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Tap I was kind of wondering the same things Ebony ask....have you looked into a similar position in the area DH would like to stay in? I understand not making the decision solely on the fact that the kids are there right now, but at the same time, I totally "get" the wanting to be there. Ebony, our stories are quite similar! Rick and I were not HS sweethearts, but we went to school together since 4th grade! Several years after HS we hooked up, lived together awhile, and then the economy here dived, and he moved to attend college. I stayed here, to raise my DD---where she had family etc. We both made more mistakes, and eventually found our way back to one another. We did the long distance thing for a long time---hard but WELL worth it. Then we had to make a decision---for me to move to the city, or him to come here to the sticks! Our final decision was based on the families. Our parents are both in the area, and getting older, and needing some help. We had kids here, so he moved back "home". Back when that call was made, we had plans to "retire" early to our place in TX. Now, we are so spoiled to having the grandkids right here with us, and feel like we add to their lives too....I just don't know if I see us following through on the retirement plan or not!!! It is a hard call Tap, and the hard thing is, there is no right or wrong for either of you. What you feel cannot be wrong. Might be hard for others to understand, but it is YOUR emotion, it cannot be wrong. Michelle, hope the little one feels much better. There were cops EVERYWHERE on the drive home from the game tonight! It is 12 miles away---and we saw 8 different cops with people pulled over! All of them traffic stops tho--no accidents, that is so sad..what you saw I mean. Well I am going to go read for awhile, and relax. Won our game by 1 point! 11-10!!! We were up by 8 at one point and they rallied. Then it was a series of 3 up-3 down, for 12 batters in a row! First ours, then theirs! It was a great game tho, well matched, and good attitudes all around. Lots of fun! g'night all!

I let the dark rainy weather convince me it was earlier than it really is---so gotta rush!!! DS said no to the transfer, it may cost him his job, but he was unwilling to take his current family that far away, and he has a DD from his first marriage, he was not willing to be so far from. Good choice!!! Michelle sorry DD is sick----that sucks SO bad! Kinsey is hanging in there, she just got over strept throat. We are worried about the H1N1, but what can you do besides stay on top of things. We are wanting to take her and Connor and leave Friday night to go down to Albuquerque to the Balloon Fiesta. Hundreds and hundreds of hot air balloons, all shapes and sizes, amazing thing to see! Have to see if both kids are well....and Papa and I!!! Will try to check in tonight, we have a game, but it is storming, so hoping they cancel, it is a late (8:30) game-------will be cold and damp. yuck Oh and Diva, I have no doubt he will act "cool" and be ok--but I just lost respect for him due to his smug attitude. Some of it is cultural differences, but not all of it. It did rub me wrong for sure!! See ya later!

Is rainy and windy here too-----hoping like crazy it clears before Saturday! We are going down to Albuquerque on Friday night, to be there for the balloon Fiesta. Hundreds of hot air balloons----all shapes and sizes, amazing thing to see, and you can walk among them. Many, many times, DH gets hollered at for help holding something, grabbing a line. We are taking the middle grandkids. a 3 year old and a 4 year old. They get along SOOOOO well, it is almost scary! They are cousins, not siblings, so when we go for a weekend, or when they get time together it is different, and there is not an over exposure kind of thing! The 4 year old went with us last year, during a small balloon rally, so she knows what the balloons are and how big they are, she just has no idea of the amount she will see. The grandson, has birthday party balloons in his head! He will be such fun. We had an old family video on the other night of his Grandpa wrestling a steer to the ground, and I had seen it when it happened as well as having seen the video before, but the grandson watching it was priceless! Huge eyes, and oh so impressed with Papa!! Ebony---I hope this job is the PERFECT one for you! It would get you totally out of the work place you are now, and that would be wonderful!!! Better get moving, it is so dark out with the weather it is deceptive with time!

