Too much!

Some days we all know that we may "push the envelope", and what does that actually mean?

"push the envelope - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary ...

idioms.thefreedictionary.com/push+the+envelope   Cached push the envelope Fig. to expand the definition, categorization, dimensions, or perimeters of something."

Yes! 

And when we do that, push our own personal envelopes, from physically pushing ourselves to our limitations or emotional abilities to cope with not too nice situations, we as human beings realize after negative affects occur that we perhaps went too far, or did too much.
Human nature is an interesting product that we all have.
Even so... we somehow don't always get when we may have gone too far.
In this case I am referring to pushing that body to stretch its limits or thoughts that are better left in your noggin than put out and spoken aloud.

Let me put it to you this way, yesterday I did both.
Here comes trouble... and that idiom has a picture of me next to it I am more than sure.

Putting one's foot in their mouth ... if only it was an art form... I would be considered one of the best artists in the land, maybe the world!

And being somewhat of a person who gets tired of NOT being as able as I once was... makes me angry and frustrated and sometimes I just have to try to do what I just have to try to do, ya know?

Climbing, even as well woman was not my strong suit, I nearly broke an ankle while using a ladder in my parents home when Hubby and I both were helping them by painting it way back in the 1970's, Lakewood, NJ... And then there was the time I did break my leg, fell right onto the cement pad, when on a ladder washing the 5th wheels/RV's windows while we were staying in it back then '95-'98 in Punta Gorda, FL, due to waiting on the sale of our home on the other coast in Ormond Beach. Although, I walked on it for two days while I made cookies, several batches way back then... and no worries; I was my skinny self  of 103 lb. gal at the time, so cookies were okay, but mostly they were for our friendly neighbors...!

Any-who, now with the MS I forget I cannot do what I need to do, but my body rudely reminds me.
So when Hubby  and I had a discussion on whether or not the wind was strong enough to rip the canopy over the pool I ran, not really, but sort of with my walker of course...to the shed to grab the step ladder to unhook the side that has clips on the eyes, on that side and the lanai overhang as well... and guess what?
I could not reach the clips even when I did magically climb the two steps up the step ladder! Sure if any of you recall it is seven feet four inches high and me of five foot one-ish, and even with the step stool I was not able to reach it!
And yes I even stretched, which is why all last night and most all of today I am back to warm moist heat for my lower back and shoulder, ugh!
Hubby was right in the long-run, although the wind did come up really fast and whipping it, it held its own... more than I can say for myself; at least I didn't fall and break anything...
Well, who knows that might have been a better deal? NO!
But I am still in pain mode and my dizziness is back too in full force...
And Hubby and I have been a tiny weenie statically charged all day long?

And so too much is sometimes just that.

Knowing one's limitations takes work...

Oh the best/worst part is that I realized that with my back and my dizzy back in nasty form that I did need to go back to physical therapy and it was in that window of two weeks that nothing needs to be done other than scheduling, it's less than a week, and the prescription was for the end this month anyway...
I start again next week, and they were going to try to fit me in this week but I felt bad that I had quit and told them next week was fine.
This week I see the PA at the Ortho’s anyway and now she probably will not be wondering why I did not finish her prescribed time.

So that is why last night’s ‘blog’ was not done and tonight’s is done now… since I am sitting at ole faithful desktop and not on my notebook where it lately has been freezing up….

My back is crying uncle in this position so I will listen to it and bid you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

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

Labor Day!

Enjoy it!

I'm not.

I will not say why.

But you go on and enjoy being off...

Take care and TTYT

Here we go again...

I might as well come clean with all of you...
Tonight's blog topic idea is drawing a blank from this vastly usually bull fitted story mind; alas it appears to be running on empty!

Stimulation has to be had by doing more than what I do daily I suspect; lately same ole same ole...

As soon as I awake from anywhere from five thirty to seven thirty A.M.; I open the shades and grab a cup of coffee and then sit in my lounge chair and open my laptop and bring up three screens my welcome, Facebook and My Blog. Check my emails and get rid of the multitude of SPAMS, and then check Facebook for all those nice people and wish my daily ‘Happy Birthday” people their happy day and scan my invites and usually decline, too faraway most. Then answer the trivia question of the day with Hubby or without.


