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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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donaldtoo said:
OK, finger confirmed broken and pulled away from the tendon by x-rays...how does a broken finger not hurt hardly at all. :cyclops: That confirms it, I have NO feelings...!!! :hilarious:
The doc gave me this thing (you can see the plastic) and told me to leave the plastic on, but, take the tape off to shower and re-wrap after, for 6 weeks. Lovely... :bored:

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Sympathy like. Hope it heals fine now.
 
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BAChicagoGal said:
I have been watching General Hospital, and it is getting on my nerves again. It goes in waves for me. Some of the stories/plots are great, and then other times, they really creep me out. Today was one of those creep out days. I read the recaps when I can't bear to watch the show. It's getting back to that point again. I have watched GH since it's very first day on the air. Tells you how old we both are.
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In college I watched All My Children and Ryan's Hope. They were cult followings. Graduating and lack of dvr abilities back in the day lost contact with the soaps 30 + years ago. I thought they had all died away long ago, obviously wrong. Some lived on. :cyclops:
 
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StarWarsGirl said:
On the ground in Orlando about an hour later than anticipated. Mechanical issues with the plane. What is it with me and picking flights where the plane has mechanical issues?:banghead:
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So excited for you. You sure deserve a break and a vacation. Keep us informed I need to live vicariously through others vacations in WDW. Have a wondrous vacation woman! So excited for you. May Warmth follow you to Florida. :inlove:
 
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MinnieM123 said:
Regarding your above response to @BAChicagoGal , I think in her case, it was just that her neighbor, never reciprocated in any way at all--always just took things. That's one-sided on the neighbor's part. That's the difference there, between reading about your area--where everyone contributed, etc. That's a different dynamic, and that's the way it should be.
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Hard call. Never reciprocating neighbor-tenant vs frustration with a husband being like my community,emphatic to a neighbor-tenant that is less fortunate than he is???? Hard call as to if the tenant took the brunt vs dealing with marital disagreements. We've all had them at times. Sometimes others are the collateral damage vs 2 eggs.

Sometimes it is a mix when husbands are kind to 'other' women. I SO get that. I paid 78 cents for a dozen eggs this week. In a normal situation I would never wig out on anyone for 2 eggs that cost 78 cents for 12. No way would that that impact my life . So much more to the story IMO. It can't be about a few penny's for 2 eggs. There has to be more then the penny's. I can only imagine. Me, the husband has the soul of my community, wife living in the world of her mothers thoughts of share nothing. Two worlds collide. Collateral damage the couple cents of 2 egg tenant. IMO take it up with the husband vs the tenant.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
Sadly, cliches do not override the calendar. We may be lucky and feel younger then we are, but, eventually time catches up no matter how many self assuring phrases we come up with.

I was talking with my daughter the other day, not morbidly, just conversation and I made the statement that I felt that since I turned 67 I have been to the Doctors more then I was for the previous 66 years total. So I made a list and sadly I was correct. I was told of my Prostate Cancer the day after my 67th birthday and the problems have continued to mount up ever since. Everything from, the Cancer, of course, to Kidney stones to Cataracts, to unexplainable pains in my leg, to non-decayed molars splitting in two for no real justifiable reason. The amount of time since then that I have been able to go without spending time either in dentists offices, doctors offices, ER's, Surgery and Physical Therapy is one stretch of about 5 months. That's it. On the plus side... some of the problems have resolved or have not become a big threat at this point, but, it seems it is always lurking on the horizon. Such is life, I guess.
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Agree. I've seen it with my Parents. My Dad passed and my Mom is now obviously in that questionable age of health and mind at 84. I see what I can and cannot do in my AARP years now that I could easily task in my 40's. My only solution is Moving Forward as there is not an alternative. :inlove:
 
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MinnieM123 said:
Been reading the discussion about parents being careful to protect their kids from unsavory types in the parks. It must be very hard to be a good parent, and I give you all credit for what you do every single day,, and the sacrifices you all make for your kids.

Just a passing thought I had here--I'm sure there are also some very nice gentlemen guests who might compliment your family--and offer it with the kindest of intentions only--and then they move on with their day. Although the protection of all children is always the number one priority, (and maybe sometimes that means an innocent, adult person's feathers may get ruffled, if they were met with a distant, protective stance from a parent)--I do hope that we don't come to an impasse in present society, where every stranger that approaches a family is to be feared (in a sense).
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Having had 2 kids you tend to get the VIBE. A kind gentleman vs a creeper. There is that VIBE as a parent, an instinct. Too friendly too quick. Any parent gets that, you can be friendly to young'ins but there is a line. Parents tend to pick up on that. We as women also pick up on it in a different way, a kind man making conversation vs the VIBE of a creepity man when our instincts say run and run fast. It isn't different, it is a deep gut feeling if it is with our own safety or the safety of children. Generally our gut intuition is pretty accurate.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
Thanks, except for a few physical problems now and then I am doing pretty well. It was just two years ago that I wandered all over Europe with no problems at all. (I was 67 then too). I feel strong, but, I did not take care of myself all my life. I wasn't terrible, but, I ate to much, smoked for many years and really didn't pay attention to what I was eating either. I consider myself lucky that in spite of having minor COPD, that was the worse thing I got out of 40 plus years of smoking.. So far at least. I still, know that my leg is back to functioning again, can play golf, and as soon as my surgery heals I full expect to see where the ball lands. :) The only thing I managed to stay away from is alcohol. I wasn't a teetotaler, but, I never took it up as a hobby and have gone years without a drink at all. That wasn't because I thought it was a terribly bad thing to do, I just didn't care for the taste of it. An occasional beer on a hot day and when I'm out, a Bacardi and Coke seems to work just fine. Anything I had to acquire a taste for, never made sense to me. Why would I want something that I had to force myself to get used to. Never understood that. Boone's Farm Apple is my advanced taste in Wines.

I know it seems like I'm whining about it a lot, but, it is discouraging. It seems like I'm always healing from something, doing exercises to fix a specific problem and just trying to keep keeping on. Not being independent is my single biggest fear in life. I have faced a lot of things over those 70 years, but, I am so dreading the prospect of having to depend on others for my needs. Oops, I forgot to include Cherry Flavored Vodka and Pepsi was once high on my list of favorites. Sort of like a Cherry Cola with a sneaky kick to it.
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I get it. We are all mortal and of course as age creeps up we all have regrets and fears of what is ahead in our futures that is genuinely unknown. I don't take it as a whine more as a realist of what we all will someday ponder or fear, becoming more dependent on others. Who would look forward to all that. Still your mind is strong and you seem to enjoy life besides the aches and pains. No different the than anyone else. You just tend to acknowledge it where others tend not too! Being a realist is nothing to apologize for.

Me, I enjoy adult 'juice' wine. I go for the lowest of octane. I'm small so my body can't take much. Others love beer weekends, the furthest thing from what I could ever enjoy. In Disney I do enjoy their Margaritas but something I've never created in my own home. Had two in Disney in September during our long trip, not so much in our very cold trip in December. Adult beverages well we all have very different tolerance. Mine tolerance level is very low...there is my reasoning for very low octane for 'adult' juice.
 

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