ok vonnie now that, that is settle get back to sewing and paiting lol congrats on the place and your choice

afternoon insight:

yes ... getting moved and unpacked into a nice place .. and get the sewing machine set up .. and painting ...

thanks again ...

Frank - settle back?? gosh - you're sure a funny fella!

Renee, hope you feeling better..and less pain hugsss gentle hugssss

Vonn, happy you got a place....keep working hard on that schooling...and soon we will have to get together...hgusss

Cayo, sorry wow...what tragic stuff going on over there...glad they found hte bad guys...hugsss sorry you had to go thru the worrys....

Frank, you are getting spankings by us here if wifey says you have misbehaved?? hahahaa

Franks wifey....surely we will all keep him in line for you.... glad to see you posting...I am not on very often..as between full time job and five kids..well that is enough without these symptoms and troubles...nice to read your post...hugsssssss

To all...I didnt get to read all thru....gotta run soon...dropping the two older girls off to a movie...when hubby gets home we are cleaning our bedroom together....(his idea woohooo for him to think about cleaning...) maybe he has plans after the bedroom is clean hehehehehe

hugss to all...and thanks for always being here for me to update and to get support...I love you all...no matter what know I read and think of you all tons..even if I dont get personals typed out..hgussss,sarah

Oh Sandy and whomever else mentioned baby fever..yes it broke yesterday..she is all set...not sure what she was fighting....oh well done yeahhhhhh

Hi everyone.

Didn't get a chance to post this morn. LOL, my internet was out and it wasn't on our end. I'm just going to resign myself to the fact that murphey's law applies to my home sometimes.

Taking a break from my project. starting to see the results. Which I really need cuz I'm trying real hard not to be down at myself for not being able to do it in the time I used to. My energy is down, but my motivation is there. *sigh* Don't know if I'll ever get used to this "new" normal, but a trying.

Hope everyone has had a good day.

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Kay, glad they caught the guys. Been worried about you.

Vonn, I didn't even think about the use of gas with your choices. Oh my, I'm glad you were able to get the one closer to everything.

Renee, Hope you feel better soon. Sorry to hear about the insurance fiasco going on. Hope something comes your way soon.

Sarah, glad to hear the little one's fever broke.

TK, LOL - sounds like me. One of our rooms is my art studio part time.

Kay,

I'm so glad they caught the murderers. I hope they punish them severely to deter that from happening again in your community.

NaeNae,

Sorry you're feeling under the weather. I hope you get help soon.

Vonn,

I'm so happy that you finally have a nice place to live.

Barb,

No bad storms here, they seem to go north and south in our county (knock on wood!)

Hi to everybody else, love to hear about your daily lives. It's so comforting somehow.

About that cake I made for Sunday... It was RICH, so I'm glad it's gone. The boys took most of it home with them. I rarely ever bake anymore, except for DH's birthday and DSs' birthdays. Also, to take a dessert to pass at the holidays.

DH and I are on the heart healthy diet with low saturated fat, lots of fresh fruits and veggies, lean chicken and fish, whole grains, etc... The good fats are EV olive oil which DH cooks with, plus we have fresh avocado in our salads five nights a week. It takes awhile to get used to it, but now it really tastes good.

It took awhile to get DH agree to start eating this way, but now that we do, we both feel better. Since cancer and heart disease run in his family, and high blood pressure, type II diabetes and autoimmune diseases in my family, we had to do it to protect our health.

Frank, We use Smart Balance too, I love it! Their peanut butter is yummy too, and so good for you!

Today I did the push mowing outside, since it was my day off. DH does the riding part. I also pulled a few weeds and trimmed some tree branches. I slept until 11:30am, vegged until 3:30, then did my work. I'm sitting here vegging again now. So, at least I got something done today.

Good morning all Hope everyone's doing ok this morning. I'll share my coffee if anyone needs it.

I can't wait until hubby gets home. I have not been sleeping well this week at all. Not sure if it's because he's away or because of something else. Ah well. I keep on a trucking.

Off to do some running around here soon. Take care everyone.