Breakfast is around nine A.M. for Hubby and me and after I swim/exercise in the pool from about nine thirty to ten thirty or there about at times much longer if no plans to go anywhere.
And longer still if my in between out of the pool rest time or busy doing something else takes up more of the allotment for my ROM etc.....
I shower and change and think of what to make for lunch at noon.

When all is done with lunch I either check my emails etc. again or take a nap, lately more naps than before. I guess the water makes me tired.

I check all rooms for straightening usually earlier in the day and after nap time is my checking the hamper for laundry and if there isn’t enough for a load, I sit back in my lounge chair to check the laptop for interesting stories or articles/items on home décor that I do love to look at. If nothing more interesting I check the online TV listings to see what might meet my fancy or Hubby’s if he is in from trimming our outdoor vegetation.

See ordinary.

Hard to be creative writing wise when you’re not being that way in your life.

On the upside Hubby has been very busy maintaining our home-front with from everything to refurbishing our outside paddle fan; it is an outdoor specific one, in our lanai ceiling by de-rusting it and painting it and me washing the paddles and I also was responsible for re-ordering our Dolphin pull online, it’s been here for more than a week, Home Depot did not have it in their store when we were there, if had been originally purchased from there years ago with the Seahorse light pull, which is still doing fine… Do any of you get my rather bold cleverness? Seahorse is for the light, to see? Dolphin is for the fan part to make the fan go on?

Oh well, I guess you had to be there… Yep they have been a part of that fan system, well the original that was in the center of the octagon Gazebo Hubby had made for me prior to Hurricane Charley, only ten feet in diameter, and whoosh Hurricane Charley took it away! But left the fan, which was not reusable, but the pulls were, oddly enough.

So I suppose I did pull this one out of a state of oblivion; and just where is that, she so boldly asked?

Never mind.

On that silly note of whatever, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and might I also ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

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

PS Dinner is usually at five, I know… old people do that!

And bedtime is from anywhere between nine thirty on…I know only old people do that, well; maybe, just maybe we are nearly almost, getting there? HOPE NOT!

Have you ever Googled just your name?

I suppose many haven't if their name is not or is somewhat, how do I say this without offending too many people...oh alright, common?
Mine is not.
That is my real name, not this pseudonym I use on here.
But the one I am talking/writing here about is my one and only name that I use in my parallel universe, huh?
Yep, it’s used in my other life; my real life.
Many think that I have a 'ma' in front of my name, but no, it really is what is stated by me and of course on my birth certificate, except for my married name of course wasn’t there! Although, some days it does seem like it must have been…a curious mysterious statement, hmm? Not really but when you are married nearly 44 years, and you have known one another for, gosh, 47 tomorrow!
And there never was a ‘ma’ attached to my name, oh my mother was there of course when I was born, but she was never ever referred to as a ‘ma’ and my first name never ever had a ‘ma’ in front of the rest of it...
So in that respect that is why it is not so common, forgive, but I am rather uncommon, albeit many will disagree I am more than sure…
Moving on…
So the idea of Googling one’s self is recommended by all those people who talk about security and protecting your reputation and all… best not to post anything on line that you will regret, huh?
Gosh, wish I realized that one years ago…Kidding, whatever I have said or will say or post pic wise for that matter I do own up to and that is why at times I may appear to be too cautious I am weighing my words more carefully than many might think I do!

Most of us with odd or unusual or as I rather prefer these days now that I have decided to ‘like’ my name, for years I hadn’t, is that it is unique. And so am I!

But the argument is that everyone is.

But many have dare I say, again, common names, so I am a twofer.

WHAT????

See, none of you would ever want to be like me… too different and off to where, one never ever knows…joyous experimentation's with silly, perhaps?

In closing, my journey, which was rather short but continues on my laptop while I plug away here on my ancient desktop that once again is serving me well… up to interpretation I suppose… while I write here tonight as I was saying the other has on its face at this time my search of all those 964 women with my same name all over the world who must have had some relationship with the online world to have been counted as their existence is noted and what I was trying so diligently to do was to find me!

