The Royal wedding

Did you stay up and watch it?  It really was awesome to experience this, yes i'm a royals watcher. I'm sad that Williams mom didn't get to see her son wed but i think she'd heartily approve of his choice of wife.

It did get a tad long and drawn out; so much praying and violins and choir singing but it goes with the pomp and splendor of the monarchy which charmingly is very much alive in the UK and the Commonwealth.

 The dress was designed by Sarah Burton and the design made quite a statement with chantilly lace and a form fitting bodice with a sort of a loose V neckline, long fitted sleeves and a quite full skirt.
Everyone said it fit Kate to a T, but i thought the bust area could have used 2 little tiny alterations of the cups. It was difficult to get the colour right as it looked sort of silverish, then off white beige, then yellowish. The dress appeared to have a lot of fabric and yet wasn't at all heavy looking. Kate wore the dress comforably, it definitely didn't wear her.  There was a train, no where nearly as long as Diana had but just right; it followed her very smoothly when she walked. It was a little reminescent of Grace Kellys elegant wedding dress and it'll be in style forever.

Kates tiara was made by Cartier for the Queen mother who passed it on the Queen Elizabeth who now  has passed it on to Kate.
Kate looked a little different as her hair was up off her face with long curls down from the back. She looked lovely in her veil and didn't appear to be nervous or shy at all. She carried a smallish bouquet of white flowers with sprigs of myrtle from Queen Victorias plants. Kate is a dignified elegant woman very well suited to become Queen when William becomes King.

William was handsome in his red uniform and Harry as the best man looked pretty skookum too.
Queen Elizabeth wore marigold yellow; a very unusual bright choice for her.She was smiling and joyful throughout the ceremony.

The vows were said and William placed the ring on her finger but she didn't put one on him - he didn't want to have a wedding ring.

Hats of course were a big deal for the female guests. Some were nice but others were a little strange.
Kates mom Carole Middleton wore a pale blue suit that was created by the designer of Dianas wedding dress; Catherine iforgethername. Kates sister Pippa was the maid of honor in a white cowl necked dress that was beautiful in it's simplicity. Tongues are already wagging about Pippa and Prince Harry being a good match.

The Duchess of Cornwall wore Anna Valentine and it was Philip Tracey hats for the Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.  All the little girl bridesmaids wore dresses very similar to what  Dianas bridesmaids wore.

Prince Charles and Camilla got a lot of applause and i didn't see Princess Anne until she was seated . She looked lovely as well. Spotted the Beckhams in the church and Sir Elton John too. The crowds outside were happy to be there and they cheered for the newlyweds as they rode off in horse drawn carriages to Buckingham Palace for brunch with 600 guests. Later 300 will join the happy couple for a dinner celebration.

I wanted to see the first kiss but it hasn't happened yet unless i missed seeing them appear on the balcony. No matter, i'm sure lots of kissing will be done eventually as this fairy-tale wedding comes to a close for me here a million miles away at 5:30 in the morning!

Sorry no pic,i'm too tired to look for one. You know what they look like anyway.  Goodnite.

Game 1 Round 2

Vancouver Canucks - 1  Nashville Predators  -0

Chris Higgins #20 celebrates his goal with #2 Dan Hamuis.

Assist was by Maxim Lapierre. Chris and Maxim are both ex Habs.

Nashville is a nice town, their players play nicely and it was a nice, easy to watch stress free game.

Heres a nice pic of Lu wearing his nice mask making a nice catch

Alex Burrows note of interest, after all this is a girly sort of blog - Our hero from game 7 Alex and his wife proudly welcomed a healthy baby girl named Victoria who weighed in @ 5lbs.

And Happy birthday to my mom, may you forever rest in peace.

Looking forward to another nice game on Saturday (if i survive a nice royal wedding today)

Canucks- 2 Chicago- 1

What a game! Alex Burrows made it so exciting.  I think this was one of the the most dramatic games in the Canucks history and it was Alex all the way.  Alex started it with the first goal and finished it with the tie breaker and winning goal in sudden death overtime.
He also got a penalty shot which he missed and an "OMG!"  penalty in OT
Chicago played an awesome game and they can go home proud.
Unbelievable.
This is what we live for.

