"Healthy Paranoia" perhaps?

Good Morning ALL...

I am alive... (that is, if feeling my heart beating in my head and face is indicative of "life")...

I have yet to find out who hit me in the face with that hammer too. (Fully half of it is still swollen, the antibiotics being slow to work)...

While I was in the process of posting my last entry, I began to see my dreaded spots, and jagged lines... And so, I HAVE BEEN pretty "dismal" here these past few days, to say the very least... Casey called yesterday when she was done with work, and had already called my doctor and set up an appointment for still another shot. (Why do these migraines keep intensifying in nature)? And why did those dots and jagged lines disappear after 2 hours, only to return after a while. I "saw" those auras for the better part of 6 hours on Sunday. Doc said it should not have been triggered by the clindamycin...

I am NOT a person to take antibiotics in the first place... preferring to "up" my intake of garlic, and the like, to kill off any invading "bugs" that might be there. (But when my face looks and feels like this, it is pretty hard to justify NOT taking whatever the dr. prescribes)! hehehe My head is MUCH better today, (and I am almost positive that by tomorrow I shall be writing about how much better my face/mouth is too)! And yes, I fully intend on taking this prescription to the very end. (Boy, that sounds ominous)...

I am thinking of 'road-tripping' very soon too! Yay! ...Old Mother Nature having prevented us from leaving last month and all... I know too, that I should NOT have made reference to the absent snows around these parts the other day... Today and tomorrow are looking a bit ridiculous here... To the North, and into the U.P. of Michigan, there are Winter Storm Wanings for up to 2' of new SNOW... We should get some, if only an inch or two or three (or...)... Good Grief!

Speaking of grief...

My heart is so sickened by all of these pet food recalls. And to that end, have posted what I read in Miss Anitas blogsite. CLICK HERE if you have not taken the time to click on my blast...

After I had read her entry, I regret to say that I am MORE than unhappy with the FDA and now also my own previous link to our IAMS and Eukanuba site. This company has taken it upon themselves to 'redo' their website after various complaints, and have made it almost impossible to find any info on their own recalls. (Listed on their top page however is the dislaimer that the recent recall does not affect any foods marketed outside of the US and Canada)!

Um... DUH?!?!

But anyway, here is the one link I was able to find within their website CLICK HERE for the IAMS and Eukanuba info links. (Note that when I had clicked on a number of these links, they were '404' nonexistent; ?? "Web page could not be found" )...

Guess I am right in feeding table scraps and cooking for these critters of mine!

Think now... I am also thinking that PEOPLE are justified in removing from their own diets any/everything that has wheat products in it. Please hear me out on this...

Written/updated yesterday are the following words of "simple brilliance": "The FDA said today that it has found no indication the contaminated ingredient is in any food humans eat. The agency said it would alert the public if it found melamine in any other foods."

...Great huh?

(Hmmmmm... Oh, ya mean AFTER PEOPLE START DYING too)???

Please bear in mind that our FDA has been wrong many times in the past regarding the food products and drugs that we ingest... That link should take you to their own recall and complaint stuff...

This from PETA... www.peta.org

"While cherished animal companions continue to die, the FDA is taking a "wait~and~see" approach and, even more appalling, concealing information to protect pet industry interests. " ???

HOW DARE THEY?

"With calls coming in to our (peta) office from people stating that their animals died after eating dry foods that have not yet been recalled, PETA confirmed with the FDA that it was also receiving such complaints..."

New this morning, a PET TREAT recall due to salmonella poisoning. CLICK HERE for that story.

Please take care of not only the four~legged furkids in your lives; but also the 2~legged varieties as well!

I am hearing now that this has somehow come from China? It is NOT only the company in Canada that this has affected. So, since this is all so vast and far~reaching, (and its implications seem almost endless), I have a question here for you... Am I the only one, or is anyone else ready to vote against anyone who is really INTO supporting importing anything that we can grow/manufacture on American soil? Because I personally believe it is high time to put our own AMERICAN Workers ALL back to work, don't you???

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OK, I really am NOT into political issues, (although my "welfare" blog entry has also taken on a real life of its own)... But I think my last paragraph also ties in with that past entry. (I do apologize to you for my, um, more "passionate" blogs)... Click on the blue words there if you haven't see that blog entry...

