Iggy

We had four cheese rising crust Digiorno pizza to which I added chopped onions and fried, scrambled hamburger. While it was cooking Husband had garden salad and I had coleslaw. Later tonight, we just may have tuna salad sandwiches with lots of garden salad on them. I put tuna salad on both sides of the bread,then put the salad greens in the middle. Hubby just may have Progresso Tomato w/Basil soup with his sandwich.

53 degrees, 100% precipitation, winds at 28 mph. The winds are GUSTS- coming from the east and blowing sideways towards the ocean. The low for tonight is 50 degrees. No let up on the winds until after Wednesday. Great, the garbage & recycling bins are going to be blown all over creation!! I have mine bungee- corded to the back porch railing. I won't have enough to fill them until the following week. I pay for weekly pickup- because they don't have once a month pickup. Go figure! At least the stray cats in the neighborhood are in hiding and not added more poo to my flower pots outside.

Before I was endowed, I went to viewings and then the funeral services but NEVER the internment. After endowment, I dressed my MIL for burial. She was cremated and we had her memorial service about a month later when the out of state relatives could get there. Her viewing was for the non-LDS family. She was in her Temple & ritual clothes (approved by the Stake President), and cremated in them. We went to a restaurant close to the funeral home on the day of the viewing - NOTE: She was traveling with her middle son and wife when she passed, they were in Missouri and the law there is ALL must have autopsy. The funeral home in Missouri did a BAD job of preparing her for travel home for burial. BAD- So, after the RS President and I finished with the dressing, the viewing only lasted 3 hours - At the restaurant we sat with the non-LDS family and talked for hours about her. The conversation turned to her clothing, and husband and I explained the garments she was wearing. This in turn led to a discussion/explanation of The Plan of Salvation. The women asked my why I was tearing up, I didn't even have a chance to get to know my MIL- I explained as briefly as I could how the Missouri ME and the funeral home had done such a horrible job on her. That is what teared me up. I saw the dis-respect done to her and it hurt deeply. Her youngest son disrespected her as a direct result of his involvement in drugs - meth and pot, he pimped her out for years until my husband (eldest son) and I moved to her town and took her from him (she was in last stages of Alzheimers). Then as a final slap in the face to have these professionals dis-respect her too. I told these non-LDS family members of hers how thankful I was that she was on the other side of the veil now, and that was the END of the disrespect. She had gone through the door to the next part of her life. Shed her mortal body for a season. All of these family members came to the LDS memorial. I have been to many LDS funeral/memorial services in the past. This one lasted nearly 2 hours - with many church members she knew going to the podium. I did not attend the internment of her urn at graveside. It was 110 degrees out and I could not handle that heat coupled with the wind. But there at graveside, Husband dedicated the grave, and the family members were encouraged to express their feelings. Two hours later they returned to the meetinghouse for the luncheon provided by the Casa Grande Stake. I prefer not to go to the internment. Whether I view the body before the services or not, it just doesn't matter. I viewed my little sister, Dad, Grandmother, Mom, oldest Sister and many, many friends - I remember them from life and from the viewing. Going to the internment is like torture to me. I leave after the graveside has been dedicated and sit in the car. I return often afterwards, to sit in the peace and serenity. When I can afford it, and if the cemetery will allow it, I would like to have a cement bench put up at my little sisters grave - so there is a comfortable place to sit and not have to bring a folding lawn chair. Funerals, memorials, viewings are all for the living. I want my funeral/memorial to be a happy affair. For my family and friends to gather, renew friendships, and rejoice that I have gone through the door to my next phase of my life.

If you take a real good look around you will find that there is probably another quiet person- or two or more. Are you shy around your own family? If not, then think of your Ward members as your family. Don't be shy with them. Speak up. State your thoughts, beliefs and ASK your questions. I am the one who questions the teacher. I want references, and if the teacher strays too far off the lesson path - I bring it back to topic. I wear hearing aids, and our GD class is held in the Chapel. The teacher wears a wireless mic. - but the members, well unless they really speak loud, I can't hear them. We do have a microphone on a looooong line/cord, and I am pushing to get that put into use. I want to hear what is being said. At least in RS the room is smaller, and I sit pretty much in the middle with the other sisters who wear hearing aids. The sisters are used to us saying: Speak up, I really want to hear what you said. So, speak up.

