One Step at a Time - April 2017

[treegirl]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

A quick hello from Treegirl - I know a few of you from your nice dropping in on our monthly thread . Just want to say hi to Lizann and send good wishes for all that's going on, hi to Nora, such a nice story about the homeless person, hi Pauly, and congrats to SK on the good surgery. Wishing all on this thread well ---

[NoraC]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Ok folks - I need to get something off my chest here. I hope that it doesn't sound like I am bragging about what a good person I am. That I want pats on the back or something. I am the opposite to be honest and am trying to improve myself. When I talk about things I am definitely not saying it to brag about what I did. I'm just telling you about my life with Mom, etc. That whole story about the homeless person was because it was one of those times in your life where something happens and it just seems like it was meant to be. I wasn't trying to say that I had done something remarkable, I was trying to share what a cool experience it was. I am just trying to find my way in this world one step at a time.

[NoraC]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Hi Tree!! I haven't been over there for awhile. How are you doing???

[paulywogg]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Hey all,Nora,I hope nobody said you were bragging, I'll kick their a$$!! I think we all do nice things for people when we get the chance right? I donate to the women and children's shelter cuz I buy lots of nice clothes but never get around to wearing them( or can never shrink into that size haha) Lou's outgrown clothes,diapers,etc,help the occasional homeless people out with food that I've bought extra,give a free haircut here and there on the elderly,jeez,now it sounds like I'm bragging haha! But no,I think its human nature to want to help,I'd like to donate my time but..I think it would make me depressed,I care too damn much,maybe somewhere down the line,not sure if I have Mondayitis or not? Maybe still waking up, waves to all and I hope everyone has a great AF day

[actiongirl46]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Morning Steppers! Happy un-hungover Monday, my favorite kind!

I'm back at work and in the routine today. Bittersweet, as I did enjoy my time off for spring break but it will be good to get everyone back on track. The boys have been staying up way too late and sleeping until noon.

I can't believe it is almost mid-April. Time is going so fast. Have a great day all and I'll be back later - AG

[SKendall]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

MAE. Nora, relax, I'm sure no-one thought that. Bragging is just not your style.

This story might lose something in the telling.

I had to have Andrea peak into my dressing to make sure it was clean, etc. She did and said, "mom, this so good, you really can't tell there has been a surgery". I was a little puzzled and then she found the actual wound saying "oh, there it is! lol. Sometimes she has these ditzy moments. The dressing is about 6-8" long and 3" wide and it's mostly padded for protection, so she thought the wound was the same size as the dressing.

Yesterday, I was fooling with the Settings on my computer and managed to delete the memory. All of my sign in info has gone, and some were
set up so long ago I couldn't remember them. What a nightmare! I went back and put history back in but it still isn't helping me out with the passwords, wish I had IT!

Vivian is back here with me and happily snoozing on my bed. Andrea's dog just wore her out and when I was trying to love on her Maggie (name of dog) pushed in between us and Peggy was pushed out. Andrea told me that Maggie had been all over her for 10 days but now, we are both happy. She only got kibble at Andrea's so as soon as she got home she wanted her science diet and sat by her bowl with this big grin on her face.:heartbeat:

[SKendall]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Peggy is back with me, not Vivian lol.

[Wildflowers]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Nora, are you a vegan? New Sunny was and would try not talk of meat out of respect.

Oregon six deaths from high windstorm :sad: Worst storm since 1957. Think came from East coast. Between us and S.W. WA state 308,000 were without power. Glad everyone has regained power. Big thanks to all crews who worked hard in restoring. Prayers for familes of lost loved ones.

I'm sorry to read of your nieces stress fracture. Hope she heals well!... Know what you mean about no little ones around. Sorry to hear about son not telling you of warrant. Course understand why from his perspective. Reminds me of someone. Yeah, get that tips aren't allocated towards all income. Worked in hospitality industry and one kid too for nine years. Hope DIL Dad will co-sign. Very sorry also to read of your cousin's partner's passing!.. Too many so close together!.... :hug: I agree for myself that MJ is far less dangerous than booze. Tho, not for everyone. I've smoked twice since Jan. During alcohol relapse. Tho have smked in past where it never led me bk to booze. Have two vape pens. Daughter gave me plus jar in garage that's over a yr old. Guess I should have froze. Not really into it anymore. Have never been in a shop. May if depression isn't controlled. One daughter has RA and has a card. She works 50+hrs a wk and is in grad school. She says it helps her. She's an honor student. Other kids gave up over a yr ago. They feel much better. Hubs has maybe smoked 2-3 times in decades. Negative effects. Tho, he voted to legalize here. Okay enuff of that.

