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Let me know if you're not outraged by the end.
45 was tweeting this morning. Obviously he is deflecting from his republican backed healthcare bill which is failing (a favorite word of 45's) with his own party. What he was tweeting could be considered libel. Were you outraged? Or were you someone who thinks the press is bullying 45?
That's rich...people are "bullying" the president of the United States. How does he solve the problem?? By bullying a member of the media...via Twitter.
He's a teenage boy who needs to be sent to his room until 2020. Oh yeah...that same teenage boy is president of the United States. SMDH
That's "shaking my damn head" for those not into text speak.
Now I know you may read this and say, she's off on a political rant again. You're damn right, I am.
Who thought this fool as president was a good idea? I know, there were those who "survived" 8 years of Barack Obama. OMG you had it so horribly...we came out of the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s; which in case you're not into doing your homework started before President Obama was elected (look it up).
Did you worry nightly that Pres. Obama was going to send the country into nuclear war by saying or tweeting something stupid? No, you didn't. You also didn't have the DAILY WTF moment when 45 or one of his flunkies opened their mouths and said something stupid.
For those of you that have blamed Pres. Obama for every negative thing that has happened since circa 2006 (and continue to do so), shut up and get a grip. Tell 45 the same. He is the president now so everything that goes wrong (how much time do you have?) is on him.
I know some people who support 45 who keep saying, everyone should just step back and let him do his job. Does he even know what his job is? It's not all photo ops with sports teams, campaign rallies and golf Donnie boy. Put the Blackberry down, hire some staff, and get to work; it's been almost 6 months.
Has it really only been 6 months?
Health insurance is hard. You bet it is. It's hard and it's complicated and it's clear that your party doesn't give a damn about the average citizen which is why this crappy bill lingers with fewer and fewer supporters by the day. Healthcare shouldn't be a luxury; not in the greatest country on the planet.
Let's rebuild the coal industry!! Woohoo coal!! Seriously?!?!?! There are about a million reasons why that is a fairly stupid idea.
Let's defund the arts--yeah, no one needs those (SAID NO ONE EVER).
And yet 45's supporters stand beside him like an abused spouse.
What are ya'll going to do when you're without health insurance? I suppose you could "get a job" like Kellyanne Conway suggested. When are you going to stop making excuses and take responsibility for your choice? When are you going to stop coddling your choice? How many times did you hear Pres. Obama complain about the press? Call the press fake news? Single out female members of the press and speak foully of them? If he really and truly is a teenage boy, he's too young to be president and frankly he's so out of touch with reality, I daresay he's too old to be president.
Don't worry though, I am sure he's working very hard this afternoon...counting the people that attended the inauguration back in January.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Thursday, June 22, 2017
I Have Some Questions...
I have some questions and I might actually want answers to them. Feel free to comment. I shouldn't have to post a reminder to keep it clean and respectful but I will anyway because well, let's be honest; being respectful is becoming a lost art.
Why should only the very wealthy be able to afford health insurance?
Why is healthcare so expensive?
Maybe I should have typed those in reverse order.
Before I got sick, I didn't think much about health insurance. I had it but other than bi-weekly deductions from my paycheck and the occasional co-pay, I didn't use it much. I really had NO CLUE how lucky I was.
Did you know when you are diagnosed with non Hodgkins Lymphoma on January 16th; you pretty much have met even the largest deductible on January 16th?
Before getting sick, I didn't know what an out of pocket maximum was. Do you know what it is?
I have made it pretty clear where I stand on the current state of the cost of healthcare and health insurance in the US these days.
I find it interesting and more than a little ironic that there are those in this country that want to blame everything that is wrong with the healthcare and health insurance industries on the 44th president of the United States. To them I say, "Get a grip." Both industries were a mess long before 44 was old enough to be president.
Healthcare costs are increasing (sorry for the Captain Obvious statement). Isn't part of why they are increasing due to increased costs of malpractice insurance? Maybe you shouldn't be able to sue your doctor for malpractice if you have a hangnail. I am not suggesting if there is true negligence that people do not sue but clearly the system is being abused. Don't think for a minute that a doctor is going pay ginormous premiums to cover themselves in case the human part of them makes a mistake and a patient wants to sue them for $451,586,325,669,541 and they aren't going to pass the cost on to the very patient taking them to court (and every other patient visiting their office).
