Whine and Cheese

[lghome]

My whine today is that I can't seem to stress to my boys the importance of a clean room! Nathan is 10 and Brandon is 8. And when I walk into their room I could literally scream. Add to that the addition of a pup named Cooper and I feel a little bit overwhelmed. Oh and my favorite cheese is Colby Jack. :)

Linda (lg)

[Toto's Dorothy]

Welcome, Linda. When you get the answer to that life long dilemna, please let me know. You will have to sell it and I will be the first to pur chase it. As for cheese, I am able to serve every type but bleu cheese. I'm allergic to penicillin. Don't forget the Pub, the Christian and Tea threads.

[sadiemae]

Ladies, I will send another message to Allen's wife on Thursday. Don't want to overwhelm her.

[LizT]

Thanks Lori. Its hard not having him around.
Al too.

[kiwisally]

Linda, it's been my experience that you'll never get cheese on that one until the day they move out.

[Toto's Dorothy]

And then we are left to clean up the toe cheese they leave behind. Ask Joyce, its still fresh in her mind !

[kiwisally]

Toe cheese = a 1975 Toyota in MY garage bay, 2 "extra" motors, 2 bikes, bmx and downhill (which cost more than the car) goodness know how much other outdoor equipment and the contents of 1/2 flat, well boxed I will admit. Its not so much clean it up as store it......how long...... how long.......I don't know but I'd be willing to bet it's still here when I'm not.

[glupavomomiche]

Kiwi, sounds like it's time for a garage sale!! If you feel guilty about it you can give them 1/4 of the proceeds... the rest is used for whatever you want!

[HelenL]

Welcome Linda! Don't feel too bad, you should see my daughter's room, it's way worse than my sons'...

Whine: I'm hungry and don't feel like eating anything in the house

Cheese: I do have some in the fridge, guess I'll do that!

Whine: I could have gone to the Red Sox game tonight, and even gone on the field, courtesy of the MDA... and couldn't go...

Cheese: I get to go see my daughter sing a solo at her last high school concert... in a gym no less... :)

[Toto's Dorothy]

Helen, CHEESE: Air Conditioning too !

WHINE: No Good Food, that really sucks.

My WHINE: my post in Stories of Hope finally showed up. We are killing David. I wish we could help him somehow.

My CHEESE: my post in Stories of Hope finally showed up. Its a great story.

[Anja]

A cheese: hard to explain, i do my best hehehe,,,, can;t stretch fingers, now being creative: bought a elastic bandage and a cleaning sponge, the bandage keeps fingers on sponge, big relieve!

Hi everyone :)

[Anja]

it means a sort of stretching 50% cool!

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE : Al has passed away He will be truly missed

CHEESE: Al left us his pride and joy, Al's Forum. Thank you for your dedication

[Anja]

Oh no Toto, i was away few days, i'm so sad now WHINE :( I didn't know... i now read, i go check topic of Al passed away, sooooo sad! No words :(((

I join you in Al's pride and joy, hope he is in Heaven now watching us!

*Shocked*

Love,
Anja

[Alyoop]

Allen has gone to be with our father in heaven. Welcomed by all our dear friends.

But, he has left behind so much knowledge and strength.

Silver is gone and I have no big hairy pony to feed and hug each day.

But, I have years of memories and bite marks :)

[momap53]

Cheese: I'm on the deck supervising KK in the courtyard garden.
Whine: the gnats are a huge nuisance

[panguinjen]

Whine: I keep getting modded....I'm sorry, I promise I'll be good now!

Cheese: I'm in San Diego and finally relaxing, even with June gloom

Jen

[cairn175]

Whine...too many good people have passed on
Cheese...getting pwc tomorrow
Whine...getting weaker, tired all the time, voice is going going & going (but not quite gone yet)
Cheese..daughter coming tomorrow to spend the day with me

Peace to you all
Leslie

[Alyoop]

Leslie, sorry about your voice going, glad you are getting your Pwc soon. Seems like a trend around here. What colour did you get?

[panguinjen]

Leslie,
Have you thought of a name yet? I have the checkered flag ready for the races!!!

