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Catch-up time

I really did plan on going into work yesterday, I figured I could sleep most of the morning and go in in the afternoon. Didn't work out that way. I was still feeling like crap and hubby got me a doctors appointment so I had to cal and say I was not going to make it in. So I get to the doctor late afternoon. Lungs clear, ears clear, very mild sore throat (didn't feel sore to me, but she said it was rather red). She isn't sure what I've got, but put me on anti-biotics for the weekend while they culture the blood they drew. Now that was a production. Took the poor nurse 10-15 minutes to finally find a vein she could take the first blood out of. The size of the syringe normally would have ha me cringing, but I was so ick I didn't care. I think it was a 60CC size. Then the 2nd one was even more fun. My veins disappeared completely. She had to get a 2nd nurse in to help find a vein. They ended up having to take it from the back of my hand. They were good tho, you can bar

GACK!

Woke up in the wee hours of the morning with tachycardia, sweats, seriously dry mouth and feeling like plain crap. Kept waking up and going back to sleep the rest of the night. When I finally got up to go to work I could barely walk. So called in and then crashed on the couch. I was running a temp, a little over 100F again. Topped out a bit over 101F and I popped a couple ibruprophen and that seems to be helping, my temp is back down to 100F. Hubby will run out to the store after he takes a nap, he's feeling crappy to. He'll pick up my ATDs and hopefully a few food items. I should eat somthing, but nothing sounds good and I dont have the energy to come up with something. This is getting old, I hate being sick and damnit! I want to feel better.

Graves' Disease

What is Graves’ disease? Graves' Disease is a type of autoimmune disease in which the immune system over stimulates the thyroid gland, causing hyperthyroidism. Over-activity of the thyroid gland is also sometimes called "diffuse toxic goiter." The thyroid gland helps set the rate of metabolism (the rate at which the body uses energy), and when it is over-stimulated, it produces more thyroid hormones than the body needs. High levels of thyroid hormones can cause difficult side effects. This is an extremely rare disease that tends to affect women over the age of 20. The incidence is about 5 in 10,000 people. What is an autoimmune disease? An autoimmune disease occurs when the body's immune system becomes misdirected and attacks the very organs, cells, or tissues that it was designed to protect. About 75% of autoimmune diseases occur in women, most frequently during their childbearing years. What are the symptoms of Graves' Disease? The most common symptoms of

PPPTTTHHHHHH!!!

I've been getting a lot of comment spam and it is getting annoying. All I can do is delete when it comes in and that takes time. The slime who is spamming me is posting it in my older posts and unfortunately the setting for approving comments won't work on posts already made :( In other news, it's official, I'm hyper. So I get to go back on my meds and get my levels checked again in 6 weeks. I'll stay on the beta blockers until we get my thyroid under control again and then I can stop them. I've started to cut the pills in half and take 1/2 every 4 hours to spread the dosages out more evenly. I think this will help with making me feel less crappy after taking a whole one. Seems to be working. Did spaghetti for my dinner last night, I have leftover sauce and some assagio bread for lunch. Hubby had burgers and fries for dinner. We'd picked up some burger this weekend and I made patties to stash in the freezer so it worked out well. The school bond levy fail

Still among the living

Managed to survive work, the beta blockers are doing their job, my pulse rate is below 100. I'm not to sure about the side effects tho, I've been feeling pretty loopy all day, a bit dizzy and draggy. When I took beta blockers before I took propranalol, which was 20mg a day. I don't remember any side effects, but then I was so hyper the side effects probably were overwhelmed. This time around I am taking metoprolol, dosage 50 mg twice a day. I think I may cut the pills in half and take 25 mg 4 times a day and maybe the side effects won't be quite so bad. Will be stopping off at the fairgrounds on the way home to night to vote in the school levy. It will cover the cost of a new high school, the remodeling of 2 elementary schools and some other works projects needed for the schools. I remember going to the high school in the mid 70s. It was in desperate need of upgrading then and it is now worse. Not sure what to do for dinner. I'm still not that hungry (at least for

Another day resting

Feeling better, but I'm still home resting. Apparently there is a nasty bug rolling thru town, my supervisors brother got it on Sat, so I problably got it to. And being hyper didn't help matters much. I've manage to avoid getting sick all year, but I guess not this time :( We did get our next door neighbor to mow our lawn yesterday. Paid him $10. We had another friend come by and he worked up on the roof to try and get the leak over the door sealed. The foam that was sprayed up there between the porch and the roof had degraded and letting water in. He'll come back later and finish the rest of the interface between the porch and the roof, but at least he got the immportant part fixed. We'll pay him later for his time. I really hate being sick, esp on a super nice day like today. I've got the windows open and the fresh air coming in is nice. I love the smell of fresh mowed grass and the sound of the birds in the trees.