It is my understanding that a Limited Recommend is only for a set time. You need to see when your recommend expires and then decide how many baptisms you can do. Family Sheets are your parents, you and your siblings. To do your parents & deceased siblings, that is all you need to have. Remember you can only do same gender - when I went in to be sealed to my parents after I got my own endowment, I only needed the family group sheet. LDS Family Group Record - Fillable Family Group Records Mom had joined the church when she was in her late 50's, and after Dad had passed. She did all the work for him, and went to the temple to do the ordinances for him and to be sealed to him. I went after she had passed, to be sealed to her. The link above is the sheet I needed - Husband is your father, Wife is your mother. Put in order your siblings. If they are still alive, then put Alive and not a name/date/etc. Be sure to put your name in the proper spot. I was the 4th of 7 children. I only entered the name and data of my siblings that had passed on. Just last April, the RS Sisters took the youth to the Temple to assist us in doing the baptisms and confirmations of the family names we had spent a year gathering. The Priesthood went, as the temple needed them to do the baptizing and witnessing. We did 170 names! There were only 6 youth who were worthy to go, and one adult female newly baptized member. There were 5 sisters who helped, and 5 PH who did baptisms too. I couldn't do any of the baptisms, because I left my ear plugs at home. They don't sell them at the rental counter at the temple! Nor did they sell them at the Deseret Book Store! The family my husband Home Teaches, their teen son did the men's names for my husband. His mother did the women's names for husband and myself.

As a child I took apart anything that I could to see how it worked. The first thing I took apart was the phone. Heavy, black, rotary phone. I cried when all that was in it was wires and a bell and clapper. No tiny little people. The next thing was my Mom's am radio. Again, full of wires and no tiny little people. The next thing was the wall outlet. I had overheard my Dad and Uncle talking about the *juice* not getting through because the lamp worked just fine at the other outlet. I took the cover off, and attempted to unscrew the outlet - they had put in a new outlet - when the electrical shock knocked me clear across the room and slammed me into the opposite wall. I started out at 7 years old with the phone, and at 10 with the outlet. From then on, I asked Dad to show me rather than take it upon myself to take apart things. When I was 38 I went to work at the local hardware store. There I learned how to do plumbing and electrical from the DIY'ers and the professionals who came in to purchase parts. I read the instructions on how to replace the plugs, switches, etc. on lamps, and appliances. I am extremely visual - so when a DIY'er is telling me their problem with the kitchen/bathroom sink drain - I can see it and generally can see what is wrong. My Ex refused to hire a pro to do much of anything, yet he never got around to doing the repair job. I got tired of having to turn the water on and then off to keep from flooding the floors. I knew toilets didn't weigh all that much - you just needed to be careful and not drop them. I knew where the main water shut off was, so I replaced my toilet. I was appalled at the mess in the drain - good grief, no wonder the toilet kept backing up. There was a crack in the side of the tank - thus it needed to be replaced. And since they were light blue (my bathroom was pale green walls with ivory tub and sink) I replaced the entire thing. Once I got it done, I used Enforcer brand drain cleaner. It is good bacteria and enzymes that clean out your drain lines. I replaced the kitchen sink and drain lines - then used Enforcer drain cleaner. I also turned the electricity off to the house and replaced every single outlet. I was so tired of the duct tape Exhubby used to keep the plugs to stay in the outlets. Had to take several days - 'cause I could only do this during day lit hours. It was easier to just shut the power (juice) off than it was to try to figure which breaker powered which wall of outlets. Now I am 61, and I am overweight, stoved up and can only lift the lid off the tank of the toilet and not the entire toilet. Back 6 years ago, I helped new Hubby replace the toilet. It nearly did us both in. We decided then that the next toilet would be purchased by us, but installed by someone much younger and knowledgeable in it. We did the vanity, bathroom sink and faucet. I can still do faucets - IF someone other than my husband uses a hoist system to get me off the floor. For a year we have been putting up with a shower diverter that only diverts 1/4 of the water to the shower head, and a hot water tap that constantly leaks. We were sure that the entire shower system would have to be replaced meaning that wall would have to be cut into from the laundry room. We were prepared for that - The plumber checked it out and replaced the diverter stem, put new washers in the hot and cold taps, replaced the bathroom faucets with the ones I had purchased (high arched spout and paddle handles) in both bathrooms. Took him 3.5 hours-which included the drive to and from here - and only cost us $293.95. He even gave us credit for the brass he will be recycling from our old faucets - not a whole lot, just $5.00. But that is better than not getting anything back at all. He was great - cleaned up after himself and used his own old towels and rags. I installed the new personal shower. When Hubby took his shower, he said there just wasn't an improvement in the water flow. Yep, there wasn't. He wanted me to call the water department. A month earlier they had to fix the water line at the beginning of our street. The pipe had burst. He felt that their repair caused a reduced flow. Well, I knew it wasn't the outside line, because the pressure in the kitchen and the bathroom sink taps were fine. The pressure at the shower faucet was fine. So I took the personal shower off the hose and inside the head was a flow restrictor. Took me 15 minutes of prying, but I got it out. We have water flow now! So much so that the personal shower will whip around in the tub like it is alive!! The next time I go into town to shop, I'll take the shower head and get a flat washer that will fit in it to act like a flow restrictor, just not one that only lets a teeny little flow of water through. So, Backroads - if it is something I can do without causing damage to the house or myself - I do it. I am not so vain that I refuse to admit that it is beyond my doing. Husband is more of a geek- he does all of the computer repair, and the small electrical appliance repairs. He is quick to call in professional help when it is more than he can do. It bothers me that I can no longer get on a ladder and clean out the gutters, or even mow my own lawn area. I do it, but it takes me three times as long and I take three times as long to recover from the aches of sore muscles, and I have an electric mower! I can't even weed the area in front of my raised up 3 feet off the ground pot stand - have to hire a teenager to do that work. I can't even wash my own windows on the outside. Can't lift my arms up high enough, let alone long enough to get the job done. Again, this is a job for the Home Teacher and his two teen sons to do for us. That and replace the light bulbs in all of our ceiling fixtures.

