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Who left the dimensional door open? - Thread 024
Posted on 09/07/2002 11:22:43 PM PDT by acnielsen guy
THREAD 024
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To: acnielsen guy; grannie9
You and Grannie having a garage sale again? Biz must be slow in the Port of Sada.Either that or the barman wants you to settle your tab ;-)
To: Kathleen
You should have kept the sheets and borrowed Grannie's straps...
Didn't Fredo have nice satin sheets in Godfather 2, when he gets the courtesy call at 3 am from Johhny Ola??
To: habs4ever
No, no that wasn't Fredo...the guy who woke up with the horse's head in his bed was sleeping on satin sheets...rotfl..that was Godfather I. ;-)
To: Kathleen; habs4ever; lodwick; acnielsen guy; All
OMG... We just finished the movie, "We Werer Soldiers." I don't think I've ever been so affected by a movie in my life. I cried all the way thru it...and I still have tears in my eyes.
The sounds, the photography and the pathos.. I guess having the world in the situation it's in right now must have made it even more touching, and frightening..and so very very sad..
I hope everyone gets a chance to see it..
To: Kathleen; grannie9; acnielsen guy; lodwick; habs4ever; Darksheare; Neets; All
Good morning...finally got a good nights rest, and am feeling somewhat better, tho feel as if I need to really sleep for about a week...I do believe I am on the mend, and ready to tackle whatever the week ahead might bring...
Interspersed with all this illness, we have had roofers out here this past week, and we have been taking estimates, and making decisions, which is hard to do, when your head is swimming...but we will make our final decision in the next few days, and I suppose either this coming week or next week, will have us forking out moolah, to have a new roof put on the house...
I was disappointed in one of the local roofers tho....we told all the roofers coming out, that we were interested in 30yr roofs...I did not know it, but this one particular roofer, does only 50yr roofs, and his estimate reflects that...good grief, I do not expect to be alive 50yrs from now, and dont even know that Andy will be alive 50yrs from now...I suppose a 50yr roof would be a good selling point, when and if this house is ever put up for sale, but heck, 30yrs sounds good enough to us...
Does anyone else here have an opinion on this...this is the very first time we have had to have a roof put on a house, so we are new at this...any helpful hints would be appreciated...
As to the satin sheets, I think both the Hollywood producer with the dead horse in his bed in Godfather1 had satin sheets, but I also think Fredo did have satin sheets on his bed in Godfather2, when he receives the ominous call from Johnny Ola...all those rich guys think you need to have satin sheets...
And speaking of Fredo and Johnny Ola...Remember when Fredo takes all the guys to that club, where they bring out a gal and tie her to a stake, and then out comes the hooded male, who supposedly is gigantic in his Mr. Johnson area? Well, I always felt robbed, that we did not get a peek at Mr. Johnson....all we get to see is the crowd, aghast at such a huge member(perhaps he was using that Enzyte?)..
I guess I must be feeling better, to have such thoughts....
To: lodwick
Loddy, that was probably one of the best meals I've ever made.. I will tell you on email how I made it.. You will never get better in a restaurant... That Halibut is out of this world..
To: andysandmikesmom
You are on the road to recovery...and ruin..if you can think about Mr Johnson!
Gee, unless mistaken,why worry about that when BIGDOM is nearby??? Unless, he's not so HUMUNGO after all ;-)You've been so deprived all these years!!
To: habs4ever
I just wanted to do a comparison between BigDom and that guy in the Godfather2...everyone in the crowd was so aghast, I wanted to see what they were shreiking about...no fair not showing us...
I have been flashed by strangers, in close proximity, twice in my life(I wonder how many times the average woman is flashed)...at the time it happened, it was all so shocking, that my mouth just hung open, and by the time I recovered myself, they were long gone, probably satisfied with the look on my face....
But now, thinking back on it, and what I saw, if I had the composure, I could have said "Oh, you poor thing, let me give you the phone number for Enzyte, the male enhancement product, because you really need it"....
Of course, at times like that, one is usually too thrown off guard, to be able to come back with a snappy retort...Those two times, I would like to replay, and give those guys a good smacking insult about what they were waving around...
To: andysandmikesmom; grannie9
You are definitely on the mend when thoughts turn to Dr.FeelGood. Great to see ya here.
Thanks so much for the receipe information - that pic last night could have come from the finest restaurants known to man. (I guess most of us believe that we can do plenty well, if we put our minds to it. Knowing there will be the ocassional DrunkenChicken lapse.)
