Paul's Corner

Well good morning to you too Paul! ;) Glad you could vent and feel better. You'll finish first and on top - of that I'm sure.

Jill

Wow, Paul. I hope you feel better today. I'm sorry you got ticked off. Best thing to do now is breathe and count to ten.

As for me, I lost my second cousin, Sharon, to breast cancer 3 days ago. The blessing part about it was I got a chance to see her last year in December in Buffalo, NY. I was visiting my Great Aunt Goldie at the time and Sharon showed me around Buffalo. I have good memories of her. She was only 62 years old. I miss her, but I will move on.

Sara W

PS Paul: I forgive you for using that profane language in the recent post. It scared me a bit. Don't give up. God will never leave nor forsake you.

Sara W

Goodness, what brought that on?

Here's hoping you feel better now.

Sally

Sara W., sorry to hear about your cousin. I am a breast cancer survivor. I glad you had a wonderful last memory of her.

Jill

Paul,

Need to talk ????????

Better throw it all at US rather than kick the dog :)

I am guessing a project fell through the cracks.

You can always come to the states. We love you here! I am sure whatever it was, it will suck without you. :)

Sara, I am sorry for your loss. It's good you got somewhat closure with her before the end.

Love to all

Kelly

Sara: My condolences to you on the passing of your cousin, Sharon, and to her family as well. Our time here seems all too brief. I hope your fond memories of her will comfort you.

Paul: What can I say? I hope your 'outburst' helped whatever the problem was/is. Hang in there? But, of course!

Hello to everyone here at Paul's Corner.

Vicki

Dearest Paul,

I felt (almost) like you did, just yesterday, when I went to the dermatologist to have something suspicious looked at.

I was stuck alone in an examining room while I could hear the commotion outside the door, as other patients came in for the botox and skin treatments, while this old lady was having a silent fit, while waiting for the bad news.

The woman doctor finally waltzed in, looked at the lesion, stuck it with a needle, and shaved it off, and said I will have the lab results tomorrow, and *poof* she was out of the room for the more interesting (and younger) botox patients.

May I quote you the next time?

Shalom and Love,

Mil

Grandma Millie, I sympathize with how your feeling with the insensitivity of our medical system. I'll give you a ring tommorrow to see how you are doing. Tonight, just watch a movie or eat a favorite food, just try to keep your mind occupied on something more happy. My thoughts are always with you! I'm sure everything will be fine tommorrow.

Paul I loved your comment. Says a lot about having no tolerance for feeling less than everyone else. It was an outburst that I can relate to. An outbust of genious!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the next election I'll vote for you. Whatever election that is.

take care all,

ps, oh I almost forgot, I passed my national exam and I should be getting my license by January. It was a brutal three hours but I did it, sweating bullets and all! What was wild about it is that the testing center that I took had everyone fill out a questionaire before getting the results of the exam. So in the mist of being nervous me score I had to answer questions like, "Was the front desk person accomodating?" AHHH JEEEZ!

Sara, my condolences to you on your loss. I am glad you got to see Sharon before she passed on.

My apologies to any one that was offened by my profanity and indeed by my anger. But as this is my site I must be true to me. I do certainly keep it clean most the time out of respect for every
one that reads here but every now and then I have a burst. Actually I thought I was rather restrained if not indulgent:)

I cant go in to details but Kelly is right something slipped through the cracks that I had been booked for and whilst booked I had turned down other work offers. The postive side of me says oh well something will turn up. The realist in me says holly cow there goes Xmas as that job would have scraped us just passed xmas day with the hope that something was going/is going to come up in Jan and of course the Actor part of me said the above post.

Looks like I will be living on the bank loan for Xmas! Say a prayer for me and the family and for work.

Grandma Mil, please feel free to quote me when the need arise. I hope your results are all good and clear of any nasties.

Julie fantastic!!!! and congrats on passing the exam. You must be relieved pleased and proud!

Julie,

Congrats on the test. We knew you could do it!

