Our hope was that the waterproof dog beds would be able to be washed off easily enough for the odor to be eliminated, but that was not to be. After a couple of weeks of constantly cleaning those dog beds, we ended up just putting them outside in the hope that the sun and the rain would deodorize them.
You may suggest that we “get rid of “ the cat, and although we did discuss that as an alternative solution, his advancing age was also something we had to consider.

I can recall, as a young child, watching my father lather up his face with shaving cream, using a brush, and shaving with a single-blade razor.  My mother did the same with shaving her legs. 

Wet hair was simply dried naturally, we didn’t have any kind of hair dryer at home.  If we wanted to curl our hair, we put our wet hair up in plastic or wire brush rollers and tried to sleep in them overnight.  (Notice I said TRIED!)  Toothbrushes were all manual, we had to move the brush up and down and side to side ourselves.  The bathtub, sink, and toilet were all scrubbed manually.

Now, a look at today’s bathroom shows electric shavers to shave our various body parts.  We have blow driers to dry our hair, and heated curlers or curling irons to curl our hair.  We have electric toothbrushes (and electric waterpiks) to brush our teeth for us.  Our toilet bowl is kept clean (more or less) by some version of automatic toilet bowl cleaner.  Currently I’m using the newest version of “Never scrub” which seems to be working pretty well.  And, our bathtub is kept clean with the daily use of the automatic Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner (which I like quite a bit.)

My hubby gave me a soap & shampoo dispenser for my birthday last fall that he hung in the shower that also has a clock and radio in it.  (I think he gave it to me because HE wanted it!)  My hubby listens to the radio in the shower, I prefer to just listen to the running water and try to relax.

A few years ago I actually took a few lessons in figure ice skating, and I thought I did pretty good!  I only took a few lessons because money was short at the time (actually it still is!)

I’d like to take lessons again in the future, I had a lot of fun learning how to figure skate!

Sometimes he brings me flowers – not the cut flowers that die, mind you, the living plants that we can enjoy for years to come.  He knows how upset I get when he brings me something that is going to die right away, so he makes sure that it will last a long time!

It reminds me of being in early elementary school, when I would have to hold fat pencils, and was so anxious to be grown up enough for the skinny pencils, but now I guess I’m in my second childhood and like the fat ones!

I used to date a man who loved trains.  I think in the end we broke up because he wanted to spend his every waking moment around/in/on a train, and he was neglecting our relationship just so he could be around trains.  So I think that is another big reason I don’t like trains!  Every time I see one, I am reminded of how I was dumped by the guy I was in love with for a train!

After doing a lot of research, I’ve been quite stymied over what I can eat, and what I should avoid. Apparently the foods that I should eat for my migraine headaches will give me heartburn, and the foods that I should eat for my heartburn can trigger my migraines. That’s a Catch 22 situation if I’ve ever heard of one! Thankfully my health insurance is really great, and my co-pay for everything so far has been very low. I know how much these things cost without insurance; if I didn’t have good health insurance I’d be tempted to try to buy Canada drugs to save money. I know a lot of people threaten to do just that, but I don’t know anyone personally that has actually done it. I buy my medicine through the mail order company my insurance mandates that I use.

They told her that she has an infected kidney and kidney stones, and have admitted her.  I don’t know a whole lot about kidney stones, I guess I’m going to have to do some research on that.  I DO remember that my father had kidney stones and that he was in a lot of pain.  I’ve heard that a man having kidney stones is the closest thing that he can experience to the pain of a woman in labor.  Maybe when I tell my niece that, she’ll decide to put off having babies for a while!

I am expecting a progress call later this morning, I hope it is good news.

However, with the thought in mind that my eyeglasses are getting more expensive every time I buy them, I have been giving serious thought to Lasik surgery, as I think that eventually the cost factor will end up being a mute point!

Well, I don’t understand why that happens, or what it is called, but I have noticed lately that when I am driving for a long period of time my body does that same twitching.  That scares me a lot because it makes me think that I might be falling asleep at the wheel!  I didn’t THINK I was that tired, but it scares me!  So I think I will be asking my doctor about that!

And I’ve noticed that almost everyone in the office stops for their “smoke” break at the same time, and stand around and socialize while they are smoking.  Once I stopped working and joined them and I was told that if I was taking a smoke break, I had to be smoking.  I couldn’t just stop working when they stopped unless I was smoking too!

That is totally unfair!  I think if they can stop for a 7 minutes break, I should be allowed to also!

This is a very sad situation and I would like to strongly encourage anyone out there that is reading this that they should buy enough life insurance to at least pay off their house should they die.

I have several elderly relatives that are completely dependent on these services and I just cannot imagine what would happen to them if they had those sources of income and care reduced. I already feel that the doughnut hole in the medicare part d program causes needless hardship to our senior citizens. I think that the doughnut hole should be completely eliminated and that our senior citizens should be allowed their medical needs for free.