Something About Nothing ... #12

[Lynne G]

Mac, I promise to do home delivery when we're both at RPR this October. Hoping to see ya there again.

Sending another hug to Mrs. Bluer and hope Mom is getting pain relief and feeling better.

And yay! KY, glad it's already the afternoon, but 2pm, gosh my day is dragging, well with this very wet day.

 

[Lynne G]

Almost forgot Keisha - It is Pi Day! So Happy Pi Day to ya all!
(ok, I'm a geek!)

 

[Kivara]

 

[macraven]

hi ya' homie....


did you spend the weekend cheering dw up and talk about the trip?

 

[Mrs bluer101]

Thanks everyone for all the hugs and prayers. Just spoke to mom and they took her for a chest X-ray and put her on a pump of some kind to get rid of extra bile in her body. Her white count is high and they aren't telling us very much. We are all so frustrated right now. Wish I had better news. I feel like such a downer right now.

 

[Lynne G]

Hang in there Mrs. Blluer. Usually that high white count is an infection somewhere. I hope they give you more information. Thanks for letting us know, and you are definitely not a downer. Take care of yourself too! And hugs to all your family.

 

[ky07]

hi ya' homie....


did you spend the weekend cheering dw up and talk about the trip?

Been trying to by showing her new places to eat at city walk and trying to plan our days at dark side but she keeps saying whatever I want to and I try to tell it's both of our vacation but she says but you can plan it better than me

 

[macraven]

Been trying to by showing her new places to eat at city walk and trying to plan our days at dark side but she keeps saying whatever I want to and I try to tell it's both of our vacation but she says but you can plan it better than me

pick out 10 places and ask her to list them in the order of what she likes best.

have a list of foods at each place has so that will help her decide the eatery.


you can let her choose a place on the list, then you choose a place, etc.
that is a start for her to help you in making decisions on where to eat.


i try to eat at places for the foods i can not get back home.

 

[macraven]

Mrs Bluer, don't feel down.
I'm sure you are going through a difficult time right now as the staff can not tell you much on when she will start to improve.
Sometimes we just don't know how long it will take for a person to recovery from an infection or illness or surgery.


Once the labs show progress of healing, you will be more comfortable with her in the hospital.
everyone's goal is to get Mom healthy and back to normal real soon.

Give it 24 hours and she should be reacting to the medications and feel better.

do keep us posted as what is a concern for you, it is a shared concern with all our homies here.

 

[ky07]

pick out 10 places and ask her to list them in the order of what she likes best.

have a list of foods at each place has so that will help her decide the eatery.


you can let her choose a place on the list, then you choose a place, etc.
that is a start for her to help you in making decisions on where to eat.


i try to eat at places for the foods i can not get back home.

Yeah she wants to do some of her favorites like margaritaville for the valcano nachos and we both love millers steak and ale on Kirkman which is a short walk from our hotel and have been showing her menus on other places and only place I seen her getting her attention was cowfish since she loves sushi and she asked me what would I eat there and told her they make burgers too and she asked is that all I eat on vacations

 

[tink1957]

Playing catchup today since my data was maxed out on my phone but DS got the WiFi working now so all is well.

Mrs B ...hang in there so sorry to hear about your mom...hope she's on the mend soon.

Congrats to kfish on the new minnow..we need pics as soon as you feel up to it.

I finally gave in and did something I said I would never do this week...I joined facebook...still a work in progress dragging myself into this century.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week

 

[macraven]

good, i'm glad you joined fb

i joined quite a few years ago.

i need someone to teach me how to use it.

i have 347 requests to be my friend.
i don't know any of those people except Mr Mac.

after 2 years of him telling me to friend him, i finally did a week ago.
i'm just one of his 20 followers on his trip reports he posts there.

i don't read his trip reports as he tells me about them each time he does one.

but i did figure out to reject peeps so i will be dwindling my friend request down.

 

[tinydancer09]

lets move onto milk now.
what's the ruling on expired cow juice.


for me, i won't use it if it is the day prior to expiration.....
but i still keep it in the fridge past expiration for mr mac to use.

cow juice.... mr mac. I'm dying over here! I just smell it. If it smells like it came out of the cows butt it's probably not good.