Housekeeper/Cook. I think three times a week is good.

When I was living in AZ, Bunco was THE THING that the wealthier people played. The buy in was $50.00. The hostess was buying close to $200.00 worth of prizes. It got to where the RS Night meeting had only 10% attendance because of the sisters going to the Bunco parties. Our Stake didn't have individual ward RS night meeting - all the wards met together. I really liked the night meetings - I was from the poorer ward and I really enjoyed the small group. WE got to really know each other. The Stake President stood at the pulpit at stake conference and said No More Bunco. I didn't attend so I really don't know all of what he said - but when my VT told me, we both said: Rats, there goes the quiet, RS Night meetings! My boss was really into Bunco. She played every week. The RS Sisters used the excuse that it wasn't a card game, thus it was okay to play. Gambling is gambling. Putting out $50.00 a week for *entertainment* with a chance of winning the pot is still gambling. Take that $50.00 a week and put it into the tithing envelope- it is better going to the Ward missionary fund or humanitarian fund.

A brisk sit!

1. What religion do you subscribe to? (Since not all of us are LDS.) LDS 2. Were you born into, or converted to your religion? None - Father was Lutheran, Mother was Protestant, we could go to any church we wanted, just as long as we asked Saturday afternoon so Dad could be awake to take us. I was baptized at the age of 14 3. Are you a devout, casual, or inactive member of your religion? Devout and active 4. What is one core principle in your religion that you feel strongly about? That Christ lives and that this is His true Church 5. What is one misconception that outsiders have about your religion? That we are not Christian, that our leaders practice polygamy,that we have sex orgies in our temples 6. Name one religion that fascinates you. Wigan

