Irene, Irene, Irene, I feel sorry for those Irenes out there!

Of course it is important to know what is going on and we all want everyone to be safe, but…I think the time has come to change the concept of naming hurricanes for people!
Go with me here… each name used for a major storm brings with it extremely negative connotations and thoughts from then on when heard or referenced, hmm?

I don’t recall where the concept came from but I truly think the time has come to give them more descriptive names of their actual content of destructive abilities, what do you think?
People names are so personal and storms should not be, since they become nemesis immediately when discovered for their quantitative divisiveness.
‘Tropical storms’ are more ambiguous and simplistic than its more powerful cousin ‘Hurricane’.

Adjectives, adverbs, and verbs are free so I have been told and don’t seem to have any feelings. And so, I now declare that to be a much better way to call these weather systems that expound lethal and devastating destruction on life and limbs as well as properties should be tumultuous whirling dervishes of mighty capacities or any similar description that works! TA DA!

Now that that’s cleared up…

Moving on…
Thankfully, people who are in the direction of the cane are listening and taking heed of what all the authorities are telling them.
Very few are being foolish.
Some interviewed are of the ilk of wanting to ride the storm out!
All I have for you are a few words …WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY?
These were people in direct alignment with the hurricane’s point of entry as a CAT 2, true only around 100 mph winds but dangerous just the same.
Not that I know anything only being a person who helped after Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5, circa 1992 and being a survivor of Hurricane Charley a Category 4, circa 2004, but I love people and I would HATE to know due to stupidity that they died!
Gosh, you could have some lethal disease and die or be very old and die, but due to stupidity, DON’T DIE! Most fight to live, and that’s why I just don’t get it…sorry!

Geez that felt good to get out into the air…whew!

The explosive possibilities of what may happen have most newsy type programming keeping us well informed, not to mention all the weather channels on the TV and Internet as well.
Many online are interactive or even have weather windows with live action films of how the weather is changing.
What a world we live in with instant everything at our fingertips and that means no excuses to be as safe as you can be!
Tonight is the last night of sort of still calm waters in many areas in the encompassing target areas, be well and happy and save your families not your things remember they are replaceable, YOU ARE NOT!

On that loving warning… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

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

Anticipation, preparation or perhaps evacuation...

Lock ‘em up, move ‘em out or stay put… a plea post…
Up and down our eastern coast of America authorities and meteorologists are keeping track of Hurricane Irene.
Landfall can be expected in several areas: from the Mid-Atlantic States on northward.
The category of Hurricane Irene may be a 3, 2, or 1, either way batten down your hatches and evacuate or listen carefully to what you are told and pray!

Tonight I am experiencing a bit of my own tumultuous weathering of my bodily storming.
With mild chest pains, chilling body and higher than normal glucose levels 143, but not in the danger zone, let me explain… My chest pains appear to diminish on rest, but I have been more dizzy than usual, but gosh you know us blondes, hmm?
Any-who… Hubby took my blood pressure and it was good at my low normal, 100/58 and my pulse was like 78 and so that was all in the normal range and as well as my cool body temp of 98.1 and so what. What’s all the bother about, huh?
I do think that listening to the news affects me like everyone else, you would have to be heartless not to be, and so I am sincerely concerned for what this hurricane might do.
It’s true we are physically in the clear, but how can anyone not be worried for all those who will be impacted.
Seriously our hearts and prayers are with you/them all!

Heavy rains and trees will be going down and people will be without power, in this heat!
I am crying inside for them all…
When will it all stop?
These horrendous weather systems and wars and murderous people and on and on and on and on…
Frightening is all I can say and to maintain some form of sanity we must observe some types of positive distractions when not in harms way… otherwise, listen, prepare and do what the knowledgeable have told you to do for they should have the know-how to keep you all safe!
Remember Katrina!
Evacuate if told to and even if not go where the storm will not be, please!
I love all of you!

Tomorrow and the rest of the weekend seem to be when the storm will be making its detestable moves on life and limb and so beware!
Take care…

That’s all for tonight’s blog and I hope when we meet next time we will be told that Hurricane Irene went out to sea and did not harm anyone!
If not I do hope that whatever reports come in from the target zones of impact will be lesser than feared!

