Label

Cholesterol 0mg, now anyone who knows how to read labels would see right away that there is ‘none, zero, zilch, nada’ Cholesterol in the product that it was on, but for some stupid reason I was thinking how if anyone didn’t know that 0mg meant zero milligrams not OMG, Oh my G-d or is it goodness; I get that mixed up, but you all know me it doesn’t take much, ha!
Yes, labeling can be confusing and now you see why?
There are so many things in our lives that we have become accustomed to that would have seemed peculiar or odd years ago, that are common place now; don’t you think?

Just our over use of acronyms alone… LOL, laugh out loud… TMI, too much information, TTYL talk to you later, no I will now, LOL! You all know those I am sure and use them frequently or did at one time…There are probably over hundreds, no thousands of such minimalist uses of our multifunctional vocabulary. As you all know I seem to prefer the longer form of dialogue writing…Corporations started the trend I believe, and many started the use in commercials if I recall correctly, print, radio and TV.
Boy, it sure wasn’t long for the rest of us to catch on, was it?

How many of you in the business world remember what K.I.S.S. means? Sure you do… ‘Keep It Simple Stupid’; oh no, I wasn’t being mean that IS what it means for any living under a rock who did not know!
Life has a way of becoming more interesting with these small nuances to make it that way, huh?
How many more have hit the recycling boxes of using catchy phrases for advertising? They sometimes appear to dust oldies but goodies off to reuse, but isn’t that what this generation is all about, conservation and trying to use things that seem new again?
Of course there is a whole generation who think wow that is great and clever, never heard that one before or what-have-you?

And then we wonder why this crop of children have difficulty spelling, oh we all know why that is… don’t we?
Reading comprehension I understand has taken a downward turn too; unless it is on a Kindle or other electronic device, sad again for the book sellers, huh?
But instantaneous is what most are about who are technologically astute.
Nothing wrong with that, but I have had communication with young adults, college grads who are younger than my own sons where their spelling and grammar were even worse than mine and I am sight and cognitively challenged!
I must admit that when we communicate so quickly we all do have typos, including me and I am the biggest one for those types of mistakes. Although, when I have a few moments I do copy and paste whatever I am sending to the spell and grammar checker if I remember to do it before I send it on to my recipient.
There are many times that I don’t though and they must think that I have no grammar skills at all, well, haven’t I proved that nightly here? LOL!
Sadly, some nights are better than others… but tonight was another fun look at labels and acronyms once again… I do know we have visited this topic before but it has been quite awhile.

That said I hope we did get somewhere tonight in this discussion, and if you know where that was please tell me, ok?

And now I will thank you all for being here when you take that time out from your busy lives and I perhaps don’t thank you all enough for that but I really do appreciate it… and let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and kindly ask you to share those overages and we will too!

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

PS I teased Hubby about bringing me flowers, I used to have a friend/neighbor back in the 1970’s in Lakewood NJ when we lived there from 1972-1978 in our little townhouse condo, whose husband used to bring her a bouquet every Friday night and I was always a little bit jealous of that but never ever said anything to Hubby but for some strange reason tonight I did, and my dear sweet man went out into our wild flower garden which is mixed in with our veggies and he picked me a bouquet, how about that! I almost cried with joy; now how nice is that? Not much different when our sons would pick those daisies and dandelions when they were small and give them to me…ah memories…how I sometimes truly miss those good ole days…

Brain?

Now tomorrow we shall find out if I have one or not?
Today, actually this afternoon I had my cranial MRI with and without highlights. (Interpretation with contrast dye)

You know that this new security thingy that we are all being told about to keep our personal whereabouts to ourselves prior to leaving is making me slightly paranoid.
But I do know it is a logical idea to not announce that your abode will be empty at such and such a day and time, just common sense really.

Back to my head shots, ha!
Yes, this one was just of the noggin for that is the headquarters, good choice of word, huh, of most ills and I suppose for a reality check to know if anything is going on up there; good or bad. According to what my previous experiences have been with probably fifteen or more of these little snapshots over the years you either have something going on or not.

Any-who… most all of us have no idea why any of this happens to us, MS, Optic Neuritis and such and even the docs don’t know either or the cure would be pretty darn soon… but it’s not here yet.

I think I should once again clarify where optic neuritis occurs, well; it is in the brain, the optic nerve in the brain to be more precise, not in the eye itself, got that? And that is why a corrective lens cannot help or any type of surgery to date; got that?
And so I am hoping that the MRI will show that my optic neuritis has subsided with my treatment of those three days of IV Solu Medrol 1000 MG of last August, and that my blurriness is caused by those fixable cataracts! Wouldn’t that just be ducky, huh?

