What Did You Do Today?

[Janet]

Diana....way to go!!!! 20 lbs is alot to lose. You are doing so great!

Happy Thanksgiving Lindsey....can't believe the time has come for the holidays already. Wish we could put them off for a bit. Like Diana said....let the others brings side dishes and help out. It's much more fun when you're sharing your kitchen with others.

Gayle...I feel so bad for you. I've never had poison ivy, but I have had poison oak all over my wrists (I had gloves on). It was so painful and itchy. I hope you can get some relief from it soon.

Sandy is there something we can help with? To bring back your positivity? I know it's hard at times, but I'll help if I can.

Today after I did the afternoon route Ricky and I headed to the woods on the four-wheelers. It was so nice. I hadn't been to the woods for a year so it was good to go. I love being in the woods during the fall and just sitting watching all the leaves fall to the grown....so peaceful.

Here are a couple pictures of Ricky and I.....

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[gja1000]

Janet, you look like you are having so much fun! You need to have some fun.

I am feeling a lot better this evening. I went to my nurse practitioner and got some steroids today and they have really helped. Plus I looked up home remedies for poison ivy and found out that you must dry it out and most people use alcohol directly on the blisters. Ouch!!! But it is helping. So I keep doing it. I'm hoping to look less like a gargoyle tomorrow.

[Tiramisu]

Diana ... I'll just go to the laundromat for a few weeks until I get my settlement.

Janet ... Love you smile. Do that more often.

Gayle ... Glad you're feeling better.

I'm gearing up for an extremely productive weekend, painting, repairing a couple of screens, and some landscaping. I'll get my groove back.

[Lindsey]

Gayle, I'm glad it's getting better! I've never had poison ivy either, but it doesn't sound fun!

Janet, it does look like you had fun!

Diana, Scott's mom is making cabbage rolls and she will also be bringing potatoes from her sister's farm. But the rest is up to us, and we will be peeling and cooking the potatoes here. I asked Scott this morning to help out with cooking too... because now I'm SICK! I think I caught a cold from my grandma. She has had it all week, and yesterday morning I started getting stuffed up, and by last night I couldn't even breathe. My eyes are watering, my ears are ringing, my throat is tickling. Ugh. I was going to just stay home today and call in sick but I had stuff to get done at work today... I will probably leave when I get it done. I know I will probably still be sick for the weekend because my grandma's has not gotten any better yet and she's had it longer! Right now I'm slathered in Vick's Vapo-rub, just finished drinking Neo-Citran, and I drank some Buckley's cough and cold medicine this morning. I feel like crap! I wish I could tell everyone not to come, and just stay in bed for the weekend!

[Janet]

Lindsey....I would call it off. There is no way I would want to do all that and not feel good. Besides...I wouldn't want to come and risk getting sick myself. You really need to give this more thought, or postpone it till the next weekend.

[gja1000]

Lindsay, I know how hard it is to postpone something like Thanksgiving - but - I would let everyone know how sick I was so that they could decide whether or not to come and expose themselves to your crud. Maybe they will decide not to come! That would be wonderful!!! However, they will probably come since plans are already made. I'd just try my best and let everyone know that you are sick and you will do what you can. If I couldn't go any more, I'd just crawl upstairs and go to bed for awhile and let everyone else proceed with fixing the meal. I'm so sorry you are sick! I got sick once the day before Christmas, but it was just my mom and daughter and family, so they just took over and did everything for me.

[gja1000]

My poison ivy is getting better. It is still weeping some, but I just rub it down with alcohol and most places are now scabbed over. Oh yes, I look lovely with scabs on my face :roll eyes:. But the swelling is down and I was able to put some powder makeup on the lesions, not to cover them, but to tone down the screaming redness of them so that I could go to the Apple store and get my new iMac! My old mac could not be repaired so I just got a new one. It was not in my budget, but oh well, what can you do.

This machine is wonderful - I really love it. The screen is SO BIG!!! http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...co=MjIwNTQyNjE Here's a link to it. I got the 21.5 inch screen which is bigger than my old iMac so it seems REALLY BIG!!! I get an education discount since I am a teacher - it isn't much but every little bit helps. My only bump in the road is that I wasn't able to set up my school email account - I'll have to look at the settings at school on Monday and try again. I'm working at home today - but of course, I had to have a computer to actually get any work done!

