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Our drive up to Sacramento for my sister's annual family New Year's Eve gathering was uneventful… …until we got sideswiped by a big semi truck, which decided to change lanes right into us. No one was hurt. The driver moved back into his lane as soon as he made contact with us, and we both […]
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Our drive up to Sacramento for my sister's annual family New Year's Eve gathering was uneventful…
…until we got sideswiped by a big semi truck, which decided to change lanes right into us.
No one was hurt. The driver moved back into his lane as soon as he made contact with us, and we both pulled over and exchanged information. The truck ripped out our passenger side mirror and the passenger door now makes an ominous creaking noise whenever it is opened or closed.
But the bottom line is that we made it to our destination – safe, if a little bit shaken.
And as I was contemplating the beginning of a new year, I realized that our little highway incident was a metaphor for the year that just passed. Overall, 2015 was a pretty good year that ended shockingly with my mother dying from a sudden illness, just a couple of weeks after we spent Thanksgiving together. Unbeknownst to the rest of the family, we made plans to fly our daughter home from Chicago, and kept it a secret until we walked in the door with her. My mom deemed it our "best Thanksgiving ever," and two weeks later, I was still basking in that while getting ready for Megan to come home again for winter break.
I was out shopping when my sister called to tell me that our mom was in the hospital with a respiratory infection.
At the time, she didn't think there was any reason for me to fly up there. That changed the following morning, and so I booked the first flight I could reasonably catch and spent the next two nights in the ICU with the family, watching over my mom. As she appeared to be responding well to treatment, I flew back to Los Angeles so I could be home when my daughter arrived.
Two days later, we got another phone call and this time all three of us were booked on another last minute flight to Sacramento. My mom passed away at 2 AM with both her daughters, our husbands, and all our kids around her.
We were all sideswiped.
That was nearly two weeks ago, but it feels like it's been longer. Since then, we celebrated a rather subdued Christmas at home, and returned to Sacramento for a quieter-than-usual New Year, and tomorrow I will try to resume my responsibilities at work.
But today I want to acknowledge all of the things I am grateful for as I begin this strange, new, motherless chapter of my life:
I am grateful for my family, who love me no matter what. I don't think I've ever understood exactly how much I need them.
I am grateful that my sister and I threw my parents a special 60th anniversary dinner in August. And I am grateful that her beloved cousins from Miami happened to be in town that weekend. My mother enjoyed that weekend immensely and I am grateful that I was there.
I am grateful that my sister and brother-in-law talked us into visiting Italy with them in October – and that we were able to talk them into beginning that vacation in the UK. I'm grateful that my family and my husband's family got to hang out together for the first time since our wedding, over 20 years ago.
I am grateful that my husband fits right in with the rest of the crazy Schwartzes. And vice versa.
I am grateful for my nieces and nephews and of course, for my wonderful daughter. They have all grown up to be interesting people who are fun to be around. I'm proud of them, too.
I am grateful that my mother gave me one of her beautiful rings for my birthday this year, and that she was happy to see me wearing it before she died.
I am grateful to have found a job in late middle age, after spending 15 years as a stay-at-home mom.
I am grateful that when we were hit by a truck in California's Central Valley that we were able to continue on and laugh about it later.
And I hope to do the same the next time I'm sideswiped.
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Leah Segedie is a force of nature. After helping hundreds of women lose weight through her Mamavation website and programs, she decided to tackle the larger problem of toxins and other substances in our industrialized food chain. The result was the creation of the ShiftCon conference, which held its second annual gathering this past weekend in […]
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Leah Segedie is a force of nature. After helping hundreds of women lose weight through her Mamavation website and programs, she decided to tackle the larger problem of toxins and other substances in our industrialized food chain. The result was the creation of the ShiftCon conference, which held its second annual gathering this past weekend in Manhattan Beach, California. And Leah was kind enough to invite me to take part with a complimentary blogger's registration.
I don't get out much any longer to events like this. My day job marketing for a local IT company has left me with very little creative energy to keep my multiple blogs going — and lately, every time I attempt to get my blog freak back on, I fizzle out before I get to the second paragraph.
But I believe in what Leah is doing. We've interviewed her on our MOMocrats podcast when GMO labeling measures have been on state ballots, and I predict we'll be revisiting that issue again. More importantly: I continue to search for ways to live a healthier lifestyle and want to know what's in the food I'm buying for my family.
So Thursday afternoon, I broke away from work to see what Leah had put together at ShiftCon. Unfortunately, I am swamped at work right now, producing several events of my own — so I was unable to come back over the next couple of days to catch panels on topics like "How One Nutrient Can Change Your Life" and "Creating a Toxic Free Future." I didn't get to hear the keynote from Stonyfield Chairman Gary Hirshberg or the panel on "Shifting Perspectives in Food, Words & Commerce."
I will have to search out the recaps for these online.
But at least, I was able to check out ShiftCon's Expo, showcasing some of the many healthful products available now. And it blew me away – beginning with registration, when along with my badge I was handed a fresh loaf of multi-grain, organic "killer" bread. And then THREE swag bags, filled with all kinds of yummy samples.
There were a dizzying array of natural foods and products on display for the ShiftCon attendees: The expected grocery stores, snack foods, organic farmers collectives, all kinds of dietary supplements and aromatherapy products were all on display. But there were also folks touting natural cleaning products, pest control, and initiatives to rid the environment of glyphosates.
