I love, love, love Bette Midler! Hey Suz!

Hi, Girl. I think I’m burning out on politics….not that that will shut me up, but I’m worn out from caring. I think I’m going to sit in the peanut gallery for awhile and just smile sublimely.

Otherwise all is good!

My daughter asked her twins why they had the same birthday. One piped up, “Because we’re Italian.” I’m laughing still. Bella Ragazzi. Beautiful Boys.

Edited for what was actually said.

hey senator — how’s sac tonight? so glad ya like it

hey dearie — i got the same way a year or so ago… had to back way off those discussions. one thing i love about lln is that ya can talk about what you want to talk about – like those beautiful boys :) how’s the so central coast tonight?

Aloha, Suz and lln pups…! One of Hawaii’s finest products…! ;-)

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight? gots lotsa mermaids there, eh?

I am, too. I’m tired of being angry, I’m tired of being confronted with selfish, heartless, cruel bastards who WANT people to DIE rather than have affordable health care. Since a friend of ours was saved because she could get the part of Obamacare that’s already implemented, I take that shit very personally, too personally, and I end up just calling them fucking assholes and telling them I hope they die.

I MEAN every fucking word but all that anger ain’t good for me.

It was a good news-bad news day.

The good news was that I had lunch with a publicist whom I hired (not “who,” mind you, but “whom” — we’re talkin’ object pronouns here) to publicize my peanut butter magnum opus when it comes out in November. She seems like an affable, capable and dynamic sort. This will cost, but I think it will be worth it.

The bad news is that my mother slipped and fell and cracked a vertebra on Monday, so I’ve been driving 40 miles r/t every day to sit with her and get her stuff as she needs it. It looks like this will continue for a while.

hey that guy — how’s your #’s tonight? still doing good? my mom had lotsa ups and downs until she found the right mix of diet and exercise that worked for her

I take that shit very personally, too personally, and I end up just calling them fucking assholes and telling them I hope they die

Don’t be so diffident — tell them what you really think.

hey blue — yay and oh noz! are they managing her pain well?

Down in general, had one spike but my meter is not being reliable so it could have been an outlier, or a bad strip. OTW, all were less than 120 and I hit a new low, 90 after an hour of kicking my ass relentlessly on the recumbent bike.

THe cinnamon thing seems to be working, but my new, “made for fatasses” bathroom scale got here and boy howdy was ai NOT happy with the number I saw. I have about 135 pounds to lose.

It does help with that anger thang, too. >:-O

Ok, fine, I would cheerfully fire the gun myself. How’s that?

The rats are eating my dog food

Another mixed plate today…! We were rained out in our first attempt at the Overhead Pass Light Brigade, last nite…! Even the real pyrotechnics were a dismal failure, not like San Diego’s big bang, but, the constant rain killed much of the aerial display…! The shells launched and exploded, but then lights out…! 8-(

gotta find that lemonade where ever ya can :) that’s a sweet low… nice work dood

Yes, that helps to put things in perspective. If we ever meet, remind me not to disagree with you about anything.

hey coach — how’s houston tonight? are these pet rats or do ya have yourself a willard situation?

I think so, yes, re: the pain management. While I was there today, she called the nurse to ask for a pain pill and they brought it pretty expeditiously.

P.S.: Speaking of pain, how are you doing?

rain always forks up the fireworks :( sorry you guys were soaked instead of soaking up the eye candy

My condolences to your mom, bw…! *g*

I finally faced up to ‘pointless’…….how could my puny vote even matter, you know? I’m busy sharpening my pitchfork and trying to find a pair of really comfortable marching shoes. And unlike Obama, I’ll actually put mine to good use. They all, politicians, suck. I’m waiting for some brave soul to take out one of ‘em, or a Supreme, or something. Light the friggin’ fire already.

And the cousin I was looking forward to seeing again at an upcoming family wedding just put a post on FB about how she’s tired of carrying those who won’t work, let ‘em die, or the job producers will step back. I felt sick.

