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I joined a taiko (japanese drumming) group over the summer. I lived in Japan for three years and loved taiko every time I saw it performed, but couldn't find a group that would take newcomers. I joined a group here in NC (one that takes newcomers and trains them!) to fufill a desire but also to...

Sarah just finished chemo and radiation, so she is ok for now. They'll do an MRI soon to see if the cancer is actually in remission. My HUSBAND decorated that bathroom. Can you believe it? He just went to town one day and fixed it all up on a Hawaiian theme. The one bathroom has a clawfoot tub...

I have a funny story. My husband and I had our housewarming party last Friday night, and my inlaws here were. MIL set out some bowls of potato chips and then we were preparing a veggie tray together when she yells "yeeeep!!" (and she has a LOUD, HARSH voice when she yells!) She runs over to the...

My Blossom also gets into sneezing fits (5-20+ a night) and her brother Billy will seem just fine. The vet said its because almost all cats carry a kind of herpes virus that causes upper respiratory infections (its not the kind of herpes that humans can catch and it certainly wont cause THAT...

I like Bijou and Mika's new sig . . . I need to get a new one! Yeah, Im thinking it was just an accident. At first I wanted to read so much into it . . . but they seem so happy and loving and playful now. Hard to think one of them did it on purpose. My husband works from home and Billy sleeps...

I came home the other day to find my husband complaining about how powerfully strong the cat's poo was. I started looking and there was a poo on the futon in his office. The cats have usually laid on the futon and it was covered by a bedspread that used to be on our bed that the cats have always...

I read about this in a weekly magazine in Durham, NC. It's a mall store space, donated by the Prime Outlets mall to AniMall. AniMall, in turn, organizes different animal resuces to come in at different times and mall shoppers can meet the pets. They do not do same-day adoptions, but introduce...

For the shirt, it may be too late if you put it in the dryer (or it was exposed to heat), as heat will permanently set the stain. You can try rinsing it again or putting it in a bleach mixture (like 1 part bleach to 5 parts water). Similar with table--wipe down as much as you can and try to get...

I hope you are laughing about that now. It sounds pretty funny--though it wouldnt have been at the time. What was especially funny was that my brother in law couldnt tell them apart--he just called them the "mini white panthers" Now you can definitely tell who's who!

Hi All, So my husband and I moved into our first house this weekend. I can't believe we are homeowners! We bought a 1915 cottage in a really nice old neighborhood. Its very exciting for us. My brother in law came down to help us move, and when he went to check his email Sunday night, we had our...

Awww Fwan! You have everyone here! You have many people to turn to! Still thought, it helps to have a real person to support you there. I really understand what its like to have a crazy MIL. No matter how hard you try to be good and understanding, you will not be good enough for her. You have to...

Hi Fwan, My Mother In Law is seriously crazy too. Sometimes she can be perfectly reasonable about things and even tell me "you're being too emotional." But then sometimes she will go crazy over the dumbest thing. ESPECIALLY about my husband/her son. She used to tell him when he was little "I'm...

cats are awesome clocks: 6:15 am--time for brekkie!! 7:15 pm--time for din din!!! they are also very eccentric decorators--unused toys must be strewn "just so" all over the floor!

oh! I didnt answer you before! The docs are starting her radiation next week as an in-patient. Then they are asking her to decide whether she just wants enough rehab to get home quickly and do at-home rehab or if she wants to stay in and get high-functioning in the hospital. So, 2-8 weeks before...

Hi, No cancer is not ageist, by any means! The docs are great, and the people on this site who are cancer docs are also great--but it is so hard to learn the vocabulary, spoken and unspoken, that they are using. Like when they say "a brain issue" or "an event" they really meant "a lesion on the...