You know I read somewhere a person was blaming Obamacare for the fact that they had to wait an extraordinary amount of time in the waiting room and then the exam room of their doctor's office. I hate waiting as much as the next person but let me ask a couple of questions...
Were you the only patient there that day?
Are you the only person on earth?
Are you more important than anyone else?
The day I was diagnosed, my first stop of the day was in my general practitioner's office. I hadn't slept a night through in weeks, I wasn't keeping food down, I had lost roughly 30lbs in a matter or weeks. My GP had read a CT scan that had masses on it. She shared that info with me and I went to pieces. She spent more than an hour with me while I processed what she was telling me. I am sure I jacked up her patient schedule for the rest of the day. In the waiting room there are posters that apologize in advance for any delays in service due to unforeseen circumstances. I am grateful for the time she spent with me when I was an unforeseen circumstance. I think about it often when I am passing the time in a doctor's waiting room.
Did you know that the cost of a head, abdomen and pelvis CT scan went up $1300 in 6 months? Did you know I was scanned in the same machine each time? I am guessing that the machine is paid for.
Each of my chemo treatments cost roughly $25K. That doesn't include the $6500 Neulasta shot I got the day after each treatment. Neulasta is a wonder drug. Kept my immune system from imploding each time we sent poison into my body to kill the cancer. If you google the cost of Neulasta, it appears that it bills anywhere from $3000 to $9000 per dose. So, we're paying for development costs, testing costs, advertising costs. I am sure there are more costs but $3000-$9000 PER SHOT? Don't even get me started on Epipens.
When is the profit made "enough"?
When did hospitals become profitable businesses? Who is footing the bill for these profitable businesses? Look in the mirror. Do the Teslas and Porsches in the hospital parking lots belong to the doctors or the hospital administrators? I know where my money is.
Maybe some of the outrage at Obamacare should be re-directed.
Time to look at the health insurance industry.
Where does the line get drawn? Should the CEO of Mylan have 5 homes or should the average citizen be able to afford life saving epinephrine when their child is having an allergic reaction? Should chemo only be available to those whose combined household income exceeds $200K? How many people reading this have lost their jobs in their lifetime? How many have had to figure out how to pay for what insurance doesn't?
Why should only the very wealthy be able to afford health insurance?
Why is healthcare so expensive?
Maybe I should have typed those in reverse order.
Before I got sick, I didn't think much about health insurance. I had it but other than bi-weekly deductions from my paycheck and the occasional co-pay, I didn't use it much. I really had NO CLUE how lucky I was.
Did you know when you are diagnosed with non Hodgkins Lymphoma on January 16th; you pretty much have met even the largest deductible on January 16th?
Before getting sick, I didn't know what an out of pocket maximum was. Do you know what it is?
I have made it pretty clear where I stand on the current state of the cost of healthcare and health insurance in the US these days.
I find it interesting and more than a little ironic that there are those in this country that want to blame everything that is wrong with the healthcare and health insurance industries on the 44th president of the United States. To them I say, "Get a grip." Both industries were a mess long before 44 was old enough to be president.
Healthcare costs are increasing (sorry for the Captain Obvious statement). Isn't part of why they are increasing due to increased costs of malpractice insurance? Maybe you shouldn't be able to sue your doctor for malpractice if you have a hangnail. I am not suggesting if there is true negligence that people do not sue but clearly the system is being abused. Don't think for a minute that a doctor is going pay ginormous premiums to cover themselves in case the human part of them makes a mistake and a patient wants to sue them for $451,586,325,669,541 and they aren't going to pass the cost on to the very patient taking them to court (and every other patient visiting their office).
You know I read somewhere a person was blaming Obamacare for the fact that they had to wait an extraordinary amount of time in the waiting room and then the exam room of their doctor's office. I hate waiting as much as the next person but let me ask a couple of questions...
Were you the only patient there that day?
Are you the only person on earth?
Are you more important than anyone else?
The day I was diagnosed, my first stop of the day was in my general practitioner's office. I hadn't slept a night through in weeks, I wasn't keeping food down, I had lost roughly 30lbs in a matter or weeks. My GP had read a CT scan that had masses on it. She shared that info with me and I went to pieces. She spent more than an hour with me while I processed what she was telling me. I am sure I jacked up her patient schedule for the rest of the day. In the waiting room there are posters that apologize in advance for any delays in service due to unforeseen circumstances. I am grateful for the time she spent with me when I was an unforeseen circumstance. I think about it often when I am passing the time in a doctor's waiting room.
