Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - Daffy Time

We take Miralax and gaitorade to get it down. My daughter had her first one last week and didn't have a diet prep like I did. Days before you cant eat raw vedgs, nothing with red skins no seeds. She just fasted the night before, while tripping to the broom nearly all night. Everyone I have known agrees the night before prep is the worst part of the exam.

Nothing says humor like colonoscopies.

It's good to read 'Gone with the wind' every five years.

Perhaps i'll start it tomorrow - after all...

...tomorrow is another day.

^_^

I am not amounting to nothing...................

schick: I doubt if that's true. There must be SOMETHING . . ..

Yeah I bought these. The bulbs and seeds at HD and the flowers at Hannafords. I have amounted to spending money....

A vision of flowers and plants . . . thats something!

Must add to this discussion.
All nurses (well almost all) rock! But L &D and hospice nurses are saint-like!!
Laurel, What a rewarding career!

I was a little stuck on Victor & Broadway Joe in the same set of pantyhose, then colonoscopy was delved into! But I agree, they are a simple procedure far less trouble than anyone fears. I guess I was awake, but I don't remember anything. It's a cool "twilight" state they put you in.

Thanks Dave!
I know I have touched a few people in my work, and that is such a reward.
But I want to grow up to be a housewife.

Debilu, don't give up the ship. It's like raising kids...over before you know it. You will make a difference. Look at how awesome everyone here is in regards to their respect for our profession. This would not have been the case a few short years ago.

Dave, I think I'm responding to threads in the wrong place and put in something to you and your friend who has been ill. Hope you found it. Anyway, thanks for all your kindness. I don't want to puff up, but you all make me, and I think Debilu, feel special. She must be special as she is a nurse too! I was trained and certified in the eighties in a new field; "grieving nurse" and applied it to my specialty. Bummer that I was only one of two and our hospital was and still is the largest L&D unit in the country. I left PICU and NICU to get into something happy and more normal. The last two years, well, I went from family centered/birthing room care to only being assigned to patients headed for the OR, or left to deliver, by me, in the bed.

It took awhile to get to the end of this thread, and now it's hard to type with tears in my eyes. Laurel, and Debilu, I have so much admiration for you and what you do and what you have done for so many people.

I can't call Steve, DH when it comes to my career. Sounds trite. He was always there for me when I came home in the middle of the night. He woke up with kids in the morning, put them to bed at night, made me coffee before he went of to work, and forever facilitated my fantasies of a place in the country (fortieth birthday present). He did that and maintained a career of his own, but always with me and the child...later two more coming first.

Sounds like a great guy.

Is this the height thread?
I'm 6'1"

That'll work Al. I was just off reading your photo caption plan. Interesting. BTW, can you upload a picture of your colon. It's all the rage here. Please include the story of your life. Think they've heard enough of mine and they've only known me a week or two.

Thanks Laurel!

5'10 & 1/2"

You can crop it and it will be a semi-colon.

* UGH *

I didn't start it!

Just heard rumbling of trucks. Is it UPS with my plants?
NO The "lawn care "trucks are here.
Tru-Green
Chem Lawn
Scotts
no wonder we're all sick.
I know makes grass green and beautiful but Creeps me out.

Wouldn't a name like "Chem Lawn" cue most people that this is NOT a good thing???

I do in fact have a lawn--DS loves to run around on it--but I don't do anything to it except make DH mow it once in a while, and maybe sprinkle some mixed seed on bare spots. No fertilizer, no water except rain, and absolutely no herbicides or pesticides. If it can't survive on its own, it doesn't belong in my lawn. As a result, my lawn is a mix of several types of grass (goodness knows what varieties), wild strawberry vine, dandelions, clover, and violets. The "weeds" all make pretty flowers, the clover provides N, the varmints actually prefer munching on the dandelions over my plants, and my lawn stays green all summer long...unlike my neighbors with nasty monocultured plots.

Beautiful lawns are natural lawns! :)

pam

AMEN

Take the history test!

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

Oh, Thank you, Pam! You have described my lawns and just exactly what I like about them! LOL

I watch the Classified Ads and just spotted this one:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/834955/

Hard to beat 3 fans of these daylilies for $3.00 (prices vary and some are more than 3 fans) + shipping. Definitely worth a look for anyone who wants daylilies.

Yes - $3 or $5 is not bad for three fans. I just bought my first DG classified - columbines. They were pretty nice. Small, but with nice roots.

Pirl - thanks for sharing the DL ad info. Looks like a great opportunity! I am still grateful to you for the Caladium co-op info. Mine are coming up here now and they are so much bigger than the usual ones you buy from HD/Lowes/etc.

Tempting, but I already have many DL's.

Used to be 5' 8 1/2" - suppose I'm shorter now.

Gloria, I enjoyed the quiz. Only got a 77. Better than average, but sad.

Just did it. Got 83%. Surprised by some that I missed. A few I actually did not know at all. Others I had just forgotten.

Hey! You guys are genuses! The person that sent that quiz to me is a historian and he only had 73. (My former boss at the Alabama Historical Commission).

But the big question is, 'Can your kids pass it?'

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Last week there was a news story about the inability of college students to spell words correctly and the two words most often misspelled were:

commitment
definitely

I bet they didn't consider asking the students the differences between "two", "to" or "too". Seems obvious but it's so common to see "to" when the person means "too" (as in also) and it makes reading more difficult.

Burgundy is so often spelled wrong that most people believe it has an "a" in it but it doesn't.

Not surprised about college students not knowing how to spell.
Why should they when they can insert "like" for every word they don't know.

Spell-checks are killing students' ability to spell. And as in the case with to, too and two, and there, their and they're, they miss many errors.

That test is more civics than history.

I am a university professor, as is my DH and sister. Don't even get me started on college students. I actually have a little file entitled "Things I've Learned From My Students" which includes some of the more precious gems I've gleaned from biology exams over the years. VERY SCARY.

You might want to check out Non Campus Mentis, a compilation of student history bloopers. It is pee-your-pants funny...and as the author pointed out, some of the bloopers are over 30 years old and the world hasn't gone to heck in a handbasket yet, so there might still be hope for us. :)

pam

I remember a kid in my class at San Diego State. He was 'rough'. He couldn't spell, he had an attitude, and didn't look like he bathed regularly either. Well, he signed up for all my classes.

Three years later he asked me for a letter of recommendation to transfer to the graduate school at Colorado University, which is a primo program for our field. I checked back over his record. He really was a prime candidate.

He had developed from being a near flunk- out in the first semester into an excellent student.

He had straight As his last two semesters. He just got interested and studied and wrote papers and became one of the best studients I had.

I wrote about the development I had observed in the letter of recommendation. A few years later he received a PhD from Colorado and started research.

Some times a kid is not what he may seem.