Moving on…
When we arrived home we had quite a few emails which have been flowing rather splendidly, more than a thousand in the last two months, yes that is right I said ONE THOUSAND, and although on occasion we get that one annoying one that fools you into thinking gee this is rather nice and then it all changes, you all know what I mean, right?
This particular one was a little patronizing from the onset since it was telling me astronomic things, Halley’s Comet and about the planets and such… that I already knew since we went to school and also lived near the space coast of Florida for nearly nine years and would go there often and to Washington D.C. to the Air and Space Museum when we lived in good ole NJ and other spacey things like Planetariums of that nature; we did raise two very smart sons after all, but then I must admit it hit upon a few things that I didn’t know. Who knows everything, but then it went on to be way too preachy but when you get it from some people that you have lost touch with over the years and assume since you are younger that you are NOT worldly it gets a wee bit on my nerves, if you know what I mean, Argh? Oh well I fought off the urge to write back anything to the affect of what I thought and so I am very proud now of that; I believe that is called self control?
Sure that is one trick this old dog/gal will learn!
If not now when, ha!

And so on that note of being a wee bit more mature I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all to count those blessings and to kindly share those overages and we will too!

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

Rumors

Have you ever wondered what germ of an idea spreads an untrue rumor?
Logically there would have to be some bit of truth in a concept for it to spread as wildfire and to be believed, right?
You are all yelling, “SO WHAT?”

Calm down friends… I will bring you to my point slowly with much care and with not too much disappointment, OK?

People from all over the world have felt the misery of untruths being said about them whether being a part of the celebrity club, politics or sports or even of royalty or any other imaginable form of who we all wonder about and want to hear, read or see more about.

And so when commoners, which in reality in America is impossible since we have no class system here, ha, but when someone says something not entirely true it does not warrant that same notoriety, but can still be a sting to that persons reputation and feelings.

Many countries in this world feel that living well is spending more than you have and owing ridiculous amounts to creditors.
But when a person lives within their means and has the ability to pay all their bills with monies left over monthly enough to enjoy their idea of fun, why should that be misunderstood?
You know that we all are way too much into each other’s business at times.
Recently I bumped into a neighbor while at the grocery with Hubby when they walked frowning up to me to say hello and began shaking their head ( I could hear a tisk, tisk in my own head with their disapproval, just imagination but that is what I heard) with her saying that they are retired from the military and all their medical bills are taken care of and I said I knew that from my brother and son, and that they felt sorry for me that I didn’t have such coverage and that her next door neighbor from another country felt bad enough to mention it to her!
Until I left the store and thought about it I was not insulted, but now I am!
How dare anyone not understand our situation that is not that bad since we pay all our bills! And still have monies left over monthly to use however we please!
But due to my health issues we don’t go dancing or to amusement parks since we have done all of that before and travel is not something I care for but did plenty when I could and was well enough to do!
We do all right, we are not rich by any means, but pay all our bills and that is just great!
I suppose by some standards we are poor since we do not make six digits income but we don’t need it because we live within the means we have, got that?

Don’t feel sorry for me since I was a volunteer all those years and know how to get what I need for myself and I do know how to access anything that is beyond our ability to pay for, and it is not welfare it is from the non-profit organizations who are part of the people I fund raised for all those years ago and now I am utilizing a minute part of those tens of thousands I did help many to attain from the private sector not the government! Yes, there is some irony in all that... That’s not to say that some government agencies have not been there for help as well, but for years we paid taxes from working hard for those services which some never tap into but now I do.
You see Hubby has Medicare that he paid from out of pocket of his paycheck for nearly fifty years of working (I did too) and also he now has Universal Healthcare an insurance company that we pay for from his Social Security payments. He also has a state pension from being in law enforcement, which most that have been lucky enough to work for who also might have when they worked for someone who planned ahead and didn’t lose it to the last horrendous depression we are finally come out of! But we were totally unaffected since our income was not touched at all!
And so no we are not on anyone else’s dollar especially. I think it may just be a border misunderstanding from one country to the other not totally getting how it works here…who knows…
Please people all I can say is with this world with real problems why be mean and start untruths about others… we all do have feelings you know?
PS we did our taxes today, all done!
And yes we did hear back from the IRS about that five hundred that they mistakenly gave us last year on the sixteenth of this month and they are still working on it and at the time of that letter they said they will be getting back to us within forty-five days and so we are still waiting... to hear back and once they figure it out then it will be taken care of, ok?

