Wednesday, February 6, 2008
What a Night!
The storms that hit in our area last night were something else! The craziness started much earlier, with the schools letting out at noon so that all the kids could be home before the storms hit. Then it was pretty much an afternoon of listening to the weather reports and watching the radar at...
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Is It a Scam?
The weirdest thing happened this weekend. I put my washer and dryer in the newspaper to sell. I got several calls, one of which was a lady who said that her friend, who is deaf, needed a washer/dryer, so she was trying to find a set for her. This lady (let's call her Ann to make it easier) was very...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Whooping Cough Warning!
Okay, I've been sick off and on since October, but the last two weeks I have had the most pernicious, evil cough. As in "I'm going to cough up a lung or break a rib if I can't stop coughing this hard." I finally broke down and went to the doctor on Monday, and they are doing lab tests to see what it...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Who Is Certegy, and Why Won't They Let Me Write Checks?
I'm going the rounds with trying to shop right now, and it's getting really annoying, especially since there doesn't seem to be any way to resolve the problem I'm having. I'm trying to write checks more, instead of using credit cards, because my spending is way out of control and I need to be more...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Checking In
Wow! So many days without a post! It's just been busy and hectic here, and I've been sick. Go to work, come home, go to bed. That's all I could really manage for the last week. But I've started work on my book, and work on getting healthy, which includes a goal of losing 100 pounds this year. I'm...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Stress Can Kill You!
We all know that stress is bad for us. Stress can have a really negative effect on every facet of your life. When I am under stress, I put on weight, even though I usually don't eat much. The reason has to do with certain hormones --- especially cortisol. When you are in a stressful situation, your...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Do You Know About IBC?
This is one of those For Women Only kinds of posts -- though the men who love them might want to be informed as well. And I suppose a TMI warning is also appropriate. Those in the know will recognize IBC as a really scary form of breast cancer that is not nearly as well known as the "lumpy" kind of...
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Monday, December 31, 2007
She Lied. Why Are We Surprised?
So a little girl and her mother wanted tickets to a Hannah Montana concert. A local shop was offering an essay contest, with first prize being tickets to said concert. Mom and kid wrote an essay, which began, "This year my dad died in Iraq." (See the full story here.) What I want to know is... Why...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Weird Diseases
I don't know what it is about my family, but we don't generally get sick, and we seldom need medical care. However, when we do get sick, we do it with a bang -- coming down with some of the darnedest oddities that the medical dictionary has to offer. For example, after nearly six months of tinnitus...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Kudos to These CEOs
Okay, everyone reading this blog right now needs to put down their coffee / Coke and raise a serious round of raucous applause for John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley, and Jimmy Cayne, CEO of Bear Stearns. Both of their companies' earnings totally tanked this year. So both of them have foregone their...
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