nope... problem is still here.  Post, submit, wait a monute to gain control of the browser again.

I thought your other head looked fine... but if it makes you happy...   

The site has been doing that since the last 'update'.

awwwwwwwwwwwww....  my baby cabbage!

...and my new hairdo!  Do you like the streaking effect, or is it too blotchy?

Thanks!  I am quite fond of my cabbage.  I have been pondering things and I think that a lot of food plants can be considered pretty.  So maybe I will learn ones that do best by my lanai and start growing them.  I have all kinds of emergency provisions... but what better things to have around than fresh salad and herbs in case i can't get out sometime?  And bonus... they really are pretty if you think they are.

Now.... to figure how to grow chocolate raspberries and tickle feathers.  Remember tickle feathers?

Boy, it's hard to type in here.  I wonder if that is Bert, or my keyboard?

Even if the thread is empty now... that's only more reason to fill it up again.  New memories, new friends.  There are plenty of people around who might one day come and play in this space, if we let them feel welcome.  How many times in the life of the thread have people thought long gone turned up again?   One thing I know, they probably won't go digging for the thread.  And don't morn overmuch for the people who are not here now... it is not necessarily an abandonment.  I know for sure feline is so busy he can barely think straight.  He was so busy and tired when he was here last he may have seemed tired or distracted or aloof.  But how else would someone sound after working 60+ hours a week for months and months without ever even taking a day off?  I really do worry about him...  He might could do with an email.   As for me... I'm fighting back from a whole lot of things.  I was before too.  I had been going through so many losses it was hard to think I could lose more, but I did.  My family is mostly gone now, or distant.  I have a lot of health problems and it hurts just to walk... but you know what?  I figured... I'm not waiting to feel good any more.  I'm not waiting for my life to be free of loss and missing people and troubled people.  So I am going out and rebuilding a new life  with new things and new people.  And I will keep coming in here too... because I don't plan on dismissing fond memories as something that was here and now gone.  A memory, once you make one, is yours forever.  And the joy that was there the day you forged it is the same joy it carries with it today... else you have changed it into something different. 

for me, the hard part right now is physical.  I get really tired and sore after a day out.  So it is hard to sit by the computer.  But life is getting better, little by little. 

GoodMorphing steps off the soap box and goes to make supper.

Hehehe. Maybe we could entice people in with a promise of free chocolate???

To anyone who wants to join in the fun:-

...yes, even you...

  good news...they gave me a brace.  It helps me walk.  I could go everywhere and leave my cane at home.  At nigh my knee hurts but nothing like before.  I didn't have to take so much pain stuff and I could sleep.  I felt normal almost.

then they called the next day and wanted it back.  I told them i would bring it, but I kept 'forgetting'.  I just wanted to see if it works as good as I think it does... it does.

So what to do, what to do.  It felt good to get back out.  I walked and walked and even climbed rocks on the beach to check to see if it was working as good as i think it does.  It does.

So I guess this next week will be filled with fighting with insurance.  It's an expensive brace, but only half as expensive as one shot they want to put in my knee costs.  Or a knee replacement.

GM walks off puzzling over what it is fuzzy is up to now....

    <<<<<< chocolate champaign!  That ought to get 'em to the party!

Why, up to no good of course...

  Battle of the brace update.  I have called in reinforcements.  My doctor and her staff are now working with me to get the brace billing lady to loosen her grip on the insurance claim.  We all know that there is an excellent chance I will get the brace on first review with the insurance company.  I am feeling better.  I can sleep.  I can take less medication.  I don't need exotic, expensive treatments and certainly not a knee replacement.  And anyway, once I get a rejection notice I can go to work appealing it.  But I got to pry loose that first insurance claim out of the billing lady's grip.  she wants me to bring the brace back.  but if i do she won't be billing for it... and i will be back in pain, doped up and not going anywhere. 

right now I am doing the only thing I can do... I'm going to the beach to avoid the calls.

                     I got life to tend to while I can.  Especially if someone's going to take it all away from me soon.