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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 7, 2013 18:34:17 GMT 2
Good morning, nerlandians, what's on the table today? I have coffee and plans to go to the gym.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 7, 2013 19:51:15 GMT 2
plan is work and work
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Mar 7, 2013 20:05:43 GMT 2
Hello all. Pero glad your storm was not that bad! It is very hot here again and a storm is expected for the week end. (not a snow one but rain) Trying to find new books to read.. pfff bought one which I do not like much.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 7, 2013 21:06:55 GMT 2
I go to the local op shop and buy my reading material, 4 for a dollar
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 7, 2013 21:16:53 GMT 2
i slept in late but woke up with a bad headache. 2 (expired) aspirin have helped a bit, but it's a bleah kind of day.
I need to go out and shovel - it's been snowing lightly for hours and hours and is accumulating into quite a good dump. Sigh.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 7, 2013 21:25:28 GMT 2
Hi Scrubb........no snow here, all those PM's you sent to us on LPTT have gone but we are still off to France in late May for 5 weeks have booked hotel in Paris, walk around Mont Blanc etc so training like crazy and planning drinking lots of wine!
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 7, 2013 21:27:48 GMT 2
Jealous!!! I want to go back to Paris!
I'm heading to the bright lights, big city of Calgary for a few days. It looks like a long stretch of sunny there with highs up to 8C on Sunday.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 7, 2013 21:44:46 GMT 2
Usual deal mapes house sitting vacant but it will be our winter and I am not sure Canuckstans will trade two weeks of summer for 4= 5 weeks of our winter, no snow, no bears which is a bonus.
Really looking forward to this trip, have paid up front for a lot of stuff so money wise should be manageable
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 7, 2013 21:47:58 GMT 2
Thanks wino, it's tempting. ....no bears, but the snakes might be a deal breaker. I'm sure your will have an amazing trip! Did you find a place to stay in Paris? The fifth floor walk up we stayed in would be good conditioning for tackling Mont Blanc.
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 7, 2013 22:59:48 GMT 2
Hi y'all. Long story shortened: yesterday my mother went to the ER with high blood pressure and some dizziness but I didn't know at first because she only has my mobile number in her mobile and obviously didn't remember my land number and I had my mobile off. We've all (sis me grandkids) called her since. She sounds better but has it in her head that I'm the only one to call tho I live the furtherest away by a couple dozen kilometers. I'm wondering if she has had a stroke but she refuses to go back to the ER.
On a happier note this dj on WPRB (.com) is playing bunches of indie bands with women singers/writers and I am familiar with a bunch of them so I'm smiling.
Off to a massage right now.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 7, 2013 23:24:36 GMT 2
I hope your mom is ok, pero...that's scary stuff! Can you talk to the ER doctor and find out what they think is going on?
I'm glad you're smiling and getting a massage. I'm off to the doctor to get the results of all the tests from my yearly physical. Fingers crossed that nothing is falling apart!
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 7, 2013 23:33:12 GMT 2
pero, I hope that your mom is ok! Sorry for the rotten timing of fleeing the country & therefore being completely unhelpful with this. mapes, hope you're 100%! Sadly I am not... have caught a cold from watching a French movie in an unheated food market in the rain so I've spent the evening crouched in front of the heater eating cashews, reading a spy novel, and sneezing.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 7, 2013 23:49:33 GMT 2
Hot Irish whiskey laced with lemon and honey, Liiisa!! You should be able to order that at a pub.
I'm breaking in a new doctor since mine had the nerve to retire! The new one seems ok, but when did twelve year olds start graduating from med school? Anyway, I'm sure there will be a good long spell in the waiting room so I'll be able to get some reading done.
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 1:17:34 GMT 2
Liii iii iii, that sounds like the plot of a French movie! I'm sorry you're feeling sick. I wish you were here so I could feed you hot Irish whiskey with lemon and honey.
Fingers crossed for you, mapes.
