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pegster · #61 04-10-2005, 08:03 PM

OH! Judy, I love your new bedroom!!!! Just beautiful.
Peg

tiashanty · #62 04-10-2005, 08:30 PM

What a difference a day can make. Yesterday was gorgeous and I was outside in capris and a t-shirt. Today it's cold cold I had on a winter coat and wished I had worn gloves while walking the dogs. Can't believe it. I did make use of the weather yesterday though and got the grass cut and some weeding done. There never seems to be enough time on the weekends to get everything done. It's the first time since October that I've been without my support hose all day and I paid for it last night. One of my veins is just sticking straight out and has a red ring around it. I was told by the specialist that means a clot is trying to form. So, it's back to the old iron stockings. I can't wait until Apr.21st when I can have the sclerotherapy done and I can be rid of these things for awhile.

As for keeping on track low carb wise I'm doing okay. I'm noticing fewer and fewer products in the stores. While grocery shopping this morning I noticed a buggy with low carb peanut butter in it for .99. It's carb options peanut butter and you can't taste the difference from regular stuff. There was only 4 left so I bought them all. I use it for making peanut butter cookies and if it gets close to the date I will just make a whole bunch of them up and freeze them. Just love a bargain.

I had my grandkids here on Friday night. How can three little kids demolish a whole house in just a few hours? They were here when I got home from work and I wasn't too happy to see them jumping on my bed when I walked in the door. My daughter in law was glued to the tv set. Sometimes I wonder about her! It shouldn't be up to me to disapline them cause it makes me look like the bad guy every time they come to visit. They can be such good kids too, just not usually when their mom is around. They didn't leave until 10 p.m. and I was just exhausted. Not used to having the little ones around. Poor dogs were glad to come out of hiding too. They're just used to us old people who don't raise our voices.

Judy · #63 04-10-2005, 08:57 PM

Thanks Peg. Actually that's the guest room. The furniture had been my mom and dad's. When DD moved and took her things with her, we pulled that suite from storage and put it in her old room. It is pretty large for the room, but I figured that with kids getting married, etc., having the kingsized bed there might be a good thing. It's been 9 months since she moved and I am just now getting around to fixng it up.

Donna, I found some of those LC close out bargains myself. Wal-Mart had all their Mini-carb brand mixes on sale for $1.00 per box. I bought at least one of everything they had. I also believe that LC cookies and muffins have been a big contributor to my weight stability problems lately. Of course that didn't stop me from buying the last three boxes of LC bisquit mix that they had (for .33 each) a week or so ago. I plan to hold on to those for a while. Sorry the grandkids wore you out. That may be part of the problem with your legs. I hope you get some rest today.

Judy · #64 04-10-2005, 09:01 PM

Ohhh, while I'm thinking about LC close outs and the problems there with, I forgot to mention the Aktins Endulge chocolate bars that were almost past their sell by date. --- I got those for .25 each as opposed to their normal .99 price. Yep, those have been responsible for some of the problems, too.

Bad Judy, bad Judy..........

BC · #65 04-11-2005, 02:12 AM

Judy, sometimes it's a good thing to have bad influences

You're brave to have anything white in the house. Between the guys (DH and DF) and the fur girls I doubt if anything white here would survive!

Peg, what's up, my friend?? What's going on in that wonderful complex mind of yours?

Donna, ouch. Careful with that vein, but I know you will be. How nice that you'll be getting that taken care of.

Well, signs of spring here--the electricity went out for over 2 hours this afternoon. Probably Commonwealth Edison preparing for the summer brown outs. But it was lovely weather, fortunately, and I did get the house cleaned and bills paid, as well as some back yard dog playing and a dog walk, which will suffice for exercise today. Along with perinneal trimming. No jewelry yet, but every time I go by my workbench, I line up some goodies. Maybe later tonight I'll watch Desparate Housewives and put a few pieces together. I have in mind to make a chakra bracelet or two among other things.

Later, kids.

Edit: Two bracelet and earring sets done, and another big honky silver one laid out for tomorrow. Well, I lied about the done part. Have to forge some clasps, polish, cost, tag, and inventory. :o

KCTinter · #66 04-11-2005, 10:12 AM

Thanks for the welcome! I am really looking forward to getting to know all of you.

All this talk of new comforters is giving me the itch! Being on a budget, I need to find queen size that will fit my high mattress for under $200 but looks like $500!

Spring is sorta here in KC . . . but so much to do. I need that handyman, too. My husband is 71 and not much help in that department!

Peg, about being BAD yesterday . . . did it at least TASTE good?

Judy · #67 04-11-2005, 10:28 AM

Alida, Do you have a store called "Tuesday Morning"? That's where my comforter and the one Brenda bought came from. I also recommend Marshall's, T. J. Maxx or Ross for great bargains.

Glad to have you be part of our group...........

