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Hard to stay nice

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One of the things that I struggle with on almost a daily basis is how to stay nice to people who keep asking you the same question repeatedly after you have answered the question. That probably means that I shouldn’t ever try to get a career caring for senior citizens, doesn’t it?

Today I ran into some people that I had met a couple of months ago at a business meeting, and they recognized me, and although I tried to avoid them it was impossible to do so. I ended up sitting next to them at a presentation. They kept asking me questions that I could not answer, and I was having a hard time staying nice to them. After all, how many times do I have to say “I don’t know” to the same question? I wonder if my intolerence is based in my own fear that some day I will be an old imbecile myself. I hate to think that will happen any time soon, and I hope that if and when it happens that other people will be more tolerent of me than I feel that I have been. I feel guilty about that.

Learn something new every day

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When I was sitting down this afternoon to eat my late lunch of peanut butter and honey sandwich and a glass of water (yes, I really am trying to save money) I noticed that my son was watching an episode of “House” on television. I was only there for a couple of minutes, but I watched it while I was there. I learned something very interesting in that couple of minutes; sorbital is used as an artificial sweetener in sugar-free products, such as gum. It is also used by the medical profession as a laxative! Now that I know that, I will keep that in mind the next time I am having stomach troubles!

Skin care

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This morning I went to a business networking meeting in town at the local IHOP. There are a lot of different businesses that send a representative to the meetings, and it is always interesting to go and see who shows up and what they have to say. One of the ladies that always shows up is an employee of a dermatologist in town. She always talks about dry skin, wrinkles, and Acne. She always brings a book or two with her and says that her bosses are the authors of the book. The way that she talks about the products that they sell, it sounds to me as if they are selling something very similar to the Resurgence skin care product that my sister recently purchased with the Murad Coupon Codes that she found on the Internet.

They all sound like fine products, and I’m very curious to see how much my sister likes the Resurgence once it arrives. We’re both of the age where we are interested in minimizing the wrinkles that are starting to appear on our faces. A lot of people tell me that I look younger than I really am, but I think that they are just being kind. Skin care is near the top of my priority list this year, time is marching on too fast!

Orange juice and fungicide

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Have you been hearing the news stories about how several orange juice companies have been reporting a fungicide being found in some of their orange juice that came from Brazil? What I’ve been hearing is that small amounts of the stuff has been found, and that the amounts are supposedly within the safe amount allowed, but the juice is being recalled just the same. Apparently tha amount of fungicide that has been found is allowed in other countries, but not in the United States of America.

When I hear about how some things are allowed in other countries but not in the USA, I have to wonder why the other countries are allowing it. Were the officials bribed, or do they just not care?

Tired legs

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For several years, I’ve been wearing compression socks to ease the pain and aching in my legs caused by varicose veins. The first pair of socks that I wore were actually a pair of pantyhose and they were given to me by my mother, when I was pregnant and my legs were in agony. I thought they were wonderful!

After I had given birth, I wanted to buy a pair of pantyhose that were not maternity and that was when I ran into an obstacle – I could not find them for sale in the local stores anywhere. When I went into the local pharmacy to ask about them they told me that they were a special order item, and the brand that I had used in the past was not something they could order. They only carried the Jobst brand, so I went ahead and ordered them. Since then I’ve learned that there are several brands on the market, but Jobst is the brand that my doctors always recommend.