The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[curlyfries]

My friend's mom wanted to be called grandma Polly, but the wee one couldn't pronounce that so the woman became, and remains, Gran Pocky. To everyone. And the wee one just left for college.

My brother always called his grandma........gung-gung

Boss is worried about me.......this week I forgot my:

cell phone - twice

glasses - twice <VERY challenging - everyone had to read things to me, and I had to enlarge the font to size 24 just to READ things boss sent me>

purse - once

things to take to post office - once

dog - never

stack of pamphlets - once

own name - 500 times

.......and so it begins.......

Wonder how wee Alexis is doing today? Nursing has probably begun in earnest... . ...what a life - -eating, sleeping, looking around, spitting up, pooping.. .. .....

She has a masters in pooping. She did that while still in paradise.....not supposed to happen

......then again after her debut

Don't know how the wee one is doing today....no phone calls, which means no news to report.

......Grandma and Grandpa have the house to themselves

[jerseyangel]

She has a masters in pooping. She did that while still in paradise.....not supposed to happen

......then again after her debut

Well, she's a sillie ain't she? A wee one anyway

Still have me computer and TV fer the moment--fone is already shut off so I thought I'd pop in quick before abyss.......

Nik--they can get a general idea from a blood test. My dr at the time said the hormone levels fluctuate from day to day but it can give you a rough idea of where you are on the mentalpause timeline. Worth a shot, I'd say since you're gonna be there anyway.

Gotta strip the bed and get moving here--hee! get it? moving...

See ya'll later

[elye]

I've gotta go back to my doc next week (for blood test results)...maybe I'll mention me night sweats.....can they tell if your 'in' the menopause by bloods..anyone know???

Was wondering this meselph, as I must be, if not there, at least within shouting distance of perimentalpause. Here's what i GOT:

There are two blood tests that can be administered to diagnose the onset of menopause. However, neither one is completely accurate in determining if a woman is actually experiencing the effects of perimenopause.

One test involves measuring levels of estriadol in the bloodstream. Estriadol is a form of estrogen, and the serum estrogen test will identify levels under 50 pg/ml (picograms per milliliter). Levels of 20 to 30 pg/ml is considered by most professionals to indicate menopause.

The other test looks for high levels of FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormones), typically below 30 pg/ml in premenopausal women. This level has been known to reach as high as 100 pg/ml in women experiencing menopause. FSH is produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate egg production in the ovaries, and levels rise as menopause sets in and the ovaries stop working.

Wow......somewhat TMI, methinks. . . . . . . . ....

......Grandma and Grandpa have the house to themselves

So it's "GRANDMA"? Yay! My mom is Grandma to all her grands and great-grands. . .. . . .

[nikki-uk]

Wow......somewhat TMI, methinks. . . . . . . . ....

WHAAATTTT?!?!

TMI doesn't exist here!!!!!!!!!

So it's "GRANDMA"? Yay! My mom is Grandma to all her grands and great-grands. . .. . . .

Sounds FAB!!! .... but somehow 'posh' to my London (working class) ear..... but when *you* (North American) folks say anything it sounds more 'relaxed' than how *we* would say it

We have 'Nans' in these parts

Oh bum!! ...... clocks go back ONE hour tonight......admittedly one extra hour in bed........ then MONTHS of it being dark by 4.30pm

BLAH!!!!!!

[curlyfries]

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

[Jestgar]

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

So cute!!!!

[nikki-uk]

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

I like them like that ( before their potential disobedience develops)

OH, and their smell!!! (ok - NOT the butt end)

[elye]

She's GOR-JUSSS, Gramma!

[flourgirl]

What a beauty! I know you are so proud!

[DingoGirl]

Wait.....wait..... . .. .....must put the soooze feel into all this.....

♥ ♥ PSOOOOOZLE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<somehow whilst posting me silly shapes and colours I messed up Emmel's hearts>

:lol:

♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ ☼

WIH?...dingo brain/mentalpause MAKING me say crazee things AND lose Tel in TK Maxx (had to ring him to find him...lost him at the bras )

Janey and I do this a lot - in Costco - have to keep cell phones at the ready

Sounds FAB!!! .... but somehow 'posh' to my London (working class) ear..... but when *you* (North American) folks say anything it sounds more 'relaxed' than how *we* would say it

this is funny....um.....we do NOT really pronounce the "D" - always comes out sounding like "gramma" or "grampa"..... not GRAND-ma.....or GRAND-ma ma, as you peeps might say it

Alexis!!!!!!!!!! she's so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! (but never having HAD a baby, I don't crave them like the mommies do.......I crave the kittens and puppies - 'tis abnormal, I realize)

soooooooooooooooooooooo tired sills............just flat-out, bone-ass tired doesn't really ever quite go away.........

why don't I just start eating gluten again????? what is the POINT of being g f if I feel like utter CRAP?? Well, at least my stomach doesn't hurt.......