Thank goodness tomorrow is Monday - Mrs.lodwick is actually making me WORK. Yikes. ;-)
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posted on
09/15/2002 12:08:45 PM PDT
by
lodwick
Yet more thoughts:
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pantyhose on fire.
Amazing! You hang something in your closet for awhile and it shrinks two sizes!
Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.
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posted on
09/15/2002 12:09:36 PM PDT
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lodwick
To: andysandmikesmom
Glad to hear that you are feeling better. Thinking about various Mr. Kielbasas is always a good sign. :-)
You and Habs are right, Fredo did sleep on satin sheets in Godfather 2. I had forgotten...
No one has ever flashed me. At this point in my life, freaks must sense that I would point and laugh. ;-)
To: Kathleen
The last thoughts for the day:
They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies.
Mine isn't all that communicative but I heard from it the other day after I said, "Body, how'd you like to go to the six o'clock class in vigorous toning?" Clear as a bell my body said, "listen witch... do it and die."
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then they marry him.
I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are: eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That is my idea of a perfect day.
I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30 can fit into their stuff.
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?
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posted on
09/15/2002 12:21:32 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: lodwick
About forgetting to eat...
When I was going to an Alzheimers support group, when I first brought my Mom to live with us, there are many of us, who had funny stories about our loved ones with Alzheimers and their perceptions of eating....
One of the funniest, yet saddest stories was told to us by a young woman...her husband was one of those unfortunate few, who was very, very young when diagnosed with Alzheimers....he was in his late 30s to early 40s....still at a time in his life, when he was supposed to be young, healthy, active, and looking forward in life....but he got Alzheimers...
One of the biggest problems that his wife had with him, was that he kept forgetting that he had eaten his meals...sometimes 1/2 hour after he finished a meal, he was asking for another one...and when he did not get it from his wife, he would rummage through the fridge, and prepare another whole meal...then after he consumed that, sometimes another 1/2 hour would pass, and he would want another meal...it went on and on like this...to the point where he was really gaining weight at a rapid rate...
So his wife had no choice but to put a chain and combination lock onto the fridge, and a dead bolt on the pantry door, to prevent him from eating as much as he was...
Just the visual was enough to make me laugh, tho the situation was sad...
To: Kathleen
Both times I got flashed, I was a snappy older teen, or maybe into my early 20s...and just did not have the moxie to come across with a snappy reply....
Of course, now at my age, when I probably could come up with something smark alecky to say, no gent figures flashing me to be worth the time or the trouble...
To: andysandmikesmom
Your alzheimer's story reminded me of the time I was staying with my fil, before he had to go into the facility thanks to Mr.Parkinson, and I asked him if I could get him anything to drink...yes, he would like a mug of milk. No problem.
The milk was brought to the family room and set down on the coffee table - everything's ok so far...he got up with his milk and I inquired if there was something wrong with it...no, I just want to heat it up a bit. Fine with me.
After several minutes, and no fil back in the room, I decided that best I check things out. Upon entering the kitchen, he was standing if front of the refridgerator poking at the calendar hanging on the door...Pops, what the heck are you doing?
"I can't get the damm microwave to turn on," came the reply.
Truly one of the laugh to keep from crying moments, in an awful disease progression.
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posted on
09/15/2002 12:46:55 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: everyone
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posted on
09/15/2002 1:11:00 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: lodwick
Oh, Loddy, such a funny, sad, touching story....And so very true to form, for those who suffer from any dementia, whether brought on by Alzheimers, Parkinsons, strokes,...whatever...dementia is truly devastating, yet as you have shown, it does provide well meaning chuckles for those observers of such...
Having worked in nursing homes for many, many years, those patients with dementia, were the ones I especially loved working with...they could be so funny, without meaning to be so, and they were so endearing, so innocent of the ravages upon their minds...
Here is one funny little story about my mom...when we brought her to live with us, we bought a larger house, for our family and to be able to accomodate her...so it was a new house for all of us...
Now, in the dining room, which is right next to the kitchen, there is a big brown door, which opens into a large pantry...next to that door, is where the white fridge in the kitchen stands...
When we first moved in, mom kept opening up that brown pantry door, and would try to climb in...when we asked her what she was doing, ,she said she was trying to get to her bedroom...when we explained what the pantry door was, and tried to correctly guide her toward her room, she would get flustered and say that no that was not a pantry door, it was a refrigerator door, and that she needed to get to her room, via climbing through the fridge...then she would demand to know, who in the world has a brown fridge anyway.....she was so flustered, and so mixed up, and made absolutely no sense at all, at least not to us...