I use the julian date for bread. Those sneaky buggers got nothing on me! MUHAHAHAHAHA

 

[tinydancer09]

Wound up with one of the arwful headaches that I dread last night. Specialist says from my neck issues, family dr thinks a migraine. if that's what one feels like, i can't imagine how people deal with them on regular basis. still headache this morning, just one eye being lazy lol. Somebody told me to try excedrine? Anyone suffer with migranes here with any hints?.

I'm super delayed, but I suffer from migraines. Thankfully I only get them 1-2 times max per year these days. In college I used to get them AT LEAST once a semester... I have ocular migraines... So hadn't had a migraine in probably a year and driving to a doctors appointment.. or maybe away from it? And it seems half of my vision has a "dark spot" over it(like when you blink your eyes and see spots). So I'm DRIVING and going what the heck... blood sugar must be low. Go get food after appointment and that's when I realize and remember what it is.... Grabbed the food I just bought threw it away and high tailed it for my bed.

You see, when the vision starts I have about 30-40 minutes to get somewhere and knock myself out before the migraine starts... and OH MY GOD. I'm usually convinced I'm dying of a very highly invasive brain tumor about 15 minutes into the thing. Which isn't funny at all.. but I do it every time I get a migraine and if that were true I should be dead by now as they started roughly 8 or so years ago.

In my experience people don't know what a migraine is until they actually have a migraine. People tend to think a bad headache is not a migraine, but they are two very very different pains. I also sometimes get physically nauseous and sick from them. While everyone is different I can tell they suck. They all suck. I have to knock myself out with benadryl or something just to handle it. I usually get a "headache hangover" the next day which is just a dull achy headache.

I also get tension headaches, sugar headaches, heat headaches... pretty much my head just enjoys pain. Excedrine Migraine helps my sister, but it has a lot of caffeine in it so I try not to take it too often... does other weird things that I don't like. For a migraine the best medicine if you're not getting prescription is to get to a cold dark room and sleep it out. Cut out all light, phones, computer, tv, etc. Cold compress helps me sometimes on my neck. Ibuprofen is my go to for all non migraine headaches. I just dislike it because I have to take it on a full stomach or else it could cause stomach problems,....

Lets see if I can describe the difference between them all. Migraines are excruciating. Sometimes I quite literally just want to be hit and knocked out instead of dealing with them. I've considered lots of things on my migraine "death" bed. Tension headaches just hurt. They're pretty terrible and they hurt all the way into my shoulders and back. I usually start rolling my head a lot when I'm about to get one because my muscles are so tight.

Could also be cluster headaches which I hear are super painful. Thought thats what my migraines were a long time ago, but can't remember why we ruled that out. Maybe because it's rare? Dont remember.

Anyways... that was a long reply sorry about that.

 

[macraven]

sorry you get migraines.
like you said, they sux big time.

i haven't had a migraine in years and grateful for that.

 

[tinydancer09]

Yeah she wants to do some of her favorites like margaritaville for the valcano nachos and we both love millers steak and ale on Kirkman which is a short walk from our hotel and have been showing her menus on other places and only place I seen her getting her attention was cowfish since she loves sushi and she asked me what would I eat there and told her they make burgers too and she asked is that all I eat on vacations

But cowfish has REALLY REALLY good burgers! I got the one with cheddar and bacon.. maybe onion straws? Fried pickles are also good. On my trip in december my friend wanted to eat there, bubba gump and places I don't normally go to... I ended up eating a burger a day. My only regret is that I wasn't hungry enough to eat the cowfish buger.

Anyways, sorry for the multiple posts here tonight. Catching up and the best way for me to organize it was going per page! I need to keep on top of things... yeah right like thats going to happen. It's the busy busy season right now and people are starting to realize all the beach houses are nearly booked and panicking which means they call me about 7 times per reservation because they're settling for leftovers. Lots of traveling in my future. Headed down to the beaches this weekend to work... for those of you who don't know I'm a beach vacation property manager... but I don't live there full time because my parents/business partners do so I don't have to. I have to travel back and forth (3 hours one way) pretty frequently. Headed there again this weekend to finish putting a house together for its first renter. It's always exciting when a beach house pops its cherry. Am I allowed to say that?