Allow me to wish you all a very good night and to ask you to kindly count those blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time I will expect you here or be square, ya hear?

Finding Cures!

Incredible news this evening it looks as if they may have found the cause of ALS, Lou Gherig’s Disease! “Moving Pictures Inc. directs more funds to neurological research as a new study from Northwestern University identifying common cause of ALS provides a target for drug therapy, opening the field to possible treatment for neurogenerative diseases characterized by irregular protein accumulation, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.” Could this mean Multiple Sclerosis may be close behind?
We can only hope…

And I bet you were worried… see don’t worry, be happy!
The worse things get the more we have to take the bits and pieces of good we hear about and make them more important than all the rest!

Good thing that I had a negative reaction to that medication Celexa it made the news tonight as not being an appropriate mix with blood pressure and heart issues, uh oh!
Sometimes I wonder if my doctors look at the medication lists I print out for them!
No wonder it affected me so miserably and mine was the lower dose of on 20 mg, the 40 mg. is supposed to be the more dangerous dose. If I recall it made me so nauseas and dizzier than my Ataxia did and so I found myself having to lie down in bed for quite some time and this was only after three days of taking the prescribed dosage by my neurologist!

Folks we have to be our own advocates and when in doubt, ask the pharmacists since they have immediate access to that information about drug interaction or conflicting or market recall etc. and always listen on the news or when the FDA has taken something off the market. I had an incident with stomach medication a few years ago that was recalled due to it causing heart attacks and strokes and I heard it on the news thankfully!
Because my gastroenterologists office called about a week later to tell me, but oddly enough my GP had given me the prescription initially and the tummy doctor knew. Guess what? I never heard a word from the GP who actually prescribed it! Consequently I no longer go to that doctor.

To be honest medication and I have a long history of NOT getting along and that’s why I truly hate being on all the crap that I am now. Being nearly killed by nurse injected meds while in traction for a neck and back injury, in the hospital, gives a person very bad memories that last a lifetime! And that was way back in 1983!

Dad, up there in heaven didn’t approve of me using that word hate, but this isn’t of a person its inanimate objects with the power to cure or kill!
Wow, is that profound or what, I ask you?
All I am saying since my major incident way back when and all the other near misses I recall and an elderly neighbor who got so confused with all her medications that she took them all at once and ended up killing her self, so buyer beware and diligent to ask questions too!

On that note of me goofing up on my own knowing what to do but not doing it…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?

Debby Downer, earthquake where it's not usual, whew for us with Hurricane Irene but watch out Mid-Atlantic States

If complaining was considered an art form I would be considered quite an artist!
Today the ear I chose to speak my mind to was the national Multiple Sclerosis Association.
You see they have people who are there to care, really; at least they act like it.
I told my obviously caring person that I was fed up with all this medication and I was considering to ‘go-commando’, that is: in my way of thinking not undie-less, but stop taking it all!

I don’t like the way I don’t feel all that better and that I look just dreadful.
When I look in the mirror my skin is so dry from not being able to go out in the humidity and heat and so I appear a bit like a pasty reptilian in the face. I am so miserable about commercials and news segments too. The elderly are going berserk!
Women older than me, in their seventies are going in for boob jobs and nip and tucks since they feel well enough to make those things their only misery of priorities!
AARP, I quit again since they only seem to cater too the over fifty year olds who are healthy enough to jog, golf and tennis set.
I had joined after years of not being a member since last year they had a deal for the two of us for one year for only fifteen bucks. And I thought maybe we could save some money on things we needed like cheap car insurance or even for medical for me, but nope none of that was there and so I did not renew at the higher fee, but they badger you like you did anyway with mailers and emails weekly!

Now that unconventional earthquake that struck this afternoon just after two P.M. a 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter scale the epicenter was about 88 miles south of Washington D.C., no injuries were reported, some cracks in buildings and a roof crumbled, but nothing too major. The shaking was felt from Charleston S.C. to Toronto Canada! CRAZZEEE!

