Whether or not you enjoy knowing ahead of time how the weather will be is one's personal choice...

And not to most that earth shattering, right?
Well, to be honest weather has always played a big part in our lives.
I can remember being a small child and having to walk to school, since where we lived you had to live more than two miles away to have another way to get there like I guess a bus.
But I was never a bus person and always had to walk to my schools kindergarten to my senior year of high school.
Yes, in my senior year I did get my driver’s license since in good old NJ you had to be seventeen to get it, but it was March before I saved enough to buy my first car.
No hand-me-downs from an older sibling although Mom and Dad did match my earnings from my after school job in order for me to make that first purchase of my two year old 1966 Turquoise Chevelle Malibu! Its total cost was $1500 dollars, big bucks in those days!

Ah... memories. We all have them.
But the weather thing did keep popping up all through my life since I was a swimmer in the summer and an ice skater in the winter. And we all know how the weather affects those two sporty interests when done outside in nature!
Indoor sports are always unaffected, and don’t count.
And I think most basketball players don’t care if it rains shines or freezes, but I could be wrong. And even though football is always played outside, unless at either end of the heat or chill factor I truly don’t think they care either, but for them I could be wrong too.
You would think I would remember since I did do a short stint as a cheer leader, but I don’t.
Being a camper and boater and enjoying all hiking and you name it anything outside to do with nature weather came into play daily as a young mom raising two healthy active boys!
I suppose old habits never die and so I have FB friended the young weather woman on our local NBC news station and she has been very helpful in keeping all of us on the FB well informed every morning and is quick enough to answer our questions daily between her camera appearances live, actually she is quite amazing.
I imagine her as a juggler would be…and how I used to be myself when I too was a multi-tasker when a healthy younger woman.
Some of my employees called me a, ‘Dynamo!’.
And now I am just a slow-mo! LOL
Ah… as I said before memories.

I only mentioned this young woman due to her diligence.
You see, I asked a question early this morning about the wave that was in our hemisphere and from what I had been told till then is that it had only a 30% chance of developing into something more major, and she agreed this morning.
And although she works that early morning shift from air-time of five-seven on air, to ten between shows etc. this afternoon she felt the need or the desire to change the first forecast to an updated one of a 60% chance now that the wave could develop and will be possibly heading our way! But still quite faraway now. To be accurate here is her exact quote, “Chance for development now up to about 60% in the next 48 hours. This system is starting to look a bit more organized. Regardless or exact path or strength, it will be a rain maker this weekend.” How so nice of this very excellent reporter to take that extra effort I say on my fb wall!

And yes the weather to me has become extremely important these days with my MS, too hot is very uncomfortable for me to be outside for very long and too cold is too! They can create spasms uncontrollably.
Rain has a special meaning to me since I do not own an indoor swimming pool and it is my only form of exercise.
And so if rain is coming especially with lightening then I am sure you know that means not a good time for anyone to be in the pool!

Now for a bit of earth shattering news!
A young fellow, who’s pic I must add is his incredible six pack abs, out in CA had been spending this afternoon poking me, of all people!
And sadly up until a few moments before I had been poking him back… without knowing what it meant and so I asked him and he was kind enough to tell me that all it means is that he was saying ‘Hi’, to me how sweet!
But you all know me by now; I had to ask… “Why he didn’t hear my first three pokes back to him!”
Oddly enough his pokes stopped. LOL, I wonder why? Oh darn…I was having fun! Sort of.

On that silly note of my stupidity I will wish you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

202 and uh oh and a wee bit of seepage now what do we do?

Duplication of the last three days was how my morning went, although…
I did get some staid advice from a professional, which was something new for me anyway on the topic of writing. I complimented him on his question of asking on masse about if they had a movie made about their lives what would they entitle it.
He did receive quite an influx of answers from me as well.

It truly amazes me that with all my campaigning for you all to read this my nightly nonsense that he appeared to have never read it. But then that would be presumptuous of me to think that a busy employed person would have that much time on their hands to waste on this drivel? Now I do know I have probably offended many of you who are presumably gainfully employed and use this minutia of arrested development exposes from a nearly-senior (AARP says that I am already there, but not all) female person as a mere short term distraction and more than harmless foresight and take on daily mundane situations, correct?

