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Rosselli.....lol..bones indeed...read the label..lol! If you go to their website it is very interesting.... did you know they even have recipe ideas for Ensure
Heck..I an no f'n sheep I'll tell you all that and the nasty ones...I ain't no one's sheep. I will be part of the ship's crew being pyrate and all, but I ain't no f'n sheep. So you can take your sheep reference and stuff that one. I don't follow no one....this was Bobbie's f'n post and thread...so if she replied to her own thread she started and other's have joined in as a spot for a little respite and folks don't get that..then they can FK themselves...and leave us all alone. Don't hop on the boat if you are just going to misinterpret everything. Folks are all different in the world and will sometimes make a mistake but to throw us all together and lump us into the same criteria is not my cup of tea..No way. Who cares who sent what to whom...mind your own biz...isn't there enought misery around the entire caregiving task to add more? Shit I have seen this same type of stuff come up in chat-rooms...same stuff....seen horrid fights...sometimes it's just better to be on the sidelines. That's why I don't join any social media..it's just an upgrade from chatrooms and I have seen plenty go on there...sometimes it's way better to be anonymous! I don't know the story of why some folks have left here already, cause I don't keep up with the posts everyday. Sad...let's get back to the SUBJECT AT HAND....caregiving and all it's nuances..and uplifting each other!
I'm sucking on an orange. I can see all of us sitting around sucking on orange halves. Then Miz and Linda will smoke. Then Rossella will do a Marlon Brando impression and stuff the orange peel in her teeth and scare the sh!! out of whatever Cat is sprawled out at our feet.
nutz: just squirted the keyboard with orangejuice. not slowing me down tho.
Near the very beginning of this thread we talked about how we would spend time on the boat, what dinners to have, what we would do. I had wanted a nice boat for many decades and this group here just tipped it over. What we talked about we made happen. We dreamed it and we talked about it and now it's true. You will see names you recognize all there in the start up. Miz is coming to the boat. Others will come to the boat.
ok. All we ever have is this moment. For those of us who have held life in our hands and then watched it stop, so final, no more blue blue eyes of my mom, my dad... the singular gazes of all our animals...
With that in mind, why would we ever choose to not cherish this moment and choose to pack it with as much joy as we can get in as opposed to packing it with strife and pain?
Life sux enough. Jeeze. Get with the program. BOAT!!
I had some more comments to make on the subject, but I see that you have decided to change the subject and I accept it! I feel evil tonight because I have an abscess in my mouth and my cheek looks like Marlon Brando' Godfather. So maybe I feel a little bit like that "character" and I forget that in general in life I try to be a peacemaker. So shut up, Don Vito, don't say anything! Well I want to say just one thing, and then i promise I won't say anything anymore. if a person, let's call her "A" during a long period of her life gets along very well with B, C, D, E, F, G... and all over sudden a person "Z" arrives and says that B, C, D, E, F, G are sheep and nazi and ass-kissers, why "A" believes to "Z" and leaves the group where she was so well until 5 minutes before? It's just a question. I am feeding my mother with Ensure and she is already better. I wonder what do they put in that Ensure? Crushed bones?
3:30pm arrive boat yard. safe and sound. docks don't float. Have to climb up and down. Hehe.
Dinner? I dunno..... actually feel like some spagetti!
Rossella and Linda! are you guys ok? love you both and I hope that you will continue to find joy here. I have to admit that I was really saddened by it and upset but like Deef says: this too shall pass and there you go.
Maybe my cuz will get on with some smokin jokes and we will be laughing our tails off.
Man, someone would have a hard time finding this boat. We are tucked in up a river and down a creek and behind a shed.
Rossella, and everyone else. And this too shall pass!!!! We're in this for the long hall for anyone who needs us. Bobbie,SS Love the jokes! Need a smile on my face today. Mom is acting very badly. Me thinks another UTI! Yikes!!! They were supposed to get urine from her at daycare yesterday and get the doctor to call in a lab to the hospital. Dummy me forgot to ask if it was done, and everyone is closed today due to the snow.. Gonna need a basket for me by the end of the day! Bobbie, please be on Facebook tonight!!!
Heard this on the radio....... A married couple of 67 years were explaining how to have a successful marriage. One thing they said was a must: never go to bed angry....they haven't slept for 6 months...
Well, now I have "nosed" among the walls of Tennessee, Nance and someone else and I am ANGRY-. I am angry against the nastiness. Nastiness is not justifiable, I am sorry, at least I am not ready to justify it. I am going to make some dinner for mom-animals and I hope to calm down!
My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to me, "I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.' I replied, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect." And then the fight started......*
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's License to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later. The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application.. When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office...She said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.' And then the fight started...*
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds." I bought her a bathroom scale. And then the fight started......*
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the van, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day. I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed.. I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible." My loving wife of 5 years replied, "And, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?" And that's how the fight started...*
By the way, if someone complains that other people read their wall, if I am not wrong the wall is "public". If you want to communicate something privately, there are the e-mails, the telephone calls, the letters with envelope and stamps. It's like getting on a bus and complaining because there are other people there!
*When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the shed, the boat, making beer.. Always something more important to me. Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house.. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush. I said, "When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway." The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table. I asked her, "Do you know him?" "Yes", she sighed, "He's my old boyfriend.... I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since." "My God!" I said, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?" And then the fight started...
I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. "I'll have the rump steak, rare, please." He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Nah, she can order for herself." And that's when the fight started.....
