OT: What a bummer (highly depressing)

Hi,

Oh yeah. You folks are like my co-workers or drinking buddies -- now that I have neither. Pete knows y'all, and what kind of bead working/making you do.

Tina

One of Pete's clients just came back home with her acupuncture certification. They will be doing an exchange of services. She's coming over tomorrow for dinner.

Tina

Whenever Colette and I see a zebra now, it's always:

"ACK! Run! Zeeeeeeeebreeeeeeee!"

Linda2

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 2:21:11 -0400, LilyFlower wrote (in message ):

Do tell...Misery loves company. About the scale of 1-10 chart, the pictures are too calm. So, I've been known to give them my own scale, "where 1 is say, a paper cut and 10 is forty hours of back labor with needles poking in my eyes, this is about a fourteen."

Does get their attention, I'll tell you that.

Know a decent PCP South of Boston? :-)

He's not my favorite guy right now. One good thing is that he's functioning as a perfect target for any stray anger I have kicking around. Everything is "Dick's" fault these days.

Welcome Lilyflower, and thanks for the good wishes. Not too much pain this morning, which is a blessing, since everyone else has the Martian Killer Death Flu. Poor guys - they are not good at being sick. Manda bucked it up and went to school, but Bob (who is NEVER sick) cannot talk or swallow, because his tonsils are so swollen they're touching. He saw a doc at urgent care yesterday who told him it has to run its course, so now he is virulently anti-doctor. He's Not. Sleeping. Dammit. on the recliner in the living room.

Kathy N-V

Way back when, when I lived in the Bay area, I went to an acupuncturist for about a year. The sessions tended to make me very "mellow" for a few hours. Life problems at the time kinda un-did things, but it was a relief getting that few hours.

The only real problem i had was the time I had "cupping" done-- it raised blisters all along my back, the worst of which was at my belt line. Since wearing a belt was not optional (Navy uniform), I had to go to Primary Care and see my "buddy" about getting THAT fixed.... He was not pleased, even if it did get him out of having rug-rats coughing in his face for a morning (his schedule was done in "blocks" of time-- since I had an appointment in the morning, he got to stay in PCC for the whole block, instead of getting sent to Peds, which he hated). Kaytee "Simplexities" on

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]Pete knows y'all, and what kind of bead working/making you ]do.

**smile** i've met Pete, and he's definitely a keeper. Johnny knows many of them, too. He's around more often than Jamie is. and Cate is learning fast - especially after meeting Lynda this weekend.

And you are all the reason DH got us DSL instead of staying with the much cheaper dial-up. When he calls home, he likes to get ahold of me and not a busy signal! I spend WAY too much time one here. It almost makes me feel like I have a life outside the house. But lately, it's been clean, pick up, clean, make tea/coffee, clean, cook, laundry, diapers, etc (notice the lack of beads there?) I am not little Ms Suzie Homemaker. I have a hobby and it doesn't involve following kidlets around with a wet nap. (I still want the drugs the ladies in the clorox and swiffer commercials use)

I NEED TO BEAD!!!!

Later,

Helen C

Oh, yeah. Virgil looked GREAT this weekend. Chyropractic work has straightened out his back, and accupuncture has almost totally removed the shaking in his back leg and the stiffness in his front paw. He seems much more relaxed and happy and took two 30 minute walks (still needs to ride in his card for part of my mom's usual hour-long walk).

He isn't delighted about actually recieving the accupuncture though. They have to forgo the usual policy of letting the dog off the leash in the room because he seems to feel more secure on the leash and scrunched up next to my mom during his procedure.

marisa2

Absolutely, that is just what happens in my family and it is horrible.

(When the subject is, say, my husband finding a job, they want to know ALL the details and give unlimited advice. But if the subject is their health it is all a big scary secret)

marisa2

Lori Greenberg wrote:

So sorry for that nasty experience. Much different from Kathy's SIL I think.

*hugs*

Hope you feel you can post here whenever!

Marisa2

Janet R wrote:

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Helen C" :

] I am not little Ms Suzie Homemaker.

bingo. neither am i. that's why my oldest got me a sign for the refrigerator that said "NOT programmed for housework". of course, at the time, it was her way of telling me the house needed cleaning and the computer programming should wait.