Jen

[HelenL]

Leslie, good that you're getting the pwc tomorrow! Hope it makes you feel much more mobile...

Have you considered voice banking some key phrases before you lose your voice? Stuff you'd rather have in your own voice, like "I love you", etc. Check into Model Talker, I haven't tried it yet myself.

[sadiemae]

As far as model talker goes. PM Rose. She did it with good results. Even made a you tube video. I will See if I can find it. Old posts only go back 100 posts but Allen told me a way to find older posts. Will look tomorrow.

[notgivnup]

Whine............................im just plain tired to the bone...........:-(

[Toto's Dorothy]

Di, that's all that fresh air you're getting. And could you slow it down some, you're creating hurricanes over on the east coast. There's another reason your so tired.

What's that song, "Slow down, you move too fast
You've got to make the morning last........"

WHINE: Don't ask
CHEESE: I'm glad I have you guys

[notgivnup]

Whine......still tired

Thanks Helen, it's been all the grandkids I have been watching for the past week, I quess they (the parents), havent a clue yet how this affects a person..........still waiting, so glad there are a few older ones to do the work, yet I am always trying to keep track of who is where doing what, mentally draining and with all the heartache lately makes it harder to consentrate.

[st123]

Hang in there, Di. You're truly a warrior woman!

[marypat]

di, I feel you sister, my dtr and her 4 yr old moved inn with us...big whine and cheese. so tiring but also kind of nice. I wish she could see when it just gets too much.

[momap53]

I'm with you Di! I only have two and they aren't here that often but they're so energetic it just wears me out to watch them. I couldn't begin to be responsible for their well being at this point

[Alyoop]

Sorry about your fatigue Di. I couldn't do all that babysitting, not with that many grand kids. Its just too much for you. Can't you say something?

Whine. Sharlenes Dad passed away.....another ALS angel. Oh what a week. Prayers for you Sharlene

Cheese. God loves us.

[HelenL]

Hi all, Di, you must be tired, you confused Toto with me! :)

Sad about Sharlene's Dad, at least she was with him at the end... I know I wished for that when my Dad died unexpectedly 13 years ago. So hard to lose, yet a blessing by the time it comes I guess... sadness abounds.

[notgivnup]

Whine....sorry about confusing helen/toto, i am tired,....sad for sharlene and family

cheeze...but will be getting relief TODAY!

[HelenL]

That's ok Di, it's just been a tough week for all, hasn't it? Love all of you ladies, you keep me sane. Missing our gents and our ladies already up in heaven.

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE: My life

CHEESE: Paybacks

Don't ask

[notgivnup]

Whine.................feeling really sad, need CHOCOLATE!

Cheeze.............. doesn't last to long at a time, I can get back to faking it again and put my :-) face on......" tomarrow is another day"

[panguinjen]

Di... Sending you molten chocolate cake with ice cream and mint garnish!

Whine: ready to go home
Cheese: head home tomorrow

Jen

[Zaphoon]

Whine: I'm all out of wine!

Cheese: But I still have plenty of cheese!

[panguinjen]

Cheese: home again...love traveling, love coming home... Even the laundry!

Jen

[Alyoop]

Cheese .....made grasshopper pie


Wine........ate it and feel sick.

[notme]

Gotta ask what grasshopper pie is!

Whine: Lungs filled with gunk feel like crap
Cheese: Sick enough to sleep almost 20 hours--which I really, really, needed.

[Alyoop]

Grasshopper pie
Has a biscuit base, but you use chocolate biscuits. Melt marshmallows and cream, flavor with peppermint and make it green.
Set it in the fridge, top with whipped cream and chocolate flakes.........it's like a giant after dinner mint.
An English recipe.
Veeeeeery rich indeed. Might have some for breakfast :)

[HelenL]

Yum! My daughter learned a camping versions of that... I think you take Bisquik dough and put it in tin foil... add marshmallows and a york peppermint patty, wrap it up inside the dough, and foil, stick it in the campfire. Yummy!

[notgivnup]

Whinr........my feet hurt
Cheeze......with that my arm hardly hurts at all compared.