Expo Highlights
I was delighted to talk to representatives of products I already buy on a regular basis, like Lundberg Farms (delicious whole rice and grains), Barbara's, (cereals and snacks), Food for Life ((maker of Ezekiel sprouted grain and gluten-free breads), Numi (organic teas), and Nature's Path.
But it took a visit to ShiftCon to learn that a company like Nutiva sells a lot more than just coconut oil: Their exhibit included hemp oil, red palm oil and a second brand of coconut oil with the coconut flavor removed (so all you get is the goodness of the oil). They've also got chia seeds, hemp protein shakes, and a vegan buttery spread. They also gave me a coconut-oil based lip balm that's the best I've ever tried.
But the real revelation were the products that were new to me: Such as Leaf & Love Organic/Sugar-Free juice boxes. With a kid in college, I may be out of the juice box years – but the sugar-free lemonade I sampled is a drink I may buy for myself.
I love orange juice but rarely drink it any longer. So I was delighted with the taste of Uncle Matt's Orange Juice – organic, lower in sugar and carbs, and delicious.
While at ShiftCon, I discovered new sources for fresh eggs, raw cheese, and grass-fed beef.
I've been dabbling in veganism again, so I had an interest inprotein drinks and almond milk from Orgain – and was surprised that they did not taste bitter, like the brands I have been buying.
Whole Foods Market was there to promote their Whole Kids Foundation, which helps fund gardens and salad bars in schools, as well as nutrition education for teachers.
FarmBoxLA was also there. They're another one of those farmers' collectives that delivers fresh, organic food you order to your home on a regular basis. I love this concept in theory – but when I've tried similar services, I've found that I could not get through everything in the box while it was all still fresh. Now that there's just two of us at home, I usually shop for food on a daily basis. It's a pain in the butt – but there's less wastage.
I am, however, intrigued by Thrive Market, which is kind of an Amazon.com for organic and natural food – and promises prices that are 30-50% lower than supermarkets. Thrive Market is a membership site (similar to Amazon Prime Fresh) but is socially responsible: The annual membership fee is just $60 (compared to $299 for Amazon Prime Fresh) – and for every paid membership, Thrive Market donates a free annual membership to a low-income American family, so they can also have healthy, organic products delivered straight to their homes.
There was a lot more to look at and sample at the ShiftCon Expo: Natural skin care, hair care, health care… Pet foods… Pest Control.
I wish I could have carved out more time to talk to more of the companies and stay for the sessions. But I have a feeling that in my current (over-worked and over-stressed) state, I would have ended up too overwhelmed to put together a write-up.
So I will leave this as it is. If you are at all intrigued, check out ShiftCon on Facebook. That's a great place to get the news on the next ShiftCon.
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I'm self-employed. After 16 years of being a stay-at-home, work-at-home mom, I like it that way. I don't have to face a long commute to an office, wear appropriate business attire, uncomfortable ladies' shoes or makeup (except on those days when I do have to show my face in public) — and have complete autonomy […]
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I'm self-employed.
After 16 years of being a stay-at-home, work-at-home mom, I like it that way. I don't have to face a long commute to an office, wear appropriate business attire, uncomfortable ladies' shoes or makeup (except on those days when I do have to show my face in public) — and have complete autonomy on the time of day I do my work.
At least, that's the way it appears on paper.
In reality: The client that underwrites the bulk of this great lifestyle of mine expects me to be available at all times during business hours. To be fair, that's a reasonable expectation, and I'm the one who feels I need to jump every time they call – and I think that's one of the reasons our business relationship has lasted for nearly two years now.
I'm really happy to have the work. And they're really nice people, which makes it so much easier. But I sometimes chafe at the demands on my time.
I know: That's the eternal dilemma of the work-life balance, and I should be grateful that after years of earning peanuts, I'm finally bringing in a decent income. And I am very grateful.
But does that mean I can't ever whine about what feels more like a job than independence? Or the fact that work now takes up such a big chunk of my time? A perfect job would be earning more money while putting in fewer hours. I think no matter how good life gets, I'll always find something to complain about. Is that really a bad thing?
However, that's not the purpose of this post.
I'm writing this post because I'm HAPPY – because today, I had the time to write this short little post.
You see: This week, my client is on vacation. And I don't anticipate that I'll be getting a lot of phone calls with a lot of great new projects that I need to work on in addition to the ones we discussed at our meeting on Friday. That means I can actually meet a friend for lunch today, take my car in to be serviced tomorrow, make it to my dentist appointment on Wednesday – and still meet all my deadlines, as planned.
I may even be able to carve out some time to go back to the gym. Or catch a matinee Friday afternoon with my daughter.
Next week, things will be back to normal and after seven days of rest, the demands will likely double to make up for lost time. That's too bad, because I really would like to be able to schedule all these fun things back into my usual schedule.
And the work-life dilemma continues. I'll let you know if I ever get that balance right.
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So many posts these days play on people's fears of doing the wrong thing. Maybe we should stop worrying about what others think. It's been a long time since I've used this space to write. We visited the UK, returned, sent my daughter back to her second semester of college, and just last week brought […]
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So many posts these days play on people's fears of doing the wrong thing. Maybe we should stop worrying about what others think.