Mil,

Feel glad they didn't give bad news. Sometimes bad news ( or suspected bad news) can be worse than the real thing. Like when they told me I ha=d a bad tumor in my neck and to expect the worst. Four 4 months they did this before they started testing to be sure. That was torture.
They are still fighting to diagnose me. I give up. I am off Prednisone and my neck is growing by the day. I acept I will be lopsided forever.
That is just going to be me. Why couldn't it have been a lopsided boob or thigh or something I could hide? Why did it have to be under my chin and on my neck so it looks like I have a super huge double chin on one side? Well actually not even a double chin but just a huge , hard neck from my chin to the top of my chest. Thats me, lopsided Kelly. If I lose weight it will really look strange.

Enough bitching.

Paul,

Chin up (no pun intended), Live off the loan, and live off the love. What is a person, really if they are not in debt. (lucky !!! )

Love to all in the corner, I LOVE YA !!

Kelly

Excellent fighting talk there, Paul! Looks like I picked a good time to walk in here for the first time, doesn't it? What a great rant to make an impression on a newcomer, eh? As it turns out, it made a great imression because I've never been one to mince words, and I heartily applaud anyone who feels compelled to actually vent their anger. Feels good, even if you're still hacked off afterwards. My personal favourite for venting though is to take a piece of crockery that I don't use any more and sling it at the garden wall. I don't do it often, but I find that the hilarity of standing there ready to fire rounds of cheap teacups at a wall is enough to diffuse a lot of the anger before they've even left your hand! It won't solve your problem, but I find such a thing always puts me in a better humour at least.
So then, vent away is what I say, because there ain't a thing you can say that can offend me in the slightest, and it's terribly unhealthy to keep your anger in. These things are sent to try us, and the only way of overcoming them is by keeping a stiff upper lip and a positive attitude. Wow, three cliches in one sentence - not bad. ;)
Bad as it is though, you have your family, and that is what matters.

Hello to everyone here by the way. If my name didn't give it away, I'm from Cornwall, England, and incidentally, I actually currently work for Direct Wines, who, among other things, are proud to have Coopers Ale as their top selling beer!
Cornish isn't my real name, as you've probably guessed, but it's a hard and fast nickname which I use everywhere, so I suppose I'm just keeping up tradition.
Okay, that's the self-indulgent bit out of the way.

Sara, maid, my best wishes go to you. At least you have those fond memories of her to keep her close to you. Small consolation, perhaps, but consolation indeed.

Grandma Mil, that was some harsh treatment (sorry about the pun) by the supposed 'care profession'. Unfortunately, that seems to be the way the system works these days, and their attitudes are often as clinical as their methods. Perhaps you can be reassured by the practitioner's indifference though, even if the service itself was a little on the lacklustre side.

Congratulations, Julie! Excellent job!

Take care all.

Love & fudge,

Cornish.
xxx

NO, I am not drinking, I just thought this was so cool

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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt

I guess my spelling is not so bad after all.

Kelly

Kelly!!

THANK YOU!!!! I've seen this before but could never find it when I needed it. I talk to my 7th graders about reading fluency and how the brain doesn't read each individual letter. It's a whole lesson about why you need to keep reading so you build up your fluency and comprehend better. The better your fluency the better chance for comprehension. When you slow down and over focus you lose the understanding. Sorry didn't mean to go into teacher mode!

Anyway THANKS!!

Jill

Good, I feel better now, too, Paul! :)

The dermatologist's office called to say my skin lesion was okay, "see you in another week to take out the other stitches on your leg." (Another lesion removed last week.)

I have survived early melanoma twice, and I am checked every 4 months. Everything is removed that looks the least bit suspicious.

I am never in the sun in Florida, but way back, when I was a mere child, my sisters and I loved swimming in the local pool, without sunscreen in those days, and now I am paying the price in my old age.

A dermatologist once told me that "tan skin is damaged skin" so keep the kiddies and yourselves out of the sun, my darlings! Those that come for FIF will have old Mil nagging for everyone to cover up!

Shalom and Love,

Gran Mil

Dear Grandma Mil,
I'm glad you're alright. I know how it feels to go through this. Ever since I was little i've had 5 moles on my back, and my mum always used to make sure i was wearing a t-shirt when we were swimming or playing in the sun... so i must had been something in the skin to begin with.
When i was 16 my doctor at the cancer skin clinic thought my biggest mole was a little suspicious as it had seemed to change in the time i had seen him last... so i had to get it taken off. And it's so painful with the stitiches and all and i couldn't sleep on my back :( And then at school i was always scared when people were behind me, incase they bumped me or something... it was horrible
Every year since i have to go back to get them checked, and all is good so far... even tho i have a scar where the one was taken off.
But it's really annoying because i live near the beach and you know, i want to wear my bikini like all of my friends... but yet i'm so worried about having my back exposed. Oh dramas!