Still among the living

I must admit, seeing ones temp hit 103.4F is most interesting. Luckily it started dropping shortly thereafter and this morning I was back down to 98.8F. I'm still feeling ick, but musch less ick then yesterday. Hubby had called my doc yesterday morning. Luckily she didn't say go to the emergency room or quick care, but did call in perscriptions for an anti-nausea med and beta-blockers to get my pulse rate down. She hadn't gotten my lab results yet, so hopefully she have them tomorrow. The beta blockers are doing their job, my pulse is dropping down towards normal and that is helping me feel so much better. Not sure if I will go to work tomorrow, I think another day resting might be a good idea. I've ben taking it easy today, but am a bit dizzy and blech, the dizzies most likely a side affect of the beta blocker.

AUUGGHHH!!!!

Woke up feeling like complete crap, aching and freezing. Finally tracked down the thermometer and find I'm running a temp of 100F :( Been a long time since I've had a temp that high. For me a high temp is 98.6F as I run low normally. The lawn won't get mowed today, tho hubby told our one neighber we'd pay him to do ours, so I think that might be a plan. Housecleaning is going to be done in 15 minute shifts, a la FlyLady, she is a wise woman. Tho I may limit myself to 5 minutes at a time and do it all sitting down. Times like this I want Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons to be our maid :D

TFIG!

Haven't heard back from the docs as yet about my results. At least they haven't called and ordered me into the hospital, but I don't think I'm THAT hyper (yet). I'm trying to remember if I still have some of my ATDs from last time, I think I may have tossed them as they would have expired. If I haven't, I'm going to start taking them tonight becasue I don't want to keep feeling like crap. I didn't think I was going to make it thru the afternoon, I got to feeling like shit. I was in shipping packing up books and I thought I was going to drop as my heart rate and pulse went thru the roof and I ended up having to run in to little wash room back there to throw up. Not at all pleasant. Feeling a bit better now, I took a break and have been sitting at my desk since. I'm fine as long as I don't move, but with my job I tend to be up and down a lot. I think this weekend I will try and take it as easy as possible, except I need t get the lawn mowed. I

The TACKIEST gun I've ever seen!

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This has been dubbed the Uday Hussain special by an acquaintance of ours: The Desert Eagle 50AE

Humor for today

Via email: HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a "FULL-BREASTED CANADIAN" 2. She is not a "SCREAMER" or a "MOANER" - She is "VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE" 3. She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE" 4. She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY" 5. She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is a "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION" 6. She is not an "AIRHEAD" - She is "REALITY IMPAIRED" 7. She does not get "DRUNK" or "TIPSY" - She gets "CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED" 8. She does not have "BREAST IMPLANTS" - She is "MEDICALLY ENHANCED" 9. She does not "NAG" you - She becomes "VERBALLY REPETITIVE" 10. She is not a "TRAMP" - She is "SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED"

I hate needles!

Had a message on the answering machine last night to call my doctors nurse. It was almost 7 when I got home so I called back this morning. She didn't get until 9am so i called work and said I was going to be late as I was stopping in at my doctors office. She wasn't in yet, but the receptiontist looked around and found my folder with the note that my doc wanted me to have my TSH and Free T4 taken, so the other nurse who was in was able to do it. She only poked me once, but had to chase my poor vein around as it didn't want to cooperate. She did manage to get a full vial drawn, so now I have to wait for the results. I hope they run them thru quickly. Picked up Winco chicken for dinner again. Even with leftovers neither hubby or I was in any shape to make them into something ressembling dinner. I managed to eat some rolls, a bit of macaroni salad, a chicken wing and most of the skin off the other chicken pieces. We also picked up a container of the most heavenly smelling str

