Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Hep C Archive: HAPPY THANKSGIVING FOR THURSDAY!

It's almost midnight here in the UK so I thought I'd say Happy Thanksgiving to the Zone Phamily from your phriend in the UK.

Have a great day, everybody!

Ru

Ru,

I know Thanksgiving is an American holiday....do you have a similar holiday in the UK? Hope I don't sound like a dork, but history was never my strong suit. We will be eating great gobs of food on Thursday and in need of naps and then, of course midnight snacks.

I hope your Thursday is a good one!

Ru, thanks for the good wishes, and my apologies for having forgotten Guy Fawkes day.

Happy turkey day to one and all, I hope you all get the big end of the wishbones!

Jim

HAPPY THANKSGIVING RU!!!..Hope you eat some turkey, PEACE Rose

MMMMMMM -- FAMILY - TURKEY - DRESSING & GRAVY -COCONUT CAKE- PECAN PIE - FOOTBALL- which i will probably fall asleep while watching natural L- TRIPTOPHAN (sp)in the turkey you know(sp) -PRAYERS - SLEEP - can't thing of a better way to spend a day

You all be safe if your traveling. Hopeing the weather is good - supposed to be nice here. No rain anyhow.

I really am feeling better now that the z-pack and "cocktail" , etc. have kicked in. I can
breathe and don't hurt so bad. I swear I haven't felt this much like "normal?" (is there such a thing) in weeks. Glad I went to doc b/4 the holiday.

Well - you folks eat up, drink lots of bubbly grape juice, enjoy the day and remember all things for which you're thankful. Thanksgiving - a POWERFUL word. You know I always say it's the little things that really make us happy. On this day we can free our thoughts of the pain and anguish we are suffering and be aware of our blessings. I should more often but get caught up in my selfish moments of wallering in muck and forget to acknowledge the wonderful things that cross my path every day. I am glad we set aside a day to celebrate. If I could just try to see something special - big or small - every day, I think my attitude about this life of mine would turn around. Being able to accept circumstances I end up in - good or bad- and know that these challenges or opportunities are lessons given to me to help me grow to be a better,smarter, stonger person is a challenge in itself. But - thanks to ya'll - you really help me keep all this in perspective. I AM THANKFUL FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! AND THANKS TO PHIL and THE DEAD FOR HAVING A PLACE FOR US TO COME, SHARE, AND BE PART OF KIND PHAMILY.

PEACE LOVE JOY HAPPINESS BLESSINGS

GOBBLE ****GOBBLE !!!!!!!

HAVE A NICE DAY......no turkey for me, but I'll eat some food, and celebrate a day of thanksgiving for all the blessings we have.

We certainly have much to be thanful for.....especially compared with so many others in our world. I hope I never lose sight of this. I with all my complaints and seemingly difficult situations are really nothing when put in perspective of people starving, and literally having loved one's die in their arms everyday!! I am very fortunate and blessed in so many ways.....

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Family in town, having Thanksgiving dinner with 15 humans, 8 dogs and a cat. Can't exclude the animals from the festivities.

Today I am thankful for my health, family and friends.

Good Morning everybody
Happy Thanksgiving- Kimberly and I are at home, my big brother is down, and Kimberly's daughter is joining us. Some of my favorite people, plus Max the cat.
I hope everybody enjoys the day- there's lots I am thankful for, including this place and all of you.

Susan said it All..........my wishes to you all on your day of thanks giving. May you all stuff yourself and make memories.

I'm off to work and it's just pissing out so I will think of you guys today!

Peace and good health Ceilidh

Heppy Thanksgiving to all....

The Turkey help-line is now open....

I give up...............

one more try.




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Hey Everyone!

Hope you're all enjoying today with your phamily and phriends. I got a surprise in the post - guess the spirit of Thanksgiving has a long reach! Anyway, I finally received the "Beyond Description" box set plus the GD Movie DVD and 5 CD soundtrack (and the obligatory T-Shirt!). What a way to start the day!!!

I don't think I'll ever need to buy another CD again 'cos this package is simply unsurpassable. Wow!! My speakers have really been given a mega workover this evening. Phil's bass has pounded the shit out of 'em (but they're still going and can take even more from good ole Phil).

