Wellness

[Glass Lady K]

naes, what a lovely message! I agree with Rebecca. I think we feel the same.

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On 4/23/2014 Glass Lady K said:

Rebecca, that would be so wonderful if you could come for a visit. My guest room is always ready. We just love company. We could have so much fun.

I'm getting itchy to go back to my painting too. I've been watching the painting shows on PBS. There just aren't enough hours in a day.

Wow! I made a tuna casserole for dinner tonight. I found the recipe on the internet. I sure have found a lot of great recipes here. Paul has not stopped raving. I sure know what to cook for him, to make him happy. I had to change it a bit, though. He's a vegetarian, so I couldn't use cream of chicken soup. I used cream of celery.

Oh, you paint as well! Would that be in oils, acrylics, water color? I must admist I'm jealous, as I painted while in college, a few not bad pieces that my aunt loved, so she has them all hanging at her place in Santa Cruz. But, I lost whatever it was that made the brush come alive in my hand. Perhaps it was the music. I've spent most of my adult life performing in small and large productions: lots of after work rehearsals, then stage make-up for performances. This just s-cked the life out of me creatively speaking and it didn't end well. One of the docs I worked with said that I needed to get out of it because it was toxic and of course he was right and so I did. I sort of feel like my right brain is on hiatus, which in a funny way makes me feel like I'm letting my genes down because on my Dad's side of the family there are artists, jewelry designers, poets, writers and me (I got the music gene - have a degree in it).

Well, enough of that. I'm so excited that you're going to be able to return to painting and that your kitchen abounds with good eats!

God Bless - Rebecca

[Glass Lady K]

Rebecca,perhaps one thing that got me back into painting was the class my daughter got for me one year. I hadn't used oils for years but she gave me a class in water colors. I loved doing that and did quite a few but I needed to be working and glass gave me a livelihood. My painting didn't do that, so glass it was. But I feel the pull of painting again.I do admire your musical talent. I have a tin ear and an even worse voice. I took piano for 4 years but it's all gone now, if I ever had it.

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On 4/24/2014 Glass Lady K said:

Rebecca,perhaps one thing that got me back into painting was the class my daughter got for me one year. I hadn't used oils for years but she gave me a class in water colors. I loved doing that and did quite a few but I needed to be working and glass gave me a livelihood. My painting didn't do that, so glass it was. But I feel the pull of painting again.I do admire your musical talent. I have a tin ear and an even worse voice. I took piano for 4 years but it's all gone now, if I ever had it.

Glass,

What a wonderful gift your daughter gave you! I bet you were a bright star in that class.

You know when I was in college the first time around, most of us had our bucket list of classes that we really wanted to take, but really no time and not in our major, so we'd probably end up taking them later on in life. Well, try as I might, I could not get into any of the pottery classes: they filled up really fast. But, I did sign up for an art class and was so excited! Little did I know!! We met Tue and Thu, 3 hours each of those days, but I ended up down in the Arts Bldg. any time I could fit time in. Thing was, on the first day of class I walked in the room and saw a friend from grammar school, which was really cool. It was neat to be in a class with Dale. Then I thought, "Wait a minute. Dale's an Art major." Found out I was the only non-Art major in the class. ("Oh no" big time!) But I refused to give in to my inexperience. The course was soooooo hard. We started with free-hand drawing of a subject the professor had chosen and which was sitting on a raised stool. Then vanishing points, followed by our first lessons in water color stretches. I'd love to get back to stretches! At one point in the semester, the professor was disconcerted about the seeming lack of proportion in some members of the class, so gave us a list of buildings in San Francisco from which to choose. We had to take our drawing pad and pencil (no eraser allowed) and take a position of our choosing across the street from the building we chose to draw. Long story short was that I really struggled to create decent product that entire semester, usually earning a B at best, more commonly a B-. However, when we had to sketch this building, I had just about given up doing anything wonderful. Well, seems I was wrong, as in this instance, I received the best grade in the class. But, there wasn't anything the least bit artistic about my rendering. It simply meant that I could translate the proportions of a building onto paper. And boy, did my classmates razz me about that! As in, "Hey, you can draw a straight line!" Gesh! Maybe one of these days I'll find a less rigorous class in water color and sign up. You're inspiring me!

