Nearly Normal

Just what is normal?

That's what Dr. Sanity and I explored this week.  After cancer, perforated bowel,  Larry's gator trick and Mason's death  I feel that I'm finally getting myself back, you know, nearly normal.  Whatever that means.

Dr. Sanity suggested that normal is an ever changing thing.  I decided that normal means whatever you decide it means and can only belong to you.   No one else can decide what your normal is, they just need to worry about getting their own normal.  

 

Excellent advice by way of facebook

While reading my facebook page this morning I came across this article .  Very sound advice but number 7 did make me pause.  Oh well too late to accomplish number 7.

Thank you Julie

This email left me speechless and that's almost impossible

While my love sleeps on the couch, I sit at the computer getting outraged at the news.  Today I received this email from ThinkProgress

“Where are the women?” With those four words, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) made the most poignant statement of the week about the House GOP’s attitude towards women. The simple answer to Maloney’s question is that women are being callously left out and left behind by the right wing.

According to a recent Democracy Corps survey, there’s been a net 18-point swing away from Mitt Romney in favor President Obama among unmarried women in the past few months. Why? Because women have been watching and listening to conservatives. Here’s a sampling of what we heard just this past week:

GOP Chairman Darrell Issa defending the exclusion of a woman from his all-male panel on contraception: She’s not “appropriate and qualified.” [Read more]
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld explaining why “liberals” support contraception coverage: “It’s more about getting rid of the poor.” [Read more]

Right-wing billionaire Foster Friess delivering his contraception advice on MSNBC: “You know, back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.” [Read more]

Virginia Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert rationalizing a state-sponsored bill mandating vaginal probes: A woman already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.” [Read more]

Fox News’ Liz Trotta justifies why some women are assaulted in the military: “Now what did they expect?” [Read more]

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on women in combat: “Women are not wired, either by evolution or by God…to be in those positions.” [Read more]

Rick Santorum explaining his concerns about women in combat: “People naturally may do things that may not be in the interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.” [Read more]

At least they’re being honest about what they feel.

 

--Faiz
   Editor-in-Chief, ThinkProgress.org

Words to live by

Laughing is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

It's political time - yea

But I'm not sure who scares me most:

This nut or

This nut

I must admit I'm disapointed with Obama but one must make allowences for him having to clean up after Shrub and deal with an uncooperate House.  But the idea of ANY of the Republicans currently running getting in the White House send shivers down my spine!    

What they say

The astrology people about Aquarius of which I'm one.

Traditional
Aquarian Traits

Friendly and humanitarian
Honest and loyal
Original and inventive
Independent and intellectual

On the dark side....

Intractable and contrary
Perverse and unpredictable
Unemotional and detached

Except for unemotional and detached I can SO see myself in those words.

 

I love and appreciate myself - quote from my 2012 calendar

Um, not so much. 

I'm fat, I'm lazy, I'm not a consistently good friend to my oldest and dearest friends.  Ther is always a book to be read or a garment to be knitted that comes before doing what I really need to do.  But I'm working on it.  Dr. Sanity as commented that I'm very hard on myself and I acknowledge that I set standards for myself that I don't expect others to meet.  I think that I was so sick as a kid that I wanted to be perfect in every other way so I wouldn't take even more attention from my sisters that I already did.

So here we go launching 2012 looking toward fulfilling as those New Year's goals.  70 pounds to go, 3 days of exercise a week to institute, more time on Dr. Sanity's couch so I can grow to love my self.  Also need to keep working on the not humble, tolerent or patient thing which is getting much better but still has room to go. 

Happy 2012!!!

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Words for the end of the year.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. Begone 2011, welcome 2012

 

New Year's resolutions

Yes I still have them even at 58.  Here they are in all their glory:

Stay in better contact with friends.

Lose weight

Exercise more

Only drink good wine - not necessarily read expensive yea Trader Joe's and Costco

Only read good books - there are too many good books out there to waste time on bad ones.

Use spell check ALL the time

Figure out why I'm getting a space between lines in this post

Don't knit with cheap yarn -  If I'm going to put the effort into knitting something I want it to look like I put some effort into it.

Go on vacation - maybe New Orleans, hopefully Hawaii

 

On a separate note please keep my friend Shaun in your thoughts and prayers he's in the hospital with a bowel obstruction.