Sudokuaholics Anonymous 11

Yes, Heidi, I did remember how to start a new SA page. Hope you all find your way here soon.

Thank you, MizT.

Phew, that was so much faster!

Just a quick drop in before I brave the weather again. I've been out once to fill a prescription, now I have to go to buy milk for Dana and bubs. No way can they go out in this!! My feet are freezing...

It's lucky I dropped in to home in between. A friend in Moulamein posted on fb asking for anyone who sees his post to call his dad to ask him to call him in the hospital. He posted at noon and it was 1pm. I called and his dad had been in the hospital with him, but was in a different part of the hospital and so didn't know his son was trying to reach him. At first I was wondering why he didn't just call him himself and then thought, probably no credit.

Good Evening, Everyone! Wow, a brand new page with only 3 visitors so far. Is everyone huffing and puffing and dragging their chair over?

Thanks, MizT, for opening a new page for us! We definitely set a record for number of posts and pages on SA10 - or was it SA10A? I haven't looked in a long time!

Suzy, be careful and keep warm when you go out to get milk for Dana. Too bad you didn't know she needed milk when you were filling your prescription.

Great to have a new SA page!!! Now to get myself comfy here....

Hopefully Mama will be able to post here without her posts being dropped. I miss hearing something from her besides ''.... testing...''.

Just went back to check, and last Forum page was SA10. I guess it was SA9 that was hijacked and we had to have SA9A.

Now, what do I remember from the last page of SA10? Heidi was not feeling well. Hope you're feeling better by now, Heidi!

MizT seems to be doing better with her new meds, though they make her sleepy if she slows down. So glad you had a nice dinner with Joy, MizT! She is such a sweetie and deserves all the 'Likes' she gets on fb.

June is having email troubles, though can now receive. I hope it soon gets straightened out so that you can also send email, June! Crossing fingers that your car keys can be found!

That's about all I can remember. My apologies to anyone I forgot. Also thinking about our SA friends who haven't been able to post for a while. I know life has a way of intervening. I hope everyone is well!

We seem to be busy all of the time lately. When not busy, we're tired, even when I'm trying to get more sleep. We have had a few days when we went to Chicago to puppy-sit. We have had things to do inside and outside the house (the dreaded ffuts!). We went to my home town met with about 25 classmates from our graduating class of about 95, and had a picnic lunch, then later had dinner followed by a band that started in our high school 'back in the day.'

I have also been reviewing a lot of music. Because my cello teacher uses Suzuki materials - and because she convinced me to enroll in the week-long 'institute', I need to remember how to play all of the songs I've learned, as they may be used in the various classes. I have been able to memorize them, but find if I don't review enough, I struggle to remember them. The 'institute' runs from June 30 to July 5 evening. The following morning we need to get up early and drive about an hour for a day-long wood-turning demonstration by a man from Germany. We probably won't be home before 6:30 or so. It will be a long week, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to post here.

Thinking of all of you and sending positive thoughts, healing vibes, prayers, and {{{{{HUGS}}}}} for everyone!

By the way.... MizTricia!!!

Well, I've dragged my chair here, and I see Heidi has, too! We'll need to arrange this place as comfortably as our old place.

Heidi, thanks for jogging my memory. Mama has also been having trouble getting things to post on the page. I hope our new page will make it easier for her! Thanks again, MizT!

Afternoon Ladies.
I see we have a new meeting room..

Noice :)

Hi, Rolanda! I see you've brought your chair!

I'm bringing a few favorite books for those quiet times when there aren't many posts. I know we have a lot of readers in our group!

Hi Julie.. Brought some Dahlias with me to brighten up the room.

How about some flowers to brighten up the place a bit?

And now, I'm going to start getting ready for bed. Hopefully getting more sleep on a regular basis will help me find some energy. Good Night, Everyone! Sleep tight!

Snap, Roland! We both thought of flowers!

Oops, that should be Rolanda! Even my fingers are tired.

