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memo been sent to tech guys to sort my email password access takes 5 days good job mails get fwd to hotmail a plan i set up years ago.
Trust you are doing well this Day dearest Lesley
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{LESLEY}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Reply #501. May 09 10, 9:43 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Happy Mothers Day, Lesley! At least, from your US friend. Is it on another day where you are? Anyhow, hope all is well with you. :)
Reply #502. May 09 10, 10:21 AM
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Deunan
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Happy Mother's Day. I hope your day is outstanding.
Reply #503. May 09 10, 10:56 AM
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guitargoddess
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Mother's Day is earlier in the year in the UK, something like the 4th Sunday of Lent, so usually around mid to end of March, I think.
Still, no reason you can't celebrate Mother's Day multiple times a year! :)
Reply #504. May 09 10, 1:23 PM
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| lesley153
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Thank you everyone! (((((())))))
Yes it's mid-March here, and this year it fell on my birthday, which was a hoot. Good thinking - we can have two or three a year. I suppose having 365 a year would be pushing it? a bit? :p |
Reply #505. May 11 10, 8:30 PM
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Professer
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I would allow you 365 mothers days a year Lesley :) {{{{{HUGS}}}}}
Reply #506. May 12 10, 2:42 AM
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| lesley153
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| And I would accept them - thank you! :D |
Reply #507. May 12 10, 8:20 AM
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Deunan
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All those in favor of granting Lesley a Mother's Day 365 days in a year (366 days in a leap year) say Aye!
I say Aye!
Reply #508. May 12 10, 8:51 AM
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Professer
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Aye from me too
Reply #509. May 12 10, 11:39 PM
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pmarney
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Aye from another Brit as well
Reply #510. May 13 10, 1:35 AM
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| lesley153
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Ooh I think we can consider that carried! Goody! :)
Pleasant day today. Sandy, my friend and neighbour since 1987, took me to the supermarket, and this time we wandered round together, solving the world's problems, and taking advantage of BOGOFs.
We have simultaneous haircut appointments on Tuesday, so we can do our double act and drive everyone mad. I am looking forward to that.
The Erstwhile Friend - the one who didn't think my company was worth a two-mile drive - hasn't responded to the text I sent her on 30th April. It's not a bad thing. I don't really want to hear from her. She's always been hard-faced and thoughtless, but it never mattered till now. Oblivion may be the best place for her.
And Monday is when I shall have the triple pleasure of time with my son, a ride out in my own car, and a consultation with my prospective surgeon. What excitement! |
Reply #511. May 13 10, 11:09 AM
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MarchHare007
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I'll add my Aye to the list! :D
I remember hearing about your friend Sandy.
She sounds like a 'keeper', Lesley.
Can't imagine you having double-act hair appointments with Erstwhile Friend, duelling maybe.;)
Sounds like some nice girl-time coming up and of course son-time.:)
Having the specialist appointment suddenly coming up - time goes quickly, doesn't it?
Hope all goes well on Monday. :0
Reply #512. May 13 10, 9:00 PM
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Squisher
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Time spent with a girlfriend is always rejuvenating (no matter what you're doing). Hope you both spoil yourselves on Tuesday too!
About your thoughtless friend... I don't think we should feel guilty about dropping "toxic" friends. Friends are supposed to make you feel good, not the opposite.
I hope Monday goes well for you. I'm also very glad Jonathon is going with you -- for the company and support as well as the extra set of ears at the consultation. I can't wait until you're all fixed up and feeling 100%.
(((((L)))))
Reply #513. May 13 10, 9:18 PM
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| lesley153
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A simultaneous hair appointment with EF would probably be her telling me how to have mine done, calling me Dear Girl (ugh), and standing over the stylists to make sure they did it.
My biggest emotion about her is annoyance - with me, for putting up with her for so long! Yes, I think annoyance is about it. She may always have been a greedy, selfish opportunist, but I let her get away with it. Guilt really doesn't get a look in, any more than it did with Merv.