It's been a long time since I've used this space to write. We visited the UK, returned, sent my daughter back to her second semester of college, and just last week brought her back home from Chicago. I enjoyed Passover with my family in Sacramento, and spent another four weeks housebound because I broke another toe on my driving foot. I've been working my butt off at my marketing job. And I'm dealing with the shame of gaining back all the weight I lost eight years ago — and then some.
I turned 59 last week and am starting to feel really, really OLD.
And I never had the urge to write about any of it.
That's not exactly true. I've had fleeting thoughts of "I should blog this." But none of it stuck. And now it's Memorial Day weekend and this is the first entry I've made here all year.
I hate to think that after more than a decade, I'm over blogging as a creative endeavor. I don't think so. I think I've just been too busy to sit back and reflect upon my thoughts and feelings, which is what I need to be able to work up something to say.
So what made me decide to fire up the old blog again? THIS headline, which caught my eye on BlogHer:
Let's Stop Using 'Just' to Justify Ourselves
The post, from a blog called Literally Darling, is a perfectly reasoned argument for ending one's reliance on filler words, like "just" (uh, and I suppose "like," for that matter). There's nothing wrong with it. It makes a good point.
And it irked me…
…because it seems as if sites are increasingly publishing whiny posts designed to make the reader feel bad about something perfectly harmless:
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Two Spaces After a Period
There's a whole lot of articles on this, and I have to say: What's it to you? Really, what difference does it make if someone who learned to typing on an IBM Selectric doesn't choose to change that habit after four or five decades of extra-spacing? It's not as if we're killing digital trees to make reams of digital paper here. Leave us poor senior citizens alone! (For the record, I figured out that I didn't need the extra space years ago and broke the habit without being chided by the Internet punctuation police — but I wouldn't dream of trying to force others to follow suit. It simply isn't that important.)
Seven Obnoxious Things Women Need to Stop Doing on Facebook
There are tons of articles out there like this, trying to police our behavior on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Most of these are by people who have used social media for fewer years than I have. This post is pretty typical, and the suggestions make sense. But if I were to follow the advice of every single arbiter of what's good and proper to post, I'd have nothing left to contribute.
The thing about social media, and Facebook in particular is it's just like high school: You're not going to be friends with EVERYONE, and that's OK. (Actually, that's more than OK, because no one can reasonably have a meaningful relationship with thousands of people at once). The only rule I want to subscribe to here is Be Yourself. The folks who love you will put up with a steady stream of photos from your vacation, political links and pictures of that new baby. The ones who don't can unfriend you. You don't want them in your stream, anyway. It's a win-win.
One writer even put up an entire Stop Doing List. I've read it, and don't have any argument with the content — just the tone — because really, all I want to say is:
STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO, and I promise I won't get in your face and try to make you conform to MY ideas of proper behavior, either.
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Every January 1, I start the year with so much hope. Every December 31, I cannot wait for the new year to start. 2014 was a difficult 12 months for me. But it was never going to be anything else. The year was dominated by the fact that my baby girl was turning 18, graduating […]
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Every January 1, I start the year with so much hope.
Every December 31, I cannot wait for the new year to start.
2014 was a difficult 12 months for me. But it was never going to be anything else. The year was dominated by the fact that my baby girl was turning 18, graduating high school and starting college. I would not have had it any other way, but that doesn't mean that letting go wasn't hard.
This was also the year when I had to face the fact that my good health wasn't a given. I have been very fortunate that I've made it to my age without any huge health issues, but I think that made the hysterectomy I endured in September all the more frightening. I don't like doctors, I don't like hospitals, I don't like feeling dependent on others. I mean, who does? I spent a lot of time this year in denial that the surgery was going to happen, and then when I finally accepted it, I used up a lot of energy dreading what was to come.
On the bright side, with the timing right after Megan left for college, my surgery distracted me from realizing how much I missed her.
I was surprised at how quickly I was able to get back on my feet after the surgery. I've also been surprised by the lingering after-effects. It took eight weeks for the incision to heal… but I'm still feeling pain in my belly and am not sure when I'll be back to 100%. This is annoying, except when I can use it to get out of unpleasant tasks like cleaning the cat box. I predict that I will be back to performing that chore early in 2015 – just not this week.
As last year ended, I acquired a client that has kept me working for them almost exclusively. This has also been a boon to my adjustment to my new post-mom life. But the time I've devoted to work has left little for blogging, and I miss having this outlet for self-expression. I hope to rectify that over the next few days, as I revisit the original purpose of this blog and post several observations from our recent visit to the UK (just concluded on Monday). It kind of harks back to the cyclical nature of the New Year: My very first posts — 11 years ago — were about such a visit. I never expected my blog to last beyond that vacation.
I'll see you next year.
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Last week, my husband and I became victims of a crime. As such, he has some thoughts of his own and asked for co-writing privileges. His contributions are indicated in green. I hit a milestone last week: I managed back-to-back marketing events with nary any pain. I was patting myself on the back Thursday morning […]
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Last week, my husband and I became victims of a crime. As such, he has some thoughts of his own and asked for co-writing privileges. His contributions are indicated in green.
I hit a milestone last week: I managed back-to-back marketing events with nary any pain. I was patting myself on the back Thursday morning for bouncing back from the first one well enough to make the two-and-a-half hour drive to the second one in Santa Ana, when my husband called. As my friends all know, this is not an unusual occurrence: He calls me, often when he's stuck in traffic somewhere, feeling bored. He usually forgets when I have an appointment somewhere and I have to remind him.