With that all said, now I suspect you would possibly be interested in why I even bothered to mention it, huh? My sociology experiment, but of course?
If you all recall when I began my campaign for more FB friends I started a little thing of purposeful interference called my sociology experiment where I interjected my comments into their IM conversations. Such as, “Get back to work!”, “Carry on” and lastly, “TGIF if you so wish.”
My motive or have you motivation was to see what type of reaction I would get and I did chronicle it in my earlier Blogs on this site if you so wish to go back and look.
The reason I took this round about way of telling you all that this talented busy person who gave me the advice about how and why he did what he did and how I too could accomplish such a feat by observing people while sitting in a coffee shop and striking up a conversation and listening to my own inner voice.
Whoa man!
You see that proves my point he never read my Blog since then he would know that I have been living his words for most of my life! LOL
And so consequently trying not to be disrespectful of this well respected person in his field that he undeniably is successful in I did not respond to his advice for fear of being too honest and tell him that even so I have been doing his suggestions it doesn’t always work for everyone.
Especially women, we are either told we are too nosey or the ‘b’ word that rhymes with witch, for commenting with an opinion on most things become our moniker.
Sadly some things never change!
PS He is only a year older than I.

Notation: I am up to 202 new FB friends as of tonight.
The seepage of the oil leak is under cautious and watchful eyes and nothing has changed yet about the cap being removed so far.

Shared Solutions is the company that has an association with my Copaxone to keep me informed and supplied with my medication and they called today to see how I was doing actually one of their RN’s did.
I feel so cared for…aw shucks really!
They offered me a travel case and cooler with a lock for my medication, and after I found out it was a NO charged I said YES!
You see here in southwest Florida, as if you didn’t know by now we are in hurricane country and so those two little items may come in very handy if we have to evacuate!
Which we have already decided to do if the powers that be think it would be the best idea; and so now we have an additional preparation taken care of thankfully.

On that very smart revelation to handle a bad situation I will wish you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Groundhog Day Movie, repeat and reuse...

What do those words have in common you may ask?
Fortunately, I was incorrect in my assessment of how the newest cap was going to work when asked on my Facebook page by a local news anchor to everyone and we all responded just a few days ago and I was not very fortuitous in comparing the oil leak to the movie, Groundhog Day.
Since if you all recall in that 1993 movie, the male character that was portrayed by Bill Murray would wake up every morning and the same things would happen over and over again, day after day; nothing would ever change.

Oddly enough I heard on the national news someone quoting my quote when asked if he too felt the newest attempt to cap the leak would work! What he said is that it was like Groundhog Day… and I laughed hysterically; why you asked?
Because he never mentioned the movie; only actual Groundhog’s Day which we all know is February second and that is when we wait to see if the groundhog in Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow to know how many weeks of winter are left and that is only once a year! But the movie is quite a bit different with the same things happening over and over again for weeks! He missed the analogy, oh well…what can one do?
They say the way that you know that you are crazy is to do the same thing over and over again with the same bad results and to be honest I was beginning to think that the people trying to stop the leak were getting there very quickly! And that was my point with the well problem concept resolves that never seemed to be working until miraculously on day ‘87’, and the cap finally did work! As they are all saying now to keep our cool and that we are to be cautiously optimistic, OK we all can do that, right folks?

My day began pretty much the same as yesterday, uh oh; I sure hope that I‘m not going into a monotonous trend here with my own movie in rewind!
But yes, I awoke early at five, no surprise there, and did my usual… checking emails, reading the paper online, and looking at my Facebook page.
Then I went into the living room to start reading my latest novel, Patterson’s Private, then breakfast, pool and shower and Copaxone shot but this time in my left upper arm and Hubby had to do it, since it was on an odd angle for me to self inject.

From there we made a grocery shopping list to take with us to the ‘Publix’.
This way we don’t deviate too much from what we need to choose things we just want!
At this time of the year like most all Gulf Coast dwellers we seem to keep well stocked in foods and gas and such, just in case we have a dramatic change in our weather like dare I say a hurricane in our vicinity; so far so good though, nada.
In fact the last two days have been lacking moisture in any form, which right now in my book is a very good thing!
I do know that we need to have some rain weekly would be just fine with me, how about Monday Wednesday or Friday for a half hour of more?
Laughably I do know that is not a negotiable commodity, but wouldn’t that be great?
No, think about it… no more droughts, no more floods, who wouldn’t love that?
But then the controversies would begin who’s G-d would we discuss it with, and would that be an impartial one deciding in what parts of the world would he/she make those wetnesses(Tobism) come down or stay up?
Yep, I guess the way we have been going is the only worldwide fair way!
Hit or miss, no choices taking what you get and dealing with it; not too much different then when we didn’t know what sex our new baby was going to be way back when, LOL!
We dealt with that, but now you youngins all know if you so choose to, right?
And that deal is much longer than just a few days or a bit of your income and insurances involved, it’s a lifetime! I know NOT a good analogy either!
Perception is as small as a blip in time or eons…that are infinite.

Leaving you all in a small bit of confusion is my pleasure to all and so I will bid you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!


PS Thank you to my new follower, whoever you are! (Wink,K)

Between nine and ten this morning I attempted to enter...

