In case you slept through it... 2009 is here. I spent New Year's Eve playing rock band with my teen age son. I love that game! I did watch Dick Clark on tv. It is hard to see him that way but I greatly admire him continuing to do his thing. I hadn't realized he was that old...he was born in 1929? You get used to certain things...like Dick Clark hosting the count down on New Year's eve and it is hard to adjust to change. Means I am getting old too.
Okey dokey...
And now to my list of unanswered questions for 2009. Feel free to add to the list.
1. What will Tina Fey do now that Sarah Palin is out of the spotlight (thank god!)?
2. Will the Great Pumpkin ever come?
3. Why don't we have flying cars and robot maids like on the Jetsons by now?
4. Why do hotdogs come 10 in a pack while hotdog buns come 8 in a package?
5. What is in the mystery tupperware in the back of the fridge?
6. Why aren't rainbow suspenders back in style?
7. Who are the people who buy Chia Pets?
8. Where IS Waldo? Has anyone found him yet?
Okay here are two totally serious questions for ya.
9. My kitten will only eat the expensive science brand kitten food that you buy at the pet store. How do I know when to switch her to regular adult cat food and will I have to buy the same expensive brand?
10. What motivation would anyone have for finding a cure for a disease like Multiple Sclerosis when so many companies make tons of money on the medications, keeping us slightly better off but not cured?
And now for something completely different...
I know just what you want to do for the New Year! You want to read my writings. I am psychic that way.
* Have you ever been accused of being a hypchondriac? Well join the club! Read of my medical adventures with an evil eye technician here.
* Are you wondering what I am gonna be writing about on MS Health Central next year? Yeah I am wondering the same thing myself. Here is the direction I wish to take my writing there.
* As much as I feel like a McScrooge sometimes, there is a part of me which holds Christmas dear. This is probably one of my best and most honest pieces of writing about one of my childhood Christmases spent with my mother who was going through a mental breakdown at the time. You can find my Christmas story here.
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know...writing about New Year's resolutions seems cliched but I took a different path with mine this year. This year I have created a list of acceptance. Come check it out here.
* Amd lastly but never leastly (is that a word?) I wrote a special New Year's post for Stu's Site which you may find here.
Lots of exciting things are in store for these coming months...some things I have to keep under lock and key for now but there seems to be a good chance that one of my dreams may be under development....soon.
I hope you all had a great New Years and one of my resolutions is to visit you guys more often. My apologies for not getting around to see you all more often. If I bring cheetos will you open the door? Barbecue corn chips? Oreos? Man you're hard to please!
22 comments:
1st of all .
happy new year ..
and as far as #4 ..
my 11 year old answered that one a couple of years ago at the beach when he was wondering exactly the same ..
it's a conspiracy he said ..
Happy New Year, Merely Me! May all your dreams come true this year.
If you think you need to bring anything, bring chocolate.
Happy New year
I confess I did buy a co worker a Chia Pet once and she loved it! and was able to grow it too.It was Mickey Mouse.
You can buy a robot that will take care of you .There was an article about it in a British paper it's on my blog. I'll send you the link when I find it again.They are worried robots will take the place of real caregivers for the elderly and children. The kiddie robot learns to play, tell jokes, and laughs.
Another article was about a scientist who has re programed those dog robots and made them into sniffer dogs for bombs They even travel in packs and bark to one another when they find something Too weird and scary for me
#9: Usually around a year old you can switch to adult cat food. The best way is to buy a brand you want to try, begin mixing small to larger portions of the new food in with the old food until all you are giving the Little Darling is the NEW food...it's the old switcharoonie. Or, if your cat is like mine, she'll just eat AROUND the new stuff unless you blend it together really well. Sigh...
Happy New Year
Linda D. in Seattle
First of all M, you look gorgeous in the little New Years Dress.
To answer some of your questions-
1. Tina Fey will start ghost writing on TTWS,
2. The Great Pumpkin DOES come, it's just we fall asleep and miss him.
3. Flying cars and Rosie the maid- well, it could happen.
4. I don't know about hotdogs, maybe they want you to make a double dog.
5. Mystery Tupperwear- your grandmother's fruit cake, from Christmas 1929.
6. Rainbow suspenders died when Gallagher brought them back.
7. Chia pets and Clappers are bought by last minute shoppers on Christmas Eve who are in CVS or Walgreens.
8. Waldo- he entered the FBI witness protection program.
9. Mew Mew! Start mixing the Science Diet Kitten food with the Adult pet food in the bowl. Start of with 3/4's Kitten to 1/4 adult and keep tinkering until a month or so later it's all adult.
Speaking of MEW- I wanna photo this year!
10. I don't know why there isn't a cure for MS. I don't know why there isn't a cure for Cancer, or Aids, or the common cold. All I know is writing can change the world, and all good writers have had cats.
