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Hope, how on earth did you fall asleep watching that?! And The Birds? I was scared of them for a long time. Big joke in my family how Dee was always afraid of the dark. Made the mistake of watching Dawn of the Dead when I was young - one guy bit a woman's shoulder - looked like chicken - still can't get near chicken skin to this day. Remember the blob? That was just dumb haha! Gone With the Wind...now THAT is a great movie. I've read that book at least a dozen times. There was a "sequel" that came out called "Scarlett". She ends up in Ireland...that was a pretty good book. Ahhh. Classic books and old black and whites.
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Jessie..I know it's not funny but it is a little comical how all this stuff stuck with us from way back then...
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I do remember the Creature Features one too....awesome!!! wow...love these fond memories...
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On a commercial note, I have found a new shampoo at the dollar store that I absolutely love...it is the Suave with Moroccan argon oil....it is amazing...my hair feels like silk...at a fraction of those other big deal shampoos...I will never pay that kind of money for shampoo anyway, but it is great to find one that is inexpensive that does a great job....
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Dee...do you know that I watched House on Haunted Hill last night? I had it on my laptop and just put it beside the bed so I wouldn't wake Mama up and it lulled me to sleep....yes, perhaps and I nuts....haha.... ewwww Jeanette..The Birds...yes, the parts I remember about that one were where the character Suzanne Pleshette played where she had been killed by the birds and the man at his farm who the neighbor found.....spooky..... I love MeTV...all the oldies but goodies....

There used to be a show on called "the Unknown" I believe it was that had a man in a shroud and he would tell some spooky thing before the movie would start and then they would have one of those old black and white creature movies...Saturday afternoon..Mama never wanted us to watch those..she always said, "you know you will not sleep and I will be up with you all night." I would promise I would be ok and please please let us watch Mama...she would usually let us and then somewhere in the middle of the night you could hear me.... "MAMA.......... I bet she wanted to tear my behind up...lol
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My worst movie was one where these dark things would come out of the woods at night, holding their arms in front of them, steadily pacing. They were kind of like wolf bears, I guess. I became terrified of leaving the windows exposed at night and had to draw the curtains from then on. As a kid, I knew that they were out there. As an old lady, I still worry about them. I don't even know the name of the movie, but it had a huge impact on my life. Maybe kids shouldn't watch horror movies.
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Ohhh, I remember creature feature!! wow... that took me wayyy back!

My first scariest movie I remember was "The Birds". Gosh, hated it when they were pecking trying to get her inside the phone booth. Latest one is "Chucky". That was years ago... we no longer watch ANY scary movies. can't sleep as it is... LOL.
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i could go read online what the ct had to say about my lumbar but when i occasionally email my docs the communications are quoted and every third word is replaced with " expletive " . for all the world it looks like im filled with rage but that isnt the case . ive known these docs for years and they thoroughly expect me to use my normal / casual english around / with them . the federal beaurocracy is rather PC but the docs and technicians are ( expletive ) awesome people .
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I really don't like being scared when I am watching a movie. I just like to relax. I will bet you can't fall asleep during one of those freaky movies LOL!
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Give me a good Edward G. Robinson movie, such as "Key Largo". Great acting in that movie :)