Lookin' good Jenn!!!! Think we are all on about the same page with the H1N1---we are concerned for my granddaughter, when she gets sick she goes down hard and fast. She was a preemie, and has done well, but the pediatrician, actually even put her on a delayed course with her immunizations---so we are praying for good things with her, but too afraid of the shot to give it to her. DH and I are both considered high risk, him because of the heart valve, and my cancer history....so we would "qualify" but think we will both avoid it. Will take the regular, as we do each year. A couple of years ago, he got really sick, not too long after his flu shot, but they said he was likely incubating the virus prior to getting the shot, that there is no live germ in the shot anymore, so while it can cause reaction it cannot cause illness. I usually blow off what they say, but my Uncle reinforced it, so we have continued to get the regular one. He is not saying much about this one....will try to pick his brain a bit more. He is a MD. Was kind of a crappy day at work, my boss pissed me off, but more than pissing me off, he disappointed me in being petty, and holier than thou acting. I don't give a rats ass if he has DR in front of his name, he is NOT any better than anyone else, regardless what he might think! We have a fire going, and it is feeling good finally. We took a motorcycle ride tonight! We rode about 30 miles along the river, to look at colors. Was chilly but not cold....then we stopped for dinner, and the ride home was COLD!!! LOL Have you heard from your DH yet Heart?? Shalee----I love the name as well, I love the story, but I too read sappy romance novels!! I read EVERYTHING! Horror, fiction, non fiction, romance, heck even cereal boxes!!! Well, I am off to the shower. One more full day of work, then a half day--then get this, the office is closed on Friday and I am OFF!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!! See ya in the morning!

It is really sad the things that are being removed or reworked in the school systems. I saw the lists of what all is required to be taken---copy paper? And 36 pencils? WTH??? I know there was an article in the paper here not long ago about a town nearby that no longer has any music or art classes of any kind, and got in trouble because a parent bought enough supplies to come in and let the kids make a clay sculpture each to bake and take home. No cost to the school system, but took study time away. Somehow we managed to have an art class, and study, and go to music, and PE, and even have an assembly now and then! Part of the problem of kids not being able to think for themselves and structure their time, is from not ever having any options in that manner. Then again, I know when I was in school, teachers could also punish a kid for misbehaving, and that is gone too. Seems so wierd! Cindy, I would have no idea of the flash of light in the car. Was another car or place close enough it could have been a kid with a laser light or something? My Mom and brother saw a ball of lightning one day as they were driving, and it was not storming out at all! They come home talking about it, seriously freaked out! Then that night it was on the news that several people saw it, and the only explanation given was that it was possibly a strange phenomenon of ball lightning. Then again, we live in an area where they supposedly found a crashed UFO with bodies inside....they have a UFO symposium every year, and have a big to do at the crash site. Maybe they saw another!!! Is this week over yet??? I cannot believe it is only Tuesday! I am sore....and tired....and don't wanna go to work!!! Guess I better tho. Think I actually get to come home after work---good thing, I have TONS of laundry. Oh joy..... LOL

Shalee/Kelly (I too thought it was her name, and I love the name!!!)---anyway---girl it is time for a new avatar, you look awesome!!! Glad you had such a good time even tho you froze! DH and I do our best to go along with one another to things of that nature. Won the ball game tonight, was nice. The other team actually played ball as well, some of them just win by making you walk them, they refuse to hit the ball---and it sucks!!! This team played ball and was a good match up for ability. Suzanne, I know weight messes with your mind, I know it will always be a part of what defines us, and while like Jane, I hope that is not what I am remembered by first, I am sure it will always be a part of me. I mean if someone is describing me, it is going to be part of how they distinguish me from someone else. Same as me being tall, or light or dark hair. I think how we take the description is our OWN issue. Same as when describing someone, often times race is mentioned, it is not done so as a form of racism, but is often taken that way....and that is because the person being described feels lessened by the description, whether it is meant that way or not. Make any sense?? Jane, I can think of so many ways to describe you without your weight coming into it! Now your height.....LOL just kidding! You have to be one of the happiest, most caring, kind hearted, beautiful people I have ever met. And you have such a great attitude....even when stranded in an innertube, you could laugh and worry about other people. I would have been cursing a blue streak!!! LOL Well I am off to bed, for some reason I cannot seem to get enough sleep lately. I will come take your DD's naps for them!!!