Thank you so much for providing needed items to a homeless man in your city!... You have always been a real caring woman!... I have given them money & ciggs and hubs doesn't like it. Give a little ea month to charity. In past volunteered at food bank and meals on wheels. Hope you receive your wildflowers soon. Flowers bring such wonderful joy!.. Love sunflowers and daisies too... Have daffodils on table now. :smile: Glad I'm not the only one who can be chatty at times. Other times more quiet. Hope you will not feel like you can't talk about anything on here. Don't like censorship for most subjects. Glad you heard from MB. Very happy to hear she was having fun!... Have kept her and her fam in prayers.

Can't member everything so post and read bk. Was busy wknd and responding to Pm ran out of x. Look out for WF's posting binge. lol xo

[Wildflowers]

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AG, felt sorry for you and lol at same time regarding having to listen to heavy metal. The many sacrafices mom's make....... Always thought it was weird for schools operating hrs. Teens usually need more sleep then grade school age. Happy un-hungover Mon to you. Yes, time is going to fast. Wished we could slow it down. Glad you had a good x with your sons.

Techie, hope your business trip is successful. Hope your tests come back with good results!...

Nora, you never come across as a braggart. If you did I wouldn't be here. In fact no one here comes across that way. There is absolutely nothing wrong with sharing something wonderful that you and hubs did!.. Think many of us are self conscious. Lacking self confidence. I know I do. Even at store if I look without going around corner, say sorry some woman will say no need to say sorry. Those of us who need help in building our self concept-esteem be proud of being loving empaths. Pauly's words are true and awesome!..

Time for another read bk. xo..

[Wildflowers]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Pauly, how did Kell's bf hernia surgery go. Was-is this an ER surgery or elective type? Hope he's feeling better soon!.. Sorry your daughter is having to have more cauterization to her back. Hope this reduces her pain. :hug: Does your hubs support your boundary with other daughter's bf? This is maybe tricky with your daughter too. Have not liked many of oldest daughter's choices in past Bf's. Had to have boundaries in place to. Why is it some woman choose losers? Our oldest is sneaky in not telling us or her little sis things. She knows sissy will tell me. I have to keep my mouth shut to fund things out. Was also wondering if you do colours and perms, or other stylists do in your shop? Could this be contributing to your headaches?

Liz, glad your home and had a great x on vacation. Hope your hubby's b-day celebration was fun yesterday. No it doesn't give much confidence to our Dr's. Erin questioning these DX's and no one's listening. I mean she's participating and advocating in her own health care. The only excuse may be that Dr's are overwhelmed with patient ratio. Still, NO EXCUSE!... My gawd, she's pregnant. Wonder if her PA ordered and Dxed correctly. Sometimes, I think them and NP's are looking deeper and helping more then Dr's. Hope this gets resolved!... Think anemic. can be common in pregnancy. I run that way since birth. I'd taken Dr's suggestion of prego vitaimin supplement and broke out in hives. He didn't know what was wrong with me. My nurse figured it out. Too much iron, Even tho was anemic. Sharing just in case. Hope you got caught up on laundry. Went camping once for two wks with girls and oh my.. You will have a terrific shower and wedding. Hard not to panic in amidst of show much going on, that needs to go off beautifully. It will, it will... Deep breaths... Ask for help.. :hug:

Skendall, too funny have niece and SIL in that area. Yes, the weather in Sequim is great. Banana belt. A couple yrs bk she took us to Sol Duc Hot Springs. At first really didn't like sitting in springs with strangers. Never know what people may be carrying. Kept my sunglasses on. Yes, smoked weed and wine b4. Sure felt good after soak. Sulpher made aches disappear and skin so soft. Went to one in carson hot springs with bunch of gf's yrs bk. Her wedding was at John Wayne Marina. Beautiful. My SIL who's a professional. Got bombed, and started a big nasty fight with me. It took everything I had not to punch her. The cops were already on sight. I was sober enuf to deal with them and mgmt b4 this occurred. See what too much alcohol does.

Problem is all heavy drinkers and pot too. Practically un-invited them to hubs 60th b-day. My text of Unc doesn't want his b-day to be a drunk fest. Oh well. He rarely drinks and we keep no alcohol in house.

So happy to read you are doing better!.. :hug: Getting out of house to drive. :smile. That Ms Peggy is back home with Mommy. No one treats them as good!... Your bakery treats sound divine. Have more divine carrot cupcakes with crm ch here. Swartz bakery out of Seattle. Please try not to worry about repeating self!.. I do it too. Can't member things. So re-post, re-write is helpful here. Please now that your feeling better, don't over do it. Repeat...

Not sure how we can help you with um.. twisting, bending. Did you get # from Mexico trip? lol.... We could send you a gift... lol..

Will get to lavender festival one day.

Think I'm forgetting things. Sorry. Never my intention to leave anything out important.

Waves to everyone. :heartbeat:

P.S. Ne please ck in when you have time. Thinking of you!... Wondering if your hubs does all the cooking at home cause he's a chef. If so can he via teleconference to mine. Making a meatless meal tonight. Baked acorn squash. Stuffed with butter, raisins, nuts and goat ch. Served with organic apples. Last night it too me forever to make stuffed ricotta, manicotti. Second time. It was delish. Too time comsuming. Plus when drunk threw out and gave away pastry bags-tips. I threw out and gave away a lot. Guess I didn't think I'd be around much longer. Thankful, to be feeling better. xo...