I like the cable channel *MeTV*... my sig other is now watching some of the old TV programs for the first time, that I use to watch on a regular basis. Say what? You never watched Cheers? Or Carol Burnett? Or CHiPS? Nor Adam12? Nor Quincy, M.E.? Oh my gosh, he never watched Love Boat !!
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there was a show on when we were kids called Creature Features. We used to beg my mom to stay up and watch it. As soon as the creepy music started at the beginning, we covered our eyes or put our heads under the blankets. Mom would say ok you guys are sleeping now go to bed. We would tell her we were just resting our eyes. Haha! I used to like watching the Abbott and Costello scary movies. Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, The Invisible Man...they were scary for a kid but also very funny. They don't make them like that anymore.and I love the Glenn Miller story with Jimmy Stewart! nothing but garbage on TV now.
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Oh I love big band too...for me I think Gary Cooper always had my heart..lol.....I love Andy Griffith and I love the old B&W Gunsmoke, Rifleman, Rawhide....etc...also I do have to admit I LOVE the old black and white horror flicks...the Fly was one I liked.haha...and House on Haunted Hill was a favorite but as a kid it scared the life out of me...but those were kind of harmless...can't deal with the blood and guts gore for the sake of blood and guts they make now..EXCEPT...I Love the Walking Dead...which freaks my brother out to no end.. :) I've watched it from the start and now don't even notice the zombies because it has such a good story line...
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Jimmy Stewart was the best! I love big band music, too.
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Me too, Hope! Aaaand I still watch Andy Griffith re-runs. I love old comedies and musicals and westerns. Only thing I don't like is sci-fi and horrors. For a long time after seeing The Fly as a kid, I felt like household spiders and flies were watching me. Ok. Still do sometimes. Creepy. *shiver!*
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Dee..i love the old black and white movies too...LOVE THEM...nothing more relaxing on earth than getting everyone settled in and watching them...I even enjoy falling asleep to them...which I guess is ridiculous, I think they remind me of when I was a little kid and the ones that were just good old wholesome movies Mama would let me watch....so I feel cozy when they're on and I am able to fall asleep....
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While my cousin was visiting, and Mama was getting agitated at her extended visit, she began to get that look on her face where I knew she was ready for the company to vacate the premises.....My cousin does that baby talk stuff to my Mama and I can tell she HATES it....she also likes to "tweek" my Mama's nose...and I KNOW she hates that BIG TIME....my cousin told me "pop her on the nose'....and I said are you out of your mind..she hates that....I will not do it and I'd better not see you doing it either...she kept talking baby ish towards her and finally said "you old sulled up thing" to my Mama...I immediately retrieved her bags and put them in the car and told her....lets get going before the rain sets in....Good grief..what is wrong with people....
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Jessie...yikes! My mom is at a point where some very weird things are said. She has visual hallucinations and false memories. I think she has mixed dementia...for sure vascular but also possibly AZ or LBD. Not that it would make a difference in her care. It's just so heartbreaking.
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I've always thought my mother's dementia was unusual. It doesn't follow any of the normal ways. Sometimes I wonder if my mother might just be very mentally ill. She used to use the little girl act with my father. Knowing my father, I doubt that he cared for it, either.

I watched a couple of clips from Baby Jane. It was scary how it reminded me of my mother. doo wee ooooo. What's even worse, sister Blanche reminded me of myself.
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Oh Lord.... sorry that your day went so to the left Jessie, I think I had already guessed that would happen after how your morning started. The "entitled" talk, been there, heard it, did my best to ignore it Shortly after my daddy passed she would say "well, daddy brought you here to take care of me" or "daddy said you would do everything and I wasn't to worry". Of course it never made sense since she thought "daddy had a new woman". She never used to call him daddy either but after hearing all of us call him daddy, well, it stuck that it was her daddy too. You can't change it, you can't argue with it and it's better to go along with it since it seems to ease the tension.

Susan, wow... your mom seems to be changing a bit rapidly?... sometimes it seems slower when we are right there with them day in and day out but others see it as a sudden change. Ha, like my brothers whom hadn't seen mom in months said "she's worse every time we see her". REALLY?

Hang on girls...
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p.s. that movie you're thinking of is "whatever happened to baby jane?". That was a creepy movie! I love old black and whites and TCM channel. Don't watch tv much except TCM and sports. Love the Thin Man series.
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Jessie that would drive me up the wall, too. Is that a new behavior or did she do that before? Sometimes my mom wants her mom and dad but she doesn't babytalk.
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Capt there are plenty of other sedatives they can give you or none at all, Your gut is so hardened by all the cr*p you have put down it over the years I doubt you would even notice the tube going down. Are they going to make you swallow a camera this time. You could make a fortune with those pictures on utube.
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Guess I should talk about my day. It was day from h*ll. As everyone knows, Mom was mad this morning. The good thing about this is that we drove to the ENT's office in near-silence. We spent the whole afternoon at the ENT and he found nothing wrong. That didn't surprise me. I was glad to get back home and didn't really mind that the whole day had been wasted. This evening at dinner it happened. She turned on her child personality and said, "Don't yell at me. Daddy never yelled at me in all the years we were married. Mama and Daddy never yelled at me." I told her that it was her that did the yelling. She said the same thing over again about nobody ever yelling at her. It was twilight zone, so I let it go. I thought about it later, trying to figure out what causes this child self to come out like this. And I thought about that show with Bette Davis where she acted like a little girl living with her sister. What was the name of that movie? Something about Baby Jane? I'll have to check.