The pool and it was still chilly although about the same temperature as the air.
Shade was still manifesting itself slightly on the pool's eastern side.
Hubby applied a water proof band aid to my peculiar eruption on my right shoulder for protection, which was more intense coverage than any creams I suspect.
But I so needed to go into the pool, as you all know it is all the exercise I can do.
So I worked with that and did accomplish my ROM exercises.
I spent approximately forty-five minutes in the cool waters at an eighty-five degree reading.

Once basically not so drippy from my bathing-suit I went in to shower as usual.
After was the fear of anticipation with me being on my own for the very first time having to give myself my injection; this one in the stomach, boy did I almost chicken out.
You see the injections have to be rotated using seven different locations and I chose to go in a clock-wise direction. Since the first day I did it in my right upper thigh my right side of my belly button was the next in that agreed upon method.
I decided to completely get dressed and determined how I would access my belly at the proper setting, to inject, since I wear sundresses it was easy to move it up and lower my undies to gain access, but since I decided to do it at the dinette table where I originally had been taught I took a large hand towel for modesty in case some one walked in or came to the door.
I did request for hubby to be my spotter or back up guy to make sure I did not miss any steps and he also didn’t realize he was my morale support!
I followed all the steps from washing my hands to assembling the injector checking the medication for discoloration or floating matter all was well and so it was installed into the trigger like system. Alcohol was applied to the target sight and left to dry and then the injector was placed where it belong pushed down and the doorbell trigger released and held till the count of twenty!
Success!
The needle was discharged into the sharps container all parts were cleaned with alcohol and put away until tomorrow!
Hopefully none of you have fainted from my graphic description.

The day today was fairly quiet I suppose you could call it a read-athon since Hubby and I read our library book selections most all of the day!

We called in dinner for chicken and salads and just finished a little while ago.
Lazy was our routine and name of the game today and we both shamelessly enjoy every moment of it.

On that note of utter joy I will wish you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

175! And counting...

Good evening to all; and how are we all doing tonight folks?
Your answer should be great; why you say?
Isn’t this the day that everyone calls TGIF?
You all know that’s true at least it used to be in the day when I too was a working stiff!
That number of 175 is how many friends are in my latest FB tally!

And for any of you who were around for my good wishes to you all of me writing on your IM’s the sentence, ‘TGIF if you so wish’ earlier today on the Facebook I’m just wondering why no one answered? I do know that this was in no way offensive!

I suppose most were busy conducting business online, which I am sure most of you do all day long… being in the technological age and all and networking this way as it is.
I could tell you all such stories of the time of BC, not before Christ folks, before computers of course! LOL
We had to use landlines and piles of books to scour to find information or peoples accounts page by paper page! How barbaric!
Then around 1982 the home computer made the idea of having your own system feasibly easier for all who cared to try. That was a lightening bolt to the evolution of these current technologies we all use and occasionally curse at daily due to malfunctions, some things never change! LOL
We all pay this money for an easier better way to accomplish our work and there it goes or doesn’t the way you expect it to. Ah and this is the way life continues and we all get stories to pass on to our families to laugh at wholeheartedly or not!

Today I finally learned the proper way to inject my new medication, Copaxone, into me, in other words the nurse arrived an hour later than she thought, but to her good she did call to let us know she was going to be late.
At eleven forty this morning she arrived and she stayed until one thirty.
Hubby also was willing to try the dry runs on the ball shaped test dummy for injecting purposes. We both did pretty well and if we forget how since it is in an automatic injector not just a normal syringe so it is more complicated then just aiming and shooting there is a step by step picture book to show you exactly how.
The set up alone takes a few minutes to install the injection into the nearly gun like injector, since it does have a trigger like button, which she called a doorbell. The injection itself that goes into it does look like the typical ones that most are familiar with.
When I did get the chance to finally get the real dose of medication into me I did it correctly!
Holding the plunger down for the count of twenty otherwise the medication will shoot into the air or everywhere other than where it should go!
Hopefully by this time next week after one week’s worth of injections I will begin feeling confident in doing it, but tomorrow I will be doing it myself and I am a wee bit nervous.
Of all the horrible reactions to the medication I had the smallest a slight burning sensation, which to me was just great!
Since the other possible ones are rather frightening.

Who can complain all went well, and this medication can keep me from needing to go into the hospital for any relapses and that is a wonderful thing!
Good night to all and to count your blessings and we will too!

THE WELL IS CAPPED!

THE WELL IS CAPPED!

Its day 87 and now we are finding out that so far so good on the stoppage of oil going into the Gulf. I reported it on my Facebook page just three minutes after the local news station did too! You see, it didn’t show up right away; how odd?
That’s the good news, but millions of gallons are already in the Gulf needing to be cleaned up and now those dispersant agents that had been used might actually be containing carcinogens, but the information is still sketchy on that.

