Are introductions in order?

I'm actually about to agree with Dianne here.

There are a wide range of antidepressants out there. I've tried a few over the years, started on Elavil, which was ok other then the weight gain and dry mouth. Got moved to Trazodone, which is used as both an antidepressant and an antianxiety medication. That has been my basic standby. At one point I tried both Wellbutrin (I seriously wanted to crawl out of my skin or hide under the bed in a dark corner on that one) and Zoloft (that one just had me crying over nothing all the time).

If my only experience had been with Wellbutrin or Zoloft, I'd probably believe that "all" antidepressants were crap.

BTW, most current one is Cymbalta, because of additional factors to the basic depression.

Caryn (who has depression running thru family from Father's line)

Liz

Applegate, Oregon, USA (southern Oregon, between Medford & Grants Pass)

Since college, off & on. My mom's mother crocheted, Mom knitted and did "liquid embroidery" but we had dishtowels and tablecloths around that she had stitched in the past. I was too much of a tomboy when I was younger to really be interested in doing it myself, but liked the fact that it was around me.

gentleman who have seen each other through sickness, widowhood and whatever life throws at us (including a certain group correspondence course that had several sweet little old ladies using words that sweet little old ladies shouldn't know!). If I ever get fed up with paying my EGA dues, I won't miss EGA much, but I'll certainly miss the members of this particular group.

I try to enter three items in the county fair each year. Not so much to win, because it is a county fair where the judges don't always know one type of stitch from another, but to show the public what is available to stitch these days that they may not be aware of. Also, if you enter three items, you get one free admission to the fair. :-)

Great husband of 24 years, three great sisters of my own and a mother in law who all appreciate receiving stitched items as gifts. If they take it out when they know you're visiting, it's hard to tell. When you show up unexpectedly, peek in the window and see it on display, you KNOW they like it. ;-) Also, a nephew (almost 20), two nieces (almost

Pets: One green iguana (Jeff) - free to a good home (that means a home with prior experience with an iguana, preferably one who died of old age) that we inherited from my nephew when the family moved to Hawaii 1 1/2 years ago One dog (Oddear) - shepherd/gldn Ret./border collie? mix who, when she was a pup, had one standing up shepherd ear and one flopping over retriever ear. DH named her. Naturally, by the time she got to recognize her name, both ears flopped over. Oh well. Assorted homing pigions (DH used to race) About 20 chickens - four less than we had a month ago when a bear stopped for dinner and ate four of the roosters.

Liz from Humbug (live on a road named for a mining dispute)

A perfect name for a dog would be "Ohdear" maybe next time......

Caryn

Joan Erickson

Grand Forks, ND, a lifelong resident but have travelled to many other places in the US and a bit in Canada.

I learned stamped embroidery as a child and later learned to crochet and knit, all from my mother. I hated the cross stitch in stamped embroidery! When in my early 20s (30 years ago!) a coworker was doing some ccs and I liked the looks of it, so gave it a try, even though I was leery about doing the cs. I fell in love! :) After a few years I learned about rctn, a whole new world was opened to me, my stash grew by leaps and bounds and ccs became my passion. I also know how to sew, do needlepoint and crewel (my least favorite). I recently learned needle-tatting at CATS in Las Vegas, but haven't practiced it much, yet, although I think it will be fun if I ever find/take the time from ccs!

Just rctn....you're enablers enough! :) Contemplating EGA.

D (and sometimes not so D!)H, 2 sons (Nate--23 & Bret--21), and 1 DD (Mandy--19, to whom I've delivered the stitching bug! :) ) I come from a family of 5 girls (I'm the youngest girl) and 1 boy. All of us girls do needlework of one sort or another. Parents are both 85 and are still healthy and live nearby.

Used to have a horse (had to put her down in March) and am hoping to get another next spring, 1 yellow lab, Jasmine. DD recently got a beagle pup, Annabelle, and is being frustrated with potty training (her boyfriend doesn't help with his inconsistency with Annabelle--Annabelle lives with him since DH didn't want another dog in the house--some of you may remember that little episode). Past pets have included hamsters, salamanders, fish, and a bearded dragon (which DS#1 still has but he no longer lives at home).

I earn the money for stash by working in the cataloging dept of the university library and have been here since I was a student. I earn money for framing by donating plasma ($60/wk).

Guess that's about all.

Joan

That reminded me of a dog my Brooklyn born mother had when she was a kid, and remember that was around 1920.

She had a puppy that she and her brother named Gedunder. When I asked where on earth they got that odd name she told me that it was in honor of her European born, heavily Jewish accented mother who used to get annoyed when the dog got under her feet in the kitchen and would chase it under the stove, yelling "gedunder."

I smile every time I think of that story.

Lucille

ow cool is that? the "have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" writer.

Dana

Cymbalta is a good one. In addition to helping with depression and anxiety, it also helps with joint and muscle pain, which is another symptom of CFS.