Houston is not as hot as a lot of other places.

No, they are not pets, they are pests.

Thanks, CT. I’ll tell my mother one of my comrades at FDL expressed his concern; maybe it will get her to check the site out.

I’m becoming a bit of a proselyzer for FDL, by the way; I told the publicist about it today.

sweet! pain management is key as far as i am concerned. i gotta admit kaiser had me on some powerful stuff and i was well managed. i’m now mainly down to the vit v and 800 mg ibuprofen — i still have a few of the much stronger and some of the really really strong pills for those rare occasions that i need them but most of the time i’m doing ok. can’t walk as far with the cane as i could with the crutches — the leg is doing a lot more weight bearing now — but its getting stronger every day.

Hi Suz and llners, I too am tired of being angry and upset with the political world. I have been trying to measure my powder and pick my battles, but day-am. It so sucks.

I am working on a tile project I’ve had on the back burner for I think about 10 years, is that sick or what? Anyway, I am going to finish it in the next 2 days. Tonight instead of going out for some sweets, I played around with some beads. Trying to be productive in the heat. Can’t really work outside much.

I have not even been lurking around lln, how’s the leg, Suz?

Excellent, Suzanne; it sounds like you’re making real progress, although it isn’t easy.

fuck…. ya got the dog food in an airtight container inside? i’m housesitting for jen (they are at the beach for the weekend) and that’s how they keep theirs — but not because of rats but because dublin will eat everything and anything. they keep it in the pantry so she can’t even get to the container.

Hey man, just because I SAY it, doesn’t mean I’m gonna DO it.

Nobody is worth going to prison for.

hey bg — tis coming along — doing a whole lot better than it was last week when i went to the fred meyer. seems to have settled down with a good mix of babying and walking my driveway laps. gets still if i’m in any one position for any length of time so i gotta walk it to loosen it back up — just not too much walking :)

what got ya to decide to finish the project?

WIth only a couple of exceptions., I have abandoned “friend” who believe that shit. I have standards for friends, and being heartless, cruel and stupid are all automatic disqualifiers.

Fuck them all.

So sorry about your mama, bw. It’s no good to have ‘em laid up in the hospital, that is for sure.

please let your mom know that we wish her a speedy recovery and that lln posts are a great place to hang out while recuperating, as i well know :)

I guess that means it’s okay to disagree with you then :)

” I have standards for friends, ….”

I, too, try to avoid or eliminate the toxic ones but it isn’t easy.

I’ve been cleaning out closets and giving stuff away from LM’s, and I just think I should finally do some things to get my own life a bit more together before someone has to clean up all my shit. It really is inexcusable to have so much stuff undone at this point. Plus also, I do like accomplishing things.

Hey, Suzanne, so how’s your new little town? It looks pretty on the internet. Are you settling in and finding your place, as it were? Hope you are enjoying it.

when its family, that’s the worst.

Especially when they’re relatives…! Fortunately, I only have to deal with Obamabots in my Family…! ;-)

I have a few of those.

Fortunately, most are pretty far away.

i’ve got a buncha ufo’s (unfinished objects) in my fabric stash in the pod. i’ve asked for a quote for delivery costs and hope to be doing some sorting (keep, donate, trash) soon myself. i’ve learned how to make do with a lot less.

Correct. :D

Alrighty then, one latte with an artful flourish on top, headed your way, Suz…! ;-)

I think the Obamabots are more annoying than the Fox folks.

None are so blind as those that will not see.