Anyhoo, i'm am new here and i hope i can get to know you guys :) Oh and Paul, i hope you're feeling better! It's great that you feel comfortable to express your feelings. It's the season to be jolly :P

Paul,

I have a silly question, but please, indulge me.

In one scene in "Through My Eyes" the doctors office with your daughter, you hair was parted to the left. The next day, at the camper, your hair is parted to the right.

My question, does the director demand little things like how your hair is parted, or did you just feel like parting it different, or was the film flipped and no one noticed?

Silly I know, but I was just wondering. Incredible movie, I must say. I remeber this story when I was a child and I have never thought she did it. I was happy when she was released. I can't believe I remember it very well. Well, I enjoyed the US version of this film, as well.

Did they use real dingo's in the film? They sure looked real. Are they as tame in real life as they show in the beginning of the film, tourists feeding them and such.

Sorry for the third degree. I am always facinated when something strikes my curiosity.
Can't help it. : )

Love to all

Kelly

Kelly, as far as I can remember my hair was always consistent. Right or leftI can not remember right now but it as always the same as we would refer to photos in make up before shooting scenes. Also we have great continuity people that make sure we are consistant with the previous scenes.

So whilst I dont dont doubt your question I dont think we made the mistake you are refering to.

As for your spelling.....

My love to you Kelly!

That said as you suggested the film could have been flipped. Who knows???????!?!?!?!?!???!??!?!??????

help what did I do????

Oh yeah, I went back and checked it out. And I am right, for once in my life. Your hair is different! Actually it is different in two scenes for the same day! The scene where they show the wounds on your daughters neck and then later that night when you spot the dingo (ding)in the field. This is fun! I love spotting bloopers. It's not your blooper, though. As you said you have people to watch for that. I'm not being being mean, k , I'm just so tuned into your character I noticed. I must say, you did a great acting job in this film. Very real portrail. You can definately tell you have daughters, and that you are a very loving and kind father. I really enjoyed watching something from you in present day. Your acting is superb in this. I really mean it. Can't wait for the next project to come.

I Robot comes out next week, here in the states, we will be getting ours for Clay for christmas.

Happy holidays! off to a wrestling tournement in some state other than Michigan, Clay's first one of the season. He is very nervous.

Love to you and your wonderful family!!

Love to all on the corner!

Kelly kiss kiss hug hug to everyone

Kelly you're funny! I too like to catch blooper but NOT good at it at all. The only one I've ever seen is in Pretty Woman when she's eating breakfast and it switches what she's eating.

Have fun at the tournement. I'll be wrapping Christmas gifts and pushing either my kids or dog away from the paper. My dog tends to like to sit in the middle of the paper. He can't stand when something takes my attention. I swear he's part cat!

Love to all

Jill

Oh and Paul - I believe you just used one too many question marks. ;) Messed up the paragraph spacing. I've been guilty of doing it before.

We forgive you!!!! Hee hee!!

Jill

I noticed a mistake in Strictly Ballroom. Fran isn't wearing her glasses for the last of the "try-out girls" scenes, but she hasn't been talked out of them by Scott yet.

Hee. It was the ??!....

Any unbroken string of characters will stretch the page out. All fixed.

On the hair thing: I believe it's fairly common for images to be flipped for whatever reason, so Paul's hair was probably parted the same way--but the film wasn't.

Paul, in among all the uncertainty and frustration of career and practicalities at the moment, I hope the parts of your life where you feel true certainty hold you steady. As always I am hoping for the right opportuntiy to come your way and soon.

Julie, many congratulations on your exam success!

Millie, delighted everything turned out okay for you this week.

Sara, sorry to hear about the loss of your cousin.

Hello to everyone in the Corner.

Love to you all,
Mary

Paul, Cruelty offends me. Violence might offend me. How could I be personally offened by words?
No, I don't think so.

I'm hoping that your work situation changes rapidly and for the better. I can't begin to imagine your frustration. Hang in there mate.