~tangerine~
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My daughter's birthday party was a blast. All the kids loved the non-stop activities at the gymnastics place. Twenty great kids showed up. The pizza and cake were good. My daughter got too many toys
i was hoping for mostly gift cards. however... I'm so happy it's over now, lol. Daddy couldn't make it but i guess we can use Hurricane Ida as his excuse, this year... Hey Dzldoc, glad to see you getting back to enjoying yourself!
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Your Own Special Way... Genesis
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Walk On... U2
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Thanks all.
Nov 19th is judgement day and it will finally end unless his mother decides to continue defying the courts
Rooting loudly for you Dzldoc! Don't let her continue this charade.
I'm unhappy i have to go back to work tomorrow
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He will be Batman. His most favorite thing in the world, besides hotwheels. (That's why I have batman in my sig, plus its my favorite part in the movie.)
That's so cute! I hope you had fun!
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Thank you tangerine. He is wonderful. I don't think I could have gotten through this without him. I'm happy that were taking our son trick-or-treating tonight after the viewing. Grandpa wouldn't have wanted him to miss his first Halloween. Plus it should put us in a better mood after a sad event.
You're welcome! Enjoy Halloween with your son! What costume will he be wearing?
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My boyfriend just surprised me with the new pink camera I had been wanting for over a year. He thought it would cheer me up since I've been sad about my grandpa. R.I.P. grandpa, your with grandma now.
Sorry about your grandpa, Broken Levee. You do have a nice boyfriend
I was happy watching my daughter at hip hop class today. What a great dancer. Then she practiced for me tonight at home. Was happy to finish the final preparations for her birthday party next weekend. Happy to be getting ready to trick or treat tomorrow night, and happy the weather is expected to be close to 70 with no rain, AND that the clocks go back an hour and i won't be working a 13 hr. night shift like i did last year!!!
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Hi Tangerine,
Thank you, you answered my question about ketamine still being used in the US hospitals and not just in veterinary medicine.
My boys, too, had pajama parties in pre-school and kindergarten. They would wear their pj's with feet in them to school, along with robes and slippers. They would have popcorn and watch movies all day. I miss those days when they were little!
And the dance classes and all the outfits get really expensive, don't they? One of my opticians' daughter (who is 6) is in a competitive cheerleading group, and she says that it costs several thousand dollars a year for the classes, outfits, and competition fees. We had a patient in last week who's family is on welfare, but who's daughter is in this cheerleading group. My optician was amazed that the family had the money to spend on this while being on welfare, as it is so costly. Doesn't make any sense to me.
Hi 'BUCK'EYE' DOC', it is my understanding that Ketamine is used for anesthia quite often (in humans. So far, in the setting i work, it's being reserved for patients who have poor pain management after surgery due to chronic illness that they were already being treated for preop. The intravenous infusion is given in addition to PCA (for laymen, patient controlled anesthia). Once the patient is able to be titrated off and back on their former pain regimen, the infusion is stopped (usually within a few days). I'm sure it's a safe enough drug when prescribed properly, but use outside that realm is another story.
Your sons attended a cool school! I know we never did things like that in my day! This is my daughter's first school pj party and i know it will be so much fun! I wish i could send her to school in pj's every day! The few minutes it would save each morning getting out the door would add up!
The dance classes are costly, like all activities nowadays. I spend $1700 a year on 2 dance and 1 gymnastics class, not including outfits and the mandatory recital costumes. I would estimate that is an additional $500 (including ballet/tap/hip hop shoes). I'm pretty sure as my daughter gets older, we will be adding more activities, too. I have no idea how someone on welfare pays any bills let alone has money leftover for extra-curricular activities. There must be another source of income coming in there.
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Hotplant, your granddaughter is beautiful! I know you are very proud!
Thank you Buck Eye Doc for the references for Bigdan to share with his son!
Great story, Danny, and i know how you feel about drugs, so i'm not worried your son will be just fine. Just this past week i had two patients started on intravenous Ketamine drips. They are postoperative with other pain issues in addition to their surgical pain. The one patient was given a bolus dose first by our Pain Management Nurse, and she had what was described as "an out of body experience" from it. She did not like the effect it had and it was made clear she would not be offered another bolus. She did fine with the drip. But that is some potent stuff. Oh what the hey, here's another reference, Dan: http://www.dancesafe.org/documents/druginfo/ketamine.php
Good job Electrophile. It's nice to be given recognition when it's well deserved.
