Brain

How many do you know have one?
That is a brain; of course I am being facetious.
But you have to admit that is a delicate amazing dazzling piece of ingenuity and engineering excellence a true home computer that many think, with that brain that must have been created by the man him or herself, the one and only, ‘the all mighty’.
And I am not speaking of the Wizard of OZ folks!
But let’s face it no one can be sure, because we weren’t there on that fateful day, were we?
Playing with fire is one heck of a thing to do and what if they really goofed, I ask you?
And dear friends’ ignorance is not bliss, contrary to public opinion, but from whom?
Knowledge is power and then we have ourselves a dichotomy, correct?

Clichés are familiar to the masses and when one likes to appear knowledgeable we occasionally grasp at them for self expression or to make a point.
I, myself seem to use them more than anyone should.
Does familiarity also breed contempt, as so we have been told?
There I go again.

Fascinating as this must all seem to you, the reader, I am sure by now you are wondering when I will make my point and if it will be pertinent to the title.
Be patient… I’m getting there…
You do recall how I have been saying I will try to be more entertaining than annoying?
Oh you don’t?
Oh that’s right I just said the entertaining part not the annoying part, yep that one I must have said to myself, but you all probably agree that can be somewhat of a problem for me, right?
Yes, that is exactly what I said not to be more annoying to these fine people of the world, plain speak only with a jigger of silly please!
And right now I am trying my best to accomplish that my dear peeps!
How’s it going?
Not yet; you all say!
Gosh, getting your silly back is a matter of changing your ….here it is folksy peeps of this planet, no make that the universe, and it’s as easy as changing your …MIND and how you see it, all that is, every bit, every particle piece of the cosmos ; that is the way things are and yes, now you see that our minds have to do with our brains and there is in that my conclusion, my tonight’s title used to it its utmost respectability with a smattering of silly, TA DA!

But you are sure you don’t want to know what I was really going to say that wouldn’t have been funny or silly at all?
Nah, my new motto is to ‘keep 'em guessing’! (Notice the OZ reference? Ha, Auntie Em?)

On that birthright of freedom to be silly me I will suggest that you all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ok?
PS those pics that I am adding into Face book and here on Google are actually photos taken either by me or hubby in our backyard!

Truth

Why is the truth so elusive for some and so downright simple for others to say?
Many say it’s because some feel others are too weak to accept the truth and so they sugar coat it thinking I don’t want to hurt their feelings.

Come on… the world and people in general have been through so much to date and we are all getting tougher and learning how to accept the occasional inevitable.
Or is it fear of causing jealousy?
Perhaps being secretive is just a way to hide the actual real reason for doing something, oh and not saying something about something that should be told is just as good as lying in my book!
Whatever the reason people lie; it has always baffled me.
Since I personally have never been very good at doing it!
Oh sure, I tried like everyone else but when all was said and done I came clean and said what it was tried and true anyway, eventually…
How odd to know people that do it so well and to be related to such people like that and that is one thing I can’t take is when someone lies to me it makes me oh so sad.
It’s called ‘a dirty little lie’ for a reason, right?
And the worst of it is when it happens to you personally without knowing cause; it makes you unable to trust people sadly.
People who are related or are true friends deserve to be open and honest with one another, right?
Am I such a Pollyanna to want everyone to play nice?
Well, if not nice; honestly?
I suppose this topic during the holiday season is getting old fast.
But we all lie on occasion, but mostly to the wee ones, huh? (Wink)
You know what I mean, and that is harmless and quite gratifying to a point to see the smiles on the children’s faces when they believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny or what-have-you.
That’s more like telling a fantasy story though with all the characters involved in the occasion.
But sometimes I wonder with all those icons that man/woman created to represent those holidays wouldn’t it be more beneficial to just celebrate the religious aspects of them?
And say to the children that all those symbols of the holidays were created to make it have a fun side and to sell lotsa of things; which in reality we all know they were.
Shades of ‘Miracle on 34th Street’, there sorry folks!
But we all celebrate different holidays around the world which all have their symbols to represent different things other than the actual real reason we do celebrate them.

As silly as this must seem to many then must I beg to ask; why is lying a sin in so many religions?
All these good people who follow their all mighty man or woman or symbol have the desire to not speak the truth and probably lie daily.
Catholics go to confession to be forgiven and Jews cast their sins into the water during their high holy days… so I suppose the almighty has knowledge that we as human beings are imperfect, of course we are!
So why am I so judgmental I ask you?
Because it’s personal and my feelings are hurt the most when I find out that I have been lied to!
I guess this is CRAZY part TWO! LOL!
PS the liars were not living in this household and not our sons, although the culprits used our home for their hotel while they built theirs.
But other relatives that I believed were telling me the truth.

