Todd,

How many children do you have ? I think I recall you have 3 boys as well, what ages are they?
Are they a great support to you?
How did they react to the separation?

If you don't want to talk about it, then don't worry as I will fully understand. My youngest boy still hates me even going to the doctors. My illness was a painful time for my children.

I am heading out for the day but will check back in later.

Regards, Beth

I have three sons, 23, 27 and 35. They are all fantastic support. They take turns taking me to the doctors, for tests and to get medicine/food. And out to lunch/dinner. They are what keeps me going on my bad days.

The oldest has disowned his Mom and does not want me to take her back. The youngest wants us to get back no matter what. The middle son is somewhere in between. DS3 is the only one who talks to her at this point. They are all angry at what she did. WW messed up a great family.


I completely understand. The only really tough part of this has been the worry and pain my sons feel because of me. I absolutely hate what I have put them through.

Hi Todd, Kiwi, larousse & 2,

How's things?

Interesting Beth that you keep your boys time completely occupied. While I like mine to be involved in something I want them to have free time in which they have to find ways to occupy themselves. I think it helps them to become creative thinkers because they have to find something to do rather than have their time organized for them. But keeping them occupied to keep them out of trouble does make a lot of sense.

My youngest son had the hardest time with the D but he's also the one who asked me when I was going to date & "get" a boyfriend, as if I could just go pick on out from the boyfriend store. Not that that has anything to do with illness affecting children, just came to mind.

Kiwi, as much as I like spring fall is my favorite (farourite <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> for you) time of year. I love the chill & the need to keep warm rather than cool down. I guess it's loving to be cozy.

My middle son took a cooking class today. A chef in training from Johnson & Whales came to a friend's cooking school, she just opened a cooking school for kids. He made a salmon dish with salsa, mashed potatoes & a chocolate cake made with law fat sour cream. Wonderful! Now he can take over one dinner a week. Never happen. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

While it's slow does anybody want to teach me how to cut & paste here in this forum? Please.

You can't cut and past the same way as if it were word? I can.

Hi larousse, if you're going to teach me you'll have to be VERY specific. I tend to not know computer terminology speak as you would to a young, dull child.

All I know is the buttons I have on my keyboard don't cut & paste here like they do elsewhere.

You highlight a text with your left boton and with the right you choose, copy, and you paste it where you wanted. Sorry if you have done that and it doesn't work I don't know what could be wrong.

Hi Todd, how's your hideous task coming along?

Cute story about your dog called Stuff. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

You can't cut and past the same way as if it were word? I can.

So can I.
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Depress your mouse button and drag it over the text you wish to copy. It should highlight it. Then click again to get the drop down menu (or depress Control + C keys on your keyboard. Then move your cursor to where you wish to paste the text and click there. Or something like that. It works like copy & past in Word.

Do you have Apple?
Does your mouse has a brand name that I can look at on the net?

If I want to cut & paste something from the same page i can use the buttons on my keyboard. if I try to take from another page they don't work & neither does cinder's method. Hi cinder!

larousse I have gateway.

Now I can't even use the buttons to tske from the same page. I keep getting the same paragraph tested on earlier.

Nam,

You may want to download the driver (the program that runs your mouse). Sometimes some files of a program get lost or damaged in the computer and the hardware of software doesn't work properly.

link to gateway mouse driver download

The process to download the driver is very simple and it guuides you trough it. You jsut folow the instructions.

Thank you larousse. I'll try it now.

fagetaboutit. I used the link & went to gateway but they wouldn't recognize my serial number. This is exactly the type of thing that infuriates me about computers.

From my view the bottons for cut & patse are provided on my keyboard & should work the same way everywhere I want to cut & paste, call me a dreamer. I don't have the patience to search to make this work. I'll ask olsest son when he comes back from his friends house tomorrow,

Thanks for trying larousse & cinder.

Nam,

It could be that keyboard and mouse are blocking each other, happens.

Sorry for my awfull typing.

Don't apologize larousse, you're typing is fine.

So, what are you doing tonight?

I painted, the ceiling of my room all morning. I went risky, daring: For the first time I used other color than white white. I painted a white circle around the lamp, then baby blue, then a white ribbon of 15 cms all around. It almost looks good. Now when I lay in bed I want to imagine the sky like in Vainilla sky, lol.

Right now I take a coffee, Chiapa's mointains coffee, best ever, no quimically enhaced.

You drink coffee at night & can still sleep? Not me.

Two of my boys & I will be leaving soon to visit friends, & pick up a bottle of red wine probably a Shiraz or Chianti. Then we'll watch more X-Files while I have my one glass of wine for the evening. Exciting? No, but then again I don't have a boyfriend to help with an exciting evening. Got any brothers larousse, in the 47ish to 58ish age bracket. Oh yeah, do they live in Connecticut?

I guess i didn't answer your question Nam.

Lol.

I'm going to take a long bath, hear some music. BF is a little weird, mainly stressed, I hope. Trying to give him space.