Okay

Hubby's got a call in for with the doctor's office. The nurse is going to check with the doc about me coming in to get the blood drawn first and then the doc can look at the results later. Otherwise it will be sometime next week before I can get in :( to have a doctor's appointment. I couldn't bring myself to eat my lunch, at least the split pea soup part. I did manage some crackers and a chocolate chip cookie they had from the going away party for one of our student workers. I think the cookie was a bad idea, tho it was very tasty. Triggered off a tachycardia attack that wasn't pleasant. I'm all jittery and ready to start crying at a drop of a hat. If I am hyper I'll go back on the PTU (anti-thyroid med). My doc isn't too thrilled with the idea, but I refuse to do radioactive iodine to kill my thyroid. Even tho they push it as a "cure" I know too many people who found they traded one type of thyroid hell for another one. If we could swing it

Sailing down that river in Egypt

I hate going to the doctors, they insist on sticking you with needles and poking you in places you like to keep unpoked (at least in those situations :D), but I gotta see about going in to get my thyroid levels checked. I'm still feeling ick and things are going down hill rapidly. Heart rate doesn't want to settle down, muscle weakness is getting worse, can't sleep thru the night (and it isn't just the peri-menopause) and the sudden tachicardia is definately telling me something. That and my emotions are coming unglued again, tho I am reasonably successful at not blowing up at someone. The one thing I hate is being starving all the time and then not being able to eat anything when I get meals ready. Also the brain derailments are getting bad. On the positive side, the roasting pan and rack we got from Safeway for buying all that Rancher's Reserve meats arrived on Monday and I used it last night to cook the roast (5lb) we bought this weekend. I was going to cut it

WHEE!!!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell! Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low Level 2 (Lustful) High Level 3 (Gluttonous) High Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Low Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) High Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) Low Level 7 (Violent) Very High Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Moderate Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) Low Take the Dante's Inferno Test

Okay, it was a stupid thing to do

But who HASN'T wanted to do this: Fla. Gunman Puts Car 'Out of Its Misery'

Well, not the 21st century.

They elected Joseph Ratzinger of Germany: "In the Vatican, he has been the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on such issues as women's ordination."

Interesting day today

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the worst case of domestic terrorism in US history. I remember turning on the TV as soon as I got up to see the news pictures. I don't believe we know the entire story or ever will, even tho one conspirator was executed and the other is serving life. It looks like there is a new pope. We were just getting ready to go out the door when NBC cut over to a special bulletiin and then we watched the confusion about the color of the smoke. Hundreds of years to get the routine down and they still manage to throw confusion in to the works on what color the smoke was. It definately looked white to us, but the Vatican radio was reporting it as black, then white. The bells also didn't start up whent they were supposed to. Makes you wonder what was going on inside. I do hope they've chosen a Pope who will drag the church into the 21st century, but I'm afraid that the traditionalist will insist on keeping it in the 15th.

Is it Friday yet?

Had a heck of a time waking up this morning, then again waking up goddess knows how many times last night becasue of hot flashes and not being able to get comfortable makes it hard to get a good nights sleep. If I don't start feeling better soon I think I will see about getting blood drawn for my thyroid levels. I've got a sneaking suspision I've slipped back into hyperland and I ain't a happy camper. Resting pulse rates of 114+ beats per minute are not fun. The ham turned out pretty good, tho the flavor of the Dr Pepper didn't come thru this time. It did give the ham a nice sweet taste. So this gives me lots of ham to make dinners and lunches this week. Will probably do cold ham with some sort of noodle stuff in a box tonight. Did get some more housecleaning done, finally. Washed my clothes that needed to go thru a cold wash, mostly my pants I wear for work. Got the big pile of stuff in the corner of the bedroom reduced quite a lot and reduced the pile of dishes

A very lazy day today

Slept in til 10:30 this morning, then again we didn't get to bed until 1 am. Yesterday did putter about, tho I was feeling very crappy most of the day. Just wandering around the stores I felt like crawling under a shelf and dying. Finally started feeling a bit better by late last night. We had to go to Wally World yesterday, in as much as we didn't want to. That may be part of why I was feeling like crap. Wally World is starting to get toxic and hubby was ready to start running people over he was so stressed after being in there for only 20 minutes. But it was the only place we could get the little light fixtures we need to add light to the kitchen and bedroom. We've checked al the other places in town and they didn't have them. Also we need to get another shelving unit for the bedroom and Wally World is the only place that sells the Plano units we like. They are white plastic with 4 shelves and slip together easily. They are also less then $10. We have managed to cut