I hear you all saying…GROW UP!
This is the way of the world, people lie, get over it…!
I know I will but it is still raw because it is only a few days old.
Another good thing is as human beings we are all resilient!
Me being one of those who forgives and forgets, but some hold grudges I have never ever done that.
I have renewed friendships over weird horrible hurts, but some people aren’t willing to forgive.
Forgiving may be the hardest thing for some to do but not for me.
The hard part is when the other party or parties doesn’t want to come half of the way to meet up for the forgiveness. Then it cannot work, and some people are like that I have sadly found in this life span that is way too short to not forgive, got that?

On this still not funny blog tonight I will stop once again, but boy it sure feels good to release some of those feelings and perhaps get some feedback from any of you?
Since I am sure many have been lied to and were not very happy about it when you found out and I wonder how you handled it?

On that sharing the thought comment I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

Please be here or be square tomorrow night, OK?

PS the new medication has me feeling much better now!

Crazy!

Today was just that, CRAZY!
From the morning to this evening all things crazy have been going on.
All last night it was pretty ghastly my stomach did not let up with its eruptions of no desires to be full of anything.
Consequently between my now swollen still very sore face and one heck of a belly ache again sleep was not forthcoming and me and Betty are becoming fast friends with the nurse call thingy I had to do once again this time at two A.M.

She concluded like all others since that the pain meds were the culprit causing the problem and told me not to take them anymore and of course I figured that one out right away and then suggested that I call back the dental surgeon in the morning to call in a nauseas medication for me; and so knowing that the dental doc’s office opened at eight A.M. I called then.
The receptionist said that the dentist was due in at nine and she would ask her then, I said OK only one more hour I can hold on for relief that long.
Ten o’clock came and went and still no call back and finally at ten thirty the receptionist called back saying that the dentist said that she doesn’t call in stomach medication that I should call my primary physician and have them do it.
Well, I really don’t have one and so I went berserk!
I think I may have to find another dentist who works cheap.
Now what?
I couldn’t even hold water down, and so I called my last resort… the free clinic who I had been to only once before but they were very understanding and helpful with ideas in the form of other numbers to call plus an evening appointment if all else failed.
And it did, and so at five o’clock this evening when I had taken no more pain meds for more than fourteen hours but had managed to swallow the penicillin pill for the four o’clock dose, you see I didn’t take any other of my oral meds for fear they would be wasted in la toilette bowl, but I did get my Copaxone shot of course! But I knew the importance of the antibiotic to save the day!
Only within minutes of swallowing it the burning and nauseas returned and so we made sure we got to that appointment for fear of another night of no sleep.
And Hubby is at the pharmacy now waiting on my newest drug for hopeful pleasantry of sleep causing.
And in the somnambulistic state for over a week now I wrote a scathing letter to my cousins of nearby but have not seen for over a year now, it felt good when I did it but although I meant every word I suspect I would not have been as thoughtless if my brain had been more rested, perhaps? Although, I did it last night too to my other cousin, but who needs family, HA! I am so bad.
You know this not sleeping thing due to pain and stomach explosions is no fun and does not allow for clear or concise thinking or scrawling…MY BAD!
Oh well, no fixing this…I fear.

On those stupidities reigning comments that I spread around without thought or care, and I will wish you all better than me for a family member and to count your blessings and share your overages and we will take another look around for ours, HUH?

Wrong!

Last night I confessed that I checked online to see what was causing my mouth problems and I was wrong.
Yep, I was.
Since today I could no longer wait with all the pain to go until tomorrow to the dental office and so I took the emergency route instead and ended up going today.

You see, I was wrong about the diagnosis of only having ONE abscessed tooth since it turns out that I had TWO! Numerically in the mouth numbers ‘14 and 19’, directly above and below one another on the same left side of my mouth towards the back!
I told you it was one helluva BIG OUCH!

And so oral surgery was performed today, needless to say the Novocain is wearing off and the pain, even though I was given the hard stuff, ‘Hydrocordone 5 500 MG’ (to take every six to eight hours, the first 5 stands for bit/acetaminophen) as well as Penicillin 500 MG (4X a day), which I took both of them nearly two hours ago, but for some unknown reason I am now once again in major OUCH LAND!

Is there no rest for the weary?

