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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 27, 2018 21:00:34 GMT
Kirby, I'm sorry to hear about your painful problem. I hope that it's resolved soon...take care sweetie.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 28, 2018 2:28:46 GMT
By the way, as per bras, there are now some nice front-closing ones with a zipper, not a geriatric mess of front hooks.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 28, 2018 8:25:32 GMT
By the way, as per bras, there are now some nice front-closing ones with a zipper, not a geriatric mess of front hooks. If only they had been around in my youth. Sigh,....
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 28, 2018 9:11:38 GMT
Otherwise known as "front loaders".
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Post by lagatta on Jan 28, 2018 11:19:26 GMT
They come out of the development of sport bras.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 28, 2018 12:19:50 GMT
Oh no, another cold shower...
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Post by Kimby on Jan 28, 2018 14:32:37 GMT
By the way, as per bras, there are now some nice front-closing ones with a zipper, not a geriatric mess of front hooks. I HATE bra shopping and put it off till my old ones are in tatters. I just bought 4 last fall, and (petty personal trauma) none are front closure. Sigh.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 28, 2018 14:53:58 GMT
As I limit my movements to avoid causing pain, there is the danger of getting a “frozen shoulder”. So Dr. Kimby has strongly recommended that I do stretching exercises.
Rather than make up my own stretches and possibly causing damage, I went online and printed out pages of physical therapy stretches, half a dozen targeted to each of my problem areas: shoulders, hips, neck and lower back.
Some of the shoulder stretches I can barely do at all, and sadly, after trying them (gently), I was sorer than ever. Sigh.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 29, 2018 18:54:01 GMT
As a voluptuous woman...ok chunky...ok big boned...ok fat. I still stick with Doreen by Triumph. Hopefully they will never stop producing her. Doreen is a magnificent structure that oiks everything into place and holds it there...firmly. I briefly flirted with Marks and Spencer's own band last year (unsatisfactory...might as well not have bothered) but treated myself to a couple of Doreens in the New Year Sales. Upper Decker Flopper Stopper (or Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder) Fabulous.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 29, 2018 19:04:27 GMT
Kimby. Have you seen a physio at all? they could help you to find the best sretching exercises, altho until you have a diagnosis it might be difficult to gauge what will help.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2018 19:40:19 GMT
Marks and Spencer's own band last year What ~ it's a giant Ace bandage to strap them babies down?!
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Post by mossie on Jan 29, 2018 20:20:43 GMT
Perhaps a pair like this
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Post by Kimby on Jan 29, 2018 20:57:08 GMT
(I think she bought a size or two too small, and has the shoulder straps let out too much.)
Thanks for all the input, people of Any Port. Just got back from an hour-long walk with Mr. Kimby. No problems moving around. It’s just the transitions from inactive to active that give me pause.
(I did pass on Mr. Kimby’s invitation to help him move more of the wood pile into the garage for the 2nd half of the wood stove season!)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 31, 2018 9:06:54 GMT
Marks and Spencer's own band last year What ~ it's a giant Ace bandage to strap them babies down?! * sigh *
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Post by mossie on Feb 1, 2018 14:48:33 GMT
I have had the MOST surreal experience. Browsing the bookshelf in a charity shop this morning I see the classic "Catch 22"by Joseph Heller. I could remember reading it many years ago, and thought I would like to do so again, so bought it. When I got home and started in to it I thought "this is not the book I remember". Then realised that it had a preface to a new edition, so turned to dear old Google and Wikipedia to find out when it was first published. They say 1961, but I had read it when I was on my first squadron in 1952!! My flying days were over in 1958.
Definitely senile dementia, get me transferred to the funny farm right quick.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 1, 2018 15:03:43 GMT
You must just have remembered a book with a similar title. My own is that, having switched from regular tea to redbush to see if the reduction in caffeine will also reduce my blood pressure, it seems there is such a thing as caffeine withdrawal symptoms, even from tea. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by mossie on Feb 1, 2018 15:13:30 GMT
Sorry Patrick, one cannot forget Yossarian
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 1, 2018 15:57:41 GMT
I fought my way through Catch 22 in my youth, wouldn't want to read it again tho...good luck Mossie medear. Yet again I have chucked something away by mistake. I don't know how many potato peelers have gone into the dustbin along with the peelings over the years. The latest thing I've accidentally thrown out is (or is it 'are' ) the nail scissors....we have clippers but I prefer to use scissors. Can't search the bin because the dustbin men have taken all our rubbish away.
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Post by mossie on Feb 2, 2018 19:20:46 GMT
That's a disaster Cheery. i always regret doing the same with a favourite teaspoon.