"Hey, I can't talk right now, I'm doing my event."
But this wasn't one of those "I'm bored" calls:
"We've been burgled," he said.
He remembered I was going to be out of the house all day and came home for lunch to check on the dog. What he found was a dog who was soaked amid a puddle of water in the living room. The bedrooms and home office had been ransacked. In the master bathroom, the window screen was mangled and on the floor. It must have been left open, because if it had been closed, the only way someone could enter would be to break it (we know! We locked ourselves out once!) — and it was intact.
"They took my camera and all my equipment," he said. And as my friends and family all know, to my husband, that was tantamount to
a stab in the heart kick in the nuts.
My jewelry box was open. I don't wear a lot of jewelry (I leave that to my husband) and don't own much that's good (and most of what I do have came from my mother and grandmother, so has more sentimental value than anything else).
There was an empty ring box strewn on the bed. It had held an emerald ring I purchased for myself about ten years ago because it was relatively inexpensive and emerald is my birthstone and I always wanted one. I stopped wearing the ring because it gave me a rash on my finger (like I said: it didn't cost much!). I don't feel too bad about losing that. But I started thinking about what else might be missing and began a little inventory over the phone. Most of my stuff was safe. I don't think the culprit(s) knew how to tell the difference between what was real and what was costume.
I ended up leaving my event early: There were plenty of other staffers there to cover for me, and I was unable to focus. My husband took the rest of the afternoon off to wait for the police to come so he could make a report. This time, I was the one calling from the car. All I could think about was how violated we both felt and that I wanted to be home.
Seeing it in person was creepy: Everything from my drawers was spilled out on the floor. My lingerie. My bags and purses. Worse, they rummaged through my daughter's room and broke a little wicker box that held only a doll and toy tea set. They took her old laptop off a shelf and left it on her bed (obviously after examining it and realizing a 5-year-old Dell wasn't worth much now).
All in all, we were lucky: Aside from the camera bag and the ring, all they took was one gold earring. I can't imagine why they took one and not the pair, but the police speculated that my husband may have interrupted them when he entered our home through the garage. We also know that our dog probably saved us from losing anything from the main part of the house: It was obvious that they were dousing him with water from the cats' dish in an attempt to get past the barrier we use to separate our canine and felines. No animals were harmed in this burglary. No real damage was done to our property. The camera and equipment can be replaced. It's a financial hit we don't need, but fixing that is relatively easy.
What's harder to replace is our sense of safety and security. My first thought was to blame myself: For two months, I've been home nearly 24/7, recovering from abdominal surgery, with my car parked in our driveway… and almost the minute I was out of the house for longer than an hour, this happened. We spent the weekend looking at options to make our home more secure, and we will.
Here's the thing: I don't want to become that little old lady with bars on the windows, who is afraid to leave the house. I want to be able to come and go as I please. I want us to feel comfortable taking a vacation once in a while. I have always imagined our golden years traveling the world and I refuse to allow that world to shrink to the confines of our home. But right now, we're going to give ourselves permission to feel a little bit paranoid.
"Are you leaving the house today?" my husband asked this morning.
Yes. I have some errands to run, including taking the dog in for a booster shot. YES, THE HOUSE WILL BE DOG-FREE FOR ABOUT AN HOUR.
My husband went to work as usual – but took some of our stuff with him. Just in case. As he left, his parting words to the robbers were: "I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." He has a way with words.
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I knew it was going to be ridiculously tough for me to post daily this month – but hope springs eternal, so I signed up for NaBloPoMo anyway. I started out strong and petered out before the first week was up. But instead of declaring, "I failed, I can't do this, I quit" — I'm […]
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I knew it was going to be ridiculously tough for me to post daily this month – but hope springs eternal, so I signed up for NaBloPoMo anyway. I started out strong and petered out before the first week was up.
But instead of declaring, "I failed, I can't do this, I quit" — I'm forging ahead. I may not complete November with 30 daily posts… but I'm going to contribute what I can and feel good about getting back into the habit again.
Blogging after taking such a long time off is a lot like physical exercise: It's hard to get back in the habit, and even harder to do it well at first.
It's kind of like what I'm experiencing with my body, post-surgery.
I know you're probably tired of hearing about this. Believe me, I'm tired of experiencing it — but right now, recovering from this thing is about all I can think about. I knew it would kick my ass — I just didn't know it would kick my ass THIS MUCH or for THIS LONG. Before I went in, they estimated a six week recovery. I'm two weeks past that, and while I'm probably up to 80% back now… getting to 100 is a lot harder than I expected.
And getting to a point where I feel fit is something that will take a very long time (since I was far from that point when this whole ordeal started).
I'm still in pain. It's not unbearable — just enough to remind me that things aren't back to normal yet.
I started driving again last week – just short jaunts to the post office and the supermarket. You know, I thought it was kind of silly to be banned from getting behind the wheel for such a long time (especially when there were no limits on being a passenger), but driving is shockingly painful right now.
On Saturday, I decided it was time to start getting some exercise. I walked the dog with my husband, and later in the day we met friends for a stroll through historic Centinela Park. About halfway through, my sides began to hurt. By the time we got back in the car, FitBit reported that I'd walked a whopping 8,000 steps that day (not even close to the minimal pre-surgery goal of 10,000 a day).
