I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

If the right is right (hahahaha) I want these guys on my side!

pupmom

Well, they're almost always wrong, especially about Pres. Obama and health care, so I doubt you'll need those guys! But they're proably good to have as friends when global warming causes mass chaos. 

Chickadee

Blue I love that jumping dog. Hilarious.

QuinnCat

Here's my house  and I still have healthcare insurance!

Linda - Here comes the bride!! Yeah!

208sandy

Oh Kam.........

pupmom

Kammy, Kammy, Kammy 

RetiredLibby

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!



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River_Rat

You guys are the best!  I came in tired out from watching the grandkids but you've revived me.

QuinnCat

http://media.curetoday.com/htmlemail/email/sabcs_chat.html

Anyone ever tried this?

kad2kar

OH! MY! OH! MY! You are all so brilliant!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE you!

It seems to have been a relative good week for everyone.  I would love to go on a jaunt to meet with with everyone, however I am subject to panic attacks and get queasy everytime any of YOU get on a plane or go away from from your homes.  When we go back to CA I have to be sedated to make the 6 hour trip. My kids thought it would be great to plan a family cruise to Mexico for our 50th anniversary in 2014 and I started crying and almost passed out.  It is a dumb thing that I KNOW in my head but that is the way it has been for about 23yrs.

I finally figured I would in a plane  crash that was carrying cars and boats, on rainy lightning filled day, during an earthquake when the plane landed on my house.

ANTHOOOOO that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  I do appreciate you all for being here for me even tho you dont know Im here.  But I agree with the politics and the sensibilities of all.Stay well----kad2kar

pupmom

I see some justice, YES!

alexandria58

Maybe we could do 2 get togethers - on on the East coast and one on the West.  Anyone can go to either or both.

lewing

Thanks for all the congrats!  We've been pretty low-key about the wedding plans, but as the date approaches, we're both starting to get just a leeeeeetle bit frantic.  And nervous.  (But not nearly as frantic and nervous as his mom, LOL.)  I have the dress, I have the shoes (just got back from DSW, because I'm the last of the big spenders), we have 1/2 the rings, we have the caterer, we have a plan for the chuppah (plenty of fallen branches around Prospect Park post-Sandy, and that beautiful silk fabric I picked up at an estate sale years and years ago, even though I don't sew, will finally be put to good use) . . . so, really, what else is there?

Kad2kar, sorry about your travel fears.  (Even though the image you came up with at the end made me laugh.)  I have to travel a lot (for work and, until recently, to sustain a long-distance relatoinship) but I've never completely overcome my fear of flying.  I'm always the person clenching her armrest and hyperventilating during takeoffs and landings. 

Linda

bluedahlia

I used to go to Italy every summer and flying for 8 hrs. straight was terrifying.  Not only take offs and landings but flying over the WATER!  What if the plane ran out of fuel?

IllinoisLady

Congratulations Linda....what great news.  Wonderful news in fact.    I to like the phone company story as well as Kam's somewhat un-scientific story as I do know what it is like to 'lose' your Ins.  Also, the Ins. differences in our two countries.  Doesn't have to be scientific when it makes such a GOOD point.  Now with Medicare/ACA I don't expect a hitch at all.  I have a spot of trouble with the idea that GOOD Dr.'s would give up their practice because the good ones seem so very dedicated.  It would be like someone giving up their children when they are 14......it just doesn't happen.  I think if your heart is in it you will find a way.  We all have things come up that present challenges...my gosh, that goes a long way in what keeps us going.  I think given some time and patience, and good focus things will work out just fine.

Long day today.  Left around 9 a.m. for the 75 mile drive for my mammogram.  Then, while in the area Dh was not feeling well and it had been going on for awhile so he stopped at the V.A. hosp. to get checked out.  Turns out that he has GERD which is not a big surprise to me.  I eat two spoonfulls of hot peppers, or hot pickled veggies per day.....knock on wood, cast iron stomach so far.  Told him he'd would have one too if he would have just joined me with the peppers.  He wasn't amused.  Sigh!!!!

Jackie

bluedahlia

I can't swim.  Is that giving out too much personal info.  I mean, I've been accused of hacking websites, called every name in the book and been made fun of elsewhere, for any comments I made here by the same old!  Oh the Irony of it all. 

pupmom

Put up all the rest of my Christmas decorations today, YAY! Now I just get to enjoy this wonderful season of the year!

bluedahlia

Sorry to hear that about your DH, Jackie.  Hope your results are boring.

alexandria58

Jackie: Wishing boredom for you as well.

bluedahlia

Yorkie, Ray put out his collection of Santas.  That's it for now.  Maybe this weekend.

