solosater

I know marg, it's me, I'm all out! Believe it or not, I'm following this.

marg

hey, solo.. at the age you give, you shouldn't be suffering from problems with your hands so much ..

I used to love conte when I was a kid.. but do you feel like saying what your problem is .. maybe in a different thread, out of the Think Draw section ?

marg

hey.. we're pre-empting each otherr.. I'll leave you the floor..

solosater

Marg I've got many and varied chronic health issues.

Fibromyalgia, CFS, Migraines, Tension Headaches, Chronic Daily Headaches, untreated Sleep Apnea, untreated Spinal issues, Anxiety Attacks and Depression. There's more but minor things; I just can't seem to miss a chronic illness.

On the other hand I don't have Swine Flu, Monkey Pox, or Parvo so I guess I'm doing alright.

I'm getting help for most of it but most of it is treatable but not curable. So I have good days and bad and some nights I can't sleep and sometimes I sleep for days and I just deal.

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The Italians also call courgettes 'zucchini, Baldur. I think that's where we Brits picked it up.

solosater

Encarta just blew a raspberry at me when I asked.

Baldur sure is handy to have around.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini

Baldur

you are correct Login.
In old New England cookbooks the word zucchini is never used, both 'marrows' and 'courgettes' appear interchangeably.
But then there was a large influx of Italiam immigrants here in the early 20th century, and the word 'zucchini' became the popular choice.

Baldur

The days are still too cold here to begin planting any squash but we are already enjoying the new asparagus. I doubled the size of my asparagus bed a couple years ago and it is starting to pay off.

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I've never grown it. I saw it being cultivated in Germany and the Germans cook it to perfection..

Baldur

It's one of the few vegetables that grow as a perennial. Asparagus that Thomas Jefferson had planted at Monticello is still being harvested there.
I try to grow older varieties of vegetables when possible and enjoy eating some wild plants too
There are a couple varieties of wild mushroom that I trust, I love dandelion greens and of course wild blueberries and raspberries

Baldur

Oh and sometimes if I'm lucky enough I'll find hickory nuts before the squirrels get them all

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I've eaten fried zuccini FLOWERS in Italy ... theyr'e delicious.

craftycarol

Solosater. I too have suffered from Fibromyalgia and some of the other ailments you have.
Find yourself a good reflexologist . I did, and within a very short time, most of my joint pain went, the headaches all but stopped, and mentally was soooo much better. I had sessions weekly to begin with and slept for 22 hours after one of them!!! Then went to monthly treatments and within six months had no symptoms of Fibromyalgia.
Occasionally I feel it start in my hands again and I get right back to the reflexologist, but touch wood, I am feeling good again.
I have recommended this to people at my rheumatology group and almost all feel the benefit.
Good luck!

solosater

I actually do my own reflexology, and see a cranial - sacral specialist (it's like reflexology for the whole body), I get some relief but it's not a cure for me.

I think I've got more wrong with me than even the doctors know, Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of elimination, they believe I'm sick but don't know why. There are no blood tests, no screening of any kind except trigger points and yeah, I hit ‘em all but if you touch me anywhere you could call it a trigger point…

My girlfriend was diagnosed with fibro and did all the treatment options she could only to find out she actually has MS.

My mother was diagnosed with it as well but later found out she has Polymyalgia Rheumatica, which can only be diagnosed with a muscle biopsy.

Fibromyalgia is a crapshoot.

I believe (due to a family history of it) that I have endocrine issues but all the blood tests come up negative. My mother, her sister and all three of her brothers have had to have spinal surgery due to spinal defects, and I’ve cot all the symptoms but my doctors don’t want to look to closely because then I might have to have surgery…

If I had the energy and a baseball bat I’d beat some sense into them in the mean time I’ll just wait for them to catch up.

doodler

Here's a good one, I'm a vegetarian and I really don't like vegetables! I eat them cuz I have to ugh!

solosater

For health reasons?

solosater

I have a suggestion; why not do real faces broken into pieces, like the cow, the dog or the cat in animals.

You could do one black face, one white, one Asian, one Indian, et cetera , et cetera. Perhaps a male and female of each (say a dark skinned black woman & a light skinned black man, a tan white woman with blond hair & a pale white man with spiky brown hair etc…) , with different hair colors and textures.

Add real accessories a black bowtie, a striped tie or two, a set of chandelier earrings and several of regular gem studs in different colors & some gold and silver studs as well perhaps in different shapes, a couple of different style necklaces a ribbon choker, an Egyptian style collar, vintage style diamond necklace. Oh, and veils in ivory, white, and black or grey that are transparent; perhaps a hat or two as well.

Backgrounds could range from the soft focus greenery you have in “Flowers” now, a cityscape photo perhaps in day and night, a watercolor like in “Candy“, a park shot like in “animals”, a plain black and a plain white.

Regular head shots, just the tops of shoulders to the top of the head, no make-up or at least no colored make-up, but not perfect, a thin one or two & a plump one or two, a good age range too give us some wrinkles maybe.

And soft edges on all the cut up pieces so they’d blend well.