Sudokuaholics Anonymous 11

June, hoping you are off receiving blood, and that it brings your energy back!

I don’t get to visit my neighbour today. I was surprised by a big lunch today. I should have worked it out when Alie offered to do my makeup, but having half a brain helps when people want to surprise you. Tonight I’m driving dana and the kids to the early intervention unit Xmas party. If I didn’t take them, they wouldn’t get to go since buses don’t run at night here.

Oops. I got nothing.

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

Happy Birthday, Suzy! I hope your day has been wonderful and full of love and fun! Sending {{HUGS}}!

Heidi, it's good to know that your ear has stopped bleeding!. I'm glad you were spared close proximity to your two least favorite people at the Cattlemen's Banquet. It must have been 'heart-warming' to see the lack of positive results from the facelift.

I join in the positive reactions about the election results in Alabama. Perhaps there is hope for our country.

Suzy, I hope Dana and her three enjoyed the Christmas party at the early intervention unit. How do her kids react to Santa? Our not-quite-2-year-old grandie was very excited about seeing Santa - until she got close to him. I told our D that she may not have understood that 'seeing Santa' involved close proximity and maybe even sitting on his lap. She may have thought she would be SEEING Santa - as across the room. Perhaps if they try again and make a point of saying, 'Oh, look, do you see Santa over there?'

We had our wood turners' party tonight, and I need to get some sleep so I can get up and practice before my cello lesson tomorrow, so I'll say Good Night for now.

I hope you're feeling better, June, and gaining some strength after transfusions!

Sending healing energy, {{{{{HUGS}}}}}, , prayers, and positive thoughts for all!

Suzy, I so agree about the Rolf Harris thing - and Bill Cosby and Kevin Spacey. All men I had admired for so long. Harvey W - I admired his movies but didn't know anything more than that. But I do think it should take more than one accusation especially with famous people, there's often someone who wants to take them down for other reasons. But usually once one is made and more start flowing in, that not being vindictive, that's relief opening the floodgates.
These people were predators and deserve the full force of the law!

Off my soapbox!
Suzy, I'm glad you had a nice big family lunch today. I know the day would have been bitter-sweet, as all of these firsts are, but your loved ones would have kept you cheerful. Big hugs!
Heidi - the fact that she had a facelift tells me all I need to know about her. Vain, self-centred and superficial. No facelift looks good!
Emily was telling me yesterday that some people buy - wait for it - fake freckles! I said to Em, well if that makes a person beautiful, she and I already are!!
Julie, your story of your little granddaughter being excited about Santa until she got close to him reminded me of our Madeline and the Santa pic from when she was that age, her big brother is cosying up to Santa, she is over in the sidelines sitting with (that) Santa's white huskies. A great photo!!

June, thinking of you!

Melting! It got up to 39.8 today.. (103.7). I was running around taking Dana and the kids to another Xmas party, Tahli has 3 ‘schools’, then I took them to the mall to buy shoes for Izzy because she has grown out of everything! Then to Aldi to do regular shopping. It would have been like child abuse to expect dana to push groceries and the kids home in that weather! I’m home and I’ve broken my rule. I only run the aircon when I have visitors, except today...

If freckles make you beautiful, then I am a supermodel! At least the ones on my face have faded. In my early teens I was like the caricatures of kids with freckles.

Spoke too soon. We went up to 40.3. (104.5)!

June, I hope things are going well this week and you are feeling better! Sending {{HUGS}}

CynB, you're welcome to take to a soapbox whenever you wish, and with good reason. Unfortunately, we sometimes admire someone for their public persona without knowing their true selves. It can come as a shock. Lately, I'm afraid there's not a lot that surprises me in light of so many revelations. So much of it seems to be about power and people thinking they're invincible and above the law. And now, it's my turn to step down from the soapbox.

Cyn, the photo of Madeline and Santa's huskies sounds wonderful! Certainly better than a crying and unhappy child. I didn't ask if D and SIL bought the picture of our granddaughter.

Suzy, I hope you had a wonderful birthday lunch with family! What a great idea! And today, the heat sounds oppressive. I'm glad you decided to turn on the air conditioning! You shouldn't try to suffer through such extreme temperatures! I wish I could send you some of our below freezing temperatures.

I wonder if fake freckles are a thing here. I'm so out of touch. I don't think I have any. Am I allowed to count age spots or small moles?

I should start thinking about getting ready for bed.. It isn't getting any earlier, and I am getting more tired.

Thinking of all of our Sudoku and Sudokuaholic friends and sending healing energy, , prayers, positive thoughts, and {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Well, I nearly got my wish of a few chooks and no roosters. I went up to feed them and there were 5 chooks and no roosters. A lot of people know that’s what I want, so I thought maybe someone had come while I was out. Thought I’d check my messages when I got back inside. Then I heard a rooster crow. The rest of them were stuck in the old coop, the wind had blown the door shut. By tomorrow I probably would have had my wish in the most gruesome way. They had no access to water in there and with these temperatures it would have been a horrible way to go. They can’t have been in there long because they went for food before water....

Got kicked off for telling you why I don’t think it’s only men in power who are the problem. Apparently there are still words on the ban list. And yes, I know, not all men, I just seem to have met more than my share of the ones with a problem understanding no.

My neighbour is gone. ☹️

Oh no Suzy! I'm so sorry.

