2021: Think Positively for a Better Year!
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I got a second wind last night and ended up staying up until my normal "bed time". Surprised me
I had practically no calories Monday and ate very lightly yesterday so plan to have a normal nutrisytem day day.
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I've read several articles on how hospitals should prioritize very sick patients when they can't treat them all. Every one of those articles concluded that vaccination status shouldn't matter. While I get their arguments primarily that we don't include other bad behaviors (such as drunk driving) in such prioritizations - It certainly seem counter intuitive.
Jimmy Kimmel's take:
“Dr. Fauci said that if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re gonna have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed,” Kimmel said, adding:
“That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”0 -
"A&W created the third-pounder. It was the same price as McDonald's quarter-pounder. It bombed massively. When they tried to find out why, it was discovered that Americans thought they were being cheated because three is a smaller number than four. A&W — realizing they can't explain grade school fractions to fully grown adults without coming across as condescending *kitten* — quietly took the burger off the menu."
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Try Paula Munier. First book in the series is Borrowing of Bones. Read books in order. There are 3 in series so far.0
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Howard Stern is now on the let's do mandates train. Caution: his quotes contain the words you expect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/09/09/howard-stern-unvaccinated-freedom-covid/0 -
Front page of the NY Times:
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I had a nice lunch/brunch today with my grad school friends. It was nice to have a chance to catch up with everyone and see what is happening in everyone’s life since the last time we were together. One of my friends lost her husband suddenly about 18 months ago and it was really nice to see that she is starting to move forward in her life now. Another of my friends retired from teaching in May after 32 years, so it was nice to see how she is starting the next phase of her life.0
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I had a nice lunch/brunch today with my grad school friends. It was nice to have a chance to catch up with everyone and see what is happening in everyone’s life since the last time we were together. One of my friends lost her husband suddenly about 18 months ago and it was really nice to see that she is starting to move forward in her life now. Another of my friends retired from teaching in May after 32 years, so it was nice to see how she is starting the next phase of her life.
Isn't it great to see people again? I hope we get a little longer in this phase.0 -
I finished the J D Robb and started the newest K-Team book (a spin off from David Rosenfelt of his Andy Carpenter series).
I've been reading "fluff" - all my brain has seemed to be able to handle after working 7 days a week - and there is SO much backed up on my kindle that ordinarily I would have read right away.0 -
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I've always said I dive in where others fear to tread so related to this (grown men have been known to blanch when I say "I have a plan"):
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This is what my BIL would call Arendtsville (town where we grew up) humor:
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We had lunch with a friend yesterday. It wa beautiful weather and we ate outside. I planned to order grilled fish but they’d run out. I had chicken tenders and steak tips. I subbed grilled asparagus for the fries that came with it. I bought half the chicken and beef home with me.0
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We are planning to go down to Houston tomorrow to visit DH’s family. We are keeping an eye on the weather, however, as there is a tropical storm in the gulf that is expected to come ashore sometime tomorrow. It could potentially strengthen to a category 1 hurricane between now and then. They are expecting 4-10 inches of rain where my SIL lives. We won’t decide until tomorrow morning if we are going or staying home.0
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We had lunch with a friend yesterday. It wa beautiful weather and we ate outside. I planned to order grilled fish but they’d run out. I had chicken tenders and steak tips. I subbed grilled asparagus for the fries that came with it. I bought half the chicken and beef home with me.
Give yourself a huge pat on the back! Enjoying yourself AND showing restraint!!!0 -
We are planning to go down to Houston tomorrow to visit DH’s family. We are keeping an eye on the weather, however, as there is a tropical storm in the gulf that is expected to come ashore sometime tomorrow. It could potentially strengthen to a category 1 hurricane between now and then. They are expecting 4-10 inches of rain where my SIL lives. We won’t decide until tomorrow morning if we are going or staying home.
Good luck! For some reason DH is watching storms carefully (not enough to do ***cough cough***) and he's got his eyes on that one too (***rolls eyes***).0 -
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I didn’t even miss those fries. My friend ordered a black bean burger and that came with fries. I knew if I got them, I’d eat more of them than I wanted. Then I’d feel like I had no self control. Plus I really like asparagus and haven’t had any for ages.
Pam, if you decide to visit SIL, I hope you don’t have to deal with that storm.0 -
I didn’t even miss those fries. My friend ordered a black bean burger and that came with fries. I knew if I got them, I’d eat more of them than I wanted. Then I’d feel like I had no self control. Plus I really like asparagus and haven’t had any for ages.
Pam, if you decide to visit SIL, I hope you don’t have to deal with that storm.
DH loves asparagus so I get it sometimes. He's very persnickety about the cooking - has to be the way his mother cooked it. LOL!0 -
I got my flu shot last evening. What a lot of paperwork for a free shot. LOL!0
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Got ours last week. Did you get the high dose variety? We got ours early because we heard they run out of it pretty quickly.0
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Well, the storm wasn’t too bad where we are in The Woodlands, which is a community north of Houston. We had a lot of rain and wind overnight, and light drizzle most of the day today. Tomorrow should be dry and sunny, so we will try to get out and do something fun today. We are staying until Saturday. At least it was relatively cool today after the storm came through.0
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Got ours last week. Did you get the high dose variety? We got ours early because we heard they run out of it pretty quickly.
Yes, definitely got the high dose. I read they aren't as certain about the vaccine this year Weird facts. In the winter of 2019 there were 22,000 deaths from the flu. Last winter, because we were all doing COVID prevention (all the same things they'd always recommended for flu prevention basically), there were only 700. But all that prevention apparently also means they had less information from which to produce this year's vaccine0 -
Well, the storm wasn’t too bad where we are in The Woodlands, which is a community north of Houston. We had a lot of rain and wind overnight, and light drizzle most of the day today. Tomorrow should be dry and sunny, so we will try to get out and do something fun today. We are staying until Saturday. At least it was relatively cool today after the storm came through.
Great news that you get a period of good weather!0 -
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I just completed a survey from the colonoscopy facility. One of the questions was "anesthesia is something that makes you sleepy; did you have anesthesia with your procedures?" I kid you not. I could not make this stuff up.0
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I was born in the York Hospital (for a few years early in their marriage my parents lived in a small town nearby). I am deeply disturbed at just how sad the area of my beginnings has become. They are now banning books.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/book-ban-controversy-pennsylvania/index.html0