That reminded me of a dog my Brooklyn born mother had when she was a kid,

I laid down the law to Jim when we first got serious.........no pets!!! What happened?? He travelled a lot, and brought home a kitten which he named Ralph! The cat was cute, but a royal PITA, and became Dammit Ralph. From then on, in his records at the vet etc, he was listed as "D.Ralph"! He was a good cat, enjoyed travelling in the RV, became a diabetic while we full-timed, and eventually went to the big kitty home in the sky.

Gillian

Thanks. Can't wait to someday see the after shots. Looks like you took on quite a project. I love watching This Old House and all the other renovations shows. I'm always amazed at how bad some place once looked and how money, elbow grease, hard workers and time can create miracles.

D> > > > On the intro end of this thread. ?I am Dana Compton. Tulsa OK area.

cool is that? the "have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" writer.

That is a great house. But I think one of my tenants must have lived there

- I had to get a professi> Thanks. Can't wait to someday see the after shots. Looks like you took

That's great - the name. With my first dog in prior marriage, we had a name the dog contest. Hmmm- I think we do that with all our dogs. Anyhow - that was the Lab-Border Collie mix, and he had amazing energy. Lovely dog. So, both of us having just come from grad school, in mech eng, and being thermo-fluids types, the dog ended up named RhoVee (written with small greek rho, and capital "V"). It's a momentum thing. One of our friends wanted us to call him RhoVee2 - but the squareed thing seemed unnecessary, and we thought that we'd name the second dog that - he could be "squared" for short. But the second dog came with a name "Oreo Cookie Boy" - a black cocker, with a white strip down his chest" . Name courtesy of nieces and nephew and SIL.

ellice

, the dog ended up named RhoVee (written with small greek

Being a political type, I thought it should be RhoVeeWade LOL!

I like that. But, it was several years after RhoVeeWade - and before the more recent hubbub.

ellice

Hello,

Jayne, 51, living in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Originally from Wisconsin. Air force brat, father/family stationed in 1960's near Seville, Spain, and Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Extended family living in Seville. Dream wish would be to live 6 months every year in Seville, 6 months in Wisconsin.

Married 25 & 1/2 years, 2 stepsons, 1 daughter-in-law, 2 grandchildren. No pets. Quit smoking almost 19 years ago and discovered cross-stitch as a great way to keep hands busy and off cigarettes....lungs better, when the eye-sight from stitching will "go" I don't know! LOL. But it certainly is a wonderful art, and now have something to show for a vice. (Couldn't afford to smoke nowadays anyway!)

Lurker for almost 6 years, enjoy newsgroup very much. Especially enjoy reading about life/customs/culture from the overseas posters in this group, and also posters who live in different areas of the states than I. And of course have also picked up interesting info/tidbits on cross-stitch.

Jayne Wilkins

My Mother had never been much of a "cat person", but in the fall of '01, she had a six-ish month old boy kitten show up at her door. Not being a cat person, I said if she didn't find a home for him, I'd take him, but he'd have to be strictly an outdoor cat (which I hate, btw) since Chen Li (my aged girl) won't take another cat in the house. The catch was, I was having CTS surgery on my right wrist that very week, so I knew I wouldn't be able to take him until it was a couple of weeks healed (I was going to try and integrate him, so wanted to be prepared for separating cats!). By the time I felt ready, he'd morphed from being D.C. (stood for Donna's Cat) to Dammed Cat and now he's Mom's cat! By the time I was ready to attempt the chaos, Mom had gotten attached to him and decided she'd keep him. So now I guess the DC really stands for Dorothy's Cat.

I love hear> I laid down the law to Jim when we first got serious.........no pets!!!

" snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I called Bucket that because the original owner endeavoured to drown the litter in a bucket of water. Somehow he managed to get his paw caught in the handle and was hanging there when her husband found him and put him to dry in the sun on the deck. My daugher worked with her and heard her telling her husband to chuck him back in, she would do so herself when she got home. She begged her not to, she (my DD) would find a home for him. Yeah well, the rest is obvious and I was not much of a cat person lol He was forced on me.

Just spied a young black cat (about 6 months old, I`d think) trying to catch fish in our pond!

I banged on the window, but instead of running off he turned round and obviously said "Did you want me???" and trotted up to be made a fuss of! Cute little devil - devil being the operative word!

Pat

May that woman spend her next life as a cat.

You've said Bucket is about 30 pounds. Is it all muscle? I once visited people who had several quite huge cats about that size - the 3 month old kittens were the size of regular cats. A bit of pandemonium ensued when they all had their frisky time. Dora On a cold snowy day in Calgary

"bungadora" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Sympathies, I noticed this morning you were all down to -20.

I wouldn't say it is all muscle, but even his vet agrees, his frame is very large, he is taller than many small dogs.

Oddly, my DD chastised me for saying what goes around, comes around - the woman who owned Buckets mother finally managed to become pregnant herself but the child was born without a brain and did not live. It seemed to me that she had repeatedly killed these kittens (several litters) and maybe there is a rough justice.