Copying from the other site.... crying again

To all my Facebook friends that are also friends with my Mum ... June Douglass. Just letting everyone know that Mum is now in intensive care on the Morphine sleep therapy with realistically limited time now. As we all knew it was going to come fast when it did and the cancer has surely taken over her body now. All she wanted was to get to christmas with her family and even today she was telling people what was still left to be done and what groceries needed to be purchased and on the other hand she was telling us how proud she was of her children and what a lovely life that she has had. If you want to make a difference, say a prayer for anyone who has cancer and the families that suffer seeing people they love die. Cancer took my sister and now it will take my Mum... all too early and soon. No words can describe the hurt and loss... <3 forever in my heart ...

I am SO sorry, Suzy.

NOOOoooooooooo! I'm not ready to let go of June.

Knowing something is going to happen sometime in the future and then the reality that it is happening now. It's not easy is it?
Dear June, I wish you peace and love as the time draws near.
I, too, am not ready to let her go. She has been left so many lovely messages both on here and on FB.

So sorry for the news of your mum. hugs

I miss her already. Even my kids knew June.

Sad news about June., may you have peace and love in your last days
A good friend, I have had the pleasure of meeting June several times when I have been in Sydney.
(((Hugs to everyone)))

Even though I've never met June in person, I've spent a lot of time chatting with her on Skype in the wee hours of the morning. I wish I could spend many more hours doing so. She's a delightful lady.

Just back from meeting my daughter for lunch at one of the big Westfield centres today - that was nice.
Finished off my Christmas shopping - that was good!
But oh, the people and traffic everywhere - that was awful! Worst thing about the season.

Hi Rolanda - come back and talk to us!

I have just read posts, but no time for the usual comments.

Suzy, I am so sorry about your neighbor! What a rough year you have had!

Prayers being sent for June. May the next days be pain-free and peaceful. Keeping all of her family and friends in my thoughts. After reading the post that Suzy shared on TOS and the many comments there, I feel numb. June is one classy lady. She has always shown us love, strength, understanding, and has been such a role model for the way to live a life and treat people. Sending gentle {{{{{HUGS}}}}} and

checking in this early AM, after seeing how long it has been since I posted. Sorry I missed a couple of days. Busy here with lots of activities, trying to remove summer plants that were frozen our cold nights, enjoying our nice warm midday temps. And hurting in between meds. Missed my cleaning lady, as I had phoned my doc, and they had me come in, first available transportation day was day cleaning lady comes. In fact, I have appointments for tests, and pain clinic the next 3 Wednesdays. Two of those are at time my cleaning lady comes. Hope she can rearrange schedule some or I shall have to do my own laundry.

Heidi, did you happen to see the breakdown of who voted for Roy and Who voted for Jones? alabama owes a big debt to black women. Nearly 98% of black women voting were for Doug Jones. and I cannot understand the almost 80% of white women voting who voted for Roy Moore.

I read and caught up on posts, cannot remember all. Suzy, glad you were surprised by family BD lunch. Heidi, glad the ear has improved, happy the 2 of them kept distant. Suzy, so sorry for your friend, and his discomfort once the oxygen was turned off, seems cruel. Julie, hope you had time to practice. Good to see rolanda drop in, but not liking the reason for it. I left my comments to June and family on FB, not up to repeating here ATM. Just so very sad.

Do you remember me telling you about the younger deaf woman who fell coming in from camp? And we called medics for her? she did have a fracture, not sure knee, or leg, but after a stay in hospital she is now in rehab.

I am also very concerned about another of our residents. R is a long term paraplegic, with a lot of pain, and on strong narcotics for the pain for 10 years. He stopped drinking (self medicating) and came off meds on his own, cold turkey. now he is acting out in the most unusual ways. I am concerned for both his mental and physical health.

I should be back in bed, it is 6:45 am. Cold and dark still. Hugs to each of you with extras.

I did a small good deed today. My head cold has gone down into the chest, and I'm horking up chunks when I cough. I had to go to the hardware store for a new kitchen faucet and hoses (I have no water right now) ao I went next door to gt some groceries and severe cold medicine. The cashier was scanning my stuff and bagging it, but I noticed that she hadn't stopped and asked me my birthday when she scanned the cold meds (always done). So I interupted her and mentioned it to her. She thought she had scanned the meds, bit when she checked the receipt, she hadn't, but the pills had been bagged. So I had her take them out of the bag and scan it correctly. I will not steal cold medications, or anything else, from a store.

Belinda posted 2 minutes ago. She’s gone. 😢😢😢

RIP June

Rest in Peace June. We'll miss you here on SA. You were one of the reasons I came back and am staying here. You reminded me how lovely our SA friends were.
I have changed to a more moderate avatar, I'm sure June would want us to still be looking forward to Christmas, she was! But my previous avatar was a bit too 'in your face'.

Rest in Peace, June

Your spirit

Your caring and sharing

Your determination to
fight through adversity

has been a inspiration
to us all...

Rest in Peace, June! You led by example and always found the positive. You will be missed!

DOrA, are you on TOS? What you wrote is so beautiful and should be shared there. If you aren't, and you are willing, I could post it, giving you credit.

I agree Julie! DorA's post was lovely.

Rest in peace, dear June. You will always be loved by all who knew you.

Julie, No I'm not and never will be.

Permission granted, ----------------

No credit . I'm private

Just post...........

Thanks, ladies

at times like this, i am normally at a loss for words.

June's spirit must have inspired me.................

She wes a beautiful lady.

I WILL miss her .......

Thanks for giving me permission to share your post anonymously, DOrA. Your words are beautiful, and I thought June's daughter and husband would be happy to see them.

Most of my head is telling me there is no way I can get to Sydney, the rest is saying I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t. Guess I’ll fight that battle when I know their plans...

Suzy, can you get there by public transport?
I wish I lived near you, we could go together.