Hurricane Irene has decided not to take Florida by storm and instead will be skirting ever so slightly our east coast but taking a direct aim on the Carolinas possible or even Maryland and Delaware et al… yep you got that right where the earthquake hit today!
Well, in that general area and it should be fairly mighty by then a Category 3 or 4 is predicted; let us all pray for our neighbors and fellow men and women to stay and be safe and very careful by being prepared.

Libya rebels took over their capital and stormed the compound in Tripoli!

All in all an amazing news worthy day!
Breaking news gone wild all day!

On the notes of ups and downs in life and oh yea the market rebounded slightly back up over 320 points, NDASQ too over 100 points, thus the right to say an up and down sort of day for the world and me… and yep I swallowed those legal drugs and shot up my Copaxone too, gosh I am such a whimp sometimes…but I tell you someday…I may become completely drug free and I will feel great, well maybe not great, maybe alright oh OK not all right, maybe just free, yep that’s the ticket free from the need to listen to people better educated than me in the medical field and think that they know it all in what’s best for me… yes!
Oh well, allow me for now just to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all kindly to count your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

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

"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them." " Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting their battle too."

How prophetic, hmm?
Is it not all true that the Chinese fortune cookie appears to have a handle on our worldwide society’s timely issues?
Or is it as we all know all too well that the more things change… the more they really stay the same?
Let’s take the first prophecy first, which was mine.
I suppose there are days where I do feel that I have reached my limits, but as most would say, go for it and try harder to succeed in whatever vein of doing this or that’s you desire.
It’s true that to many it may appear that I have given up, but I say nay, I just chose what I want more cautiously, since with all this time on my hands why rush?
Hubby’s therefore as you may have guessed was the latter one and I am more than sure he can relate to this one, since he chose professions that dealt with caring for others and understanding their own interior battles. And if not, he has me daily to remind him!

We have more times than not discussed these topics to exhaustion, but we all have different insight on how to attack and deal with them.

Have you ever felt when people ask you how you are they don’t really mean it.
Yep, that was rhetorical or perhaps just rhetoric.
It is a rare soul who isn’t just asking to be polite.
And then why do I feel on occasion to tell them a menu in litany form of my maladies.
But not always, since I do know that most have their own metaphoric ‘cross to bear’, and I am as sure as the day is long and I do realize that no one needs more to think about with all that ‘on their plate’ too! More of those idioms too, hmm?

And so I feel that when I am asked that I would make light of the question by saying same “just hunky dory” or even “fine”, “good”, or sometimes for the fun of it, “can’t complain since no one wants to hear it anyway!” LOL!
But that one can be off putting and you better be aware of whom you are dealing with and that they have a sense of humor too, and don’t think that you are fishing to more interest, hmm?

How many narcissists do you know, I mean besides me? Nah, mine is negative narcissism or opposite of narcissism.

Kidding, but maybe not that much, since all these blogs are about me and my thoughts and feelings, projects, ideas, personal difficulties and on and on, uh oh!
But imperfection is what I am about, not the other.
I’m good, or many might say, maybe not.

Any-who, tonight was an exercise on the power of thoughts and words placed in an order that begs for discussions.
Whatever you feel about the ‘fortune cookie’ I bet we all must agree that whenever we get one the first thing we need to know is what is in it that could be our fate that could be our own future concepts of how things might turn out for us, it’s exciting and tantalizing all at once…or not, sure it is…be happy, be well and smile…makes the world smile back!

Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to count those blessings and kindly share those overages and we will too!

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

Another night of noisy storms...conducive to movie watching

So long as we don’t lose power, as we did yesterday while watching the movie Blindness circa 2008, fiction, it’s about when a virus or something is causing people in a city to go blind and was shown at the Cannes Film Festival that year, guess we will have to rent it in order to see the end, was a suspenseful flick. We got it for free on the CW or channel 46/6 here without having cable.

Friday night we did watch a rental one, Soul Surfer, very inspirational; true story of Bethany Hamilton who was a teen competitive surfer in Hawaii and lost her left arm in a shark attack.

Tonight, we did not lose power yet but the storms were so violent sounding that I shut our computer down a few times in utter fear!
Sure we have a surge protector, but I am still shell shocked from Hurricane Charley of ’04, so SORRY!

We seem to be having a major lull or the storm could have moved away I wanted to get this published as quickly as possible and so I did not take the time to check the radar again.