I overdid it. My friends who are more experienced with surgery warned me that would happen; that it's hard to tell where to cross the line of over-exertion until it's already been crossed — especially when the mark is so low.
I was wiped. And it was so bad that I spent most of Sunday resting up from it.
This is not good. We are planning to visit family over the holidays, and I need to be able to handle a lot more than this without winding up in bed for the following day. I mean, right now, I don't think I could get through an airport terminal without feeling fatigued. This cannot be.
I figure I have a month to get myself strong again. I see a parallel with NaBloPoMo — I'm just going to consolidate the whole thing and call what I'm doing NaBloPoWaExMo (National Blog Posting/Walking/Exercising Month, a regimen for body and mind).
And so yesterday, after putting in nearly a full day of work at home, I tried again – just on a smaller scale, with a walk around the block: 3,868 steps. And this morning, I drove myself to a nearby park and walked a mile loop (4,052 steps).
I hurt again. I guess this is something I'm just going to have to push through and live with for a while.
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I do a political podcast on Wednesdays, and told the people I work for about it — but for some reason, they always try to get hold of me while I'm "on the air." Maybe it's because once I told them about it I stayed very, very quiet. It's not smart to bring politics into […]
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I do a political podcast on Wednesdays, and told the people I work for about it — but for some reason, they always try to get hold of me while I'm "on the air."
Maybe it's because once I told them about it I stayed very, very quiet. It's not smart to bring politics into business… and I'm a liberal Democrat performing services for a group of Fox News-watching conservatives.
My colleagues are lovely, nice people and everybody gets along. Why muddy the relationship by telling them they're all wrong about Obamacare?
I save that for my family and friends… and the small audience that listens to the weekly MOMocrats MOMochat podcast.
As you can expect, this week's show was not too jolly. We conducted a post-mortem on Tuesday's election, and even though none of us were actually expecting it to go well, we had hoped for a few more bright spots than we got.
I am a lifelong news junkie: I grew up in interesting times (the 1960's) and from the time I was in 5th grade until very recently, I read a newspaper every single day. The Watergate hearings took place the summer before I started college and like many others of my generation, I was inspired enough by Woodward and Bernstein to study journalism. I care what's happening in the world around me…
…but in the last few years, that world has often become all too depressing and I need to take a break.
And that's what I did on Tuesday night, while the sad election returns kept coming in.
My husband took me out to dinner.
I ordered a stiff drink.
And when I returned home, instead of watching news updates, I fired up Netflix for reruns of 30 Rock — because Liz Lemon's world is so much nicer than mine. I mean, it's funny.
While I'm not about to hide from all the news of the world, I think I will continue to step back a little bit for a while.
I'm not so upset that the GOP won elections in a bunch of red states — but that people like Mitch McConnell — who is responsible for a Congress that has been gridlocked for six years — gets rewarded for bad behavior. It offends me, not so much as a citizen, but as a mother. I'm upset that a few billionaires get to set the political agenda, instead of the American people — and that they're willing to spend billions of dollars to buy politicians but balk at any suggestion that they pitch in a fraction of that expenditure in taxes to pay for roads and bridges and teachers and food for starving children.
I'm upset that the Senate will now be a mirror image of the House, where the Science committee is headed by people who think the world is just 6,000 years old.
I'm upset that the slow progress we've made towards universal healthcare will be chipped away by the new Congress. This comes on top of six years of fear and misinformation spread by the very people who devised the "free market solution" we ended up adopting.
There is so much wrong with our politics right now, is it any wonder I'm mainlining old sitcoms? Pass the remote… I think Friends is on.
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My mind is a jumble this afternoon, which has become my go-to state… and is one of the reasons I find it so tough to write these days. I blame menopause. I find myself blaming menopause for everything that goes wrong in my life: I blame it for my mood swings, my uncontrollable weight gain, […]
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My mind is a jumble this afternoon, which has become my go-to state… and is one of the reasons I find it so tough to write these days.
I blame menopause.
I find myself blaming menopause for everything that goes wrong in my life: I blame it for my mood swings, my uncontrollable weight gain, and my inability to focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I blame it for my recent hysterectomy, which you might not think fair. After all, it took decades for my uterine fibroids to swell my womb to the size of a small turkey. (Yes! That was how my doctor described it the morning after she and the oncologist removed it from my body. Go ahead and think about that in a couple of weeks while you're shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. How would you like to be walking around with something that size inside of you? Fortunately, all of my growths were benign. They were the size of grapefruits, but harmless nonetheless.)
They were already pretty large when my doctor started monitoring them. She actually wanted to take the whole works out from the start, but I wasn't ready for that. I knew the surgery would mean several weeks of recovery, and at the time, my daughter was only 13. I couldn't take that time off. How would she get to school? So we adopted the wait-and-see approach. The fibroids were supposed to shrink after my body stopped producing estrogen. Instead, they kept on going — which alarmed my doctor a lot more than me. And she refused to prescribe any kind of HRT to help alleviate the hot flashes and night sweats and other indignities I've began to endure once my periods stopped.
The one symptom I actually wanted from menopause (the shrinking of the fibroids) was the one thing I didn't get. Therefore, I think it's fair to blame menopause for my surgery, after all.