[lobstergal]

Hi friends,

Sorry I've been MIA this past week. It's been cold & damp all week, it even snowed a little and it's kicking my butt....I could barely walk some days and of course lack of sleep doesn't help. This coming weeks forecast doesn't look much better Everything else has been pretty much the same old and I'm just trying my best to deal & keep up with everything here on my own.

I hope you all had a good weekend....take care.

PS ~ Rebecca, I'm glad you are loving the Go Walks as much as I do! Those are the only shoes I wear anymore.

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On 4/27/2014 lobstergal said:

Hi friends,

Sorry I've been MIA this past week. It's been cold & damp all week, it even snowed a little and it's kicking my butt....I could barely walk some days and of course lack of sleep doesn't help. This coming weeks forecast doesn't look much better Everything else has been pretty much the same old and I'm just trying my best to deal & keep up with everything here on my own.

I hope you all had a good weekend....take care.

PS ~ Rebecca, I'm glad you are loving the Go Walks as much as I do! Those are the only shoes I wear anymore.

D, I'm incredibly sorry for you that the weather continues to be so darn awful and cold. I'm aware of how debilitating that can be for some and know that you need warm weather ASAP. I pray that as we move into May, you will be blessed with increasingly warmer days and nights and that God will bless you will more and better sleep at night.

Though I haven't looked at a map, I think the city I live in is slightly lower in latitude than yours, as we are still cold, too. This last week at our house we had night time temps in the 30s and some hail. It is supposed to warm up some this week, so I'm counting on it. Since my back has been barking at me, I'm thinking that the cold must be the source.

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I went to my ankle-foot dr appointment on Thursday and what an experience. First they send in a podiatrist. I didn't go to this MD to see a podiatrist, but that's their policy. So after a long history and films, in comes the doctor. He looks at the films and becomes very interested in anomalous anatomy in my left foot. I've got one bone way shorter than the other 4, which he believes is the entire source of my pain, except that this bone is 3 bones away from the one that has dropped. He ended up questioning me up one side and another about the supposed dropped 3rd met head and I was getting angrier and angrier. Don't know how many times I had to explain what I meant by "spontaneous," as in it occurrred spontaneously, not over time. This a common clinical term, so I assume he was just being an a-s. So, anyway, I had a CAT scan yesterday at the hospital and had to ask the staff to re-do it because they had placed my foot up against a box which was pushing the bones in my foot up, which would give a false scan. They re-did the scan at my request without the box. I only hope they are sending the second scan to my doc and not the first one. We'll see later this week.

Greetings and prayers to all. Think about you every day. Hope that things are at least not getting worse for you. God Bless you all - Rebecca

[DorothyToo]

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Oh, Dorothy, thank you for that cartoon!!! I needed that as much as anyone else. It's headed into the mid-30s here already. I can't seem to get my feet or my hands warm.

And, I must apologize for unloading up above about that doctor appointment. I've just about had it with his type. I don't care to be laughed at. Perhaps I'll be over him by the 1st when I see him again. Wish me luck!

[vmnsc]

Oh I hear you on this topic! My health has gone down drastically since March2013! I would love to be put under and everything fixed all at once! I suffer from so many health issues I can't begin to type them in ..... But after type 1 & 2 flu last year I ended up in hospital b/c I couldn't breath! Needless to say I'm now on oxygen, breathing treatments, meds for several diagnosis! My main problem is my airway is 3/4 packed with mucous! You would think there was a procedure for that! So far I haven't found one.....just way too much going on with me.....I hope you can find some answers for your health issues.....you will b in my prayers...

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On 4/28/2014 vmnsc said: Oh I hear you on this topic! My health has gone down drastically since March2013! I would love to be put under and everything fixed all at once! I suffer from so many health issues I can't begin to type them in ..... But after type 1 & 2 flu last year I ended up in hospital b/c I couldn't breath! Needless to say I'm now on oxygen, breathing treatments, meds for several diagnosis! My main problem is my airway is 3/4 packed with mucous! You would think there was a procedure for that! So far I haven't found one.....just way too much going on with me.....I hope you can find some answers for your health issues.....you will b in my prayers...

Hi vmnsc from beautiful South Carolina!

So sorry to hear that it's like you had this great journey through life, going up here, and down there and then all of a sudden the floor falls out from beneath your feet. You've been at this more than a year now and must feel very challenged. I do hope that your physicians can pull together and develop better treatments and meds for you. I can't imagine having my airway packed 3/4 by mucous! Do they know what caused this? Please do let us know how you're doing.

God Bless - Rebecca