Now, to answer a question from Moviebuf (and an excellent question it is). Does the UK have an equivalent of Thanksgiving? I was going to say Guy Fawkes Night but that isn't really a national holiday, although it ought to be. It's the night we commemorate the foiling of a nefarious terrorist plot to blow up the Houses Of Parliament and King James. I, for one, truly believe it was a world-changing event. What kind of country England might have become had the plot succeeded is terrifying to contemplate. Alas, we just burn a thousand effigies and set off a load of fireworks. People do get together and have outdoor parties but everyone still works a normal day.

We do have lots of national holidays in the UK but none really can be considered an equivalent of Thanksgiving.

Jim, thanks very much for the belated Guy Fawkes' Night wishes - hope you've had a great day today.

Take care all - very best wishes from the UK
Ru

Hey everyone,

I forgot to mention how thankful I am for each and every one of you...even Martin;-)...you have made this past year so much easier to live(r) through, and have helped to provide hope when I was most in need of it. God bless you one and all, and may the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, be known to you, and to your loved ones.

I cannot express my thanks strongly enough to you, my good friends,

Jim

Dinner's lookin good, Dan. Good to see you last night. Hope Sami is doing well.

Anyway, today I am thankful for my great Family and my many friends both new and old.
I'm thankful that I found this website and all of you.

I'm thankful that this tx is available.
I'm thankful that it is working, both for myself and the many fine folks here with good results.

Although my family is having Thanksgiving on Saturday(I leave tommorrow), I am thankful that a friend is bringing me a plate of food.

I guess there are many things to be thankful for, And I will be very thankful if all of you have a very fine holiday.

Now it's an hour or so later. Food got here and I didn't finish post till now. Exellant meal!

PEACE, Mark

Mark, there's a plate of turkey dinner here for tomorrow on your way through.

the woman in georgia feels real nice tonight.

Hi everyone, Hope everyone had a good turkey day! it's been a good day for me, we got 6 to 8 inches of snow, the first thing i wanted to do is go play in the snow and make snow angles! I woke feeling good and very THANKFUL for all I got in this world. My Father and I sat down and had a good meal, I'm THANKFUL I still have him with me and all my friends and family and phamily. Hope you are all enjoying this day as well. PEACE and LOTS of LOVE to you all, Rose

DAVE IS NOT HERE? where's dave anybody heard from him?

Dave?
Dave's not here.
Dave?
Dave's not here, man.
Dave?
Wow man, what a dream.

Happy Thanksgiving Phine Phamily! I blame it on the turkey. Lotsa Turkey. Lotsa Tryptophan or whatever that amino acid that puts one to sleep for a long time after injesting to much turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, pumkin pie and cherry cheesecake. Yummmmmm. Beautiful Thanksgiving day here in NH. A warm and sunny day spent with our loving large family, both Dianne's and mine at her Mom's home. Although I've been battling a upper respitory and sinus infection that's put me down for some time now today was the first in about ten days I felt well enough to get out and enjoy the day. Enjoy I did. However, I did eat to much and ended up sleeping right though the night after the traditional meal. Time for a turkey sandwich now?

Good to see you post, Dave, was gettin concerned.

You know to me, the only benificial side is weight loss. I've lost almost 30 lbs. since starting. Let see, afine meal today, what I'm sure will be a fine plate at Dan and Sami's on the way to a weekend of my Dad's cooking. My mom actually still cooks most of tday dinner. I'm guessing I'll gain back at least 10 lbs by Monday night. BOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO. (I still need to lose at least30-40 more lbs)......... But boy am I gonna enjoy it!!!!
PEACE and THANKFULLNESS, Mark

My phriend David!

Are you hangin' around these parts this early a.m.? Having post-traumatic turkey syndrome? Suffering from in-de-jeeeeeestion?

Take a tums and pick up the phone.

With love,

Judith Ann

Good Morning Dave, Mark and Judith
The best part of the insomnia kickin in is:
Bein able to get up, click on, and see some of my favorite pholks are around, too. Of course, Mark is a vampire and Can't sleep until the sun is comin' up.
Good to see you, David! Hello JA!
There's a cool moon out there right now- hope it's visible for everybody.
We had a small but really cool Thanksgiving- just a few family and a close freind. Great dinner and so many things to be thankful for!