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid… I was this close (my finger tips, thumb and pointer, are actually touching) to having much more serious issues to deal with learning from the NIH; the National Institute for Health has info on the consequences I just missed developing. And so did the dental tech tell me, brain infection, bone infection and on and on and on…

Any-who, my upper tooth, number 14, was drained for that infection, which will eventually have a root canal, but number 19 the bottom one was beyond salvaging and needed to be extracted as well as its root bone and I had a cadaver bone grafted there for a future stem and implant, whoa, you see what I mean nasty!

I knew that it would be bad but never this bad, when all is said and done we are also talking financially draining of over FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Just what was done today was $1672 that was paid from my Care Credit account that is a no interest account for eighteen months, paying off $93 a month to keep from paying any interest, not too bad.
But that is the same account that I am still paying off my cataract surgery from, which is nearly half done with that one, darn this is still no fun!
Hopefully, the remainder of work will be done over several months and we will manage somehow…
Anyone want to pay me for this drivel?
I sure could use the money now.

Any-who…
I am so pooped now, as you can well imagine, not sleeping decently for a week, and tonight doesn’t appear to look too good for any dreamland either.

Well, I guess I didn’t keep that promise of more entertaining blogging yet, but we have weeks and months now that I was given the prospect of living once again longer, a reprieve once more!

On that trying so hard to be more positive ending to my day, for I think I will try to hit the hay (go to sleep) for our international peeps (people). Oddly enough my one cousin seemed to not realize that ‘peeps’, was just a slang term for ‘people’; since she accused me of using a dirty word! And this is my wordsmith one, cousin that is, believe it or not a translator by profession?
Oh well, she does deal with ‘proper language’, not this hack stuff!

So curiosity aside on why people do what they do I will like to wish all my fine readership a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time PLEASE be here or be square, OK?

PS If your glands are swollen and your mouth hurts get to the doctor fast, please don’t be stupid like I was!

Diagnosis

Is it true that only a hypochondriac self diagnoses?
Who cares, let’s put it this way my mouth/tooth/glands/throat thingy is not any better and I took it upon myself to try online how to relieve it.
And sure enough it has been narrowed down to one thing, but I bet many have figured it out before I did.
It appears that I may have a simple case of an abscess tooth!
Now, it’s not that simple when you are going through it and anyone who has will vouch for me including Hubby!
What through me is I still don’t have any fever, but then again I have been taking aspirin for the pain and I suspect that could be why.

There are too many possibilities when one ignores the side affects of not taking care of this problem as soon as possible, and boy are they scary!
But that doctor appointment I have Monday is for a DDS, a dentist!
Why do things seem to happen during the holiday season, I ask you all?
Who needs the added aggravation and additional expense?
Just when I take care of one problem another seems to occur.

Moving on…
Any-who…
Back to our computer…OH NO! I can hear you all saying, now what?
Well, not that much… our computer has been functioning incredibly and I asked Hubby if he would be kind enough to reinstall our printer and scanner while I made terrific turkey soup!
He did the scanner first, we had the re-install discs for both…well he put the printer one in lastly and a horrendous noise emanated from the disc drive not unlike a poor kitty being mauled by some massive predator; and then a strange jingling sound not unlike loose change going in to a metal bowl!
Yep, you got that right the disc drive ate the printer disc and destroyed itself in the process!
Argh……… what can I say?
Another day another issue to handle and Hubby stepped up to the plate and shut down the computer, got the driver open, and took the whole mess out into the garage to try to solder the broken wire, and then called the Geek Squad, and asked about its feasibility of being repaired and they said its better to replace it since it only is about fifty bucks, and even conferred with number one son too.
Meanwhile I had a thought with my concern over not having a printer …what if the manufacturer’s site had free downloads and they did! So Hubby got the whole shebang installed and as soon as the month begins financially we will set aside monies (again) for our newest repair, which is not so immediate anymore.

On that somewhat brighter note I will hope for the rest of your holiday weekend to go better than ours, although, you know it could be worse…this isn’t so bad…gosh I don’t want to verbalize what could make it any nastier since I am slightly superstitious…
So I will move on to where I was going to wishing you all a very happy good night and to all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
So please dear friends and family next time be here or be square, and perhaps I will eventually become more entertaining once again?

OUCH!

You heard that right.
At this very moment I am in quite a bit of pain, and also on hold to have this situation resolved not before Monday morning, my doctor appointment.

Yes, this is another one of those … getting old things.
Sorry about this topic taking over.
But little else has been able to clear my brain to allow other things in.

As you can see we are happily on the net due to the marvelous techs at Microsoft!
For nearly three hours this morning they gave it their all and finally got our IE8 installed.
Now my life on this thing is in super speed literally, things are moving at the blink of an eye…!
So fast so that when I posted something and it went, it was faster than the old brain receiving the concept and so I automatically thought that it had not gone at all… wow industrial strength, I think that ‘Speedy Gonzalez’, has taken over my keyboard et al!

