I just make a meat sauce - using either ground beef or a mixture of ground veal and beef. I don't put mushrooms in mine, though. I've never been able to develop a taste for them - I think it's just the texture. I can find a mushroom in anything...even if it's been hidden very well!! :)

Awww....she looks like such a sweetie. I hope she'll be just fine after the abx and surgery. You know I'm praying for her!! :hug:

I'm telling you I cannot keep up with you guys! Must I stay online 24/7 to keep up? lmao I read all your posts and I know if I try I will forget someone so I will just say :hug: to all who are sick, need a hug, having a good day, having coffee, having company, going away, pets who are sick, etc.

Ok, I painted half of basement yesterday. I am going to paint the other half today. Then I will do the trim on the columns in a different color I mixed up all by myself. :yikes: I love doing that with extra paint. Just don't run out because you'll never get the right match.

Jim's doing good except the Sinemet is keeping him awake at night. I have a call into the doc for a sleeping pill for nights when he can't sleep. Not an everyday thing but is annoying when he just fell asleep at 6:30am.

Renee, sorry I missed your call yesterday. I was in the basement and I have the phones unplugged. We have so many cordless phones that it causes problems around here with dropped calls. Add in wireless internet and cell phones and we have issues. I am thinking about buying several corded phones for some rooms.

Have a good day everyone! :grouphug:

Can I brag a minute? Sometimes the VA is a pain but then there are times when someone just reaches out and does an act of kindness that strikes your heart.

Last week I bought Jim a wheelchair from Ebay. It is a power chair with a reclining back. We paid only $300 for the chair and it works great! The man who sold it to us said his dad used it only twice.

So Friday I call our friend Juan at the VA Orthotics clinic and tell him I need a new back cover and gel arm rests for Jim's power chair he obtained from the VA. I then ask him to look into an elevating leg rest kit for Jim's chair I bought off Ebay. I told him we bought it for the basement and it came with a foot platform and that doesn't work for Jim. So, I asked him to look into what he could get the leg rests for and we'd pay for them.

Today I call Juan to check on the price and he tells me he did us a favor. I said "No you didn't" and he said yes he did. He ordered the back rest cover, gel arms AND the leg rest kit for us. He didn't have to do this but he did. His act of kindness will not be forgotten. Now it's time for Jim and I to pay it forward.

Kelly, LOL! Great minds think alike. Sauce is what I'm making for dinner tonight. :)

Renee, Take care of yourself and feel better soon. :hug::hug:

Weave, :hug:

Sandy, Good luck with the basement. Hope it comes out ok.

Barb, I make meatballs for my sauce. Learned how to from my MIL. Hubby would be disappointed if I didn't make them. ;)

Holly, gotta love the "wow, you're interesting" when docs say it. :rolleyes: Hope they can get down to the answers for ya soon. :hug:

Everyone, :grouphug::grouphug:

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Thanks for your prayers everyone! Feeling a little better today and there seems to be some improvement, keeping fingers crossed.

Not doing much today. I was up until about 4am, and then up again around 11am. Just going to putter around the house and keep warm. In the 30s. brrrr.

Too cool !!!!!! :Dancing-Chilli:

thats fantastic Sandy and Jim, cool

good news always welcomed

It's called Karma, Sandy!! You've obviously done something kind for someone along the way and you're reaping the benefits. And you and Jim will get just as good a feeling paying it forward as you did when you received!

I love paying it forward...especially when I can remain anonymous and still get to watch the recipient!!

So....whatcha gonna do? Do you need my address? :D :p

that's cool, Sandy ....I know that you are thankful and will (and have done) do something forward ...

it's fun doing nice things and catching people 'off-guard' ... ;)

My goodness, so much has been going on with you all!!! Hard to keep up!!

I haven't been posting much lately...felt really awful last Thurs-Sat., and then was busy Sunday trying to finish up cleaning up the yard and pond, frustrated beyond measure, because DH and I were working in that awful wind...
I have been having such a difficult time dealing with spasticity and muscle pain that I can't seem to sleep well...last night was the first night I slept almost the full night. I don't quite know what's going on with the body, but I am not happy with it...but can't find a new model:rolleyes:
I am so bummed!! I live in the Chicago area, worked on the Obama senate campaign, donated and worked on his presidential campaign, and can't get tickets to the rally in downtown Chicago on Election Night...:(

So many family issues to deal with lately...I think it's really the main reason I'm not sleeping well. Son left his wife, is now living with us...we all love his wife...but he doesn't want to continue in the marriage :(. She's beside herself...
Another son quit his full time job, decided he wants to go back to school to get his teaching degree, moved with his new wife into a smaller apartment (only minutes from us), and he's not moving to get into school quickly...grrr.

Then yesterday I got a call from my nephew's wife...my sister is so sick with heart disease that she had to quit work as a nurse...they're thinking of moving her out of her house and into one of her son's houses...we don't communicate often, and when I called her house yesterday, it was not in service...tried to look it up online, but was unsuccessful.
Of course, with the messiah complex I have, I want to jump in and take care of her...but even though she's a nurse and almost died from a heart attack, she still smokes...which I won't allow in my house. So I am very worried about her, and frustrated that I can't get a hold of her. I wrote a letter to her and will mail it tomorrow...hoping she calls me.

I vote for McDonald's coffee...it is now the best...I used to have Dunkin Donuts coffee at the top of my list, but can't pass up Micky D's:D

Hope all of you have a wonderful week...and it's my baby girl's 24th birthday!! Can't believe it's been that long!!!She's a wonderful blessing...