When you take a prescription for hormones (thyroid, adrenal, menopause, etc) or a brain med (antidepressant, sleeping pills, epilepsy, etc) DEFINITELY insist upon the brand-name. You may also want to consider it for other meds as well.

So now I'm getting some outside confirmation of what I've felt was true, and what I've experienced personally.

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St. Louis ranked as the tenth-most miserable city in the nation.

I'm not especially surprised.

Of course, Chicago ranked #3, which I'm sure will just fuel even more St. Louis angst over not being Chicago. Chicago even out-does us in miserableness! Blast!

I had no problem waking up at 6:00 this morning, but even if I would have been sleepy and ignoring my alarm, I still would have woken up easily. All the sirens and helicopters would never have let me sleep. Sirens and helicopters? Yep.

Somebody in my neighborhood set a truck on fire and then sniper-shot at the firefighters when they arrived to put ( Read more... )

 Have you heard that Foreigner is going back on tour this year?

Have you heard that their tour is being sponsored by the AARP?

The "Feels Like the First Time" tour.

Should be called the "Feels like desperation for more money" tour.

Or maybe the "Feels like the baby boomers won't shut up, sit down, and RETIRE already, and rock stars are no exception" ( Read more... )

There were 3 college girls in the laundromat annoying the crap out of me, milling about & gabbing on cell phones. They finally left. A half hour later I noticed that they left some sheets in one of the dryers. Must have been so busy talking on their phones that they forgot to keep track of their damn laundry. Heh. The laundromat tends to be good ( Read more... )

Around here, there's a lot of talk about the Illinois smoking ban. (The Lou butts up against and spills over into Illinois. Missouri is such a weird state -- our two major cities are both on the border with other states. Weird.)  So anyway, smoking ban, Illinois, rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth. Whatever. The ban will probably induce me to ( Read more... )

President Bush is undergoing a "routine colonoscopy". Dude, I don't think there's anything routine about sticking something up the butt of the president of the United States.

What I wouldn't give to have that colonoscopy performed by a military physician that Bush sent to Iraq for three fucking tours of hard duty. ::evil grin::

The bad thing about listening to NPR in the mornings is that you might hear that the Supreme Court sucks ass.  And that might make you feel depressed and frightened.

Am I the only one who is disturbed by the whole politicians-putting-up-a-Myspace-page thing?  It's just very strange to log in and see under Cool New People "Mitt" or "Hillary" or "Barak Obama".  With their professionally done picture next to some snapshot "Mike" tossing back a beer.

It's just weird. And ineffective. Meh.