Did you know that the cost of a head, abdomen and pelvis CT scan went up $1300 in 6 months? Did you know I was scanned in the same machine each time? I am guessing that the machine is paid for.
Each of my chemo treatments cost roughly $25K. That doesn't include the $6500 Neulasta shot I got the day after each treatment. Neulasta is a wonder drug. Kept my immune system from imploding each time we sent poison into my body to kill the cancer. If you google the cost of Neulasta, it appears that it bills anywhere from $3000 to $9000 per dose. So, we're paying for development costs, testing costs, advertising costs. I am sure there are more costs but $3000-$9000 PER SHOT? Don't even get me started on Epipens.
When is the profit made "enough"?
When did hospitals become profitable businesses? Who is footing the bill for these profitable businesses? Look in the mirror. Do the Teslas and Porsches in the hospital parking lots belong to the doctors or the hospital administrators? I know where my money is.
Maybe some of the outrage at Obamacare should be re-directed.
Time to look at the health insurance industry.
Insurance
is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk
management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent,
uncertain loss. --from Wikipedia
We pay for this protection. Over the last several years (yes, even pre-Obamacare) we would pay more each year for less protection...unless you were lucky and your company (or the American people) paid for your insurance.
Have you ever read an Explanation of Benefits (EOB)? Some are easier than others to decipher. You have the cost of service (what the doctor or hospital bills), what is allowed by the insurance company (what the doctor or hospital is allowed by the insurance company to bill or a discounted rate), what the insurance company is going to pay, and the balance owed. Why don't we price health care services more realistically? Insurance would cover more and not need to be so expensive. Yes, I know I am over simplifiying. But why do we need to over-complicate? The hospital can bill at $6000 but if they only collect $3000, their "income" is $3000 not $6000. So the hospital bills $3000 and the insurance company covers 80% because the hospital is in network...out of pocket = $600. If costs are more realistic, maybe insurance companies go back to covering 90% or 100%.
Insurance companies want to make money, I get it. So do doctors, drug companies, and hospitals. Trust me, I get it. It goes back to an earlier question...when is the profit made "enough"?
Where does the line get drawn? Should the CEO of Mylan have 5 homes or should the average citizen be able to afford life saving epinephrine when their child is having an allergic reaction? Should chemo only be available to those whose combined household income exceeds $200K? How many people reading this have lost their jobs in their lifetime? How many have had to figure out how to pay for what insurance doesn't?
I hear a lot of conservatives talk about what should and shouldn't be covered and who should and shouldn't have to pay more. I hear it from progressives too.
What about those suffering from mental illness? We've established that there is a good part of the population that think everyone should have a right to bear arms. So you give someone suffering from mental illness access to a gun...but there are those that would deny them access to affordable mental healthcare??? We're NOT living in a third world country.
I am not even going to entertain the topic of immigrants in the US. That is another blog post entirely.
So...who should get good healthcare? Only those who work? Only those who can afford it? What is a fair price? What should that price cover? Should you get to choose a doctor you are comfortable with? Should you have to mortgage your house to cover the cost of your prescriptions? Yes, I know some of my questions are absurd but it goes back to...when is the profit made "enough"?
People are so quick to blame Obamacare for all of the world's problems which is misguided and frankly fairly ignorant. The cost of healthcare and health insurance was an issue before 2008. Where is the outrage against the forces driving up the cost of healthcare and in turn the cost of health insurance?
I wish I had answers to all of these questions. I know I think differently about my health/healthcare/health insurance as I get older. Getting older is inevitable (unless you die). What may be perfect health today could be a chronic disease tomorrow. Maybe it's time to start asking some questions and seriously pursuing answers.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Beating Cancer
Actually a lot of funny things happened...which was awesome because my oncologist told me that attitude was everything when it comes to battling cancer.
I think it helped that as a rule, I don't take myself too seriously.
My chemo made me lose my hair...ALL of my hair.
At the beginning of chemo, I would look in the mirror every night while I was washing off my makeup. First the hair turned really drab and limp. Then it started falling out in clumps or there would be a cascade when I would sneeze.