Spices lose their potency - You can use them, just need to use a LOT more of them. Poppy seeds rot. So if they are in a clear jar- you can see if there is growth on them. If they are in a tin, pour them out into a clear dish or a saucer. Or use a strong flashlight and look into the tin. Flax seed is an oily seed and will go rancid in about 6 months - so only buy enough to use up within 6 months. You can get sick from eating the rancid seed- same as eating poppy seeds that have rotted. My Mom had bought several hundred dollars worth of spices in large plastic containers. 10 years later - my sisters are tossing them. They were all opened, but hardly used and you could no longer smell them. I buy whole black pepper corn by the pound - like 10 pounds - vacuum seal it in 1/2 cup portions. That is what fits in my pepper grinder. Actually I buy all of my spices in bulk - as much as I can afford at the time - Generally 1 pound. Then I vacuum seal it up. I use the roll so I can make a long bag - get more resealing out of it that way. When I bought this house, the previous owners owned the Asian Restaurant in town. They left behind a huge tin of whole cinnamon sticks. It was about half full. They were so old there wasn't much aroma left to them. Same with the huge tin of ground black pepper. If you are constantly tossing spices, food and meds out - you need to rethink how you purchase them. Go to smaller amounts. I get my meds via a mail order house. After I moved from AZ to Oregon - the company out of AZ mailed my insulin pens with only one frozen block. They wrongly figured since Oregon was not a hot in temperature place that one block would keep my insulin cold. Well it didn't, by the time I got my insulin it was warm. I took all of it in to my Dr and he checked it out. Too warm to now put in the fridge or to use - so together we called my insurance carrier and the pharmacy. They had the pharmacy send me new insulin with the normal 4 frozen gel blocks. That is over $1,500.00 worth of insulin they had to eat because someone in shipping was trying to save a few bucks by using one frozen gel block instead of 4. The warm stuff - they insisted I send it back to them. My Dr insisted that he destroy it instead and contacted my insurance carrier and insurance advocate - they insisted that the insulin be destroyed also. According to my Dr. the insulin would just loose it's potency, healing factor. It wouldn't cause anything other than not getting what you need from it. BUT for someone who uses it and it doesn't perform, THAT could be life threatening. Anatess - I have never liked the mac & cheese with the powdery cheese that needs to be reconstituted. I really like Velveeta Shells and Cheese. BUT the cheese in the foil packs turn to plastic after about a year. I tossed 6 boxes. Not the shells, but the envelopes of cheese that I opened to see if it was plastic and it was. I now buy the pasta shells when they are on sale and the processed cheese in a jar. Got Barilla mini shells- one box (1 pound) for $1.00. The cheese from WalMart was $1.98 a jar. 1/2 jar of cheese to 2/3 of a box makes Mac & Cheese for Hubby and I. That comes to $1.66 total. A box of Velveeta Shells and Cheese on sale costs $2.99 around here. I just saved $1.33. The rest of the cheese in the jar - that will last several weeks in the fridge, I use it on vegetables or on toasted muffins, toast, sandwiches. Even if it gets tossed, it is still cheaper than the box mix. We like canned spinach or canned green beans with Mac & Cheese. So I use the liquid drained off of the canned vegetables add water to make 4 cups to boil the pasta in. Once I had canned sliced beets for the vegetable - that colored the pasta, but when you added the cheese it didn't look so appetizing. Never did it again. When I have freezer room, I save the liquid from canned vegetables, freeze it, then transfer into vacuum seal bags and vacuum seal them. Now I have the makings of stock. Any flavor stock. The beet juice I save and add to stews or tomato based soups. When I had a dog, she got the pasta water - cooled- to drink. My cats can't handle the water. They like it, but it gives them really loose stool. Same with the water from tuna. Way too rich. I purchase and cook as though I am in an emergency situation mostly. Living with well water, and electricity that will go out with each good wind storm, you learn to use the portable cooking and not to waste water. For 8 years I had to haul water from Sept to March. What I hauled I used for food only! To flush I used the really soapy, dirty wash water. To wash with, I got from the creek at the edge of my property. Using a sieve to keep the pine needles, alder tree leaves, tad poles, & bugs out of the water I would heat it on my stove. No electricity - then it got heated on the Coleman stove. I could wash my to the middle of my back long hair in 2 quarts of water, then use that water to flush with. I bathed (full body wash) in 2 cups of water. In the beginning I was hauling 15 gallons (124.5 pounds) of water a DAY. After three days, I reduced that to 5 gallons (41.5 pounds) a day- I hauled it, not hubby #1, but Me - Myself. Water weighs a LOT. By using the water left over from cooking pasta - and the dishwater to flush with, I saved a LOT of drinking/cooking water. By doing that for 6 months, it just carried over to the other 6 months. What changed during the summer was I did laundry at home, rather than go to the laundromat in town. In the winter, when the electricity was out, we would go to a motel once a week so we could have a hot shower/bath! We ate in a restaurant then too. Dinner and then breakfast the next morning after we checked out.

