sweetheart-mine

we just discovered a shop full of glass pipes, of all shapes and colors -- i mean about 300 of them. makes me want to inhale again. maybe i have already but forgot . . .

do you mean the mumps themselves abscessed, in your throat? wow, that IS bad! all i remember of mumps is crying in my high chair because i couldn't swallow cheerios. trying to wake up from anesthesia can be nasty. i needed an oxygen mask because i couldn't get my breath. yah, why can't they just let you sleep it off? maybe a medical person on this board can tell us.

not at all, though i wasn't "there" for much of anything! it was an L5-S1 disc rupture, pressing with unusual force on the sciatic nerve down the entire hip and leg. the neurosurgeon made about a two-inch incision in my lower back and removed the pressing disc matter using tiny cameras and instruments that showed up on a computer screen, which he followed throughout. i'm told it took a couple of hours. they can't repair the disc itself, but removing the disc matter from the sciatic nerve area took away the pain. there was post-surgical pain at the incision site for a few months, and

love big shoes. can't understand tight shoes.

four years ago i fell and ruptured a disc, and spent two months in absolute agony, refusing to see a neurosurgeon even though my long-term and trustworthy doc insisted that (arthroscopic) surgery was probably my only chance. tons of drugs, morphine and oxycontin increased every few days, didn't touch that pain. after two months i let him make the neurosurgery appt but it was too late -- almost immediately my husband had to call ambulance in the middle of the night for week-long pain treatment via some machine in the hospital before the surgery. during those two months, one poor soul, a d

100% of statistics are only numbers.

from a non-stat point of view, i don't think papi smiles as often as he did before manny left. they were great buddies and manny was very funny. i've been a little worried about papi's morale.

now that you mention it, the '07 win was a lot more fun for me; '04 was such a shock that i went nearly catatonic. also, papelbon's exuberant craziness at the end of last year was contagious, especially his dancing, which bjorn the mets fan loved too ( ). and "tessie" still gives me chills. well, don't want to make others sick with this nostalgia! maybe it's too late.

a lot of religious people do it. hmmm.

these priorities are running a painful, circular groove into my brain. makes it hard to think . . .

are people noticing many bumperstickers on cars about this election? in southern maine i see just about none, which is really unusual, and i'm wondering about other regions/states. if not, are people afraid to let their preference be known this time, is nearly everyone out there undecided after all, are people not excited about their preferred candidate if they do have one, or are they worried about wrecking the paint on their vehicles?

i watched it several times, and to be honest i don't quite remember, but hazily i think i remember it was something like "i know more about energy than anyone else in this country."

thank you, excellent post. a lot of us need that reminder sometimes, including me.

schilling had given many shows of honesty, so i wished not to have that one. um, were you still imbibing due to the championship?

in three decades of paying attention to campaigns and voting in elections, i'd never heard that slip before. more than a little interesting.

she probably is capable of having of her own talk show, though it would have to be oprah lite, unless she can stop talking like a junior-high cheerleader. really, that's what she reminds me of, both in tone and in content. it gives me a start every morning when i'm not totally awake yet and hear something about her on the radio or tv. "oh god, she IS an actual vice presidential candidate. help."

i've thought too it was mostly the veterans' meeting, which seemed unprecedented in how seriously the ownership and management took it, according to comments from the players themselves at the time and nesn questioning of several people involved (and also print media coverage, for what it's worth). in past years manny at times would decide he was unhappy or his wife was unhappy in boston and it seemed to show a bit in his playing (or, especially toward the end of last year, not playing). but when he'd relax the team chemistry with him certainly looked fine from the outside or at the very l

deja vu.

from a good number of your posts, i can understand why! (thank god he didn't say he'd veto wine.) not many beers have earmarks, so don't worry about it.

i heard that with my own ears on the tv this morning and nearly covered the couch with my cereal.

no, i hardly ever read them. maybe i should start.

could you argue and get in his face nicely?

very true. although we'll never know how hillary would be doing at this point, it would be interesting to compare. i think she could have been having quite a few problems in ways different from obama, but for sure she is tough -- and obama needs to continue getting tougher. i believe he has a lot of toughness and grit in him but doesn't want to compromise his wish to run a cleaner campaign than we're used to, and that is mucking him up. he can be tough and not put out ridiculously false or irrelevant ads in response to mccain's, both at the same time -- i hope he's realizing that. we