Gaia fighting back with yet another storm.
Good Morning All.

Morning Doug and Rod. Doug, glad you had a good night’s sleep. I worry that memory foam would be too warm for me.

I had a bit of excitement at the quiz last night – almost won “Play Your Cards Right”! So near, and yet so far …..

Uschi, I’m hoping your nose is healing nicely, and Annie that goes double for your ankles.

I’m going to do a bit of shopping this morning, at least I hope so. My wardrobe could do with refreshing but sometimes I see lots I like and other times I come home with nothing, vowing to lose a couple of stone.

I’m going out for a meal with my girlfriends tonight. We’ve pre-ordered our food as we’re a big party, but if course few of us can remember what we ordered so it’s always a pleasant surprise! Fortunately my beloved is also going out for a meal so no cooking to be done this evening.

Greetings to all who wash up later.

QS

Good day all,

A winter wonder land out there with the overnight snow. Supposed to be very cold today.

Doug, glad the mattress is working out for you. So, you have a memory foam mattress with a topper?

QS, Janet and I do most of our shopping online. But, it’s nice, too, to get out and just move around with other shoppers.

Marshall, enjoy your valentines day. At our age we pretty much ignore it now, but glad to see you young lovers celebrating.

Cold enough to defrost our old freezer. I put it all in boxes in the garage and let the frost and ice in the freezerl melt away. It still works so no sense in trading it in.

Hi Annie, heal soon.
Rachael, we miss you.
Uschi, hope you heal soon.
Ted, glad you are finding some relief today.

Bill

A good Thursday to all…..cloudy skies here, sun isn’t up, but chilly. Will have sun today (supposedly) but wind is coming out of the N, so temps won’t rise above 40°. Tonight they fall in to the low 20’s……thank gawd for heaters and long sleeved Henley’s………..

No big plans today, yesterday was busy enough. Nothing major came from the meeting with the Endo……nothing imminent. Gallbladder will most likely have to be removed, but she was more concerned with the TIA like episode from the day before. Has scheduled follow up consultations with my Cardiologist and my Neurologist for a cardio work up and an MRI (has been 2 -3 years since my last one). We shall see….it’ll be a puttering about the studio day.

One of biggest pet peeves is people who don’t do their jobs properly….yesterday at my Endo’s office, one of the young girls who does the “check in” and takes your vitals, took my BP. She had the small cuff on the device and it wouldn’t fit over my bicep, so instead of taking the reading where she’s supposed to take it, which would have required her to change out cuffs that was hanging on a wall peg right behind me sitting in the chair…..easily within arms reach for her….would have taken all of 10 seconds….she takes the reading on my forearm…..and writes down the result of 91/57 without batting an eyelid…..which my Endo took notice of during our visit. I told her not to use that reading, that her staff member took the reading on the forearm not the bicep and that my home reading that morning had been 121/88 which is a little elevated on the bottom number, but closer to my usual BP that I take every morning and every night…..better than my reading the night before which had been 141/98…the Endo checked my BP and it was 117/78 and my PR was 58. She still wants a “full cardio work” up since my last one was at least 6 years ago just prior to my first hip replacement……I hate those chemical stress test. They give me a massive headache and it taste like I’m sucking on copper pennies for the next couple of days……anyways, I got side tracked, what is it about people who just have no concerns about what kind of job they do….just going through the motions, like warming their seat is enough to justify their getting a pay check? I don’t get it. (pet peeve rant over).

Cats need feeding, time for meds and some breakfast. Greetings to all here and those to come……have a lovely day, evening or night. BBL

Be good, do good….
Steve.

everyone,
It’s sunny and lovely blue skies. However, the windchill is -43 right now and not warming up much during the day.

I have some online banking and emails first thing then I’m off to the gym. Paperwork us waiting to be done this afternoon then this evening is our art club’s business meeting. So a routine day.

Char – one of the things we are loving about GoodFood is using new ingredients and having completely new dishes. Brian is surprised he is liking things like vegetarian curry’s. I’m enjoying pouring in ingredients I’ve never heard of. But the thing I like most is grabbing a bag from the fridge knowing that everything you need is right there. No more digging through the fridge collecting all the ingredients only to find you are missing something. Tomorrow we are having whiskey rubbed pork chops. :thumbsup:

Annie – I hope your pain is under control and you are starting to heal. :grouphug:

Uschi – I hope your super healing powers kick in and your wound heals quickly with no pulling.

I need to get breakfast and get going so I’ll wish you all good health.

Good Morning!!

Weather changes, snowing right now, dull and around -1C for the day and then it rapidly goes down to -20C over night. But when it’s cold it is sunny, so tomorrow will be sun:thumbsup:

No scrabble today, two of the ladies have doctor’s appointments, the joys of getting older:)

I have to go to the hospital for dressing change this morning. Since I have to change it every two days I will ask them to show me so I can do it myself and maybe only go on Saturdays to make sure all is going well.

I slacked off on doing my sketching homework so will have to do several today to catch up for tomorrow’s class.

Les, yours and Bills “sketches” I think are too detailed for what our teacher and I have in mind. We are aiming for quick impressions, like the ones Doug is doling while looking out of a moving bus window.

Doug, how is Ruth liking her memory foam mattress??? The memory foam slab (4″ thick) I bought when they first came out is magic. I have not had a back ache after sleeping in years.

Steve, sorry your Endo’s visit wasn’t more encouraging. Why would you need to do the chemical stress test???? Yes, incompetent people are annoying and downright dangerous.

QS, as mentioned above I have had a memory foam slab for many years and covered it with a quilted mattress cover and do not find it hot. Losing “stones” is a bit drastic, isn’t it:)

Marshall, enjoy your celebration!! How is your diet/lifetime change coming about?

I always leave an item out of my shopping list to force me to go to the store the next day simply to get out and moving.

Char, we might X post again:) Nice that you can switch your class days around, definitely a benefit of internet learning:thumbsup:

((((((((Annie)))))))

to you Rod and Bill!!

Uschi

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Good Morning all,
It is a bit after 9:00 a.m. here in snowy Oakwood. I can hear Larry shoveling the driveway because we are heading out to the dentist in a little while and he doesn’t want to have to battle the snow on top of ice as he backs out of the garage up hill (our garage is under the house so the driveway slopes down).

Doug, Glad you had a good night’s sleep. Hope the foam mattress topper is the secret.

QS, Sounds like a fun evening at the Quiz and dinner with your friends tonight.

Read all but have to cut this short to get ready for our dentist visit. No problems, just a 6 mos. checkup and cleaning. We have a great dentist, been going to him for 20 years now.

to all,

SYL,

Sylvia