Thanks for the good vibes everyone; i know that's what did it.

Oh, btw, now i'm sorry for what i said about Luongos ugly "hat"   It's now his lucky charm ; )

Next up - Nashville at Vancouver Canucks probably Thursday night.

THE FINAL CUT

Game 7 here tonight. It’s win or go home for Canucks and Blackhawks

What, me worry? It’s only the most important game of the Canucks life.

The Western Conference quarterfinal, as you may be aware,has already taken on epic dimensions and featured more twists and turns than a slalom course.
The Canucks with a 3 - 0 lead seemed bulletproof but then in no particular order Raffi Torres planted Brent Seabrook giving the Blackhawks a cause.
Luongo sprung a leak while his teammates went wandering off giving the Canucks fans a big headache. And that doesn’t even begin to cover the horrible details of game 6.

And now here we are: faceoff on home ice between the Presidents Trophy winner and the reigning Stanley Cup champions and my thought is that we should play like we did in game 6.  What the heck.

The Canucks worked so hard to get to this point while Chicago just sorta breezed in on a lucky star. And while it’s a known fact  the twins and Luongo have a tendency to choke at the most inopportune times they will have to break out of this habit right now! It’s probably the Canucks last chance for 5 to10 years or more before we’ll ever get here again….no pressure but c,mon, I might not live long enough to see it.

Alain Vigneault has been the most successful Canuck coach in our history.
If we lose this game he’ll be gone and the thought is unbearable. It’s even harder for him as he’s going to have to take our team to the final four to keep his job.
The rest of us are just concentrating on this one game for now; it’s do or die.

Kevin Bieksa, Sami Salo and Christian Ehrhoff will be free agents after this and no doubt gone as we won’t have the $ to keep them.
And to top it all off if we don’t get this game tonight what will happen to Lu? We have him under contract for the next millinium for $5.3 million….love ya Luey but you know your paycheque is going to be a millstone around our neck preventing us from signing any potential new stars. Think about it.
Try wearing your nice mask instead of that butt ugly grungy thing that looks like it’s been rattling around in a dirty old ditch for a few years. I am so embarrassed by that ugly ol' thing.  This occasion warrants the good hat!

We didn’t come into this series as hopefuls; we were the favourites with all our core players in their prime. Chicago and Luongo have a known history but all that must be pushed aside.

We can handle anything that comes after Chicago, no problem, no whining and crying about the rest of the games. We can and will play great and the fans of Vancouver and B.C. and Canada and sprinklings of fans in the Ukraine, the U.S., Australia and all over the place will cheer our team on always with great excitement and the never ending love we have for our Canucks.

Oh, and the people who took their Canucks flags off their cars after the last game will likely have put them on again by now for tonights game, less than 3 hours away.  This particular game is so very important and every flag counts.

If we lose, which I havent even thought about; the police will be out and about in Vancouver tonight. Some fans are so immature but most of us just go into deep mourning, but really; I’m not planning ahead…..

No pressure but dammit, you Nucks better get it!

Repeat along with me:

Please send positive energy to the Canucks. Just visualize what i want.

Don’t picture fantastic goals by the Sedin twins or a slipup by the Chicago goalie. You need to cross your fingers, close your eyes and count down slowly from 7 to 1. Then visualize a small screen in front of you and the game is over, the Canucks won and the crowds are cheering. They felt your vibes, yayyyy!

Thank you very much!  

and thanks Jaypiddy for the use of your artwork, which i changed a little but still messed up by leaving "gold" instead of Stanley.

Three hours to go and i'm already a mess.......

The Canucks are in the playoffs!

The stars are aligned. Montreal and Calgary staged the Olympics in 1976 and 1988 and then respectively won the Stanley Cup the following years. So it only stands to reason that Vancouver will follow in 2011, right?

