Random thoughts

1.  I got a flu shot on Friday.    Hopefully, I won't get the flu.  Although my arm was quite sore, ha.  

2.  If you have HBO and get a chance, they have a really good documentary on George Harrison called "Living in the Material World".  It was done by Martin Scorsese.  It's 3 hours and 29 minutes but well worth watching.

3.  The patio guy is supposed to come on Wednesday.

4.  Bad news - I chipped a tooth and had to go to the dentist.  Good news- No novcaine, only took about five minutes and he didn't charge me for it because it was a tooth he previously fixed. 

5..  Be aware -  There are many living with Stage 4 breast cancer with treatment but they are not living nearly long enough.

This winter

has really kicked my butt.   I feel guilty, guilty, guilty about my blog and not commenting on others.  I just feel I don't have anything to say for now. 

I'm also behind on everything else in my house and I'm not doing much to correct the situation.  I've got to get my act together.  I've got to start losing some weight etc.  A bunch of things I need to work on.  I just need to find the motivation LOL. 

So, I'm not even going to do Saturday Centus for a while.  I didn't want to just stop completely because I hate when people just fall off the face of blog world, ha.  I will still be reading my emails so you can email me.

Hopefully, I'll see you later.

Waste not Want not

I read a news piece today about a book store that are closing some of their stores.  In fact, they closed the one at a mall near me not too long ago.  I used to buy books there sometimes.  Apparently, and this is something I didn't know, what ever books are unsold, the cover of the books would be torn off and the rest of the book would be thrown in a dumpster.  Sounds crazy, huh?  I guess it's too expensive to send the books back so they came up with this idea to save money. Even if they send them back to the publisher, they destroy them.  Supposedly, after a big uproar (which I never heard of) this store now says they will either recycle or donate them.  That's good if this comes to pass but from what I've read a lot of stores that also sell books do this as well.

After I read this, it reminded when I used to read the message boards (until they changed the format) on AOL.  I used to read about "dumpster diving", which again I never heard of.  People would go to different stores mostly at night because it is illegal and look in the dumpster's and take things out that were good.  It seemed weird to me but the more I read the more I realized how much different stores were throwing things away that were perfectly good.  Doesn't make sense.  Is it just too much trouble for stores to donate it or are they afraid of some kind of liability? 

One time, I had to take medication back to the pharmacy for my Mom because it was wrong.  We had just picked it up and probably came back less than a half hour with it.  I was flabbergasted when the pharmacist opened the bottle and threw out the pills and just gave me a bottle with the correct medication.  I remember after I had my chemo treatments I had a bunch of medicine left.  I hated to throw them out.  I asked if I could donate them to someone and the answer was no. How many times have you taken a medication and it didn't work out for you and you have a bunch left?   I can understand once its left the pharmacy's premises the medication can't be vouched for but it seems to me with the cost of medications there should be some way they could be donated and given to people that can't afford them. 

After thinking about this, it really makes to want to put more effort into cleaning my "eyesores" and disposing of the stuff in a good way. 

Kentucky Derby

Anyone watch? Poor Eight Belles. I used to watch the coverage all day of the horses, so I could pick who I thought the winner would be. I didn't this year. I know I would have fallen in love with Eight Belles since she was a filly (I'm all about girl power). After coming in second, Eight Belles collapsed with broken ankles and had to be put down. A couple of years ago when Barbero got hurt I wasn't as interested in the Triple Crown. After deciding at the last minute to watch the race, I think I finally had my fill of horse racing.