The Lost and Found at my Branch used to be the library. Until I was called as Librarian and I tossed everything when I cleaned it up. Made a list of ALL the non-library items - posted it on the bulletin board, in the program, RS Newsletter and the Branch President's email notification list for a month. Then everything got sent to DI, local thrift store or into the trash. New Policy is: Your Branch Meetinghouse Library is NOT the Lost & Found, the teeny, tiny coat rack with shelf IS.

I use it as a guide. In cleaning out my cupboards just last year, had 12 cans of pink salmon. At $3.49 a can, no way did I want to toss if it wasn't necessary. Well no where on the can did it actually state: Use By or Sell By with a recognizable date code. Went online to the manufacturer and put in the code that was on the can. Turns out that it is the Canned/Processed date. Now, according to their web site, and the web site for all of the other manufacturers of seafood - their food is at it best flavor up to 5 years after the canned/processed date. At the 11 year mark, as long as the can is not bulging, rusted or makes a *pssst* sound when you cut into the lid with the can opener - it is edible and may only have lost no more than 50% of its flavor. In my experience mayo is dicy. Sometimes when you open it, and it is separated from the jar at the top that is a good sign it is bad. Smell it, and take a tiny taste. I had three new jars that I opened on 2 Feb 2014, with dates of Nov 2013 that were bad. One I opened near the last week of Dec 2013 that was good when I opened it. Used half of it, and it turned. The last Nov 2013 jar of mayo was good. There are two more in my cupboard with Sept 2014 dates. I have cheese sauces: Alfredo, 4 Cheese, Garlic Cheese - Bertolli, Ragu, Newman's Own, and can't remember the other brand. I put them in the cupboard with the newest date at the back, and if there is no loud *pssst* when I open the jar, and the button isn't popped, and the product has not separated it is good. The oldest date is 2010. I will start buying more when I am down to 3 jars. Right now I have 12. Canned foods best/use by are the manufacturers way of saying that the foods will still be at their optimal best. They discovered that when they put Best By and/or Use By - the consumer would toss the product AFTER that date whether it was spoiled or not. When they used the Sell By for the stores to use to judge when to pull products the consumer used the product years after that date. Conclusion ~ they sold way more product with the Best/Use verbiage. Also, most people have their refrigerators and freezers set too high. My small upright freezer is set to keep ice cream frozen hard. My refrigerator is set at 40 degrees. I have a refrigerator thermostat that hangs from the shelf. Since I regulated the temp - left over foods last longer than two days. Also, leftovers of stew, spaghetti, soups and creamy pastas go into single serving containers, get frozen then popped out into vacuum seal bags and put back into the freezer. Husband and I can only handle leftovers of those foods for one time, and I seriously can't make less than 24 servings of them!!! I also don't buy milk unless it is organic. Cannot think of the brand, but Fred Meyer sells it, and it comes in a green and white box. I dig to the back of the shelf and get the newest product. Bought two half gallon boxes back in the middle of January with a Use By date of March 29, 2014. One I opened and used from already - last night I poured a wee bit into a 4 oz. glass and it is still good. Trop 50 OJ with OUT calcium will last nearly two months in the fridge without opening and one month after opening. With milk I NEVER smell it from the container. Pour some into a clear glass, under good light. Look for discolored swirls, flecks of solid particles, lumps and then smell. If all looks good and smells good, do the taste test. Put just enough on your tongue so you can get a taste. One thing about pasteurized milk. When it goes bad it is rotted, not turned to sour milk - sour cream - cottage cheese. It is BAD. Also your body will not allow it to be in your system for very long. You swallow 4 oz. of gone bad milk and your body IMMEDIATELY regurgitates it out. This information is from the Darigold company. When Mom made her own jelly, she sealed it with melted wax - paraffin, then put a bell jar seal with ring on it. We would open new jars of jam/jelly or apple sauce with fuzzy mold on the top. Using a very clean, dipped in boiling water soup spoon, we would remove the fuzz and about 1/16th of an inch of jam/jelly/ apple sauce. Dipping the spoon into the boiling water after each scoop and before removing the next bit from the jar. Then wiping the exposed jar interior & rim with a clean cloth that was wet with bleach water. The lid (canning seal and ring) got washed with HOT soapy water and rinsed in bleach water, then it HOT HOT tap water. Jam/Jelly were kept in the fridge if it was not a favorite flavor (grape, pear, etc.) The other flavors went into the cupboard and were used up rather quickly. The last time bar-b-que sauce was on sale for $0.59 a bottle I bought 3 cases. Their Use By dates are long gone - this was nearly 5 years ago - but they are still good.

