I got some papers in the mail yesterday that involved me reading and understanding a financial form. Once I talked myself out of the cold sweat produced by anything financial in my life, I took a deep breath and actually tried to understand what it was saying. I could be wrong and I will have my financially savvy friend Kate double check what I think I’m seeing because I may just be buzzed on caffeine but I believe I might have actually deciphered a financial form correctly… and since Kate doesn’t get here until 6 PM, I have four hours
I saw my life flash before my eyes
Some crazed Alaskan driver in a pick up truck came zooming out of a one way drive way in the wrong direction without bothering to stop to see if any traffic was coming. I was, in fact, almost at the entrance that this idiot chose to use for her hurried exit. As I slammed on the breaks while holding the horn firmly down, my whole life flashed in front of my eyes and quite frankly, I was a bit disappointed.
Will George Clooney PLEASE give me a call ASAP.
Respect in political life
As I listen to the commercials being broadcast endlessly about health care reform and its alleged dire circumstances to seniors on Medicare, what sticks in my mind is the ending to one of the commercials. It is simply a senior saying, “Seniors won’t forget”. The not too subtle threat is that if a politician votes for health care, senior citizens will vote en masse to turn him or her out of office.
And so my last hope for civil discourse crumbles as the only age group who could possibly still remember what civil discourse sounds like makes a move to
Christmas gift suggestion
Buy a book by a real author. Show Sarah she can’t dumb the whole nation down no matter how hard she tries.
Dental visit
Spent the better part of yesterday morning in a dental chair getting some long overdue work done. Had Xanax and Percocet to get me through the ordeal since dentists are on the very bottom of my list of people I ever want to have to spend time with unless they are NOT in their office. My mother used to take Xanax. She’d get up in the morning and take a half a pill and say, “I’m going to take this in case I get nervous today.” I don’t know how she did it. I could not have figured out how
Do remotes just sense their leaders?
For some reason recently, whenever I watch a DVD and then try to go back to just watching my television, the remote for the TV doesn’t work. Once it was thought to be due to the fact that the DVD player was still on but subsequent investigation proved that wrong. The first time it happened, a young lady fixed it for me and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what she’d done to make it work. This time when it happened, I hit every damn button on all three remotes that I have… the one for the
A question I must ask
So there is a picture in the paper of Sarah Palin on her book tour with her little daughter Piper. Piper is carrying Trigg. And I can’t help but wonder if all of Sarah’s adoring conservative fans would be quite so adoring if a liberal politician was traveling the country using her two children for photo ops while one should be in school and the other should not be carried by the one who should be in school. I wonder how those conservatives would react and my answer is they would excoriate any liberal female politician who did what Palin
I am now officially protected
OK, I’ve had my regular flu shot and my H1N1 flu shot so I am fortified. Come on, germs! Do your best! I’m ready for you now.
Happy Thanksgiving… and keep getting those mammograms
Here’s what I’m grateful for on this Thanksgiving. I’m grateful that two of my friends, both in their fifties, did not wait two years to get their next mammogram. Because if they had, both would have had well advanced tumors that may or may not have been treatable. And if the tumors had still been treatable, the treatment would have been much harsher and horrifying than it was.
Talking in abstracts about how many more lives are saved or not saved through an annual mammogram is one thing. Walking with a friend who stands a good chance of being around