Not to me, it’s no different than anyone else. If you’re heartless, cruel and stupid, you’re not part of MY family and I don’t want to be part of yours. I am thankful my cousins in MI are very much like me, and detest anything right wing.

haven’t done much exploring on foot — just driving around my little neighborhood and a coupe times i’ve gotten into old town. today, when i was driving along the columbia river on my way to jen’s, i saw mt st helens, mt adams, and mt hood.

didn’t like all the fireworks and gunshots last night tho. at least here, in the ‘burbs, i’ve only heard fireworks going off — illegal fireworks but no gunshots. of course, i wasn’t here last night so ….

most of the time its a very quiet little town and i like it that way. good thing the neighbors warned me about the gunshots

Both are annoying as Obama is nothing to get excited about. What there is to get excited about is the prospect of Mitt Fuckin Romney giving ALL of Social Security to his fellow gazillionaires and you know damned well he’d be happy to do it. That’s the reason to vote for Obama.

Yet again, in many ways, we are faced with the lesser of who cares?

*slurp* thanks dood

My mother doesn’t have little portable internet-bearing thingie-dealies, so she won’t be doing that in the hospital, but I’ll definitely pass along your and CTuttle’s good wishes.

Am going to bail early, but carry on, all.

g’nite blue — please keep us posted

I’d disagree, at least the Obamabots have some empathy and some capacity to make rational decisions…! ;-)

Pleasant dreams, blue…!

There is just no need for alla the shit that piles up. I like re-using stuff, and it is part of my whole being, but it is time to really start to unload. There is so much stuff I don’t need.

I did about a dozen loads of laundry last weekend at LM’s so things would be clean when I gave them away, years of stuff she did not wear. I found some very cool vintage stuff I am taking to a friend who has a store full of really beautiful vintage clothes, and I am hoping some of it will appeal to her. I can wear the stuff, but I have no occasion, and I would like it to go to someone who will enjoy it. My mother took very good care of her things.

there’s a thrift store in st helens that benefits the women’s shelter so that’s where my donates are going too — gotta lotta clothing that i’ve not worn in 4 years — i figure about 80% of its gonna go

The ones I know really aren’t all that rational and are not very well informed. There is a resigned desperation to their hero worship.

I so understand. When my mother died, my sister and I were amazed at how everything was so organized, arranged. I think she’d been tired of life for quite some time. But there were things….a beautiful hand-made dress from the 1930′s that I could not resist bringing home. What will my own daughters think if they find it in my back closet???

I really do have to get busy eliminating junk! I do not want to leave my daughters with a mess of stuff to try to figure out.

i find the personality cult types to be equally blind to their candidate’s faults on both side of that aisle.

I gave away 3 big bags of clothes to one of our warehouses that gives stuff away to folks in need, and I had another couple of bags of stuff I put out at a complex for older folks where a friend of mine lives, and I hope some people there will find some of it useful. If it sits around more than a week or so, people there will take it to the charity of their choice, so it will all go to people who will use it, I expect.

I am going to do the same thing with my closet after the tile project is done. I really have little use of most of the stuff in my closet any more. No need to keep it around any more.

i was so embarrassed about the girls and my son-in-law packing up my stuff back in april. wanna make sure that they don’t have to go through two messes of stuff *knocking on wood*

ok kids, I’m heading off to sleep, to dream of a world where Josiah Bartlet is President for Life. G’night

g’nite that guy

When I see those vintage clothes and how beautiful the fabrics are and how well-made they are, I wish I had the occasion to wear them. Really lovely. But I simply have more than I can use, and I have few occasions to wear anything nice, the way I spend my time. But it is a treat to see it, so much more wonderful than the schlock that is in stores today.

Isn’t that the truth! I have an antique real velvet robe from an old lady friend from my church in Glencoe from years and years ago. I just can’t give it up because I don’t know that I’ll ever ‘feel’ real velvet again. The clothing that is coming out of China is just nasty…. how I long for voile and lawn and real fabrics. I guess I should just be glad that I got to experience them.

I do get that. Yeah, some life lessons are learned that way. . .I had a friend in college who used to say, “Three moves is as good as a fire.” I have been living in this house since 1987, and I had been moving around a bit before then, so I did not have a lot of stuff when I moved in. Now I have a lot of crap I do not need. But there it is. Time to get rid of stuff.