*My wife and I were watching "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" while we were in bed I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?' 'No,' she answered. I then said, 'Is that your final answer?' She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..' So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend." And that's when the fight started...
One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started.....*
Hi everyone -we got about 12 inches of snow my brother about 20 miles away got 19. I had a good surprise-I walked to the end of my drive to shovel out so my son could get the car into the drive and though oh God how am I going to do this-my neighbor on his tractor with a blow asked me if I was makeing a path I said I needed to clear out a place for my son to get the car off the road-we have narrow country roads and he offered to do it for me-which was so nice noone has ever done that for me-what a blessing and my son was overjoyed. Miz thank you for the info on Crowe-I could not understand why I could not get to his wall. Bobbi-so sorry about what has happened-you know that we love you and you are a great assest to this thread-you like have been in the trenchs and get it what others are going through-I stay because you all are my friends and sometimes I can be a little helpful I never read other's wall-just leave messages, My son never even goes to a donut shop even for their coffee. I will be staying until at least Sat since I have had fractures in my back I am very careful-I had the cement put in but my back never has been the same so this old lady stays inside-I bought a bottle of wine to help with cabin fever and I reported my pharmacy to their central office over a year of problems is just too much and with my RX plan I have to use that pharmacy my gentlemen friend got the address of their central office for me, hope you all stay warm and dry during the snowstorm.
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APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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I am a pyrate...ie therefore NOT A SHEEP!
nutz: just squirted the keyboard with orangejuice.
not slowing me down tho.
Near the very beginning of this thread we talked about how we would spend time on the boat, what dinners to have, what we would do.
I had wanted a nice boat for many decades and this group here just tipped it over.
What we talked about we made happen.
We dreamed it and we talked about it and now it's true.
You will see names you recognize all there in the start up.
Miz is coming to the boat.
Others will come to the boat.
ok.
All we ever have is this moment.
For those of us who have held life in our hands and then watched it stop, so final, no more blue blue eyes of my mom, my dad... the singular gazes of all our animals...
With that in mind, why would we ever choose to not cherish this moment and choose to pack it with as much joy as we can get in as opposed to packing it with strife and pain?
Life sux enough. Jeeze. Get with the program.
BOAT!!
Crushed bones. omg funny.
lovbob
I feel evil tonight because I have an abscess in my mouth and my cheek looks like Marlon Brando' Godfather. So maybe I feel a little bit like that "character" and I forget that in general in life I try to be a peacemaker. So shut up, Don Vito, don't say anything! Well I want to say just one thing, and then i promise I won't say anything anymore. if a person, let's call her "A" during a long period of her life gets along very well with B, C, D, E, F, G... and all over sudden a person "Z" arrives and says that B, C, D, E, F, G are sheep and nazi and ass-kissers, why "A" believes to "Z" and leaves the group where she was so well until 5 minutes before? It's just a question.
I am feeding my mother with Ensure and she is already better. I wonder what do they put in that Ensure? Crushed bones?
docks don't float. Have to climb up and down. Hehe.
Dinner? I dunno..... actually feel like some spagetti!
Rossella and Linda! are you guys ok?
love you both and I hope that you will continue to find joy here.
I have to admit that I was really saddened by it and upset but like Deef says: this too shall pass and there you go.
Maybe my cuz will get on with some smokin jokes and we will be laughing our tails off.
Man, someone would have a hard time finding this boat. We are tucked in up a river and down a creek and behind a shed.
lovbob
Ok, we should be back from din din by then. I might be a little late.... Wait for me?
lovbob
what time?
lovbob
Bobbie,SS Love the jokes! Need a smile on my face today. Mom is acting very badly. Me thinks another UTI! Yikes!!! They were supposed to get urine from her at daycare yesterday and get the doctor to call in a lab to the hospital. Dummy me forgot to ask if it was done, and everyone is closed today due to the snow..
Gonna need a basket for me by the end of the day! Bobbie, please be on Facebook tonight!!!
A married couple of 67 years were explaining how to have a successful marriage. One thing they said was a must: never go to bed angry....they haven't slept for 6 months...
screw the nasty stuff!
Read the jokes!
That's why I put them there!
lovbob
I am going to make some dinner for mom-animals and I hope to calm down!
Rossella, I couldn't agree more.
She was not happy with what she saw and said to me,
"I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
I replied, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect."
And then the fight started......*
Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's License to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.
I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go
home and come back later. The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'.
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.
She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me'
and she processed my Social Security application..
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office...She said, 'You should have dropped your pants.
You might have gotten disability, too.'
And then the fight started...*
anniversary.
She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in
about 3 seconds."
I bought her a bathroom scale.
And then the fight started......*
My loving wife of 5 years replied, "And, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"
And that's how the fight started...*
She asked, "What's on TV?"
I said, "Dust."
And then the fight started...
that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to
take care of first, the shed, the boat, making beer.. Always something
more important to me. Finally she thought of a clever way to make her
point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall
grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I
watched silently for a short time and then went into the house.. I was
gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.
I said, "When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the
driveway."
The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone
at a nearby table. I asked her, "Do you know him?" "Yes", she sighed,
"He's my old boyfriend.... I understand he took to drinking right
after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober
since."
"My God!" I said, "Who would think a person could go on
celebrating that long?"
And then the fight started...
The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I'll have the rump steak, rare, please."
He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?"
"Nah, she can order for herself."
And that's when the fight started.....
'No,' she answered. I then said,
'Is that your final answer?'
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started...
One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift...
The next year, I didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked me why, I replied,
"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"
And that's how the fight started.....*
lovbob