Today’s oldie appeared on New Year’s Day, 2012, however its point makes it appropriate today and any other day. It also includes, as a bonus, one of those infinity puzzlers that intrigued us so as kids: is there a picture of Arlo and Janis dancing on the cartoon on the refrigerator and a picture of Arlo and Janis dancing on the cartoon on the refrigerator on the refrigerator, etc., etc. etc., etc….
80 responses to “Happy New Year!”
Now if we all print this out and stick it to the fridge, we can duplicate the effect across the country. ?
Cancer – wise, I’m 6 months out from surgery for “Round 2- This time it’s personal” . Doing fine and it’s always good to remember these gifts we call days.
Best wishes for health and happiness to the other survivors in the village.
Debbe 😉 Meee, too, hon. 🙂
Good report, Otis. And as Debbe is wont to say…Amen.
For Ursen, I am a 10 year cancer survivor and I concur, every day is a gift to be opened carefully and used wisely. Prayer does work. When I was going through my treatments and finally surgery I had people who I barely knew praying for me. It worked. God bless you and your wife and I wish you both many more years of happiness.
Not that Mark needs the reminder, but AccuWeather has an article on its home page about the storm that hit Tuscaloosa five years ago today.
Ghost, I have a reminder every time I drive down University Blvd here. More than half of what was destroyed has not yet been replaced, nor likely will be. Today is warm and sunny, but that’s how the day started then, too.
Folks, pay attention when they tell you to seek shelter. One of these storms can move faster than you think possible, and it’s hard to fathom the damage they can do until you see it firsthand.
Stay safe, and God bless us all.
The storms stayed north of me last night. Well, tornadoes did
The gutter installers are here and drilling away. More of my flood plan, they catch the water and carry it off via down spouts underground through French drains to the creek and not taking my soil with them. Knowing I would not be on roof I opted for the covered ones with lids to stop gutter blockage by leaves. Neighbors leaves at that.
Have decided to tear down carport on front drive and not try to repair it so we will rebuild a new small guest house from scratch.
LUCEEEE!! I’m home!
Well, I haven’t really been gone, just sort of napping. Mostly I’ve been going to doctors appointments and having a few tests done. I have officially been diagnosed with Sjogren’s Syndrome (or disease, depending on who you read on Google) which explains a few things. The doctors haven’t decided on a treatment yet, so more appointments ahead. rah.
And yes, each day is a gift.
Y’all be careful today and watch the sky.
Trapper, I have had that diagnosed for 22 years and still can’t spell it. The cough drives me crazy. It is bizarre disease.
A singular disease for singular women.
Mark until a celebrity famous tennis player was diagnosed with it and had to drop out of world competition it never got much publicity. No charity benefits.
People run up to you wanting to do heimlich to stop the cough. My teeth decayed and I did root canals and replacements. The glands swell, you get sore throats, pneumonia type infections, dry skin.
So my manicure and pedicures, facials, skin care, even expensive glasses are medically related. Even my hair care, hair loss is a characteristic.
And you thought I was just vain!
I do a lot of medical reading, and that was a new on for me. To save some lookups, this is a brief description of the syndrome from the Mayo Clinic’s website:
“Sjogren’s (SHOW-grins) syndrome is a disorder of your immune system identified by its two most common symptoms — dry eyes and a dry mouth.
“Sjogren’s syndrome often accompanies other immune system disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. In Sjogren’s syndrome, the mucous membranes and moisture-secreting glands of your eyes and mouth are usually affected first — resulting in decreased production of tears and saliva.
“Although you can develop Sjogren’s syndrome at any age, most people are older than 40 at the time of diagnosis. The condition is much more common in women. Treatment focuses on relieving symptoms.”
When I was diagnosed it was by a nurse practitioner at the rural health clinic who sent me to a world famous autoimmune specialist who confirmed. I had never heard and had gone through University of Texas and Oklahoma both med school.
I asked specialist how everyone else missed and he said it was obscure. I said Doug got it and he said it was because he read to the end of the book and the two pages that covered it in class.
Yes, it is a bizarre disease. I have had a problem with dry eyes and mouth for years now, and was told to use eye drops and mouthwash. Didn’t help. Last year a young optometrist that was working at my eye doctor’s office asked me if I had been diagnosed with Sjogren’s, and I had to go look it up. Then it took me a while to get around to asking my doctor to do the test, and now I’m seeing a rheumatologist. She and my pulmonary doctor are revisiting the old diagnosis of sarcoidosis for the lung crud I’ve had for years since 12 years ago Sjogren’s wasn’t heard of where I lived then. I know it can’t be cured, but as I said, it will answer some questions, and be better than “well you know, Jean, you are getting on up in years”. I told Husband that I was going to spit in the eye of the next doctor that said that to me. 😉
Yeah, Jean dear, don’t you just hate that damned diagnosis of “too many birthdays”? 🙂
Hello, all, and thanks to those Villagers who wished me Happy Birthday on Facebook (or here–thanks, Llee.) Jackie and Jean, that was really interesting about the Sjogren’s Syndrome. I too looked it up online, Ghost–even before you did it for us! It sounds nasty, but I very much agree that it’s always better to KNOW what is going on.
Jackie, the peafowl I have known don’t cackle, they screech. And guinea fowl are even worse, I think.
Jean I sucked on hard candy for the cough for years, only to find out it was worst thing I could do. It dries out skin all over body, moisturize everything. Watch chemical and perfumes, fabrics.
Yes, eye damage worse than dry eyes. Joint pain and stiffness. Lung diseases that resemble legionaires disease. Be sure and visit your dentist and tell them no cure but you can head off complications.
And yall just thought I spent all that money on a perfect smile so I could flirt and pose for Playboy if they wanted world’s oldest centerfold!
I am outing that this disease destroys teeth.
Peafowl [males only?] do scream. They wander loose, or did, at the Bronx Zoo, so I was always greeted by screams when I got to work the summers of ’49 and ’51. Once saw a peahen in the wild at Watkins Glen, near the head of Lake Seneca in NY, one lake west of L. Cayuga and Ithaca, also in ’49-’51. Peace,
Eight years free for me on the serious one and just minor skin cancer more recently and hopefully that’s all gone. For dry mouth and eyes you won’t believe this but I swear that it’s true. Take fish oil capsules and I don’t mean the ones that you buy in Wally World. If anyone wants to know I will be glad to provide the details, but they make a big difference for me. B-day coming up for me too. I’ll be just 3 years away from 70. You know what they say , 70 is the new 50. Well I say it anyway.
You can’t make this stuff up. Cruz has named Fiorina as his running mate. I wonder if they will start with a 5k. I thought that this was all decided years ago, but they have discovered a new planet out past Jupiter and named it Makemake. It has a moon too. Maybe they will named it Mickey. Does that make 10 in the solar system? 8 and a half? 9? 9 and a half?
Jerry: I believe ‘they’ have discovered strong evidence that a possible large planet may be the reason 5 Kuiper objects have certain peculiar orbits that converge when they are nearest Sol [out in Kuiper territory beyond dwarf planet Pluto, the innermost Kuiper object]. ‘They’ have not imaged said planet; don’t hold your breath until they do. It’s the best explanation so far for those seemingly trapped orbits. I think nobody has suggested naming it Fiorina, or Cruz, or Mop.
Peace, emb
This website: http://earthsky.org/space/is-planet-9-a-second-kuiper-belt suggests a second possible explanation. Beats me; maybe we’ll all find out later. Article has some nice space art. Peace, emb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gljIZUoe9H4