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Post by mossie on Feb 2, 2018 19:26:03 GMT
Returning to Catch 22. I am becoming even more worried, I read the book in mid 1952 when I had been on my first squadron for a few months and emphasised with the character. I definitely seem to remember Yossarian and Milo and particularly Major Major Major, let us hope Patrick is right but I was absolutely convinced. Memory is surely playing a dirty trick on me.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2018 19:30:55 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 2, 2018 20:53:19 GMT
Picked up my ring today. The cabochon isn't a cabochon it's a faceted stone and the ruby is PINK not red.
But I'm British so I smiled and said it was very nice, paid the bill and scuttled out.
Serves me right.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2018 21:31:10 GMT
Believe me, Cheery, the entire world admires the British stiff upper lip. But sometimes you need to learn to lash out!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2018 21:36:31 GMT
Oh, HELL! Why would it possibly serve you right? You should get what you want. Maybe wait until the disappointment has died down, then go to a different jeweler to pick out a stone you want for the ring. You can either make something else out of the pink ruby or possibly the jeweler setting the new stone would swap it for the stone you choose. So sorry this all happened, especially since you were so happy about the ring to begin with. Disappointment sucks!
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Post by questa on Feb 3, 2018 0:14:00 GMT
But I'm British so I smiled and said it was very nice, paid the bill and scuttled out. Serves me right. Boadicea was British too, don't forget! You write so well and I am sure that if you sent a letter to the jewellers who have disappointed you, perhaps attaching the timeline and quotes from your posts here to illustrate your frustration, you may be fully recompensed, with an apology. Mention you are considering taking the matter to the Consumer Affairs Department, that usually gets some action. As the jeweller is 'high end' his reputation is worth more to him than your ring, understand that you have the upper hand here.Let him know that this saga is already attracting international interest with hundreds of readers just waiting for his business to be named. Writing a letter allows you to speak your mind without interruption or downplaying of your concerns. It also gives you the satisfaction of telling him what you really want, not what you are being fobbed off with. A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman--who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls Proverbs 31:10 - RHE
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Post by Kimby on Feb 3, 2018 1:59:53 GMT
Why not have a disgruntled Mr. Cheery pay a visit to the jeweler who has twice disappointed you and demand satisfaction. Wasn’t it a gift from him to you?
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Post by questa on Feb 3, 2018 11:01:14 GMT
I have had the MOST surreal experience. Hello Mossie, Sitting comfortably? Not in a hurry? If I can do it I may have an answer to your 'Catch 22' puzzle. In western culture we see time as a linear thing, however eastern thought sees time is non-linear. Time is cyclical, everything that has,is happening and will be happening is already there. Sometimes there is a 'slip', a sort of major deja-vu I can't explain it well so here are some sites www.superconsciousness.com/topics/discover/what-if-time-not-linear........................................................................... There is no such thing as linear time it is just an illusion . Albert Einstein , a spiritual scientist, coined the phrase space time continuum. His theories of relativity suggests there is no single present and that all moments are real. All events and experiences are happening simultaneously to us.Jun 7, 2011 .................................................................... I find it is spooky the way I will put an object down in an obvious place then it seems to disappear. A thorough search with helpers fails to find it. Hours or days pass then the object re-appears. I used to joke that it had slipped into a time warp and was waiting for the time to catch up when it would appear again. Now I am not so sure it is a joke. Can you remember where you got the book from and what happened to it after? What condition it was in? Put your rational thinking on 'hold' for a bit and consider...Book has been published as it is '60s. Copy of book, a powerful anti war story,slips into the time zone of someone who identifies strongly with the protagonist. It is read and remembered strongly by the reader ["One cannot forget Yossarian."..said with passion] After you finished it, it probably slipped back to its own time. I suggest you Google 'Linear time versus non-linear time". Confuse yourself completely. I have been learning about Asian beliefs for nearly 50 years and somehow can believe in opposing ideas simultaneously. There is another factor at work here as well. What you need will come to you, maybe in a form other than you expected. Did you get the feeling that reading "Catch 22" helped you in any way? Over and Out NB questions are rhetorical, do not reply
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 3, 2018 11:29:31 GMT
Cosmic
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 3, 2018 11:34:57 GMT
Oh, HELL! Why would it possibly serve you right? You should get what you want. Maybe wait until the disappointment has died down, then go to a different jeweler to pick out a stone you want for the ring. You can either make something else out of the pink ruby or possibly the jeweler setting the new stone would swap it for the stone you choose. So sorry this all happened, especially since you were so happy about the ring to begin with. Disappointment sucks! This is going to be my most likely course of action. I'm just embarrassed by the whole thing. I hate confrontations and am a bit timid. I thought about writing a letter but tbh I keep thinking 'perhaps they misheard' etc So I will stop whining and put it behind me.
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 3, 2018 15:05:29 GMT
Mossie, there are just three alternatives -
a) You read a different book. b) You read it later but something now makes you associate it with that time. c) You're going daft.
You think c), I think b).
Hang on though. Maybe it is c).
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