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

Chickie - so sorry to hear of the difficulties you are experiencing.  Sunflower's suggestion of ginger tea is a very good one.  Ginger helps your stomach a lot.

Blue - take care of yourself.  We'll miss you.  Take care of your nose.

Signed last night, and after we signed hubby realized they left something out - it was to our benefit that it be left out, but he's an honest man, so called about it.  Now we're in escrow hell again.

Sunny, I want your snow! All we have here are very dark, dull days. Oh, I spotted a flake or two this morning buit that was it.

I hope it stays cold. After the long summer of 2012 which lasted about six months, no estrogen, and hot flashes worse than hell, I have become a doomsday prepper for summer. So a few days ago, as I mentioned earlier, I bought two summer dresses (think of them as....kerosene lamps) and two summer T's (canned beans?) Now I am window shopping online for summer sandals (batteries and water?). I would love to find a nice parasol (Ma' gun 'n ma' bible!).

Blue - think you might want to sleep closer to the floor for a while - hope you've got something for the pain and swelling.  Sending love and hugs, S.

I'm not sure I believe it, but it appears that the house has closed and we are no longer home owners. Now that it's over I can quit fretting

Blue, missed your earlier post. Hope you recover soon! ((((HUGS))))

Linda -- if I hadn't of opened that link and saw it for myself.  It is quite shocking to me as I'd think it would be to everyone.  Hard to believe that college friends and adults around this young man all were saying the same thing....condoning rape for the most part.  Was there some sort of mitigating factor???  It is hard to watch these people ( all male ??? ) all but pat this young man on the back. 

Of course, those in Stubenville only got a hand slap too.  Sounds like something that could come back and slap us in the face and it needs too.  I am sitting here thinking about the lives of a couple of people I know who got taken apart because of AGE only....meaning that the girls were VERY willing, and only because they got caught did it get tuned into rape.  It is not right for anyone, at any time to take advantage of another. 

Jackie

Jackie -- You've exposed the GOP's primary failure -- they can't add!  I see 5 reasons given by Priebus.  Of course, he left out several more......

( ( ( Blue, Chickadee and Sunflowers ) ) ) I hope you all feel better soon. - Sunflowers, I sent you a PM.

GG, I'm glad you've got that behind you. Now you can concentrate on planning for your future adventures.

Athena, you can have my snow and freezing cold weather. If I could ship it to you I would!

Thanks for that article lindasa.  My own experience concurs with their results.  D levels a month before dx - 18.

Sunny and Blue - I hope you are feeling better xxo

Seems as though the 10th anniversary of that stupid war is bringing new things to light:

http://larouchepac.com/node/25559

More Blair Lies on Iraq To Be Exposed by BBC's Panorama Program

Her Majesty's top lackey, Tony Blair, and the lies he created to launch war against Iraq will be exposed in the BBC's Panorama program. Produced by the BBC's award-winning investigative reporter Peter Taylor, the report will be broadcast on BBC1 on March 18th, two days after the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war. According to an exclusive report in today's Independent, the documentary will include "fresh information about the intelligence deployed by the Blair government to justify the invasion of Iraq."

Taylor's program threatens to bring back into the limelight the entire "dodgy dossier" on Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction, which was "sexed-up," filled with lies as justification for the war against Iraq. In July 2003, after Blair's government found out that it was British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly who had blown the whistle to BBC that Blair's WMD dossier was "sexed up" (as Kelly put it), Kelly was found dead, allegedly a "suicide."

Taylor, who is said to have excellent intelligence sources, recently interviewed on a BBC program, the Iraqi defector known as "Curveball," who admitted that he had totally "fabricated" the intelligence that claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: These had been quoted as "facts" in February 2003 when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited them in his speech before the UN Security Council as justification to launch the war against Iraq.

The GOP’s Smart Plan to Avoid Change

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/gops-smart-plan-to-avoid-change.html

The Republican National Committee released a major report today that amounts to the party’s formal response to its 2012 election defeat. The report determinedly avoids confronting the party’s most fundamental problem: Its attachment to an economic agenda that most voters correctly identify as serving the needs of a wealthy minority. Rather than confront the problem, the report is a detailed and generally shrewd plan for working around it.

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The vast majority of the report devotes itself to advocating a lengthy series of mechanical campaign fixes. The most interesting of them are a call to cut the number of presidential primary debates in half and to undertake a vast effort to eliminate restrictions on political donations. The aggregate effect of these changes would be to have Republicans spend less time communicating their ideas via moderated public debate, and more time communicating them via crafted propaganda. Whatever the civic merits of the idea, it appears to be a shrewd gambit to present a more appealing face to the public.

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If you cared a lot about preserving that policy focus, you’d urge the party to chuck overboard a couple issues ancillary to your economic agenda (opposition to immigration and gay rights, which Republican elites never really cared about to begin with), focus on building the most technically competent and best-funded campaign apparatus you could muster, and take your chances. That’s exactly what the report advocates.

Really, the best they can do is to hide what they really stand for and stop using wedge issues that they don't really believe in.  Now there's a Party one can stand behind. NOT

I have to say that our realator has been amazing.  Our propery is very unique and has had a lot of obsticles which he has navigated quite well.  This last move was completely unexpected.  I hate it when I let my guard down and crap happens.  However, when I visit my friends here, it is easier to put things in perspective.

Oh, my -- a busy couple of days! Blue, sorry about your night terrors and tumble out of bed. I have night terrors, too, but I haven't fallen out of bed for some years. I had a screaming nightmare a few weeks ago and just about gave the cats heart attacks.



GG, congrats on your closing -- you will feel better now with the weight of the house off you. PiP, I'm so sorry yours fell through. It could be that you'll get a better offer and a better new house. Or the same new house at a lower cost. (((((PiP))))) We are moving in 6 years ... I am not looking forward to the associated hassles. Especially the moving-the-stuff part.



I find I can only shake my head at the wilful blindness and deafness of the reactionary party. No, your messaging DOESN'T suck. Your policies do. Until you stop being the party of hateful bigots, sexists, racists, xenophobes, homophobes and angry old white men, you will continue to lose. I wish the 5 sane ones would start another party. Huntsman, Powell, .... Er, are there any more? Hagel is working for us now... Oh, yes, Bruce Bartlett. That's 3. I would listen to them.



74 days to retirement, but who is counting? :-D



L

HL - 74 days! Yes.  So I ended up getting about 85% of what I expected on my annuity check (while OPM processes)...far more than the 60-70% I was quoted.  Savor the days, one by one!  Is that 74 work days or calendar days??