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

alexandria58

Paula, glad to hear you're doing better.

1Athena1

((((Paula)))) the relief! Phew. So glad you are better!

QuinnCat

Baby being borned, Paula getting healthy again - so much good news!  Congrats Rosemary on the new grandbaby boy xxo

Paula - so glad you are on the mend.  Got me to thinking, are we more susceptible to bacterial infections than virusus, during the nadir?  Does chemo mess with our T, NK cells?  As usual, you probably need to worry about secondary infections - like bronchitis, as those are bacterial and your body may not be as prepared to fight those off.  Glad you are feeling better....don't need to be getting sick while on chemo!  

Anonymous

Paula - keep drinking water, much more than you think you need - helps with energy, and a cold/flu/whatever just drains the fluids out of us.  Rotten timing - hope you're feeling better soon.  Keep telling yourself, "Nobody can stop an Ole Hippy!!!"

pupmom

So happy you're out of the woods Paula!!

ananda8

Rosemary, great news!

Paula, keep taking good care of yourself. 

kayfh

Chicken soup. Replaces the lost electrolytes. (Snot, mucous, whatever).

IllinoisLady

welcome back Paula.  Glad you are 'rousing' enough to have even a mild interest in food, because it should all be up when hunger returns.

Jackie

1Athena1

Sad to see Rockefeller leave the Senate - great statesman:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/senator-rockefeller-is-said-to-be-retiring/?hp

208sandy

Rosemary - Congrats Grandma and that goes for cutting the cord too!

Paula - glad you're feeling better - yes, we would have had you delivered to the hospital if we didn't hear from you - keep staying in that nest and take it easy for the next while - don't want a secondary infection.

suzieq60

Melting over here - more to come tomorrow. I had to laugh when they announced the heat wave was due to climate change. They hadn't seen temps like this since the 1950's. I'm sure we had a lot less pollution back then.

alexandria58

suzie, keep cool.  It's going to be 65 tomorrow in Jersey.  In the middle of January.  Pleasant, yes, but like eating a hugh chocolate sunday; you enjoy the momentary pleasure but know you're going to pay for it.

lassie11

We have melting here in Ontario too. The snow is melting because the temperatures are going up to 10c or something like that. In the old days we called this the January thaw. I'm pleased to have been able to open some windows for fresh air in the house and the ice on my driveway is melted away. Hooray for clear sidewalks!

IllinoisLady

Alexandria....you put that just right.  Yesterday our temp. was hovering at the 67 degree mark, higher in some areas close around even.....January....really!!!!We do often have higher temps in February --- but no one 'bets' on anything now.  I was thrilled 15 yrs. ago when we moved back home ( our final life move ) and watched each season re-emerge with baited breath after the 25 yrs. of California sameness ( not berating California....I loved it too while I was there ) but so missed crisp Fall days and the smell of burning leaves and the last wiener roast of the season around Halloween.  These past four years...all we do is hay hmmm, what next????

Still awaiting announcements of new Cabinet and V.P. Biden's recommendations.  I know in many circles, especially the NRA, bans are definitely not wanted.  That criminals are the ones that we have to be concerned about, because law-abiding citizens can be trusted.  I wish it were all that simple.  Unfortunately, while I wish there were not so many laws and regulations, imho there are places where they should be stringent......not because of criminals or those who abide by the law...........but because innocent people die....children.    No amt. of laws and regulations will prevent every death, accidental or planned.  The assault weapons are simply not needed by the ordinary citizen, period.  In earlier years, even when I grew up, we often felt the need in our household to go out and shoot wild rabbits and some squirrels.  It just made our life better.  It seems to me now that there are likely far fewer "hunters" that really NEED to supplement their families meat/protein supply in the winter months.  My mother's 410 shotgun ( my dad would not touch a gun ) hung on a rack in her and dad's bedroom.....and no one payed a bit of attention to it.  She was our family's hunter.  No one I knew then had more than they needed.....most families if they hunted had one gun.....if there was a son in the family - maybe two.  I'm not at all aganist people having a 'gun' collection....but since the ban was lifted there has been nothing by misery and the arguements that I have heard as to why a ban should not be re-instituted just fall way short of the mark.  I don't think it is about what you can HAVE --- to me it is about who you might be able to save.  And if you insist that you must HAVE the ability to buy an assaut rifle any time you want....I hope and pray it is not your loved one next. 
I think of that saying/quote.....I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.  What we cry for sometimes is not always what we need so bad. 