And so far… I have not shown up there, could be due to me being here, but that is ridiculous!

Since most/all of those there are just there in name only.

On that adventurous trek to find myself again for the umpteenth time, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and might I kindly ask for you to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

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

Another Holiday Weekend!

This is the beginning of what many Americans call the last weekend of the summer.
But we all know that fall doesn't actually start yet here in this hemisphere for about three weeks.

"September 22, 10:29 P.M. EDT the Fall Equinox" to be exact, Thanks to NASA http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-seasons

Labor Day on the other hand is celebrated in different countries at different times of the year.

Ten countries throughout the world celebrate the holiday.

 Australia first Monday in May

Bangladesh April 24in memory of the victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse.^[2]

 Bahamas June 7, in commemoration of a significant workers' strike that began on that day in 1942.

•  Canada Labour Day (French: Fête du Travail) has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s.

 Jamaica Before 1961, May 24 was celebrated in Jamaica as Empire Day in honour of the birthday of Queen Victoria and her emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.

Jordan Labour Day is celebrated on May 1. It is one of the 16 public holidays celebrated annually in the country.

Lebanon Labour Day is celebrated on May 1. It is one of the 16 public holidays celebrated annually in the country.

New Zealand Labour Day is a public holiday held on the fourth Monday in October. Its origins are traced back to the eight-hour working day movement that arose in the newly founded Wellington colony in 1840, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell's refusal to work more than eight hours a day.

Trinidad and Tobago Labour Day is celebrated every June 19. This holiday was proposed in 1973^[6] to be commemorated on the anniversary of the 1937 Butler labour riots.

United States In the United States, Labor Day is a federal holiday observed on the first Monday of September. It is customarily viewed as the end of the summer vacation season.^[7] Many schools open for the year on the day after Labor Day.^[8] The holiday is shared with Canada, where it is known as Labour Day.

Thanks to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day

And so we are not alone here in the USA, maybe on our chosen date, but not on the fact we honor our laborers by giving them a time to enjoy the fruits of their labor!

Now we know, or maybe you all did already but then now I know too?

Any-who on this one of the busiest and fun holiday weekend here in the USA, please enjoy it all and be safe on the roads. If you drink find someone who doesn’t to drive you home call triple A who does usually provide free towing and delivery of you safely to your home.

http://savvycities.com/aaas-tipsy-tow-program/

On that note of trying hard to tell all of you to have a wonderful safe weekend, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

"May the good spirits be with you always."

"Happy news is on its way to you." Sure hope so!
 
This one is one of mine too as well as the one above in the title; the fortune cookies are Hubby's usually, but tonight I did steal one of the three, oops. 

 
The recipe these days makes them taste like sugar cones. Is that what they always tasted like? I seem to recall they were different?

 
Hubby's only one is, "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time."
So very true, but I added that an ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of health either.

It is so true that gold cannot buy many things. Although many people hold it in higher regard than less tangible things that cannot be priced, which are therefore priceless; such as love, health, and happiness, you get the idea.

 
I do believe that priorities when the ugly realization slaps any of us in the face, of things out of our control.
Some things in life are just not able to be controlled.
But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to change things by investigating how to take care of a situation that might appear unmanageable...

Okay, here's what I mean.
Even though many ills in this world do not as of yet have a cure it doesn't mean that we should just sit around and wait for all those medical and pharmaceutical and supplement people, and the like do all the work...
We have to take some responsibility for our own health, by getting our hands on as much information and possibilities as we can to change our own lives for the better... but keep in mind, even people with the same diseases do not always react to the same combination of ingredients to change their outcome.

Sure the doctors and research people are working constantly to help many of the chronic and deadly diseases out there to solve the mystery of what causes them and so then they will be able to CURE them!