One day I am on a conference call with work and in deep thought, I rub my chin. There, on my chin is a thick coarse hair about an inch long that WASN'T there the night before. Really?
And of course, when I finished chemo, was cured and my hair started growing back...did it start on my bald head?? Nope. It was a three way tie, legs, pits and CHIN!
I spent an afternoon in the ER and a night in the hospital getting my diagnosis. I literally had 10 different doctors come into my triage room and tell me how high my blood pressure was. Really??? To each and every one of them, I want to say with love..."Sit in a paper gown on a gurney, hooked up to a BP monitor, drinking disgusting chalky liquid that will give you the worst diarrhea of your life with doctor after doctor telling you that you have cancer and see what comes out of your BP monitor!!!" I think of them every morning that I take a blood pressure pill.
There was the night in Feb during chemo when I was up watching the Westminster dog show. I love watching dog shows. Chris had dozed off...he would sometimes nap while I was awake because I swear he watched me sleep for the first couple of months. Anyway, at the end of the second night, they announce Best in Show. I was rooting for the beagle (of course). She won!!! I let out a shriek. Chris lost 2 years off the end of his life. The thought still makes me giggle.
The divine Miss P.
Cannot add Miss P without including the Best in Show at the Wick household.
Clearly NOT the working dog segment.
One Saturday, while finishing up the prednisone that was part of my chemo regimen, with music blaring, I cleaned my kitchen top to bottom much to my husband's dismay. The nervous energy that prednisone gives me is off the charts. I am almost vibrating when taking the large doses of prednisone that was part of my fancy chemo cocktail.
The American Cancer Society offers a make up class...the theory is if you look good, you feel good. So, every day I got up and even though I was working in my dining room, I showered, got dressed and put makeup on. Some days, I didn't put in contacts. My 4 year old niece took great offense one day when I came over sporting my glasses..."Auntie, where are your eyes??" will go down in history as one of the funniest questions I have ever been asked.
My husband is a big guy. My oncologist is NOT a big guy. When we gathered to read my mid
chemo scan, we got great news, I was cancer free!! Chris grabbed Dr. K in a bear hug and swung him around a bit like a rag doll. I don't think Dr. K thought it was as funny as I did.
I have said it more than once in this blog...laughter is the best medicine. It heals the soul and sweeps
away your troubles. This 😂 is one of my favorite emojis. When I am old and gray I am going to brag about the laugh lines on my face.
I am not going to lie, there isn't much that is fun about a cancer battle but laughter made a not so great situation bearable.
XOXO
I think it helped that as a rule, I don't take myself too seriously.
My chemo made me lose my hair...ALL of my hair.
At the beginning of chemo, I would look in the mirror every night while I was washing off my makeup. First the hair turned really drab and limp. Then it started falling out in clumps or there would be a cascade when I would sneeze.
One day I am on a conference call with work and in deep thought, I rub my chin. There, on my chin is a thick coarse hair about an inch long that WASN'T there the night before. Really?
And of course, when I finished chemo, was cured and my hair started growing back...did it start on my bald head?? Nope. It was a three way tie, legs, pits and CHIN!
I spent an afternoon in the ER and a night in the hospital getting my diagnosis. I literally had 10 different doctors come into my triage room and tell me how high my blood pressure was. Really??? To each and every one of them, I want to say with love..."Sit in a paper gown on a gurney, hooked up to a BP monitor, drinking disgusting chalky liquid that will give you the worst diarrhea of your life with doctor after doctor telling you that you have cancer and see what comes out of your BP monitor!!!" I think of them every morning that I take a blood pressure pill.
There was the night in Feb during chemo when I was up watching the Westminster dog show. I love watching dog shows. Chris had dozed off...he would sometimes nap while I was awake because I swear he watched me sleep for the first couple of months. Anyway, at the end of the second night, they announce Best in Show. I was rooting for the beagle (of course). She won!!! I let out a shriek. Chris lost 2 years off the end of his life. The thought still makes me giggle.
The divine Miss P.
Cannot add Miss P without including the Best in Show at the Wick household.
One Saturday, while finishing up the prednisone that was part of my chemo regimen, with music blaring, I cleaned my kitchen top to bottom much to my husband's dismay. The nervous energy that prednisone gives me is off the charts. I am almost vibrating when taking the large doses of prednisone that was part of my fancy chemo cocktail.
