March madness
Have I mentioned (perhaps many times) how much I dislike the month of March? Things always seem to pile up in March. Sure it's the beginning of spring and renewal and all that crap, but there seems to be a lot more bad things than good.
It's the month a lot of bad things with my ex-husband came to a head.
It's the month my father died in.
And every year, it's the month I get some sort of sinus thing. It's disturbing the regularity with which my sinus issues come. I've looked back through my journal here and I can track them to the same times every year. Right around Christmas it happens, then again in March. Usually I'm alright through the rest of the spring and summer, and then it hits again in fall with allergy season. This is a particularly nasty one this year, as the infection is not only in my sinuses, but in my lungs as well. Go respiratory infections. I'm also suffering from some female issues that you really don't want the details of, so let's suffice it to say I'm not a particularly pleased camper.
Brenda called this morning to tell us Jeanette had another seizure. I really hope she gets on some sort of insurance program so she can go to a neurologist and get them checked out. This is the second time this has happened, poor kid. We've tried to tell her she should go down and apply for medicade as she isn't currently working - she's 19 now, and not living at home so it's not that we can put her on our plan. Under the new health care, we'll have to see what that can do for the kids considering they can supposedly be on a parent's plan till 26 now. But I don't know if that's tied to schooling (alas none of mine are in school), or if they're still living at home or what.
I am so sickened by healthcare protesters, and what lengths they're going to. How some states are trying to come up with legislation to block what they should be embracing, how some people are resorting to throwing bricks through windows and threatening peoples families. What kind of people are these? This is the kind of social reform we need - there should be MORE of things like this that'll put our country back on track. I want to be proud of my nation again. Historically, people protested when we got social security, medicade, etc - so I guess there's nothing new under the sun. But it's still disgusting that they're behaving so badly over it.
My brother Joe is visiting from Virginia, and I need to get him a birthday present still. I have no idea what to get him! His hobbies are golf and pool, but that doesn't exactly inspire a wide variety of gift options. I usually find something or another, but I'm really stuck for ideas this year. I guess I could just get him shirts or something, but my other brother Ron's already doing that (*shakes fist!*) Also, Ron really needs to stop 'helping' with my diet. He's big on telling me what to eat, and that I should walk more, and so forth. Which I could see if he was mister fit-and-active, but he has a HUGE belly (like 11 months pregnancy belly) and he's always eating snacky cakes. So you know, take care of your own diet, dude, and gtfo of my face about mine. Brothers, oy.
It's the month a lot of bad things with my ex-husband came to a head.
It's the month my father died in.
And every year, it's the month I get some sort of sinus thing. It's disturbing the regularity with which my sinus issues come. I've looked back through my journal here and I can track them to the same times every year. Right around Christmas it happens, then again in March. Usually I'm alright through the rest of the spring and summer, and then it hits again in fall with allergy season. This is a particularly nasty one this year, as the infection is not only in my sinuses, but in my lungs as well. Go respiratory infections. I'm also suffering from some female issues that you really don't want the details of, so let's suffice it to say I'm not a particularly pleased camper.
Brenda called this morning to tell us Jeanette had another seizure. I really hope she gets on some sort of insurance program so she can go to a neurologist and get them checked out. This is the second time this has happened, poor kid. We've tried to tell her she should go down and apply for medicade as she isn't currently working - she's 19 now, and not living at home so it's not that we can put her on our plan. Under the new health care, we'll have to see what that can do for the kids considering they can supposedly be on a parent's plan till 26 now. But I don't know if that's tied to schooling (alas none of mine are in school), or if they're still living at home or what.
I am so sickened by healthcare protesters, and what lengths they're going to. How some states are trying to come up with legislation to block what they should be embracing, how some people are resorting to throwing bricks through windows and threatening peoples families. What kind of people are these? This is the kind of social reform we need - there should be MORE of things like this that'll put our country back on track. I want to be proud of my nation again. Historically, people protested when we got social security, medicade, etc - so I guess there's nothing new under the sun. But it's still disgusting that they're behaving so badly over it.
My brother Joe is visiting from Virginia, and I need to get him a birthday present still. I have no idea what to get him! His hobbies are golf and pool, but that doesn't exactly inspire a wide variety of gift options. I usually find something or another, but I'm really stuck for ideas this year. I guess I could just get him shirts or something, but my other brother Ron's already doing that (*shakes fist!*) Also, Ron really needs to stop 'helping' with my diet. He's big on telling me what to eat, and that I should walk more, and so forth. Which I could see if he was mister fit-and-active, but he has a HUGE belly (like 11 months pregnancy belly) and he's always eating snacky cakes. So you know, take care of your own diet, dude, and gtfo of my face about mine. Brothers, oy.