RetiredLibby

Oh, I am a TERRIBLE flyer, and I have flown all over the world! The irony of my terror is that I have never been on a particularly bad flight or had a particularly bad landing. I used to love to fly ... Until Air Florida hit the 14th Street Bridge here in DC in January of 1982. After that, I became a terrible passenger ... The one who always makes other pax nervous because I am clutching the armrest in a deathgrip and bracing myself every time there is a little bump. It didn't help that I was flying all over the Middle East from 1984-86 (with a diplomatic passport!) when terrorists were hijacking airplanes, pulling Americans off and shooting them in the head. Flying ranks just above a root canal.



And so what did DH and I go see at the movies a couple weeks ago? "Flight" with Denzel Washington -- ABOUT A PLANE CRASH!!!!! To be honest, the plane crash was not the star or even the point of the movie. It was actually handled pretty well. And I didn't have nightmares. But I still really, Really, REALLY hate to fly.



Leftist Era (I love that autocorrect!), I am so happy for you and Eric ... Thinking about both of you together always makes me smile!



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pupmom

Collection of Santas, eh? I think that calls for a picture! 

RetiredLibby

I was typing and the thread moved on! Sorry to hear about your DH's GERD, Jackie ... I have begun getting heartburn, and I don't like it. I LOVE spicy food and can't bear the thought of giving it up!



Christmas decorations? Not even December yet! Haven't given it any thought, although I guess I'd better!



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bluedahlia

How long does it take a pup to forget the loss of another one?  Lilah is having a terrible time.  Keeps crying and is very clingy.   She keeps looking for Virgil.

bluedahlia

I need batteries for my camera.  Pics it is as soon as I get them.

pupmom

Can't wait blue! I don't know about pups' grieving. My yorkie got over my beloved Cairn's death pretty soon, I think, but they hadn't been together that long. However, who the heck knows what's going on in those babies' minds? Sorry your little Lilah is having such a hard time. 

IllinoisLady

I suppose its way too soon, but seems like Lilah needs a friend to take her mind off of her recent loss.  Maybe if a friend lives nearby she could have some play dates.

Not that I do it much, but the last time I flew I was VERY uncomfortable and returning from California ( visited my daughter after all cancer txs were done )  we flew over the water for what seemed like such a very long time.  My imagination was working overtime about just how deep the Pacific was and just how short a time a plane could stay afloat, assuming the magnificently large if it could even manage to land atop the water.  Truth was......going down anywhere would likely have the same results, but the water did evoke a far worse sensation. 

Hope Lilah will be able to come out of mourning soon.  Bad for us, really terrible for her since you can't really explain.

Jackie

QuinnCat

Several posts back, I made this comment at the end of my comments on why ACA is good. I would like to ammend it:

Those who complain [about ACA], but plan to collect on Medicare [or Medicaid],  I have no words.

Another anecdote.  I doubt this would have happened with Universal Healthcare, because instead of having to string a bunch of unrelatd specialists together, to treat BC, as we do, in many cases, in the USA, my guess is that in Canada, they use a Universal Medical Records System, as ACA proscribes. With one record system, I could have any doctor look at my records and move the process along.  I had my first screening mammogram on 10/9/11...because of my gyn going on vacations or conferences, it took me 3 weeks to get a biopsy and another week to get my dx.  Now we're up to 11/11/11.  Now comes Thanksgiving and Xmas and surgeons booked otherwise.  Also tranferring pathology from one outfit to another.  I had to wait til 1/20/12 for my surgery (and this is with grade 3 cancer).  Our system is terribly inefficient!!

Congrats Linda....please have batteries in your camera for this event. 

Blue - you are a woman of many powers. 

Wabbit

Christmas tree up and my white kitty has her Puffalump mouse back to cuddle with. 

Tequila Christmas Cake  (Maded mine thish morning!!!!)

1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. salt, 1 cup brown sugar, Lemon juice, 4 large eggs, Nuts, 1 bottle tequila, 2 cups dried fruit.  

Sample the tequila to check quality.

Take… a large bowl, check the tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality….. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point, it is best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver Sample the tequila to test for tonsisticity.

Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the tequila. Now, shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don’t forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the tequila and wipe the counter with the cat.

bluedahlia

Well Ray's already looking at Toy Fox Terrier pups.  I can't blame him.  The house feels so empty.  For me it's just too soon.  But we all grieve differently.