Updates: Hubby has completed another honey-do actually I must admit it was a Hubby-do since he chose the project himself and he used our pressure washer to clean the surfaces and then painted all our paths, driveway and patio the white we did after we moved in since someone had painted everything blue! Yes, our house, the garage ceiling and floor (then just a carport) all the paths, the driveway and patio were all painted blue when we bought it twelve years ago. Now I do love blue and it was a pretty shade of sky blue but way too much of a good thing! Fortunately the deck paint seems to hold up fairly well since it has been years since it was last painted.
My personal update has to do with my MRI it was approved and will be done shortly plus I am now over a month into my daily exercise program and up to….. Drum roll please….

25 REPS for each exercise!

Thanks I needed that folks, you are all too kind… I can hear your cheers, oh no, you didn’t… now I have egg on my face, but that is OK I am doing this for me; not you! (I just stuck my adult tongue once again out at you!)…I am a long way from my goal of two hundred reps for each but I am on my way!

On that note of silliness again, thankfully I can still make fun of me… Please allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and kindly share those overages and we will too!

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

Headlines

All I can say is that I am relieved that Hubby is retired from being in law enforcement now.
The world is just one dynamite keg away from imploding some days I truly feel and I so worry about it too!
Too many people forget that there is hope after they commit a crime…sometimes, anyway… or help at least.
The two police officers who were killed last week in Miami were serving a warrant on a domestic dispute suspect and the two who were killed in St. Petersburg up by Tampa were just trying to serve that warrant for a guy to register as a sex offender, he had forgotten to do that; it would have been just an overnight stay in the jail; so Hubby says … all so unnecessary! But is murder ever anything but unnecessary.
People are going off the deep end and are way too desperate when they feel they have been backed into a corner, therefore my 'no hope' conclusion.

Gosh without hope we got nothing, no reason to go on…perhaps that is all we all need is a reason for going on and that would solve all the world’s ills!
Sorry my idealistic naiveté is showing once again… John Lennon knew it too with his song ‘Imagine’… his hope for us all... how I love those lyrics.

The worst of it is the culpability factor of the young perpetrators; there seems to be none, no remorse, which is so frightening! Just this week in Collier County, Golden Gate Estates from Palmetto Ridge High School, and two teens got into a fight one a fourteen year old and the other sixteen and the younger one killed the other by stabbing him to death. Although, most times when they are so young they do not show them on camera this young person was as cold as ice in his expression or maybe I am wrong it could be shock, we can only hope so…
Right here in Port Charlotte there was a murder at a motel not more than a couple of miles from here, but it was a drug deal that went bad… don’t they know a drug deal can never go right? I don’t like that expression you see I almost used that, ‘H’ word oh all right the ‘hate’. But somehow it fits here, correct?

I almost didn’t address this topic due to my concerns with not giving it the justice it deserves. I know you are saying interesting choice of words, huh?
“And justice for all!”
I can hear Al Pacino screaming, what a great movie, circa 1979.
Something’s just stick in your head, you know?

Any-who, people are still supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty in this country, and then there is suicide by police officer, people who commit crimes to be killed by a police officer.
Are they mentally ill or just too scared to commit suicide?
Which in my book is a cowardly act, since most who do commit this obscene act never ever take into account all who love them and what it will do to them, and therefore it is so very selfish.
Please if you feel there is no hope call the suicide hot line: 1-800-273-TALK (8255): or online, just copy and paste: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org , CALL THEM!

We all get down or sad at times and should be made aware that there is always someone who feels that way too and talking with another person is most advantageous. If not for yourself for someone you care about.

Please do not judge me when I feel all people who commit crimes are innocent because that is NOT true! I just think we should not in the public rush to judgment.
Of course many criminals knew what they were doing was wrong when they did whatever heinous crime they committed I am just saying we should let our system work.
And that all law enforcement officers are there for is to uphold the law, so let them!
Ask questions before you do something you will be sorry for later if there is a later, OK?
Leave options for yourself and the other guy or gal that’s all!
Rushing to judgment never ever works on either side of the law.
Give peace a chance…

On that positive note of my teen years lament please allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all ask you to kindly count those blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

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

Clarity

I didn’t know that I have a real problem.
It appears when I received emails that have to do with people talking down to me that I want to shout back you don’t know me at all!
I suspect it has to do with the fact that these last few years I have been quite reticent as far as my involvement goes with anything public in nature!
The yearning to set people straight has been most frustrating to me at times since I know that I have had an incredible attitude about life and was totally unselfish and lived life to the fullest for a large part of my existence… but some people feel the necessity to tell me to do all those things that will fulfill my somewhat empty existence they ( here we go again with ‘they’ who are ‘they’ really?), somehow feel that I have! And they don’t know how much that hurts my feelings… and so below you will find my bio on my Facebook page … in all its glory! Hang on it could be a bumpy ride for all you newbies! HA!