The road to the Stanley Cup is a long journey filled with potholes but we know we’ll be there after last nights 3-2 win in OT against the Calgary Flames. It also secured the Art Ross Trophy for Daniel Sedin and the Jennings Trophy for Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider.

But the Canucks must wait until later today to see who they'll face in the opening round. Right now, it could be Los Angeles, Anaheim, Chicago or Dallas finishing as the eighth seed.

Was there any doubt we would in the playoffs? Nah, don’t think so. Our team has had a great season, amazing really! We are an amazing team! My fav. hockey playing male twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin have made the game so exciting for me. (I say male twins because my own fav. hockey playing twins are female)

Daniel and Henrik know where each other is going to be at all times and their timing with the puck is second to none. I havent been this excited since Pavel Bure, the Russian rocket was on our team and I named my cat after him.

The 6 month grind is over. We’re in the playoffs!

Celebrity Apprentice money money money money........money!

I see dust bunnies rolling around on my blog  so thought I better get with.  So today I thought I’d write my take on last nights episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Some of you know I’m a big reality show fan and this show is one of my many favourites.


The theme was art and each team had to shop for their art supplies and then create art to sell. So off they went to Michaels where they loaded up with some of the strangest supplies, most of which they didn’t use and that of which they did wasn’t what anyone could say was the best of stuff.

Then, far be it for any celebrity to ask anyone anything; the project managers didn’t even ask their team members if anyone knew anything about painting nor did they enlist the help of a salesperson although of course it might have been edited out but i think not - people think they can do everything without help. I noticed they chose relatively inexpensive paints and although I really thought that was a big blunder it turned out it wouldn't have made any difference in the final outcome anyhow because it all boiled down to simply the celebrity of the artists.

Well, ok, the wealthy ones and/or the celebrities with the richest family, friends and connections. They could have painted with jello and still sold their artworks for mega bucks.  Seems wrong somehow, but guess I’m just jealous.

So they painted their pictures of buffalo or whatever it was and other things like hats, cowboy boots and a guitar and t-shirt, set up their galleries and proceeded to rake in the money.

Well!!!

The mens team Backbone raised almost $627,000. for St. Judes Hospital and the womens team ASAP raised $986,000. for their leader Marlee Matlins charity of an organization that provides free hearing aids to deaf children. The Donald then antied up a few bucks to make the womens team total a cool million. Wowzers!

Some of the stuff they sold besides their beautiful paintings were a Gibson guitar for $470,000. And I think they got $99,000. for Rich’s painted boots.
LaToya donated a rare t-shirt that would have been sold at brother Michaels This is It  concert which brought in $99,000. LaToya also won the best decorated hat contest and got an additional $20,000. for her charity which was a fund for the cure of Aids. BTW, the $99,000. thing is because rich peoples credit cards have a limit too. Well, it's 70,000 more than mine but wth.

Would you believe a grand total of one million, six hundred thousand?  Dollars.   Yes!

This sum was the most money ever raised in the history of the Apprentice show. They raised more money on one task than in some entire seasons!

Honestly, it’s incredible some of the things people have had to do on other tasks for a paltry little 20,000!  

Mr.T then asked the womens team if they’d like him to fire someone from the mens team. This is not the usual practice for him; he fires whoever he feels like and his choice is usually right on (except for the time Joan Rivers won)  But since Jose Canseco had to leave the show because his dad was very ill the men were down one member already.

Silly me; I thought the women would say nah, lets not fire anyone….

But what do I know;  girls are wise and stronger than I thought.
The women; basically Marlee as the task leader but all agreed with her to have Mr.Trump fire one of the men. This was justified because the womens team had lost the three previous weeks and were down to 5 against the mens 6.   And this is business!

The boardroom discussion followed and some wanted Gary Busey fired but as Richard Hatch (winner of the first Survivor) was the weakest player and raised the least or no money the Donald fired him. In a way even though I don’t like Richard much I thought that was unfair because I didn’t think he was as much of a celebrity as the others. However, Donald said he was equally as big and famous as the rest with influential connections. Can’t argue against Mr. Trump but i think some of Riches connections are in the big house.