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE: Di and Pepe had a disagreement, Pepe lashed out at Di, Pepe overtook Di, Pepe hurt Di

CHEESE: Di will heal with time and many prayers, Di gets one over on Pepe and unplugs his "happy juice"time, Di slips under the cops radar for DUI, and she's a great sport concerning her special brownies.

MORE CHEESE: Kim has come to visit (hope he has enough testosterone to keep us on an even keel), Helen posted her 1,000 today, and Di made more brownies

Have wonderful ? ? ? ? Whatever your clock says.

[st123]

WHINE: this crazy disease...

CHEESE: Relatives are wonderful, weather is great, omelets for all this morning :)

[notgivnup]

Cheeeze.............Toto you are WONDERFUL! I laughed so hard at you post!, you are soooo funny, Thank you!........:-)
Cheeeze............ Thanks for breakfast Sharlene

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE: Growing more tired every day. Approval for chair is in the mail, its coming by pony express.

CHEESE: I'm here for another day. Thank You, LORD.

[HelenL]

Whine: I too am tired, and still have this cold.

Cheese: Mostly tired because of my fantastic party for my daughter yesterday, and have a cough assist machine for my cold. And lots of leftovers in the fridge so I don't have to cook either!

More Cheese: my friends and family who helped make my party so fantastic....

[BeckyW]

Whine. I'm achy and exhausted.
Cheese..a had a great weekend enjoying the outdoors, listening to great jazz groups wit my hubby. Got fresh strawberries from my fav farm stand.

[HelenL]

Becky, how is your DIL feeling? Hoping that little one is growing more!

[BeckyW]

No word yet...ultra sound today...don't know what time. Praying...waiting....

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE: Nothing like getting tbe $hit scared out of you at 4 a m. I woke to hear (yeah, I was asleep), noises in the hallway: someone moving my manual wheelchair as well as my geri chair. Lots of commotion. Then I hear the freezer door open and ice noises. So I A$$ume its my daughter getting ice water. So, I'm still a little worried because she's never gotten up in the middle of the night before. Any way, I pretend I'm sleeping just in case she comes in (we had a disagreement yesterday, so I really wasn't wanting to speak to her). I hear footsteps, I'm pretending, the footsteps stop, I open my eyes to see this really big guy standing beside my bed. I let out this pathetic "Oooooh", Good to see my voice is going to scare a killer away! (Spoken FACETIOUSLY)! After the pathetic squeal and I $hit myself (not really), my eyes focus, and its my husband back early from a trip. I guess, I know my heart can handle a scare like that.

CHEESE: I'm praying he gives me a bath later today! Can't get more cheese than that.

[momap53]

Whine: No internet yesterday on computer or phone.
My Avatar is AWOL, also my edit button and PM capabilities. I have no way to message David!
I have tendonitis at the insertion point on my R deltoid
Cheese: PT has some answers and a program for my CALS to do

[st123]

Well, I either helped or not, lol. I don't know how to message David so I 'reported' your post and explained that I was just looking for his help for you. Guess we'll see how that works, Deb :)

Whine: Trying to get back to work today, but I seem to be an absentminded blob, ugh.
Cheese: Going to take one more day off and go watch my nephew play baseball :)

[momap53]

Thanks Sharlene! Hope you can get some work done. Looks like our Internet serviceis goin g to be dodg again today

[momap53]

Praying for good news, Becky

[Toto's Dorothy]

WHINE: Waiting all this time for my pwc. Called D M E and she went through the paperwork. All specialty items had to have individual prices for approval. Well, everything was processed on 4 of June. Still no letter. So she looked through her files. Oh look, an approval letter! But oops, it says approved but no payment. Now, I hate to use foul language but, WTF? She will call tomorrow. So is it going to be another 30 days? I really don't know if I can hang on that much longer.

CHEESE: I got bathed today. First time since Sunday before last.

[glupavomomiche]

Whine: Called NSM... they had told me with my insurance I should have my pwc within 6-8 weeks. WEEELLLLLLLL... I called when 6 weeks was up and guess what? They haven't even gotten the letter of medical necessity signed! BLEEAAAHHHHH!!!! So much for that!