[psawyer]

why don't I just start eating gluten again????? what is the POINT of being g f if I feel like utter CRAP?? Well, at least my stomach doesn't hurt.......

Susan, this is Sillyville, but I am not being silly right now. Please do not do this. PLEASE. You may not be feeling well right now, but you will be *worse* if you start consuming gluten.

I am here if you want to talk.

[happygirl]

Lisa, Alexis is absolutely adorable. Thanks so much for sharing her with us!!!!!

[jerseyangel]

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

Oh Lisa, she's beautiful!

Susan, this is Sillyville, but I am not being silly right now. Please do not do this. PLEASE. You may not be feeling well right now, but you will be *worse* if you start consuming gluten.

I am here if you want to talk.

Ditto, Soozle

As you can see, I'm back! Exhausted, but online.....with phone and TV

[DingoGirl]

DRAT!! keep getting emoticonally busted. I NEED my sad faces tonight :sad face:

Alexis!!!!!!!!!! she's so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! (but never having HAD a baby, I don't crave them like the mommies do.......I crave the kittens and puppies - 'tis abnormal, I realize)

quotin' meself, here.......didn't want anyone to take this the wrong way.....I just......um.......don't even know what to DO with babies

Susan, this is Sillyville, but I am not being silly right now. Please do not do this. PLEASE. You may not be feeling well right now, but you will be *worse* if you start consuming gluten.

I am here if you want to talk.

he called me SUSAN!!!!!!!!!! (just glad he didn't say Susan JANE - that would be most dire indeed)

but thanks, Poeter.

been feeling like this for the better part of.......the last year and a half. I honestly don't think I've ever quite recovered from..........well, A$$ Hat, and many, many other things. I have pretty much EVERY SINGLE SYMPTOM of severe adrenal exhaustion. I don't know what to do. But it makes sense...that Siege of Terror in 2005 was 100 percent, pure, non-stop adrenaline for four months solid, day in, day out, morning, noon, night, during the night, most awful thing to have gone through, that feeling of 100 percent panic, 100 percent of the time, for that long...I had a full DECADE with pretty much no sleep (I have been drugging myself for ten years to get to sleep, every SINGLE night), chronic insomnia, and many, many times went entire DAYS without sleep.....all the bipolar years, which are NOT fully over (hence wondering why I'm gluten-free????? ) and the constant UPS and DOWNS, buildups (my body could NOT slow down.....there's a good reason I have 17 speeding tickets, folks ) and then the HUGE crashes.......

I am just completely, utterly, gob-smackingly WORN OUT. My hair is seriously falling out again, my brain is a WASTELAND of fuzz and haziness....and I have been in bed for the entire day today, and will be for tomorrow, and most of Monday and Tuesday......as with most weekends. This is SOOOOOOOOOOO not normal, and so not the life I ever thought I'd have.

Weez hasn't had a walk since Monday, I am gaining weight like crazy, but feel too weak to exercise, and also very light-headed and dizzy all the time.....

dear GAWD! this is SILLYVILLE!!! so sorry pholks, nothin' to see here, just keep moving along.........

but it's just pathetic......I DO have brief moments of a *teensy* bit of energy, but not much.....just enough to muster strength to go out now and then, or walk the dog.....but my floor hasn't been scrubbed in......._{I can't even tell you guys how long.} My fridge needs cleaning, cupboards need it also, carpet needs shampooing like you wouldn't believe....WHOLE HOUSE needs a severe deep-cleaning, and I feel just always on the verge of collapse.

and, I just lost another LIFELONG friend, within these past three months....Sophie is gone from my life. That was too much to bear. We've known each other since second grade....been the best of friends since college.

Okay....now I"m crying.....

this wasn't supposed to be my life......I don't have much left of me to lose...I am kind of scared.

_{Read this fast, pholks, I'm sure I'll erase it......}

but thanks for listening, my phfriends.

Things are really just very wrong and all wonky and I don't know what to do. All of the unbelievably TREMENDOUS good health I enjoyed in the first two years of g f diet seem to be 100 percent and completely GONE. Just gone.

Oh, I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would ask for a collective PRAYER or good thoughts or whatever you do for this:

I am seeing a doctor next week who was listed as a doctor on the Armour thyroid site as one who prescribes same. He is supposed to be excellent, and just may do the correct thyroid/adrenal tests, but I don't know. We all know how frustrating it can be with doctors, and those grey-area issues.

And then if all tests are normal.......well, I'm basically screwed. I know how Ptaum felt....where IS he???? I've got to write to him....didn't he see some results FINALLY from some testing? I worry about him. and miss him.