Gotta run to the ball game, just wanted to say to Taps-----CONGRATS!! Grandbabies are the BEST! We need some details----you don't have to give away his identity (LOL) but you know!!! Enjoy and snuggle all you can, there is nothing like the love between a grandparent and child, and some of mine are technically steps--but you know what they grew in my heart same as the others!!! BBL!!

Suzanne, my MIL is not all bad--she is a loving Mom --she is the type that her children NEVER do any wrong. She raised perfect children who never fought, who never raised their voices at her, and her marriage was always ideal, etc. Now to hear the kids talk, she is living in an imaginary world!!! So most of the criticism I get from her is if I say something about going out to eat----that is terrible! I should cook for her son, he works hard all day, she always had a meal cooked for her DH, no matter what schedule he worked. I believe her, but she has never, not one day of her life worked outside the home. She "worked" for him, doing books for a couple of years when he first began his own business, but then they hired that out, and she was a wife and Mom....which I totally support, but she has no idea of how her claims do not fit in with my life. Now she is well into her 80's and she is getting grouchy beyond belief! She wants things her way, she is not up for discussion, and she has it in her head my FIL's health and mental faculties are failing....and is mad at us kids for not listening. His biggest problem is his hearing, he cannot hear, so answers things goofy. He refuses to spend $5K on hearing aids at his age he says. I think they are both failing, as you would expect at 80+ years of age. I love them both, and cope with the outbursts by remembering who she was in years past, and by knowing, I would fight to protect my "cubs" and that is pretty much what she is doing too.... Tracy, sorry you are dealing with crap with the ex. I feel for you, I feel for you for the need for an attorney. The whole mess stinks. When we battled the paternity, custody, visitation, and maintenance with DH's ex, we spent well over $ 50,000.00. Closer to $60K. Makes my stomach sick. And what did we get for it? One simple thing, and that is peace of mind in its own way. I would still have preferred giving it to the attorney than giving it to her in maintenance. And we do have a lien on her house.....so we just sit and be quiet, and pay, and pay, and pay........afterall that was all he was wanted for in the first place, why should that change now??? Courts, not a nice place to be! Will be praying for a good outcome for you. One thing about it, with this economy, there are going to be so many people with foreclosures on their records, it is not going to be viewed as the definitive black mark it had always been seen with before, if you know what I mean. People of all ages, races, educational backgrounds, employment backgrounds etc. got caught up in this flip on the cost of their homes, and have foreclosures on their records. Hang in there, get legal advice, and Cover Your A$$!!! Well it is a Monday----yuck. Seriously do not want to go to work. She is such a grouch on Mondays. Oh well---the best thing I can say about it is that it is payday! LOL Better go get finished getting ready. Have a great day everyone. Game tonight, so will check in late.

I am just the opposite --- I love the show!!! Now I have never ask them for help, and have "questioned" a few of the recipients----but it is still a decent show I feel like. It is much more uplifting to watch people be rewarded for doing good things, such as tonights, where they took in 4 nieces and nephews, as opposed to rewarding people for who can eat the grossest things, or be conniving enough to beat out someone else. It is part of my Sunday night line up.....but I don't expect you to watch if ya don't wanna!!! LOL To each their own. My Best Friends loves the Survivor shows----I just shake my head in disbelief!!! Then again my DH LOVES the political crap, and I cannot stand all the constant back stabbing and BS!! And the arguing, gets on my nerves in nothing flat! No wonder we have so many channels to choose from!!! LOL G'night all....

