Tuesday, July 31, 2012

We're up, we're down, we tie... and away we all go!

The question was asked by one of my Facebook friends the other day, of how many of us, on Facebook are actually watching the Olympic competitions?

Many of the answers were negative or specific to what they do enjoy watching, sport-wise.

In reality, I had to admit that I have been negligent of observing and supporting our teams by my viewing pleasure, since I go more eclectic in that realm than staring at six hours of bicycle racing or some other such hours spent watching of this volleyball game or that. Actually, swimming is more to my liking, since it is more like a horse race, in speed, is what I am referring too. For someone like me, with a short attention span that is not too difficult to keep this gal engaged for not too long.
Sure my heart and feelings could be considered that they are there with all of our contenders, I’m not heartless after all!
For I don’t adopt every sad critter that needs a home that the shelters talk about in commercials on the TV, it wrenches my heart, but I don’t call and adopt, anymore…since hoarding is frowned upon by most realistic neighbors…
I care maybe too much for most underdogs, figuratively, as well as literarily!
Why when I heard via the news that Michael Phelps came in fourth in one of his competitions I got scared that he might not win his last three medals to be the all time winningest medal winner! Gosh, he has been able to recoup since then, two more silvers, so one more might very easily be his! At least now he has a fighting chance; Geez, so Hubby heard about his trial on the earlier news and passed it on to me.
The Olympics have been going on for years and years and the kids seem to all do well in the end with all sorts of deals in promotions of products.

No college for these kids they got it made in the shade!
Teaching a whole bunch of their fans that it is more important to compete in a sport than to learn the three R’s…KIDDING!
Those kids really know both, especially the losers, since no one will offer them any sponsorship…KIDDING AGAIN!

Gosh though, when you think about it, today, sadly, even college grads are having a hard time finding jobs…
Maybe they have the right idea…its called stick-to-it-ness!
Whatever one loves could be their future to make a living from, sounds good to me! I say go for it! But think about school too, who knows the times are, a changing…they always do!

On that little bit of irreverence of how to enjoy the XXX Olympics… Ya know that’s another thing I have a bit of knowledge of multiplications and if you multiply 30x4=120, and that would be in 1892.
The last time I checked, than how come the Olympics started in Greece way back when, need more info, hold on… in Greece they actually started in 776 B.C.
Then by my reasoning this is actually the 697th Olympics!
Get the right and true story right here by copying and pasting this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games
And you all know the way to find out more, so just Nike it, do I have to say it, oh well, you know me, I will: JUST DO IT!

On that bit of silliness, hip, hip hooray, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy goodnight and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Update: Michael Phelps wins all nineteen medals, most ever!

Monday, July 30, 2012

Tests and a share

Today, I went to get those dismal tests that let you know if you are in trouble with your heart or if you have any stroke possibilities. But my doctor wanted me to have a few of them and this turned out to come in at a few hundred less than the local places who do this sort of thing as well. The only issue is that you have to make arrangements sometimes months in advance, since they are only in your area at certain times of the year. So it is not for an emergency situation.

Package Selection: (so help me that is what it is called!)
-Stroke, Vascular, Heart Rhythm with Osteoporosis $149.00 (for all the below tests through Life Line Screening:LifeLine.com or call toll free:1-800-449-2389, they are national)
-Stroke/Carotid Artery disease
-Peripheral Arterial Disease
-Osteoporosis
-Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
-Atrial Fibrillation

In the end I just went for everything but the Osteoporosis screening, which I was told is not that accurate; if it is done on the heal; and most Health Fairs do it for free anyway.

Any-who, I already was told when given a bone density test on the machine for that while still insured that I had Osteopenia years ago. And therefore I could more than likely have Osteoporosis now, my Mom had had it; it only saved a wee bit on that bill, of ten bucks, having it done.

The results will be emailed to me within twenty-one days or mailed to a doctor of your choosing for a fee, which right now I cannot recall.
If heaven forbid anything is wrong there they will tell you, or email you as soon as the doctor looks the results over.

So far, I’m good no emails from them!

But I did receive the fix for my access to the program that I needed as a PA at the free clinic, hip, hip ,hip, hooray! Yep, that is what we are called, not PA as in Physician Assistants, although we sort of are, nope, nor a Public Announcement, well maybe more private than public, we are Patient Advocates! That is helping patients to access medications that they otherwise would not be able to afford.
The woman who is also a PA and we are all volunteers by the way, nine strong I believe including me now, anyway… she my computer trainer was on her family vacation but was nice enough to answer my email and help me get into the program and so now I am ready for my first, all by my self patient this week!
I could access it from home to try it out and so I did, but there is one small mistake, the spelling of my last name with only one letter.
The woman who was nice enough to help me, being their trainer for the computer, I thanked her for helping me gain access. I did mention also the spelling error, but that I said could wait until her return from vacation and that is that to date.

And so in closing for tonight I would like very much to be the first to wish you all a very happy night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, July 29, 2012

I hate...

When I do stupid things, and when I have an illness that confuses doctors so much they let its miniscule issues create havoc with my true problems not allowing for the more important ones to be noticed…
On top of my many ills that most of you all know about I have Fibromyalgia, which over the years has interfered with many other of my diagnosis’s, like my Multiple Sclerosis, even when I could not walk for six months back in 1997 and ended up being in PT, OT and NMMT, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy and Neuromuscular Massage Therapy, for fourteen times in as many years, still it was Fibro causing it all and this all started three years after the Fibro DX.
Later on I had a good friend also involved in the Arthritis Foundation who also had been DX with Fibromyalgia that almost died, for when she was having chest pains and was in her seventies, the doctors blamed it on the Fibro; it turned out it was her heart and she ended up needing a pace maker.
This Fibromyalgia has prevented me from getting early diagnosis of my Spondylosis and five other types of arthritis…no one ever asked me about my two car accidents and my amusement park accident, one car one was as a thirteen year old passenger back in 1963 when a car backed into the passenger side where I happened to be sitting and I received real whiplash needing to wear a collar and missing two months of school and the amusement park one going down a hundred and fifty foot zoom flume ride and hitting my back and neck hard at the end of the slide causing me to be put in the hospital in traction for several days and shot full of pain killing opiates that nearly killed me and caused me hallucinations and scared my two sons, husband, Dad and a few friends! And I needed a back brace for over a year! That was back in 1983!
But no, my back issues were caused by Fibro, and once x-rayed the true diagnosis of course was confirmed Spondylosis at forty-four years old…The second car crash was in 1994 and I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia a few months later!
How odd that part of this illness called Fibromyalgia says that you also have a very low tolerance for pain… Than why when I broke my leg back in the later part of the 1990’s did I walk on it for two days while making cookies?
I had been in labor with one son for 29 and half hours yet I have a low pain tolerance?
I think not!
I do believe that I might have Fibromyalgia, or it could be when I was first diagnosed it was the newest and latest craze for Rheumatologist to name a disease that was trendy!
Who knows, and it’s not like there wasn’t a time that I wanted to be the most fashionable, hmm and in with the popular gals?
But not disease-wise, no never!
The reason I am bringing this up now, seems so silly really since I saw my Neuro last Monday and she looked at my list of comments and she said many were from the MS but many could be due to the Fibromyalgia!
I felt like shouting, ET tu brute!
I never should have told her, our relationship was pure and right and based on my one ill that she has been treating me for the last two years for me…MS!
It was hard finding a good doctor that knew for what she was dealing with; why she diagnosed my Optic Neuritis immediately and was responsible for putting me on my Copaxone injections and telling me to get those 1000MG. IV Solumedrol as fast as I could to save my sight, which sadly was not fast enough, since I am legally blind in that right eye still two years later!
Now, she may look at me in a whole new way…
Fibromyalgia is the mimic of many ills, which has caused confusion for years and years!
It’s not like I don’t believe it exists I just believe it has been known to get in the way of many more serious ills that need more immediate attention and that some delays have been known to cause death!
No exaggerations, I have heard stories!
So people beware when you get that diagnosis of Fibro; it could be hiding something more ominous… buyer of that DX beware is all I am saying… always tell anyone who will listen what your symptoms are and make sure they check for everything pertaining to those symptoms!

Moving on…
Another BIG BOO BOO and a need for forgiveness, my cognitive ability has always been in question, nothing new here, hmm?
Well, a friend, now an unfriend, due to me not her, posted an item,a cartoon really here it is if you can see it: It wouldn't transfer so I have written it here so now you know what the entire hullabaloo was about:
"Jimmy is an Atheist
He sees a friends post his beliefs on Facebook. Instead of being an a-hole he ignores it and lets them believe what they want.
Good on you Jimmy"

That, I misread as being way different than what it is as being very understanding of what is right and good with mankind, acceptance… I thought it was the opposite! And I wrote a scathing reply…
“Sad that some don't believe we live in a free country to believe however we so wish...America is for all beliefs, not just some peoples. That is why many have come here, due to religious or non-religious persecution by people who only believe their way is right and try hard to make others believe that it is the only way! I am shocked that in this day and age that an adult who has been, let's say out her state maybe even to other countries to understand the bigger picture of the whole world not just theirs could be so narrow minded! WOW!"

BAD ME!
No excuse or apology can change this…
See, my proof that speaking ones mind should be done with much forethought which as you can see I am still working on…One can only hope that I will learn from this and be more cautious in the future before spouting off my emotional reasoning’s of misunderstandings what is what!

In closing I will try my darndest to be a more careful person with more just reasoning when I speak/write to any of you… and I feel I deserve some sort of punishment for this … but what type I have no idea… perhaps some one should stop me from writing?
Nah, it is one of my last joys in life, don’t get me wrong daily I find many more… but it has to be in my top ten!

On that need for penance, allow me the bad, bad girl to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Pirate Fest in River City AKA Punta Gorda Florida!

Not to take anything away from the international competitions continuing on today...But even we had some goings on that were festive and historic in nature…
Pirate Fest!



Gotta love the imagery and performance of the pirates to give it all a new modern spin… and only one that was shut-up quiet; can you guess which one he was?
These are the friendly Minstrel Pirates who serenaded all us others, perhaps they are of the…there be three sheets to wind kind… dancing and smiling ones too…

These are female pirates of the over forty-five ages, a rare sight and thee call themselves, The Hot Flashes or Flashers dancers? No, the latter, me thinks…But those cutlasses are more like warriors, truth be told…Aaaarrrrgggghhhh and what ho!

And me also thinks me speak irregular, actually thee smiling one was a wench/lass, not a pirate of the stealing type unless hearts are considered bounty and she is here posing with her ale as sweet as she be to lure her a mate it seems to me.

Gosh, hasn’t the doubloons increased in the need for the mead, maybe rum would be better for the Mum? Avast ye…

Be careful youngin that pirate is trying hard to charm you, alas I see that the papa is holding her in his lap so all is well, after all…whew, scary there for the moment!
Methinks this one has been able to cook for the whole lot of his men and sneaks the best of the grub out for his self, ha!


This fellow of the crew needs a barber lickety split, but that is just me and my un-requested opinionated elderly thoughts to express…such it is as always be…

And here must be their transport awaiting their leave:


I call it as I see it… A Pirate-Mobile, and it appears to be piloted by a lassie who has modernized a cooling system with that red object at her feet!
OH NO! Have they all become landlubbers?

The Pirate Fest continues on tomorrow at Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda: EVENT: FISHERMEN'S VILLAGE PIRATE FEST! 11 AM-6 PM, July 29th
Visit www.fishermensvillagepiratefest.com for more details!
I must remind all of you that this is a three day event; it had started yesterday and continues tonight until 8P.M.

It was extremely busy there today when we arrived after our at home lunch, but inside and out there are vendors to feed you all different cuisines, and entertainment and booth of unique items for sale; from pirate fest memorabilia to more interesting ideas to decorate your home and than some…Although, temping our day may go down as one of our cheapest spent full of enjoyment with zero monies output… You see the VIP parking is free to all who have handicap placards or plates, others pay $5.00, but there is plenty of free further from the village and even some closer in. I suppose it has to do with whenever, time of day, you get there…

On that how we spent our day, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, July 27, 2012

Are you ready to rumble?

Internationally that is.
The Olympics opening ceremonies will begin in just a little while, at 7:30 P.M EST! Now how do they make it so beneficial time wise to us colonists? That was very kind of those Britt’s!

Perhaps, rumble is not the right connotation that we want to project, hmm?
Okay, than how about compete with the utmost capabilities proving that we are the best in whatever event that we come out first in; how’s that, better? That clears the air, since no specific country was mentioned, and we all know why they’re two hundred and five countries in this thing, amazing to me that the outcomes will all be over in just two weeks, truly unbelievable!

Decorum is expected from all and that means ladies and gentlemen equally; all of the participants, but many are still quite young, teenagers actually.
I found it quite an interesting bit of trivia that thousands of condoms have been distributed in the Olympic Village, hmm?
Well, I am all for safe responsible sex, but with Romney visiting Jolly Olde and he having already been caught shooting off those gaffs about readiness (That is for the whole shebang, not the little bangs, oops did I say that?)I seriously wonder Mr. / Governor what you would have to say about my previous sentence since he wants to shut down all the Planned Parenthood facilities and overturn Roe V. Wade, hmm; for all those competitors to bring home some bundles of joy that would pop-out around next May.
Better keep MUM man, your nickname might follow you home, imagine, Mitt the Twit; as such a catchy little thingy here in the good ole US of A? Not that great for a presidential candidate, true?
Not nice for our own at home games of competition, AKA, better known as, the political contest!
And here like there, winner takes all.
Sadly, no medals though, just four years or more of aggravation of trying to accomplish things with an opposing political party from your own, not to mention, while trying to avoid pot shots from your naysayers that have no idea what its really like dealing with people who really feel the need to make you fail and look bad.
Oh what fun being a candidate for office here or anywhere, politics are a dirty business but is treated as if it is a game, and we dear friends are the winners or losers of their outcomes.
If only they would play nice, hmm?
Nasty is not allowed in the Olympics in any of those contests, but here in politics no gentlemanly ways co-exist, guys what happened?
(Author’s note: we haven’t any women competing in our politics as of yet, this time, thus no reason to mention lady-like behavior)

I just want them to stop with the meanness rhetoric!
Many children and teens now eighteen come from divorced families and you are causing them all flashbacks!

I cringe when I hear the accusations and then how they turn them around to make it all alright after.
Nothing ever seems to change.
No matter who runs in these races; I truly believe there should be designated rules of order, not this disorder!
What happened to trying to be eloquent and decent?
Plain speak has gotten to be for us with only digs of unkindness and inaccuracy.
It has gotten so we no longer listen to the inundation of those damn commercials! Oops for the bad word, my cringe factor has gone wild!

We all know this to be true, how sad that now we don’t know who to believe anymore and wish we had another choice to vote for.

In closing, I wish that there were rules to our political games that made it possible to be civil like the Greeks who started this whole thing, right?
Wait, maybe I have that wrong, weren’t those original Olympics fought until the death?
I don’t know the whole story, but no, that won’t do here with our candidates, unless it is a basketball game, there ya go… that’s the answer!

On that bit of silly but one that might be the most logical way to decide our America’s future, you know it could work…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Twofer or a more than twofer, perhaps a threefor or morefor?

Today was my third day in a row of taking my well endowed body into the drink for a remodeling trial, nah, ROM doesn’t do that!
For those who don’t know, which I bet are few and far between, but I will explain anyway, Range of Motion, ROM; those are exercises for us challenged ones and some even not so challenged ones to enjoy them too!

Any-who, they are not designed for people who really want to lose weight they are designed for being able to move those limbs gently without too much pain and to hopefully help protect those muscles from atrophying; so all in all a very good thing.

Doing diligence is a great quality in most people but pacing ones self is an important part of that too, and one must always find that fine line of what is your caution of too much too soon. I am definitely trying to push myself to the limits.
Although, my fine line has been crossed a few times too often and sadly I have found myself exacerbating my Multiple Sclerosis, and so trial and error applies very much here, with me. Tell me how not to cross it? I rarely find it until too late!

Tomorrow, I was also planning to go into the pool, why not, four days in a row could be pushing it… you see, my new medication has not kicked in yet as far as I can tell… same sleep problems, nothing has changed yet.

Today, besides getting in my exercise program I went into the clinic to help contact some new patients for their future to come on in and have us help them, ones who have used the facilities free pharmacy service, which is only for temporary use, not forever.
I could only use the phone since my password is still not working for access to our medication program and the woman who gave it to me is on vacation, but I was given her email to contact her and so I did as soon as I got home.
I hope I did it right, since I wrote down Comcast.com, but I checked other Comcast emails were all net, and so I wrote it to that one. Perhaps, I should send it also to.com? Anyone out there know which is correct?
I sent it as a forward to the other one too, can’t be too careful with needing to know info. :)
You know me leave no stone unturned…possibilities and all.

And speaking of those, possibilities, that is, the Pizza Hut was on our way home and so they are the one with the bistro, salad bar and yes, we at first thought we would pick up their $10 dollar large and take it home, but we ate in instead and I had the salad bar for $3.50 and we took the rest of the pie home, a thin and crispy, a twofer…

Who can complain with a day that complete, and of course I am tired and may be I will take tomorrow off from the pool, but it calls to me…
Even though our home is well air-conditioned, it has that inviting appeal that they all do…
You see, this weekend is the Pirate thingy at Fishville, Fisherman’s Village in River City AKA Punta Gorda and we were planning on going to that and so… oh well, we will see what we can see…!

It’s not like the pool is going anywhere, yet, not nasty weather in our future here… which could change that in a moments notice!

Please dear northeastern friends take care and be safe I hear that you are experiencing those nastiest weather systems that we know all too familiarly down here in the south, so heed the warnings and take cover when they warn you, no joke!

Our hurricane season usually gets rough next month which is next week… uh oh!

On that realization that our little paradise could be under fire very shortly perhaps taking advantage of the better weather is not such a bad idea! Allow me to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Speaking your mind too and why...or not...

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2. Don’t let aggressive people intimidate you. When somebody glares at you, glare right back at them and say what you have on your mind! Nobody owns you or your right to express yourself, so don't let anyone force you into silence. Bullies rely on the expectation that others will be intimidated by their aggressive attitudes, but it is almost always a bluff that can be easily reversed; standing your ground against them throws them off guard.
3. Remain calm. It's very important not to let your emotions take over entirely. Remember that this is just a conversation, and people will think better of you if you speak calmly and slowly. Acting calm makes you seem collected and in control, especially if other people are freaking out around you.
4. Don't shout. Yelling doesn't make people hear you any better. In fact, it can cause them to tune you out.
5. Speak clearly and make yourself heard, without having to yell. Speak just loudly enough so that people can hear your voice, and your opinion.
6. Practice speaking your mind around your friends and family. They are the first people you should start openly speaking your mind to. Even for decisions that seem small or unimportant, like where you and your friends should go to eat for lunch, let your opinion be heard. Be part of the group decision-making process.
7. Believe in yourself! If you believe what you have to say is important, others will too. Even when you're not feeling confident, acting self-assured makes you appear cool and in control of things. Stick to your guns and express yourself in ways that let others get to know the real you—not the quiet, introverted person that anxiety makes you out to be.
TIPS
Practice speaking your mind and expressing yourself with your family, then with a group of friends, then with everyone.
Speak up when you feel like, but remember to respect other people's opinion too - they have the right to have their own opinions.
Be Yourself ;)”
Thanks to, and just copy and paste this site for the full story about how to speak your mind: http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-Your-Mind
Geez I sure wish I read this before I started speaking my mind, KIDDING!
But for some strange reason, heaven knows why I have been winging it all these years and boy it has gotten me in deep stuff many a time!
Any-who, a couple of the suggestions I do believe I should discuss.
The number one says don’t worry what others think in thought it sounds oh so right, but in reality if you don’t want to own what you say with any possible ramifications than either ask people nicely to refrain from commenting or you should shut up!(Easier said than done, in my case, bud dump, bum.)

The statements in the number two one makes me nervous with ‘standing your ground’, after what went through with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case still going on here in Florida; I worry with that concept even when standing your ground verbally against a bully, wouldn’t you too become one? Is it just me, or does that sound like a possibility? GET OUT!

The third one is for very stable people in face to face confrontations, when writing you have more power to adjust your rationale accordingly, but even then mine can be questionable, hmm? (Who said I was perfect, not me, never ever.)

Number four is the easiest, no one can hear me shout in my writing; or can you?

Number five, okay speaking slowly in my life has never been my MO; I am and always will be a Northeasterner when it comes to speech patterns, and that is one speed and it is FAST. Although, I still don’t believe I have a northern accent; seriously I don’t, I traveled too much.

Number six, well I did try that one and now I have alienated them all… Chancy one at best; you do what works best for you! Go easy on this one though…WARNING!

Number seven is a given, of course everyone should believe in their selves, otherwise why wouldn’t they believe what they have to say was of any value…so that one is a reasonable one to do and should be utilized by every human being in this world!

In the last of the tips column ‘the be yourself’ part is ridiculous to have to say to anyone, why we all know that being anyone else but yourself is ILLEGAL! BIG SMILE HERE!
On that lesson of speaking all of our minds, ha, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS: Now this is my disclaimer for advising anyone to speak their own mind, mostly females, well that is ridiculous, you cannot speak my mind, any-who, do it at your own risk of being considered a big blowhard and an idiot, and not a savant, and possibly losing many peoples respect since some of the male persuasion, not all, seem to believe that silence is golden and women like children should be seen and not heard... but you do what you feel you have to do for we still live in a freedom of speech country, in this our US of A! TA DA!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Pricing gone wild!

I gave up!
Not a good idea when trying for the best price for something that may very well become a daily part of your life, hmm?
But I did.
After over thinking the possibilities of what non-generic medication could possibly cost, I realized that would not be an effective way to budget my expense for the need of this latest integral part to my maintenance of me.
And so with a bit of uncertainty I called back my usual pharmacy and said that I had the prescription for the right quantity, which somehow when faxed was wrong by 200MG, the faxed one was for only 100mg of Gabapentin, while the actual prescription that we physically picked up from the doctor’s office said 300MG. and said one at night for a week then two times a day with one in the morning and one at night for the next month with eleven refills, with a count of sixty pills.
The missing Baclofen that I take were ready too with this new prescription, but for some reason they charged us for both items, when the Baclofen had been paid for in full, that is $18.50 for the 210 quantity, although 70 were missing, on Saturday when Hubby had picked up the first amount.
The quoted price for the new medication was $27 for the 300MG for 60 days supply, yet we were charged $40?
I called back and yes, both was BIG mistakes and will be credited for us to get more medication, not to our account?
They owe us a total of $31.50.

We did not argue.
Foolishly, we gave in.

Hubby heard from the owner of the local Hungry Howies here in Port Charlotte earlier today, a man named Dan.
Who said he would look into the matter and the manager who told Hubby to take it or leave it, and he agreed that was very wrong to say.
Hubby also did some browsing and is determined to find us another good pizzeria, starting with other chains in the area.

Due to a lot of this baloney going on I suggested to call Keri the manager at The Goal Post and let us eat ribs for tonight for a freebie!
And so we did.
Hmm, very good, and sure we have gone there in the past and will definitely go back there more again in the future.

We received an email from an old work associate of Hubby’s from the sheriff’s office that she, a captain, will be retiring next month and we have been invited to the cake eating. Although, we like this woman very much and for a while she was Hubby’s boss we will be declining, but with her moving closer by us we will probably get together with her and her husband in the near future and that is a great idea!

Wish me luck with sleeping tonight!
I am so looking forward to no pain or discomfort.
And I so do hope that I am not expecting too much from this known pain medication for Multiple Sclerosis and also for epilepsy, which thankfully I do not have.
Believe me when I say I have enough and as one of my Facebook friends tried to do, does anyone need any?
She really tried to share her ills, also with MS and all its not so nice associated problems that cause each one to be medicated separately!
Nah, mine are mine and I don’t want anyone else to have this…

On that note of being selfish, allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Monday, July 23, 2012

Lotsa of doings today!

The day was one of sufficing needs.
It started out with going to my neuro appointment and I always try to go prepared with my medication list, including allergies or sensitive to and surgery lists and question/comments lists, as we all should.
We don’t want to waste the doctor’s time anymore than we want them to waste ours, right?
Keeping the first two in the computer word program with occasional updates makes it all the more easier when an appointment comes up. Questions are always changing so I don’t usually keep those.
After all I was trained by the state health department to teach a self help course, which this was all inclusive as part of how to help one’s self.
It is also not a bad idea to keep those first two on your person in your handbag ladies or in the car glove compartment for men or women, of course with your name on it if you keep more than one persons’ information there.

Well, with all my specific additions in my comment’s list I have now added another medication to my laundry list of the many I already take.
This one is for MS pain, in the generic form it is called Gabapentin, but in the non generic form it is Neurontin and it is made by Pfizer and so I contacted them to see if they had a patient assist program for their product that I was told to take. And I did qualify for their discount program which could be as much as 15% to 36% off, as a discount.
They even gave me access numbers that will eventually be on my card to try and find which of my local pharmacies has the best price for this drug.
But the numbers take time to process, two to three days, the actual card takes ten days to arrive, and then I will know where I can find the right price for my sixteenth and seventeenth pill for me to have to ingest daily, small hooray here…

You see, I am prescribed a 300mg dose twice a day, which will increase accordingly…

Not too thrilled with the concept...
Although, if it solves my pain problem and I get to sleep undisturbed, well that changes the whole shebang/game, hmm?

We all know the expression, Life Goes On…?
There was even a TV show with that name, quite good too…A lovely family dealing with life’s daily challenges.

Well, I want my life to go on and so I will do what I am told to try and feel as good as I can, to be the best that I can be, with whatever help I can get to do that! TA DA!

Happy is as happy does, hmm?
Could it be all the medication causing happy, nah!
All legal prescribed medications.
Even so, it does make one wonder why I always said no to those generous folks way back in the 1960’s who always wanted to share theirs…KIDDING!
I suppose I was saving that experience for these legal ones that doctors seem to feel that I need.
I am a druggy, but not a criminal?
No pain meds until this one.

It reminds me, a little, like when I was twenty-one years old and I found out I was expecting our first child besides being elated, at the time we had been married for just eight months, and I felt also a little like I was a youngster doing something wrong! But I got over it very soon with the birth of our beautiful baby boy… and after all I was a married lady and our first son was born to us fifteen months after our very large wedding with two hundred guests! I know, silly me!

Crazy how those things come back to remind us how some things are so different in this day and age than then.
Nobody worries whether they marry or not and have children all of the time, and far as drugs go, illegal ones are broadcast all over the news by which celebrity has to go to rehab due to falling off their wagons of not doing what they should or could of or would of done if they didn’t have the big bucks to waste on being wasted! Of course, this is just what I have gleaned from the news Medias, as all of you do too!

It is no wonder that many children can well become confused if they ever turn on anything with a picture that moves and has sound on it.

Are they being used as babysitters, still?

I sure hope not, at least not without parental disclaimers explaining why these people do socially unconscionable things that get all that air-time!

Am I being too, too? Not that sorry... Oops, did I say that out loud?

Since I don’t have any impressionable little ones anymore it is not my responsibility to decide what any of you who do have, do… but remember one thing when weeding through all that’s out there, think about when you were young once too, and so decide on that basis what you could understand at that age and what you feel is better to wait till later on, okay?
Just an un-requested idea from a non-relative.

Moving on…
Back to being on topic of needs, we ate lunch, a need, and then we went to Beall’s Outlet, since Monday is 15% off day, even on sale items and I finally found my new bathing suit and cover-up (two more needs to maintain my exercise program of ROM), the bathing suit was marked $24.99, regularly $88, on sale for 50% off so $12.50, the cover-up was marked $12.99 regularly $48 and so with 50% off was $6.50 now plus 15% off both for another $2.85 off, are you ready? Now with the tax included the grand total was $17.26! Big Ta Da!
Oh the bathing suit has a striped navy and apple green striped pattern with a solid navy skirted bottom, a nautical look with two gold-tone buttons simulating holding the straps on and the cover-up is also in the apple green color but gauzy and shoulder-less and longer than the suit, which is shorter than my old one; if I was thinner it would make a cute strapless summer dress.

Any-who... onward again...
I found an interesting article about how to speak your mind that I stowed away in my favorites, which I thought that you all might be fascinated with and I will save for another time…since I have gone on way too long here.

So with that said, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and suggest that you share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Pizza anyone?

For years and years we have been ordering our occasional pizza from Hungry Howies, our very local one right here in Port Charlotte.
Hubby called in the order this late afternoon for a large works one for just ten bucks!
But within seconds he called back to tell them he had forgotten to say thin crust… And he was told it was too late it already went into the oven! For health reasons, I know we found the thin crust less harmful to us with so many problems, and we don’t eat it everyday but when we do we try for thinner.
Basically, what the fellow who later told me that he was the manager but then he told Hubby to either take it or leave it;
Hubby being disgusted hung up, and I asked if I could call them back and cancel and Hubby said sure.
Yep, I called back and asked to speak to the manager, who as I just told you was the same rude kid that said that to Hubby. The reason I mentioned that we didn’t want it now was a realistic fear that someone might spit on it! You know I am right, we have all heard those stories.
He said that it has already been charged to our account and would take three business days to be refunded.

Hubby got on the computer and acquired the phone number for the corporate office in Michigan, but the office was closed it being Sunday and all. Meanwhile he also happened to notice that of all the Hungry Howies in the local area were listed and that ours had only one star while the other two had, five and three stars each, hmm, tell you something?
Little did we know that, I do believe this child manager was a new guy, since we never had this problem previously.

Having that need for comfort food delivered we tried hard to find another pizza place, Luiggi’s that had their prices go up quite a bit over the last few years; originally they had been our favorite. And so I called them, and immediately asked, thinking perhaps that maybe that they had a special or not too much more than others today, as I said it had been years and so I inquired for the price on their thin slice with two toppings? And they put me on hold, for over ten minutes!
I hung up and Hubby and I reconnoitered and decided we would call our favorite Chinese restaurant, China City, which answered and took our order right away, and delivered our order in record time! Some Chinese things are better than others, so there, and ha!
Hope these comments don’t cause more controversy about Chinese products or such…kidding!

Any-who, they’re few of my faith who can go even a month without Chinese cuisine that is not to say that we do, we have been known to go for years without.

Moving on… dinner is a meal we always usually share making, or taking turns nightly.
Most breakfasts and lunches are our own choices, and we unite for dinner.
And so although we usually eat in more than out… sometimes when we are both truly exhausted we choose to call up and eat in… Hubby’s back is his disability and why he retired early, while mine is a multitude of ills, as most of you know… and so not to feel guilty when one prepares more often than the other we give it up to the outside world with the thought of helping the local economy also in the end, a twofer!

On that TMI for the evening, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, July 21, 2012

There's a sun up in the sky, but I don't know why, stormy weather... me oh my...

“Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time”

The actual lyrics to that wonderful old song, thanks to:Just copy and paste this site:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/billie+holiday/stormy+weather_20018077.html#

My rendition is slightly different and my man and I are still together and he is right here, just in the other room, actually!

Fear reigns high too with the crackling of lightening and the booming of thunder, scaring the ‘bejeebers’ out of me and I bet you too!
A word that is also of a terminology that is circa proper, but of a time long gone by...

Sometimes I wonder if I was reincarnated with my older than me knowledge of such words, although it could be the wonderful Saturdays watching thirties and forties movies on channel nine, WOR TV in New York and the program of Million Dollar Movie, all those years ago in the 1950’s and 60’s and its offerings…Oh, or perhaps having parents much older than all my friends parents, at least ten to fifteen years older than theirs… or perhaps all those old mysteries I so enjoyed reading, who knows…

But sometimes I wonder why, ya know?
That is, why I know some things…
I kid, not irrespectively of being on occasion, nearly that I am an Idiot Savant with knowing answers, miraculously, on Jeopardy that I do not recall learning in school.
Hubby wonders too, a bit odd.

It is just plain fun to try to come up with the right ones, and those puzzles on Wheel of Fortune too we both enjoy, old people’s stuff, and something my parents used to watch, perhaps, only a tradition?

There are worse ways to waste time, and not as educational I suspect, but as we all know mindless entertainment helps us chill in horrendous times…
We all need diversions to take time-outs from our own realities then… And there is really no harm in that, and mentally or emotionally a more helpful way to come back to a situation to deal with it later on. I presume that you would come back to it as we all must, bad things that need attention rarely, if ever, go away, really!
You all know that, I am more than sure.

Our weather has calmed considerably since I shut this techno marvel down earlier.
It took a long lull for me to turn it back on even with it being on a surge protector I feel safer shutting down, not unlike many of you too!

Moving on…
Aurora Colorado brought out all the heroes again and people to talk to one another and feel closer in a harsh reality of a horrible mutual circumstance.
If that is what can be considered the silver lining in a dark stormy cloud, I suppose any and all spins are worthwhile to think about… when sadness and horror continue to try to take over.
Did that make any sense?

People are reacting like they did after many other similar caliber disastrous moments with proving to be fearless to go to the theaters and to show that being afraid is not a good emotion and that no one can take any of our freedoms away!
Theaters mostly are taking precautions for safety though and many are not allowing costumes with masks in.

Whatever it takes I say.
The most important thing is to do whatever your comfort zone is.

Years ago, Hubby and I chose to rent movies at home, since neither one of us are comfortable in theaters any longer.
Mostly due to having to get up often for lavatory breaks or just to stretch or what have you, and cost effectively we found watching in the comfort of our own home to be more practical, money-wise.

Everyone does their own thing, which I do believe is wonderful! And don’t stop and don’t ever let anyone or anything prevent you from doing what you truly want to do and are capable of doing.

On that note of a wee bit of preachiness, allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, July 20, 2012

Another senseless tragedy and the feeling of helplessness,again...

Mornings come and mornings go, but no one ever forgets when your day begins with news of another horrendous obscene inhumanity to man from another individual man. The count is twelve dead, 59 injured in Aurora Colorado.All due to a shooter at a midnight in a 16-plex-theater showing The Dark Night, a Batman movie, in theater 9.It was playing in four of the theaters there.

What can one say, not a thing, but prayers for the ones in the hospitals and condolences for the families and friends of the dead, mostly children and teens.

No one could have known what was in the mind of the shooter, James Holmes, a twenty-four year-old, a drop out student of neuro-science, PhD student until a month ago.
Minds, of genius are often twisted.
And I am not saying that was his, no I do not want this cold hearted SOB to escape whatever punishment he rightfully deserves with a plea of insanity!

All those witnesses will surely be able to get justice served.

The alleged shooter, I know, but for legal reasoning I must state it that way, although we all know, also set up his apartment with explosives and trip wires, but told the officers.
And so, so far no one has been hurt by its overwhelming capabilities to destroy so much more, lives and his apartment building too. They have evacuated all the people who live in it, but still are waiting on the professionals to handle this delicate situation.

So many questions to be answered, like: why did he let the police officers take him in, since he was dressed in full protective gear to fight to his death or escape unscathed?
Why did he tell them about the trip wires etc. at his apartment?

This is not as usual as we have seen or heard about before.
None are ever exactly the same.
It kills me when the mayors’ tries to reassure communities with the same lament a single never happen again incident.
But I beg to differ with them, every time they say that it does happen again, may be not there but somewhere…
How truly sad that I have noticed this lie and no one else has.

There will always be people who are not all there in thought and deed for others, not just in war times but in peace times too.

Some want to blame the movies or TV with their violence for the lunacy of the few unstable people that go over the top with disturbing actions, sorry about that, and who take them for reality. I always believed that sex was not as severe an exploit, of course unless due to violence; while violence in itself is just not that entertaining and way too gratuitous with all the new CGI and so I prefer not to watch it.
But thankfully on either controversial topic infiltrated in our viewing they have not affected my behavior either way.
I suppose, I am more the norm than the miniscule amounts of persons that do not understand what is the difference between make believe and reality!
Although, I still think it is a cop-out to blame such things.

Our sons were able to watch most all films and have never committed a crime to my knowledge, kidding, never ever.

In closing, as the president said, hug those loved ones so much more than you could ever think of doing call them tell them what you think and why you care so much for them no matter what!

And don’t ever think that any tragedy has to remind you to do what he and everyone suggests, since we should all do it daily as part of our lives regularities…

On that note of so much sadness, allow me to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Went on over to do something for the good today...

And it, as one could well expect was fulfilling and makes your heart sing to think that thing that everyone gives lip service to, about making a difference and that you can actually make it happen!

Being a do good-er is something to strive for in life and as we all know that we can often be on the other side of that the one needing that help ourselves, and so whenever possible turn that around to help others when able, even if not totally able yourself little things are possible. I'm proof of that!
We all need to know what that feels like to be on the giving end… sure working with a group for a worthy cause or offering to help the military, or an illness that tugs at your heart, etc… are all reasons to chip in physically or monetarily.
The reward is the hug from the person that you help that says thanks in volumes!

Today I went into the free clinic to help with finding those all too elusive medications that most cannot afford without taking out a loan that they may no longer qualify for and all those people who maxed out their insurance prescription coverage for long term illnesses or those with no insurance at all.

The reward is finding the pharmaceutical company that they meet the criteria for, and the molds are all unique to each one of them, that is the drug companies, no uniformity at all.

But there is usually one or more with programs that carry the medications for those people who without them will more than likely die from illnesses that can be maintained with proper medication dosing.

The patients today were two, one needed three medications, which two were found and accessed immediately, while one was not easily accessible. In fact I did continue on the search of the manufacturer when I got home, and I found three in the generic form for this serious medication for tumors.

The second one was for a person that only needed one prescription and that person got it all signed properly while we were still there so it could be faxed to where it had to go to; nice to know that one was on its way.
Many have to go snail mail.

Before I left, my trainer told me that we would be working again next week with a couple of more patients. Geez, I think I am liking this!
It is only for about four hours in total, once a week but providing a service that in this economy and is definitely something this community really needs.
That alone is so rewarding to know.

It sure feels good to be back in the saddle again… figuratively speaking of course!

Sleep, last night, was the norm of getting up for the usual.
But I did stay there, not counting those mini interruptions, until nearly seven A.M. that’s a good thing I suspect.

I am blissfully tired now, and I still have hours of awake time to deal with… sure I will for I am destined to watch that mindless entertainment I so enjoy on the boob tube…why it’s Thursday, and I am so looking forward to The Big Bang Theory and now Two and a Half Men, has been moved to right after it oh how lucky can one get…

On that TMI and a bit of silliness, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Rerun... with a bit of a different ending...

Just a couple of nights ago I wrote about awaking early, actually, in the middle of the night and not going back to bed thus sleep in my ‘2:18’ entitled blog.

Well, last night a similar situation occurred and that is why I should have entitled this one 1:00, since that is when I arose once again, but for a little different reason with a bit of a different finale.
This time, my tummy and my problem with choking in my sleep woke me from a semi-sound sleep, scary, yep, you betcha, I know. And I had taken all the proper medication vis-à-vis, my Dexilant as well as my Pepcid as prescribed.
But every time I tried to lie back down it would happen again and so I had no choice but to get out of bed and into here, again.
So here I sat at my very own techno marvel and commanded it to entertain and distract me, for there was not much else that I could do, since I did what I was told to do, and so all that was left was to sit in an upright position and hope for the best. I did think to drink a warm beverage and what I wanted was my decaffeinated green tea, but alas I could not find it in the pantry and so foolishly without much thought I poured myself a cup of coffee, whoa, big mistake!
Last thing anyone with tummy problems causing insomnia should do, but it was warm and did start out not too bad…

Not too soon after those first few gulps…
Highly acidic and notorious for keeping you/me wide awake if drunk at the wrong time of day or night!
So, one o’clock passed, two did too, three and even four and five too, moments seemed to move way too rapidly through the space-time continuum, but I finally found my green tea and made myself a cup and within twenty minutes I was feeling warm and fuzzy, having that sensation of my eyes not wanting to stay open and I moved my miserable self back into the bed where I belonged!

Next memory was hearing Hubby scurrying about and it was coming from the kitchen. Geez, I always beat him to the rise and shine and now he beat me!
I yelled, “What time is it?”
He shouted back, “A couple of minutes before eight!”
Oh no, I thought.
Half the day is shot.
But in a small way I was a bit relived that I had managed to sleep for a while, about two hours and forty minutes more than the few hours I had gotten in before being so rudely awakened by my pain!

My day began then and I decided to try and go into the pool once again, which I had not been in for a few days, since my ears and nose had been also misbehaving with sinus like yuck and earache like problems from the water in them, I guess?

Hubby had gotten me ear plugs but could not find nose plugs and so I tried hard not to let the water go in… but what fun is it being in the pool without a bit of splashing as you move along. Skipper, who I call my ‘pool buddy’ and he does make his own way in via the steps and swimming directly towards my open arms, he so enjoys being spun around, which is not that different from our sons, when they were toddlers, what a joy that was, ah memories.

When he gets out from his short dips, I do my range of motion exercises in two half hour intervals with a short break between on land.
Then I shower and change for lunch and have my Copaxone shot after, and on to grocery shopping full out, at least today that was on our agenda.

This sleep deprivation is very disrupting to me trying hard to be as healthy as possible; actually, it is counterproductive to anything I want to try in the positive realm.
Please, if any of you out there have any logical ideas on what to do with any of the afore mentioned problems, please tell me.
I do have my neuro appointment next week, and so I will be writing down a few of these ditties for her to ponder over. But lately she just shakes her head as if I should know that it is all just the way it is with all my ills or suggests seeing doctors' specific for each individual problem.
Oh well.

On that bewilderment of exhaustion, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Blank

I am drawing a blank in my head on what to write.
YEA! I think I now hear all of you saying…could I be wrong? Hope so.
When you have nothing to say, talking about that is usually a way to get the ball rolling and words flowing, hmm?

Sometimes it works while other times it is just pure nothingness in a river of blankness...

Been there done that; too often to forget about it…
Gosh, I could tell you horror stories that would blow your mind.

Fortunately, no one pays me for this drivel so I am under no obligation to write one single thing and I don’t even have any word number limitations, true?

I do believe my only restrictions are on myself with how or what I do try to convey to you, the public… at large…

What does that mean, ‘at large’?
Well, let’s explore that since I got nothing else to do… Yep, it means free, at liberty, unconfirmed, on the loose, or dare I say on the rampage?
Also it means in general, on average, taken as a whole, in the main…so there you have it.

You are all there for me to take for your willingness to be taken…GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!
And no, this is not the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, with innuendos deeply imbedded in the framework of my postings…or is it? You decide.

Suggestive or not, we in the writing field are usually more into building into our offerings a beginning, middle and ending with perhaps a cliff hanger to create a need for more, hmm?