We have another nasty storm coming through tonight.
It appears this is definitely our rainy season and I have no options to even try to use the pool!

This afternoon the Registered Nurse was supposed to come to teach me how to inject the Copaxone, but her grand-daughter was flying home and up by her the rain started early and her grand-daughters plane was delayed taking off apparently. And she called me to ask if she could come tomorrow morning between ten thirty and eleven, what could I say but OK!

Lately I feel like everyone has to put everyone off, but mostly me. (I know how self centered is that?)
Personal needs are rampant in all industries.
I was never ever a boss who didn’t understand that, but I suppose since I am now older and in need of these services I do get a wee bit impatient and consequently annoyed; shame on me!

I know I know but when I was in the work force I felt the need to earn every penny, even when I volunteered I felt obligated to do or accomplish whatever I said I would do or committed to and that was just my word and NOT for money ever.
That old work ethics again; some still have it but others know that their field needs many in it and that they are a very rare commodity I believe and know when demand is high and products, in this case people or low in specific fields they have the upper hand and use it.

Let me suggest to people finding that they are now after trying to find work in their old fields that they should go to work in the health field, major needs for people are definitely there! Environmental would be next my guess. Anything to do with clean energy should be topping that list too! These are areas that all the unemployed and young people should consider as well as construction in rebuilding of bridges and our roads, in other words our infrastructure. Just as we all knew needed to be started when the election was going on with all those failures; OSHA needs more people to be trained to help them, and what about the FDA?
A day doesn’t go by that some medication is not being recalled due to deaths!
Product safety people to check on products before they leave the factories and have to be recalled due to smothering another child!
Just read the news every night and anyone with half a brain can see where the jobs should be, and people who have the power to create those jobs should be doing it!
Private sector too, not just the government what happened to the SBA? Copy and paste this folks and investigate for yourselves! http://www.sba.gov/
You see how fired up I can get and not only do I have ideas you do too!
And come up with great ones and go to your local college where they have career counselors and talk with them, and I am more than sure they would be willing to help you in anyway they can. Plus there is the retired professional’s organizations all over the place contact them or check with your local government offices to find out how.

Considering these days I am only working with half a brain I do like to go on and if I off put anybody I am truly sorry, but we need to brain storm to help ourselves…G-d helps those who help themselves, you know?

On that note of hope I hope, redundancy is rampant again on this Blog!
But good night to all and to count those blessings and we will too!

Well... did the new cap work, did it do the job?

We don't know that answer since they are debating on when they will be testing it; possibly at each step in six hour intervals.

No wild testing in the realm of sociology today, and so I have nothing to report.
Although, perhaps without too much knowledge of forethought I guess I did do something that if it wasn't done for me really thinking about it for a few minutes that I was actually going to do it… It could be considered an experiment in the true study of human nature…I know get to the point Tobi…Well, I said that I might have offended too many people with my methods of trying to attain friendships and that perhaps I should quit this whole thing; meaning Facebook and finding so many friends,… I did mean it for a few hours in fact, but I didn’t do it because the response although not overwhelming was heartwarming and made me really think it out harder and wiser and so then I decided in the long run…what the heck, huh? And so I am still there and here too.

But sadly I did just acquired an additional six BFF’s since last night, and now my tally is up to 140 Facebook friends; not too bad but not that great either.
I have received many ideas on how to acquire friends, but to be honest I found one way that can work and that is by going to your friends page that you are already friends with and ask their friends…I don't really know if this is kosher? I have no idea, but it can't be too harmful, can it?
After all, we are all in it to meet and greet new buds, right?
And when you think about people with similar interests would definitely gravitate towards peeps you admire too, why not?
Makes sense to me; to you too?

Now for up close and personal: I bet you are all wondering what the doctor said about my shoulder rot, huh?
Well, it is not something to fool around with and the best idea is to have another doctor get a look at it, which I will be doing next week.
And from there I may need a specialist who specializes in shoulder rot or as I hate to think about malformations on the skin that may make horrid continuing nasty prolific gunk to grow without taming, or possibly cancer.
But we won't think about that, right?
Without proof we have NOTHING!
And so I will just think calming peaceful thoughts and not the other stuff that has always had a way of making it into my brain.
I know with my history though the worse I think it is… it usually isn't; so there you go... I will think the worst and I will be fine.
But the ultimate insult is that I must avoid the sun and it was recommended that I do my exercising in my pool in the evening.
It just stopped raining here, and I am sort of tired since I awake so early, and exercise is like the last thing that I feel like doing now in rain cooled water.
Brrr who needs that!

And so until I figure out how to get the ROM program into my no sun schedule I will be thinking, hmmm I have no idea, but if any of you do let me know here there or wherever, ok?

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!