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

HL - Have a wonderful time in Cancun - I bet that will give you a welcome boost. Sounds just like what you need. It's great to see how supportive your work has been. I have been lucky in that respect too - my supervisors have been very supportive (for past issues). Have a great time and I hope this helps to get you past the last humps of this recovery.

Bren - I am very sorry to hear about all the losses you are experiencing. Things seem to happen in threes, don't they? 

(((((Nicki's family and friends))))) 

Enjoyfool - when are you going to change your name back to "ful" or "intelligent"? I love your sense of humor.  

Hi Kiley .. thank you .. that means a lot to me.  We're doing a very quick trip.  In Friday late and leave Monday at 6 a.m.  We will be very busy visiting relatives for two days.  I dread the flight with everything in me.

hugs,

Bren

My anniversary today. :-)

Scuttlers .. Happy Anniversary .. hope you're enjoying the day together.

Quiet day here today ... too cold to do too much outside.  Tim is in Houston this weekend so it's kind of lonely and boring.  I'm playing on the computer listening to the football game.

We got our tickets for the travel to Oregon next Friday.  Grueling travel arrangements.  I'm in the middle seat the whole freakin' way.  We also rented a car and will stay in a hotel.  My dear cousin wants to go swimming so we said we'd stay at a resort with a pool and we could have a slumber party together all weekend.  It's so hard traveling when you know it's to say goodbye.

Hope everyone is having a good day,

Bren

Happy Anniversary, Scuttlers!

I'm with you, Blue and artsee. 

DH is watching a program about lions and warthogs  

Work still boring, but I might have a mini project coming up and might be able to move back downstairs. I don't like where they moved me, the project team aren't very friendly and they haven't been very forthcoming on knowledge transfer - been pretty much a waste of time.

Sue

Happy Anniversary Scuttlers

Blue, Athena, Artsee - it really is a dificult time, both online, and in many of our lives.  I "hide" in my drawing, and painting, find it healing.  Sometimes bc is just too much of my life.  Seems natural to help support women in earlier stages of this, just starting treatment, or beginning to take an AI, but realize too, I want to pull away for a while.

I go for my 6 month check up at Dana Farber this week.  Expect to get a quick visit, and no changes, they don't do any tests except a very quick physical checkup - but still, we all know what the docs are looking for, hope to  join the BORING list.  Expecet I will, except for "the talk" about how good it would be if I lost weight. 

Going to spend today "playing" with my new soft pastels - really love them.

Oh Bren

It is too hard. Cancer is the worst thing on the planet.

Bren, I'm so sad about your friend. I hate cancer.

Happy news my son is getting married Friday. I love the girl he is marrying.

Ha! Ran across a link today I enjoyed. As you may or may not know, the Constitution guarantees the "right of the people... to petition the government for redress of grievances" and there is a web site where the White House will let you create and/or sign various petitions. A lot of them are petty or crazy, but this one made me laugh out loud.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x

We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition.

"Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie."

OK, I know I have a warped sense of humor, but that's funny!

Just wondering what the Canadians think about Harper's plan (or should I say King Harper) for the British coat of arms to go on the front cover of the Canadian passport? Are most English Canadians happy with that idea? I have heard here in Quebec that the move could stir up the separatist movement once again and perhaps Harper should have let "sleeping dogs lie" since everything is reasonably quiet in the separatist quarter.

Being a Brit originally, I do find it strange to have the British coat of arms on the front of the passport. We have a friend who has a daughter in London and her visa is about to expire and she will be kicked out of the country, so I don't understand the rationale being this change in the passport.

Cheers!

Here's a question for SusieQ. Does they Australian passport have its own coat of arms on the front or do they have the British one?

Our Congress is SO useless. There is a real crisis of democratic capitalism and it ain't only in the US. We thought we had "won" the Cold War but our system is showing its weaknesses. Parliaments and Congresses everywhere are stalled. Economic models STILL hailed as effective by some have shown that they are the product of a bankrupt ideology.

The only consolation I have as an American (and this is admittedly lame) is when I look over at Greece and Italy.

Oh, Mr. Obstructionist McConnell is going to poke out his own eye if he keeps pointing the finger, E!

Riley, that IS funny!

....ah, and that is the question, Lindasa. One knows that some are paying attention but others are not. Anyone who thinks it is just a European "thing" is dead off.