Just a few thoughts I had due to my mornings'reading materials. 

Hope Saturday is great for everyone.

Jackie

1Athena1

Suzie, the fact that there were high temps in the past does not mean today's weather is not due to climate change. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of climate change. It doesn't mean that it's only hot now and never in the past. Climate change is like a symdrome and the effects are a greater frequency of not only high temps but also extreme weather events. I remember Sarah Palin had this confusion. I'm sorry that wasn't explained very well - the media don't do a good job on that count.

crazy4carrots

Can't Miss Work Even if you Have the Flu (even though Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells viewers to STAY HOME -- to recuperate and to keep from spreading it):

Chances are everyone around you is sick. Not a pleasant thought, but recent reports show the flu season is one of the worst we've seen in a decade. 

While many experts and doctors urge people to stay at home to avoid infecting others, 38% of private-sector workers lack even one paid sick day. This means, many people have to choose between working sick and not being able to pay their rent and utilities. That's a pretty big problem. To make matters worse, many of the workers who don't have paid sick leave are the people cooking and serving our food when we eat out. 
>>> 

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Can-t-Miss-Work-Even-if-You-Have-the-Flu-You-re-Not-Alone#.UPBG_p4oIGU.twitter 

ananda8

suzieq,

Here is an article on the latest report on Climate Change from the National Climate Assessment about what is happening in North America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/national-climate-assessment-global-warming_n_2458905.html

pip57

Australia is clearly having severe/extreme conditions.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/red-wave-australia-dust_n_2450600.html#slide=1967880

pupmom

I have head congestion and a cough. Feel a little tired but no fever. I had my fly shot, so NO FAIR if I get the flu! 

1Athena1

You've had your zipper executed? jk!

Bad joke of the day.

QuinnCat

It's 13 degrees here (10 am), suppose to get to 32.  We can get lower than 13 (for a low), but usually our lows for the year are in the high teens, but only for a few days, if that.  We almost always get above freezing, though, on a sunny day and today is mighty sunny with only 32F forecast. 

In the winter of 90-91 we had a below zero event....13 is pretty cold for us.  This is California, afterall.

Oops - 13 was our low. 23F now.

pip57

It's almost 13 here in Ontario too.  But that is in celcius!  We should be below freezing temps right now.

Anonymous

Kam~Wow...I'm in Ohio and its 60 here today! Of course, it's going back to the 30's on Monday. This kind of weather really makes us long for Spring.



I haven't been out of the house since Monday, but I'm going to venture out with DH for just a bit today. I will avoid crowds though.



Have a great weekend Ladies!



Blessings

Paula aka Old Hippy

pip57

Please be careful out there Paula.  My dh had a rule when we went out.  I kept my hand in my pockets and didn't touch anything.  And always keep hand sanatizer at the ready!

QuinnCat

There is some cold air mass sitting over WA, OR, CA, MT, ND, SD etc., etc.  Moving your way!!!  Enjoy the springtime while you can.  Glad to hear you are up and about Paula.

Last winter I was traveling over mountain passes, oh about 20 times during winter, for dx, surgery, chemo, etc.  We had such a mild winter.  I actually did not see a snowflake until February (granted, I was out of town, but only twice, when it did snow).  All I can say is, thank the weather gods, as it would have been tough this year to stay on that schedule.

Has anyone heard from Boulder Ann?  How did her Pilates exam go??

crazy4carrots

Did anyone see the Bizarro comic yesterday?  Two snowmen -- snow is falling -- one snowman points to the snowflakes and says "Stem cells".

Belinda44

"Listen closely.  That sound you hear is the sound of a cultural paranoia by people who have lost their grip on the reins of power, and on reality, and who fear the worst is coming.

And they are preparing for it, whatever it may be — a war, a revolution, an apocalypse.

These extremists make sensible, reasonable gun control hard to discuss, let alone achieve in this country, because they skew the conversations away from common-sense solutions on which both rational gun owners and non-gun owners can agree......"

Full editorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/opinion/revolutionary-language.html?hp

Belinda44

suzieq60

Ok - I concede we are having weather extremes - I do not concede it's caused by man and CO2 emissions. It was warming in the 1920's.

ETA - carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas which plants give off during osmosis - I do not believe it is pollution.

suzieq60

Just read that Apple has passed away - so very very sad. I'll miss her.