This weather can fool you since we do have a tendency to get what the pros call a training effect where one storm stops with another right behind with appearing calms for short spurts in between or not. Sometimes they are one after another with no stopping what-so-ever!

As I have said many a weekend that we do watch many films since we still belong to the home delivery rentals, but not all have been gems worth discussing or recommending, you all know the movie score with that concept, hmm?

People please hold on to your jewelry when you leave your sanctuaries, especially your gold, thieves have been snatching necklaces off of people’s necks! So watch your bling thing friends, if you have not been keeping up it’s the only thing that has been going consistently up, oh wait that’s right petrol or gas too, but at least with gas we haven’t had to pay $1800 an ounce, yet! That thought scares me, and I bet you too!


Moving on… when upset from the nasty weather spurts that happen way too often this time a year I get tense and my concentration diminishes to nearly nil.
Every little distraction makes me lose my train of thought; does anyone else have this difficulty?
Gosh, I feel bad Hubby was playing with Skipper with a toy and Skip was play growling and I yelled it was too loud! You see what I mean? Not good.
Now the news sounds too loud to me in the other room.
Oh well, almost done.

It’s my nerves since I just heard more thunder in the distance as if it was trying to make a comeback…

I wrote another email to our estranged son who appears to be in the path of our latest named storm which could be a hurricane by the time it reaches the east coast of Florida. And so I offered our home for an evacuation location for him and signed it love Mom and Dad, how else? So far no answer, and with his job they might need him to stay put, but I felt offering the olive branch might get a small response…

On that note of making myself more miserable allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

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

Forty-five minutes? We were so lucky, so far...

The storm came out of nowhere, but spoke loudly while it visited us this afternoon.
Thunder and lightening created dread for me and our noble pal Skipper who appeared to not have lost that creepy fearful sensation that we both seem to share from the hurricane that ’04 left us with.
Until the clash of thunder is right over your home with explosions staccato bombarding surrounding your personal world you have no idea how awful it can be. We were lucky we only lost power for forty-five minutes. I had called our Florida Power and light Company immediately on our house phone that is not a cordless since they don’t work in a power outage, and that’s another thing our FPL’s emergency number is very simple 1-800-4-outage, and they tell you by computerized voice and will contact you with updates if you so wish; only 235 homes were without power due to the storm.
I am sure many experienced similar reactions to war zones are what it could best be compared to.
Next week we may be getting one of those major storms coming directly at us.
If this next depression turns into a storm its name will be, Irene.
Pleasant enough name but until its associated with a hurricane of major strength and devastation, one never knows does one?
We should know within the next few days if we have to prepare to batten down the hatches and make ready for departing to areas unknown.
You see, until we have a realistic idea of the intensity and direction of the storm we don’t know what to do.
But yes it at least gives us a chance to get out of harms way; unlike the horror of a tornado, flash flood, earthquake or even sometimes a Tsunami.
And from experience we are in the know what to do, thankfully.
Only thing is this time we have to get another memory card for our camera to take the before and after pictures, which we found were so help in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley back in ’04.
The old adage, “A pictures worth a thousand words” is more than accurate when dealing with insurance companies.
You might want to also take pictures before you put your shutters on, since one time a new insurance company thought that our window had been broken when ours was left onto show that we had them. So I recommend, inside and out pictures to be taken before you batten down and the inside/out after too or at least outside; to prove that you took every effort to save your home and property.
Once you have all your proper information on where the storm may be going, since no one ever knows for sure then and only then can you consider in what direction you may have to go or maybe if lucky just stay put.
It’s definitely a wait and see game.
Wish us all luck in this neck of your woods of the world, it appears that we are now in the thick of the season and all we can do is watch, wait and listen to all our local authorities and meteorologists.

On that note of trying to keep safe now and always, take care, be well, smile and allow me to be the first tonight to wish you to kindly have a very happy good night and to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time we will be here or be square, ya hear?

PS that medication that I was given for depression for all of $1.99 for thirty after only three days it did not agree with me, it caused nausea and more dizziness than even my Ataxia where I had to lie in bed and not move and so another good idea to help me my system refused…probably for the good, enough is enough!