I've been off doing the family birthday thing. My Dad, his Dad, and our youngest DD all had birthdays today! We had a big gathering last night, both siblings of Ricks from Denver were in, so we had a big dinner, I made a huge pot of pulled pork, it went over really well, lots of compliments. Always makes ya feel good! Then today we took my Dad out. My family was invited to the big bash at his folks, but Rick has a SUPER LOUD family. My parents are much more layed back, they are not used to the volume his family reaches, and kids (18-25) wrestling around, and babies crying etc. They opted to stay home, and we went to dinner today! With just the kids, and my brother, them and us. Then we ended up back at Rick's folks house for the end of the game, and it was chaos like I cannot even describe. His Mom and Dad and one sister are die hard Cowboy fans, Rick, or son and his brother are equally die hard Bronco fans. How they kept from scaring the bejusus out of the new baby I have no idea, they yelled, and argued, and laughed and jumped up and down.....was a bit, shall we say, WILD! We were happy with the outcome....and I will say it here, it made it a special win to me because Ricks Mom is so obnoxious in her cheering for the other team. She acts hateful over it, like it is a personal thing. Made me chuckle over it if nothing else did!!! My stomach is still trashed out. I cannot seem to eat without it causing me to bloat up, and then causing bathroom issues. Sorry TMI I know, but I am not sure why, or what the problem is. I know it is exhausting me, I slept for 10 hours last night and could go to bed now without a problem. But tonight is my TV night----Extreme Home Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers and Sisters. I seriously doubt I will make it through them all, good thing I can come back and watch them later. Rick is still feeling bad as well, his has morphed into some sinus problems as well tho. I do know I am losing weight with the problem, which is all good, but I also know I am not getting the nutrition I need from the food I am eating, and that is not good. And I have been behaving for the most part. I had 3 birthdays, and had one small cupcake, no ice cream nothing else!!! Not due to willpower, just due to not feeling like any of it sounded good to me. Yeah, I must still be sick. Food always sounds good! Well my shows are starting!!!

Running late.....slept like a log, feeling a little better this morning, heading to work. I think I got it in a milder form, but maybe I am just less wimpy I tell him!!! We have family in for the weekend, both Dads and youngest DD birthdays on Sunday. So today is working, then shopping, then family. Will be back as I can. Hugs to you all, and tchr, read my signature, the prednisone was part (only part, but a BIG part I think) of my regaining weight!!!

Woke up feeling better this morning. Rick said I was sound asleep before he even come in from brushing his teeth last night! I did sleep ALL night----feel better for it this morning. I work a shorter day today, although we do not break for lunch today---we work straight through til 2. Then I am meeting DH in town and doing our birthday shopping....and then it is off to family time. I enjoy the ones coming, I am not meaning to make it sound like a chore, I guess while I feel better the extreme grouchiness is still with me!! LOL Will try to catch up and stop in later!

NO not the flu, just a stomach virus---one that has made me miserable, and then the OM at work is making it worse. I actually went to work today, and it will not make me sad if she catches what I have... and I swear to you, if I hear that she is taking off sick, I will spring and go to the Dr for some unknown whatever, just to make life miserable for her! She has taken joy in being hateful lately, and making rude comments, to both the bookkeeper and I, we just kinda look at each other like WTH???!!!! Anyway, we have family coming for the weekend. It is both Dads, and our youngest DD's birthdays on Sunday, so I HAVE to go shopping, and seriously do not want to. Feeling better tonight, going to bed early, lots of rest, tried to drink as much as I could without overloading my stomach today-----so far so good! Jane wish you were closer---I seriously need a cut! See y'all tomorrow.

Ignore you Ebony? Nah, I might however have a giggle at your expense!!! hehehehe Feeling exhausted. Ready to go to bed, the meds calmed my stomach, so that is all good. I am waiting for DH to finish his piddling around, doing odd jobs so we can go to bed. It is supposed to freeze hard tonight, first time for the year, so he is doing final winterizing stuff. He built me a fire, so I lovvvvvves him!!! I have been freezing all day. Will check in tomorrow. We have family coming in for the weekend, so will not be on much. We have both our Dads, and our youngest DD's birthdays on Sunday. Going to be a busy weekend, and I do not feel like doing anything. I have yet to shop...... I think we are finally off to bed. See ya tomorrow.

I agree totally Plain, why he should get any special treatment is beyond me. An in actuality I suppose he is not getting special treatment. My own personal experience with sentencing is that it is totally bogus and can be changed on a whim. My ex was sentenced to 15-20 years, and they began allowing him to petition the parole board after 6 years! I spent a lot of time and worry fighting it. WHY??? As the victim, I spent my money, and my time, and they spent our tax money allowing him to fight for freedom that he had removed for his actions. The ONLY reason he did not get it, is because he cannot behave any better IN prison, than he did out of it, and kept getting in trouble. I am begining to wonder if there is anything that does not need reforming!!!