KCTinter · #68 04-11-2005, 12:32 PM

Yes, we do have a Tuesday Morning. I love that store! I also like Stein Mart for all sorts of things . . . they have a great decorative pillow department. If they have one in your area, I highly recommend that store. I think we have a Marshall's and TJ Maxx. I'll have to check those out. Also a Gordman's looks interesting. My problem is my decorator recommended I stay with a neutral ivory shade. That's not exactly the IN shade this year, LOL. My walls, if they ever get painted, are going to be a darker sage green. Probably by the time I get around to it, green will be OUT if it's not already. But I really don't care. I love the color. My accent color is peach, which is also hard to come by. But I have lots of accents that are years old, when peach was more "in."

The reason decorator thinks I should stay with ivory is the canopy. I had an ivory sheer drape custom made for it about 20 years ago. It hangs at the top of the canopy via 4 tension rods, creating soft billows that stretch across the canopy.

I'm in no hurry. One day I'll find the RIGHT one!

pegster · #69 04-11-2005, 04:59 PM

How welcome and at home I feel when I open this thread! Thanks to all of you for taking time in your busy lives to commit to writing here!

Alida: I'm three years older than you and my DH is 71 also! He is very vigorous and active, but I can see some signs of slowing down. One of the more endearing things about him is his tendency to "tear up" when something touches him. He has never been a "macho man." I wouldn't marry one (at least the SECOND time around!).

Donna; So sorry to hear about your legs! I hear those things are really painful. I'm glad that you are going to have it taken care of. What is that long named surgery, and what does it do?

Brenda: Glad that you are getting back to your jewelry. I know that that feeds your soul in a way that nothing else does. I think that when we use our natural (I call them "God-given") gifts, we feel especially good. I was in a new nursery this morning and a young woman was stacking pots, taking blackened leaves off indoor plants, and generally "mothering" inside the greenhouse. I remarked on the health and beauty of the plants. She said that she had hoped all her life that she could work in a nursery, and here she was getting to do it! What a wonderful thing to hear!

I'm listening to Anne Lamott's new book "Plan B" in the car right now. I've listened to it once, and am on my second listen. She is a funny, irreverent, and very deep thinker about life. What I've been up to is some yearning for the talent to write as she does; and the grace to notice the things that are around me so that I can appropriate them for reflection. The pastor at the church in which I serve, has begun the long and maybe slow decline into his death. As he has done this, he has shut down communication with me. Add to that a new Moderator (like the President of the congregation) who is authoritarian and humorless and I am feeling left out of the everyday running of the church. As I reflected on it this morning, (after I have stewed about it for two weeks and written more than enough [2] angry emails about it) I realized that feeling "left out" is an old very nasty feeling out of my childhood. I've known for a long, long time the practical reasons for why I was "left out" (probably

). But, I was just socked in the stomach (whumph!) this morning when I realized that that old feeling was what made me feel such anger. I mean, nothing is going to fall apart if I don't know. Really. It just makes me look like a real loser. But, I mean, really....who cares? Knowing why I care so much, I can gentle open my fists and be much more loving with both of these men in my (work) life.

Which brings me to the reason why I probably cheated so big on Saturday night. (ummm hmmmm!) Alida: Yeah, it tasted absolutely out of this world. A friend and I went out for dinner and ended up waiting almost two hours. Don't ask why we waited. If I had been alone, I would have been out of there after 20 mins. By the time we sat down I had had one drink and an entire serving of dip made for two. It was 8:15 p.m. I was no longer hungry. So I ordered dessert. Because my friend made a real stink about our having to wait for so long, everyone including the busboy catered to us. I got a HUGE piece of dessert (I won't tell you what it was....). I wasn't even able to finish it all. Eating it I felt guilty the way I did twenty years ago when my (then) teenage daughter decided to make chocolate easter hearts for all her friends. She left the kitchen to answer the phone and I dug into that warm chocolate with a serving spoon, ladling it into my mouth as quickly as I could before she came back. I was not overweight then. (though I thought I was, which is one of the things that I'm sorry I did to myself) I suspect that this unconscious "left out" feeling surfaced and the subsequent unconscious anger led me to make an extremely unhealthy choice for myself. Does that make sense to you?

Well, they are not unconscious feelings now, and I can "mother" them into gentleness in myself (I'm really a much better mother to me than the mother I had).

So, that's what I'm thinking. DH got home at midnight last night and was, of course, on Central time and anxiious to talk to me about his trip. I was less than hospitable. Sigh. But, I made up for it this morning!

Eating pretty good today. Now on to the water.
Peace, Peg

KCTinter · #70 04-11-2005, 08:01 PM

Peg, very interesting e-mail. It does sound like you are very much on a discovery road. It's amazing how much of our past rears its head in the here and now. I, too, often felt "left out" but I now realize the reason was I am hard of hearing. Even as a kid, when I was with a group, I often tuned myself out because it was so hard to follow a conversation. I have also come to realize I pick my friends on the basis of their voice!