Back to bed, sills.........what a life.

p.s. I do NOT publicize this stuff on FB and just try to sound silly and breezy there, and also try not to worry me mum too much.....thanks, luvs ☻

[mushroom]

Boss is worried about me.......this week I forgot my:

own name - 500 times

T'is no wonder you is having an identity crisis Psoozle, Soozle, Pseuss, DingoGirl, dern it, who the heck am I? Is I Suze, Susan, Psilllllee??? : Just call yerselph "All of the Above", especially Psilly

OR

♥ ♥ PSOOOOOZLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ ♥

Where is Judith???

IS SHE COMING THRU FREZNO?????????????????

WHY WON'T JUDITH ANSWER????

..what a life - -eating, sleeping, looking around, spitting up, pooping.. .. .....

The life in mom's retirement home.

Zounds, sounds a bit like the life in my home at the mo, though I don't do the spitting up part; only babies can do that with any flare at all

AND lose Tel in TK Maxx (had to ring him to find him...lost him at the bras )

Wot??? What size does he wear??

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

And what a wee sleeping beauty she is too.

this is funny....um.....we do NOT really pronounce the "D" - always comes out sounding like "gramma" or "grampa"..... not GRAND-ma.....or GRAND-ma ma, as you peeps might say it

why don't I just start eating gluten again????? what is the POINT of being g f if I feel like utter CRAP?? Well, at least my stomach doesn't hurt.......

My grandma was always VERY GranDDD and regal too, as was my Grate GranDma. None of this modern Nana and Gramps stuff for that generation. My mom, however, was always Nana.

..aaannddd No, NO NO NO NO!!!, nevah, nevah, nevah start eating gluten again. BAD GIRL!!! SIT!!! STAY!!! LIE DOWN!!!

Why is it by the time I get through with all dese quotey bits, all the funny, heelarryus things I was going to say go completely out of me feeble brain??

PadT and Mark hauling tatt today, Judith still!!! putting things in boxes , Psillies "on the move" Jooodeeee will have to hurry before she gets snowed in up dere. Of course, she'll be taking the southern route, I guess, which means No, Psoozle, she probly won't be coming thru PHREZNO. (Says to herselph, must look on map and see where in heck Temecula ackshally is Anuvver place I'se never been.

T'is Labour Day weekend here, a long snooze... couldn't even be bovvered to go to the fair and look at tatt and spend money, cos I don't have any left after buying me fancy new bed, which is luverly!!! So planting spring veggies instead, except for the tomatoes which are living in the spa room until it warms up a little bit more. They love it there.

Reading this book called Colours: Travels through the Paintbox, tracing the origins of all the pigments used by the original artists, from the oxides used by the aborigines in Australia to the ultramarine in Afghanistan. Just moving on to indigo (I skipped the greens for now because blue is me favourite colour ) Fascinating stuff (pour moi, anyway). Takes you all over the world.

Like I said, psilly got lost among de quotes. If you find it, forward it, wouldya??

DRAT, emoticon busted again!!

[Judyin Philly]

hi sillies

I'm just poping in

can't get my fingers to work

never been so tired in my life but after last nites and all day horrible constant rain..........I'm ready to get the Heck out of PA and into sunny CA

just skimed the posts as 6 pages behind and not time

packed from 9:30 and still going and of yes did eat the dinner I put in the crock pot

see a new grandbaby for curly lisa

susie sick

Patti's in her new house

Nikki is having nite sweats.........

just can't keep up

Movers to come Tues and Wed clean on Thurs and close on Friday at 1:30 If all goes well

paid off the last $789.00 bill for elc work inspector didn't pass so of course we have to pay up

Now after the realator bugged us to get it done HASN'T HAD THE INSPECTOR BACK COME TO OK THE WORK.

i COULD WRITE A BOOK ONLY DON'T WANT TO THINK OF THE PAST.

ONLY THE SUNNY FUTURE

sURE HAVE MISSED READING ABOUT YOU ALL

LOVE JUDY

[mushroom]

This post was edited out by Mushroom because the stoopid board made her post it again because it said she was emoticonly (and emotionaly) busted AGAIN!!

[elye]

I am here if you want to talk.

......And he's the resident Oracle. . . ......he knows everything!

Sooooozle, I am so very sorry about the crappy state you're in. You are just such an amazingly terrific, beautiful soul.........no one deserves to feel this bad, but especially you. I have no real words of wisdom or advice......just know that I think of you so often, and I am so pleased to hear that you've gotten in with the Magic Armour Doc. Hey, he could be the one.

I, too, kept thinking of Ptaoughmghmn while I was reading your last post. He did seem to find some answers at the last place he ventured to .. .. . . .