1. What will Tina Fey do now that Sarah Palin is out of the spotlight (thank god!)? WHO?
2. Will the Great Pumpkin ever come? What?
3. Why don't we have flying cars and robot maids like on the Jetsons by now? We do they are just either madly expensive or in the labs of MIT, now is that because the geeks just love playing with them or because it all is so difficult?
4. Why do hotdogs come 10 in a pack while hotdog buns come 8 in a package? Consumerism, it drives our economy, well that’s been the story
5. What is in the mystery tupperware in the back of the fridge? My sons Year 8 science experiment – or a new cure for fungal infections
6. Why aren't rainbow suspenders back in style? Suspenders means something different here in the UK so I had a double take but I think the same reason would apply anyway…:-)
7. Who are the people who buy Chia Pets? What?
8. Where IS Waldo? Has anyone found him yet? Scotland – it’s easy to hide there
Okay here are two totally serious questions for ya.
9. My kitten will only eat the expensive science brand kitten food that you buy at the pet store. How do I know when to switch her to regular adult cat food and will I have to buy the same expensive brand? Easy – get rid of the cat they are all evil spitting things that seem to instantly dislike me :-)
10. What motivation would anyone have for finding a cure for a disease like Multiple Sclerosis when so many companies make tons of money on the medications, keeping us slightly better off but not cured? Ouch – close to home that one… honestly the main problem with pharmaceutical development is that we know so little about the body and how it works. We know some pathways and what they do to certain symptoms and even then it’s darn difficult to make a drug that does that and that alone in the body without screwing up other stuff. Trust me the people really at the forefront of science would love to cure people but they really know so little that just treating the symptoms is very often the very best we can do right now. Just think that if we were developing the common brands of pain killer today we’d stop before getting into animals let alone humans due to the liver tox issues and the stomach bleeding etc. etc. So one of the problems is that the restrictions on side effects (look at many recent debates on drugs that have been removed or restricted in the market which are many more times safer than a pain killer I can buy over the counter anywhere) often we have to reject many possible routes for development as the safety profile just won’t get passed the regulators. Final aside on that – Vioxx when taken off the market meant many people losing they only effective pain relief they had found in years – then doctors are telling people in their 70s and 80s who cannot bear the pain now – sorry but there was a very small risk you might have a heart attack. Many of them I’m sure would have taken that risk due to the combination of the relief and given their age etc. We need a much better debate on safety vs efficacy.
1. What will Tina Fey do now that Sarah Palin is out of the spotlight (thank god!)? WHO?
2. Will the Great Pumpkin ever come? What?
3. Why don't we have flying cars and robot maids like on the Jetsons by now? We do they are just either madly expensive or in the labs of MIT, now is that because the geeks just love playing with them or because it all is so difficult?
4. Why do hotdogs come 10 in a pack while hotdog buns come 8 in a package? Consumerism, it drives our economy, well that’s been the story
5. What is in the mystery tupperware in the back of the fridge? My sons Year 8 science experiment – or a new cure for fungal infections
6. Why aren't rainbow suspenders back in style? Suspenders means something different here in the UK so I had a double take but I think the same reason would apply anyway…:-)
7. Who are the people who buy Chia Pets? What?
8. Where IS Waldo? Has anyone found him yet? Scotland – it’s easy to hide there
Okay here are two totally serious questions for ya.
9. My kitten will only eat the expensive science brand kitten food that you buy at the pet store. How do I know when to switch her to regular adult cat food and will I have to buy the same expensive brand? Easy – get rid of the cat they are all evil spitting things that seem to instantly dislike me :-)
10. What motivation would anyone have for finding a cure for a disease like Multiple Sclerosis when so many companies make tons of money on the medications, keeping us slightly better off but not cured? Ouch – close to home that one… honestly the main problem with pharmaceutical development is that we know so little about the body and how it works. We know some pathways and what they do to certain symptoms and even then it’s darn difficult to make a drug that does that and that alone in the body without screwing up other stuff. Trust me the people really at the forefront of science would love to cure people but they really know so little that just treating the symptoms is very often the very best we can do right now. Just think that if we were developing the common brands of pain killer today we’d stop before getting into animals let alone humans due to the liver tox issues and the stomach bleeding etc. etc. So one of the problems is that the restrictions on side effects (look at many recent debates on drugs that have been removed or restricted in the market which are many more times safer than a pain killer I can buy over the counter anywhere) often we have to reject many possible routes for development as the safety profile just won’t get passed the regulators. Final aside on that – Vioxx when taken off the market meant many people losing they only effective pain relief they had found in years – then doctors are telling people in their 70s and 80s who cannot bear the pain now – sorry but there was a very small risk you might have a heart attack. Many of them I’m sure would have taken that risk due to the combination of the relief and given their age etc. We need a much better debate on safety vs efficacy.
