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[May. 19th, 2008|02:17 pm] |
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1. Whats harder to live without, chocolate or alchohol?
i can live without both, but i'd rather live without chocolate
2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
mustard
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
everyone. nah, only the nurse i work with seems to annoy me the most
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
nope. well every now and then i call him 'sassy'
What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
stephen king doesn't make movies, he writes books, which in turn are made into movies. so....i'd have to say that my favorite adaptation of a stephen king story is of course...the shawshank redemption
"love is not a feeling. it's an ability." heard that from 'dan in real life'. googled a bit for the original of this profound statement and have had no luck. so what do you think? can anyone tell me why this is true?? because it is true. it reminds me of 'teachings on love' which is the book i'm reading and totally suggest it for anyone in the throes of 'love'. the author explains that one cannot know true love until one has become adept of the 'four immeasurable minds.' they are: happiness, joy, compassion, and equanimity. read it. it will open and expand your mind beyond anything you have read or thought about love, and hopefully keep you away from the consumer driven flowers and candy on valentine's day.
when i started working where i'm at now i had noticed that the doc had ordered vitamin d bloodwork on most if not all of her patients. it made sense considering she works mainly with supplements as opposed to conventional medicine. too much vit d can be toxic and so checking it regularly is customary. the thing is most of her patients are vit d deficient and i wondered, why? what i came up with as an answer is simply for the past 20 or so years we've been told to keep out of the sun, which is a main NATURAL source of vit d. we've been slathering on that sunscreen, keeping out those vicious uv's and i believed the sacrifice has been this deficiency, which by the way has been seen mostly in women, the prominent gender of sun bathing activities. i never really brought it up, kinda brushed it off and didn't consider asking the doc what she thought. but lo and behold...last week's newsweek had an article on tanning (tan bed tanning) and had mentioned a bit about vit d deficiency. this has happened before where i've been presented with a question, let my mind shadow the answer only to find it in an article in a news magazine. now i'm not claiming that i'm some sort of genius, but it's interesting for me anyway to see that some of the things that i think about are thought about by others and then put into research. the point? well, i have another question that has been nagging me and i want to put it out there. just in case:
the normal core temp of a human is 98.6, right? would it surprise you to know that out of the 20 or so ppl whose temps i take daily for the past 5 months (you do the math) i've seen only about 6 with that temp. better yet, those ppl are in the 98.0 range not even reaching 0.6. EVERYONE ELSE is in the 96.7-97.5 range. and so i wondered, why? an answer i came up with: global warming.
go on laugh, twirl you finger around and say crazy! if it is global warming then it would make sense that our core temperature would RISE not fall.
hmmm....maybe or
perhaps it is an evolutionary adaptation to the climate that is on it's way.
so i ask you...if you were given an indefinite amount of funding and unlimited time to research global warming, how would you use it? would you try to stop it, or learn how to adapt to it? |
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[Dec. 12th, 2007|07:44 am] |
doesn't the us surgeon have more important things to be concerned than a mythical character's rotundness??
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3975850
my colleen says, "it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, it's what's on the inside that counts. people are stupid."
*lightbulb*
i'm wondering if i and a few ppl get together to ban happy meals from mc donald's menu as it could be contributing to childhood obesity, those cheeseburger and fry combo's surely target obesity to children the same way joe camel targeted children to smoking, if it would have a following?
there's no way i would let my kids see the golden compass because a 2 hr fantasy film would surely wipe away the 13 year christian influence of their catholic upbringing./sarcasm |
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[Nov. 15th, 2007|06:21 am] |
i'm going on my 2nd interview today. this time it's to meet the docs of the practice and then i'll walk around with the other MA to get a feel for the place. can i say the job is mine yet...eek! nah, my karma likes to do this to me, but i so want to put in my 2 weeks right now! if i do my last day would be the 29th a thursday, then i probably wouldn't start until the 3rd that monday which means i'll have off on the 30th my birthday! but you know, it's fun to start new things on your birthday! ugh! i'm just a little nervous meeting the docs. but i think i'll do just fine! |
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[Nov. 4th, 2007|07:13 pm] |
a relatively quiet weekend here. stayed in on friday cause of work on saturday. friends went to a comedy show and i was invited but i just can't function in work with only 5 hrs sleep and a slight hangover. how would you feel having your blood drawn from a hungover tired medical assistant? didn't think so.
swim meet on saturday. wow my colleen is a bullet with her backstroke! coach says if she wasn't practically laughing the whole time, she's cut her time. her nickname is smiley o'donnelly cause she grins from ear to ear when swimming.