Cure for what ails you

Chocolate choclate chip muffin with 4 AC&C* on top: *AC&C is asprin, caffeine and codeine, over the counter in Canada

Spotted around town

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for some reason, people don't see this stop sign:

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

The weekend is almost here

Not to many plans. There is a geocaching CITO event tomorrow, but we don't think we are quite up for it. A CITO is Cache In Trash Out, where people gather and pick up trash. The local event is out at Spring Valley reservoir, not the most wheelchair friendly place so hubby would have problems getting around. If we had fishing licenses it would be tempting to go out and park him on the dock while I picked up trash and then did some fishing myself. If the weather holds I do hope to get the lawn mowed. A friend also loaned us a chop saw to try out and we've a number of shelving projects we can use it for. It would also be nice to check and see if MSB has any more pallets to give away. I can use a few for making a compost bin and also put down around my gardening work area so i wounldn't be standing in the mud while I am working. I can also tear them down and then build planting boxes out of them. Planning on cooking the other ham we got before Easter this weekend. Still have

Okay, okay, I know when I've been 2X4d

Decided I REALLY REALLY needed something from the vending machine, so I counted out exactly 75 cents and headed for the student lounge. Put in the first coin and then promptly dropped the next one in the gap between the coin slot and the door of the machine. The coin is unretreivable. I didn't feel like going back to my desk to get another dime, so I figure it was the Gods way of telling me I have to give up chips from the vending machines. So no Fritos for me, just the mocha I brought from home.

A very funny funny

I got this from a list I am on: YA SHURE, YA BETCHA! DIS IS DA LATEST AIR SERVICE TO SPROUT UP IN MINNYSOTA. ALSO SERVING VISCONSIN, NORT AND SOUT DAKOTA AND MONTANA. If you are travelin soon, consider Lutran (Lutheran) Air, da no-frills airline. You're all in da same boat on Lutran Air, where flyin is an upliftin experience. Dere is no first class on any Lutran Air flight. Meals are potluck. Rows 1-6, bring rolls; 7-15, bring a salad; 16-21, a main dish, and 22-30, a dessert. Basses and tenors please sit in da rear of de aircraft. Everyone is responsible for his or her own baggage. All fares are by freewill offering and da plane will not land 'til da budget is met. Pay attention to your flight attendant, who will acquaint you with da safety system aboard dis Lutran Air 599. Okay den, listen up. I'm only gonna say dis once. In de event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, I am frankly going to be real surprised and so will Captain Olson, because we fly rig

It's a sign!

Hit the mall to look at new shoes and Payless shoes had all their Champion sports shoes on sale. So I picked up a cute pair in blue and white in 7 1/2 wide. The only pair they had in wide in my size. Tried on a few pair of sandels with heels, but most didn't fit. I've wide feet and heels can be tricky to find ones that fit. Had to return the air mattress and exchange it for a different one. This one is more heavy duty and has a built in hand pump for adding a bit of extra air. Hit the chinese buffet for dinner, so I didn't have to cook tonight. was going to write more, but I have a very insistant kitten who wants cuddles and typing one handed is getting very tiring :D

Corn salad aka Lambs Lettuce

Is extremely tasty mixed with spinach when making wilted greens. I think I will have to plant some this fall to have for early spring greens. Corn Salad Botanical: Valerianella olitoria (MOENCH) Family: N.O. Caryophylleae ---Synonyms---Lamb's Lettuce. Valerian locusta (Linn.). White Pot Herb. Lactuca agnina. (French) Loblollie. Mâche. Doucette. Salade de Chanoine. Salade de Prêtre. ---Part Used---Herb. "Closely allied to the Valerians are the members of the genus Valerianella (the name signifying 'little Valerian'), the chief representative of which, V. olitoria (Moench), the Lamb's Lettuce or Corn Salad, was named by Linnaeus, Valeriana Locusta. At one time the plant was classed with the lettuces and called Lactuca agnina, either, as old writers tell us, from appearing about the lambing season, or because it is a favourite food of lambs. The young leaves in spring and autumn are eaten as a salad and are excellent. This little plant is a common weed i

Whoever said it was easy to find someone on the net, lied!

