I just learned about an assault that took place just around the corner of our house.  A young woman was asleep on her sofa and at 1 am there was an intruder who attacked her while she was sleeping.  He stabbed her 27 times.  She somehow managed to get away from him and made it to a neighbors house to get help.  The attacker was not apprehended.  The woman did not know her attacker.  The paper called it a home invasion.  

Now, that's a big unnerving and too close to home. (literally)

There should be a college course on Medicare.........

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person.  I went to college and I studied hard.  But no where in my educational process did I ever learn enough to understand Medicare.  Now I have the part A figured out and the part B.  I've decided on the right supplemental plan but then we got in to the part D.   Oh my goodness what a maze.  Between the formularies and the donut hole I was confused as heck.  If I had known how much there was to learn about getting old I'd have made other arrangements. ha   Oh, and have you tried to talk to someone in the flesh at Social Security?  I waited on the phone for over an hour.  I tried online but couldn't get the answers I needed.  We are going to our local SS office next Tuesday and I guess we will just wait for as long as it takes.

It sure makes me feel bad for those seniors who are totally dependent on Social Security.  That little ole check just doesn't stretch very far and I don't see any change on the horizon as long as Congress doesn't have to participate in the system.  Not much incentive on their part to change it.

Here comes the bride!

On Saturday night we attended the wedding of a friend's daughter.  The couple had her little dachshund, Charlie, serve as the ring bearer.  The little dog walked down the aisle and immediately went under the bride's dress and poked his head out and went to sleep.  Cutest thing ever.

 To say the least, he stole the show!

 

Me and my handsome husband!

Busy time this weekend

Boy this is a busy month for Ron and I.  Between trying to make decisions about Medicare supplemental insurance and setting up our retirement accounts we are going in a million directions.  

In addition we still have storm damage to contend with.  Two of our large trees lost some huge limbs that have to be cut up.  Don't know when we will get to that.  We are also waiting for the new roof to be put on the barn.

Now, I'm a person who likes to have projects to do but my husband, not so much!  He'd be content to watch old movies all day and sleep in his recliner.  I have to have something to do.  That is why I have applied for two jobs after retirement.  I applied with our local school system.  One job is at the high school around the block from our house and the other is at a grade school also a short distance from our house.  I'd have summers and holidays off so it sounded like a good deal.  Now to wait and see if I even get an interview.  Either way I will be substituting for my daughters in their classrooms when they need me.

Today I am going to pick up Mike's meds.  The pharmacy has a new call-in system but it is a crap shoot if they will get the order right.  Mike takes 14 different meds and some of them are the "big Kahoonas" as he calls it... He is very paranoid about his meds.  so I have to be very certain that they are filled correctly.

Tomorrow night I have a date with my husband to go to a wedding.  I'm looking forward to getting dressed up for a change.  Ron is quite dapper in a suit and tie if I say so myself!  

Don't dig on the Duggars

Whether you are a fan of the Duggars or not the fact that juvenile records were somehow released to the public is horrible and especially for the victims who were minors at the time the events took place.

I think it was probably a bad idea for the family to start filming a reality show in the first place.  From what I understand the abuse took place just a short time before filming began.  Anyone who signs up to be a public figure takes a huge risk that someone will do anything to dig up dirt on you.  They shouldn't have taken that risk for 5 young girls.  The girls deserved to be protected from the very thing that has happened to them now.

I hope that this doesn't become political fodder for those who want to attack the conservative right.  I'm a liberal democrat but a line has to be drawn when it comes to innocent victims. They aren't running for office and they don't deserve to be used as ammunition.

Caitlyn

Well it has been interesting watching the reaction to Bruce Jenner's transformation.  I don't know why some people feel it is their duty to judge and ridicule another person.  Or why they think that another person's decision to do something to correct what they feel was nature's mistake in some way impacts them at all.  It baffles my mind.

Using religion as an excuse to judge others is just so darn hypocritical.  Drives me crazy!   

I read where a young woman wrote how God doesn't make mistakes.  If he made you to have a male body he intended for you to be a male.  That really got my attention as I look at the sweet adorable faces of the children we treat at our hospital every day.  Children who were born with every type of syndrome or difficulty you can imagine.  Some have cerebral palsy, some just simply born with some genetic mutation.  So, does this young woman believe it was God's intention that they be born to experience pain?  Was it something they did that made God decide to punish them in some way?  Or maybe God was just punishing their parents.

As wonderful as the internet can be...like making friends you would have otherwise never met, it is also a vehicle for some of the most vicious and vile rhetoric spewed by cowards who have the luxury of anonymity.  Evidently they never heard the saying, "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all".

My impression of Caitlyn Jenner is that she looks beautiful for her age.  And I hope that she is happy.  I give her a lot of credit for handling the situation in the only way possible.  She is presenting herself on her own terms and not leaving it to the paparazzi.  As a public figure she had no choice.

I was born a woman and I don't look that good!

We received 5 new hospital beds today and they are fancy.  They will weigh patients without having to get them out of bed.  Pretty snazzy.........at least for our little hospital.

This got me to thinking about my projection clock.  My clock projects the time and temp. inside and outside on the ceiling. What if it also projected my weight each morning on the ceiling?  And then scrolled either messages of inspiration to get my fat butt moving or threatened to scroll my weight across the front of the house if I didn't loose weight consistently.  Of course all I'd have to do is unplug the clock...but then it has a battery reserve...and it might turn into a rouge clock that takes over the world.........