Walt,

The moon is indeed pretty awesome tonight. Getting a little bit fuller every night. I wish Mack could see the SF skyline all lit up with a full moon. But I think he'll be here five days after it's full. It's such a pretty site anyway this time of year w/all the highrises lit up for the holidays. My ex-brother-in-law lives up in the Berkeley hills near Cal. What a view of the city he has! I could just sit in that living room for days and look out at the City. He almost lost the house during the Oakland Hills fire. Remember that? What a tragedy.

With love,

Judith Ann

Mornin Walt, this is early, even for you. Gotta make a water run, checkin w/ ya when I get back.
PEACE, Mark

I was comin' back from Salt point/Stillwater Cove, abalone diving during the Oakland fire.
Impossible to describe the smoke! Hard to imagine ANYTHING that could put that much junk in the air. From your neighborhood, the sky to the south looked like a concrete wall.

Hey Mark
I'll try to call this afternoon.

Walt, I'm back,call me if you're still up.

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all. My mother cooked and baked for 30, including my brother and sister and all of my cousins (except for two that live in Israel). And my mother has this little ceremony where we all go around the room and say what we are thankful for. It was a very special day for my family, watching as my niece and nephew and little cousins all grow up. I'm up early with a wake and bake then off to Hot Tuna tomorrow night. Got the day off today, so I'll probably go to the city and see a movie, probably What the %$#&^%$& Do You Know (a perfect movie for us know it alls LOL). BTW Ru congrats on your Dead purchase It good to see someone in Jolly old England appreciates GOOD muisc. JERRY LIVES!!!!!! Peace to everyone and as Rose said watch out Winter's COMING!!!!!

DAVE'S here, ok I was just doing a check last night. I thought something was wrong? I remember you having some streak of bad luck, glad you posted. Sorry about the upper respiratory infection, that shit can put you under for awhile. I haven't started tx yet but had it a couple of months ago bad, the worse i think i ever had, then i got the flu shot and man i thought i was going to die, so i doubled up on ester c 2000 mg a day, it knocked it out of me. Well eat lot's of left overs today! PEACE Rose

Hi everybody...I hid out today like most Thanksgivings...Had pork chops a baked potato etc...going to my brothers today for lasangua...ahhh pasta.....Hope everyone is well this fine day...I got up early this morning and went to Walmart...OOO what an ugly scene..Black Friday...but they had a digital camera on sale that I wanted....so I braved the crowds...not pretty. But will have pics from San Fran to post now !...peace...mack

Peace and love to my brothers and sisters out there We will survive Feeling a bit lazy but I got air in my lungs so I better keep that gratitude in my attitude Love all you phine Pholks

Hey all....I was outta computer land for the day, and spent much of it loafing about in anticipation of the usual gluttonous Thanksgiving Meal thing. Went to friend's, a little later than were used to doing the turkey night thing, so Im on a tryptophan hangover today..but back at work. The food was exqusite......the company sublime.
Hey you other big guys like myself...did you all lose weight on tx? I guess the weightlifting and healthy eating hasnt done me in, cause Ive not lost a pound of weight or a drop of muscle tone....and since Ive spent the past 5 years working out to make up for lost exercise time in prior less healthful times, I didnt want to lose all that newly body built me. I am happy that I feel well. I am thankful. I am not 100% mentally positivist, but I am trying my damnedest! Heres hoping all you are well....

