a friend who has suffered from Crohn's disease for years, finally yielded to his doctor's strong recommendation and agreed to have surgery. As a result of the surgery, he is now paralyzed. No one seems to know what went wrong. They then did a second surgery which resulted in rampant infection that is still not fuly under control AND he is still ( Read more... )

The 1st time I locked myself out of the new house, I had followed Mr P out to his car.....fortunately I discovered the situation before he had left the driveway and good naturedly, he got back out of the car to open the door for me...whew ( Read more... )

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The computers will be shut off at some point tomorrow here and I honestly have no idea when we'll be back online again. Everyone be happy and healthy in the meanwhile and I'll catch up when I'm back on.
Hugs all 'round :)

Today is the closing on our new house! Both exciting and terrifying. In just a few hours we'll go for the final walk through with the builders, then this afternoon, we sign our lives away. I mean we've done this before (buy a house I mean) but ...it doesn't change the exciting and terrifying part one bit. I've been packing all this week and meeting ( Read more... )

Happy Easter Wishes :)

Wwll, there I go, thinking again. Always my downfall. We should be out of this rental house (Mmr P calls it the "mental house") next month (yay!) and into our own brand spankin' new house. Ok...well...being the decent sort that I am, I say to Mr P that I think (that's where it all fell apart) we should have a lawn service come over and ( Read more... )

well, well, lets see, what's new with me? Mr Pearl is away again. Blah. I hate that. But what you gonna do. It's part of his job. And as he says, "it is what it is what it is". Just appreciate being together when we are! Took a walk this evening and saw a guy trying to teach his puppies to catch a frisbee. One of the funniest things I've seen in ( Read more... )

1. Today was my first Food Bank Board (Bored) Meeting as the Secretary. Went ok I guess. I've been a secretary of one thing or another for a lot of years, and I guess board meetings are all pretty much the same ( Read more... )

Last night, I was reading another issue of The Sun and was utterly engrossed in it.Oblivous to everything and everyone around me. Even unaware of the passage of time. My poor abandoned husband asked me later what it was about that magazine that had just transported me somewhere...out there...away ( Read more... )