Text 14202, 95 rader
Skriven 2005-10-05 13:20:08 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 14193 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Cell phone cost
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05 Oct 05 23:09, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS>> Well, will keep poking at it and at the least, keep the levels down.
 RW>> Hopefully, you two don't smoke in the house. That's affecting your
 RW>> daughter's health.
 CS> Sadly we are not perfect on that, but we do use the porch most of the
 CS> time. Probably 6 smokes a day inside though between us both at the
 CS> most.

Looks like you're aware of it, so use the porch more often...;O)

 CS>> True.  In Mom's case, she never drew welfare.  Had a few jobs but
 CS>> mostly just sold houses after fixing them up.
 RW>> Yeah, but I've known a few who weren't that self motivated. They'd
 RW>> wal in their sorrow, get fat and crabby.

 CS> Not my Mom!  She is still amazing.  As a kid, she taught values most
 CS> of my friends never heard of.  Heck, I aint rich but Mom's parents
 CS> were of the level that by the time I was 8, I could eat at the
 CS> whitehouse and not miss a beat on which fork to use.

LOL! In our house, you used the only fork set at your plate.

 CS> Mom had 'tea parties' which were very imaginitive even if her cooking
 CS> was not (grin, I joke about her cooking as it's her ONLY failing).
 CS> We'd pretend that cottage cheese was Pate' and all that sort of
 CS> thing.

Sounds like some of the stories I've heard about Nancy's mom, over the
years. Being of Spanish decent and having a Spanish last name (Maria Reina
Garcia), she always talked about the land grants her family had in NM as a
child.

Back in the early 80s, she took a trip to urope onboard the QM2. We never
heard the last of how she was invited to eat at the Capitains table. She
claimed that it was because of her heritage, but I think it was more like,
how much she paid for her passage. And I never could understand why she'd
visit such places as Russia and on another trip, Egypt and Greece. Never
to her heritage country, Spain. Flying the BA super transport was another
trip we never heard the end of.

 CS> There were other values far more telling like helping others with
 CS> small ways that count.  I recall her buying a bag of cement after
 CS> chatting up the local seller at the hardware goods sales place and
 CS> him telling her how to mix it.  She took it to our next door
 CS> neighbor's place when they were away and fixed the back porch brick
 CS> that was loose so the 'grandma' wouldnt fall when using her walker.

Now that's going too far. Nobody does things like that anymore.

 CS> Grin, not sure they ever knew who fixed it.  Mom used it in all ways
 CS> i could tell, as 'how to make cement' teaching.  It was only later
 CS> that I added so many small things together.  Used to take the bulbs
 CS> for flowers Mom would get, saying 'my these would look nice at MS
 CS> 'insert place' and plant them and Mom would just grin when the flower
 CS> bulb stock was a little depleted.  In addition to the idea that
 CS> people should be good, random acts of kindness was ingrained.

Good mother.

 CS>> just minor and noticible mostly to me in situps and a little 'mummy
 CS>> tummy'.

 RW>> Although it took nearly two months to get to the point where I could
 RW>> g back to work, it took longer to get mobile again. But the damage
 RW>> was o surface, streched muscles will return to normal with
 RW>> excercise, eventually.

 CS> Dunno.  Mine didnt.  Nerves got cut a bit.

I haven't been out in the garage working on the '56' for a couple of
weeks, due to the high temps (100s). I've been noticing a little
stiffness, so I'll have to work up an excercise plan or get out in the
garage again.

 CS>> I got very sick.  Still, 25 lbs of that is child, afterbirth, water
 CS>> gain, at the least.  I had the full 6 weeks off due to the c-section
 CS>> and complications so I dropped about 8lbs a week.  The last 25 were
 CS>> somewhat deliberate as i didnt want to be fat.

 RW>> Don't blame you for that. Not being fat allows you to recover
 RW>> sooner.

 CS> Helps perhaps but my motive was pure looks gotta admit!

Sounds like you're aware that fat people get laughed at behind their
backs. Sometimes I see obese people in restaurants and wonder why of all
the things they could do, the come out to eat.



Roy

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