Back before internet social media, a sister in our branch used the church directory to send her new business info to all of us. If we had an email addy, then we also got loaded down with advertisements from her new business. Getting her junk mail via the US Postal service AND through my email addy made me a very UNhappy camper. But when she sold the address's to other advertisers, then that was the breaking point. Not only did I complain to my Branch President, I sent the same complaint to the Stake President. I had to change my email addy to put a stop to the spam. Her mother was VT Coordinator and she kept asking me for my new email addy. I told her she could have it when cows sprouted wings and started flying. Semi-active sisters use the church directory when their daughters get pregnant and need baby items, or get married and need household items. If I don't know them, I don't accept the invitation. I don't think that the church building should be used to host the showers either, and I won't contribute to a money fund or a sign up sheet being passed around on Sunday at RS. The last time this was done - money donation- I asked the RS Presidency what were they doing? Did the Branch President give the okay for them to do this? Nope, they never asked the Branch President, and they had to return the money. We have a sister in the RS Presidency who sells Avon, and another who is a Tupperware rep. They both were told that they cannot leave catalogs, order books on church property. They have to settle for the magnetic signs stuck to their vehicles.

Why didn't you take it to Church? Roll it out in RS and have the Mother claim it? I inadvertently leave items when I vacation at my siblings homes. Combs, brushes, sweaters, etc. When I get home and unpack, I know what was left. Generally I call and tell them to go ahead and wear it, or use it. The last vacation I left my Metamucil, deodorant, a cotton blouse and a comb. No way did I want them all mailed back to me. One of my sisters is the same size as me - so I told her to keep and use everything. Now, if it had been my laptop and/or cell phone - I would have driven back to get those items. Siblings live 325 miles from me. When I was still married to hubby #1, his friend left a claw foot bathtub at our home until he got settled and could come get it. 5 years later - we never heard from this guy and I am in the process of divorcing #1. I sold the bathtub for $1,000 and kept the money. It was a 4 foot long *mini* claw foot tub, in primo condition. If I had had the faucet then I could have gotten over $2K for it. No, I did not split the money with the ex. Neither one of us knew where his friend was, and I needed the money.

I am one of those sisters that can't hear too. I wear hearing aids in both ears - and the SS and RS have wireless mic's. BUT if the PA system isn't turned on, and fresh batteries in the wireless mic - then NO one can hear. In the past, I would just get up and leave. Now I stand up and tell them I CANNOT HEAR YOU Once I stood up, the SS instructor/teacher was upset with me and tried to brush me off. Then every one in the class stood up and admitted they could not hear either!!! The RS class is in a smaller room, but we are separated by that awful rubber curtain from the Primary. If the teacher doesn't wear the mic, AND have it on, AND leave it be while it is clipped to her blouse - no one can hear her. Rather than get up and leave, we will turn to our neighbors and have a good chat. Dear Husband checked the PA system to make sure the right switches were turned on, and I put fresh batteries in the devices. In the chapel, I use the COMTEK hearing device with my own earphones - otherwise I would never hear 2/3 of the speakers. In RS, I constantly remind the teachers to leave the mic alone and where it should be pinned on their blouse for optimal use. BECAUSE of my boldness in standing up - that has emboldened other members to make it known when they can't hear either. So, stand up and let them know they are not being heard AND that you WANT to hear what they have prepared!!

