There was a terrible accident on the lake this weekend.  A couple of hot shot teenage boys decided to race each other – one on a jet ski, the other in a motor boat.  The jet ski was winning, but the idiot who was driving it decided to cut in front of the boat.  I don’t know why, maybe to flaunt the fact that he was the winner!  But the skier lost control and fell off of the jet ski and the boat ran right over him!

The propeller of the boat hit the skier in the head.  He is miraculously still alive, but in serious condition at the hospital.  We don’t know if he is going to be all right or not.  I have to wonder if these kids were drunk or under the influence of drugs!  I can’t believe how stupid these kids can be!

Posted: August 2nd, 2009 under Health, Life.
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This summer has been unusually rainy so far. Doesn’t seem like a day goes by where it doesn’t rain! It is really hard to keep the lawn mowed and looking good because the lawn is so wet all of the time! Although it is possible to mow a wet lawn, it just doesn’t look as nice. A lot of people are acting cranky, too, from lack of sunlight I guess! And everyone that I know that suffers from arthritis has been telling me that they have been suffering a lot from the rainy weather. We don’t get a long summer here, so we are really feeling the pain of all of this rain!

Posted: July 25th, 2009 under Family, Friends, Health, Life.
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I like to wear pierced earrings, but I tend to wear small and lightweight earrings.  I find that the large and heavy ones hurt my ears.  I always wonder how other women can stand wearing the heavy ones!  Every now and then I see someone who has a very large hole in their earlobe from their ear being stretched from wearing such heavy earrings!  I shudder when I see people like that!

I have a good friend Beth who was one of my college roomies.  Beth lives in Pennsylvania now.  She has worn so many heavy earrings in her pierced ears that she has actually ripped open one of her ears.  It looks terrible!  I thought that Beth was going to have to just live with that torn earlobe the rest of her life, but she called me and told me that she recently found out that there is a cosmetic surgery procedure that can be done to repair torn earlobes! 

Beth told me to check out the website of the doctor that she wants to do the procedure; the website of the Philadelphia Plastic Surgeon Dr. Emily Pollard.  Dr. Pollard is Certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and the American Board of Surgery.  She is also the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Lankenau Hospital on the Main Line in Philadelphia. 

I was just reading over her website and saw that she is highly educated and highly respected.  She certainly seems to be a great choice for my roomie to turn to!  I can’t wait to see a picture of how her ear looks after she gets it fixed!

Posted: March 11th, 2009 under Friends, Health, Internet, Life, Online.
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My mother-in-law is thinking about having some cosmetic surgery done on her upper eyelids.  As she has been aging, the skin just under her eyebrows has started to droop.  They’re drooping so much that they are affecting her vision!  So she is thinking about having them “lifted.”  I’ve never heard of that kind of procedure, and any kind of surgery concerns me so I turned to a website (mya.co.uk/askanexpert/) that my sister told me about to get some Cosmetic Surgery Help.

I learned that the procedure is called blepharoplasty and that it is a common procedure. That website has a lot of helpful information about all different kinds of cosmetic surgery; if you or someone you love is thinking about having a procedure done and you have questions about it, this is a good place to turn to for information!

Posted: March 6th, 2009 under Business, Family, Health, Life, Online, Technology.
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Healthy foods make me ill

I’m a paradox. If it is supposed to be good for you, it makes me ill. I can’t tolerate olives, or olive oil, consuming either makes me ill for days on end. You would not believe how hard it is to go out to eat nowadays because of that – so many restaurants now are trying to convert to “healthy” cooking, which involves cooking with olive oil! There have been times when I’ve been out with friends and we’ve gone into a restaurant they all want to try out and there turns out to be absolutely not one single thing on the menu I can eat – every single thing has been prepared with olive oil! And it is embarrassing to go to church pot-luck dinners and have to ask everyone if any dishes had been prepared with olives or olive oil. Of course then EVERYONE wants to know details of EXACTLY what happens when I eat it – very annoying.

And don’t even get me started on the smell of lavendar – the plant that is supposed to relax you and help you fall asleep. One whiff of that and I’m running for the bathroom to toss my cookies!

Sometimes I think my body hates me!

Posted: March 4th, 2009 under Food and Beverage, Health, Life.
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