Category: Health & Wellness

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Strange Cartoons

Last night I spent a few minutes at my neighbors house. Her 3 year old was watching cartoons on the TV in the living while we visited. I couldn’t help but notice some of the cartoon dialogue.

I have to say that these cartoons are a little strange and it bothers me that children are watching them. I don’t see why cartoons for small children should have any reference to college age pranks, like panty raids. In my opinion, this is not appropriate for young children to hear and how would children even know what a panty raid is? Too strange and very disconcerting.

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Brush and Floss

My teeth are not the strongest, thanks to something in my DNA. Both of my parents are British, so I think I was doomed to have bad English teeth. It’s not a myth – it’s real.

My dentists over the years have tried every approach to get me to brush my teeth regularly and floss. I have resisted just about all their efforts throughout my childhood. But now that I am older and realize that healthy teeth are an important part of a nice appearance, and are important to overall health, I am actually trying to take better care of my teeth and gums. I do brush twice a day and I do floss every night. I hope it’s not too late to keep my smile.

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Monthly Duties

There’s a lot of things that I have to do every month. Maybe not all on the first day of the month, but the first day is a good reminder to get started on them. Some duties can be scheduled but others depend on receiving things in the mail before you can start on them.

Water the cactus
Get a mani/pedi
Hair cut and color
Balance the checkbook
Change the air filter in the furnace
Change the oil in the car
Pay bills
Toss last month’s magazines
Heartworm pill for my dog

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Dance lessons

When Sissy heard that I was thinking about signing up for some dance classes, and couldn’t decide between ballroom, clogging, ballet, tap, or belly dance classes, she immediately decided that she was going to sign up for private dance lessons in santa monica herself. When she told me that, I had to work hard to restrain myself from making a snarky comment about how it seems that every time she hears that I am thinking about doing something, that she immediately has to say she is thinking about doing the same thing, but it is always “up a notch” as if to make herself look like she is better than me.

I’m thinking about telling her that I’m going to have some exotic body art work done, and see if she runs right out and does it first, and then not do it myself at all – just for a good laugh at her expense!

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Special K

There was an ad in a women’s magazine that says if you eat Special K for breakfast every day for 2 weeks that you will lose weight. I’m not sure why that is the magic answer to losing weight but I am willing to give it a try. I like the Special K with strawberries and knowing what I’m going to eat for breakfast makes the morning easier to deal with. I’d like to drop 10 pounds – who wouldn’t?

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Sick Day

When I don’t feel well I want ginger ale to drink and chicken soup to eat. I’m an easy patient to care for and feed. I just want to sleep and be left alone in my bed. I want lots of ginger ale in a glass with ice cubes. I want chicken soup with saltine crackers. That is all.

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Happy New Year!

I am looking forward to a year of more healthy food choices and more outside activities. I promise to take my dogs outside for longer, faster walks and some romps across the field by the cabin as often as humanly possible.

Best wishes to you for a very Happy New Year!

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My Dentist Appt

This morning I am not going into the office. I have a dentist appointment at 10:30. So it doesn’t make sense to sit in rush hour traffic and drive all the way into work, just to have to turn around an leave again in an hour.

I slept in, watched the news, and got online for a little while. Now I have to grab a shower and brush my teeth and get downtown. Let’s hope I get a good report from the dentist today. I don’t want any trouble with my teeth.

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Peeling Bananas

This funny video was on the front page of Yahoo today. It’s timing is really good – I just brought home 30 bananas. A friend had a huge box of fresh bananas that he was giving away for free and I took them. I have no idea what I’m going to DO with 30 bananas, but he was going to throw them away. So . . . at least I know how to peel them now. LOL

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Early Lunch

Most days i try to wait until noon to fix a sandwich or maybe a bowl of soup for my lunch. But I’ve been hungry all morning. I guess my regular cup of coffee and bowl of Shredded Wheat was not enough to keep my stomach satisfied. I had to eat at 11:00 instead of waiting until noon.

Come to think of it, noon is actually a long stretch between when I wake up and first eat something. Maybe I should move the lunch time back an hour and see if that helps. I find that when I am REALLY hungry that I tend to either snack of little fattening things in between meals, or I eat too big of a portion for my lunch and then I feel bloated and guilty for eating so much.