-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 09-04-15  16:13 <=-

 >> I was in the hospital. Once with appendicitis (that hit on the second
 >> night run of a play I was in for our village's Bicentennial
 >> Celebration)
 > Such timing... ;)

 JK> Yeah :)  At the time, I thought maybe the appendicitis was caused by
 JK> this big bruiser in the play whose staging called for him to grab me
 JK> roughly and spin me around.. probably wasn't though.  It did hurt
 JK> though... :) 

You probably already had the appendicitis starting, but the staging
probably would have made the pain more readily obvious to you...

 JK> And it was especially irritating that this happened as I made the
 JK> costume for Alice Adams myself, which was great fun to do.  At least
 JK> after the play was done my under-study gave me the costume.  I wonder
 JK> where that dress is now, probably in some box in the attic :) :)

As long as it didn't get left behind from some move or other... ;)  That
would be frustrating, to have put all the work into it, and then not be
able to use it yourself anyhow... But you might have just as proud of
the costume had you made it originally for some one else..  :)

 >> and the 2nd time with MS crap ... not so serious then, but
 >> the local docs were unsure of "what" I had with constant vomiting and
 >> vertigo... it was of course the MS. And since then of course I have
 >> constant supply of antivert around hehe.
 > Sometimes there are good solutions available... ;)  And of course one
 > learns...  (G)

 JK> Yes, "Don't turn your head fast!" -  Live and learn :)  Walking in the
 JK> dark is still a challenge sometimes though.  If I can spot some light
 JK> in the distance, I'm ok.  That helps.

Something to focus on.... and recalibrate the spinning brain...

 >> I remember one "cereal" disaster that was so funny... I'm sure
 >> whichever kid it was didn't consider it a disaster though haha.  I
 >> think it was my son ... Whichever kid it was just plopped the whole
 >> bowl of cereal upside down on his/her head Lol  I do remember laughing
 >> like crazy that day. :)
 > Better to laugh than to cry... or to throw a fit... :)  Rob just spit it
 > out and made such a disgusted face... I had to agree with him that it
 > didn't taste like food...  ;)

 JK> Yes, more like pulverized cardboard IIRC :) :)  I didn't blame my
 JK> child that day one bit haha

We figured it was like wallpaper paste... only not so tasty...  ;)  All
three of us agreed on that one..  ;)
 
 >> Yes, it's true!  He was used to a variety and forced the issue haha
 > I suppose you might have forestalled him by just having a selection
 > always available... but that might have backfired, too... :)

 JK> I think I did for Fred.. One bag of Seafood Dinner, and one bag of
 JK> Chicken whatever.. That way I could switch whenever the cat stopped
 JK> eating one or the other :) 

We've generally just set out a mixture of foods all along... for
instance, Dad's Special Mix with Meow Mix... or more recently, Wegmans'
Bugu and Ziggie Complete with the same brand Indoor...  Up till now that
worked quite nicely... but these two apparently decided that all they
like is the Complete, so we've dropped the Indoor mix...

 JK> I think it's funny that none of the 4 kittens we got from the animal
 JK> shelter in Ithaca were so picky as Fred was.  Maybe because they were
 JK> feral cats and were happy to not have to hunt? :) 

Or maybe because they were young enough when they were brought in to not
have developed so much of a taste for "garbage smorgasbord"...?

 >> Yes, she is.  She was an Army nurse in WWII.. her niece did the
 >> neatest thing with the invitation.  It's a postcard (larger than
 >> standard size) with a picture of Ron's aunt in her U.S. Army Nursing
 >> Uniform from way back.. beautiful picture.
 > That is neat...  :)   She sounds like a really neat lady, too.  :)  I'm
 > sure the whole family will enjoy her birthday party...  :)

 JK> Yes, I think so.  It's going to be in her home so at least if she gets
 JK> weary she can retire to somewhere quiet.

That's good planning...  :)

 >> I'll probably do it all here and then transport it.  I have a "cake
 >> taker" kind of tuperware thing that protects them quite well.  :)
 > Sounds like that should work fine..  :)

 JK> It's handy.  Geez, I don't know how many cakes have traveled in that
 JK> thing over the years but I'm sure it a huge number by now. :)

No doubt...  :)  

 >> Right now I'm thinking about making a HummingBird Cake:
 >> It's great cake.. It's a large cake too so it's good for a crowd. :)
 >> I can make it gluten free if I care to, though I think I'll skip that
 >> for this event.
 > That does sound good..  :)  Will there be people there that might
 > appreciate having something be gluten free, though...?

 JK> I think I'll ask around.  That's easy enough to do.  I can make both
 JK> versions as well... that might be the best thing to do.

If your daughter is planning to come, she'd appreciate it, probably...
and I've been noticing that there are a lot more people around now that
are gluten-free either by choice or by necessity... We have some of each
in our church now...

ttyl        neb

... You have 2 choices for dinner. Take it or leave it. Bon appetit!

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