Moving on…
Any-who…

Our Montreal neighbors came by for a visit too, while the procedure of gaining entrée into the realm of motor speedways… and highways of the Internet was still going on.
Sadly, it was not how I wanted to greet these fine neighbors who summer at their other home in the great northern hemisphere and who we hadn’t seen since last spring! I thought when I started at eight thirty A.M. that by our agreed upon visit time of eleven fifteen all would be done, but best laid plans and all once again...
I had to wake Hubby too so I could have him take over the phone just for me to shower and take my medications including doing my Copaxone shot, he was pooped from yesterday since he did most of the work with our turkey on the ‘barbie’ and all and all the festivities not to mention him staying up with me for a few nights of experimentation with other types of meds to fix my problem that proved to only be temporary fixes.
And so I was very rushed to be ready on time...
But I was ready and all done with my bodily necessities by the time they arrived, but not completely done with the computer being adjusted by those Micro pros, at the time they had been taking over the functions of it anyway; basically I was just monitoring it all at the time.


It appears my little joke about this mouth/gland/throat/tooth problem could very well prove to help me lose those unflattering LBS, after all, since whenever I try to eat that is when the pain is enhanced to those scales that the medicos ask you about, you know the ones… on a scale from one to ten how is yours?
Well, the best it has been since Sunday is a four or five and now anywhere from an eight to ten I would say!
And I am the woman who walked on a broken leg for a few days and then drove herself to the hospital!
I also was in labor with one of my pregnancies for nearly thirty hours, so I do know pain personally. And this is one heck of a BIG OW!

Sorry for the day after ‘the big one’ to be such ‘a me’, type of me day… complain, complain, complain…but I think I have created an art form for it, huh? At least a venue you have to admit, right? (Wink LOL! PLEASE!)

On that mixed revue type of blabbering I will wish you all a very pleasant and happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS hope you got there first for your run to the stores race!
PSS Our neighbors were here for just a right amount of time and we enjoyed seeing them.
They have the knack for always leaving you wanting more...
PSSS Mr. President please feel better I too have been there with stitches in the lip, only mine was from a dog bite and I had forty tiny ones by a plastic surgeon, hope yours come out as well as mine did, you need that great smile to stay intact since its your money maker, as the saying goes...

Thanksgiving!

The day was one of quiet anticipation and finally joy and then exhaustion.
But to be honest aren’t all holidays pretty much the same?
We all hope for and look so much forward to the day of all the year that we hope something… special will happen, but in reality the waiting and desire does not always match up to our thought processes which are usually a wee bit beyond reality and more so than the actuality?

As you might have noticed from my ghastly words of gibberish, ok over explanation then, I am beyond gloriously tired and very nearly too close to the walking dead of fatigue; how awful a statement is that?
Sorry but weariness in this severe strength does have that affect on me.

Moving on though…
To be most honest, the day was extremely tentative only in the respect that my ills had been so nasty the night before that they almost had me running to the hospital for relief.
And so in turn they did not allow me to sleep and no refreshing respite was forthcoming until I took somewhat drastic measures…
By calling one of those hospital nurse people that answer medical questions all night long, and once I informed her of what exactly was going on with my throat/glands swelling and or abscess tooth or medication causing possibly the problem she insisted that I go to the hospital before I had trouble breathing.
I asked her if ‘Benedryl’, the antihistamine might help if it was an allergic reaction… and she said… that could work!
But if it didn’t I should get to the hospital immediately!
And so I did take two the adult dosage and in within about an hour or so I was pleasantly in dreamland.

So now you all understand why the exhaustion and I tried my hardest not to say anything to number one son with his gal here, but Hubby blew my cover… and the cat was out of the bag before I could stop it and so I had no choice but to ‘fess-up’ (An old slang term for confessing) like they used to say in those really bad ‘B’ movies of the 1940’s.
And my not eating certain food was explained away appropriately!
I even made a joke about if this continues this could be just my way of shedding some of my nasty LBS!
And so all was ‘okey dokey’ (Folksy OKAY) and we continued to chat and number one even helped Hubby get us online at our new address and supersonic transport service called DSL!
And now we are like all you regular folk; no longer the poor relation on dial up!
WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE BEST OF THEM, YEA!

A true Thanksgiving story, NAH!

Onward and upward with silliness to continue for ever I do hope!

I would love to wish all who celebrated today a very happy THANKSGIVING and to ask you all to count those blessings with those loved ones and share those overages with the others and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?