on schedule....and I know we'll be there soon

Great to read you all survivedtday! Had great time with my daughter and family. Have much to be Thankful for..my family, my new phriends, my old friends, and life(esp before Tx in Jan). I blew off So Beach Diet but ate small portions.
I am a little low, had to have my Crusader cat put to sleep on Thursday. Calico was starving, homeless four years ago. She was hurt from being thrown out of vehicle. She ended up hurting her rear again lost her tail. Then she had colon removed....She was fine til spring when we lost
our puppy and her best friend. Bethy kept her warm. Other cats didnot. I have been fighting to keep her alive when I should have let go. I hoped we would both be together thru treatment. I made a comittment to my animals years ago that if their quality of life...., her quality of life was ebbing So I said Goodbye. I told her Bethy was waiting. I will endure without my Shining Star, she knew I must. I was afraid with all the nonsense I may go thru, I would not be able to keep up the hourly needs of her condition and meds. I could not see her Star last nite...the Moon is so full. She will shine on me and all of us. She sat with me here many times. She is in a far better place with Kool People. I will miss her, she was a true Love Child. I planted a lilac bush today. My garden is full of memories to friends, family and my pets It is a beautiful garden. When Bethy died Calico and I planted a sisters Garden. This spring her and Bethy's ashes will be put there. I have told everyone to do this. It is a time of renewal to see the trees and flowers come to life, and you always remember. Even thru all the meds she never bit or scratched...I guess she knew! I have three other monsters, and we have another throw out Samson who came last nite to be with me. Samson is a wild man and we respect his wishes. But he loves my girls..Sweets(Mom). Prescious, and Delilah.
When I get my pics back, I'll try to post...
I've had animals for over thirty years. I wouldnot know how to live without them. They know no hate only unconditional love~ So why did God make us? We seem only to spread disease, kill and hate. I still hope someday we will all learn to live together, learn from each other, love unconditionally...

sorry to hear that Shellyb...

Hey everybody, Hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving! Most of you probably donīt know me as I donīt drop by often, and even less since I finished tx in May, but regardless, my best wishes for all of you on and off tx. Even with all the bullshit, I have a lot to be thankful for, Martin is absoulutely right, we are all very fortunate in many aspects, even though itīs easy, for me, to lose sight of that. Even though I am poor, as far as American standards go, I am very well off as far as world standards are concerned, and for that I am thankful, not to mention the fact that I am fortunate enough to be currently studying in Spain, which has been a wonderful experience, especially since it occured after having come right off of tx.

Anyway, I donīt want to ramble too much, most of you are probably thinking, Who The F&%$ is this guy anyway. I just want to wish everybody the best. Peace!!!

"greetings from the most northern turkey dinner.
made it over to my daughter's house and there was
of course turkey, but also, rump de bruin, strap
de la moose, acouple of big spruse groose,king
crab organic salad, local matanuska whupped patatoes. also the smoked salmon did and a little
muc tuk for those that can handle it. Then it's
about 12 different favored homemade pies....After
a piece from every pie, after the 1st main part of
dinner, I still had room for a big bowl of ice cream...He He. But I was bedridden all day from eating everything...I lost over 25lbs during my
1st round of Tx., but I most have gained back 10lbs yesterday...whupeeeee anycase, I'm thankful
for my family, my sweetie, and all my close and
dear phriends right here..best wishes to all,
SEA YA LATTER, cAPTAIN bUDLEY

Hey Thomcat......

Just wanted to say Hi, and let you know that all are part of this fine phamily all equally regardless of how often someone post or comes around.
All one has to say around these parts is that they have been here before, or been through tx, or have had a loved one go though tx....and we all understand immediately. Anyway...glad to hear from you again.

I just wanted to add a quick note to Shelly. My utmost condolences to you on your loss of Calico. My heart always grieves deeply when I hear of someone losing their little loved furry friend. I to love animals so much......and I almost start crying when I just read a story like yours.....even though I know that she is in heaven with Bethy. It's always especially hard when a loved buddy has a little friend or partner that passes before them and they have to live without their friend. Just that lost look of where their friend has gone to is so overwhelming it really hurts bad. I have to stop now as my eyes are starting to well up again. I have 4 cats, and one is very overweight( Kitten Boy) and I know it's only a matter of time ( he is starting to have trouble moving around alot). But he is a mentor to the last kitten I brought home ( Peco), and they are always together, with K.Boy always giving Peco a bath and curling up together. I just can't stand the thought of what Peco will do when his buddy passes on. Oh well.......don't want to go there any more.

Anyway.....my prayers and thoughts are with you Shelly on your loss. It sounds like you have some others there to comfort you, and I'll say a prayer for Calico.....

I am sorry, Michele. I couldn't imagine my life without dogs and cats either, it is heartbreaking when you have to lose one. Hi Matt! Many on TX loses weight, people who didn't know me before treatment can't believe what a junk-food junkie I used to be and looked it. One friend of mine, though, could only tolerate Coke and ice cream and she actually gained weight!! (and got an SVR). Hoping you all are having a nice holiday-type weekend. Because of various juggling including a last-minute airplane cancellation my Mom is doing her turkey today, Sunday. Peace

Enjoy, Fran