Much to my surprise, a couple of weeks later one of the intended recipients told me that she was thinking about buying one of those Himalayan salt lamps online. She showed me the picture of what she wanted, and it was exactly the same one that I had already bought for her! I told her that I had bought one for her for her Christmas present, and not to buy one herself. She asked me to give it to her now because she wanted to start “enjoying the benefits” immediately. Well, I agreed and I gave it to her. She was happy and took it home with her.

Less than a week later she told me that her daughter told her that she hated it, that it made her feel depressed instead of happy, and she gave the lamp back to me and asked me to give her something different for Christmas. I agreed to do that, and now I am using it in one of my bathrooms. I like how it deodorizes and helps to dehumidify the room. As for the original recipient, well, I ended up giving her a gift card to Wal-Mart. I know she buys things there, and I think that maybe I’ll just keep giving her gift cards in the future.

Recently she was in the hospital because of blood clots in her lungs. That really worried me. A lot. Now the doctors say that the blood clots are gone (that’s a good thing!) but that they have found something in one of her lungs that they might need to biopsy. My mother has never been a smoker, but her parents WERE smokers. I am worried that she may have something terribly wrong with her and that the doctors might say that because of her advanced age that they don’t want to treat her.

So right now we are waiting for consultations and test results. Sitting on the edges of our chairs. Trying to remain positive, and cheerful, and worried sick. And if I may pass on a little advice to you, it would be to call YOUR mother to say hello and tell her that you love her. There will be a time when you won’t be able to do that.

To make the problem worse, the foods that are good for you are more expensive to purchase than the foods that are not healthy. So when a person is short on time and short on money then they are going to go to the fast and cheap meal. I know that there are families where all of the adults work outside the home and are happy with their jobs because they have rewarding careers and are making great money and can afford to hire people to help raise the children and cook good and nutritious meals, but that is not the majority of the families in America. I sure wish that it WAS the majority of the families, but it isn’t. And now I think that I had better end this post before I start a political ranting that will prove to my readers that I am a nutcase!

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.

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!

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?

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.

The thermostat is set to seventy, I am wearing two pairs of socks and have two blankets over my legs and feet, but my toes are as cold as ice! I know there is a saying “cold hands, warm heart.” Is there a similar saying that applies to feet?