When my baby brother was about 5 - we were so broke, that Christmas presents had to be made. I made felt finger puppets to go with the story books my older siblings were giving him. Because I was old enough to use a needle and thread, I sewed them together, but I glued a lot of the face features on. Grandma gave me the thread (her crotchet thread) to sew the felt figures together, Mom gave me the felt scraps (from the felt skirts she made my sisters and myself - I was 13, they were 17 & 18 - this was in 1965). Baby brother loved those puppets. When he was older and the much younger cousins were over, he would entertain them by reading the storybooks and letting them wear the puppets. Flash forward to 1997 when baby brother's second son is 6 years old, and he gives him the finger puppets and story books from that long ago Christmas. Touched my heart, it did.

I really don't care if my Dr. has a warm-fuzzy bedside manner or not. I want him/her to be well informed and up to date on all medical knowledge. Also if said Dr is a DO. (Osteopathic ), then that is all the better. Living in a really small town, that is almost impossible to find. There is one in the next town, but he is not contracted with my insurance carrier. The Dr. I have now is not a DO, but didn't bat an eye or frown or even sniff loudly when I told him that I go to a Chiropractor 20 times a year, that I prefer to go the natural foods, herbs, etc. rather than the Rx drugs, drugs, drugs way. He researches the alternatives with me. The added bonus is he is a member of the church, thus ending the repetitious I do not smoke, drink booze, drink coffee/tea, take recreational drugs, have wanton sex with multiple partners, etc., etc. every time I visit the office. My Dr. prefers NOT to be accredited with a hospital- so when I went in with my acute pancreatitus, the Dr. that attended me was the Hospitalist. My Dr. came to see me, twice, with his wife (who is also his nurse) as a friend and as my PCP. He talked with the Hospitalist regarding my care. The first visit was the first afternoon - just had another syringe of pain med so was loopy and floating. The next visit was day three of my five day stay. I was more alert and he was concerned that my hips and thighs were hurting more than my pancreas. Laying in bed and not moving around hurts my hips. Plus I am used to a king size bed and not the hospital twin (which I swear is smaller than a conventional twin.) Anyway, when it comes down to the nitty gritty, bedside manner is the least important. As for being a good Dr. with children, ask the parents out in the waiting room. I don't want to wait forever in the waiting room - if the Dr. overbooks then I won't book with him. I also want to be tended to by happy, polite, courteous and skilled nursing staff. Fortunately my Dr doesn't overbook. There is seldom more than one person in the waiting room other than myself. I am comfortable with telling the receptionist when I do or do not need to talk to the Dr. If my visit is just for a fasting blood work-up, there is no need to see Doctor. I go first thing in the am, give the two vials of blood and am on my way home in 25 minutes. Three days later the office will call with the results. Occasionally the call is to come in the next morning to talk with Doctor. This last blood work up, his nurse/wife called and asked me if I was sitting down. Of course I am sitting down, the phone is on my home desk. She said - Well stand up and do the Happy Dance. Your numbers are HALF of what they were 3 months ago. I said: All of my numbers? She said: Yes, A1C's. Triglycerides and the bad cholesterols. Oh, wait the good cholesterol is better. I could hear the receptionist in the back ground saying: I'm Happy Dancing for you - Iggy. Got to love small towns!!!

Deporting him is not to keep him from recording his songs - it is to get him out of the USA so he can't do harm to any innocents here in the US by his out of control drinking, drug use. Let him continue to record in Canada - who cares? Thank heavens I am too old for his music. I say we get rid of Miley Cyrus too - what a s*&nk she is.

When I sign in, I have it set to go straight to My Page. I look to see if there are any messages, then I go clear to the bottom to see who has been looking at me. Sometimes I understand why someone came to *visit* but didn't comment. Often it is after I have posted on their thread, and they are visiting me to gather some info/data. Well, unless you are my friend, my profile is closed. I got pretty tired of the deluge of new members who had no interest in the forum, but were just making mischief. So, do you look to see who has been looking at you?? Do you go and post comments on your *friends* profiles?? Have you been here long enough to remember when the members were trying to get the most friends, and the most visits?? Pam, am I correct in the Elphaba was the winner of the most visits??? So, who has been looking back to see if you were looking back to see if they were looking back to see~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Looking Back to See Lyrics - Jim Ed Brown. Album: The Essential Jim Ed Brown & the Browns

I am diabetic and cannot fast - so I too fast from non-spiritual media. Two of my friends fast from internet & computers, as they have medical issues that require them to not do a food fast.