A lot of people told me I would feel so much better after my hysterectomy, because all of my symptoms would be gone. But after menopause, I had no symptoms. The only time they bothered me was when I had to go to my doctor's office to get an ultrasound.
It's a funny thing about ultrasounds at the OB/GYN: When I was pregnant, I couldn't wait for them. I paid attention to what was on the screen and was excited to see how much my baby had grown. I asked for printouts and proudly showed them off to my friends before sticking them to the fridge with a magnet.
Getting an ultrasound when you're not pregnant is a completely different experience. If you're not pregnant and you're getting one, that's a sign that things are not good. The technician working the wand barely talked to me, just grunting periodically while she measured the growths. And frankly, I didn't care to have any conversation with her. I had to drink a gallon of water immediately before coming in. All I could think of during these ultrasounds was how much I needed to pee.
It never occurred to me while I was getting those ultrasounds that my body was behaving abnormally. Of COURSE, the fibroids were shrinking, because that's what they were supposed to do. And each time the doctor told me, I was shocked.
I blame menopause for that, too – even though that's probably my own fault.
Yesterday, I went in for my second post-op visit. She was happy to hear that I'm feeling a lot stronger and have stopped taking the painkillers — although I do get a little achy in my abdomen by the end of the day.
"That's your organs rearranging themselves," she told me.
Again, we're back to the image of the turkey. With my uterus taking up all the real estate in there, the rest of my organs were doubling up. With the turkey gone, it's like they've got all this extra room — and they're figuring out where to hang. I recounted this theory to my daughter when she called this afternoon. She didn't appreciate it.
Anyway: the doctor said I still have a little way to go before I can resume all of my normal activities (even though it's been seven weeks, the size of the thing meant additional incisions that have yet to fully heal). I did get the go-ahead to drive short distances, which means my period of house arrest is finally coming to an end. As for physical exercise, I am OK to start walking and can add more strenuous activities as I feel better.
And she gave me some HRT samples to see if we can do something about my hot flashes, discomfort and general fuzziness.
So my friends were right: I just may start feeling better.
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I love the first couple of days of the month. Not only does it feel like a fresh slate, but there's the added joy of finding NO NEW BILLS in the mail. But today's mail included an envelope addressed to "Parents of" from my daughter's college – with the notation: "FINAL EXAMS INFORMATION ENCLOSED." Naturally, […]
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I love the first couple of days of the month. Not only does it feel like a fresh slate, but there's the added joy of finding NO NEW BILLS in the mail.
But today's mail included an envelope addressed to "Parents of" from my daughter's college – with the notation:
Naturally, I opened it right away — only to discover that it was a solicitation:
Subject: Send your student a Final Exams CARE Package
I guess I was mistaken by thinking the days of buying magazines, candy and wrapping paper to raise funds for school ended with graduation. Apparently, my daughter's college gets a cut from parents who order "care packages" sent through their vendors:
"The success of this program helps us to support all of our student activities. All you've got to do is select the Care Package you want. Our goal is to get each and every parent to participate."
OK. I get it. And it's not like I haven't been sending my kid little care packages anyway: Aside from shipping her items she forgot to pack, we've ordered her little trinkets from her favorite stores, novelties and favorite food items. I was planning to send her something this month anyway — so this might just be a little more convenient.
"Ordering is a snap. Just write your note and seal it in the yellow envelope… Your card and package will arrive just in time for exams."
There's just one problem with this service: the "tasty and wholesome foods" in the different care package options are mostly JUNK: Rice Krispie treats, Pop-Tarts, Wheat Thins, Ramen, Oreos, Slim Jim… etc. etc.
I've never been a strict adherent to healthy eating. I think there's a time and a place for junk food (in moderation). But most of the stuff in the packages are not foods my daughter likes. She's in an apartment-style dorm with a full kitchen and no meal plan, so she and her roommates have to shop for their own groceries. I'm pretty sure they already have a stock of M&M's and ramen on hand.
I actually had another option in mind for a care package: Something just as unhealthy — but better quality — which she isn't going to be able to find at her local Jewel/Osco. Something like this.
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(October 25, 2013: Colorado Springs, CO 80909) The Aurora West College Prep Academy Spartans soccer team scored 5 points and limited the host St. Mary's Pirates to 0 in the Spartans non-league victory on Friday.
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Paul missed his fourth straight game Friday against the Minnesota Timberwolves as he continues to deal with a strained left hamstring, while Butler missed his first game Friday with a hyperextended right knee.
Both players had MRIs on their injuries and the results came back negative.
After Friday's nearly three-hour practice and film session, Paul met with Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro, head athletic trainer Jasen Powell and strength and conditioning coach Richard Williams. If Paul looks good in Sunday morning's workout, he will likely see some time against Toronto.
"I thought he had a good workout today," Del Negro said. "If he does (play), it will be restricted minutes but we'll see in the morning. He's feeling a lot better. We just want to be smart about it."
Butler will also be re-evaluated Sunday morning as well and Del Negro said Butler "was feeling better."
Butler injured his knee Tuesday against the Utah Jazz and played with the injury Wednesday against the Dallas Mavericks, but he felt uncomfortable as the game progressed. Butler had his worst game of the season against the Mavericks, finishing with two points on 1-of-12 shooting, missing all four of his 3-point attempts.
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Silas Baxter-Neal
What did you get for Christmas?