How-dy.
About the kitten, the only thing I can say is that he/she is learning how to be an increbibly picky eater.
Once a feline gets it into its mind about a particular kind of wet food, it's virtually impossible to change it.
My cat is the same way to a certain degree. He'll eat any brand of wet food, so long as it's sliced or shredded. Any other kind will simply sit in his bowl and get ignored.
As for snack items, BBQ chips will definitely get you into the door. :-]
I have no answers, but I enjoyed the questions.
2009 is here. LIVE WITH IT, PEOPLE!
Which is to say...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! As for your questions, hubby and I ask about the Chia pets every 10 minutes after the commercials air... exactly who buys those?
Good to see you writing so much. I haven't caught up with my reading but I'm headed that way. Take care and wishing you a wonderful new year!
I keep hoping for the Great Pumpkin but I'm 50 and I'm starting to doubt.
For kitty, you can try mixing in something less expensive with the expensive stuff. When you find something that she'll eat, then gradually ease away from the expensive stuff.
My kitty loves Friskies, both canned and dry. He'll also eat the Purina dry. But it's only Friskies fishies for the canned stuff.
Here's a question...In 2009, will I find any of the pens I lost in 2008?
Happy new year to you. I am amazed by how much you write so quickly and well. I might need to start taking a cue from you in 2009.
You cannot give someone champagne and caviar and then switch to beer..:)! Someone here said it right, ween the kitty off little by little.
The Great Pumpkin comes when we don't see it like Santa Clause - You have to believe.
Actually, don't they now make 8 hotdogs per package? Hmmm...
Ya know, I wish there was a cure for everything out there in the medical health industry, But to me I always question about not just a Cure but a Prevention. AIDS we can prevent, obviously, but what about cancer, MS, and Lupus just to name a few -
I want to see that Kitty of yours and of course, where is that new writing blog of yours? Happy New Year!!!!!!
I hate to break the bad news but The Great Pumpkin isn't coming. The good news is you can still count on Santa and Dick Clark every year.
You know I wonder a lot about the flying cars too.
At the very least we should have hover cars or jet packs.
Flying cars? Good golly, I hope not. I'm still trying to sell the idea of horse drawn. (getting a horse to hold a pecil or pen is NOT an easy task, either)
I mean, can you imagine the bad drivers three dimensions would give us?
Still, Tina will return to thrty rock till it gets popular and then they take it off.
Don't forget, Palin's big goal is 'PALIN in 2012!' so, I think Tina's job is safe till then.
The great Pumpkin came, but some clown made the world's biggest pumpkin pie with it.
The hotdog question is just 'cause you're a girl. (sorry) the extra two are for the cook to eat while he's making hotdogs. ("oh, look! An eagle! Yeah its flying ober dere blom bum bloufabouffad")
Omigod, is that tupperware stuff still in there?
I like my red suspenders so much, I haven't bought any more at all. Next, though, I think I'll get the measureing pair. That way I can measure things, too.
I found Waldo. He's at Walgreens buying a chia pet.
Catfood....dang. Turns out there's too much salt in cheap catfood and they get urinary tract infections from same.
I think perhaps by buying your cat foods like fresh shrimp and fresh fish, cooking them gently in a light butter sauce everyday for twenty years or so will answer your question there.
And #10.
Really! Dang! They spend how many umpteen billions to send a remote car to Mars and won't spit out a thin dime for MS?
Personally, I think you should complain.
I would, but, they don't listen to the likes of me.
I still hate the seatbelt law.
But, in any case, I hope you a great 09! If they come up with a cure, then I ain't lyin'! I'll come visit and we'll run through virtual streets a'cryin!
HIP HIP HOORAY! The greatest year is 2009!
oh, dang.
Everything else just camwe to a screeching halt.
You said you accept the fact that you'll get angry this year.
OK, then first thing I gotta tell ya, I thought I'de use your 'inspiration' picture for the connect to here. Link, I mean....
If that's OK?
You just say and I'll jump....don't want to make you angry so soon at the new year.
My big resolution is to make more people laugh this year....
just a thing, I guess.
Dunno if i can, but, I need to try.
I've always wondered about that hot dog thing too!
Happy New Year and I hope you have a wonderful year filled with good health! I think Tina Fey will never do Sarah Palin again. She was quoted to say that if McCain won then she was going to move out of the country :)
Wow! Very talkative! Remind me of the Lady after she has a couple of beers!
If you come a knockin, I will but the Cheetos and Oreos and Guinness and chocolate.....
being older myself, i agree with charles... it IS tough to keep believing, d :O lol
...not had kitties for a long time, useless in that category :(
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