“Over the thirty-two years I did work I had been co-owner of three businesses, a wicker store in Toms River NJ, one restaurant in Ormond Beach FL and underground sprinkler business which was the second largest in NJ, plus I worked in promotion and advertising as well as being a district manager for an international environmentally safe products company, as a department and credit manager for Lord and Taylor’s in Ridgewood NJ, and a sales and floor manager for Ohrbachs in Paramus NJ. Not to mention nearly forty years on and off of working with non-profits as a volunteer. Almost any ill you can think of fund raising, as a board member, teaching classes, advocacy and co-president of support groups. Also with my husband with Boy Scouts when he was scouting co-coordinator for Ocean County NJ and assistant soccer coach and Fire Chief in NJ too. And if anyone was wondering I also had the privilege of visiting 40 US states and eight countries all before I married.

I have recently been informed since I am not in business anymore that this is just my personal Facebook page not a business page and I am retired actually real-tired, and NOT a realtor or a life coach or in marketing and do not need to sell my home in a short sale and have no authority to sell anyone else's that way either! LOL So now I have put my lack of ambitions right out there for all to see...this is purely for my selfish entertainment of learning about new and different people and their lives from all over the world and here at home in the USA! PS if I wanted to have someone tell me to be positive in life I would do it to myself in the mirror, where I would actually see and hear it! And so as much as I appreciate the goodwill you all seem to have in a jar from that stockroom called never ever give up, and all is always going to turn out all right...I have been there too, and from personal experience which my sixty years have given to me! So there! Please stop preaching to us in the choir gals and treating most of us like we don't know a thing. And if I wanted to be a millionaire don't you think that I would have done that by now? That is not the only answer to happiness... peace and quiet, good honest loving friends, and family that you actually care about and they about you are worth more than all of that moola!
Now you are all informed and this is my disclaimer to any other thoughts you may have had about me... so there! I just stuck my adult tongue out at you too!
I'm getting older and not much better and "disabled" with MS and arthritis, half blind and barely can walk, but otherwise, OK, now but still thinking, although some may question that concept.
I did also attend Paramus schools from kindergarten through my sophomore year of high school, but moved to Emerson and graduated from there in 1968 in NJ; then on to LIM. But have been living here in Florida since 1986, nine years on the east coast in Ormond Beach and then almost four in Punta Gorda and the last twelve in Port Charlotte.
I write a nightly Blog: see below for the link...
It is me at my best and worst! And it's all I got these days to feel really good about! That is that I can still think; I think! LOL!
PS: Now my Blog is called Speaking My Mind! The link below is my blog:
http://tobi-adayinthelife.blogspot.com”

OK, so perhaps it is a wee bit verbose although with a touch of tongue in cheek humor for any who can see it, but we all know that is me; it is all true too!

Listen I love my readership and have no qualms about you all since you have been there listening and I do believe you really know me…it’s the others who, oh dear here we go again… ‘Assume’ ( making an ass of you and me) that I am this or that!
Also that I do not care for soldiers why my dead brother was in the Air Force as a Medic during the Korean War since he was nineteen years older than me and my own younger son was in the Navy for six years and was in their nuke program and an officer and now is a nuclear engineer in the private sector for nearly ten years, and it is war that I hate not the soldiers! Let’s get this straight, and I also do not like people to tell me that their religious beliefs should be mine, sorry that is just me! No more Zealots please!
I am not anti-religion I just do not like people to ‘assume’ that I believe what they do, ok?

Boy this rant felt good once again…
Sorry if I am boring you, but I am sure that you would also love a forum for setting others straight with their assumptions of you too!
Not to be mean only to remove the unsettling feeling of being so misunderstood is what I am saying…

And so on that elongated concise, strange to some, reasoning of mine I would love to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all ask you kindly to count all those blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

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

Homework?

Have you ever wondered enough about something that you felt the need to investigate further that would be nearly as time-consuming as homework for high school or college once was?

Although, at this point in our lives, for most of us that is a choice that has very few ramifications, since it is us who can only decide how important that search would be and we have the luxury to do it whenever we so desire.