My first non-tube TV.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one sees it, did it really fall?
Yes, it did. It is a very self-centered, ego-based thought to believe that things only occur if humans observe them happening.
Be here now?
If you are not here now you are living in a fantasy.
Skate every damn day?
Skate every damn day if that is what you want to do, but don't do it for the sake of a hashtag. #skateeverydamndaythatyouwantoexceptthedaysthatyoudontandwhentheweatherisreallybadoryouaresoreorunmotivatedorhavenowheretoskate
This spot can be seen in The Wire. Silas Frontside Pivot to fakie.
Instagram or Twitter?
Mosaic or Inhabitants?
Suciu or Dela?
Brains vs. brawn.
Why is Busenitz not a SOTY?
Dennis doesn't give a shit about such small human accomplishments. It would also be too limiting to pick one year that he ripped the hardest.
Skate and create or skate and destroy?
Create it to skate. Skate it to destroy it.
Silas nosegrind at an amazing looking spot in Copenhagen during last year's contest. I emphasize the "looking."
SOTY or POTUS (President of the United States)?
They both have become financially-based acquisitions of power and notoriety.
Good pot or Wu-Tang?
Sunshine and rainbows.
Legalize it?
Why not.
New Year's resolution?
Be the person I want to be.
Do you wish to apologize to Nyjah about your SOTY statement?
Despite whether I enjoy watching Nyjah skate or not, I do have respect for his abilities and the level he is skating at. And it is disrespectful to publicly say negative things about someone based on personal feelings. Nyjah, I am sorry for publicly slandering you. Next time I see you, vodka shots are on me. Or you can give me a shiner. It's up to you.
Fred Gall's Top 5 Favorite things in Life
1) Skateboarding
2) Beer
3) Pharmaceuticals
4) Getoz
5) Pussy
Fred Gall backside lips at FDR while most of the Habitat team spectates during their jaunt to Philly to film the Skatepark Round-Up
The Georgetown quarter pipes are one of those eternally amazing spots. Backside nosepick by an eternally amazing dude.
Stefan Janoski
What did you get for Christmas?
I'm not sure yet. A new Habitat skateboard!
Skate every damn day?
Or night or weekend—skate every damn time you feel like it.
Miami or NY?
Both. In winter, Miami and in summer, NY.
I've only seen this trick a few times and none of them looked this good. Frontside wallride nollie out.
Sacto or Vacaville?
Vacaville is for visiting my parents. Sacto is awesome: mellow place, great people and amazing to skate.
Mark or Brian?
Don't you mean Mark and Brian? They're both amazing and I can't wait to see their new parts! Two newest pros for Habitat, two great guys and two talented skaters.
Mosaic or Inhabitants?
Great videos and two different time periods. Mosaic was great: my first Habitat part, Alien had a section, Pappalardo, Wenning—loved that video! Inhabitants was amazing, too! It was later so we all grew up a bit and there were new members. I could never choose one. There's different reasons to love and watch both.
Stefan messes around with an eye-pleasing no-comply to tailslide
New Years resolution?
World peace.
Who was your SOTY pick?
Danny Garcia.
How long do you think you can keep skating?
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
What's next?
Habitat x Animal CollectiveHabitat teamed up with the band Animal Collective to release three new boards and a tee shirt. Check it out.
Nike SB - Janoski Hyperfeel - Can't Turn It OffAs skateboarders, we see the world through a different lens. That perspective can never be turned off. Check out the latest from Stefan Janoski and Nike SB.
Silas Baxter-Neal's "Away Days" PartSilas has set the bar high, but this part exceeds anything we could have expected. Straight up epic. SOTY is forever. The 24 hour viewing period for this part has expired.
Fatback: adidas in JapanThe filming deadline for Away Days got a little less stressful when Joe Brook touched down in Okinawa. Fatback approved!
adidas "Far & Away" episode 8The rippingest episode to date, chock full of great skating from some of the best in the world.


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Our 12-hour takeover—featuring the likes of Cabanne, François X and Antigone—has begun, which means you can get a taste of our April In Residence series at Concrete.
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Here's a recording of Jean-Guillaume Cabanne's recent set at the latest Concrete event in Paris. Brooding minimal and deep house was the order of the day.
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The French artist is the latest addition to the Parisian club's crew of regulars.
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Apollonia and Jeremy Underground will play the September event organized by the team behind Concrete and Weather festival.
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The Russian festival also has a new location for its next edition.
Thu, 12 May 2016
The Moscow outfit will take over Salon Zur Wilden Renate this Sunday, May 15th.
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The intimate Welsh festival's next edition will run from July 8th through 11th.
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Zaltan and Planète Sauvage will all spin in the shop as part of our In Residence stint in Paris.
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The likes of Cabanne, Antigone and Shlømo will play sets as part of the 12-hour radio session on March 30th.
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Artist Janet Ryan of Zanesville has a knack for painting with oil as her medium. Artist Gary Graham says she has developed a rather unique process in applying brush strokes to her paintings.
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By JOHN RATHER
Published: November 30, 2003
IT seems appropriate that the water tower rising above densely residential Franklin Square bears the initials of the water district, but not the name of this nearly three-square-mile Long Island hamlet in western Nassau County.
With close to 30,000 residents, Franklin Square, which is in the town of Hempstead, is large but low profile, fitting into the regional map like a puzzle piece without any easily discernible splashes of color or jagged edges that would make it stand out.