In most of the large stores around here- they do have diaper changing stations in the mens rooms. No, did not go in to see - but have heard fathers asking store employees if the stations were cleaned and stocked before they went in. As for Bini's question - when I am in Fred Meyers, Walmart, Safeway and the Thriftway stores in town - it is common to see young boys in the ladies room with their mother's, grandmothers/aunts. Last wednesday evening husband and I went to the movies. There was a young mother in the ladies room with her two children. One was a girl about 3 the other a boy about 7. She wanted to use the handicapped station and hesitated because she said she wasn't handicapped. I told her that of course she was - she only had two hands and with two children she needed at least four- use the handicapped stall for heaven's sake. She needed the extra room, AND the child safety seat to strap in the 2 year old. It wasn't like there was a woman there in a wheelchair needed that particular stall.

DE-RAIL Turn the heat up to 70 and you won't be so cold. Honestly Beefche, it costs just as much for your furnace to maintain at 63 degrees when your temps outside are 50 or lower as it does to maintain at 70! Are your windows leaking heat? Is there a draft coming through your outlets and switches? Are your exterior walls cold? If yes, then get the insulating window film, insulated outlet/switch liners and come summer get your walls re-insulated. I have a manufactured double wide home. It is a 1993- and the furnace was running all the time and it seldom felt like warm air. The electric company had my home checked for heat loss. Low and behold my furnace ducts had two big leaks. They were fixed. This was nearly two years ago now. My winter bill has dropped by 45%. I also got rid of the old, plastic venetian blinds and the thin cutesy fabric curtains and put up black out liners. They cut the extra heat from the summer and the cold of the coastal windy winter rain and winds. We can't afford to have the windows all replaced - the thermopane has failed, so I just got the heavy liners instead. Since our winter was the warmest and driest it has ever been, didn't need to do the window films. BACK TO: What are you (prone to) wearing During the day when the curtains are opened and I will just be inside, an oversize shirt (was hubbies once upon a time) and Just My Size elastic waist pants. If I am going outside then I put on foundation support, blouse and the JMS pants. If it is raining & blowing then it is elastic waist jeans. At night when the curtains are closed and we know no one is going to drop by, then it is just my garmmies and the oversize shirt or a OneSizeFitsSome night shirt from Woman from Within (fits large ladies up to size 4X) For Sunday it is a loose fitting mostly cotton dress or skirt and top. At age 61, being 75 pounds overweight (lost 50 pounds already), and now have peripheral neuropathy - comfort is the key. I still make sure my colors don't clash, and my garments don't show.

Hobbies: Embroider- am attempting to use the metallic threads/floss on black fabric - the thread/floss is really crappy er fragile. So I have set that aside and am using bright colors in satin on the black fabric. Color (when I can find more adult like pictures to color & no I don't mean XXX adult like. I mean more adult than the sappy children's coloring books) I use colored pencils, markers, pastelettes and sometimes water colors. I also have a few rubber stamps - stamp using a soft pewter grey, then color it in. Reading - the only thing/subject I do not read is about the occult, possessing of children or ANYTHING written by Stephen King - he is just too graphic and morbid mostly. Crossword puzzles - Used to do the Big X Crossword in the Globe. But now that it is $2.50 an issue compared to the $1.25 that it used to be - I don't do it anymore.

A member on another forum identified it - it is Jonathan and David - https://www.google.com/search?q=bible+pictures+of+david+and+jonathan&sa=X&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS444US445&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=NZzdUr_VIs7qoASOnIG4BQ&ved=0CCgQsAQ&biw=1144&bih=715#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=2JjLY-z82PYm8M%253A%3B8_ocs7kmyQSeaM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fubdavid.org%252Forganization%252Fgraphics%252Fdavid-jonathan-logo.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fubdavid.org%252Forganization%252Fabout-us.html%3B180%3B230