The American Cancer Society offers a make up class...the theory is if you look good, you feel good. So, every day I got up and even though I was working in my dining room, I showered, got dressed and put makeup on. Some days, I didn't put in contacts. My 4 year old niece took great offense one day when I came over sporting my glasses..."Auntie, where are your eyes??" will go down in history as one of the funniest questions I have ever been asked.
My husband is a big guy. My oncologist is NOT a big guy. When we gathered to read my mid
chemo scan, we got great news, I was cancer free!! Chris grabbed Dr. K in a bear hug and swung him around a bit like a rag doll. I don't think Dr. K thought it was as funny as I did.
I have said it more than once in this blog...laughter is the best medicine. It heals the soul and sweeps
away your troubles. This 😂 is one of my favorite emojis. When I am old and gray I am going to brag about the laugh lines on my face.
I am not going to lie, there isn't much that is fun about a cancer battle but laughter made a not so great situation bearable.
XOXO
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Stop the Madness
So last week the world fell on its ear because Kathy Griffin in a moment of overt stupidity made a video and posted it on social media. I am no fan of Kathy Griffin. But I think the world went a little crazy last week.
If her photo pissed you off, the Obama mask with a noose displayed at a Wisconsin football game last fall should have pissed you off as well.
I don't care what your political affiliation is. Both should make you outraged.
You can be funny without being crude, distasteful, and ignorant. You can dislike someone without making an ass of yourself. Saturday Night Live has been poking fun at 45 and his cronies for more than a year. I am guessing many of 45's followers and perhaps even 45 himself probably don't get half of the jokes but I am also guessing that Barron can watch SNL and sleep at night.
The problem I have with the lynch mob chasing down Kathy Griffin last week is that I do not recall the outrage when Ted Nugent threatened President Obama's life. He recently got an invite to the White House. Frankly, Ted Nugent isn't worthy to change toilet paper in a White House bathroom but I am going to consider the source of the invitation.
I was reading the New Yorker the other day and in an article about 45 losing his job, it talked about staffers at the White House having WTF moments. How many moments have there been since noon Eastern time on Jan 20th?
Regardless of your political beliefs, how have you not said WTF at least once a day since Jan 20th?
My WTF yesterday was Paul Ryan's comment that 45 is "new to this". Really Paul? Do you have a clue how stupid that sounds? You and Mitch would have had a field day if Nancy P had said that about POTUS44 in 2008.
The US is becoming the world laughingstock under this administration. People should be outraged about that. People should be shouting their outrage from the rooftops. Kathy Griffin is small potatoes compared to what is at stake here.
Anyone doing something so ignorant and distasteful SHOULD lose their job. Pretty much anyone reading this would. 45 shouldn't have been elected to his job because of what he has said and done over the years. The fact that he was speaks volumes to the ignorance that runs rampant in this country. It amazes me daily. Now there are those that would say that it was time to get rid of the career politicians...time to "drain the swamp". The swamp has become a boiling cesspool...worse than it was before. I agree that fresh blood in DC (and IL) would be fantastic.
We as citizens need to voice our displeasure daily...without the ignorance.
If her photo pissed you off, the Obama mask with a noose displayed at a Wisconsin football game last fall should have pissed you off as well.
I don't care what your political affiliation is. Both should make you outraged.
You can be funny without being crude, distasteful, and ignorant. You can dislike someone without making an ass of yourself. Saturday Night Live has been poking fun at 45 and his cronies for more than a year. I am guessing many of 45's followers and perhaps even 45 himself probably don't get half of the jokes but I am also guessing that Barron can watch SNL and sleep at night.
The problem I have with the lynch mob chasing down Kathy Griffin last week is that I do not recall the outrage when Ted Nugent threatened President Obama's life. He recently got an invite to the White House. Frankly, Ted Nugent isn't worthy to change toilet paper in a White House bathroom but I am going to consider the source of the invitation.
I was reading the New Yorker the other day and in an article about 45 losing his job, it talked about staffers at the White House having WTF moments. How many moments have there been since noon Eastern time on Jan 20th?
Regardless of your political beliefs, how have you not said WTF at least once a day since Jan 20th?
