I like Rumple....

...at least that's what Cindy always says when I tell her he's online!

Hi Rumple! How are ya?

 

Rumple, dumple...he's the man...uhmmmm....LOL

Rumple is da bomb! I've missed him and his fire breathing fair lady..so glad he has reappeared.

Hi Rumple! Stick around eh? I'll still let you use my smiley ---> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/grinangel.gif I promise...really I do! Oh My! Now that's going back in time huh? LOL

 

All the better for hearing you Eric and thanks for asking. I hope your well too, you sound in fine fettle as normal. Cindy mentioned you'd been doing some, what we in the UK call DIY (do it yourself) projects. I hope you find them as rewarding as I do. It's a very large learning curve but then we learn something new each day whatever we do but with diy it seems to be so much more magnified....and if you don't mind me saying so I quite like your wife too!!

As for you Hotlips.....what can I say? (no Chris, that's rude, I'm not saying that!!)....it really is good to see the two of you still around as it makes returning itinerants like myself easier to pop in.

...and as for that angelic smiley......mmmmm....I'm not making any cracks about it should be dressed in black with a pointy hat on its head and sitting astride a broomstick flying around the rooftops.....now I'd never say such a thing!

 

I too like (G)Rumple!...

Good to see ya still floating about, me old china!

I do a bit of D.I.Y. too. Unfortunately, in my case, it's more like Damaged It Myself.

 

Hi there Phanters me old cocker....yup still floating about....just a little lower in the water is all

I see you had your jamjar nicked...any news mate? I had much the same a few years ago outside my drum. A pal came round to visit at about 7pm ish and the car was ok but when I went to see him out at 11 it had gone! Yet in a straight line to our living room we couldn't have been sitting more than 25ft away at most!!

Never saw the going of it nor the end of it. Did have a copper call and ask if I could go and identify the tax disc one day. Apparently the scrote had given it to his mother and she was stupid enought to put it in her windscreen where it was spotted by an eagle-eyed ossifer.

They visited him at home to check out his collar size and he dived out of the back window. Never heard anything after that. Real PITA as it took a couple of months for the insurance to sort itself out but the pain deadens and it soon becomes a distant memory like many other things.

Could say " keep your pecker up" but it might be misconstrued on here but you know what I mean!!

 

Ah yes, been rehabbing the room, just started on the bathroom a day or two ago, going to put in a new bathroom exhaust, tile the floor and tub, put in some built in cabinets, and get a new toilet. Got some lights for the counter area, going to put those in today, hope to install baseboards and poly the oak floor soon and get moved back in the room SOON! I don't like living in upheaval.
It's gonna be real nice when it's all done, and I think we'll really enjoy relaxing in our new abode.
So what have you been up to the last few months?

 

Sounds like quite an undertaking there Eric. Just keep nibbling away at it and you'll soon be at the end. Not that "the end" last for long of course...there's always the "next one"!!

Spent most weekends at our caravan by the sea during the summer but work's never far away I'm afraid! I'm at that very hectic stage right now which is why I'm doing some things for work in the midst of perusing MG!

Had some shattering and very tragic family news last week and will have some issues to take care of in that department. In fact I suppose they started when we got the news but then problems are there to be solved I guess.

Anyhow I guess it's back to the drawing board which is what I'm doing at the present. They say you can't do enough for a good boss!

 

I've always wondered... is Runple short for Rumplestiltskin? Were you famous at one time????

Good to see you Rumple, but sorry that you've got what sounds like some serious problems in the family. I hope it's something that can get sorted out to a happy end.

 

errrmmm....my nick came from many many years ago during my days on cb radio so I'll claim innocence on the grounds of diminished responsibility! I've always liked to shock or surprise or maybe be unexpected or slightly different perhaps and when our government decided to legalize cb it was plagued by people wanting to know just about everything about you. I went out under various names and Rumple seemed to stick I guess. But it wasn't as Stilt but rather his 2nd cousin Fore, if you get my drift!! As for being famous...infamous more like.

As for the family thing, I just wished more than anything in this world I could say that the outcome would be okay but unfortunately it couldn't be further from the truth. Like many others in the world we have faced some tough times here and there but this one sure as hell beats the others into a cocked hat.

Quite simply, my daughter has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the physician told us that without treatment it was a matter of weeks as it was that far advanced. Treatment started immediately and I believe they have stabilized the liver which has decreased the pain and stopped Kerry's constant nausea which has at least improved her quality of life.

Hopefully this week we can be given a larger crumb of comfort and they'll tell us the inevitable is now a tad further away. There's not much else to say really GT, as you know we all face our individual demons. It's purely a matter of toughing it out, in this case for both our daughter and her daughter's sake.

 

Rumple, you have my deepest sympathies. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, their entire family goes through cancer. I know what devestating news that is for a family, not just the person with it. I was just diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in October, metastasized and spread pretty thoroughly into the bones. It was the bone pain that finally got me into the doctor's office. Diagnosed as terminal as well, although not nearly so imminent as your daughter's case seems to be.

I've always been fairly unflappable, and didn't start flapping wildly at the news; pretty much just "Aw crap. Well, what do we do now?", but my parents and sister were hit really hard by the news. Telling them was harder than getting the news myself. Dad went upstairs, sat on his bed and just cried for a while. (Of course, HE wouldn't tell me that; my sister did.)

I won't blow smoke up your kilt and tell you everything's going to be fine, although a lot of cancer patients far outlive their doctor's predictions, and some recoveries are nothing short of miraculous. And some are not. I don't know what you all believe in, but I'll be praying for your family and for your daughter. However it plays out, may there be good times together in your futures.

I'm not a cancer expert, even though I've got it myself, but the best advice I can give to you is to be open in talking to your daughter. A lot of people tend to avoid talking about it, or just sluff it off and say "Oh, everything's gonna be fine!", and she may need and want to talk about it. Obviously a difficult topic, but it's a part of your lives now, and ignoring it is like ignoring an elephant in the living room.

Dealing with the deaths of those we love is never easy, and contemplating our own deaths isn't much fun, but I think the cruelest hurt of all is having to deal with the death of our child. However old we are/they are, they are supposed to be well and carry on long after WE'RE gone. We invest so much of our own lives into their welfare and futures. They never stop being our "kids". My own parents would MUCH rather go through this than watch me go through it. I imagine it's much the same for you.

This will obviously not be a "joyous holiday season", but I do pray that you may find as much joy as possible in the coming weeks, and hopefully mohths, and even possibly years. The future is not written in stone, for any of us. There is always some room for hope.

 

Sorry to hear about your daughter, Rumple.

I had one of those 3-6 month prognosis' too, years back. I'm not exactly symptom free, but I'm still kickin'. So you just never can tell.

I agree, having someone in the family with a condition like that is even worse than having it yourself in some ways. Been down that road too.

 

Thanks for the kind words boys. I'm really sorry to hear of your condition GT. In the same situation I'd hope I would have a similar mind set but yes your both right, when it comes to your kids it's a mite different. I've long been a believer in qué sera sera and difficult as it is at the moment it's probably helping hold both me and Mrs Rumple together. As you quite rightly said GT, hope sprongs eternal.