Yes, if you are a newspaper journalist or on camera for news stories daily then you must do all that with deadlines (excuse the expression) included.
Why we the consumers of your daily or nightly product/production are deserving of that!
And any of you worth your grain of salt, “A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a ‘grain of salt’ with everything he says to her,” Helen Rowland who was an English-American writer is where that quote originated, 1876-1950, and due to the era this is from, perhaps I should rethink my use of it, since it appears a wee bit sexist?
Nah, it is what it is.

So many of the writers and authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were either racist or sexist, bet you never thought about that with any of those classics we were made to read in school, huh? And some were even considered to this day amazing; today we would shrink away and wince at the passages if we were made to read Mark Twain or many other famous and renowned authors of that classic sense when we were young.

Do we all know now how sensitive our language has become to being aware of others tastes, feelings and needs, which I am so happy to know that we have managed to all grow from these irreverent prose’s that used to be common place but are still great works of art? I know that sounds hypocritical but most things in life are.

Sadly though that was a different time and what was the norm then was so different too, and no one meant any harm to anyone or so that is what was told to anyone who cringed at the wording of certain phrasing or words themselves and at that time they would have been in the minority to say so, since so few were brave enough to speak up or out or even knew it was wrong… or could it be blamed on just that a lack of knowledge; something to think about, true?

Oh well, as I said before we have come so much farther along then those times of words being so prevalent clashing with our now current mores of our times, right?
Oh no? Hmm that is so true many feel certain politicos have the ability with harsh words to insight to riot? Well, we as a nation has come of age knowing the differences what that exactly means, right?
Oh no?
Personally I am still so confused but I am not that bright.
I suppose it is for the rest of you to decide and I will try to deduct from your reasoning or what you conclude if that is what I will abide by…or not.

On that food for thought or not I would love to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

Advertising

Did you ever notice how we as people have this thing not unlike the ole town criers of yore that we love to tell the world something, anything, especially when we are happy or even when we are angry or I should say very angry?
Human nature again; we have been doing this thing called advertising whether it be for our wares or our cares, how did you like that gem friends?
The announcements are extremely anxiety driven at times or filled with elation or just plain damn enthusiastic but we are our own source of new, better than ever, just what you needed or didn’t know that you needed fluency of information at our fingertips that will make your life the best right now or definitely at a time in your near future! But I bet you all knew that, huh?
And wow some screechers are over the top, but feel the need to succeed!
They let us have it from whatever medium we prefer written or visual/audio, even just audio too.
We are their target for their whatever, and for some of us it may be the only human, and I use that word loosely, contact that we have in any day of our week.

I personally have felt the need to shout to my friends or relatives when I thought that I had useful information, totally guilty here…and sometimes I am commended and other times I am held to task for divulging such useless crap.
Let’s face it who hasn’t on occasion also suffered from foot and mouth disease, why that at times has been my Mantra…yes! That is to try to keep your foot out of your mouth again, one mo time; PS that is me speaking to myself.

And so this morning I felt I was doing a neighborly thing, which I on occasion have done before, I announced to my local peeps by emails and on my Facebook page about the Arts and Crafts Show at Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda. Well, to say that it was a raging success would not be up to me, but I must admit there were a lot of people there, not unusual on the weekend though. The show goes on into tomorrow and the thing that got me was that this time they even made room at an adjacent parking area for their overflow, which was not present when we were there the need for any overflow space that is; we found a handicapped spot up real close.
To be fair we did go rather early shortly after ten a.m. when it opened, but it was a bit disappointing since there were not that many vendors, not more than ten, I bet but I did not count them and they were spread throughout the complex, so I could be wrong.

One vendor that had a unique product to me was Glass Bottle Art out of Newport Richey Florida he will be there again tomorrow his email for more info is: corky4811@yahoo.com, he had melted looking glass bottles to be used for cheese boards, crackers and other food related displays for that wine and cheese party. He explained that he has a computerized glass high heat vat/kiln system that keeps the temperature just right for the process. Personally I sort of collect unusually shaped blue glass bottles, I just love that deep dark blue; don’t you?
I have just eight now in total, is that considered a collection? And they are displayed currently atop one of my high kitchen cabinets thanks to Hubby.

Any-who, we left fairly quickly since we saw it all in a very short period of time, and so we went for a short drive to the Historic Park and nothing was going on there and then we were home in time for lunch!
We had our darling canine and noble pal Skipper with us and this time again it was too cold, brrr in the low sixties but with a chilling wind, to eat outside for us no blooded Floridians and that is why we came home.

And that is it for tonight’s yelling of my doings…
Please allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and kindly ask you to share those overages and we will too!

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