So many things go into the possibilities of what is the cause for most.
Lately the interesting, with a lot of positive results has been the use of stem cells to cure almost everything!
We do manufacture our own you know?
And there are several studies going on with very good results right at this minute!
“Studying stem cells will help us understand how they transform into the dazzling array of specialized cells that make us what we are. Some of the most serious medical conditions, such as cancer and birth defects, are due to problems that occur somewhere in this process. A better understanding of normal cell development will allow us to understand and perhaps correct the errors that cause these medical conditions.
Another potential application of stem cells is making cells and tissues for medical therapies. Today, donated organs and tissues are often used to replace those that are diseased or destroyed. Unfortunately, the number of people needing a transplant far exceeds the number of organs available for transplantation. Pluripotent stem cells offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities including Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury, burns, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis.”

“Human induced pluripotent stem cells:

Late in 2007, scientists reported that they had been able to reprogram adult human skin cells to behave like hESCs. This type of stem cells is known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs. Since these first reports, researchers have rapidly improved the techniques to generate iPSCs, creating a powerful new way to "de-differentiate" cells whose developmental fates were thought to be determined.
In July 2013, Japan’s health minister approved the first clinical trial using cells derived from iPSCs. Masayo Takahashiin Kobe, Japan will use the cells to attempt to treat a form of blindness&8212;age-related macular degeneration.”

 

“Human Central Nervous System Stem Cells (HuCNS-SCs):

A biotechnology company called Stem Cells Inc. (corporate headquarters in Newark, CA) is currently recruting participants for a Phase1/2 study of Human Central Nervous System Stem Cells (HuCNS-SC) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Human spinal cord stem cells:

A biotechnology company called Neuralstem (corporate headquarters in Rockville, Maryland) is conducting a clinical trial testing the use of human spinal cord stem cells to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The company obtained FDA approval to conduct a Phase I trial (safety and tolerability study) and began enrolling patients in January 2010. Twelve participants have received lumbar transplants, and in March 2012, the second participant received an injection in the cervial region. Details about this trial are listed on the ClinicalTrials.gov website.”

Thanks to: http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/pages/health.aspx

More info for all practices with stem cell use is on the National Institute of Health’s site above, as well as trials being conducted.
Where was I… oh that’s right, we as people can never ever give up no matter what life deals us, but again no one thing can change our lives for the better.
Although, many will rightfully argue that research dollars can change things and that is many ounces of gold, and I agree, but in reality we need many people who are not made of gold to work on these projects to develop the cures and for that there is no price of any monies to achieve that.
Think of Madam Curie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie and Jonas Salk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk and all those other incredible people who looked for that proverbial needle in a haystack, and won!
And so shall these people in this timeline of life… that many of us are counting on… What I still cannot fathom is the why that research has become so expensive?
I suppose like most everything else, inflation?

Any-who, I do hope it does work with all those people and monies for them to get the equipment and whatever it takes to change the world for the better…

Moving on…

Now many might be wondering why I chose this topic with all the wars going on in the world and murderous people devastating lives just because they seem to want to… well as much as all of that is extremely important to discuss… until there is an election for me to change things peaceably I have no ability to make a dent in the overwhelming wars that horrify our generations…for way too long.

My hands are tied on that, but learning on a localized basis how to perhaps help myself is a very small reward, in the bigger picture of things, do you get it? I am sure you do.
I cannot physically help with the wars, but getting smarter about what is out there to help myself is doable.

On that note of trying so hard to hope, for it all, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

PS Hang in there Joan Rivers!

When thunder roars, go indoors!

Cute!

But very helpful too with trying hard to make it evident, in every way that you can think of that lightening can KILL you!

“Summertime, and the livin′ is easy,” so the George Gershwin song goes. True, it is a time for picnics in the park, dips in the pool, golf outings, and hikes in the mountains.
But summer weather isn’t all fun in the sun.
Violent summer storms can form quickly and stretch for hundreds of miles. Thunderstorms can produce deadly lightning capable of striking up to 10 miles away — so, even if you don't see rain you could be in harm’s way.
“When planning outdoor activities, we want you to remember that lightning is extremely dangerous,” says John Jensenius, National Weather Service lightning safety expert. “Lightning can kill — and even those who survive a lightning strike are often left with permanent and serious disabilities. The best advice is ‘when thunder roars, go indoors’.”