So this didn't make me happy so much as flattered. My daughter's teacher asked me (and only two others out of a class of 18 children) to do a career day presentation next week. I would have liked more time to obtain some nice treats for the class. I found a site that will send me free coloring books, magnets and bookcovers. I'm hoping my sister can get me some goodies from the children's hospital she works at as well. I expect talking to the class should be fun, but would be much easier speaking to teenagers than five years olds
My daughter is excited about it so at least i can make her feel proud of her mom, lol.Was so excited to find out yesterday that my daughter's class is having a pajama party on Monday, at school, that my mom and i (she was excited too) went out and bought her brand new, adorable pj's for the occasion. The class is going to go to school in their sleepwear, they are having pancakes, eggs, fries and juice as a special breakfast, and watching a movie that begins with "p". This is for the week of the letter P. For the letter T they had a tea party. For S all the parents had to send in a salad item, and the class made a big salad. Some great ways to learn the alphabet!
My daughter also gets fitted next week for her ballet, tap and hip hop outfits! Recital is the third week of June, 2010! We can't wait to see the outfits that the instructor should have online very soon for us to view.
Four days off started today... always nice!
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Hi ImPLANTed!
I'm glad. I just hope (as Buck'EYE'doc' said), that nothing bad has happened to him. I PM'd him twice, no response. (This is not like him)Don't worry, he is fine Fan_S. I don't think he will change his mind about returning.
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Hi Tangerine, Good answer! Very beautifully said.
'cause tramps like us......baby we were born to run!
Thank you, Dancin Days!
Its midnight in manhattan, this is no time to get cute, its a mad dogs promenade,
So walk tall, or baby dont walk at all.
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My fleet manager accused me of abusing sick leave
WTF? I knew he was an asshole but this was sinking to the lowestYou said it, what an asshole. Sad that some people are so clueless.
On a brighter note, you are done your treatments!
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Hey Tangerine,
What song got you hooked? It was Born to Run for me.....when I was a kid I loved that song.
Hi Dancin Days, good question. I truly don't remember what song i first heard that turned me on to Bruce. "Born To Run" was out for a year or so when i fell in love with Bruce. I used to listen to the album on my turntable from start to finish. I shed many tears on that picture of Bruce leaning on Clarence in the middle of the sleeve
and "Jungleland" was always my favorite song on Born To Run. It's a fantastic album any way you look at it... Backstreets, She's The One, Thunder Road, even Meeting Across the River, to name a few, are such great songs and stories. There's a lot more to my Bruce love, but i won't go into it Bruce will always remind me of the love of my life, and that keeps them both living on in my heart and soul. The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
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Happy Birthday, Virginia! I hope you have a wonderful day with some time for yourself to relax and enjoy it!
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Honey., there will be other times, I PROMISE YOU! Cheer up sweetie! ROF my dear!
Thanks for the thoughts. I do hope to see Bruce next time he's in town. My sister and i were going to see him and then she backed out (work and money were her reasons). Then last week my best friend and i discussed going. She was online ready to purchase tickets. I told her wait until i got home to look at the seats and then the next day she decided she could only go this past Monday (yesterday) and i was already scheduled to work and couldn't take off. Then my sister asks me at 6pm tonight if i want to go! Yeah, if i didn't have to now find a babysitter at the last second. Just bums me out.
Bruce holds a special place in my heart like no other and it's hard to explain, but since i was ten going on eleven i have loved him. I have only seen Bruce live three times, that number should be at least 300!
There is nothing like a Bruce show. No performer does it better. Period.
Thank you Aquamarine for your comment. I appreciate it!
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I'm not just unhappy, but truly heartbroken that i am not here tonight. I have seen over a hundred shows at this venue alone, and saw Bruce here in 1999. Something about a show at the Spectrum that is special. Since this is Bruce's last show here, made tonight's concert more sentimental. I have shed a few tears tonight listening to WMGK, the best radio station for Bruce (and Beatles) coverage. My hope is to take my daughter to see a Bruce concert in the next year or two. I hope she will be mature enough by next year. Until then, i will feel sadness over missing this night.