P.P.S sorry for the long, un-checked grammer, sp etc. Have scrambled brains at the moment. Out of x to edit. Prob good, cause need to not pressure self. I'll never be perfect anyway... xo..

[Wildflowers]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

SK, really good news that your incision is healing! :smile: Relate to ditzy moments. lol... Thankful, mainly moments.

Sorry about losing your passwords. Did this once. Ugh. Did you go to recovery in your settings? Go back to earlier rebuild? I have Windows 10. You might be able to go back to beginning time. Google settings, may have your passwords stored if you enabled. Not sure which windows software your running? I don't save passwords on PC. Keep them in iPhone with cloud back up. With two step verification. I'm a novice at this.

Maybe you can PM Techie or someone else. Think he may know how to help.

[Lizann]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Good evening all. Wildflower, enjoyed reading your text. You're so good at keeping up with everyone!

Skendall, I'm glad Peggy is back with you. I'm sure she's happy too. Glad the incision is healing and not too big! I've done that with passwords too. Hubby now has a notebook where we list our passwords. I guess we could get ourselves into some trouble writing them down, but how the heck else are you going to remember them?

AG, like you I am going back to work tomorrow and back to my usual routine. Bittersweet, indeed. I'm beginning to think I could do retirement. I should get to bed, but I'm not tired. Although I didn't sleep till noon I enjoyed not having to get up early. Ugh!

Nora, I did some more coloring tonight:happy2:. Gel pens do not bleed. The only thing with gel pens is the ink doesn't last that long. My sister got me a huge pack of gel pens for Christmas! Apparently my niece loves them and that's how this whole thing started.

Well, I moved mountains today! Ordered the food and cake for the shower and did more work on the decorations and games. I really do enjoy planning these parties. I seriously enjoy the planning more than the actual event.

I think I'll go read a bit and see if that makes me sleepy. Wishing you all a quiet AF night.

[paulywogg]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Hey all,Liz,I hafta write down my passwords, its a combo of letters and numbers that I use for everything but I vary it and can never remember which combo goes where! That's why I had to make a new FB when I got the new phone haha,WF,Kells bf's surgery is Thursday morning, same time as Kells back thing,his moms gonna take him and luckily hubs took the day off to take Kell and watch Lou cuz I couldn't do it cuz we're short a girl at work, I just hope things go smoothly Kell got her medical marijuana card and I was surprised that its a replacement drivers license! I thought it was a separate card but nope its from DMV and says Medical Marijuana Patient in a red banner across the top,I'm like jeez,nothing like announcing it to the world but I guess it has to be like that cuz if you get your card you hafta forfeit any CDL licenses,gun license, and a couple others but I can't remember what,SK,its cute your daughter was looking in the wrong place at your wound site,sounds like something I'd do glad Miss Peggy is home with you so much I needed to comment on but I need more coffee me thinks,anyways I hope we all have a wonderful AF Tuesday

[NoraC]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Happy Terrific Tuesday! :yay:

[Wildflowers]

Re: One Step at a Time - April 2017

Liz, great job on moving mountains! :smile: It's a lot of work, coordinating everything. Glad your enjoying!... When time comes for the events, after initial anxiety, you'll be great. Hope you received good sleep. Also have passwords written down and hidden. Except banking ones. Occasionally, hubs and I do a little memory test with them. Just in case.

Pauly, some passwords require diff alpha, caps, #'s, symbols. Gets confusing. Sorry I mixed up surgery, cauterzation dates. Hope it all go's well!.. Glad your
hubs was able to take time off. Was not aware of MJ license changes. Do understand forefeits. Will have to ask daughter how it is in AZ. I could have gotten card here long x ago. Chose not to as didn't want in my records. At my last physical Dr asked with that grin. Said yes, so minimal it really isn't an issue with me. Forgot to tell Techie, daughter did give me an ointment a yr or so bk. It was also infused with other natural ingredients. Not sure the % of CBD oil. It helped some with pain.

Nora, hope you have a Terrific Tuesday!. See there's a MJ debate on other thread. Seen these before and they will continue..... Good imo. To ea there own. There are so many useful things with this plant, diff strains, etc. I'm a believer in that it's not as bad as alcohol. Others may have diff experiences & opinions. Some people maybe become addicted. I'm not a garden variety addict. Some are. Edibles are completely diff imo. Higher strengths and body metabolizes diff.

If it's not sprayed MJ can be a wonderful medicinal plant. Nothing wrong imo doing recreationally either. Indica and Sativa are diff species, diff benefits, diff effects. Many diff cannabis receptors in body. Never here of suicides and homicides with MJ. Quite the opposite with alcohol. You do what works for you. You have my full support!..


Have to run to appt. Waves to everyone. :heartbeat: