Irony 2, the sequel

Last night I went off on a 1200 word rant all due to a blurb on a Blog I read while searching online for a possible motorized cart to help me be able to go to places that don’t have them readily available.
Any-who, while I searched I noticed this Blogger saying on the in line items listed for the results of my search that they felt that people who used these motorized carts are lazy sperm whales and if they got their fat a—es (derrieres) out of them they would not need them and could get a job to pay for the insurance that they needed for whatever reason they think that they needed to use them and stop having the tax payers pay their way! Also stating being too fat was not a good reason to use them. (Well, young or old man or woman I really have no idea. I worked for 32 years and they took out Medicare social security, FDIC and everything that was the same that you have taken out that is if you are working, and I am too young to collect Medicare at 58. And we still pay our way, and have always done that. We live off a small pension that my husband earned and social security his both and we save and pay cash for the things we need other than our daily living needs and bills.)
Well, that is my reason for last night’s long essay of trying to reason with this Moron.
Only heaven knows he/she probably doesn’t know that I wrote that, I wish someone would tell him/her.
At the time I found it I was having server problems and got disconnected to the Blogger site where I had clicked on it and was willing then and there to respond to his heartless illogical rationale. Unfortunately, when later on I went back trying to find it again it appeared to be gone.
All I can say is that from a very young age I have been able to see gray when others only see things black or white, and that is why I wanted to know his/her reasoning for being so negative.
Mostly it is an advantage, but sometimes people think you look indecisive, or end up arguing that point that there is more to it than their blanket decision has made them think and that is all they know and so it is true and right, not that there could be two or three sides to each possible problem and all could be right too.
So perhaps this person was ill their selves or drugged or drunk or just had a bad day and needed to pick on someone that they felt didn’t care about anything anymore.
I don’t know if this is anything but some old people that do have a slower pace or heart condition may use them too, and many are capable of walking too?
But if they are slender and old they should be allowed and people who are fat due to listening to the doctors and taking meds that make you gain weight and quit smoking et all, are doomed even if their hip bones are crunching each other and their balance is compromised from Multiple Sclerosis? I think not.
One must expand ones reasoning of structural ideas in logic, which is based on many concepts creating one system to support the ideas of many.
All in all, this world has enough problems with the horrors of foreclosures, the economy, and with jobs being lost daily I think now is the worst time for people to turn on one another, really don’t you?
We must unite and show care and concern for one another not divide.
Together we stand divided we fall.
If us commoners can’t support one another who can?
Now I do believe I am finally done with this topic, and thank you for the venue to express my feelings.

Good night to all and to all take care of one another; we really only have each other, don’t we?

Irony is a very strange thing

The topic of tonight's Blog is 'Irony'.
My best example of irony is me.
I went to the doctor's due to my not feeling well and listened to what they told me to do.
Prior to going I was doing really great for about four years and I was back down to what I euphemistically call my fighting weight of 103.
Going to the gym five days a week where I worked out for an hour and half each day.
Then I slipped getting out of our pool and my knee swelled up.
So after a couple of days of trying home remedies I went to the doctor.
All they could do was to take X-rays and recommend continuing with the RICE, rest ice compress and elevate, treatment I was doing.
Medication was not to be taken since they knew my stomach history of ulcers I could only take Tylenol, since all anti-inflammatories killed my stomach Advil had put me in the hospital.
But I wasn’t able to go to the gym the knee needed rest, within days the swelling went down.
And I went back to the gym.
Katrina hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast that year and brought back those horrid memories of me being hours in our hallway as our home was destroyed around us.
It triggered memories that I would not want to recall.
My knee had a soft swelling behind it that reappeared, and so I went back to the doctors who felt it was a benign cyst, and they chose a wait and see attitude, and so I did and it went away.
But I found myself going less and less to the gym where I had another full year already paid for.
My neck started to hurt and my balance waivered.
So back to the doctors where they started doing an MRI of my shoulder and neck, which we all knew I had arthritis in.
The MRI showed that I did have stenosis in my cervical region, the neck, and a tear in my muscle in my right shoulder.
The Orthopedic surgeon did a neurological test for balance and told me that it looked like I had Ataxia and that I should see a neurologist, and I did.
More MRI’s and in the interim a visit to an ear nose and throat doctor to rule out middle ear problems that test was negative.
The MRI results showed plaques in my brain that indicated MS, but also TIA’s.
Since both my parents and my now I know my brother died from strokes it was recommended that I quit smoking.
But I was not readily convinced until the MS doctor said that if I quit my MRI might not show anymore TIA’s, and he could get a better diagnosis of my MS, and so July 11. 2006 I finally did.
But now I had been taking seven prescriptions’ dedicated to each of my many symptoms and each doctor insisted that they’re not responsible for my weight gain, which was 30 pounds at this point.
So my dilemma to quit smoking was another weight gain which had happened each time I had quit before, which had been six times, adding fifty pounds each time and then I would miraculously take it off when I exercised and returned to smoking.
But this time was different I had tangible evidence that the smoking was causing something serious, and so that was my motivation.
I looked at it this way the threat of a stroke would be lessened and I would feel all better from not smoking so then I would exercise and lose the weight and not gain anymore.
Hah! Not to be, the weight that I already gained was causing me havoc and was making it difficult to do many things. I was too embarrassed to go back to the gym so I tried weight loss clinics and at two different ones wasted over $2400 and not losing a pound. Not one of my doctors would admit that the meds were causing the weight gain I only found out from doing my own research and by then I had gained all that quit smoking weight on top of the medication weight.
But I didn’t let that stop me I was determined to lose it and so I decided I would walk around my neighborhood since many times before I had walked to lose that smoking weight and it did work. I was even a race walker for a while able to complete 3 miles in 40 minutes. I even took myself off the medications that I felt were causing the weight gain, but two I could not. Cholesterol and blood pressure medications when I went off them it proved that my cholesterol went up significantly and so did my high blood pressure which until this weight gain I never had before.

So walk I did I started slow but eventually got up to one hour five to six times a week and I lost 12 pounds!
But then the summer came and the heat is hell for MS with our humidity, and so I switched to the pool, which is more range of motion than weight loss for me being a certified Aquacize Instructor and all.
So in the summer I gained it all back.
In the fall I began again this is now the fall of 2008 and by November my what I thought was bursitis is constant and with my cane I walked with for my balance issue of Ataxia my shoulders felt like they had bursitis too, which I know I did have in my past, both hip and shoulder bursitis so back to the doctor again.
In my heart and all my training I knew that bursitis wasn’t this chronic for months and this debilitating not being able to sleep from pain for nights and nights.
And so when I went to the doctor and asked if now it might not just be Osteoarthritis of those two areas he said yes, and told me not to walk and that I would need my hips replaced and surgery on my shoulders so to try to lessen my cane use inside.
So this is why I use one of those motorized carts in the stores since both hips have bone on bone that I can sometimes hear but always feel, and my shoulders are shot too, which makes even pushing the motion buttons on those carts, hurt.
So the next time you see someone in one of those carts think twice before you crucify them.
Oh yeah, get them fixed you say, well, it just so happens that when my husband was injured on the job of being a deputy, which he gets disability for we did try, but COBRA wants $1200 a month for their insurance, which is nearly 40% of our income, not good, and four other companies turned me down due to me being pre-existing, so please people don’t assume things when you see someone in a difficult situation most do not want to be there, actually all; who would want this?

Good night to all and to all do not judge people without knowing all the facts, no change that to don't judge people ever, no one should.

Illinois Governor ousted... peanut products still on recall

Governor Rod Blagojevich has been voted out by his state representatives, the vote was 59 to nothing. And the man tried so hard on all those NYC talk shows Monday to be so charming and likable, so much for saccharine sweetness, I guess there is no fooling a true New Yorker. I watched as sweet Barbara Walters questioned the man and she was not at all easy on him, no tree questions at all, even Joy Behar got him nearly to do an impression of Nixon’ s famous line, “I am not a crook!” These TV interviewers are not, by any means, easily fooled, which is so refreshing.

Now to that notorious horrendous deadly recall on peanut products over five hundred ill and 8 dead.
Peanut Corporation of America out of Georgia knew for two years that they had bad unhealthy products that tested positive for salmonella, rats and roaches were found within the plant, and did nothing, criminal.
Fortunately, Lance cheese and crackers and others of those product’s line are not affected, neither is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups or even peanut butter in jars, and when I think about it those would be the only peanut products I would be using.

Just in: a woman in Naples Florida of the age of 90 years young was just reunited with her six digit lost money situation, stocks that she sold back in 1993, but forgot about when she moved. When asked what she would do now with that found monies she said that she would pay her taxes, remodel her kitchen and then go gamble at the Seminole Casinos. My husband asked did she say she was giving it away charitably, he shouted from the other room and I said she said she was going to gamble at the casino, and I said yes, she is giving most of it to the Seminole Indians, isn’t that nice?

Back on the home front the weather here was just beautiful today, sunny and still in the 80’s, but not for long supposedly tonight we are getting another cold front coming with a possibility of much needed showers; tomorrow the prediction is for only mid 60’s, brrr. The low on Saturday morning will only be in the upper thirties!
This is the coldest winter that I can remember in Florida in all the years that we have been here!
Makes you wonder about Global warming, and I am sure most of my northern neighbors are questioning the concept now too. Below are two sites that may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

Any-who, the 819B was passed yesterday in the senate; now it goes to the house, and so was the law to be able to sue for pay discrimination, to gain equal pay for equal work no matter who you are. 'The Lilly Ledbetter Law', based on her problem with her salary and where Lilly worked in Alabama for Goodyear who paid her less than her male counterparts, her own case was thrown out due to it being filed too late. The old deadline of 180 days from when she took the position was how it had to be filed, but now it's from when you received your last paycheck. Consequently, Ms. Ledbetter did not profit from the new law but many others now will.
Well, that’s all for tonight.

And so good night to all and to all keep in touch with everything around you the world seems to be changing nearly in a blink of an eye!

Imagine not having any entertainment to distract you from your personal woes...

Well, the crime rate I am afraid may just be going up a wee bit more; something no one needs in these times, another problem.
Remember those converter boxes to give you access to the new digital TV age if you didn't have cable or some other form to change it like a satellite to be your combined entrée to digital, but now you will be out of luck, or more than likely out of pocket with another useless expense?
Those discount cards that were going to give you a total of eighty bucks off on those two converter boxes… well, the money is not there anymore, and they have not delayed the change over like they were trying to.
I know it is awfully unimaginative of me to think that because of no free at home entertainment that crime will go up, but think about it, so many who sat quietly twiddling their thumbs staring at the box were off the streets at night not causing any havoc will now have to find something else to do to keep busy with.
The positive thinking ones will say, well, they can read, or go to or rent a movie, or play board games with their children, but alas how will these poorer people afford that if they couldn’t afford the forty bucks in the first place for the converter or the monthly cable charges? And what if they are now part of the multitude of unemployed?
Think about it, the news has said that over six million people in the US are still using roof antennas; do you really think that those people would spring for the full price of those converters?
I think not, we didn’t on those first two, but we used our discount cards last June fortunately when we received them, but on our third we did pay out of pocket, only fair.
They tried to delay the digital procedure until June 12th of this year instead of the 17th of February, which our government as of today they did vote and are allowing that to be the date still!
Stimulus bimulus if people don’t have their boob tube you can bet your sweet bippy that sooner rather than later they will be up to no good!
Kidding, I really have more faith in our fellow man and woman to be more creative with time on their hands.
Some may go to see TV at a friend’s house who’s has the works, or go for a walk to let out that pent up energy and walking is a freebie. Or maybe they will just steal one or the cable like people unfortunately do all too often, so I am told.
But that last sentence proves my crime theory.
No, no I will not allow that negativity to cross my mind, people are good by nature and resourceful and the human race will prove that little curves in our daily lives are just that minutia and not worth our fretting over just to endure and find a better way to conquer the problem whatever it might be!


Now as I write this they are talking about shortening the mail delivery week to five from six days, but get this, they are talking about taking away the mid week delivery that is where they might cut, confusing our bill and medication distributions on both ends. Let’s get real… aren’t we already confused enough?

More challenges for us all and silly me I just worry about my health, but in the bigger picture it is such a small thing, isn’t it? As I said before all of this is just a minuscule blip in the time continuum. When or once we can step back and try to look at all of this objectively, wow, it would be similar to seeing the world from the space shuttle, really tiny.
PS today was the anniversary of that horrid day in our past when the Challenger blew up January 28. 1986. My Dad saw it live, the day after his 79th birthday also his last birthday, while standing on his vacation balcony at a condo in Flagler Florida.

So people I beg you to do not harp on the bad but enjoy the good and even why not, the ugly!
Remember this too will pass… eventually.

Good night to all and to all sorry you northerners but it was 80’s here today in Southwest Florida! We each can find some good in each and every day, just look harder.

Why just today I had a surprise visit from my neightbor from across the canal and it was a very pleasant surprise!