But as you well know, there is no use to explain these things to someone deep in dementia, because what you say to them, makes no sense to them....its just better to go along with them, no matter how it might break your heart, while making you chuckle, all at the same time...
A truly nasty devastating condition for anyone to have to bear...
To: andysandmikesmom
My MIL has FINALLY realized that what you said about going along with them is the only way to save her own sanity...this knowledge has been so slow in coming due to her love for her husband of many years. That and the fact that she went through the same situation with her own mother not all that long ago. On a much cheerier note, our President is giving a look that the world should heed:
TheLook is getting
even more serious
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posted on
09/15/2002 1:34:19 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: lodwick
It is usually close family members, that have a difficult time realizing that no matter what you say or do, the person with dementia will not usually understand...
I remember one such family...the daughter of the man with dementia lived in a different state, and couple of times a year, she would make the trip here to see her dad.
Now her dad was incontinent, had to wear a depends, and was in fact, terrified of the bathroom...his daughter, just refused to understand this...she would spend her whole visits, by every 5 minutes, asking her dad if he had to use the bathroom...he had no idea what she was talking about, she was really making him irritated and nervous and jumpy, and nothing was being accomplished....she just seemed fixated on this point, herself seemingly humiliated by her dad having to wear depends...
Becoming incontinent, is usually just part of the disease process, and nothing to be ashamed of....oddly enough, my mom never became incontinent until the last few months of her life, and the docs said that was very unusual...
Other funny things said or done by dementia patients...I had a set of ladies sharing a room, who insisted on wearing bedpans on their heads...seemed to think they were making a fashion statement...another old lady with dementia, liked to walk around nude, except for her pearls, which she always wore...another old lady, called out "Code Red", which to her, meant watch out, the Nazis are bombing us...another old gent, who was a farmer, used to appear in nothing but a short rain slicker, and his slippers, with the rest of him being nude, and demanded to know where he tractor was...another old gent, wore a cowboy hat, and always demanded to be taken to his horse....another old lady always asked me to step out and get her a bottle or whiskey, and if I could not get that, then bring her a 'chamber pot'...another old gent would greet me in the morning in his suit and tie, holding his briefcase...he thought I was his secretary, and we would be going off to court(he had been a lawyer)....and on and on it goes...
Having seen the results of dementia up close, I sure hope I never get it...but one never does know...
To: andysandmikesmom; everyone
Translations for What Men Say:
"I'm going fishing."
Means..."I'm going to drink myself dangerously stupid and stand by a stream with a stick in my hand, while the fish swim by in complete safety."
"It's a guy thing."
Means..."There is no rational thought pattern connected with it, and you have no chance at all of making it logical."
"Can I help with dinner?"
Means..."Why isn't dinner already on the table?"
"Uh huh", "Sure honey," or "Yes dear."
Means...Absolutely nothing; it is a conditioned response.
"It would take too long to explain."
Means..."I have no idea how it works."
"We're going to be late."
Means..."Now I have a legitimate excuse to drive like a maniac."
"I was listening to you. It's just that I have things on my mind."
Means..."I was wondering if that redhead over there is wearing a bra."
"Take a break honey, you're working too hard."
Means..."I can't hear the TV over the vacuum cleaner."
"That's interesting dear."
Means..."Are you still talking?"
"It's a really good movie."
Means.."It's got guns, knives, fast cars, and beautiful women."
"That's women's work."
Means..."It's difficult, dirty, and thankless."
"You know how bad my memory is."
Means..."I remember the theme song to 'F Troop', the address of the first girl I ever kissed, and the vehicle identification numbers of every car I've ever owned, but I forgot your birthday."
"I was just thinking about you and got you these roses."
Means..."The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe."
"Hey, I've got my reasons for what I'm doing."
Means..."And I sure hope I think of some pretty soon."
"I can't find it."
Means..."It didn't fall into my outstretched hands, so I'm completely clueless."
"What did I do this time?"
Means..."What did you catch me at?"
"You know I could never love anyone else."
Means..."I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse."
"You look terrific"
Means..."Oh God, please don't try on one more outfit. I'm starving!"
"I'm not lost. I know exactly where we are."
Means..."No one will ever see us alive again."
"We share the housework."
Means..."I make the messes, she cleans them up."
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posted on
09/15/2002 2:18:10 PM PDT
by
lodwick
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