I hope you are all having a grand Tuesday...

XOXO
Anne

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Welfare?, Subway, and 'Food for Thought'...

Good Morning!

What an interesting evening. And one that I have learned (TOO?) much from...

I was checking my email and came across a very interesting article on Public Assistance, Welfare and The Law.

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And I am hoping that this shows up large enough for you to read.

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(In case it does not, here is the text)...

Written by Leonard Wilson of Riddle, Oregon

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"I have a question, not only for Douglass County, but for the entire State of Oregon. Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as they see fit. In order to get that paycheck. I am required to pass a random urine test, which I have no problem with. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check, because I have to pass one to earn it for them?"

"Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sit on their butt. Could you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check."

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Sounds pretty good, yes???

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Of course me, NOT being able to come online without checking my 360; I had found myself on Miss Rebecca's Pages... And here were a few blogs that were very closely related to this email... (Note: She hates Gee Dubya). And so, I included the newspaper article that I had been sent, in my comments to her.

She wrote back to me then, and included a few "facts" of her own...

"Please pass this on to your friend...

My sister in law does have to pass or fail (depends how you look at it) a drug test to get her check. If she passes the drug test she loses the check.

You see she gets disability for being a drug addict who is so addicted the state says she cant work. All she has to do to get a check is fail a drug test every 6 months and go to therapy once a month. They also pay for her methadone.

I raise her kids and my taxes support her habit. Great system we have, yes?"

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How bad is this?!?!? (Personally I had to read it twice to make sure I had read it correctly to begin with)... Sadly, I had. While I have ALWAYS been of the mind that welfare and the like are necessary evils, this "qualification" has really made me ill.

I am sure that if anyone is in a position to accurately relate their states codes on this...

PLEASE LEAVE ME A COMMENT HERE.

Is the law like this in your state?

Is it like this in all 50 states???

Kinda gets one more than a little upset!

And on to other topics...

I cruise around Yahoo 360, and stumble upon many interesting words, stories, poems, and their authors... I am sure many of you know that CaseyAnne used to work at Subway... And this morning I had come across a patron of Subways... Britt had a very interesting tale to tell too! Funny also... (click their names for their own facts and fictions).

But then, as I write I remember what happened to CaseyAnne while she had still been employed by the tacky gas station down the road... (Now that's a whole 'nother blog in and of itself, so I am not going to explain the 'tacky' part of that story right now)...

One day last Fall she had gotten a Subway sandwich to take to work with her for a bite of dinner should she get a break on her shift. She did. And so, she began to happily munch away on her sandwich! Mmmm. We do like Subway Food!!! (Especially knowing that their breads are baked fresh every morning)!

Imagine Caseys surprise when her coworker said, "there is something on your sandwich."

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Still happily chewing as she turned it over, this is what she found...

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THIS BLACK FLY IS BAKED RIGHT INTO THE BREAD!

(Oh Freakin' Hey! I KID YOU NOT)!!!

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I had frozen the sandwich immediately. As luck would have it, the next day is when she had had to go back to the hospital for emergency surgery on her 2nd spontaneous pneumothorax(ed) lung. And so I had not given it a second thought... (Until this morning). Digging around in my freezer, it was still there...

Hmmmmm.....

EAT FRESH! ...

Eat "Fresh WHAT" exactly????

(Well hey, it IS a fresh picture)!

I don't imagine anyone would do anything about this at this late date; but it sure is disgusting, GROSS, and probably quite UNhealthy too. (And I don't much care what Jared, Jon Lovitt, or any other of their spokespersons say)... Had Casey not been taken ill and hospitalized right then, I probably WOULD have contacted an attorney, (or at least the Brown County Health Department), to see what could have been done at that point.

Oh well. Live and learn.

And ALWAYS turn ANY sandwich over before you proceed to think you are enjoying it...

Oh my... Between the unappetizing and unappealing welfare system in place, (not to mention an equally inappetizing and unappealing Subway), it was inevitable to lose track of time here...

And I just cannot resist telling you that it is "time for me to FLY!"

(Oh, quit groaning now, you HAD to see that one coming)...

Have a grand weekend!

XOXO
Anne

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