Anyway... it is weirder than people can imagine. It makes me feel sick when she does it.
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Thanks Jeanette!

Son called just now and is doing ok, just very sore. He got smacked in the ear and side of his head by the airbag, so his ear is still bothering him, and he's pretty sore.

Mom seems better this evening, still a little off in the memory department, but this seems to be how it's been going with her for some time now - she does well for a couple of weeks, then there's some new little glitch - memory, incontinence gets a little worse, mobility gets a little worse, etc. Then she's a little better for a couple of weeks, but the new symptom stays.
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ah , the mail nazi's . seems all of them have gone mad with no power ..
liver doc called today about my recent ct scan . it looks good cept for a little thickened speck of tissue somewhere between my esophagus and butthole . i aint real clear on what all goes on there but its gonna cost me another dmnd endoscopy .
i dont mind that , just hate the meds - versed , reversed , p*ssed off cops , etc ..
i asked her if the ct mentioned my howling lumbar to which she replied it indeed did but i should take that up with primary doc . ive no problem saying that some of the best info on the web concerning spine problems comes courtesy of the va . im the va test monkey from hell . needle bearings , u - joints , whatever they wanna try im crazy enough to let em . ive no intention of easing up on hard labor .
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The only thing I started up today was the snowblower. yesterday our lovely (not) post woman got her van stuck in the snow and claimed the box had not been clered out enough. I did check it and it seemed fine to me but she "snowed" hubby and iwas supposed to call the snow plow guy and tell him he had done a poor job. This woman is idle and passive agressive. When our drive was being sealed in the summer she did not deliver the mail for several days because she could not swing across the driveway. Box was perfectly acessible. She throws parcels on the porch and never bothers to ring the bell. Afterwards i found the PO is makiking the rural carriers use the electric vans thay use in town. Apparently they are 25 years old and of course the carriers no longer get their milage payments. She proudly told hubby three of the vans got stuck yesterday and had to be towed. of course I admit I am a nasty supicious old woman!
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Susan, lately it seemed Linkedin was becoming a popularity contest.... that got old quickly. I also didn't get any benefit from being on that website. I'm not going to miss it, either.

My boss likes the website, he's the type that I am surprised he doesn't have a huge billboard on the roof of his building with his photo and name on it :P
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We had about 7" of snow over the weekend, expecting about 3" more tonight and more to come Saturday. Our winter here in Michigan started out early in November with heavy snow and then went completely mild until the end of December. We knew it was coming back, just a matter of time.

FF - I eliminated my LinkedIn account months ago myself - it's becoming less and less of a professional networking site and more of a spam site. I never got any benefit from it, and it was just another passing fad, so I don't miss it now that I don't have it. The last straw was when I found out my ex had looked me up on there. He's involved enough in my life as it is because we have children together. I don't need him checking out my business.
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Susan, I wonder if something is going on with your mom that she's not mentioned to you? Normally, I can tell when something is bothering my mom, headache, depends pinching, tummy ache... it makes her act a lot different than her normal different. Sorry to hear about your son!! Just what you need, more to worry about... glad he's ok ... this hopefully will make him a cautious driver, especially OTHER drivers!

hope, it was so nice yesterday I almost wanted to start up the rototiller and get going on the garden, almost... we do have several more months of this to go so I shouldn't be too hasty, it's just that I'd rather be outside doing anything than inside doing house stuff. Fresh air is good for the soul.
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Speaking of on-line privacy, I just cancelled my Linkedin account [it's a professional networking site].

Today at work I got this letter size manila envelope with a return address from someone I never heard of.... inside were three very poorly xeroxed cut out sheets of paper with codes and dollar amounts for iTunes... say what?.... after handling these pieces of paper I quickly used some antibacterial hand sanitizer, and threw the items out.

How did this person across country know of me and my work address? Ah ha, I bet from Linkedin. It just creep me out so much I decided me being on Linkedin wasn't worth it for me.

Whew, I have enough to worry about, I don't need this kind of junk mail.
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