Great Minds think alike Julie

I will bring my hibiscus. Thank you for SA 11 Tricia.
I do hope SA 11 will have lots of happy things to report.
I now have all my internet working. Just have to catch up with some mail to be sent out.
Today I visited every shop I went into on Friday. Nobody had seen my Keys, including the Centre Management. They had fallen off the ring with my house keys which is why it took so long to realise they were missing. I last used them last Wednesday. I have been through the fridge, freezer etc. All pockets of everything I have worn lately. Next step will be to get new keys. At the moment I am using Ken's ones.

Hi everyone!
It's so nice to know I've been missed. I think I've been in a rut and didn't feel like I had anything to add to the site.

I've missed lots of birthdays - Rolanda, Mama, Nola and MizT.
Happy Anniversary Cyn and Col.
If I've missed your special day then I'm sorry but I hope you enjoyed it.

I have been away on holidays - it was a lovely week but very cold (and wet) in Victoria. We saw a real live in-the-wild wombat at Wilsons Prom. We saw lyre birds in the Yarra ranges - I don't think I've seen one before. We had lunch at Marysville (burnt to the ground in the bush fires) - very sad - vacant blocks of land with a clothes line in the back yard. It was a wonderful week - lots of driving - but very relaxing as well.

Hubby finishes work next Friday - 5th July.
He only has 8 more days at work. He is counting down the days. He will miss some of the people he works with but not the job. I may cut down my work day by an hour in the afternoon when he finishes. I'll still work 4 days a week though.

I won't bring the polar bear but maybe just a picture to hang on the wall.

June I'm sorry to hear about your keys. Have you checked carefully inside your handbags. I lose lots of things in my bag. I'm sure I had a form for my mammogram in there but when I went on Friday I couldn't find it. I had to fill out another.

I'm off to bed, too. Hopefully I'll feel better because I have errands to run. And it's hard to run errands with the runs. Ewwwww.

Home. Sigh. Wet and cold. And I'm working in this tomorrow....

I've brought decorations for the house warming party... I hope

Party supplies are essential.

Julie, you have been busy! I hope you get to slow down a bit one day... or maybe not. You are doing fun stuff!

Vicki, I managed to keep my form for a year, but they expire so I had to get another one...

Vicki, your holidays sound wonderful, even if they were wet. Most of the wombats I get to see, not all, but most, are road kill. There was a place we could see lyrebirds close to here, wild, but near a coffee shop, but the coffee shop has closed and I'm not sure if the birds are still there.

June, what a bummer! And not just the $80, also the running around with no success.

Ah, there you all are!!!
I can't find my chair, I must have deleted it.
Vicki - glad you checked in. Sorry the holiday was cold but hopefully enjoyable anyway. Col's a bit envious of Kevin's 8 more days work!!
I'll see what I have in party supplies for the house/page warming -

Oh and my chair

Yum I see we have some Delish Treats at the House/Page warming

Hi Vicki, nice to see you again.
A Holiday is always noice (even if the weather is not!!)

Well dragged my chair over but the bl00dy basset beat me to it. Let's see if I can find some party cheer.

Is that a chocolate chair Cyn???

puff, wheeze, groan. got that chair here, whew, glad we do not move house often. It gets more difficult as I get older.

I am up for intermission. Numb hand woke me, a very strange feeling. All back to normal now, I am glad it has not 'stuck' in the numb position.

Back to bed, hugs to each of you, with extras.

MizT, I have carpel tunnel and when it was bad I would wake up in tears so I kind of know how you feel. A hand brace that kept my wrist straight helped a little, but didn't fix it. The doc wanted me to have surgery on both hands but I had a 6 month old at home so gave up everything instead. I still haven't had it done and get the numbness fairly often, but I can knit and crochet a little if I stop at the first sign of it. My once neat hand writing is long gone.

Which reminds me, Dana still hasn't had her surgery. Hubby wanted to try to sneak her in under our insurance, but it would have been denied and we'd be out of pocket a few thousand dollars.

