Sorry about your situation Malx.

I'm not really good at helping people through stuff like this so I'll just wish you and your mother the best.

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@ Everyone - Thank you so much for your kind thoughts for my Mother, for me and my family in this. My mother rallied, but we know it won't be much longer.

The cancer has worked through her chest bones/ribs now, there are only major organs under there, so she hasn't much time left.

In case anyone wanted to know a bit about her:

My mother is full blooded Italian. She is and always has been the kindest and gentlest person I've ever known, sweet and beautiful both inside and out. She was always amazingly talented at so many things, here are a few:

Awesome cook - I grew up eating better lasagna/spaghetti/meatballs and sauce than any restaurant I've ever eaten in serves. She made homemade peach preserves every summer. She learned to cook British dishes for my Dad (Yorkshire pudding, black pudding - can't get them in any restaurant). Her Key Lime pie - everyone that ever tasted it had dreams and cravings for it for months afterward.

Synchronized swimming - My mother performed in synchronized swimming shows. The show rehearsal was every Friday. I used to pull every stunt imaginable to be sick from school every Friday to watch the rehearsals, (ran thermometers under hot water till she caught me, then exploded one sticking it into the heater coils).

Piano - The Kennedy Center wasn't beating down her door or anything, but she was good. My mother would seat me beside her on the piano bench/stool and play a few songs. Ragtime, Beethoven, Bach, etc. Last she'd let me choose one song, and she'd play it.


Beethoven's "Minuet in G" was my favorite:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f00pkoMnYPc


or Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band." :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvwnwaK9FNM



My mother always loved Shakespeare. We saw every production of his works on Broadway, and she had every leather-bound volume in her library (along with Lord Byron's poetry) - she even has a very large and heavy statue bust of Shakespeare.

When my mom loved something she went all out and immersed herself in it, and that is the way she was with all of us children - she loved us. There couldn't be a more Awesome mother than her.


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She sounds really awesome, mALX And as long as you remember her, she�s never really gone.

mALX, there are no words in which I can give you that will ease the pain. I can only give you my internet-shoulder and my PM box.

Sounds like an amazing woman. Thanks for sharing a bit about her with us.

mALX, being good at any of those things would make your mother special in my eyes. ...I'm so sorry for what you're all going through...

As has been said by others, our pimm boxes are always open...

*Hugs*

Beautiful, mALX. I see now where your cooking skill comes from and your ability to immerse yourself in things you love. The musical talent? Well. . . seems like that may have been passed directly to your youngest son.

She sounds like an incredible woman, mALX

Someone who loves to share her passions - food, culture - and make everyone else as excited about them as herself. Must have been an exciting place to grow up, experiencing all of those things. And the key lime pie sounds delicious...

Stay strong, mate. She sounds like a wonderful person.

Anybody heard from Minque lately? I think it is the longest I've seen her missing from this forum since I joined in 05'.

Malx, you know what always makes me feel better? Picture someone you hate(celeb, politician, real life person) making the angriest face you can have them make. Now imagine them humping a watermelon with that look on their face.

You have an odd way of coping with things Liz.

Well, it's either that or drinking. I choose watermelon humping.

For other people.

I don't like fruit quite that much.

I think I have actually seen that on YouTube.

Really?!

I can't help but laugh every time I picture it. A loooooot of people hump watermelons in my head....

So that's how you stay in high spirits while cashiering.

Women truly are an enigma.

SPEW !!!!! And thank you for fixing your Avatar back. I would have hounded you unmercifully if you hadn't, many many more of those giant lettered PM's.

No, but I'm sure there is one on there like that.

You and KC BOTH screamed at me for changing it XD



It pisses people off when I'm grinning like an idiot while they're yelling at me. I also imagine what would happen if I just... suddenly punched them in the face...

-wide grin-

Every time Liz sees somebody buy a watermelon she laughs out loud and gets odd looks from the customers.

Also, I guess I missed the apparently brief avatar change.

It looks much better this way.

We don't sell fresh produce (thank god) but when I worked at walmart, that got me halfway through the day, lol.

And yes, I was a full moon for HALF A SECOND, before I realized the GIF wasn't working and changed it back to my previous avatar.

Bunch a big 'ol babies XD

Anything would be a disappointment after that beautiful picture of herself, but this one she chose freaked me out so badly I was forced to send her an IMMEDIATE PM with size 7 letters telling her to "PUT IT BACK !!!!!!"

In all capital letters, too.


It was a black background with a white hole in the center. Does that speak Liz? I don't think so. Her Avatar has to stay the same now, or KC and I will PM her to death.

I think that says me perfectly XD

it was SUPPOSED to be the different phases of the moon animated, but imageshack did me wrong and wouldn't make it work.

imageshack deleted every image I posted on their site. So yeah, almost every picture I put on my first thread in the fan art section is gone.

Same here!! I went back to my account and it said it was empty... I had about 100 pictures on there of my son. Well. Where did they go?? Are the IS people currently looking at my son and telling themselves how cute he is?? Will they give my damn pics back?

I use photobucket but their new layout is really annoying. No problems with them deleting my pics either.

I had a bunch of pictures on Myspace and TOM did one of his billionth format changes - so they reversed all the albums when they did it for some weird reason. Now every link I have out there is broken.

Wow... I thought I had written "I went to my bank account and it was empty"

I scared myself XD

Too real, Liz, too real XD

They're gone. You'll never see them again. Use Photobucket (and their obnoxious design) or imgur. I like imgur right now.

That's...depressing. At least all of those photos are backed up on my facebook :/ But the ones of my dad and I, I won't see those again. I had some before he got really sick. Sigh.

What's with all the Avatar changing? I thought I was the only one to ever change mine more than once.

Sorry.


Someone gave me a gift!

I TRIED to and got screamed at for it, lol. -crosses arms and pouts- Looks like my red eyes will be staring at y'all forever...

Another Aravi pic from Devianart?

It is a good picture.

Why thank you

Celdryn approves of your red eyes, Liz. Yes, he does.

I noticed in the online section sometimes that visitors are printing a page!

Are they printing topics or stories in the fanfction section?

Oh? Well he can get in line to kiss my... Hand ^.^

Oooh, so finally, you have fallen for Celdryn, and now you want to be kissed by him? Okay then, c'mere.

P.S: The image above wasn't scary, was it? I just took it from some random site. TROLOLOLOL!

That is actually a pretty damn inventive tattoo.

I mean, it makes that woman pretty much unemployable, but still.

Yeah! I know right! I was damn impressed myself, but I think it may be just paint. Go on, Liz. Look at it. I promise you'll be impressed too!

That's my guess too, just paint. If it is a tattoo... worst decision ever.

AUGH!!! 'SPRAYPAIN BLOWTORCH-

I am curious. Yet, I quoted myself.

Maybe they are downloading them to a "Kindle" or to their PC? I know you can do that at the BGSF, haven't ever tried it here.

I have no idea. Where does it say what people are doing? I'll go look.

Where have you seen this? I'm not 100% sure what you mean...