Who even knows what voile and lawn are? I wish you could see some of this stuff. There is a pair of gold leather and cork shoes that I could wear, I bet she only wore them once. But I know I don’t need them. I am not going to have a hard time giving them up.

i like your friend’s saying. i was in the apartment for 11 years before i bought the cabin in boulder creek. lard love a duck did i have a lotta crap. got rid of a lot of it when i did that move and then got rid of a lot more when the cabin got packed up after 5 years. now that its been 4 years a lotta of that ‘saved’ is gonna go. i don’t know what i was thinking but i do recall thinking i was brutal. ha!

It’s interesting what one keeps. I found a pair of shoes that I doubt my mother wore more than once or twice. Divine 1950′s spikey, pointy, colorful. I just couldn’t resist keeping them. They are art.

I hope I can knuckle down and really get “brutal.” Heh. That will be hard, but honestly, I gotta do it.

i’m hoping i can be brutal this time too. i get so sucked into the sentimental side of stuff

That must be why some of those vintage clothes look so stunning. They were rarely worn, and well-cared for, or did not get wet in a trunk or eaten by moths, the tragic things that happen to things that are stored for years.

Well, you can see I am a sentimental sop about things.

You are going to be up all night if ya have another latte. . .

*laughing* i’m sliding horizontal as it is — how about a rain check?

OK, sweet dreams, Suz. Thanks for the happening tune tonight.

thanks bg

g’nite all — thanks for letting me hang out with ya’ll tonight

Even the ones that were well-worn, lovingly worn, if made from wonderful fabrics are treasures. I recall that my two daughters raided my closet years ago for my 70′s clothes…. the wrap-around skirts, the tie-dyed stuff, the lovely silks that I’d kept, the madras stuff. And they wore that stuff happily. And I was happy that they did. Though I would kinda like some of that back so I could still wear it!

I may have some of that 70s stuff, lol. But I always liked vintage, and I have some of that…again stuff I don’t wear because I just don’t go out or have a job that I could wear it now. I was thinking about some lace curtains I had when I was in college that I got at the Goodwill in St. Louis. . .maybe they are in a trunk in LM’s garage. I will come across them eventually if they are still there, but I think LM probably got rid of that stuff a long time ago.

Sweet dreams, Suz…!

Evening Suz, pups.

It’s been a while. Grappling with some health issues here. I’ve gone through tons of meds over the last 6 mos trying to find one effective on my hypertension without debilitating side effects. May have finally struck gold but it’s early yet… time will tell.

Interesting you raised the pod subject. You may recall I advocated pods (citing personal experience) when you were trying to decide. Well, I finally got back into my (2 gasp!) pods a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that most of the stuff I couldn’t bear to part with then now seems expendable. That said, I refuse to consider the funds spent over the years to preserve my stuff as wasted. I’m a different person today and coming from a different perspective. Those things are no longer tied to me in the same way they were. Perhaps you’ll have a similar experience.

Not to say there aren’t things I’ll regret disposing of, though the biggest stunner is the huge shift in the now practically non-existent used book business. If you know of anyone looking for a ton of books *about* mystery fiction, I’d love to hear about it. Otherwise, I’m afraid they are destined for Goodwill.

This probably isn’t the right place to ask this, but I’m having little luck finding anyplace else, so I’ll try anyway. I’m trying to write my first diary entry and I can’t figure out how to get the text to come out the right size (ie, what are the acceptable size tags), and what’s the format for embedding urls and links?

hey iconoclast — this is exactly the right place to ask :) thanks for doing so.

the myfdl about us page has a frequently asked questions section (scroll down partway) — there’s stuff in there about sizes and if you don’t find the answer there, you can contact the myfdl editor

hey sunny — i’m with ya on the pod. i’m not the same person i was back when it was packed either. does your local library accept donations?