Fibromyalgia

I have recently (this past Thursday) been diagnosed as having fibromyalgia. For those of you who don't know, this a disease where the person is just in pain all the time, to varying degrees. There are bad days and better days. Doctors aren't really sure what causes it and there isn't really a whole lot that can be done about it except just try to put a band-aid on the symptoms as they arise. About all you can do is learn to live with it. I am trying to arm myself with information. Pray for me as I deal with this. God bless. :)

Dealing With Mental Illness

I have a friend who is diagnosed as bipolar. She is a very close friend of mine for nearly 25 years and we were roommates in college. Right now she is in the angry, pushing away phase, and it is difficult to hear her hurtful comments and not lash back. I'm hanging in there though and trying to remember that this is not her, but that the friend I love is in there somewhere and I have to hang on and keep the lines of communication open. She went through a divorce from an abusive husband who likes to cause trouble in any way he can just for the sake of doing it, and right now that it her excuse for not taking her medicine: her ex will find out and use that as an excuse for taking their daughter away from her. What she isn't understanding is that there isn't much chance of that to begin with, but there is a greater chance if he finds out she has this condition and ISN'T taking her meds! Please pray for her and her family and for me as I try to help her deal with this.

Gas Prices

Why is it that all the "experts" are saying that President Bush's proposed lifting of the off-shore drilling ban will not help with the current gas crisis? Now, ok, maybe I didn't go to Harvard, or Yale or Oxford, and I don't claim to be an economist, but it seems to me there is a little thing called "Supply and Demand". If there is high demand for something and a low supply, the price for that good or service is going to be higher. If there is an abundance of that good or service, if it is more readily available, the price will go down. Therefore, if we are pumping oil off our own shores on our own terms and not being held hostage by some Middle Eastern Sheik living in Dubai in his gold and crystal palace, forcing us to pay whatever he demands for it, while we can barely travel to work and back, (IF we are even able to get a job!) how could this be ANYTHING but good? Would any of you liberals like to explain this to me? I just think it is the fact that none of them are ever going to give Bush one scrap of credit no matter what he does. Now I am not saying that I am 100% behind everything the man has done, particularly in his second term. However, I believe the man has already gotten us through 9/11, captured Saadaam and his evil murderous sons, and on top of this, he could capture and kill Ben Laden, fix health care, have the cure for cancer and AIDS found through research he commissioned, and bring about world peace in our time, and he would still be a bumbling idiot who bought the election and sold the country's soul for oil according to them. Everyone who reads this, please let me know what you think. EVERYONE. I'm really interested in your opinion.

Lipstick Jungle

Does anyone watch this show? It is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! It is a new NBC drama starring Brooke Shields and it is one of my favorite new shows. She plays Wendy Healy, the head of a movie studio. It focuses on her and her 2 friends, Victory, a fashion designer, and Nicco (Nicole), the editor of a pop culture magazine, Unfortunately, it won't be back on until September! :(
I am going to be without my Lipstick Jungle fix until then! Let me hear some of your favorite shows!

Wii

I'm kinda new at this blogging stuff-but hopefully I will have an interesting one and get lots of traffic. I thought it might be fun to talk about our Wii. I know Sarah plays Wii. Anyone else? We've had ours for a long time and I am still embarrassed by my scores! I get so frustrated with myself. What games do you play, Sarah? (and anyone else) I enjoy the golf, but I just can't seem to get good at it. I'm too ashamed to say my score tonight. It seems I either hit the ball way too hard or not hard enough. Any tips? I enjoy the bowling too. Baseball and tennis I can't seem to get at all! I don't understand it- this isn't rocket science! Bah!

Cops

I am just sitting here watching "Cops" and wondering if these people on the show consider this their "big break." I enjoy the show but it does seem that these people are just born lacking common sense. I mean, a cop pulls about 3 rocks of crack or a dime bag of pot right out of their pocket and they look the cop right in the eye and say, "That's not mine, man! I swear, that's not mine!", and they actually think there is a chance in you know where that the cop is gonna say," Oh, it's not? OK, well. you just run along home now." WHAT are they thinking? I guess that's exactly it- they AREN'T thinking. They're just looking for the next buy, the next high, but they just don't know the ultimate high- JESUS.

Mothers and Daughters

Why is it that no matter what your age, with your mother you're 2 years old again? You want her approval even though you know you're never going to get it. Nothing is ever good enough and you want to not care and you just can't quite do it. You feel guilty for being angry with her and justified at the same time. And no matter how you fight it and swore it wouldn't happen, you find yourself turning into her. Then one day you look in the mirror, and there it is- her face looking back at you. You say something and you think, "WHOA! How did my mother's voice get in my body?"