The snow lasted about five minutes. but it was really pretty driving to work. None stuck on the roads, just on the grass and most roofs.
It is strange that even stopping meds for only one day would make as much difference as I feel. Perhaps it was intermittent anyway...? I need to keep better records.

Bite your tongue, woman! I will not be sewing, I will contribute by worrying, thank you.

Well, today we had an interesting break from the twice-weekly snowstorm. Must be a harbinger of spring: we had some snow then we had hours and hours of sleet. Tiny little ball-bearings of ice, building up on top of the solid ice. DH went out to get in the truck and fell flat on his back.

I have learned what frankincense is used for and how it is produced.

And I have made spaghetti sauce with moose sausage.

Scenes from Oman -- isn't that a sprightly donkey, cheerful in spite of his load?

Kiwi

Wait a minute, I think I missed something, Painty. You stopped your meds for one day and then had the episode that sent you to the ER or you stopped them since then and feel better? worse? Sorry, I read your page and promptly forgot what you said. A brain is a terrible thing, as GWB would say.

my goodness!!! sorry to hear of all the parental illnesses and passings---i know my mom is sad that alot of her best friends have gone on-- I was reading painty's blog the other day and thank heavens there was good news at the end of that story!!!!----what a scare!!!!======i can't believe that the possible next president is mom's age!!!! THERE SHOULD BE SOME KIND OF AGE LIMIT???? ---i saw hillary on john stewart and kind of liked her--now i am all mixed up---i guess i will like either one-----either way,it will be cool to have a woman or an african american in the Whitehouse---please tell me that Grampie is not going to win!!!----kiwonkers----SNOW,RAIN,SLEET,HAIL,SLUSH----that is today's forecast-----isn't it a delight--every time i went outside,the car was once again covered in ice---i had to chip away at my window over and over again----people up here may go insane---it could happen. my sister is in Barbadoes with friends who have a three month time share {the sister who is a music teacher} she is on her winter break---SHE SENT ME AN EMAIL TODAY AND SAID SHE SWAM IN THE CARIBBEAN THIS AFTERNOON AND SHE SAID 'THE OCEAN REALLY IS TURQUOISE"-----IT WAS 32c IN THE SHADE-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JEALOUS I AM

Kiwi--- I Would Be Having A Bird If My Baby Was Going To Oman---i Will Join You In Worrying----i Have Lots Of Experience-----worrying Is My Forte---if There Was A Job For Those Who Are Good At Worrying,i Would Be Considered An Expert In My Field And Command The Highest Of Wages-----i Am Also A Catastrophic Thinker,if You Need Any Other Talents ----

How long will that baby be in Oman? She will be fine. On NPR I heard this teacher from her school talking about the middle east. He had a nice accent. If it weren't safe, he'd tell her. I think the donkey is a professional model as it walks so well with one foot in front of the other.

Here's what I like about Hilary:
1 She stayed married despite good reasons not to do so.
2 She raised her kid well.
3 She has already tried to push national health care but was pushed back.
4 According to NPR, after she appeared on Saturday Night Live last weekend and a comedy skit accused the press of being pro-Obama, the press has argued this in print, somewhat agreed and are correcting themselves.
5 No matter how bad her dh was, we weren't at war and the economy was better. I don't think he is accused of being a bad president for the country.

On the other hand, Obama would be ok.

Bagz, I didn't know you were such a good worrier. Very impressive. I'm pretty sure there's no market for it but you are role model for me.

Greetings from the Snowy part of Texas (for at least another hour or so!!
Kiwi-- It turns out everybody in my immediately family voted for Obama. I think the kids were surprised that we old fogies voted that way. And, we all think it would be OK if Clinton wins, as well. We are not happy with the Bush party... even if McCain is trying to distance himself.
Newest medical report:
Went to PCP to see why leg was hurting (even though thrombosis has been ruled out). Found out it could be: arthritis, disc/back problem, Tamoxifen side effect, Lipitor side effect. She sent me for x-rays to rule out (or in) arthritis. She gave me AWESOME NEW DRUGS! I should have a report on the X-rays by tomorrow. And if things don't get better w/o the Tamoxifen, I'll probably have to re-start that, but eliminate the Lipitor. THEN, if it's all still the same, they can do the $$$MRI to see if there is a herniated disk.

Anyway, the drugs, cold weather and pain relief are really helping!!

Wow, what's with all the snow? Other places in Germany got some too but we only got wind. Meh.

My goodness, Painty! I'm sure glad you're OK after that scare.

Kiwi - Lovely donkey. I bet dd will have a blast in Oman despite the restrictive wardrobe.

Peacheroo - Contrary to popular belief, I have nothin' against Hillary, I just like Obama a bit better, but I think either one of them would be just fine a WAY better than That Incompetent Dubya Boob (do you think Laura B reads 3fc?)

Bagzieee - Yes, it's getting to that time where everyone around my parents is going and they're still hanging on but I know one day I'll get that dreaded phone call and it totally freaks me out.

Wabs - my dryer works just fine but I STILL have not clean clothes and can't go out of the house 'cause I'm just too darn lazy to do the laundry.