Where is he, indeed? Sooooze, you should email him.

[mushroom]

I'm so sorry, Soozle, you and I were squiggling and getting emoticonly busted alongside each other, think the board kept getting us mixed up, so my post came out before I had read yours.

You must get yourself a good doc, hopefully the Armour one, and get your physical self straightened out and then the rest, I am sure, will take care of itself. You are in my thoughts and prayers, and I am so sad about Sophie. I lost my bestest friend three years ago, and it leaves one so bereft, as bad as losing yer marital partner, yet ye get no condolences or support for it because it is such a private thing and no one knows the suffering. I still miss her every day...

I've been a bit down lately and my house looks much like yours, so don't feel alone.. We will not collapse, we will soldier on and you will make it through the other side of this, I just know, bad as it seems right now. Hang on tight and know we are all here for you. :wub:

[elye]

ONLY THE SUNNY FUTURE

sURE HAVE MISSED READING ABOUT YOU ALL

LOVE JUDY

Yay, Joooodie! It's all coming together for ya!

This post was edited out by Mushroom because the stoopid board made her post it again because it said she was emoticonly (and emotionaly) busted AGAIN!!

Hanh?? But I read it. . . .......it was posted, and then they told you there were too many emoticons? Don't get this.. . . . ........

Must get to bed . .... . . everything's confuzzling me.... ... .

[mushroom]

Em, you think you's confuzzled...wotinhell do you think I am? I ended up trapped in an endless loop and had to bail out before I went INsane!!!

[elye]

G'morning, peeps!

DH and DD are off just now for the "Rattle me Bones" 10k race downtown. 'Tis a poifect morning for a long run - - 6 C and sun. My foot is still not 100%, so I didn't even register. It'll be out wif the dogs this am fer me.

Sooooze, I was thinking about you all last night. Funny how we mentally latch onto one small info-byte - - I kept thinking, "Jeez, Sooooze hasn't walked the Weeze since Monday... . ..things must be grim". I think you said that your appointment with the new doc is this coming week. Good!

Um, we are emptying the ho'tub for its seasonal cleaning, and I must announce that I spied a small, unidentifiable dark thing at the bottom, in one corner of it.....cannot make out what it is.. . .. . . . ....

Could we beat the strangeness of our last finding?

Probably a maple leaf.

Better not be a squirrel.

[Darn210]

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

Awwwwwwwwwww . . . .

OH, and their smell!!! (ok - NOT the butt end)

Suze . . . we're here for ya . . . . . . in sickness or in health . . . for richer or poorer . . . GAH!!!! we're married!!!!

[jerseyangel]

Mornin and happy Sunday, peeps

I've been thinking about you also, Sooz.....so good that you are getting in to see this doctor. Wouldn't it be something if your thyroid was the key to all this? I hate to see you feeling this way

Not much else to report, I'm in the midst of the all too familiar boxes and packing paper.....need to get things put away and get back to some sort of normalcy. Another beautiful day, though--could have nae asked for a more perfect weekend

I have a headache.....not sure if I'm coming down with something or if it's the moth balls Mark put in a couple rugs that were in storage. Gawd, I wish he wouldn't use those danged things

Lee-sa, how's wee baby Alexis doing? It's true there's nuthin like that new baby smell I wanna be a grandma!!!!

[Mtndog]

Happy Sunday (and it is sunny after torrential downpours last night!) Psillies!

Angus

Yer closin' in on 5000 yerselph, Miz Bevel

Angus is a wub indeed. But Ms padT- 5000 does not even begin to rival 17k!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW PSILLY PSUMMIT HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

Yours,

Dried up,old shrivelled prune

Knickers- NO ONE here is dried, shriveled up old prune! Glad you're feeling better! Except fer the mentalpause.

I'm pserious about a Tez-ass Summit--we need to phigure out sumphin! I'd just love to meet me sills phace to phace someday

This would be so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She has a masters in pooping. She did that while still in paradise.....not supposed to happen

She pooped in utero- WHOA didn't know that was even possible! She is clearly a psilly!

Here she is!!!!.....just a few hours old

She is beautiful and perfect :wub:

I like them like that ( before their potential disobedience develops)

OH, and their smell!!! (ok - NOT the butt end)

Oh the wee baby smell :wub:

Nik- do they become disobedient at 6 months? Or earlier?

This post was edited out by Mushroom because the stoopid board made her post it again because it said she was emoticonly (and emotionaly) busted AGAIN!!

:lol:

Psillies- There is fear in the house as I accidentally took a sip of a pumpkin martini last night before realizing it was rimmed with GRAHAM CRACKER crust It wasn't even tasty enough to make it worth the potential heinANUSness that is to come! Hold tight- could be a long, farty day!