[Lindsey]

I am at home now. I worked 7:30 to 11:00, went to my grandma's and visited until 12:30 with her and Layla, and then me and Layla came home. I have to drive back into the city later to pick up Scott.

I know everyone coming (other than my grandma, who is sick already so it won't bother her!!) goes on Facebook a lot so I made sure my status said I was sick. I will tell Scott to maybe casually mention it to his sister. She's pregnant and due in a month so she definitely won't want to catch this! I also told Scott he will need to help out if I'm still feeling like this. It won't be much... cutting some carrots and parsnip to cook, steaming asparagus, making some stuffing. I can season the turkey and put it in the oven early in the day, and we're making some fruit salad the day before everyone comes so that will be done. Maybe he and his mom could peel and cut the potatoes for cooking. I'm sure I can handle making the gravy too, because nobody else makes it as good as I do

Gayle I'm glad the swelling is down! Your new computer looks very nice!!

[gja1000]

I'm glad you are home now! It sounds like you have spread the word about being sick - so that is GOOD. Good luck with everything, I hope it goes well.

[Janet]

Gayle you IMac looks really nice. I know nothing about them...lol. Do you have to have a keyboard with this? I hope I never have to get a new computer. I hardly ever use my desktop now since I have my laptop and IPad. Hopefully they will last awhile.

[Janet]

I'm not liking today very well. The neighbors have been working the beans all around us so I have to keep my windows closed. It's in the 80's. The bean dust is really mean to my sinuses. I'll be glad when they get it done around us....maybe another day or two.

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by Janet

Gayle you IMac looks really nice. I know nothing about them...lol. Do you have to have a keyboard with this? I hope I never have to get a new computer. I hardly ever use my desktop now since I have my laptop and IPad. Hopefully they will last awhile.

Yes, you have to have a keyboard and a mouse - both came with the computer and both are wireless.

Like you, I use my iPad a lot, but I don't have a laptop, so I really need a desktop, especially when I work from home. It just isn't very easy to do word processing from my iPad. I've thought about getting a portable keyboard, but it's just easier to do it from my desktop computer.

[Tiramisu]

Wow, Ive had a stressful work week. Not sure I'll be able to work with this manager. She is entirely too needy and very scatter brained. The vp admin calls her out of control. She texted me at 615 this morn, while I was driving in, to cancel her 8a mtg. ok, no shorten it, ok, no move it. Then, as I'm going out to meet a couple friends for lunch, she sends me a text for directions to a lunch meeting. I was ignoring it because it wagon my personal phone, so she starts calling on my company blackberry. Yes, I cancelled my lunch and went back in to pacify her.

Can't take much more.

[gja1000]

Oh Sandy, she IS out of control. Can her boss help you? I don't think I could take that either. WHEW!

[judy]

I haven't been on here for a while, and have missed quite a lot!

Congrats on the 20 pounds, Diana!!! That is quite an acomplishment, and I know you are feeling better from it too!

I hope you feel better today Linds! Take it easy and don't worry about imoressing anyone with you hosting skills. You let them all know you are sick, so they 1) should have cancelled and 2) should be very grateful for your efforts.

Poor Gayle! I hope your poison ivy is almost gone! That alcohol must have stung like crazy! I love the new computer! It's so huge!!

Janet, what a great picture of you riding around on your 4 wheeler! You reallyt look happy. What a nice thing to be able to do!~

Sandy, hang in there. You will be settled in, but it does take time. I would be really angry at the dry cleaner, especially if the receipt say laundry only. You legally do not have to pay for the cleaning fees. Depends on how much effort you want to put into arguing with them. Maybe you should just grab your clothes and run!!! What's up with that crazy manager? Hope you figure out how to deal with her very soon!

I've been having fun lately. We are having a run of beautiful, sunny days, and it is so nice! I am going to Jessie's today. I haven't seen the kids in over a week. Mackenzie is in her second cast. She hurt her foot this summer, and again a couple of weeks ago, so the orthopedist wants her in a cast so that all the injuries can heal. She didn't listen, and walked right through the bottom of the first cast, so she is now on the second!

Oops - that was Jessie. I'm going there tomorrow since they won't be home today. Ooooh! A whole day to myself! Lovely!