hung out with steve and his friends george/debbie saturday night. went into university city and hung out at the italian club. stopped at a diner for 'breakfast' and went back to his place. we were up until at least 5 am talking and fooling around, fell asleep. in the afternoon he fixed my car lighter which i use for my ipod adapter. i haven't tried it out yet.
was supposed to go and watch dallas/eagles with maureen. she's a big D fan but she was tired and decided to stay in bed and watch the game. i'm a little relieved, since i was out and up practically all night. we're supposed to hang out tomorrow night for steelers/ravens but we'll see how i feel.
this week looks like normal routine and i'll spend most of it working, mommying, and applying for jobs.
hope everyone's weekend was nice and your week is better:) |
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[Oct. 5th, 2007|06:23 am] |
loving baseball as a sport is great. loving baseball as a woman, well...
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[May. 1st, 2007|10:38 am] |
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i haven't written anything of a personal nature here in a while, but trust me...the little jokes and other fluff, you would rather have:)
not that things are at their absolute worst (thank goodness), but it would mostly be me complaining, whining and just plain sounding angry at every little thing that i could think of and i don't want to do that here where it does no good. venting does me no good...thinking and doing are more my nature...so while no news isn't necessarily "good" news...things are running the course.
back to your regularily scheduled live journal station. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2007|11:19 am] |
A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, "I almost had an affair with another woman."
The priest said, "What do you mean, almost?"
The Irishman said, "Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped."
The priest said, "Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You're not to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Mary's and put $50 in the poor box."
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started to leave. The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, "I saw that. You didn't put any money in the poor box!"
The Irishman replied, "Yeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that's the same as putting it in!" |
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[Apr. 20th, 2007|02:41 pm] |
"together forever and never to part, together forever we two. and don't you know i would move heavean and earth to be together forever with you."
not my current situation, it just came up on the ipod. |
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[Apr. 17th, 2007|05:11 pm] |
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newsweek is juicy this week. where to start? there's a blip on the pastor's wife, wolfwitz is giving out raises, and there's such a thing as 'exercise bulimia'. |
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[Apr. 17th, 2007|09:57 am] |
i should be up and doing something, but it's a new moon, my day off and the bee-gees on the ipod...how does one resist? |
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[Mar. 17th, 2007|09:56 am] |
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1. What's your favorite shade of green?
deep greens like forest. kelly green is too bright for me.
2. Do you wear green on St. Patrick's Day, and if not, do you ever get pinched?
yes i wear it. i wasn't aware of the pinching thing though!
3. Do you do anything else to celebrate the holiday?
we cook corned beef and cabbage and irish tunes are on all day. we make irish potatoes and go to mass (it's a little know fact that the ireland irish do not consume corn beef on patrick's day. it's considered too bland for such a holiday)
4. Have you ever consumed a green beer (or any other alcoholic beverage dyed green)?
no. that's just plain dumb. i drink guinness all year round.
5. Do you have a good luck charm, and if so, what is it?
i have a protection amulet in my purse. a nine mil bullet and herbs sewn in a leather pouch. |
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[Feb. 25th, 2007|09:00 am] |
there's an article in rolling stone about copy right protection in digital music. right now music from itunes can only be played on an ipod where music downloaded from other stores can be played on basically any player except an ipod. steve jobs is quoted as saying, "a world (in which) any player can play music purchased from any store...is clearly the best alternative for consumers."
this leads me to believe that in the future music purchased from itunes can be played on any player. cool! not everyone uses an ipod for their music. steve jobs is getting a clue.
however, warren bronfman jr. from warner is totally against this, "the notion that music does not deserve the same protection as software (or) films...is completely without logic or merit." i agree with him there. i also believe in artist's rights.
but realistically, this isn't about artist's rights. when you download music, whether from itunes or yahoo music, the artist gets paid. this is about the player you use. and itunes is a competitor of warner, so the consumer's interests are not represented.
let's use films (dvd's) as an example. the way i see it, i want to buy a dvd player, there are lot's out there, at competitive prices as it should be. i choose a sony, only the company which distributes the media allows it to be viewed on every dvd player except a sony. where then as a consumer, do my interests lie?
a big company will use the term 'artist's rights' as a ploy to gain sympathy from the public, but don't be fooled. if artist's do not wish to have their music available for downloading, then it's not available. period. companies are not interested in making money, there are only interested in making more money than their competitor. and it has nothing to do with the interest of the consumer or the rights of the artist. |
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