My WTF yesterday was Paul Ryan's comment that 45 is "new to this". Really Paul? Do you have a clue how stupid that sounds? You and Mitch would have had a field day if Nancy P had said that about POTUS44 in 2008.
The US is becoming the world laughingstock under this administration. People should be outraged about that. People should be shouting their outrage from the rooftops. Kathy Griffin is small potatoes compared to what is at stake here.
Anyone doing something so ignorant and distasteful SHOULD lose their job. Pretty much anyone reading this would. 45 shouldn't have been elected to his job because of what he has said and done over the years. The fact that he was speaks volumes to the ignorance that runs rampant in this country. It amazes me daily. Now there are those that would say that it was time to get rid of the career politicians...time to "drain the swamp". The swamp has become a boiling cesspool...worse than it was before. I agree that fresh blood in DC (and IL) would be fantastic.
We as citizens need to voice our displeasure daily...without the ignorance.
Friday, June 2, 2017
There...I said it.
A random list of things I would one day like to say out loud to the appropriate audience. Today it's you.
I don't like broccoli....cannot stand the way it smells when it is cooked. The same could be said of cauliflower.
In 1987, I loved George Michael so much so, I wished that he liked girls and I was devastated when he died last Christmas (!!!).
I am fascinated by weather (climate change is a real thing).
I like fantasy football better than the real game.
I believe that life is too short...so do and say what you want people to see and hear.
I believe you reap what you sow.
I believe that 98% of "reality TV" is crap and the other 2% isn't that good either.
A lot of what is wrong with the world today is caused by "reality TV" and the general dumbing down of society.
Too much stupidity is rewarded these days. Perhaps it should be punished severely.
I watch Dancing with the Stars...expect to hate it every season as we go deeper and deeper into what execs at ABC consider a "star" to be...and am pleasantly surprised each season.
If you live within 10 miles of a major airport by choice, you should have no right to complain about airplane noise...airports do not grow out of the ground overnight.
I like to write.
I like to roll my eyes (and I do it a lot lately). Sorry Grandma...they haven't gotten stuck yet.
Some days I lean left...others I lean right and I think the people who lean far right or left should be pushed over.
I didn't care about her emails.
I care very much about 45's "relationship" with Russia.
I didn't think we had great choices in either candidate in the last Presidential election.
I cannot BELIEVE that Sean Spicer hasn't gone postal yet.
Spiders are disgusting scary creatures; nightmares are made from spiders.
I like to drive fast.
Laughter truly is the best medicine.
I get aggravated when I hear a song I loved in my 20s (or 30s) on the oldies station on the radio.
I love the White Sox but do not hate the Cubs.
I hate the Yankees (except for Joe Girardi, Derek Jeter and a select group of other former players).
I doubt the Bears will bring another Super Bowl trophy to Chicago in my lifetime
I hope I am dead wrong about the above statement.
I miss hockey in the summer time.
Music soothes my soul daily.
I like my dog more than many people in my life.
I dislike phoniness (is that a word?) in any form.
Christmas trees should not go up before November 15th or be up after January 11th.
Laziness should also be punished and not rewarded.
The entire Kar-Jenner clan (and a good number of their fans) should be launched on NASA's Parker Solar Probe (go ahead, look it up). See also "reality TV".
MTV and VH1 should play videos only.
Poker is NOT a sport.
After 30+ years I can still sit down and follow a General Hospital episode.
I do not know the way to San Jose, although I did leave my heart in San Francisco back in the early 90s. Thankfully I got it back.
You shouldn't be your child's friend until they know how to adult and they do it with some regularity.
I don't shop at Walmart; they suck as corporate citizens.
I won't eat at Chick-fil-A although their commercials are clever.
I dismiss anything posted from a far right or far left wing "news" source out of hand. Looking at you Fox News and Occupy Democrats.
I judge people who don't take care of their kids, parents, pets and lawn.
Don't take yourself too seriously...this will go over the heads of those who need to do it most.
Not enough people are kind enough.
Not everyone should have a gun; even if they think it's their right.
Chili Cheese Fritos are the BOMB.
America was never not great; to say otherwise is just ignorance.
Americans do not have or use enough vacation time.
There was life before a smart phone.
Instant Messages are the scourge of the modern era.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Sometimes you're the problem.
It's OK to walk away from someone who is toxic and you get to define what is toxic to you.
The death penalty should absolutely apply in certain cases.