It's been very unseasonably warm so far. It got over 80 degrees in south GA today and I can't find my car for all the pollen. I can always tell when someone isn't from around here... they wash their car by hand every couple of days instead of just spraying it off. If you just wait a couple weeks the majority of the pollen will settle and you can find your car again.

Hope everyone is doing well. Sorry to hear about your mom bluer. Hopefully things will turn up.. unfortunately when things like that happen they usually look more grim before the look better because it takes time for everything to kick in and start helping. All the best wishes! I know how hard that kind of thing can be.

Excited to hear about other upcoming trips! Can't wait for mine next month! Though my business partner (mother) is not very happy with me.. ooooops

Oh and for the record... to tell if an egg is rotten or not. Fill a glass or bowl with water. Place the egg in.. if it sinks all the way to the bottom its fresh, if it sits on its end its a few weeks old, if it floats toss it it's rotten! That's just for non-cooked though.

Cow juice? Smell it. And also I'm glad I'm not the only one who cleans out their fridge on a regular basis. People think holly(Sister) and I are super OCD.. no we just don't like spoiled food sitting around. We clean it out the night before trash day every week. We live in a close community so if we throw spoiled stuff out too long in the GA heat... well lets just say our neighbors appreciate it.

 

[macraven]

It's always exciting when a beach house pops its cherry. Am I allowed to say that?

well......since no other mods come over here, you're safe........lol

 

[schumigirl]

 

[schumigirl]

You take one day off...........wow......so much to catch up on...

Mrs bluer.......many hugs and good wishes for your mum to improve and be pain free........I know how hard it is for you to see your mum like that....it's tough....... Vent away whenever you need to..........

KFish.........yay.........many congratulations for another little fishy in the family.........can't wait to hear what you name him.......glad everything is ok and everyone is healthy.........and of course we love pictures!!!

Janet......you are welcome anytime to my home for dinner.........we don't take pictures there of food so your mister will be able to eat without waiting for me to snap a picture.......lol........

TinyD.......ouch for the migraines.......one of my brothers has cluster headaches and he has a syringe ready to stick in his neck when they start till they get him to hospital.........a million times worse than migraines and yes not very common. Hope you never have to go through that as migraines are bad enough.......I've only had one migraine in my life....not sure why, it was years ago.......Awful things to have.

No FB for me either.......most of my friends don't either......too much drama at times......even when you don't want it.......I'm always amazed how much really personal information people put on there......or even the internet in general..........these boards are amazing at times for that!!!

Everyone else..........


mac and Janet.......thank you for the good luck wishes at the weekend for yesterday ..........minor mouth surgery went well........no I didn't get my jaw sewn shut......... But appreciated the thoughts.........

Was still groggy last night and this morning checked the garbled email I sent Mac last night .........DH sent me to bed after that as I couldn't coherently put two words together........ But feel fantastic this morning and have done a ton of stuff.........and I can eat real food from tonight.......carefully! So making lasagne as its kinda easy to eat......

On another note.........

10 weeks today till I go back to NY...........

 

[Lynne G]

Schumi, glad to hear your minor surgery went okay. Bed rest is the best when you're recovering. Also glad you're feeling better and ready for real food. Lovely to start with lasagne.

TinyD - sorry to hear of your migraines, and happy you are not having as many as you used to have. And pop the cherry.HaHaHaHaHa.

Another gray day, but not as rainy. Worked on the garden this week-end and apparently the voles ate some of my bulbs, but not others. So mad. I'll have to read up how to keep them out of my garden. I thought the chipmunks had done it, but they only ate one type of bulb, iris, so I haven't planted iris in years. And spring is coming soon. I saw my first white tail rabbit in my neighbor's garden in the rain yesterday. Baby rabbits should not be far behind. However, spring is not here to stay, as we'll be almost 70 tomorrow, with snow to come on Sunday. I'm getting tired of the white stuff.

Enjoy your cup of coffee this morning. I'll be on my second cup of tea. It's cool temps outside and inside.

KY - love it when the trip focuses on food. Yep, that's part of vacation. Where do we eat. Like Miller's too. Have not tried Cowfish, but I'd eat the burger, not a fish fan, raw or cooked.

Keisha, what pie did you come home with after visiting mom? DH brought home an apple and cherry. He's going to eat them, I am not a pie fan.

Time to read some more threads.