Every once in a while I start to think about old friends who I've lost touch with for one reason or another (usually I lose their email addys) and so I google them to see what I can find. Needless to say, the results are very disappointing. If I do find anything about them, it is at least 5-6 years old. So I am going to say a couple of their names here in case they do searchs on their names and they will find their way here :D : Katherine Malsch Terri LiBrande Kathy Hadden

Tuesday

Weather today wasn't bad. Rained this morning (apparently some snow) and then it cleared up this afternoon. Rain is good, it will make my garden grow. We picked up a new air mattress last night and got it installed in the bedroom. We will have to add more air to it tonight, either we didn't put enough in last night or it leaked out. I hope it doesn't have a leak, I hate having to return stuff for replacements. Decided I am going to make my own version of Safeway's Artisan bread. I love their assagio bread and their new carmelized onion and garlic bread, tho sometimes it is all gone by the time we get to the store. So I figure I'll just see if I can duplicate it, I just have to do a new batch of sourdough starter. I had some before I was married, but ignored it after a while and it died. I usually used it for pancakes and biscuits, but this time around I'll expand my repertoire to include breads. I will also have to see about getting a pizza stone to use for ba

Another memo to self

Same goes for the beef stick/cheese stuff from the vending machine. I do need to start making mid-morning snacks at home again and bring them in instead of getting stuff out of the machines.

Memo to self

Stop getting the chili flavored fritos from the vending machine. The tachycardia it triggers off isn't worth it.

Can't think of a clever title for today

Sunday turned out to be a nice day. Not too warm and not too cool. Perfect for putting in my garden. Sat I picked up some more seeds. I got spinach, a lettuce blend, broccoli and more bell peppers. I'll be starting the peppers in the house. I had to move the one rhubarb that was coming up in the old spot, it was right where I was planting my sugar peas. I didn't get all of the roots tho :( so I will be having to deal with more rhubarb coming up where I don't want it. I also had to move some onions. When I straightened out the one edge, the onions eded up right where I was planning the broccoli. So I now have an onion patch as I seeded in more where I moved the others. I'm now very sore, I'm not in as good a shape as I thought I was LOL I keep this up and I am giving serious consideration into putting in raised beds so I don't have to bend down as much, or crawl aroiund on the ground hehehehehe We popped out to TriState and Moscow Building Supply to look at ra

A living will for today

I got this in email this morning and it really puts into words what I feel about the whole matter: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for piece of chocolate, it should be presumed that I won't do so ever again. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my spouse, sister, children, close girlfriend and/or attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day. Under no circumstances shall the members of the Legislature or Congress enact a special law to keep me on life support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of

puttering along

Got most of my starts into the peat pots and started some pepper plant seeds. Not sure what kind they are, they are a packet of heart shaped peppers my aunt sent me. it was a find raiser for women's heart health. Only 3 of my green peppers sprouted. I was going to start a few more, but discovered I was out of those seeds. My romas didn't make it past breaking the top of the soil, so I will start some more in the peat pots. Still have to repot the cherry tomatos that made it. I may see about picking up peat pellets and see if they will start better in those. I want to pick up lettuce and spinach seeds today if possible. Took the insert out of the center front window to give my plants more light. I want to see if I can put a shelf in there, I have one that hangs off a couple plant hangers, but I need more space for sprouting seeds. Weather is still gray, breezy and hasn't broken 50 yet according to our thermometer. I probably won't do anything outside today, we are goin

Great essay!

A little bit of what you fancy By Dr Desmond Morris © Copyright Desmond Morris / SIRC 1999 It was a meal to make a food faddist swoon away in horror. My mother was piling her plate high with a greasy, fatty, fry-up of a mixed grill and tucking in with gusto. When I say 'with gusto', I mean she was eating with the urgent pleasure of a predator at a kill. Although she was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, she was more in tune with the robust food pleasures of the eighteenth century, when a feast was a feast, and nobody had heard about health foods, diet regimes, or table etiquette that demanded you chew each mouthful 32 times before swallowing. Watching her in action and trying my best to match her appetite, I glibly remarked that if she kept ignoring the words of wisdom of the health gurus and diet experts, she would die young. This may sound like a cruel thing for a son to have said to his mother, but the fact that she was in her 99th year at the time of the meal in