I don't normally think of friendships as balance sheets, but I have started thinking along those lines about her now. For instance, how I schlepped to school to help in her classroom one afternoon a week, occasionally two, for ten years, and odd other things which may have helped her but probably didn't help me, because nobody else really matters.
Jonathan joined us once a term, and he would listen to them reading, or read to them, and end the day playing his violin to them, which is how I know that children can listen to "proper" music, and don't need to be fed "lollipops" and programme music. He even coached the class choir once, for a public performance. The first thing he did was to put similar voices together, and his first bit of advice was: "Don't put your hand in front of your mouth."
And I got *really* narky remembering the last time I saw her, which was for the funeral of the school's caretaker. He was a lovely, cheerful man, much younger than his years, and incredibly popular. I can't remember how I let myself in for this, but this was my itinerary that day:
- Drive a couple of miles west to pick her up from her house.
- Drive a couple of miles east to a pub near me, for lunch. I hadn't been there before (don't do pubs much, never have - sorry), but she picked it because she and her colleagues had lunch there sometimes. Another ex-colleague joined us - her husband had dropped her off. (Wonder when that was arranged!)
- Drive all three of us a few more miles east to the cemetery.
- Hang around after the service, like a good chauffeur should, while teachers and ex-teachers catch up on years of gossip, even though I didn't know where everyone had got to and EF had left her phone switched off. Argh.
- Head west again, drop EF's ex-colleague off.
- Drop EF off home.
- Go home.
Reading that lot, my first thought was - how much of a mug was I? And how much more sense would it have made for her to pick me up On The Way To The Cemetery? And wouldn't "thank you for the lift - come in and have a cup of tea" have been nice?
"Friends are supposed to make you feel good"
Yes, well put: good, not a lesser person, and not stupid.
Little medical newsflash:
The last time I had a blood test for overall diabetic control, the answer was 7.4, and the result of last week's blood test was 7.8, which are both inside the "fair control" parameters. The difference is that the first figure was Metformin-controlled, and the new figure is after about four weeks of being diet-controlled, so I am pleased.
Thank you, I am looking forward to Monday and Tuesday! |
Reply #514. May 14 10, 8:53 AM
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Professer
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I hope all goes well next monday/tuesday Lrsley will be thinking of you may take my mind off my friend for a short while. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Reply #515. May 14 10, 9:57 AM
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honeybee4
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Lesley, are you sure that the doctors are happy with your 7.8 overall blood control? Mine is 6.7 and I take 4 shots of insulan a day plus two pills and my doctor still wants mine lower.
Reply #516. May 14 10, 10:46 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, Gary. You can think about more than one person at once, but I think I know what you mean.
Judy, you're right, it's not great, but I was delighted that mine didn't shoot up when I came off the pills. I can be a bit stricter about what I eat, and perhaps bring it down a little more. A friend visiting me in hospital brought me a great slab of chocolate (a little bit won't hurt"), which I haven't touched. Jonathan bought me a load of gluten-free cakes and biscuits, and I have the odd one, but I can give them a rest too. If all else fails, I can always start taking the tablets again, but it has been nice being off them for a while. |
Reply #517. May 14 10, 12:18 PM
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honeybee4
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I have had diabetes since the middle 1980's and was able to control it with pills until my open heart surgery in July of 2006. My weakness is bread and potatoes, and once in a while I will indulge but my blood sugar goes out of sight when I do.
Reply #518. May 14 10, 12:27 PM
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| lesley153
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| So heart surgery made it worse? Ooh! My heart surgery was in January 1997, and my diabetes diagnosis was in December 2007, although it might have been brewing for a while, but probably not as long as ten years. My family is awash with the genes, so I just assumed that it had been inevitable. I shall have my second heart surgery within a few months. It'll be interesting to see what other damage it does. Thank you for the warning! |
Reply #519. May 14 10, 5:50 PM
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honeybee4
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I am not sure that it was the heart surgery. It is more likely the amount of time I have had diabetes. Most people get over open heart surgery with not a lot of problems. I had a very hard recovery, I came home in a week but had to go back for another week and had to be on oxygen for another month.
Reply #520. May 14 10, 6:07 PM
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