Tonight I answer my own questions with a little research

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary definitions of:
Acquaintance:
Results 1-1 of 1 | more
1) Knowledge gained by personal experience, such as: Tiffany’s acquaintance with cows is limited to a visit to a petting zoo when she was three
Synonyms: cognizance, familiarity
Related Words: association, experience, exposure, intimacy, involvement; initiation, introduction; awareness, comprehension, conception, inkling, notion, understanding; education, enlightenment, grounding, information, instruction, learning, schooling, training
Near Antonyms: callowness, greenness, ignorance, inexperience
Antonyms: unfamiliarity

Friend: Results 1-2 of 2 | more
1) A person who has a strong liking for and trust in: another really close friends who like to do everything together and are always sharing secrets
Synonyms: buddy, chum, comrade, confidant, crony, familiar, intimate, pal
Related Words: acquaintance; associate, cohort, colleague, companion, fellow, hearty, hobnobber, mate, partner, peer; brother, sister; accomplice, ally, collaborator, confederate; benefactor, supporter, sympathizer, well-wisher; friendly
Near Antonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, rival; archenemy, nemesis
Antonyms: enemy, foe

2) A person who actively supports or favors a cause such as: hopes that the new governor will be a friend to environmental causes - see exponent


Now this is not that confusing; is it? Then how come I didn't know until just now that most of the people over the years that have touched my life in some way or another have mostly been acquaintances? Is this just sad or foolish of me?
I truly believed that I had people that had my back so to speak.
You know what I mean when all goes wrong in life they were there for me to vent to complain to and just support my decisions and ideas or just hear me cry; does anybody really have someone that wants to hear that?
Even spouses realistically don’t want to know that.

And so here I am with my own 21st Century venting, complaining listening machine, but I have not been getting any feedback and that might be a little more helpful or not. Just writing my thoughts down in black and white does put some things in perspective.

It’s hard to be a human being in the times we live in since almost everyone you know has some sort of problem, and of course theirs is worse than yours when you think of it by their viewpoint, right? Yes, it does seem that way, and so helping others worse off than yourself has always been the best way for me personally to help myself by helping others but now I can’t. You see physically I am unable to due to my medical difficulties.
I guess that I am virtually up a creek without a paddle; and that is not at all a very nice feeling.
So here I sit writing about my wishes and desires.
When in previous days I was able to cure their ills as well as my own.
I did try to touch others in a good way with helping as I could when I could.
Dwelling on negativity the professionals say is not productive.
So I will not get specific here, but I was very disappointed in many people in my recent past that I thought were friends, but apparently proved to be just acquaintances.

You know when you feel like someone was supposed to have your back, be there, in a hard upsetting situation and they fizzled in that respect, and euphemistically dropped the ball so to speak? What a disappointment. Sadly when this happens you feel you will never let anyone in that close to you ever again and trust becomes an extremely big issue with anyone too anxious to show camaraderie or the desire to be the so-called, ‘friend’; I really though that I left that type of uncertainty back in my childhood.

Growing old is definitely not for sissies.
But old is what I hoped I would always get, since the alternative to not getting old, is dead.
I used to tell the seniors that I taught that I will get old if I am lucky.
Well, guess what I am on my way!
And so I will suck it up and be brave and try harder to not let a little thing like not having any true friends not bother me anymore, OK? Actually my husband is my best friend, as corny as that sounds, it is true.
And take hold of my own self as a plus for leaning on, and give myself a good talking to when necessary to straighten me out, and laugh in the face of incapability’s and count all my still have abilities.

I have seen thousands doing that on so many TV programs with heroes and survivors of all sorts of horrid life’s tests, and they get along just fine with their own strengths.
So that is what I will do.
You see I just gave myself a really good talking to, a pep talk so to write, and it is slowly working…I guess.

I will try harder to be a better person and discuss my non short comings, and find many life’s options for interests to be a daily research project that will make me more interesting, I hope.

Good night to all and to all… if you play it right you can be your own best friend.
If not try to see what an acquaintance might have to offer, keep an open mind.

So this is a day in my life?

Have you noticed how I have gone off topic many times?
Well, let me explain, I needed a working title for this Blog, and that one sounded good to me.
Don’t you think it is slightly provocative?
Keeps you guessing never knowing what to suspect.
I like that, since in my soul I am still a mystery writer at heart, an unpublished one, but definitely one of those, and of course a rambling idiot too, but hopefully lovable.
In reality I have twisted and turned my mostly opinionated blurbs into a frantic synopsis of all of our lives playing out in this difficult time in our history.