Thanks to: http://www.noaa.gov/features/monitoring_0609/lightning.html

Many articles verify that Florida is the lightening capital of the world. To be honest though all places have lightening that I am aware of and the same reasoning to not be cavalier when you know it is in the vicinity is mostly the logical way to handle the danger by heeding the words composing my tonight's title, and please do!

So when I tell you some things to protect you it is for all our own good to know what to do in many situations.

Moving on…

One of my old and dear Facebook friends put up a sign, as a joke I truly believe, but it did hit home yesterday having to do with our aging bodies and feeling a commonality there.

The gist of it was “if you woke up tomorrow without any pain would you think you were dead?”

Now she does have a bit of a black humor in her I do believe.

And lumps sadly too many ills in the same boat, but sadly, and oddly enough with many of my days with the MS, Multiple Sclerosis, I have found that due to numbness, parathesia, in so many locations, even when I give myself my Copaxone shots I no longer feel them, or my legs on occasion, or arms or hands or feet… you get the idea.

So pain would be nice in that sense; of course I would prefer not having numbness or pain, but pain does make you know whether to do this or that, and numbness, just keeps quiet, ya know?

Black Humor defined, thanks to:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/black+humor

“noun

1.

a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.

Origin

1965-1970

“Contemporary definitions for black humor

noun

in literature and drama, combining the morbid and grotesque with humor and farce to give a disturbing effect and convey the absurdity and cruelty of life”

So many things in life make you stop and think about what ifs.

As of today I have been pushing myself to try to walk more with my walker, which an upgrade will be arriving within the next few weeks, and in the interim, today I surprised myself.

I did another hour in the pool this time with my water weights!

I walked into the eye doctor’s office with my older model walker and his office is quite a distance from the parking lot; even from the handicap spots and previously I had to use my scooter, and from there we went to Sam’s Club, but Hubby just went in for our extra virgin olive oil and coffee, next I walked, via my walker, into Bed Bath and Beyond to purchase a new hair dryer my twenty year old finally decided to die this morning while getting ready to go out!

I had been using my scooter previously in there too, ha!

Then we tried the Firehouse Subs locally, we had been to the one in Sarasota years ago, and they have even healthy low cal choices too, and so I ordered their hook and ladder choice for 370 calories, but it was so large we took about half of it home!  Hubby had a sub, a NY steamer, he had water, believe or not they don’t have coffee!  Hubby being a former Fire Chief was surprised.

I had iced unsweet tea with lemon. The owner, Russ, was very friendly and chatted with me while I waited for Hubby to place our orders. He was a former police officer in Maryland, and I mentioned that Hubby had been a deputy here in Florida too.

He and his wife own the franchise here for the last four and half years. Wonder why we had not stopped in before; it’s in the same shopping center as BB and B and Best Buy, Marshall’s etc where we have gone to all before at one time or another, as today for my new hair dryer. I had a five dollar off coupon, which worked out better than the 20% off one we also had; a dollar more off!

Last stop before my last visit for PT, yep all done unless I feel I need it, was Walgreen’s and guess what I walked, ala walker, in there too!

Then I had my last forty-five minutes of physical therapy unless I need to, or the doctors think I need to go back.I see the PA next week.

On the vertigo test, when I went in I was a 7 on their chart and normal is 28, Monday I was all the way up to 19, still a falling risk but better!

I don’t think that they can really help too much more really, with the Ataxia; the vertigo is just a newer problem that at home exercises I have and will be given a couple more for each plane to deal with my BPPV and that is all that can be done.

I am helping myself more with more vitamin D as per smiley doc.

And of course even with the sailcloth outside and my skim milk consumption D is coming from the sun… B complex is taken too and is quite high according to what suits my needs… And the next time my nutritionist calls we will discuss them again. The new walker will have the ability to transform in to a transporter too if need be, if I should happen to fizzle. It is now ordered from the manufacturer once delivered to California and then distributed to me via a Georgia warehouse and FedEx after September 11, 2014. Sure hope that date doesn’t have a negative affect on the whole shebang? My insurance company has sent a letter stating that I have met my deductible and they will be paying for it entirely 100%!

YAY!

On that more positive note of much desire to change things even if only temporarily… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all you blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

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