My style is more of a modge-podge of no real beginnings or middles or endings and not too many cliffhangers that I can recall, oh alright perhaps one or two…but I’ll give you more whether you want any or not!
That gutter thing comes to mind… oops double entendre; see anyone can write sexy without even realizing it…!
Some people probably know what they do is for tantalization their reader to read on…
A hook, it is called and most know how to be clever or graphic in doing that amazingly and it is a true art form, which sadly I have never had the ability to flex that muscle, since unfortunately as we all know I suffer from my own self imposed, ‘cringe factor’.

This EL James when interviewed seemed so normal; she is a married mother of two teenage sons… an executive with the BBC, amazing mind with fantasies running wild within it, good for you lady! And I do say that with an inordinate amount of respect.

People are saying she alone may be responsible for the next baby boom! Geez, I never knew there was a shortage, bud dump, bum…

Maybe, her next volume, best seller, could incorporate, somehow the need for adoption, sure it’s not sexy, but too many children are parentless… the power of the pen and all, so I say why not! Just a thought from a woman who has no real power only ideas and opinions that sometimes no one hears, but, that’s okay… I do this for me!

I so enjoy reading in print anything that is mine…oh well… honesty is a good thing right?

On that narcissistic conclusion to a very not well thought out essay but with a few major points of call… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Gosh I did it, heaven knows what it is, but I did do it, ha!

Monday, July 16, 2012

I am so upset!

Why?
You are so boldly asking.
Not really, but I can pretend can’t I?
Anyway, it’s way too embarrassing…

Oh, alright if you must know… worry wart here is very concerned… about the fate of American Idol!
Now that two judges Tyler and Lopez have quit and they are saying that Jackson is not far behind!
Boo hoo, sadly, for me, any-who, not really… it has become a bit stale these last couple of years in my book, too harsh you say?
Think about it… I’m waiting, even the judges got bored with it!
After Paula left and than Simon, that should have been the hint, hmm?
Downhill from there I do believe, rats deserting a sinking ship, maybe?
My main concern is for that untapped talent not having anywhere to showcase their talents, oh wait… I hear ‘The Voice’ loud and clear, and a few other clones that have had much better ratings these last few years, hoorah!
So no worries for me or anyone else I do believe.
It makes good copy, a shake up there and puts it back into the forefront with many possibilities with even the Queen of Soul possibly taking a thrown/seat, but alas just talk… and who really knows what will be…
Let’s face it wisdom and talent and R-E-S-P-E-C-T from a person like the above mentioned would be a wonderful asset and who knows even I might begin to watch again! That is if she was asked and consented to perform on a weekly basis, showing the kids how it’s done, so to speak.
But talk is cheap and who would the other judges be…there’s the rub… the other possibilities have not given me much hope for the show to survive.
The Queens of Motown would be great to monitor the new peeps, but what about Cher or Mick Jaeger, for Rock and Roll, and Dolly or Reba for the country perspective or even Garth, gosh the well ain’t dry… the possibilities are endless! What about some of those old runners up like Adam or winners like Carrie?
On and on and on… so there is hope at the end of that long dark tunnel of slowly crumbling ratings… and so in closing of this topic that I spent way too much time on…BREAK A LEG good ole American Idol, since even if you actually do, you can still chirp out a melodious tune each and everyone of you!

Now to my other interesting topic; Saturday night Hubby and I had this idea to have some barbecue ribs, but since we hadn’t any in the house or freezer or fridge we decided to look at our take out menus for two of the restaurants that don’t deliver but are just around the corner from our palatial manor…The one we had enjoyed eating in as well as taking out from has had steadily rising prices and the one just next door to it was slightly more reasonable, and so can you guess probably what el cheapo here did?
You got that right I called the bargain one.

And I called it in and they asked for our phone number and I obliged; they said that in fifteen minutes that it would be ready so Hubby waited and then went down there to pick them up… but, as luck would have it they only had a half an order! The rest was sold out!
Now most would be angry, especially when the young woman insisted she had tried calling to tell us that was the case… and Hubby asked her what number she called and found out that she had copied it wrong!
So Hubby called me to tell me the dilemma and I suggested since he was already there to order it from the one next door, and so I called it in and while he was in the parking lot I told him on our ancient cell phones, ten years old I believe but they still work, that they said ten minutes and that is how we got Wally’s Barbecue dinner that night for a few bucks more.
But wait there’s more!
While Hubby apparently looked dejected while in the original restaurant the young woman apologized and said that she would speak to her manager, and today…
I received a phone call at our correct number offering us a free all inclusive meal the next time we felt the urge, therefore desire for ribs, how nice?
I did say that perhaps I did not speak so distinctly while giving the number to the young woman and perhaps the young woman was not at fault, but she said no I want to do this, and this was the manager at The Goal Post restaurant…thanks Keri!

So on that interesting tidbit of who knows what, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS both places serve delish ribs!

Sunday, July 15, 2012

2:18

Now what could Tobi, oh Tobi oops that's me, what could I ever mean by that title?
2:18?
How odd; nothing else.
Could it be a bible verse?

“A reading from the Book of Genesis 2:18-24
The Lord G-d said: “It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a suitable partner for him.”
So the Lord G-d formed out of the ground
various wild animals and various birds of the air,
and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
whatever the man called each of them would be its name.
The man gave names to all the cattle,
all the birds of the air, and all wild animals;
but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.
So the Lord G-d cast a deep sleep on the man,
and while he was asleep,
he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
The Lord G-d then built up into a woman the rib
that he had taken from the man.
When he brought her to the man, the man said:
“This one, at last, is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
This one shall be called ‘woman,’
for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother
and clings to his wife,
and the two of them become one body.
The word of the Lord.”
Nope, not that, but maybe?

Could it be referring to the score of a baseball game, tis the season and all?
I do believe two high schools in central Jersey had that score once or twice,… but I don’t think that, that is it…?

2:18, could it be a date?
February 18th , but of what year and is it in the future or in the past, baffling; another wonderment.

Now 2:18 could also be a number of a flight or bus or train schedule?
Could be, but not this time…

Gosh that is so right, it could be a time, but A.M. or P.M.?

Do you give up?
Are you sure you don’t want to give it the old college try?
Logic and simplistic is the most reasonable idea to be the answer, hmm?

Beating around the bush, now what does that mean, really?
Any-who, this time it does refer to 2:18 A.M. and that is when I arose this morning and have not been back to sleep since.
CRAZY!

Yes, I do think so too…but some facts are just that.
But let’s get one thing absolutely straight and that is the fact that I awoke at such an early hour with no reason for a job or child or other person’s needs does not make me crazy but the happening is that crazy part and the fact that I did not even try to go back to sleep is crazy(on me, perhaps), maybe?

Okay, now that ridiculous way of explaining the actual occurrence of my night… I will give a slight simple detail of why, not that I have to, but it is a very good reason…
Pain!
My eyes were burning and the salve didn’t seem to help and my sight was going in and out, and so I grabbed a cup of java and sat at this techno marvel and turned it on and until the short power surge a little after four P.M. this afternoon shutting it down temporarily, it has been on ever since!

We did go out today though, to the annual Christmas in July bazaar at the Cultural Center and we came home with some produce from the Farmer’s Market stand outside, off to the side of the building, fresh and free two jalapeños thrown in, two large cucumbers and four sweet potatoes with a total cost of just, $2, and many ideas for our own crafts, ha.

And you know something?
My eyes are not too bad right now and I am not even that tired, in spite of wearing my cooling vest with temps in the high eighties to low nineties but the contrast of the air to heat ratio did set off my spasms as we returned to our car…big ouches in feet and back!

And so I took my evening thirty milligram dose of Baclofen, my prescribed anti-spasmodic, early… I take 70MG. total for the day, 2, 3,2.

All in all I am not too bad right this minute… since I do love to sit and write, it's so relaxing and when I do write it is so magical due to the wildest of all things… I never know what I will write until I am sitting right here, CRAZY?
I suppose.

On that wee bit lighter close, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, July 14, 2012

What really is meant by the idea of mindless entertainment?

Is it getting joy from silliness?
Or could it be from the historic comics of TV that have provided laughter to masses since TV was in its infancy way back in the late 1940’s and early fifties, its heyday or is the humor on stage or in a movie theater?
Or perhaps the slapstick type of yore within those silent movies of the earlier part of a century ago, or the rejuvenation in the new realm of the Academy Award Winning movie, The Artist, or even in the early days in The Borscht Belt, the Catskill Mountains of New York State… or joy from those first few years of Las Vegas and free fun, and so many more? Comedy Clubs are a part of the 1980’s I hear tell…
If that’s mindless entertainment give me some more, more, more!

Fun and laughter is where we find it and now many find it online in the moments of their personal ideas of what makes them giggle and they post that inkling to share with all who also find it to tickle their funny-bone too…how kind or maybe not?

I suppose that to some their concept of what is humorous and yours may not always click, as with beauty, sometimes being droll is also in the eye or ear of the beholder too, hmm?

