Explanatory Notes for New Folks: 1. The Group Journal was created to give everyone a place to post things that perhaps they didn't want to start a new thread about, but just wanted to get off their chest. It can be used by anyone for any reason--celebrate your successes, vent your frustrations, ask questions, ask for support, whatever you need to do...that's what the journal is for!
2. Because the original Group Journal got very large and unwieldy to read, we decided that we'd cut off each Journal as it reached 70 posts and then create a new one. This Journal is called "Group Journal #37" because it is the 37th such post since the Journal was created.
3. When the Journal was created, we agreed that things posted here didn't necessarily require a response. Sometimes you just want to report or vent but don't really expect a reply. Other times, you may want feedback. Feedback is fine here, just not required/expected.
4. To make each Journal different from the next, I began creating theme journals, just as if our "virtual" online journal here was an actual paper journal we were writing our thoughts in. So, while I post the Journal threads, I often write them as if I was the Journal character. It's silly but folks seem to enjoy it.
Hey there. I'm Claude, your summer lifeguard and journal host. Excuse me while I pump iron. It gets boring standing here flexing while waiting for some hot babe to come by and write in the journal, so I gotta kill the time somehow, ya know?
The journal cover features a colorful kite on a perfect summer day blue sky background. Inside, its pages are pale yellow with blue sky lines. The lower corner of each page is decorated with beach stuff--like beach balls, sand castles, kid's bucket & shovel and seashells.
Your journal is on that old beat-up beach picnic table waiting for your words. The silly rubber pen is a seagull and, as usual, a slim silver ballpoint is provided for those who can't see themselves writing with a silly rubber pen!
Enjoy your Journal!
Posts: 7680 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I was shocked to see that the latest Group Journal that had been posted to (#36) was a year old and thought I must be losing my marbles! LOL So I searched the message base and found that there is indeed one later than that.
I'm just pushing it back up to the top so I don't create a duplicate when it's time to do the next one.
Edited to add that, once I pushed it up, I saw that it had over 100 posts so I'm overdue to create a new one anyway! hehe
Posts: 7680 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I have not been on my bike in weeks (months). You may recall I discovered I had a fracture in my leg (fibula). About 3 weeks ago, I was told the fracture was healed. I knew I still had "glitches" in my knee. I had an MRI and found out the results this morning. I have a torn meniscus. I am going to have orthroscopic surgery to repair the knee. My other options would not have supplied pain relief and still might have led to surgery, so I made the jump right to the surgery. I've been in situations before, thanks to insurance, where I had to be strung along to get where I want. I just want to be pain-free and get back on my bike. I feel it's a crime that I have made this purchase and it sits on the porch.
DH and DS have put it to use. DH's bike broke about the time I had to stop biking. DS learned his parent's joy of biking. This is my weather for biking, too.
Oh, the Orthopedic surgeons office has insisted on weighing me each of the last two visits saying the insurance company insists on it. (My GP doesn't do it!). I was down about 8# today. Even with the abundance of fast food eating last week running the library book sale. I am back on my way!
I am trying to get new hearingaid molds made. Mine are squeaking because I need a new mold. I've had molds made my whole life, my MOTHER used to make molds for me.
Well, now the only 'solution' for me is a surgical implantation. Its got to be a bone conduction device.... but the problem is that "A" I don't want surgery, "B" it is currently only used on one side of the head, and I'd want it on both, I have directional hearing with the two hearingaids. I can't find info on it in adults, they all talk about it being in children.
But I really really really need new molds! And no-one wants to make them beause they say my ears are two small. And when, god forbid, I also express dissatisfaction with my hearingaids, they say "oh those are good!" They may be a wonderful brand, but the features drive me crazy. I hate the on/off switch, I want a volume control, and I hate the 'battery is about to die' warning alert.
What I really want these days is just a mold made. I want my hearingaids to not squeak when I open my mouth. Its that simple.
Hugs from me too, Judy. That has to be so scary and sad and stressful.
1st Qtr. 2010 Goals: 1. Continue gym 3X week until it is a habit. 2. Read, write, sew or craft at least 30 mins. per day. 3. Regain control over eating > 8 p.m.
Posts: 7680 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Mother keeps asking me where she was before I brought her to "this place where we live now" (she has lived in this house since 1962) She says I got her from "somewhere" and brought her here and that "Orbie {daddy} was not here for several days but came later".
Daddy has gotten enough better about doing his blood test and shot that I have spent a few nights at the apt helping Dena get packed. Sunday morning I came back early to walk the dogs and the house smelled like there had been a fire. I found a burned pot pie in the trash. Apparently it was supposed to have been mother's dinner. It was not just overcooked, it was literally charcoal, all the way thru!! She says it did not flame up but I don't see how it could have burned that badly without being on fire but I did not find any soot in the microwave. Yes, she burned it that badly in the microwave. Of Course, she insists she went exactly by the directions on the box but I suspect she used the cooking time for the conventional oven rather than the microwave time. She has tried that before.
Hang in there!
(she has lived in this house since 1962)