BUT, I'll let you know, I've been doing some cleaning. Swamped out the bathroom (I never lift the seat, who knew?), scrubbed parts of the walls (really need to get the cobwebs), folded up a huge amount of the kids clothes (but now their drawers are full and I still have clothes left!), straightened up the catch-all corner in my room, been 1/2 way keeping up on the dishes. Hopefully when the DHS cleaning lady shows up later this week, it'll make her a little happy that I DO know how to clean, I just normally let it slide (I can think of 1000's of things I'd rather be doing!) (and they're stored in little baggies on my desk)

Later,

Helen C

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:13:34 -0400, Marisa2 wrote (in message ):

This is so funny. It's a part of why I look with a jaundiced eye at the so called "experts" that drop in now and again and tell us that what we're doing is wrong. I've been posting under my own name since God was in high school, at least in Internet terms. (Since 1987 or

1988, at the latest)

I was having a few low moments. I know better now - I might be physically alone (and not even that - Sophie is always here!), but I'm not alone in any other way.

Now this I need to hear about. What the heck is "creamy meatloaf dinner?" We love meatloaf, at least Bob and Manda do, and I make it often (I hide as many veggies in there as I can reasonably get away with). But I can't describe my meatloaf as creamy, more like adobe. Please share your secret.

Side note: Bob and I were broke when we were first married, and had little money for celebrations. For our first wedding anniversary, I made him a heart shaped meatloaf for dinner (whoo - meat!), and he got me a tiny gold pinky ring (yes, I still have it). Meatloaf is kind of a special thing to us.

I've shared a

I get to embarrass you in public - we can sing "The Union Label" song at the mall. We can laugh at the bowlegged little dog sneaking down the hall with her kleenex "snack." Or I can laugh with you and the little ones, tumbling all over one another in the grass, or marveling at one of those rare Portland snowstorms. I'd be happy to help you find something wonderful to make with the bugle beads.

Right back at you, kiddo.

Kathy N-V

Snippity

Everyone looks askance when I mention my creamy meatloaf. I've never gottan over the shock and horror of that first slab of gradeschool meatloaf--and I made it my mission to never put something on the table that resenbled it. Since my mom puts *shudder* green stuff in her meatloaf, I couldn't go that route, either. I just don't do well with most green seasonings and herbs. Guck. Although hers is fantastic, it's a mental hang up on my part.

So, I make creamy meatloaf. You can't slice it--you have to spoon it up because it falls apart, literally. It's nothing special, really--I just pretend I'm making a whopper of a hamburger, and it comes together nicely.

I don't measure anything unless I'm baking, so YMMV on amounts that work for you. In my creamy meatloaf there is:

2 pounds ground beef, preferably 80% lean, at least 1 1/2 packages of saltines ketchup BBQ sauce (honey flavor works well, from Kraft) yellow mustard brown spicy mustard real mayo (that's the real secret to it) 2 eggs black pepper cayenne pepper diced onions or onion powder, if you have small ones who won't eat onions garlic powder and/or minced garlic a dash of soy sauce a long dash of worcestshire sauce

If I'm running low on mayo, I have used Ranch Dressing to make up the amount. You can omit or add pretty much anything you like to this, depending on taste.

Mush all ingredients together with your hands, shape into a loaf and cover with tin foil, or press into sprayed muffin tins, spend ten minutes scraping that junk off of your hands, pop in the oven at 375 F until it's done--should take about an hour and a half, I think. Don't quote me on that, I'm the type who calls my mom everytime I make it to ask how long it should cook, LOL!

amount. You can omit or add pretty much anything you like to this, depending on taste.>

ahhhh - I read your recipe - -close to mine. The reason it is "creamy" instead of "sticking together" is you leave out eggs... and white bread... instead of saltines. yes -- a couple of eggs in that - and it will hold together nicely - white bread makes it even firmer... and no green stuff required... LOL

Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

I put eggs in there. Sometimes I use toasted white bread, too.