Each day we find more horrors or mundane inconsistencies.
Life is good when it is mundane, huh?
Yes, there is a feeling of comfort from benignly boring in situations.
Surrounding calmness has its rewards in life.
It’s more than an issue of control of conditions around us; much more it’s the knowing of what’s next.
Surety makes one feel euphoric; it works as a natural tranquilizer to our body’s uneasiness.
You ever hear of a child who knows he or she is loved feel extremely confident in the world and become successful in his or her life?
That’s what serenity of ones demeanor can create.
Zen-like is the image that I am going for.

Unfortunately, in order to get anything close to that type of environment you would have to be totally living in your own hard shell covered world, literally.
So, day dreaming of better times is said to be a little like meditating.
Many years ago I took a class in Yoga, which did exactly that, and for two hours a week it was great, I was in touch with my body and its inner workings, metaphorically speaking that is.
To really, know what was going on in my guts I guess that I would have to be some type of doctor or something, which I am not.
Temporary mind trips without the use of drugs to enhance that affect is fun, nothing more than being child-like with using your imagination.
Humming while closing ones eyes is restful then allow your mind to wander, and off you go!
Place yourself in a forest or on a beach with those trees rustling, or with the waves crashing playfully on that beach, breath in and out with each rustle or wave flow.
This small exercise can be done while at lunch at your desk at work if you have a cubby.
People might think you are a trifle off if they can see you doing it.
And please people never, ever try this while driving in your car!
If you are the passenger than by all means go ahead and do it.

With that brilliant commentary (LOL), I will leave you for the night, and good night to all and to all please sleep peacefully.

Requests for a BIG stimulus but this time...

Yes, this time it will be used, an 825B for shoring up our tax payer infrastructure, and for also creating 4 million new jobs!
It is also true that 200M has been earmarked for birth control, interesting and what could he be thinking, and other lump sums for pre-kindergarten programs.
I would suspect that some line items will fall by the wayside once picked apart by all giving it a once, twice, and thrice over.
Hopefully, all decisions will be made with bi-partisanship co-operation and without just voting no because it was one or the other sides idea.
Let us all hope for that!

Amazingly that Illinois Governor is acting too bizarre for words; Rod Blagojevich is insisting he is not going to be impeached but his entire state says not true you will be.
Anyway, he’s doing the New York thing, doing interviews saying he is the victim of special interests and other such groups. OK, I guess he is living in his own Never, Never Land but a distance from La, La land, which I am sure will do a made for TV movie on his so-called self imposed plight?

Today I got myself into a cleaning mode and I felt the need to take my area rug outside and wash it along side of our pool deck, and so I got out my bucket filled with Clorox two and my Tide Free and a scrub brush and went to work on my beautiful all wool seashell and fish pastel rug.
I know you are all in shock it should be dry cleaned you are all screaming at me, but no I have done it before and the colors brighten wonderfully, actually about twice a year.
But somehow this year it felt extremely heavy heavier than ever before I even started the process which I begin with hosing it completely down with cold water, and yes the cold water is used for the entire process, perhaps which is why it works so well.
So I literally drug it outside and in that action I also pulled my door mat along with it. Oh well it was easier to return to its location, that is, the door mat.
I scrubbed once I dosed the rug with my soap filled cleaner bucket then hosed the soap off; it took a few times but I do believe I removed most of the soap, I hope.
Any-who, I hear that soap keeps bugs, away?
The cement cool deck was not conducive to helping with the drying process, and so my husband tried configuring our patio chairs with a PVC pole to make a drying rack, but it was not strong enough. Then we thought perhaps putting it down by the dock on the dock deck were it gets extremely warm would be a good idea to speed up the deed.
But my husband thought a little further out of the box and suggested the glider which was secured in a down position and that is what my hubby was able to manage to place it there for the act of this drying method. Alas, it was not to be and so as a last triumphant consideration it was hung on the rail above the glider’s secured swing on the hard metal rail, ta da! My husband used stainless steel clamps with wooden blocks as fabric ding protectors and also to perhaps prevent it from flying away.
Unfortunately, it was still not dry by this evening but each day this week it is getting warmer here, and tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 80’s once again, so my hope for my vibrant wool decorative accessory shall be returned within its environment before too long, for this I am sure.
It is nice to know that some things are for sure, isn’t it?
Although, about a week ago if you recall that glider swing went for a ride across the dock deck due to some wild wind occurrence, and so as we all know nothing is truly for sure.
On that unsure note I will bid you good night to all and to all let us keep the faith on all good important things, you hear?