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3 excellent report cards; everyone made all A's and B's
Exactly what i expect from your children, Virginia! You (and i guess your hubby has some effect too
) are the kind of parents all children should have and need!Happy to have just finished a delicious Japanese Hibachi dinner. Hibachi grilled salmon and shrimp, rice, noodles, zucchini, carrots, clear soup. Comfort food. Enjoying watching my daughter write her numbers (she can write to 20 and count into the hundreds) and alphabet. Her letters are beautiful for any age, not just four. She better make honors when she hits junior high! Happy my daughter's tummy feels better after the last few days.
Similar to what you said, Virginia. I don't bribe/promise my daughter gifts in exchange for behavior. I buy her plenty
but when she misbehaves i threaten (and once in a while follow through) with taking things away. I'm a softy so it's usually all talk and she knows this, but it does work in getting her to behave, some of the time. -
"Run For Your Life" The Beatles
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The Last Time... The Rolling Stones
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Oh yes!
I'll be playing it after dinner tonight. I love "Echoes"! ,Jo
"Echoes" has been my favorite Pink Floyd song for at least twenty five years (with Sheep in second place). I can still remember playing my "Meddle" LP many years ago. I might still have it.
Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
And no one sings me lullabyes
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....
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Thanks for the facts. You know and I know that you are telling me what I need to hear, and what I already know. As for the liver disease. I do believe her liver is in pretty bad shape right now. She has all the symptoms of advanced liver disease. That doesn't mean it is irreversible. I've been learning a lot about this since I met her. I always thought alcoholic liver disease was a one way progression. Turns out that it is often reversible if it hasn't left permanent scarring.
Her physical condition is terrifying. Sometimes she goes into convulsions when she takes her first drink of the day. Sometimes it just happens. She is often too weak to stand up on her own, and will sleep all day, even when not drinking.
She knows something is terribly wrong with her, but she refuses to acknowledge that it's from her drinking.
Your welcome. You need to make a hard decision.
I see many liver transplant patients each year. I see others who are not candidates and die from alcoholic cirrhosis and other non alcoholic liver disease such as cancer. The only way to tell what condition her liver is in is to get a biopsy. But even more important, is for her to get Rehab and recover. Now that is a challenge that may be impossible. She sounds like too much of a mess for anyone to help. Best to you, Atlas.
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I'm not one for "seeing other women". As for not thinking about her. I try not to, but that doesn't even matter. Even when I'm not thinking about her, I'm feeling bad.
You knew from the start what you were getting involved in:
Sorry things haven't turned out better. Some people can't be saved. This woman might be one of them. You are going to feel hurt for a while to come. Proabably best if you decide whether it's over or not and then stand by your decision. Then you can take time to heal. You will know when you are ready to move on. Heartache sucks, and no matter how hard you try, often nothing will dull the pain. Only time. Even then, a true love is someone who you may always feel longing for, no matter how much time passes. But the pain does lessen.
The sad fact is some with such a strong addiction is prone to fail and since this woman seems to be out of control (and was when you met her) there's a good chance that liver disease will take her life long before getting it together ever happens. Sorry to sound abrupt, but i have seen it happen in my personal and professional life. As Fan_S said, take care of yourself.
I do wish you the best in finding happiness in the future.
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Dzldoc, as many have already said, i share in the joy of your treatments almost ending, and your fantastic Ct scan results! You are an inspiration to many of us who would not have dealt with such a difficult experience as brave and mighty as you have! Purely sincere in my sentiments! Wishing you good health from now on!
I was happy to find a recent pic of one of my few "soulmates" on twitter. Haven't seen him in about 15 years and was a nice surprise. Now just hoping he will add me as the second follower to his list.
Happy my daughter feels better after having a cold and earache the past few days. Enjoyed a nice time at her ballet tap class today. Planning a nice birthday dinner for my dad with the family later today. Going to enjoy a nap in a few minutes since i didn't get much sleep last night.
It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away
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Oh! Darling... The Beatles
i was hoping for mostly gift cards. however... I'm so happy it's over now, lol. Daddy couldn't make it 
but i guess we can use Hurricane Ida as his excuse, this year... 
I'm glad. I just hope (as Buck'EYE'doc' said), that nothing bad has happened to him. I PM'd him twice, no response. 
(This is not like him)
WTF? I knew he was an asshole but this was sinking to the lowest
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What Made You Happy today?
in Ramble On
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Thank you Fan_S and Virginia for the birthday wishes for my daughter! The gym was so much fun that a couple parents attending the party asked me for information on signing up their kids! My daughter is also learning lots of skills and even did a full turn on the parallel bar last week without any help from her instructor.
I'm happy to be off the next three days!