Cheese: My parents are helping me have a garage sale this weekend. Hoping to get rid of tons of furniture and stuff so I can move into my guest room so they can start my bedroom/bathroom remodel!

[notgivnup]

Whine.....welcome to my world sarah & toto...been waiting forever, I gave up. Ask MDA for a loaner and maybe a call from ALSGA to youe MDA works also. So sorry girls. Missing my girls, daughter & granddaughters, so jealous they got to go to Italy....wahhhhhh

Cheeze....thinkin....................... ..thinkin..................

[HelenL]

Whine: I fell trying to get myself on the commode... slow motion onto the floor.

Cheese: we used my hoyer lift for the first time and got my butt off the floor and onto my bed... thinking I'm going to grab some work and curl up in bed and use my laptop.

[susanf]

Oh no Helen :(. Are you ok?

[notgivnup]

Hope you are OK Helen, no brusies or bumps! Be careful!

[HelenL]

No no, I'm fine, just bruised ego and rug rash on my knees... nothing to think twice about. The legs just sort of went spaghetti on me and I sank to the floor. Sucks being us, doesn't it?

[notgivnup]

Whine..............Being us, yeppers. Hate those spaghetti legs also!

Cheeze....Happy you are ok!

[BeckyW]

Helen I'm glad you 're ok.

Whine...my son and DIL not coming for weekend
Cheese. . She's going to be induced Sunday night
Cheese...I going to have a grand baby on Monday

[cervus]

Sorry about your fall, Helen. It all does suck!

[kiwisally]

Glad you are okay Helen. SUCKS big time.

[HelenL]

Thanks friends... does make me feel better to have your support!

[galpalblue]

Whine--- My house is so QUIET! Three weeks ago, I was hospitalized. I would have given just about anything to have 1 day by myself. Now I have had 12 days where I have what I asked for and I am so sad. Allen, I miss you.

Cheese-- Allen is up in heaven shooting hoops with his Dad. He has been healed. He is well.

Allen, I miss you and I love you!

[panguinjen]

Whine: Helen fell, Robin is blue, Becca and Toto have missing chairs, Maddie was very busy today and I'm behind...

Cheese: Becky's gonna be a grandma, Susan's Ty has a sibling on the way and Maddie was very busy today!

Jen

[HelenL]

I'm so sorry Robin... I miss him too...

I'm glad you came to see us here, how are you feeling these days after your hospital bout? I bet it's strange that after juggling so many things to do at the same time, you have so much more time on your hands. But still probably a lot to go through and get done.

I wish I could say something to help you, other than send you a hug.

[notgivnup]

Robin, I am so sorry too. I will keep you in my prayers We will all miss him too and I was honored to have known him.{{{BIG HUGS}}}

[Toto's Dorothy]

Robin,

I, too am sorry your blue. And like the others, we all miss him too. I know its nothing in comparison to your loss. I am glad that you have come, now let me tell you a secret. You can't leave us! Nope, not ever. But soon you'll realize that you don't want to leave. As you take care of business, you will not be alone. I will be there with you as well as all of Allens friends. We will hold you up, when you become weak. We will hand you tissues everytime you need to cry. And when you think you can't go on, we will walk with you down the path. Remember, you are never alone.

[Toto's Dorothy]

Oh, lost my signal. Thought for sure I lost my post.

WHINE: Called D M E, reason number 632 - B C / B S "thinks" I have other in sur ance. Me thinks not! D@rn tightwads just don't want to pay.

CHEESE: I called doc tor. He said he will try to find a facility for me in a week. Not getting my hopes up quite yet.

[Toto's Dorothy]

Oh, Helen, where's my head? I'm so sorry for the fall. The question of the hour is..................Did you ever get to pee? You said you were getting on, fell, sling/lift, then bed. Please tell me you're still not holding it?

[kiwisally]

lol Toto, if dear Helen is still holding it I'm not sure if it should be a Whine or a Cheese but either way I'm mighty impressed.