So next week an even playing field with LaToya, Nene Leakes, Star Jones, Marlee Matlin and Hope Dworsomething
against Meatloaf, Gary Busey, Lil Jon, Mark McGrath and John Rich

I’d like to see Star drift off into the galaxy asap and John Rich can go with her too. Then it’s gonna get interesting….but since i'm a lousey predictor these two will probably be the last ones standing.
I can hardly wait to see it all happen.

Engineers' Conversion Table

Thanks Blog Fodder for this entertaining and funny read and please thank your very clever brother for me also!


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Conversion factors that every engineer should know:




1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower


11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

17. 52 cards = 1 decacards

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton

19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

22. 10 rations = 1 decoration

23. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

24. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

25. 2.4 miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

Happy St.Valentines day!

I sometimes stick a page into the gutter to hold my spot and some books require several pages or the double treatment.  The first pic I took had misc. junque in the background so added a piece of red cardstock and got the reflection and shadow instead.

When I emptied the camera I found these pics of a sunset that i had taken a couple weeks ago and had forgotten they were still in the camera.Crappy pics but they were so tiny i had to enlarge quite a bit.

This is the view of the Alex Fraser Bridge that we get from our sunroom and there’s nothing but sunset here. So was i surprised when i saw the next one.....

Same sunset but several orbs and trails in the sky, some far away and others barely visible

This one came right up close. I cropped the bottom off the pic and it wasn’t right in the corner like that; it was more like a third of the way up from the bottom. I wondered if there was any news about orbs so googled and found out they’re quite plentiful. There’s people who can actually see them with the naked eye while most merely catch them in some of their pictures.

Some say orbs are caused by the cameras flash or maybe a strange phenomenon of dust or mist or bugs or pollen but all of those kinds of theories have been proven wrong.
Others believe they’re human souls or ghosts floating around.
Some of the google pics show large groups of them congregating or socializing.
What are they? Where do they come from?

Well, i believe everyone can believe whatever they want.  There’s been several times in my life when I was saved by an unknown energy from definite calamity and who knows; maybe it was my guardian angel in the form of an orb. There was one time in particular when a very strong force pushed and guided me into safety and i know it wasn't just chance or coincidence but what we call a miracle.  So who or what helped me? Sounds nutsy but maybe it was an orb.  I think they’re always around, just because they aren't often seen doesn’t mean they're not there and ready to help. Guardian angels, thats a good explanation and the one i'll go with.

What do you believe?

everything you ever wanted to know about number two

What’s so special about  February?  So glad you asked….well it’s the 2nd month and it’s the month of my birthday!

So, what’s better than one 2?  Two 2’s!  That’s my day.

It’s said that people born on Feb. 22nd have old souls. Also born on 2-22 George Washington and Drew Barrymore. We are Pisces; the sign of the fishes

The roman numeral 11 stands for “bright giant”
Two is the atomic number of helium.

There’s an old Chinese saying “all good things come in twos” So today I’ll show you 22 pictures.

What’s better than having a baby girl? Having 2 baby girls!
Here’s my twins at age 7

My favourite NHL players are #22 Daniel Sedin and his twin Henrik #33 of the Vancouver Canucks.

Twins in mythology: Apollo and Artemis and Romulus and Remus.

Actors who have (or had) a twin: Elvis, Ashton Kutcher, Alanis Morissette, Parker Posey, Ed Sullivan and the Olsen twins

 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Fictional twins: Man in Black/John Locke/Smoke Monster,
Ok that’s triplets but who’s counting when we’re talking about Lost
The Bobbsey twins, Super Mario brothers,
Marge Simpsons older twin sisters; Selma and Patty Bouvier

Here’s a couple of bucks - toonie - looks crappy in the pic but is actually shiny and quite pretty irl

Here’s the 2 peanuts from my famous big shell. I hit a big one that day!