Half of licensed drivers should not be driving (pretty sure I am being generous here).
There should be term limits at every level of public service and if public servants are not doing their job, they should be fired immediately.
The 45th president of the United States is a pathetic example of a human being. When he dies, a study of his brain will likely show dementia. There is really no other way to explain his actions.
I do not understand the appeal of sushi.
There are people in this country who voted for our 45th president because our 44th president was a black man.
It's unfortunate that those people are so ignorant.
This too shall pass; although hopefully sooner rather than later.
Don't complain if you have no intention of changing the circumstances that you are complaining about.
Everyone should try yoga.
Not everyone should wear yoga pants.
Cancer needs to be cured in my lifetime; and the cures should be available to ANYONE with the disease.
Greed is a disgusting trait.
Spend as much time researching the facts as you do spouting your opinion.
The ability to admit making a mistake is something that should be admired not ridiculed.
Bullies suck.
Many women over 40 should not have long hair.
Bald is beautiful.
So is hair, but I draw the line at man buns.
Love is love is love is love is love. Who you choose to love is none of my business and who I choose to love is none of yours.
Many people should learn the definition of tolerance and how to practice it and yes, you can tolerate something without approving of it.
Some of the most un-Christian people on the planet call themselves Christian vehemently. God has his eye on you too. The same God that you say is going to judge me will also judge you. Good thing for you my God loves everyone.
Karma will come for everyone who deserves it. This is another instance where this statement will go right over the heads of those who need to know.
Maybe more people should set their BS tolerance at zero. It was very liberating for me.
Freedom...
So last week after the terrorist attack on Manchester, I found myself a little uptight. Several years ago there was a stampede in a night club in Chicago after someone sprayed pepper spray into a crowd...several young people were killed. A couple of days later my sister and I attended a Bon Jovi concert and you better believe we mapped our routes to every exit in the arena; if only in our heads.
I cannot imagine the fear in the hearts of the concert goers. I cannot imagine the cowardice in the heart of the bomber. The one and only time I agreed with 45 was last week when he called these terrorists losers.
Last Tues Chris and I embarked on a trip to AZ to attend Madeleine's HS graduation. I checked the entrances and exits at O'Hare Airport. I eyed everyone in line for TSA security. I listened carefully to the flight attendants during the pre-flight safety lecture. I agreed to open the plane door in case of emergencies as we had seats in an exit row. Let's be honest, I would get out of the way and let Chris open the door but you get the idea.
From Tues morning to Friday night, we were relatively off the grid. Not the phone or social media grid, but the NEWS grid. I am a bit of a news junkie and lately it makes me uptight and irritable. It was nice to be away from it.
We didn't hear every sad story of the victims of the Manchester bombing. We didn't hear about every stupid thing 45 was doing on his overseas trip. I got to pick and choose (or choose to ignore) much of what popped up on FB and Twitter. It was so very liberating!!
I found that the anxiety that has rattled me since January-ish slip away...so much so that I have watched/read/listened to less news since being home.
I am enjoying my "FREEDOM". That's not to say that I didn't notice we had been covfefe-ed overnight.
I cannot imagine the fear in the hearts of the concert goers. I cannot imagine the cowardice in the heart of the bomber. The one and only time I agreed with 45 was last week when he called these terrorists losers.
Last Tues Chris and I embarked on a trip to AZ to attend Madeleine's HS graduation. I checked the entrances and exits at O'Hare Airport. I eyed everyone in line for TSA security. I listened carefully to the flight attendants during the pre-flight safety lecture. I agreed to open the plane door in case of emergencies as we had seats in an exit row. Let's be honest, I would get out of the way and let Chris open the door but you get the idea.
From Tues morning to Friday night, we were relatively off the grid. Not the phone or social media grid, but the NEWS grid. I am a bit of a news junkie and lately it makes me uptight and irritable. It was nice to be away from it.
We didn't hear every sad story of the victims of the Manchester bombing. We didn't hear about every stupid thing 45 was doing on his overseas trip. I got to pick and choose (or choose to ignore) much of what popped up on FB and Twitter. It was so very liberating!!
I found that the anxiety that has rattled me since January-ish slip away...so much so that I have watched/read/listened to less news since being home.
I am enjoying my "FREEDOM". That's not to say that I didn't notice we had been covfefe-ed overnight.
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