This is what national health looks like. Everyone has access to medical care, but anything that won't kill you immediately is considered elective and there are waiting lists. If you have private insurance you don't have waiting lists but there are out of pocket things you don't have to pay under national health.

Yep, Broni - it is a chocolate chair! What else??

Good thing I keep reading on here or I would have been left behind in SA10.
You've all done a great job in decorating.

Time to break out the drinks...

I had a bad night, too. My back and legs were killing me. Another methadone toned it down a bit, but not enough. And I have a whole 9 days until the next epidural. That means the last one lasted almost the whole time. I have only 1 methadone left, so HAVE to go for a meds pick up today.

I can see a major problem with that chocolate chair of yours, CynB. While the aroma while relaxing in it would be intoxicating, it could be a bit too soft and squishy on a hot day. Like today. Of course, I still remember the day when my van and I were covered in unsweetened chocolate. I learned then that you can't get too tired of the aroma of chocolate. I spent a couple of days scraping hardened chocolate off the van with an ice scraper, but the scent lingered for a long time.

In case not everybody has heard that story..... It took place shortly before we moved to Kentucky...
One morning, I left the house to run some errands. It was a cold, misty day, just above freezing. I got onto the main road heading into town in my van, and was driving along, minding my own business. There were very few cars on the road, fortunately. All of a sudden, a big tanker truck blew past me like I was standing still, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a sheet of dark brown liquid flying off the top of the tanker. The next thing I knew, that sheet of hot liquid landed on my white van and completely covered it in a layer of unsweetened chocolate, which, because of the temperature and light rain, instantly hardened. I always try to be aware of the location of all vehicles around me, so even though I was completely blinded, I knew it was safe to swerve off the road onto the shoulder. I got out, grabbed my ice scrapper, and scraped enough of the chocolate coating off the windshield so I could see, turned around and went back home to bed. I figured that the world had gotten a bit too surreal that day, and I wasn't gonna risk going out any more that day. I can get a hint.

Well I've found my way too...now I have copied and pasted that last post and have been carting it around so now I can see if I can post it....here goes whatever....and it turns out to be nothing...lost that too..
Guess what I was saying should be forgotten...so I will.
Good job Tricia, remembering to get us here and good job to those of us who managed to find our way ...and some managed to find their chairs too...lol.
Have a great day all, glad the new meds are working for ya Tricia...now to find a fix for the other stuff...Heidi, hope you manage to continue to sleep...it's your body telling you what you need to feel better...farming is hard work and you do so much on your own that you tire yourself out w/o really knowing it. That, btw, can be said about many of you hard working folk, so do take it easy on yourselves when you can. Peace.

Mama can post here, too!!! Welcome to SA 11, Mamacita!!!

Hoo boy.... I just had a humdinger of a brainstorm. In 2 1/2 weeks, we're taking Serenade and Pandora down to Florida for breeding. By we, I mean myself and my friend Anita. Now it looks like Anita has to bring along her daughter Belle and her grandson Devon. My truck is really too small for all of us to ride that distance comfortably... especially since we may bring a dog along, too. My brainstorm was to rent a small RV so we can ride in comfort. And my friends in Ocala that we're staying with don't have enough room for all 4 of us, so one of us can stay in the RV. The more I thought about this, the more uses I could find for an RV. Now I'm thinking of buying one instead. It could even be used as a guest house for visitors. Tomorrow I have to be 2 blocks from the dealership, so I'm gonna stop, look and talk. The added advantage of buying an RV.... once IH finds out, he'll have a heart attack.

Heidi - the chocolate chair would survive here with our winter temps at the moment, but not for long.
Your story about the van being hit by the wave of chocolate is hilarious - not that it would have been until you got the van off the road at least.
In 2 different jobs, I worked in the bulk tanker industry and, believe me, getting hit by chocolate is far preferable to most of the possibilities!!