People's perspective on the hurricane now downgraded to a tropical storm...

ANGER!

They’re people who are calling it all hype and that it was a dud!
For you idiots, go ahead, I will wait when you tell that to the 18 dead people’s families! More still may come…but I truly hope not! No one knows yet, with all the flooding…
The flooding is still going on, but perhaps not in your neighborhood, do you have power?
Nearly four millions still do not! Oh that’s right you would know this if you had by maybe ….watching the news!
The subways and other trains in the greater metropolitan area will not be running tomorrow not because it was a mistake to stop the New York transit from running but it will take days to clear the tracks of downed trees and wires and mudslides covering the above ground tracks!
Flash floods are still going on in New England, and still more are expected up and down the coastline all the way till Tuesday, not to mention all the tornadoes being spun off from the not too powerful storm that in your small minds was ‘a dud’! Destroying homes and infrastructures all over the coast line and its interior!

Funny how déjà vu this is for when we were hit so violently by Hurricane Charley a category 4 way back on August 13.2004, a Friday, people less than twenty miles away that were fortunate to not get a hit direct or otherwise, also said that it was NOT so bad!
I beg to differ with all these naysayers! You’re full of SH-T!
It goes back to the hearing of the tree falling in the forest concept; if you do not hear it did it actually happen. That was rhetorical, if all you smarty pants even know what that means!

If anyone has posted that crap, the dud too much hype baloney, on my Facebook page I have closed it in disgust, now I ask you; wouldn’t you?
Why so many people who at first seemed mildly intelligent are proven later on to be complete idiots!
Just in: the dud of a weather system that did not cause too much devastation only so far has caused an estimated SEVEN BILLION in damages, and true not as bad as first thought of, but this is just a preliminary estimate!

Gosh I am seething!

I am posting late tonight due to my concern and interest about all those people IN HARMS WAY and most I do not know, but I still care.

Another person local, in Fort Myers Florida actually said heartlessly in my book, that “if his sister were not still living up there he wouldn’t care”, what?
I am so disappointed in people with that way of thinking.
Sad doesn’t seem to cover it.
If nothing else this year with all the outlandish weather happenings, from earthquakes, tornadoes, Tsunamis, you would think that compassion would be more than abundant not less…
Oh well, Pollyanna here hoping that my Dad was right these people who think so negatively and only for themselves in this world that daily becomes smaller, are in the minimum and the majority are the good caring loving people who want to know one thing…now what can we do to make this all better?

On that high note of trying hard to utilize my Dad’s mindset once again allow me to wish you all a very happy, safe night and to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

Pirate Fest! A small distraction...

Yes, we went out today to get away from the computer and TV and have a bit of fun.
And much to our surprise, we did.
After our lunch we went over to Fishville AKA Fisherman’s Village in River City AKA Punta Gorda for their third annual Pirate Fest.
It was much better than previous years it appears they had a splurge of ideas and finances since many pirates attended the festivities as well as vendors and rides and on and on, etc…
And so although we ate lunch at home and due to the tremendous turnout where we had to park was way across the street in order to find a handicap space to have room for Hubby to take out my scooter. We spent a good two hours going through the quarter mile covered venue and all there was to see.

All I can say is that there were many vendors spread throughout the facility that were selling pirate related items from costuming to monogrammed items with the scull and crossbones, what-have-you; and also unrelated items from candles to cologne.
Entertainment consisted of cannons ready to be shot off with so-called real pirates telling their history and young women dressed too as pirates singing and dancing.

The whole thing started yesterday and will go on tomorrow from eleven A.M. to six P.M.
Much better than last year's offering I must admit and quite a nice surprise!

Sorry to hear when we arrived home that the hurricane had caused two deaths in North Carolina, one, a man, who went out during the storm who was hit with a tree limb and crushed and another, a women, killed in a car accident due to the traffic light being out since the area had lost power.

As Hurricane Irene goes up the coast she has maintained her cat1 status that she went down to this morning.
Many are losing power and trees are down as well as streets being flooded over, nothing has changed warning wise for the east coast.
All warnings have remained the same and over two million have been evacuated.
At the time of this writing she has moved slowly up the coast line towards the northeast, while now in Virginia.

New York’s transportation, subways and airports have been closed down since noon today.
Stores there too have boarded up and closed as well…
Many tourists appear to be clueless, a women in Manhattan for a tennis match said that “it is not good since she has no idea where she will be able to have breakfast before her match”? What? How can so many be in the dark?
And not know why the shops are closed?

Another was concerned because her flight was cancelled and worried about her job, I do believe even the nastiest of bosses would understand this!
CRAZY!

Any-who, on that note of not believing how people still do not know what is going on…
Allow me to ask you all in Irene’s path to be safe and do what your local authorities say for you to do, and try and have a very happy good night and count those blessings and kindly share those overages and we will too!

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

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?