Thyroid:
My endo is 95% certain I don't have cancer.  Not the most reassuring diagnosis, but better than "get in here and we're ripping it out"...so...not dreadful.  I do have Graves Disease.  (linked for the curious ( Read more... )

Incoming email, possibly automated, from friend x:
"Hey, you should update this list so that when this gathering happens all the information is current"
My reply:
"Hey, we're no longer invited to this gathering, but thank you for thinking of us all the same"
(Note....no longer invited...but not actually told personally that invitations would no ( Read more... )

I haven't done a LJ Meme for a while.....  siglinde99 did this...and I thought it might be a good idea, just to get some perspective ( Read more... )

There were kerfuffles over poppies....which in my mind was some people assuming that *all* people who elected to wear a particular symbol carried the same thought.  How stupid is that ( Read more... )

This is mostly a rhetorical question.....at what point is looking up someone's blog or fb or whatever other social media venue "stalking"?  I just like to keep up, making sure that nothing life changing is happening so I don't stick my foot in things....  Though, to be honest, if the party shows no interest in sharing with me directly could I ( Read more... )

I keep thinking I should fill this space with something thoughtful and insightful, but I just don't seem to have the spoons to manage that these days ( Read more... )

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

Apropos of some things that happened in the last few days....

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.  ~Dodinsky,

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Yeup.

More later....