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marta
10-11-2010, 07:19 PM
Just had a wonderful dinner with family and friends and was thinking about how great it is to be able to have these awesome people at my house to eat, drink, laugh and hang out and listen to noisy kids play. In May of this year I couldn't even imagine this moment (I remember a couple of weeks after the hospital seeing a mom and her toddler walking down a sidewalk as we drove by, and I started to cry because at that moment I couldn't conceptualize myself having the strength to ever do that again - how wrong I was - thankfully.) Tonight we didn't do the formal thing with an official 'thanking' at the table - not enough room to sit everyone at one table in my postage stamp size house - but I just hung back (and ate like a pig - a pred pig :drool:) and enjoyed each and every nanonsecond of the evening.

So what I wanted to say here is that I'm thankful that we Weggies are all able to sit up at our computers and click away at our keyboards from all corners of the world, transcribing our thoughts and sharing our fears and joys and our experiences with each other. The operative words in that sentence - 'sit up' - much better than the alternative I think.

Thanks you guys for, well, just being you.

Geoff
10-11-2010, 07:41 PM
So very true Marta,
Always looking for the positives, I totally appreciate everything that happens to me on a daily basis, even typing this from the hospital, as the alternative is a non brainer! When I returned to work after my DX my friends were taken aback by my happy smiley couldnt care attitude (OK I was on a pred high!)
Congratulations on your Thanksgiving Dinner, Mmmmm I feeling hungry!:flapper:

elephant
10-11-2010, 10:45 PM
So glad you had a great Thanksgiving, thanks for being on this forum and sharing with us! :hug3:

Doug
10-12-2010, 12:24 AM
Happy Thanksgiving Canadian friends!. I heard a Canadian (Rick Mercer, who will be familiar to Canadians) on our national public radio Saturday explaining the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving holidays. It's about 6 minutes long, so sit back, relax, and enjoy a bit of light banter!

Just as you say, Marta. We may have vicissitudes others can't imagine, but there is this one thing good: We "met" each other on Andrew's wonderful website! I'm thankful, on Candaian Thanksgiving Day for that! On this day of Thanksgiving in Canada, perhaps the rest of us can be honorary Canadians.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130452338 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130452338)

Sangye
10-12-2010, 12:51 AM
I agree! I'm so grateful to have each of you in my life, I'd never have words to explain it. Well, I know you all feel the same. Happy Thanksgiving to us all. :smile1:

marta
10-12-2010, 09:57 AM
I agree! I'm so grateful to have each of you in my life, I'd never have words to explain it. Well, I know you all feel the same. Happy Thanksgiving to us all. :smile1:
Ditto ditto ditto, and thanks to Andrew for bringing us all together. Three cheers for Andrew!!!

marta
10-12-2010, 10:10 AM
Happy Thanksgiving Canadian friends!. I heard a Canadian (Rick Mercer, who will be familiar to Canadians) on our national public radio Saturday explaining the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving holidays. It's about 6 minutes long, so sit back, relax, and enjoy a bit of light banter!

Just as you say, Marta. We may have vicissitudes others can't imagine, but there is this one thing good: We "met" each other on Andrew's wonderful website! I'm thankful, on Candaian Thanksgiving Day for that! On this day of Thanksgiving in Canada, perhaps the rest of us can be honorary Canadians.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130452338 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130452338)

You can be honorary Canadians any day you like - we Canadians like that.

Rick Mercer is hilarious. He came out to my little town and did a bit here with a coworker of mine (I work for Parks Canada - when I actually work) here's the little thing he did with Steve in Jasper if you wanna get a giggle and see the mountains I live in. (This is why there are no specialists anywhere near me - ha ha)

CBC.ca Video (http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Rick_Mercer_Report/Season_7/ID=1390959682)

Have an awesome Columbus day - holiday - or just plain Monday and gracias amigos!!!! Bombs awaaaay!!!!

elephant
10-12-2010, 10:37 AM
Marta that is beautiful. Sounds like you have a little piece of heaven.

Sangye
10-12-2010, 11:04 AM
LOL That was hilarious.

marta
10-12-2010, 01:33 PM
Thanks elephant, I feel like I've done something right in a past life to be here in Jasper in this life. I really feel like I have a piece of heaven, as do the other 4,500 people who live here. It's an exclusive club, just like Wegener's - ha ha.

That is hilarious Sangye, and Steve is a funny funny guy, he really held back because Rick Mercer is a much funnier guy and it's his show...

jola57
10-12-2010, 02:43 PM
Happy Candian Thanksgiving to all. Marta my poor table could have hosted all of us, with both kids in Europe it was only my Mom, my husband and me.
698Three cheers for Andrew on this thanksgiving day.

jola57
10-12-2010, 02:53 PM
How awsome Marta, lovely mountains,

marta
10-12-2010, 03:12 PM
That looks very beautiful and organized Jola, very Martha Stewart, not anything like the chaos at my house.

jola57
10-12-2010, 03:21 PM
Had lots of time LOL

Sangye
10-13-2010, 12:28 AM
Marta, I felt the same way when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona. It's spectacular. Every single day for 11 years I felt deep gratitude for living in such a place. Alas, my karma for that was exhausted and I've been in a dark, ugly (and smelly) basement for the past 2 years. In the middle of a city. Bleh. :thumbdn:

pberggren1
10-13-2010, 05:21 AM
Marta, I felt the same way when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona. It's spectacular. Every single day for 11 years I felt deep gratitude for living in such a place. Alas, my karma for that was exhausted and I've been in a dark, ugly (and smelly) basement for the past 2 years. In the middle of a city. Bleh. :thumbdn:

I know what you mean Sangye. We lived on a farm from 83 to 95 and our nearest neighbour was 2 miles away. It was very private with lots of big hills, coulees, and trees. I do miss it dearly.

elephant
10-13-2010, 06:21 AM
I love Flagstaff AZ, it is the prettiest part of AZ. I was there ten years ago.

marta
10-13-2010, 05:09 PM
I've heard about Flagstaff when I was a travel agent in what seems like a past life, at leas a couple of decades ago... but have never been there. Maybe one day, who knows. On the other hand Sangye, and others from my new extended family, if you ever feel up to it, our house has a guest suite that we rent out to tourists but if you're ever in this neck of the woods it's yours for the Weggie rate of whatever it costs us to get the suite cleaned before you come in (usually about $30 bucks) - just give me a call and it's yours.

Doug
10-14-2010, 02:24 PM
Rick Mercer looks a lot different than I expected, but that doesn't change the fact that he is hilarious! Thanks for the link, Marta! Made a happy part of my day!

pberggren1
10-14-2010, 02:24 PM
RMR is one of my favourite all time shows.

marta
10-14-2010, 02:44 PM
Check out other links on that page Doug. He's really funny, and his manerisms add an element you can't get just by listening or reading his antics.
In that clip I put up, when he faked dropping the bomb, he scared the poop out of Steve, and Steve doesn't scare easily (he just won a medal of bravery for the highest altitude rescue in Canada - rescued a hiker off Mt. Robson - second highest mountain in Canada) but you could see the look on his face, the one that is usually accompanied by a very tightened sphincter, we all know the look, we've all had it at least once in our life - being Weggies and all.:ohmy:

Doug
10-14-2010, 02:46 PM
=(^+^)= Yes, I know the feeling!