Do you mind if I ask you what denomination you are? I have a 48 year old step son (second marriage for me, too) who just last year finished seminary. He went to a baptist seminary, but is presbyterian. He is currently working at his church, but there is not a real spot for him there. So he's looking for a "job." I loved proof-reading his papers!

pegster · #71 04-11-2005, 10:48 PM

Don't mind at all, Alida. I am a United Church of Christ minister. Here in New England that translates to "Congregational." My DH is an American Baptist minister. I went to seminary at Colgate Rochester Seminary in Rochester, NY, and was ordained American Baptist. When our theological paths parted 10 yrs ago, I became UCC. I've been ordained for 20 years. Before that I was a psychotherapist specializing in grief and bereavement. I also have a MA in counseling psychology. (Why would anyone want two Master's degrees??)

Thanks for asking.
Peace, Peg

Judy · #72 04-11-2005, 10:53 PM

..........and she's our resident "shrink".

BC · #73 04-12-2005, 02:11 AM

Peg, it makes perfect sense. I so often know that so many of my own emotional responses are triggered unconsciously, and actually play out without the rational part of my brain becoming engaged

, or aware of the triggering event or feeling until afterward. They are my "emotional habits" just like I have other habits that don't serve me well. I am so glad that you have some awareness of what triggered your anger, though, and led you to seek "comfort" in desert. Do you think, though, that the overwhelming guilt you felt over the desert Saturday may also part of an older pattern (as was the Easter chocolate incident)? After all, you didn't kill someone, steal, or even flash the waiter.....it was, realistically speaking "only" a desert, no matter how huge. I'm saying this because I think I would have reacted the same way, and in my case, both eating a huge desert and the resulting overabundant guilt would have been triggered by very ancient patterns. Anyway, here are some virtual hugs for you, and for all of us!

Alida, that's very interesting about your hearing loss, and totally understandable how your feelings of aloneness might be a consequence. How old were you when it was diagnosed, if I may ask? In my own case, I'm just naturally in introvert, but moving 27 times before I was 30 also played into my rather natural feeling of being "left out" and alone. Perhaps that feeling is a more universal one than we think, though? Not sure!

Whoa, I've had the above written for several hours; lots of things intervening, so I should get on the stick and post...

Brenda (who isn't licenced to practice anything but dog psychotherapy :silly: and should probably keep her mouth shut tonight)

BC · #74 04-12-2005, 02:54 AM

On another note: Peg, I never made it through one Masters. I'd be delighted with two!

TB, how are the house projects coming?
Donna, hey there!

Judy, are the seniors still, well, being seniors? All I've been hearing is "prom this and prom that" everywhere I go, and I don't even have kids!!

Lauri, Ladybug, Barb?????

teelbee · #75 04-12-2005, 04:17 AM

Projects are moving along well. The handyman brought his BIL to help, so we got new sod laid in the new side yard where we used to have a dilapitated woodshed and some motley shrubs. I'm so surprised at how big it looks now. DH helped me return the roller to the rental place after he got home from work. They charged us for two days as we had it longer than twenty-four hours, but it was worth it. I would have had a real struggle to get it into my car (which is loaded with outmoded computers and peripherals that need to go to special disposal sites).

Also finished painting the living room and the garage, and the leaks in the workshop roof where fixed, too. I'm still looking for a stencil for the roller shades.

DH and I were really mad at each other most of the weekend, but things are smoothing out a bit now. I warned him early on that this getting ready to move business would be disruptive and require some extra cooperative effort. He agreed and promised to be supportive, but still resists a lot of my decisions and seems inclined to find fault. Men!

Yesterday, I cut down some rogue trees that volunteered under the giant redwood. It's funny to see the variety of trees growing in the base of the redwood. Squirrels bury their seeds in the leaf mat under the redwood - that's why so many saplings volunteer there. There was a holly, a few Texas privets, a walnut tree, a fig tree, and a sizeable palm tree. The palm tree was really hard to cut down (very tough and fibrous), but I had a sharp new saw, which really helped. I felt very triumphant when it finally toppled.

Realtors are pressing in on me. The two I've spoken with keep trying to move things forward even though I haven't settled on an agent yet. They are both so nice; but, they tend to act like they are already on the job (I told them I would speak to several agents before deciding). Still, one is offering to drop off disclosure forms, giving me advice on priorities for fix-up and staging - and checking my progress! The other is pressing for an appointment with DH and me to go over a CMA (what our house is worth based on the sale to similar ones in the area). But, what I want to know, and don't yet have the nerve to ask directly, is the cost of the sale. When I broach the subject, they both tend to steer onto another topic. Well, I guess I can understand that - don't show your hand until you've got 'em hooked. There's one other agent I want to talk to, but I need to find out her name (she worked for a friend of mine earlier this year).

I do respect those of you with advanced degrees - that takes a lot of work and commitment. I was relieved to just get a batchlor of arts degree. I've taken certificate classes, but I've never seriously contemplated a masters.

My weight was 136 today, which really pleased me. However, I don't suppose I'll see that tomorrow, as I really didn't eat low carb today. I just got tired of making two versions of things - one for the guys and one for me. I'll be working by myself tomorrow, so that will make it easier to get back to real low carb cooking and eating. Except I'll probably have carb cravings like crazy. I'd better line up the water bottles in the morning!

Well, I'm bagged - I gotta head to bed before I keel over.

Here's hoping everyone has a good week.

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