I looked in at it this morning, but no new posts since Fanny's yesterday, so I come over here, did not notice if it was closed or not. I recieved nothing as far as a notification, not that I should, but just saying, I didn't! I caught DH's crap. Went to the Dr. got some disolvable pills for the nausea, and feel crummy. My OM is being a witch about me being off, so I am going to work today, and gonna breath on her!! We have a game tonight, I am not going, I am coming home to bed. Will try to check in then.... have a good day all

I have found the answer...I KNOW it is the wrong answer tho! I am sick---cannot eat or drink much of anything. I went to the Dr. yesterday he gave me the Zofran that dissolves on your tongue for the nausea. Is helping some. Is supposed to help enough for the meds he give me for the other issue. Not helping at all, I think the Immodium OTC stuff works as well. Anyway, without eating, I am losing weight, can you imagine??? LOL I am going to try to work today, the OM was pissy about me being off yesterday---told Rick makes me want to go in and breath on her! Otherwise, all is about the same here, Rick is still working, waiting on the other job, the guy he knows that is there that he used to work with--he saw him when he went in for his interview said it was 2 months before they actually hired him from the original interest. Which is fine. If his current work runs him off he gets some severence, and if he can get on soon after it will all work out, I am turning it over, I cannot stress over it, especially since it does nothing to the outcome whatsoever! Enjoy Disneyland Pamela! I hope Mickey does not let you down. Guess I will go get ready for work.....fun.

Jenn, I hate that you are so down on everything. You sound a bit "all over the place" right now! I have a suggestion....maybe a question.... You say you need to move, that you want to be in the South, but as I understand it, you cannot move with a clear conscience right now with your DD's age. I respect that decision. If NY has always been her home, she deserves to be allowed to finish out her schooling there. But WAY more important than WHERE she is is HOW she is, and she needs you to be stable, and secure, and a safety net for HER right now. So my point or question or whatever it is, is this----you are in a well populated area, and there have to be transplants there from the south. What about on line? Lots of people meet their partners on line! Some of our personal friends even!!! Point being----on line would get you to be able to learn about this person with lots of communication, no fears of it moving too fast, or fears of them meeting face to face with Kev at this stage of the game, or even meeting your kids at this time. It would allow you to feel desired, and yet not pressured. I am a HUGE believer in communication. Long story as short as possible.... Rick and I went to school together from 4th grade on. We never dated til 6 years after graduating. Then we lived together for awhile, and I knew I loved him like no other. But work was much like it is now, and he was headed to college in Colorado, and my divorce did not allow me to leave the county much less the state---and like you that was the right thing for my DD. So we went our separate ways. Fast forward some really bad times for both of us, and he is still in CO and I am still here, and we reconnect, finally both single at the same time. We did the long distance relationship for 3 years! This was before cell phones were a dime a dozen, before free long distance, before everyone had internet. We talked on the phone for a few minutes almost every day. And we wrote letters---real pen to paper letters, every day. Mail was my life line, I loved Wed. hated Tues, and Sun. Mail does not run on Sun, so not only did I not get a letter that day, one did not mail out, so Tuesday (took 2 days to get from Denver to here!) I didn't get a letter. BUT on Wed. I got both Sun & Mon.'s!! LOL Some letters were long, and emotional, some were silly, but most were just written down thoughts we were having at the time. We got to where we ended each letter with a question----any question----and the other had to answer then. Was fun coming up with them, and it was incredible how many times the letters crossed with the same question. I saved every letter I ever got from him. I did not know until the day we moved him here from Denver, he saved his too. We still have them. When you write, whether it is email, or in letters, you learn about the person, their hopes, dreams, beliefs, and desires. When you talk on the phone, you learn about the person. When a couple is together in the early stages of dating---you can go to a movie---but it really pisses people off if you sit there and TALK! And you can go to a club where you have to yell to TALK! And if you are not careful you end up in bed before you have much time to really TALK about anything! And there sets a pattern. I am not in any way saying you are hopping into bed with the guys you are dating. I am honestly speaking from my own life---it was way too easy as an adult to get into a relationship that was not what I wanted, but was instead just what I had gotten myself into, because it just seemed the natural order of things in the dating world. If that makes any sense. In order to change something.....you have to change something. Maybe it is time to look into a little different way of learning about yourself by learning about someone else in a new way. I say all this with nothing more than a desire to see you find someone who will make you truly happy....and the first someone you have to find to accomplish that is yourself! Each day you make it through this break with Kev, is a day further away from the sickness he brings into your life. While it may not be his fault, it is not yours either, and to keep dealing with his highs and lows is punishing you and your kids unjustly. Mark a big X on the calendar, and know while it might not have been a great day, it is one you are further away. Hang in there Jenn, and take some time to find happiness in some way. It really IS worth the effort! YOU are worth the effort!