I play deuces wild on occasion. Contrary to popular belief it’s not just a kids game but a game of skill. Lots of moola is wasted by players who don’t check the payouts and hold the wrong cards (hint: 2 pairs don't pay and if holding only one card remember - face cards are no more valuable than 3's thru 10's)
Lots of players don't realise they can still get the big payout Royal Flush (as long as no wild card shows up) and it's a nice surprise when it happens. But of course if one or more deuces show up it's still a Royal Flush; it just pays less. Shown here is 5 -fives's but it's the 4 wild cards that are the big winner.

What’s the most widely used and famous pencil?  #2 of course and it even has a book written about it

Question: Why then is it still #2? Let’s have tea for 2 and figure that one out.

In Mathematics divisibility by 2 is easily tested by merely looking at the last digit. If it’s even then the whole number is even.

2 has more divisors than 1

Two has the unique property that 2+2 = 2·2 = 2²=2↑↑2=2↑↑↑2, and so on, no matter how high the operation is.

In numerology #2 represents the opposite of #1
People who are #2’s are good natured, easy going, co-operative and soft, not physically strong.

Number 22 is the master builder and the most successful of all numbers. It governs the overall structure of Scripture from the 22 spokes of the Bible wheel to the 22 spokes of the inner wheel of Revelation.

In the Tarot deck the Fool is sometimes represented as 0 (the 1st card) or as 22 (the last card)

Number 2 is the High Priestess in the Major Arcana of 22 cards in the Tarot deck or the trump card.

Number 2 Tarot cards
Spades - Swords - Air

Diamond - Coins - Earth

Clubs - Wands - Fire

Hearts - Cups - Water

 Theres tons of special days in Feb. cuz it‘s a great month; here’s just a few more - on Feb.1st the RCMP became official in Canada in 1920


Feb 2 is Ground Hogs day and my dearly departed sisters birthday.  R.I.P. Renee.

And the 3rd is the Chinese New Year; year of the Rabbit
Also Feb 3, 1959 was the day the music died when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper went down in a fiery plane crash.

Feb 5 is World Nutella day and the 12th is Abe Lincolns birthday 1809

The 14th is Valentines day and on the 17th the planet Pluto was discovered in 1930
It’s also Random Act of Kindness day (RAK) so do some and expect nice things to happen to you.

Feb 20th is Hoodie Hoo day - go outside and shout Hoodie Hoo to scare away winter and cause spring to want to be sprung. The toothpick was patented today as well.

The 21st is Presidents day in the U.S.

Just 28 days in Feb.2011 and it’s honoured by being Public Sleeping Day - yes; you can sleep on a park bench, on a blanket at the beach, on the job, whatever….

In closing I have a question:
Is the person in charge of human waste disposal referred to as number 1 or number 2?

A visit from the Goddess of obnoxious odours

Late last night, as i sat computing, i suddenly heard spine tingling noises just outside of my window for a several seconds and then a terrible silence. I immediately thought it had been the death cries of a bird, caught by a cat, raccoon or maybe a coyote.

As i pondered the likelihood of it being a bird out in the night, much to my horror the urgent cries started again, closer this time.
I went to the kitchen and turned on the outside light and peered out into the darkness and the sounds again stopped. There was nothing on the deck, but suddenly what was that movement in the bush by the wall? I went into the sunroom to get a better view.

A flash of white trying to climb the wall....the size of a small cat; but not able to leap so is it a cat? It turned slightly to change direction and ran up the stairs in the center of the garden and i think this is who i saw; minus the black face with tiny white stripe

Now, i've seen skunks before but never with this much white fur. As it disappeared into the night i disappeared into the land of Google.

The one i saw was much whiter than these two pics from Google; in fact it wasn't two stripes at all but i think an almost solid white head and body perhaps with black legs but i'm not sure. I was seeing it mostly from behind and its tail was upright and fluffed out big. There was no doubt what it was; i had the pleasure of smelling the eau de pew.
I wonder if there's such a thing as albino skunks but Google just said it comes in many colours.

