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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2017 2:32:17 GMT
Awwwwww! And do you feel better now?
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Post by questa on Dec 31, 2017 3:14:08 GMT
Agnes is a smart girl, she knows that when you are sick you need a 'duck-tor'.
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Post by rikita on Dec 31, 2017 9:27:37 GMT
questa - bixa - felt better towards the evening, now my throat hurts lots again. else alrightish, but everyone is telling me to be careful, as i might have tonsilitis. at the pharmacy they said if i get a fever, i should go to a doctor (which at the weekend/at public holidays means spending hours at a hospital).
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2017 17:42:04 GMT
What a poop way to end 2017, Rikita. If it is any consolation, people generally "grow out of" tonsillitis, although as you're finding out, it lingers well into adulthood. I was always told by doctors (as was my grandmother) that we got tonsillitis because our tonsils were still functioning, i.e., they were "catching" whatever disease to prevent it from entering our systems. I don't know if that is still the accepted wisdom or not. In the meantime ~ www.wowremedies.com/top-22-tonsillitis-home-remedies-actually-work
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Post by rikita on Jan 2, 2018 8:53:21 GMT
actually i got through it relatively well - throat ache is gone almost completely now and i never got a fever ... new year started badly though - but that isn't really for this threat ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2018 0:47:54 GMT
A woman across the street from me has set up a little stand selling gelatinas. Sometimes another woman is there selling tamales. They've brought speakers out to play music. Yesterday it was a shrill child's voice singing drippy Christmas songs. I understand that she needs to make money and applaud her bootstrap mentality. Still, that power drill voice yesterday was making me want to go outside and do something socially unacceptable. That's when I found this jewel, which works like a charm: mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
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Post by rikita on Jan 3, 2018 12:14:51 GMT
i sometimes turned on white noise recordings when agnes was very little when she slept and i wanted to make sure she isn't woken by some sudden sounds in the surroundings. it worked sometimes, but not always ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 12, 2018 16:35:42 GMT
Today I went to a large store in a major shopping mall to buy some stuff. There was only one cashier on duty at the time, which was fine, because it wasn't a busy time. There was a sign at her work station that said "I am deaf. If you speak to me, please face me directly." She was pleasant and efficient. I thanked her and wished her a good day and she replied as best she could in that not-quite-correct but adequate way that the speaking deaf have learned. It made me feel that the world is becoming a better place.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2018 16:39:37 GMT
Oh, that is indeed something that means a lot!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2018 15:19:13 GMT
The other day I was returning home with the dogs from our afternoon walk. It had been sort of overcast all day, but as the sun went down there was some blue sky showing through the unformed clouds. As I headed uphill, I could see a wide bright rainbow which seemed quite close. It was coming straight down from a brown cloud. When I got to the top of the hill the bottom of the rainbow could be seen, transparently superimposed over the mountain range ~ magical.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 16:01:35 GMT
Lovely Bixa. Was it "and me with no camera" a moment?
I had a delightful although not totally unexpected surprise yesterday in the post. But, first the story behind it in order to appreciate it's beginnings.
Some years back,I was up at the river watching the ships pass by, relaxing with some reading material. Along comes a family, mother, father, and their two sons adolescent in age.
We struck up a conversation and tell me that they are from San Antonio, Texas. The father had lived here many, many years ago and had very fond memories of NOLA and wanted for his family to come for a brief vacation.
Toward the end of the conversation the father asked me if I knew of a nearby place where they could eat some crawfish as he wanted for the rest of the family to experience eating them as he had when he lived here. I recommended a local joint (Franky and Johnys) not so very far from where we were and off they went.
I happened to be "flush" at the time and thought to surprise them so I phoned the restaurant and spoke to someone I knew who worked there. I told him that a family of four, Hispanic,mother, father, two teens would be coming there in fairly short order to eat crawfish. I asked him to please use my credit card to pick up their tab from "the lady on the river".
And so, the family dined on several pounds of crawfish and then were totally surprised when presented with their bill. They asked my friend if they could have my phone number and called to thank me.
Now, every year I receive a card from them with updated pictures of the boys (one is in Medical school, the other excelling in soccer and so on). With the photo is a gift card to a local restaurant, (I suppose he scours the internet to find different eateries I might enjoy).
Anyway, it's always a delight to keep up with them and recall a wonderful time had by all. I hope they will return again and contact me when they do.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2018 0:32:02 GMT
A beautiful tale, casi. Is there a reunion in your futures?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 20:59:52 GMT
A beautiful tale, casi. Is there a reunion in your futures? Not specifically although there has been some mention of them coming to NOLA again when time allows. I think the boys who are now young men have a lot going on in their lives. They have always urged for me to come and visit them in San Antonio. Today, a friend of mine dropped off her back issues of the NYer as she has faithfully done for a few years now. In the bag with the magazines was an envelope with a gift certificate for a 90 minute professional massage. She knows that I have been stressed and in a "funk" of sorts of late so she very thoughtfully gave me this. I have never had a professional massage before so I am very much looking forward to this. The gratefulness goes without saying...