There is such a fine line...I am personally glad I do not have to draw it. I would never in any situation, want a child to be being abused and it not be taken seriously. On the other hand, they have figured out, as have manipulating parents, how to work the system, for financial gain, or to hurt the other party as in divorce. I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, kids, love them or not, lie through their teeth. My youngest "step daughter" (long seriously pissy story) sat with a judge and told everything from little twists on the truth to whoppers! And what do you do? Her Mom coached her, of that we have no doubt---but where do you draw the line? We personally drew it, right then and there, we were scared spitless of what the next lie might be, and which one of us would land in jail trying to defend ourselves, when nothing had happened. We would never have expected it, but when we walked in the court room that day we never expected to hear the lies we heard either! So.....I am glad I only had to deal with our own case, and am not expected to make laws and regulations for everyone else! I ran a day care for 20 years. Began in my house and grew into a stand alone business. Things changed so drastically! When I first licensed myself in my home, I had an inspector in my home for 10 minutes max, including the yard. He gave me a pamphlet with guidlelines, and a contact # if I wanted to do state sponsored day care. By the time I sold the business, there was a manual, and mandatory class time. There was an entire chapter of the manual, dedicated to diaper changing, which consisted of 17 steps! Another entire chapter on food, and how and when a child can eat. When I began, they ate when they were hungry!! Now I keep no kids except the grandkids. And they are so busy citing rules from school, I have no idea when they actually learn anything else! Strange scary world we are creating! Diva Irene---I am so glad to have you here! LOL I still flip flop you back and forth from being Irene to simply being Diva!!! She does not have her avatar on here, but she is a beautiful girl---and she has ALWAYS been fair minded, and helpful---I am glad to consider her my friend. Although.....you can have my pumpkin stuff--I was heartbroke when they took away my Toffee cappucino and put in pumpkin! My calorie count has improved drastically tho!!! Feeling crappy. I am taking Zofron to keep the nausea at bay......staying home. Went to the Dr for it, so the throwing up can be controlled. And they want a Dr.'s excuse at work. Puhleeze! I have not been late, or taken off without THEM being gone....and they cop an attitude. DH was so pissed off he keeps telling me to quit. But aside from her attitude she cops here and there, I like my job. And really like the extra $$$!! Suz----wish I had wise words for you. Drug addictions are so difficult, because it is like dealing with so many different personalities, depending on if they are using, and what they are using.....sorry! Tracy----how's the girlie? Had to laugh, when I read your post, I realized, I am not really a slow loser.....just a slow learner! I KNOW what to do....it is just doing it! They weighed me in at the Dr., and it was not as bad as I was fearing. I am only 11 pounds off what I was when I was there last....and that was with the twisted intestine. So I am almost where I was a year ago. So while I have not been losing even more for a year, I am pretty happy here, and I was not at my high weight for yet another year. I WILL get the last 15 pounds or so off, and learn to keep it off!!!