Many enjoy ethnic humor, which I find offensive, and some enjoy dumb humor jokes using animals or blondes as the objects of stupidity, and my reaction is mixed on both.
Cleverness can achieve a way of circumventing some slightly offensive blonde jokes, which at this age, I am still one, a blonde that is, and so I feel I can judge on those.
Not being an animal I still do take offense on behalf of those whom cannot speak up for themselves as a protector of their delicate feelings that I am sure would surface if they understood being called dumb and could respond appropriately, for that I am more than sure…BIG SMILE here.

And so in closing while I so do enjoy the postings of my Facebook friends mostly, and let them know when I do… sometimes I feel that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all!
HA, I hear you all saying to the gal who nightly tells it as it is no matter whom she may skewer… well, my answer to that is when it comes to humor I know what I like and it is not my responsibility to monitor yours, huh?

On that idea that should grow into a big blooming truth, I am still working on it, another BIG SMILE here…Allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, July 13, 2012

Just for fun?

All seriousness aside what would you do if you were the only person in the entire world to remember sadness?

I know what a joy that would be for the world, but for you not so much, hmm?

You could go around smiling and blend in or insist on trying to explain what it was like being sad…Nope, nobody would want to hear it, betcha?

Twilight Zone like, for you kiddies who don’t have a clue what I am speaking about… here’s a site for you, although, I do believe it is still playing in this dimension on ME TV or TV land, SyFy or some such channel, yes, I do believe that you may have just missed a marathon of programming, or I bet you could get it in Blue-ray or something like that…if all else fails try this, just copy and paste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)
With the above link at least you will be informed if you allow it…insert theme music here…

But back to my way-out idea of you being the only person remembering what it is like to be sorrowful… how would that be for you and would you really think that telling others or trying to explain that sensation would be easy to do?

And you are not allowed to do anything to them, but explain verbally, no doing anything wicked or mean to them to make another human being have that same experience.

At a loss?
Go with that, in reality that emotion really stinks, or as one of my Facebook friends would say, sux.

GREAT!

Now go on from there and be happy all of the time and think Happy, Happy Thoughts!

Gosh, now we might want to discuss the meaning of the word ‘Boring’?

Nah, I will leave that concept for another time, perhaps another place, and maybe even another, dare I say…dimension? Insert theme music here again…!

Having a life filled with joy is the best way to go in life… so that is what I wish for everyone who reads this; is that.

No worries, no conflicts, no ills, no horrors and no fears of triskaidekaphobia; Friday the thirteenth, ha!
I knew I could fit that in somewhere, hmm?

On that short note of little note, allow me anyway to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Some companies are controversial just by the nature of where they do business, but...

That said, I felt the need to highlight one of those on the block companies that I found mixed emotions about, since their care and concern for a customer was done with class!
Here is my communication with this company that I felt was above and beyond what many others would do…admirable I do believe, but that’s just me, what do I know…don’t answer that!
As you can see their customer service is out of Illinois in these United States of America!
I know another outsourced product, but read this with an open mind, please…


Re: A question about your hammered stem wine plastic glasses, #70652 00896
TO:Arrow
Monday, July 9, 2012 8:11 PM

From me:
To whom it may concern:

We, my husband and I, bought two of your wine glasses and were wondering; since they are from China do they contain lead? They were purchased at Publix in Port Charlotte Florida.

Concerned.

We are in our sixties and enjoy wine but with my Multiple Sclerosis, and that is also why this is printed so large I am blind in one eye. And so, I tend to drop things too and Lucite or plastic are lighter and less likely to break and so that is why we purchased your pretty glasses, but after noticing the embellished label, I asked at the grocery clerk, but she did not know and told us to contact you by your additional labeling which made it very easy!

Thanking you in advance for any information concerning this matter...

Sincerely,
Me
Port Charlotte Florida


From: Arrow

Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: A question about your hammered stem wine plastic glasses, #70652 00896

“Thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding your questions and concerns about one of our products. Although the glasses are made in China for us, it is under close supervision at all times. All of the resins we use in the production of our products have been FDA approved for food contact. They contain no Bisphenol A or BPA or lead nor have they ever. Your concerns regarding the plastic used in our products are certainly valid. All of our products are categorized as “Long Service Life” and, therefore, are environmentally sustainable. All of our products are made of food safe materials and colorants. We voluntarily mark our products with Society of Plastics Industry identification recycling symbols.

All of us at Arrow Plastic work very hard to manufacture and distribute safe, reliable products since, like you, we too are consumers. We insist that the products we manufacture be only of the highest quality and usable for the purpose intended and to never pose a danger or threat to our consumers. In addition, we continue to randomly test our products to ensure their safety.

We thank you for your support of our products and look forward to having you as a valued consumer for many years to come. Please feel free to contact us at any time if we may be of further assistance.

Customer Service
Arrow Plastic Manufacturing Company
701 East Devon Avenue
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
(847) 595-9000”

My response:
Thank you for your lovely concise response in such a timely fashion!
We have been using your wine glasses and like them very much.
Sincerely,
Me

In closing posting/publishing this letter more than likely will or should spur some definite discussion on finding a happy medium with all that we have split with other countries. And I mean not the ones that left totally, the ones who still have people working here but produce products over seas.
And perhaps make us try to understand why we Americans have so much to lose with them taking our factory jobs from us in many states. I know that my next question may incense many, but do we ever think that the greed of being paid such high hourly wages could be part of our own manufacturing’s demise, really? And that need to have more, actually has caused us all to not think clearly on why companies took their segments of production elsewhere, not just because it was cheaper but because our neediness never ever seems to be fed or ends.
I am usually the first to buy made in America products and that is why I question others when on that rare occasion that I do buy from elsewhere.
But we as a nation got ourselves into big trouble with trying so hard to have it all, when we seemed to never ever know when enough is enough or just right.
Economically, we know that we are as responsible for what has occurred as the men or women that we voted on to put in office… I am just saying that if we want to blame anyone we should start by examining our own ways of doing things, starting with spending money that many do not have…using other peoples or credit…
On that self examination, which is why we live within our means or below, fear of what has happened has made us more than cautious as we all should be…
But still things can change for us in a split minute like most everyone else!
Scary!
On that knowing I probably said too much as usual, nothing new here, allow me to get back to what is important in life and free, that is being the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Some short lived excitement today!

My long suffering time today lasted less than two hours!
Yes, we were denied that clear liquid that we all seem to take for granted…WATER!

No, of course we paid our bill and I am more than sure everyone else in our neighborhood did too, but the problems was… that someone hit the fire hydrant, and I am pretty sure they did not do it on purpose, who would, really? I sure hope that they are alright!

It appeared to us in sections of degrees, first the water pressure went down quite a bit, and instinctively one looks around the house for a leak, and none were found, since you are on city water it couldn’t be them…I had showered late with fear that it may go completely out and I used my usual shampoo in my hair, but even with less pressure, I cheated a bit instead of two applications of shampoo and then a rinsing with each I only did one shampooing, now don’t think badly of me… oh I can hear you saying, “dirty girl!”
Quickly I applied the conditioner with the same fear of it not all coming out… while all the while soaping my voluptuous body and praying that I will not be left a soapy icky mess!
Fortunately, I made it out in time, just in time for Hubby to personally investigate further since the utilities person gave him the exact location on the corner of Easy and Orange streets just a few blocks from here… when he arrived they seemed to be shutting down the hydrant that resembled the ones we see in those wild car chase scenes that one of the vehicles goes over it and it makes like an enormous fountain spewing its stream, wastefully high into the air…!
Two men were on one of those metal rods shutting the whole thing off, successfully… and sure enough that meant that we were waterless with no time frame given to Hubby when we would have that common wet stuff back coming out of our faucet’s, when he inquired.
And so, once the details were available I felt the necessity to tell the media, since all the other cities surrounding us get that kind of coverage for that sort of thing, I thought it only right for us to get that too, hmm?
But in less than two hours the water was back on even without notification of a boil notice, wow! I contacted the newsies via emails to update the original story with its outcome.
Rain was happening while we had no water and I was concerned, not unnecessarily that our electrical power could be lost too!
Dinner plans were discussed for ordering a pizza, and Hubby even found our paper plates since without water…
Any-who, nothing ever became as bad or as exciting as it might have been, thankfully!

We bit another bullet, horrid expression that just means that we were indeed very lucky and dealt with what we were given so far!
A lot more of summer to come our way and since it is the season for these things to happen…who knows what may be in our futures… I like to think of it as, preparing for the worst and hoping for the best; for that is our common lament here!

In closing, we take what we get to do with what we can and being informed makes it all the more easier…
That is another reason for telling the media what had happen to get the word out.