My massage was fantastic. The therapist is fairly new, and was experimenting this afternoon. It's my fourth and best massage with her. My back is no longer so tense. No more work tonight, it's dinner, beer, and hot bath time.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 8, 2013 1:23:02 GMT 2
Woohoo, all numbers are normal...thank you FSM (and yearly gym pass, and Nazi like gym trainer....).
I'm glad your massage was a success, pero. Dinner, beer and hot bath sounds great. Now I have to do some packing and dig out my going to the city clothes...
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 1:29:25 GMT 2
Yay for normal numbers, mapes. And thanks for your concern!
My cholesterol is still high. It should be below 200 but was 238 in December (and 206 last June). I am supposed to start taking avortastin or whatever it's called but I have put it off so far. I went so far as pricing it online, knowing that at the nearby pharmacy it's going to cost even more. I am, however, eating less chocolate and cheese this week. All my other numbers are completely normal.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 8, 2013 1:42:11 GMT 2
Two years ago my cholesterol was slowly creeping up and my doctor wanted to put me on medication...when I balked at this she suggested trying regular exercise and within three months it was almost normal. I do try to control the cheese and chocolate monsters too...but I'd rather exercise more than give them up! My problem wasn't so much that the bad cholesterol was super high, but that the good cholesterol was very low. Try walking lots...lots and lots and lots...it could save you some money.
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 1:53:43 GMT 2
I am walking more than I have been. Now that meterological spring is here I am to be walking more. I even walked yesterday in the falling snow.
My HDL cholesterol is 52 (should be above 40), LDL is 159 (should be below 130). So I need some work to bring the one down. I'm not quite ready to take the drugs.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 8, 2013 2:17:55 GMT 2
Oh meterological spring....I like the sound of that!
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 4:12:02 GMT 2
It is supposed to be in the 60s next week, woo hop (over 16C).
I forgot to take the acidophilous supplement with dinner. We are supposed to take it with food. So I had one of the two remaining cookies my massage therapist/neighbor gave me at the end of the appointment. Poor me.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 8, 2013 4:54:46 GMT 2
16C! That's practically beach weather!
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 8, 2013 8:09:06 GMT 2
wino - i wish i remembered what I told you in the PMs, but I don't! Which arrondissement are you staying in? You were saying it might be postponed till the end of the year, but you're going in May afterall? I hope the weather is wonderful for you!
I have a 1-week trip to London and Paris coming up. Not much time to myself, but I do have 1 day in Paris at the end. Trying to decide what to do that day - one of the museums I didn't make it to while living there? Wander around my favourite areas? Is there a big site that I overlooked and should see?
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 8, 2013 9:14:35 GMT 2
Its in the Latin Quarter scrubb near a kick arse big garden.......you other guys have been busy
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Post by tlefty on Mar 8, 2013 14:09:02 GMT 2
Evening.
Hope your mum is ok, Pero!
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Mar 8, 2013 15:29:03 GMT 2
hi all, Pero, hope all is fine with your mum. Le Quartier Latin! how lovely! sighs...
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 15:31:39 GMT 2
Hee hee. 16C = beach weather? Only in BC? Thanks guys. My mother goes to the doctor today. I'm not driving her. I wish I were. I'm going to call the doctor some time today and tell him what we have pieced together, in case she doesn't want to, or forgot some of the events.
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Post by mapletree3 on Mar 8, 2013 17:08:55 GMT 2
Up and ready for an exciting winter road trip through the mountain passes. The weather looks decent, so fingers crossed everything stays open.
I hope all goes well with your mom, pero. Talking to the doctor sounds like a good idea, she may be mishearing important facts or instructions. Good luck!
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 20:02:20 GMT 2
Good luck with your drive mapes.
No word yet from my mom. I don't know if I'll call her doctor this afternoon or not.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Mar 8, 2013 21:05:27 GMT 2
Most mothers are female, and all females fail to listen to the message or isntructions, or read maps or......hope all is well pero
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Post by Peromyscus on Mar 8, 2013 21:15:48 GMT 2
Um, thanks Wino.
I just spent half an hour looking for the lid to the garbage can. The can (plastic of course) had blown across the street and into somebody's yard. It looks like the lid is starting a second career as a traveler.
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