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Post by questa on Jan 31, 2018 3:16:23 GMT
"I have never had a professional massage before so I am very much looking forward to this."
If I may be so bold, Casi. Once the massage starts don't let the person talk to you.The idea is to put your mind into neutral and drift along just feeling your body responding to the touch. If you have someone asking questions etc you can't drift.The person should have asked you in the check up before starting.
If some part of the massage gets uncomfortable give an "ouch" or grunt. There are no Brownie points for putting up with more discomfort than you are OK with in a relaxation massage.
When it is finished float back to Earth gently...wiggle fingers and toes, arms and legs, stretch and sit up. Hold on to chair or something to stand and let your blood flow settle. Drink some water and, if you can, don't sit down until you have had a little walk (5-10 mins). This gives your spine a chance to take up the weight gradually, not with a thump. I hope you enjoy it...I just bliss out!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 3:36:24 GMT
Oh!! Thank you for that Questa.
It kinda reminds me of how I was guided when I had my first acupuncture treatment years ago.
Did I ever drift....I never felt that kind of sensation before save maybe while in the ocean floating on my back on a perfectly calm sea in Indian summer. Ahhhhhh.......
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2018 4:10:26 GMT
Yaaay ~ it's finally late enough to go to bed!
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Post by rikita on Feb 23, 2018 9:09:25 GMT
when i climb up into agnes' bed to give her a good night kiss before i go to bed myself, she often has this kind of "duck face" mouth in her sleep ... just looks so cute ...
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Post by mich64 on Feb 23, 2018 23:41:25 GMT
That is so sweet Rikita, made me smile today.
Each night while having dinner together, my husband reaches out to caress my left arm while we are eating. I can not remember a dinner at home that he has not done this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 5:33:53 GMT
That is so sweet Rikita, made me smile today. Each night while having dinner together, my husband reaches out to caress my left arm while we are eating. I can not remember a dinner at home that he has not done this. Mich, that may well be one of most heartwarming posts I have ever seen on this board. (I am also blessed with a long time partner who is incredibly kind, loving and tolerant. Consider how fortunate we are.)
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Post by whatagain on Feb 24, 2018 19:38:50 GMT
Be both blessed. Being surrounding by loving ones means you ARE lovely persons. There is no secret : love attracts love, haters get hate.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 25, 2018 22:12:27 GMT
Agree about the sweet thoughts, but if I didn't know about whatagain's heartbreaking loss, I would have thought the second sentence a bit smug. I know quite a few lovely people who are alone. There can be many reasons for that.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2018 23:00:52 GMT
~?~ Really, LaGatta?!
I don't see where Whatagain's life history has any bearing on what he wrote. And I found his response to Mich and Casimira to be exquisitely sensitive and downright lovely.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 26, 2018 1:31:50 GMT
I wholeheartedly agree that what whatagain responded to mich and casimira was utterly lovely and sensitive.
My only HUH? moment was this: There is no secret : love attracts love, haters get hate.
Life is deeply unfair in many ways, of course above all things like whatagain endured (I do have friends who have endured that - the pain is always there). My point was simply that love does not always attract love. Some haters also attract a twisted form of "love", but that is another story.
My intention was only that whatagain realizes that life can be deeply unfair. If you can find a better way of expressing that, I'd love to hear it, though I'm off to bed now. It was most certainly NOT a slight against him or his feelings.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 26, 2018 3:24:49 GMT
I posted about the caress because Rikita's lovely comment about Agnes made me smile, made me feel happy and safe at that moment. Little things mean a lot to me right now.
Life is unfair and we are all living and feeling our experiences in our own different and in-common ways.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 26, 2018 4:00:04 GMT
Yes, I have a friend here who experienced the same, and her little boy would have been a 40-year-old man now. She doesn't obsess about it but the veil of that will always remain.
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Post by questa on Feb 26, 2018 5:42:33 GMT
Casimira, did you have your massage? What was it like?
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Post by lagatta on Feb 27, 2018 1:23:53 GMT
This got me crying about little Mathieu and I can't even imagine what whatagain, my friend Josée and their partners must have felt about Mathieu and Robin. We are always sad when someone we love dies, but a parent mourning a child seems outside the natural order. Yes, we must treasure such expressions of love and constancy.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 27, 2018 2:30:56 GMT
My family is in the midst of holding on desperately and treasuring every moment as best we can. Trying very hard to be strong.
Thank you Casimira for your kind words and we are truly fortunate to love and be loved. Our guys are pretty special!
Whatagain, I feel so blessed and I hope that I give out as much love as I receive each day from my husband. Especially now, as he is helping me stay strong and keep focus on the things that are important right now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2018 2:39:05 GMT
Mich, I love the photos of you and your husband that you've shown. It's as though the two of you glow in each others presence.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 2:47:13 GMT
Casimira, did you have your massage? What was it like? No Questa I have not yet. Carnival was pretty topsy turvy with friends from out of town who stayed on for a bit. Also, there has been an epidemic of sorts of some type of flu going around and the masseuse apparently succumbed to it. But, we did speak this evening and I plan to schedule it with her soon. I am very much looking forward to it. Thank you for asking.
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