Gotta love friends with gardens

Hubby stopped out at a friends house yesterday to visit and pick up a 55 gal barrel I'm going to use for water storage for mygarden. Before he left our friend went out and picked 2 big bags of spinach and a bag of asone other greens. So when we stopped at the grocery store I picked up a package of bacon ends and for dinner we had wilted greens. For wilted greens you cut up some bacon and fry it up. Pour off all but a couple tablespoons of the grease and add some vinegar (in my case we like to use basalmic vinegar) and add some sweetener (either sugar or splenda, whichever you prefer) and let that simmer. Take a bunch of spinach that has been washed and shaken dry and add to the bacon mixture and toss to coat. Let it wilt a bit and then serve. You can also put the spinach in a big bowl and then add the bacon mixture and toss if you don't want to let the spinach wilt too much. Remember you will probably want to add more spinach then you think you will need, as the spinach will r

OOOOOO, my poor tummy!

Discovered this morning the hard way that I will need to start eating SOMETHING before I take my morning vitamins and supplements. I have been taking my multivit on an empty stomach for years with very little problem (occasional nausea, but very mild), but this morning I added black cohosh and evening primrose oil and we didn't make it halfway down our road before I had hubby pull over. I hate throwing up, esp when all I've had was a cup of coffee. The problem I have is I can't really eat in the morning, something I inherited from my dad. He couldn't deal with food unless he'd been up for 4-5 hours, same as me. We are going to stock up on yogurt and give that a try. If that doesn't work I'll have to spread my supplements out over the day.

Ummmmmm....

If you have to pay shipping and handling for something, it is not free!!!!!! Saw a blog earlier where they had an entry regarding free soup. Just pay shipping and handling of $3.50. SIGH! Some people are so stupid.

Almost the weekend

By the time I got off work yesterday I was totally wiped out. I need to have a day off or two to recuperate from my days off :D Picked up sub sandwiches at Winco for dinner last night, a ham hobo for hubby and an Italian sub for me. Got some shredded cheese to go on them. I like to toast my subs with extra cheese on it. I may have to quit getting the Italian ones tho. The cotto salami on them is wreaking havoc on my tummy. If they would use a dry salami instead I would be much happier. One nice thing about the subs from Winco is they are $3.98 each and make a couple meals. Lots cheaper then Subway and a whole lot better (not to mention Subway pissed me off big time. I tell them no mustard on my sandwiches and they put it on anyways. It is bad enough they do this when I had them deliver, I had to watch them like a hawk when I was in the store and they STILL try and put mustard on it. Needless to say, I don't do Subway anymore). Okay guys, women talk coming up, you might want to ski

Great site

Here is a site with some great photography and art work. It is called The Beauty Curve and was created to create and promote size positive photography and art.It does contain some nudity, so may not be safe for all work environments.

Your papers PLEASE!!!!

And I betcha there are politicians and Homeland Security goons who soon will try and pass regulations that people have to show paperwork to cross state lines: Tighter border guidelines draw mixed reaction In other news, I just may have to consider voting for Larry Craig. He's leading the effort to reign in Patriot Act along with Butch Otter, another Idaho politician. Here are a couple quotes that the backers of Patriot Act need to remember: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin, 1759 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson, 1791 Wise men those Founding Fathers of ours.

I'm getting too old for adventures!

Finally made it home last night. Had to take an extra day thanks to car problems (OUCH! There went ALL the profit we made on the trip working on L's computer). I must say, if one is going to have car problems, Eugene is a good place to have them, it is a very nice city. If we HAD to move elsewhere, Eugene would be it. The downtown is a wonderful place, pieces of art on corners, lots of neat little shops. The transite system seems to be quite good and the whole city is fairly flat and seems to be great for bikes. I will say however I didn't care for the fact you have a difficult time getting anywhere by car, all the streets seem to be one way and I guess it must be Oregon law that street signs have to be obscured and unlit. We managed to get lost when we got there and we had the GPS! All in all, tho we had a good time. I am glad to be home in my own bed, tho L almost lost her feather bed. It was so darned comfortable, I didn't wake up with sore hips or knees the entire time