On that idea of letting the powers that be spread the word, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and kindly ask you to count your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS congratulate me today it makes six years that I quit smoking! They say four more and it will be as if I never ever did...smoke, that is. Oh and congrats to 7-11 on their eighty-fifth birthday!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Red or Blue which are you, really?

Nah, that’s too personal I am told…that is discussing politics; although, you would never know it during an election year, hmm? For the next nearly four months we will be continued to be bombarded with those horrendous commercials defaming each candidate by whatever means one has to do the other injustice…

But it all makes me giggle a little that I can remember, when I was small that being red meant you were a communist, not a Republican, but being one of those means that you are usually conservative, but also means stop, and that being blue either meant you were sad or that if you were true blue you were honest, or moody blue, and a blueblood many might know now that it still means someone coming from wealth! While being blue in politics means you are in the common man or woman’s party, a Democrat and with that usually liberal in thoughts and deed.
How odd that color has represented so many different things over the years…

And if we go on to more of our primary colors, yellow means someone who is a coward, and as on a traffic sign or light it means caution, interesting…


Now green means GO, Go, Go and a newbie or recycler.
Not that exciting, hmm?

Pondering ideas is very nice and trying hard to make them relevant at times can be rather challenging…true?

But being that gal with too much time on my hands makes me do whatever I fancy to think about at any given time at this point in my life. And you have to admit something to think about?

I do so love my socially conscience friends on Facebook who have so many worthy causes proving they all have such good hearts.

Tonight, I put up one that Hubby noticed while we were eating our homemade delish burgers with corn topped with basil and extra virgin olive oil, as well as grilled zucchini and yellow squash. I switched to Hunts ketchup a while ago due to them not using any high fructose corn syrup in their product and now here’s another reason to use their product with their ‘Child Hunger Ends Here’ campaign, at childhungerendshere.com, just copy and paste to learn more.

All you have to do is buy any ConAgra Foods and then go to their site with the number on the container and they donate to the campaign from a portion of your purchase!

It is very stormy here as I write tonight, our usual.
Not timed exact yet, but pretty regular.

And so in closing I hope that I did somewhat entertain you with a bit of nonsense but also with some information to share with others and so now allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Monday, July 9, 2012

Speaking my mind occasionally has caused me to rethink how or what I say...

Tempering your words with, oh let’s just say thinking before blurting, puts the kibosh on my flow.
Yes, I flow and spew with little thought, but you all knew that.
And at least I am honest enough to admit this thing of mine, which most would consider an undeniable flaw…Interesting how ‘flow’ and ‘flaw’ have only one letter to make them entirely different meaning words, hmm?

Not that it should mean anything, but you have to admit it, it is interesting in the context of what I have been professing to, right?
Who cares, really?

You know, that as we all get older we try hard not to care what others think about us. We tell ourselves that we know who we are and are quite secure with all that does mean.

But is it?
Don’t most of us need others to validate some of the things we know and feel and do?
Hogwash, I hear you all say!
Well, aren’t you just the epitome of the well balanced perfect human being!
I on the other hand am not perfect at all, oh just wait, you all knew that, hmm?


Okay, I hear you saying move on…
Today, I was determined to find a bathing suit since my lovely long stretched out wearing thin in the fabric department one has its days numbered.
So on Mondays Beall’s Outlet has 15% off for everyone over fifty who has their card, and so we went and looked, but no luck… Had to go up to Wally World for a hose nozzle and a few other items like potting soil etc… and so I thought that I would give them a browse too and no luck there either! Just as well… imagine how most of us gals hate to bathing suit shop, then think trying to get into a dressing room with your scooter or leaving it out of it and toddling in and then just, maybe too much to ask… but just try to understand that the body you remember of seven years ago has blown up to twice its size!
And think that oh my goodness I have to look in the mirror if I get it on? Get your minds out of the gutter! I meant the bathing suit!
Not a pretty sight at all lumps where cute bumps used to be, dents where hills and valleys and tightness used to be, now where flabby is, too scary, to go on… just as well… I didn’t see one that I liked enough to try on, thank goodness for that!

Not a woman alive even when slim and trim has found her body to be perfect, yes, I do know since that when my little package was small for teeny tiny bikinis, size 2, I still did not believe that I was just right!
Honestly, it is so sad how many of us women, young and old have horrendous body image issues…and it is nothing new. It has been going on for years.
Only if we could all support one another on all things the more important ones more regularly then speaking my mind would have the effect I was hoping for… allowing for all of us to be who we are without being thought of negatively!
We as human beings are so complex, yes, more than these machines that can cause us grief on occasion …
And yes, that is males and females equally.
Why can’t we try to express our thoughts without harm to one’s self or another’s while in a safe heaven; then why not?

Am I thought of badly?
Or am I just another voice in the dark not really being heard by those I wish to hear me?
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?
Is that a too farfetched analogy?
Nah, sure if no one is listening to this jibber jabber then it is not doing anything for anyone, but is it really anyway if they are there and listening/reading?
WHOA, I am getting way too esoteric for even me… but my brain is damaged, so I have been told due to having a neurological illness… and so that is my excuse and I am sticking to it!

On that ridiculous note of trying to end on a high, note that is, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Hot, Hot, Hot, we got, got ,got!

Oh so we joined the rest of the heated states, but so far no storms to create havoc with our electricity causing our air-conditioning to go out! So I am good, since heat is a big no, no for MS. And I had to wear my cooling vest to go out today! Sure it was very hot here too, feel better America, we have joined the club?

Gosh, we know personally how awful that is!
Here in Florida in our neighborhood after Hurricane Charley, August 13.2004, a Friday; when our electric went out it was for a whole two weeks! Mind you this was August in FLORIDA! And our home was destroyed while we were in it! Over eighty thousand dollars worth of damage to a home that was purchased for only 55k in 1998 and we had been renovating since then…
when it did rain it rained inside…with tarps on the roof…
And no insurance money until October or FEMA trailer either...Not good at all, temperatures in the nineties indoors and heat indices in the well over one hundreds for two whole weeks!

To top off that disaster, living on a saltwater canal is normally a beautiful nice thing, but during this period of having to keep windows open due to no central air-working with our generators and using fans instead, the sewerage plant up river was hit by a tornado and all that yuck including its aromatic smell made its way toward all of our noses, down our canals, towards our homes!
We had no options, closing the windows would have meant certain death from the heat; our only hope was a wind shift!

And although it seemed to take hours it was much less and it did happen, the wind shifted taking that balmy putrid odor away with it, hip, hip, hooray! It was a very short lived living hell!

We are all tested in life and the expression goes that the almighty never gives anyone more than they can handle… and yep, I think that could be what it might have been, maybe? But for me it was proof of the exact opposite.

Who knows… all I know is that it was pivotal in my handling of things in life…I found out that I was only good with disasters when they weren’t mine and when I could leave to go home from them after helping, a truly sad revelation…This last one broke me as a human being… since I could not go home from it, since I was already home… oh so very different. Brave for others but a whimp for me.
I have been testy every since with people and of course my own worst enemy with cutting off my nose to spite my face and most all relationships…it all was a shock and my nasty part of me didn’t really surface until watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina about a year after ours… I found out it triggered a lesser form of PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which I am finally coping with a bit better these days… with trying again to find a purpose in life… and that is a good start!
My ills and my younger son’s estrangement still wear me down when I let them get the best of me…
But I try hard to not allow them too.
Thus my ups and downs…in how I write and how my days go like that roller coaster I refer to frequently.
We all need to try as hard as we can to be happy no matter how difficult our circumstances are… sure I have Multiple Sclerosis and seven types of arthritis, high blood pressure, and cholesterol without medication, but that medication is working just fine these days! And yes, I have GERD and hypothyroidism, also doing fine with medication!
I take my Copaxone daily and my Baclofen too and my MRI’s were stable and so who can complain?
I’m good, or I should be… I AM ALIVE!
Nothing is perfect, least of all ourselves, really!

So in closing tonight… Hubby and I had a lovely day in spite of the heat we went to the Cultural Center and had their feast of prime rib for a mere $6.95 with sides at a dollar and half each, or we could have had the buffet there for $11.25, which included salad and dessert, but chose not to.
We also went to their Trash or Treasure shop and got two more picture frames on sale for half price from their already bargain of $1.50 a piece so it was only $1.50 for two, and I bought two more blouses for a total for them for their sale price a dollar fifty each, also half price from their usual $3 a piece price! Some deal, hmm?

After that we moved on to the grocery store, Publix where I was hugged by our grocery clerk what a nice thing.
We had picked up odds and ends…and that total was the usual unexpected for so few items…such is life, hmm?

Oh, I almost forgot, this morning when I checked our account again, all those charges were removed and so that is also something good!

Yes, we all must count those blessings that I mention here nightly, actually it is a reminder for me…but I do so love to share and those overages are just that and that is why we will too! Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night…

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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