tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32772502009-05-27T20:10:37.343-07:00Adventures with Hodgkin'sStarted as my continuing adventures with Hodgkin's Disease, but I'd like to think (knock wood) I'm past all that.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-15911711317283524662008-10-06T19:53:00.000-07:002008-12-22T22:30:36.914-08:00Just Lucky, I GuessNPR ran a story on resorting to superstitions when you feel out of control.When Not In Control, People Imagine Order:"New research shows that when people perceive they have no control over a given situation, they are more likely to see illusions, patterns where none exist and even believe in conspiracy theories. The study suggests that people impose imaginary order when no realGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-62423699497863478702008-10-03T21:17:00.000-07:002008-12-22T22:29:23.366-08:00Twice as FunEvery year, in the fall, it's time for testing. And now that I'm up for yearly mammograms, the advances in technology are working against me. Digital imaging finds a LOT. Last year the "screening mammogram", the standard, found something and I had to return for a "diagnostic mammogram" to find out it was nothing. Nothing they could identify, anyway, so unless microscopic aliens Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-54804522411319050722008-09-27T16:26:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:36:39.600-07:00It's News!An article in today's San Francisco Chronicle caught my eye: Lymphoma forum, fundraiser walk in S.F. Some of the highlights:"Lymphoma, the most common type of blood cancer...." (I guess when you go to journalism school them tell you it's a blood cancer. I learned, from HAVING it, that it's a cancer of the lymphatic system. Close, but no cigar.)"While other kinds of cancer are Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-34405678302942084112008-09-09T21:53:00.000-07:002008-09-09T21:55:49.372-07:00Grandma and GrandpaI can't decide whether I'm being snarky or not--especially since you know it *bugs* her to be a grandma.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-42872978261456745132008-08-29T23:31:00.000-07:002008-09-25T21:03:13.307-07:00GODDAMMITLike a anti-smoking crusading ex-smoker, I'm a reformed curser. I used to be able to freely string together a variety of curse words to create magical chains of obscenities. I was proud of the fact that I was once reprimanded by my manager at work for saying (in a fit of technical frustration) "motherfucking cocksucker" to my computer. Or maybe it was "cocksucking motherfucker", I Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-54530133193526423822008-08-19T21:52:00.000-07:002008-09-09T21:53:17.750-07:00Side effectOne of the little ironies of taking thyroid hormone replacement is that it needs to be taken every day. And, if you happen to forget, you may find yourself with some symptoms, the two most interesting of which are: * Feeling very tired or sluggish * Problems with memory and thinkingThis means that the 15th or 20th time you think, "There is not enough coffee in the world" it might Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-73511759207046781832008-08-05T19:53:00.000-07:002008-09-09T21:51:17.900-07:00Elevator StoryI was listening to the commencement speech by Robert Krulwich at the California Institute of Technology today, and it reminded me of a story. If you don't listen to the podcast, the takeaway is that if scientists don't find some way to tell regular people about the work they do--their elevator story--then science will suffer.One of my good friends is married to a man who works at Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-40404052060646886112008-07-24T20:40:00.000-07:002008-08-24T20:51:07.256-07:00Even Better Than The Real ThingSorry Tom Petty, but Lucy's sporting a brand new look.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-6594591916931394392008-07-18T09:17:00.000-07:002008-08-24T20:39:50.693-07:00Divided SleepAnyone who has kids may also experience divided sleep where you sleep, get up, and then sleep some more. According to Wikipedia, it wasn't unusual before the industrialization of society--a night's sleep would be divided by one or more periods of wakefulness, particularly in winter. I know that while breastfeeding infants, I'd have to stay in bed for 12 hours in order to get 8 Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-58800196114495545062008-07-10T22:52:00.000-07:002008-08-24T20:37:53.890-07:00Fashion FindI was out and about, and while walking by the Junior League secondhand store I noticed that they were having a huge sale. $5 for everything in one room--they were hoping to unload a bunch of stuff before they had to do inventory. So I decided to take a look, and found the fashion find of the year.I liked the colors, and the skirt is pieced together fabrics. Someone else was eyeing Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-80542538350282470862008-06-30T19:21:00.000-07:002008-08-19T22:30:07.727-07:00During a web usability session today, where we were reviewing the things that need to be done to a website to make it accessible to a screen reader or other web accessibility tool, someone made the following statement: "If you ever use the words 'click here' on a web page, it's a slap in the face to those without hands."Slapping someone without hands? Oh, yes, that's an image that'll teach me toGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-45379478648076997562008-06-23T21:10:00.000-07:002008-08-20T20:24:56.510-07:00Dear DiaryPrinters in offices are facinating places. You could be at one, innocently pawing through all the documents, looking for your one page, and you find out many things about your colleagues. Like someone's going to Sonoma for the weekend (reservation confirmation), someone doesn't know how to get to Home Depot (Google map), someone's starting a new project in the same area you've been Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-68520356550726628452008-06-09T19:36:00.000-07:002008-07-09T19:39:46.533-07:00Work HumorIn addition to my scintillating wit, this is the stuff that cracks people up in my workplace.