<p>ldmom–my ex-doc H could feel the spasming muscles, definitely not something scarier, though when I woke up with it last night I was a bit perturbed. thanks for the concern, though!</p>
<p>Lukester,
My hubster and I put down wood throughout our living areas a couple years ago. Did it ourselves, I LOVE it! Is yours nail down or glue down (our downstairs floor is on a cement slab so we had to glue it down there)?<br>
We also pulled out all our baseboard and refinished them, put them back on “top” of the wood. </p>
<p>You are going to love your new floors!</p>
<p>OK let’s hope the rain holds off. We’re grilling filet mignon tonight! Just me, H, son and son’s gf. Later, we can watch the fireworks at nearby stadium and shoot off our own. Hey, we’re all rednecks around here. Everyone in the neighborhood congregates in the park by the lake nearby, and we have a big shared fireworks party. Some of the people go all out, spending, literally thousands of dollars (neighbors usually chip in like a couple hundred each). It’s pretty wild. They’re shot over the lake, so no fire hazard.</p>
<p>Nothing special here- Hubby and I are currently watching Big Love from Monday, thinking about going to a movie and out to dinner. The kids are each going to friends homes to grill out without adult supervision. Both will sleep out at the house they are cooking at so they won’t be driving if they have a few beers.</p>
<p>It isn’t as much fun to go see the fireworks without the kids although I guess we should get use to that as we are emptynesters.</p>
<p>jym…that’s Texas for ya. Last year, we were as dry as it is in your neck of the woods. Horribly dry, horribly hot. This year…temps are mild because of the rain and it’s a trade off I’m willing to make. But I am concerned about our route back. Hwy 59 tends to have problems in several areas when we get this sort of rain.</p>
<p>garland-
sounds like you need a nice hot bath with epsom salts followed by a massage! Hope you are feeling better!</p>
<p>ldmom06-
Yes, your weather had been dreadful. My s’s car (translation- my old minivan) flooded from with rain-soaked roads. Note: this is the same car he wanted to “accidentally” leave out during Hurricane Rita so it would get wrecked had he wouldnt have to drive a minivan. Now he finds that having a vehicle that holds 7 makes him a pretty popular guy! How’s your mom doing??</p>
<p>jym - Mom is good…one more FAC chemo left (she had 12 weekly taxols, 4 monthly FACs, no radiation) and then reconstruction and a few years on tamoxifen…and she’s done! Docs are very optimistic about her prognosis. My friend just finished her treatment too (12 taxols, 6 FACs, 6 weeks of daily radiation) and is recuperating before her reconstruction in September. So everything is looking up at this point.</p>
<p>And btw…back in my day, being the owner of a ‘good time’ van was to be uber-cool…lol!</p>
<p>ldmom-
Glad your mom is doing well. As for this minivan, it doesn’t have curtains or shag carpeting, nor does it have a mattress in the back! We affectionately refer to it as the “mommy-mobile”.</p>
<p>Aside. My fa just called me to wish me a happy birthday. I appreciate the sentiment, but today is my bros b’day. Mine was last week (6/26). Ahh, the effects of aging. I thanked my dad for the sentiment and gently reminded him to call my bro.</p>
<p>I arrived on my first trip to Hong Kong on the 4th, and celebrated by being shown around by my husband, who’s working here for the summer.</p>
<p>I once flew into NYC on the 4th. Seeing all the fireworks around us (and below is) throughout the metro area as we arrived was incredible!</p>
<p>NSM- you are in Hong Kong now? How cool is that!</p>
<p>Northstarmom- Have a wonderful trip!</p>
<p>I’m in week 3 of my second stint on crutches- no weight bearing on the right leg with my second fracture (next to the site of the 2/16 ski accident fracture on tibial plateau). Surgery looms… SO-what that means is I can swim and nothing else for exercise, although I do cheat and do some aqua-jogging.
We are going to a picnic/fireworks/concert thing tonight at the park. The one in downtown Nashville is better- famous singers (that’s Nashville for you) for free, but it is really crowded, so we are staying more local with my crutches etc.
WildChild is actually coming with us- taking a break from getting ready for his two summer school finals on Friday.</p>
<p>JYM … I did that too once … flew from Arizona to NYC on the 4th. It was spectacular!</p>
<p>It’s pouring rain here … supposedly the fireworks are still on, but I am not going. I cannot think of anything more dreadful than being soaking wet on the football field and looking UP! Can’t even use the 'brelli! My H and S2 have gone down tho. S1 is up at Cornell for the week coaching lacrosse … and having a blast apparently!</p>
<p>They haven’t canceled ours yet either. All the more together towns around us have already. My H keeps checking; he feels compelled to go if they’re on–I’ll sit this one out. We were down the shore last week and saw some nice ones there, so I don’t feel deprived.</p>
<p>The kids are at a barbecue with friends next town over–the town smart enough to have canceled already. D lives there now, and tries not to act superior about it :rolleyes:</p>
<p>ldmom, special good wishes to your mom and glad the docs seem to have found the right combo!</p>
<p>doubleplay-I’ll take my filet mignon medium rare, please. Yum!</p>
<p>Today I drove out to the nursing home where my stepfather now lives (Alzheimer’s) which is about 65 miles from my home. I took him to hear the musical entertainment they had for the afternoon. Two guys, each one 75+ years old, bad toupees, you get the picture. One played the trumpet and sang (not simultaneously ;)) and the other played the keyboard and worked the magic drum machine. But, at least they played the “appropriate” music. Think “Ain’t She Sweet,” “Bye, Bye, Blackbird.”</p>
<p>H, S#3 and I are sitting and awaiting for S#1 to arrive home from a couple of hours away and then the four of us will have dinner out. No fireworks here, I’m afraid, as it is yucky and rainy.</p>
<p>H and I went kayaking today. It was the first time for me (we usually canoe) and once I mastered the steering thru the small rapids, it was great, until I tried to get out of the crazy thing. My foot slipped on the mud and I whacked the side of the leg still in the kayak! So now I’m sporting a baseball sized purple bruise on my calf…guess I’m flying the colors for the 4th.</p>
<p>mowc-
Sorry the leg isn’t healing as it should 
Serious bummer. But, otoh, I am jealous that your s spent the fourth with you (we were with other “old fogies”- he was with his friends) and glad to hear WC is doing well in summer school. How does he like Vandy??</p>