This may be how people like it in this broadly-middle-income place of single-family, frequently brick-faced, Capes and ranches, a transition from nearby Queens to the suburbs and a community where stability, deep family attachments, sports and civic groups and good schools are what bind.
''People never move,'' said Carol Ahrens, director of the Franklin Square Public Library. ''They are here 40, 50 years, and then the children and even the grandchildren stay here, sometimes in the same house.''
There is uniformity in the housing market. ''Franklin Square is Franklin Square; there is no upper, no lower, nothing negative and nothing ostentatious,'' said Michael B. Schindel, a real estate broker and the owner of Century 21 Maridon Realty. Most asking prices are bunched in the $400,000 range; the highest recent listing was a five-bedroom Tudor for $599,000.
In a familiar tale for Nassau County, the current prices are the highest real estate professionals say they have seen, but the market, while still strong, is leveling. ''The climb up is not as rapid now,'' Mr. Schindel said. ''People are not getting the increases they were accustomed to.''
Houses selling for under $300,000, until a few years ago a category that would encompass nearly all homes in Franklin Square, are now hard to find. ''It would have to have something wrong with it,'' Mr. Schindel said. Lot sizes are 40-by-100 to 60-by-100 feet, with a scattering of 80-by-100's. Residential streets have a close-in intimate feel. It would be hard not to know the neighbors.
Mother-daughter houses, divided to include an apartment, are a small niche in the market. Currently valued in the $400,000 to $500,000 range, they provide income for some older homeowners who have no desire to leave Franklin Square. ''Not everybody wants to go to Florida,'' Mr. Schindel said. A mother-daughter with a total of five bedrooms was recently listed for $499,000.
Small studios in these houses rent for around $800, but two-bedroom apartments go for $1,600 to $1,700. Three-bedroom houses rent quickly for $2,200 a month and up. There are very few co-ops, condominiums or multiunit buildings and no large apartment buildings in the hamlet.
Helena Veloso, the office leader of the Prudential Douglas Elliman branch in Franklin Square, said the number of homes on the market had been rising over the past four months. But what stands out most, she said, is the pace of home improvement. ''It's like every other house is under construction,'' she said. ''Everybody is remodeling.''
Local residents said Franklin Square is an excellent place to raise a family. ''It's just a wonderful, very stable community,'' said Julie Soffientini, an assistant school superintendent who moved in 30 years ago and raised two daughters with her husband, Raymond. She said she appreciated the clean streets, well-kept properties and convenient local shopping.
Recently, the sense of stability has been shaken for residents who are just learning of sharp increases in their property taxes. The increases follow a court-ordered reassessment by Nassau County that is causing distress in many communities and seems to be hitting Franklin Square particularly hard. ''It is a crisis, and people are incredibly upset about it,'' said Carla Cohen, the editor and publisher of The Franklin Square Bulletin, a weekly newspaper.
School officials estimated that high-school taxes for a homeowner living in Franklin Square increased by an average of about $450, to $4,250, and that elementary-school taxes increased about $1,000, to about $4,000. The officials have pointed out that the higher taxes are largely the result of the reassessment, not the fault of the schools. Taxes aside, the schools are well regarded.
PUPILS begin at the Franklin Square Union Free School District, an elementary district with an enrollment of 1,975 in three schools, all for kindergarten through Grade 6. Statistics released by the state Department of Education in October showed that 99.3 percent of fourth grade students in the district met or exceeded state standards in math. Only two Nassau districts scored higher. Elementary school students in the Franklin Square district consistently score above state averages on other standardized tests.
Timothy E. Lafferty, the district superintendent, said a recent revamping of curriculum and staff development helped account for the students' achievements. ''It is a total team effort,'' he said.
Average class size last year was 18 in kindergarten and 21 in other grades. District voters have consistently passed school budgets and approved a $14.4 million bond in 2000 that added classrooms to all three schools and new library technology centers at two of them, Dr. Lafferty said.


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I am programming in C# using XNA GS 4.0.
I have start out by attempting to catch the keyboard input events which I have managed. I.e. when a key is pressed, it raises a key event thanks to the help of an IMessageFilter scanning for keyboard input.
This might sound a bit redundant but since XNA stops the default Form key events from triggering, this seemed like a simple solution.
Now that i have both the Message struct and a KeyEventArgs struct that I have pieced together from the Message, I can simply fire an event in the main code file.
The problem I have lies in that I want a text box to respond to these key event messages as it would normally.
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For now all I can really give you is the method I am using to capture the windows Messages
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Paul Lambert has praised 'Mr Reliable' Matt Lowton as the former Sheffield United man prepares to step in and solve Villa's central defensive problems.
Lowton could switch from right-back to centre-back for today's clash against Norwich City, with Nathan Baker [ankle], Ciaran Clark [knee] and long-term casualty Richard Dunne [groin] all nursing injuries.
The 23-year-old stepped across to partner Ron Vlaar in the centre at Fulham last weekend after Baker was forced off during the 1-0 defeat.
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Lambert admits Baker could be sidelined for several weeks although Clark's injury is less serious.
"I think Nathan will be a few weeks but Ciaran will hopefully be back quicker than that," he added.
Make sure you're here to back the boys against Norwich City.
Gallic flair in B6