Oh yeah, I went to the eye doctor yesterday for the first time in eons and he said my glasses prescription hadn't changed even though I'm having trouble reading the fine print. So I'm shortsighted and nearsighted at the same time but he said he wouldn't recommend progressive lenses just yet. He also did a glaucoma test and that was fine but then he used some new Optomap laster thing to take a picture of my retinas (my optic nerve is very purdy!) and said I have a thin spot on my left retina that could be the start of a detachment and I may need to get it lasered but apparently it's not that urgent 'cause I don't need to go back until after Easter. Whee.

Wow, Sugar, I told you we were separated at birth. Except you were born a few years later... I had that same eye doctor visit a few years ago. Had to have some big fancy dancy appointment with another specialist to have my retina checked. Nothing came of it. Lots of todo over zip.

I'm still trying to adjust to the whole nearsighted and can't read thing and it's been years. One of my friends swears by tri-focals, which totally sounds like 90 years old, but you have to see, right?

I don't have a problem with Hillary either; I think she'd make a good president -- she really knows what she's talking about, and she could be a strong leader. The problem I see is that there is a large portion of the population that absolutely hate her, which to me says Hello, President Grampy. (I love that, Bagz) I also think that with her running the country if she did get elected, Bill will be getting in all sorts of trouble, which will lead to more distracting sex scandals instead of progress when we really need it. That was the only thing wrong with his presidency, without the horniness, he'd have been one of the best presidents ever.

It's hard to believe, but I think this country is more ready for a black president than a woman. I think Obama has a somewhat better chance to be elected, and he doesn't have all that divisive baggage to bring along.

I am getting nowhere on my sign project. Get me off of here, you crazy people

I wear those trifocals, I think. The doctor told me the secret is to point your nose at whatever you want to see. I also learned that there are different priced lens you can buy and the same prescription in the cheap lens will not work as well as the expensive one. She recommended one in the middle.

As far my personal experience, the people who hate Hilary are the same people who hated Bill. But I don't know why. I'm not asking them. These two guys wrote a book called Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington. They were interviewed recently, told jokes about logic and spent way way waay too much time (in my opinion) laughing and asking what Hilary could have been thinking when she said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary when that could so easily be googled and disproved. They seemed obsessed about it to me. I googled it and read that her mom told her that story because she thought it would make the child proud. It annoys me a lot that people seem to criticize her for things like that. Big issues yes.

As a child, I often told DS that I got him in a department store. I saw this baby on the shelf and reached for him just as another woman also was. I beat her up and she had to take a little girl. He always found it funny so I kept telling it.

I don't like signs. Don't make signs. People who make signs are anal. I know one.

At least nothing here is frozen... except my motivation.
I hope that tomorrow can be full of lots of painting and perhaps some filing/straightening up. Or good writing. Or knitting.
WITHOUT gorging all the time.

Oh great, volunteering is making me anal, just what I needed.

We're getting another snowstorm tomorrow night. Because we didn't have enough snow. Did I tell you I climbed down a ravine on my snowshoes today to retrieve a tennis ball? Sounds a little cuckoo, doesn't it? Especially when you learn that the snow was up to my hips, covered with a layer of thick ice. Even the dog wouldn't go very far and tried to hitchhike on the back of my snowshoes. I got the tennis ball, though... Fell down half a dozen times and had to drag myself upright with nothing but knee cartilage to lean on. Ouch. Nothing to hold onto (not even the ground -- it's 3 feet down) What a weird way to live.

It sounds like Jet has a marvelous life. Romping in the snow. Going as far as she wants and then finding transportation. Yesterday on the news they showed that it snowed in Kansas City (I think that's where) and the penguins in the zoo were all happy and running around in it. So sweet.

Was the tennis ball ok?

Painty, I think we all deserve time off from motivation. It's ok. Relax and go slow.

Yes, thank goodness the tennis ball survived. However, since you asked, it later rolled under the sailboat and I can't convince Jet to retrieve it from there. The boat is up on stilts, but the snow is so deep all around it and covered with ice that there is only one way to get under there and then she has to go over and around some chains and blocks and stuff. For some reason she declined.

And then today I threw another ball over a snowbank on the other side of the house and it rolled on the ice until it fell off a drop-off down a much deeper ravine than yesterday's. Jet chased it up to the edge, got burrs in her fur and called it a day.

So ends the saga of the tennis balls. For now. You do see the common thread in all these tales, right? The words "I threw". Perhaps I should have taken steroids.

I wonder if any penguins need foster homes? I think they'd love it here. Jet could herd them around the yard. They could even go fishing. I have lots of little scarves they could wear.

Yeah, he says he wants to take a closer look by using those eye drops (which were supposed to be avoided by using the fancy machine!) and see what exactly it is. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's nothing, because it's my good eye.

Hee! Absolutely. If Hillary wins, I can just see ol' Bill the First Ladies' Man roaming the halls of the White House without a care in the world checking out all the new pages and interns. As one of my brothers always says about the other one, "He goes where his takes him."

I always end up having to get the most 'spensive ones to avoid that coke bottle look. I can't imagine what bi or trifocals would cost me. I'll just make someone else read the fine print and thread the needles for now, I guess.

Cute. We told my littlest brother that my mother found him behind a bush in Australia and that kangaroos looked after him before she took him home. I wonder if he still believes it? That would explain a lot of things.

ds11 is making a pinata for his birthday party next week = BIG GIANT MESS. I better go wipe everything down before it fossilizes.