Suzanne---what's going on with the kids? What did I miss? I am so sorry....I hate when I miss key things! Not sure yet if I am going in to work or not. Thinking I might be getting Ricks germs. I am unable to get very far from the bathroom at this point---sorry TMI I know, but if it hits this way as opposed to throwing up, my band and I will be forever grateful. Still----talk about miserable! Poor Macy, I hate coughing. There is an otc liquid cough syrup we use. It is in a brown bottle, with a purple lable, and it is called Cough and Bronchial Syrup, I cannot remember the maker....let me go see if I can dig up a bottle. I can't find it, I think I took it to my Dad. It is homeopathic---and you take it every 20 minutes til the cough calms down. It does not put me to sleep, and it helps like nothing else. I will call in a little bit and see if he has the bottle to get the name. Got up to walk in there, and my stomach is acting up......grrrrrrr. Otherwise I don't feel too badly. Going to go get ready, in case I can go. See ya laterz!

Ebony!!! It DOES seem like just a short time ago, you were just as shocked and happy over fitting a 16----girl you are melting!!! So happy for you! Seriously, isn't it the best feeling!!!??? I had kids who sassed.....not all of them my own! I did own a day care! I think the very worst of all of the kid things was my oldest DD, and her rolling her damned eyes at me! I threatened to knock her into next week where those eyes would stay permanently rolled back! Drove me nuts! She would not say to my face I was full of it----but those rolling eyes sure said it, and man did it piss this Mama off!!! LOL Well I keep saying on all my threads I need to go get some housework done, I think I am all done checking in now so better go do it, it is almost my bedtime!

OK Ms. Tracy, my star vote has been added!! Rick is feeling some better, fever has gone thank goodness! Did I tell you about the patient we had, she coughed so hard with this flu stuff, she detached her retina!!!! OMG---scary! We aren't supposed to repeat ourselves amongst the threads???? Uh oh! LOL! I have different people on each thread, I HAVE to repeat myself!!! Well I am off to do some housework. Hang in there Jenn-----another day behind you, and they WILL get easier! See y'all in the morning I Hope.....means I have to get my lazy butt out of bed at a decent time!! LOL

Fighting the flu here at our house too....DH. He has been sick for several days---I am SO ready for him to be well, and life be back to normal. I am praying hard I don't get it. He threw up hard, and dry heaved for hours. That scares the crap outta me! I have anti nausea meds, but it did nothing to help him, he threw them up before they had a chance in hell of helping! I made jokes about it, but he was SO sick, his poor chopper got left out in the cold for 2 nights! It has only spent the night outside at rallies! LOL Well.....I need to get some things done, no matter how I try the DW has not learned to load itself, or the laundry to put itself away..... Welcome back Glou....missed you.

Hey girls-- Just a few minutes then I have to get to work. Rick is so sick.....it is scary! They said there is a 50/50 chance it is H1N1---or it could be a standard every year variety of the influenza virus. I don't know if I told you this or not, but he was (is) SO sick, he actually had left his chopper out on the sidewalk for days! He moved it so we could unload wood, and then he left and went in and threw up the first time, and it was on.....he has been a sick puppy ever since! Normally that bike is not sitting outside in the elements! He could not move it. Son finally put it away. Then yesterday his fever spiked, well late last night, and he was talking to me about a rabbit he was looking out the window for. I finally got him to sit down and his fever registered at 104.2! OMG! I called the nurse hot line, and they had me get him in a nice warm shower--NOT cold! But when he got out, to let as much water simply evaporate from his body as I could, and if the fever was not below 103 they wanted me to call 911. In the meantime, I am giving him drinks of Gatorade in the shower!!! And she told me to give him aspirin, not his Tylenol. As an adult it was ok. Within an hour his fever was down to 100. Scary crap. I am a bit worried about going to work. But I did yesterday and he was fine, it was late night, early morning this happen. He woke me from a a sound sleep rattling the blinds to look for the rabbit!!!! Jenn, if you have mucus issues, and get tight again, try drinking something as hot as you can stand-------remember when I plugged off my stoma??? Dr, at the fill center was on the money with that suggestion, it eased very very quickly! Give Macy hugs---poor darlin'!!! Suzanne, don't let them work you too much---or you will end up joining the ranks of the ailing! I am a sanitizing fool, but fear it is useless, all these people think they might as well come to the eye dr. whether they are sick or not. Grrrrrrr We did actually have one woman we sent straight to surgery, she coughed so hard, she detached a retina! Youch!!! Gotta run! Hugs!

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