i sure missed the forum.......
i didn't usually post much on meds, treatments etc, but i sure did like to add to the jokes.........
in my family with two of us suffering with rsd, we NEED all the laughter we can get...............

[HopeLivesHere]

Sorry artist.
You know who I am, but I just can't post it.
Right now I need to hide, but I love to read this and happy to
see all who have returned.
Take care,
Hope

[Debby]

Ok, I guess I should finally post huh??? Well I actually signed up for this forum hmmmmmmmm way back at the very beginning. No one had even posted except for Artist. And I just haven't posted until now either. Didn't really have anything to say that I had not already said *LOL* I was DebbyV so not a whole of difference than before in my name.

I have been mostly not on the computer this summer or fall. Sometimes just keeping up with email is more than I want to do. I don't know way but all the jokes & stuff lately well it clutters up my in-box & I just delete it without even reading it.

Can't say as I have been really depressed or anything, I just have enjoyed the last 2 seasons (Spring & Summer) by being outside as much as possible. I was out side so much during the 13 days of over 100dgs I got sick. Stupid huh??? But in one weekend we had a grandson's BD, a picnic the same day with family & the next day a picnic at my daughter-in-laws. All during the 100dg temp days. Talk about miserable. WHEW!!! But once that weather was over it was wonderful. I also have spent ALOT of time reading books. For fun not to improve myself, just for pure enjoyment. I think that is what has taken me away from the computer. I hadn't been able to read for so long due to an injury to my neck & head from a car wreck in 1991. Then I went back to work fulltime 7 yrs later, when I finally healed from that & I didn't have time to read, then from RSD I HURT too much to read. Well now that my pain is better controlled I can read & so totally enjoy it. Reading for the pure pleasure of reading has always been important to me. I grew up in Iowa on a family farm & there just wasn't a whole lot we got to do for entertainment. When young I played army, & cowboys & Indieans etc with my brother. Then when I got older, my older brother only wanted to hang with his friends so that left me with time on my hands. I bet I read the early Bobbsey Twins & Trixie Belden books over & over more than anyone else here. I Knew of no library to go to until I was in about the 5th grade, then I discovered the Woodbury County Library over in Moville, a town about 7 miles from our farm, which back then might as well have been 50 miles away for as often as I got to it. My Mom didn't drive so had to wait until my Dad was able to take time to take me or catch a ride with someone. Which alot of the time was with one of my Grandma's. Anyway during the school year the school library & county book mobile sufficed but once school was out I couldn't use it anymore until the fall. Anyway books were my way of escaping the boring life of growing up on a farm & from reading so much I probably had one of the largest vocabularies around. Anyway I was able to go back to reading this year & I fell in love with it all over again. So that is where I have been most of the time. I have also been able to keep my house a bit cleaner than before. I still have one room to get thru though. I bet the shelves in there haven't been dusted in well, forever *LOL*

Anyway typing this much has set my hands off into burning. Which they haven't felt like this since, well maybe a year ago or less by a few months. But had heard a few people had been asking about what had happened to DebbyV, well I am here, just not very often anymore.

Take care & wishing all as pain free days as is possible.

Love ya's
DebbyV

There you are!
Very glad to know you're doing OK, you know where to find us and you're catching up on the reading....yes, reading is a joy and, these days, a treat. I have to limit my reading because, if I get a book I really like, I'm liable to cancel the rest of life just to finish the book...totally one-track minded! LOL

Well, with so many Debs on the forum it's good to know which one you are ...and really good to see you back with us, don't be a stranger - but, you know, whenever...

Take care and all the best.

[Condor]

The Condor will always be The Condor. I woke up this morning being me. I am what I am.
Stephen

[daylilyfan]

I was either daylily or daylilyfan over there.... I use one or the other name everywhere I sign on. I think it was daylilyfan... topomax moments you know!

So glad to have found you all again. Being a relative newcomer (summer 2005) to the group, but still feeling a part of it - I sure missed it when it was not there!

I was not listed on the Christmas Card listing - so had no way of knowing any one was here until the old BT showed up again and someone posted about this forum.

Jules