Hey Jenn .. having my coffee with you ...

waiting to hear about moving in today ... and getting my internet set up at the new place ...

that's about it ... and get the sewing machine roaring and paintbrush swishing ... and still downsizing ...

hope everyone has a great day ... going to be a scorcher here - so I have to take it a bit easy with the moving!!

Good Morning everyone! I am off to a doctor's appointment in a little while (think I may have a sinus infection) and then I have a Weight Watcher's meeting. I did not do too well this week. All of my MS symptoms seems to have intensified. I feel like I am being stabeed in my upper leg everytine I walk.

Vonn, Hope the move is going ok. A view of the lake sound wonderful. I love to just sit and stare at water ( lakes, ocean), but for some reason staring at my bathtub does not work

Jenn, Keep that running to a minimun.

Hope everyone has a good day!

It's been awhile checking in for me. I've just been reading lately. So much is going on for all of you.

I'm so happy Vonn got her lake front place (that's the one I was rooting for!).

Kay - I'm so glad they caught the bad guys in Belize, but so sorry you had to deal with that.

Renee - I'm so sorry about the pain and the crappy health care choices you have now. Is it possible for you to get some steroids to get you through? I don't like taking the roids, but they are cheap, easily available and have always helped me a great deal. Even if you can't get an infusion, you could always do the oral in high dose or even get the liquid solumedrol and do a smoothie like some people do.

OK that was all my brain could retain of the pages I just read. Those were the things that stuck out in my mind. Everyone else seemed to be doing OK from what I could remember.

Speaking of remembering things, that isn't going so well for me. I'm actually getting a little bid scared about how bad my cognitive function has become. I just cannot keep track of anything and I don't have time to figure out how to revamp things to make it easier.

You know the old saying that goes something like "if everything is coming at you, you are in the wrong lane"? Well, that is my life right now and I'm getting kind of bitter. I sit here and try to figure out what I am doing wrong because things just keep going bad. I figured that I have ticked off the universe in some way or another.

I am having serious financial issues right now that stem from a couple of years worth of bad life events. Every time I think I am starting to make headway toward digging myself out, something else happens.

Yesterday, my husband's car died. It is repairable, but the cost is something mind blowing to me. It's his transmission and the estimate is somewhere between $1,600 and $2,600.

This stupid car isn't even that old - it's a 2002 and only has ~ 90,000 miles on it. I have had cars with 150,000 miles on them without having to have a transmission rebuilt. Maybe I have just been lucky up until now, maybe this is normal for this age / mileage, but I'm kind of really ticked off at Chevrolet right now, though.

The part that really sucks is that the car isn't even paid off yet. We bought it off of my brother when he was stationed in Korea and then Japan, so we have only owned it for a couple of years. I don't see any option except to bite the bullet and get it fixed, but that just makes me want to cry more than normal.

I love having my Grandma living with us, but I won't lie and say that it is all easy. There are days when I feel like I'm walking on egg shells and there is a lot of stress with trying to get everyone adjusted to this. I'm having some behavior issues with my boys between lack of routine due to summer and adjusting to sharing a room again and just plain old jealousy of my attention being so divided.

This would be hard for someone who is healthy and not dealing with mind blowing fatigue and spasticity. I just wanted to run away the other day. I'm sad, tired, stressed out, scared about the future, and just generally feel like crud.

good morning everyone

i am up and about ... frank is still asleep
hes been working so hard on the kitchen ... it looks great but i worry about him cause i know he is overextending himself ... he wont listen to me when i tell him to give the kitchen work a break for a day ... so much to do and he wants it done now ... lol

barb ... i hope your doctors appointment goes well

vonn ... i am glad you got to choose the place ... and with a lake view too ... sounds soooo calming ...

beth ... frank and i are just starting on the diet changes needed for eating healthy ... so far the changes havent been too hard as we did eat kinda helthy ... biggest change for frank was the butter issue and fried foods ... i will tackle the fried food issues in the fall/winter as we are grilling most nights here ...

sandy ... how are you and jim doing ... every day i tell frank i wanna go fishing ... hint hint ... who knows maybe someday he will bring me down there to fish and we could visit ...

to everyone ... again good morning and heres to good friends and good coffee .... hope everyones day is good