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

Kiwifruit are actually chinese gooseberries

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/the-chinese-gooseberry-becomes-the-kiwifruit

I will always think of them by their real name.

It's funny - I lived in NZ for the first 10 years of my life. My mother is an Australian and she persuaded my father to move here. I had no choice in the matter. I didn't return for 39 years and now I can't get enough of it. I cry when I land and I cry when I leave. I am able to get Aust citizenship because of my mother and my long term residence here (50 years) BUT I am fiercely proud to be a New Zealander and will never seek Aust citizenship. I do hope we move there to retire.

Kam we call someone who is a bit sill a fruit cake but it is meant nicely. Yes and we do put kiwifruit on pavlovas. I had an image of a kiwi(bird) sliced through like a kiwifruit but can't find it will keep looking.

DS and future DiL arrived for lunch. The DS got into the roof to get down all his boxes which have been stored there for five years. Some went back up because they don't have room at their place. Dirt and dust everywhere now. I suppose I can be pleased that some stuff has gone. LOL

Athena....love the dog position picture and also thanks for the link.  I think I have it on Addicting Info....but haven't gone into that part of my computer yet.....have several over there to read and glad to get through this one.  One wonders.....sounded like the Speaker would maintain......now not sounding nearly as good. 

Long day at work today so already looking forward to the week-end in two days.  Wonder why week-ends go so much faster often than the work week.  Hoping to for the weather to warm some.  I love a great winter snow but when the fluffiness goes away and you are left with very hard, crusty and crunchy snow....it has become too cold.  The only good thing is that it will continue to help with the long hot drought we had thru the summer.  Anyway...onto my reading.  See you all later.

Jackie

Athena, thanks for posting the Christie clip!  Yeah for him.  I was not a big fan, prior to Sandy,  and I still disagree on some fundamental policy issues, but Christie tells it like it is, and I got to respect him for it.

alexandria,yes he does tell it like it is.  He is a fighter.  4 minutes into this video he really begins telling it and also in the news conferance following.  I live here at the Jersey shore and I know the devastation.  This has been an unspeakable disaster for New Jersey.

Click here: Full Video Chris Christie News Conference | NJ Governor BLASTS US HOUSE Congress and John Boehner - YouTube

Barb

I guess the regressives who voted against the Violence Against Women don't know they have female constiuents. They'll find out next election day!

Joining the chorus of "hurrah's" for Chickadee's report!

It was hard to get back to work yesterday after two full weeks off.  I managed, but the day seemed loooooong.  It didn't help that Eric was off (he has a bunch of "use or lose" leave time he needs to burn through in the next week) and DD is here, sleeping in the back room where I keep my files and stuff.  Working from home is generally great, but there are days when I wish I had an office to escape to, and yesterday was one of them!

I did manage to get my replacement passport application in -- thank heavens for the Brooklyn Public Library, which operates a drop-in passport service center that's open evenings.  The post office here is hopeless.  I've never seen anything like it -- my WORST experience with any post office in Detroit was better than my BEST experience at Van Brunt Station here.  (Not sure if I mentioned it here, but my overnight bag was stolen out of our car the morning after our wedding.  I was lingering over coffee -- excellent coffee, by the way, you Aussies and Kiwis! -- and some punk kids smashed the back windsheld, grabbed the bag, and disappeared onto the freeway approximately 30 seconds before I came out of the coffee shop.  My passport was in the bag.  That's Detroit for you: battered, resilient, unexpected, heartbroken, heartbreaking.  One moment you're listening to jazz and watching the snow dust the brick pavers in Corktown, thinking the city has never looked more beautiful, and the next moment you're screaming "f%^k" at the sight of your bashed-out windshield.)

Linda

Inspiring, we can call this a serenade for chickadee's good news, a welcome for wendell, and a lovely way to start the New Year:

https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v1/y2/r/5l8_EVv_jyW.swf?v=10151279562307432&ev=0

Please give someone you love ( including your self) a hug when you've watched/listened to the whole clip

Just an update about the bus rapists in New Delhi. Five have been charged with murder and other crimes; one is a juvenile, who cannot be sentenced in adult court.

http://news.yahoo.com/authorities-charge-5-delhi-gang-rape-150836168.html

Also, it's looking like rapists, even those who are elected officials, are getting their comeupins from Indian women! And good news, police are no longer dismissing rape accusations. Power to the women!!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Congress-leader-in-Assam-accused-of-rape-beaten-by-villagers-publicly/articleshow/17870888.cms

Yorkiemom~Great news! Thanks for sharing!



I think I may be shaking off the chemo fog a little bit today. At least I'm able to stand long enough to make a lite lunch for DH & me. Fish, mac & cheese, and mixed veggies. I hope I can taste it.



DH goes in for the job application tomorrow. My prayer is, that he will have an " on the spot interview" with the guy he spoke with on the phone. It's the nephew of a dear friend, who started the ball rolling.



Temps are in the single digits in Central Ohio this morning. Brrrrrrr.



Blessings

Paula, the OLD CONSERVATIVE HIPPY

Yorkie - I went to The Times of India website after you first wrote about your experiences and suprised at all of the rapes being reported in the newspaper.  I have to guess this is part of the awakening?  I sent you a PM.

Well Paula - I always connected the anti-war (Vietnam) protests with the Hippie movement, but really they were separate.  Hippies were the Old Bohemians of Sausilito and sometimes politics weren't necessarily on their radar. It was more of a life style for them.  Though the lifestyle was rather non-Conservative!!!  How many more chemo treatments do you have??

Glenna - thank you. 

Paula, here's hoping things go well for your DH. That is great that you are holding up under the AC.

---Athena, the Atheist Non-Hippe. :-)

I am waiting for the Wabbit  to design a second birthday cake for us. She is an excellent photoshop-per.

India: I will believe more when I see more.

Girls, thanks for all the well wishes. I'm optimistic about this job. He's a good man, and a hard worker, and he deserves this.



I have 2 more AC then 12 weekly taxol. Then on to rads.



I guess my hippy days were more about lifestyle. I couldn't have cared less about politics then. I didn't get interested in politics until Ronald Reagan ran in 1980. I loved that man.



In the 80's my two favorite men were Ronnie, and Willie Nelson. One a Republican statesman, the other a Democrat Outlaw. Go figure. I like who I like.



Peace out

Paula