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-56446695035951882682008-05-30T11:43:00.001-07:002008-06-29T21:21:07.172-07:00Look How Clever I Was!I was a budding ironist from the get-go. You'll have to take my word for it--I took some of my dad's old office stationery and my mom's manual typewriter and penned this memo regarding the addition to our household of a new cat. And I do believe I made both cats sit in the room with me while I typed this up.Can I attest that the mis-spelling of "ingenious" was Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-28966925274305416542008-05-16T15:10:00.000-07:002008-06-29T21:10:50.525-07:00It's Wrong! Just Wrong!This is even worse than ordering "ice tea". But grammar aside, I like iced tea, but only if it's real iced tea, the stuff that's brewed. I will ask, before ordering in a restaurant, if their iced tea is brewed. Most places it isn't, it's that hideous reconstituted piped in stuff. But at this restaurant I didn't have to ask--I could see the iced tea dispenser, the Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-13379003112618547312008-05-12T22:07:00.000-07:002008-06-29T20:49:13.070-07:00Anal-Retentive IS HyphenatedThis is a bad sign. This is something that's going to make me crazy. See, I'm the kind of mom who thinks that a toy needs ALL of its pieces in order to be a toy, and a toy that sits on a shelf with all of its pieces is a better toy than one that's been played with and has been spread hither and yon. The missing die from the Boggle game will haunt me and keep me Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-7145836552807954952008-05-03T09:44:00.000-07:002008-05-30T11:30:13.784-07:00Another Sign of the ApocalypseSeriously, do you really need to BUY bags? I know that us crazy San Franciscans can't get plastic bags at the grocery store anymore, but you can get them everywhere else--corner store, drug store, book store, etc. There doesn't seem to be any shortage of bags, and who is so damn lazy that can't reuse a bag?Of course, I may be biased. I've become one of those Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-50335355577617209062008-04-30T21:30:00.000-07:002008-05-16T15:07:40.444-07:00It's not what it looks like....I've been trying to bring fruit into work so I'm not constantly pumping quarters into the vending machines. I like bananas, but transporting them is a bit tricky. Especially if you forget you put a banana in your purse, oh, say for a day or two, and then dig deep in your purse for your keys.Blech.So I was sure someone else had this problem, so I turned to the Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-86791139090453252992008-04-22T20:03:00.000-07:002008-05-12T22:06:27.494-07:00A Kinder, Gentler MeThis was sent to me by a former colleague. Apparently I was a bit sharp when I was younger. I'd be offended, if I wasn't so proud of what a smartass I was.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-12233035159167589012008-04-10T23:29:00.000-07:002008-04-18T09:31:50.698-07:00Higher officeJust when I thought that my past indiscretions (paying babysitters under the table, that thing with the hobo) prevented me from achieving elected officialdom, I have been voted in as the Secretary of the PTA.Was it the fake background check? The unmarked bills in plain envelopes? Or the fact that no one else ran against me? Who can tell. But call me Madam Secretary!Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-72787584822279660592008-04-08T09:21:00.000-07:002008-04-23T20:47:15.767-07:00Mother Teresa, I amConor's school has a new mural, and today on the way into school Conor asked why Yoda was in the mural. Oh, how I laughed! Foolish child, I said, that's Mother Teresa. Oh, he says. Who's the guy on the end? Uh, Chewbacca. Now aren't you late? Get to class!Update: According to the school newsletter, it is "The Visionaries Mural" and has renditions of Michelangelo, MotherGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-54935114084429364262008-04-06T21:43:00.000-07:002008-04-22T22:00:29.858-07:00Don't Come Around Here No More   Anyone else remember videos from 1985? I was embarassed at how many I knew.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-62821182217856733832008-04-02T22:40:00.001-07:002008-04-21T21:50:18.915-07:00An arty looking photo of a mundane event. Isn't that what blogs are all about?This is Lucy enjoying her first bouncy house.Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-33293034237088469632008-03-19T19:45:00.000-07:002008-04-21T21:49:49.229-07:00Too FunnyWe were having one of those idle chit-chats in cube-land about a colleague's upcoming camping trip, and we began reminiscing about the troubles associated with roughing it and getting clean. Mention of pay showers requiring quarters led one person to ask, probably rhetorically, where you were to keep your quarters while showering to ensure you weren't left lathered up when the water ranGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3277250.post-66710302166965301052008-03-10T20:46:00.000-07:002008-04-21T21:47:25.949-07:00Car ConversationWe're all in the car and the radio is tuned to my favorite station, 92.7 Energy. Dance music. Kevin is still wondering how I've snagged a button for this station, and asks what I like about this driving beat and repetitive lyrics. Uh, the repetitive driving beat? And repetitive lyrics? Don't cast the first stone, Mr. Bob-Seger-Lover.It takes a mighty big iPod to hold our Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00739714319849763359noreply@blogger.com