Its scientific name is Mephitis mephitis taken from the Roman Goddess of poisonous gasses.
Also known as striped skunks they live in the U.S. and the southern tier of the Canadian Provinces.
Their lifespan is 2 -3 years and they can reach a weight of 14 lbs.  Mephitis breed once a year and have litters of 4-8 kits. Diet changes with the seasons and right now they'd be eating mice, shrews and chipmunks so that's probably who was making all the noise. Since i only got a good look from behind i couldn't see if it was carrying something in his mouth.

Well, i knew we had been home to skunks before, but the usual black with white stripes variety and i thought they had long moved on. Who knows; maybe a kit stays back in the old home or it's a random spot that this fellow found or maybe he was enroute to somewhere else.

We'll be leaving him alone because he probably does us a favour by eating all the bad little bugs and critters in the garden although i don't consider chipmunks bad at all; they're very entertaining.
Anyway, the skunks i've seen arn't fast enough to catch a chipmunk or squirrel; those things can fly!

So he's welcome to live here as long as he dos'nt spray....one report said they can accurately spray up to 10'  but another said they have terrible eyesight and i can believe that as the one i saw was attempting to climb a tall wall instead of the shorter steps. Either way their odour can carry a mile and a half !

PUNS FOR THOSE WITH A HIGHER IQ and a lower brow:

Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.


A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking..


Dijon vu - the same mustard as before....


Practice safe eating - always use condiments....


Shotgun wedding - A case of wife or death....


A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy....


A hangover is the wrath of grapes....


Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play....


Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?...


Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion....


Reading while sunbathing makes you well red....


When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I....


A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired....


What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)...


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana....


In a democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your Count votes...


A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion....


If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed...


With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress....


The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered...


You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it....


Local Area Network in Australia - the LAN down under....


Every calendar's days are numbered....


A lot of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine....


A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat...


He had a photographic memory that was never developed....


A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large...


Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall....


Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.....


Acupuncture is a jab well done.


Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses....


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Energy please

Verb	1.	energise - raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms" energize, excite alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
	2.	energise - cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" energize, perk up, stimulate, arouse, brace affect - act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" cathect - inject with libidinal energy reanimate, recreate, revivify, vivify, revive, renovate, animate, quicken, repair - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" reinvigorate, invigorate - impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating" liven, liven up, enliven, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" de-energise, de-energize - deprive of energy

At the beginning of the year many people make resolutions for the new year. Some simply pick one word and that's what i'm going to do. I decided to make my focus word ENERGISE as this is what i most want and need. I havent been recharging very well for years already so the belief is that by focusing on this word energy will come.
When googled the word comes up as ENERGIZE which of course lead me to this. OK i want to be like brand new energised energizers or would that be energized energisers? Whatever; will these 4 help?

or maybe better yet i'll take one of these:

Right now i haven't got enough energy to check and see if i got this straight so don't be going and googling it cuz you might find totally different info but i think it's a laser that's precisely tuned to energise a layer of sodium atoms that are found in the upper layers of the atmosphere. It's thought to be a leftover from meteorites entering the earths atmosphere....or something like that....

Say what?!?  There's leftovers going to waste? Please land on me instead; i sure could use them!

I have Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. I've had it for 12 years. It's a chronic liver disease that causes slow, progressive distruction of bile ducts in the liver, thereby interfering with the excretion of bile.

Fatigue is the most common complaint of those afflicted with PBC. Most people haven't heard of it and there's still many Drs. who don't understand what it is or what to do about it although it's been around and known for a hundred years or more.

No, i've never been a boozer; thought i should mention it straight up as that's what most people think when they hear the word cirrhosis. I wouldn't deny it if i were/was, honestly! i know nobody cares, but alcohol related liver disease is different than this and most PBC'ers wern't/arn't boozers.  It's an auto-immune disease and really too bad it has this unfortunate C word in it's name because some never do get to the stage of actually having cirrhosis but we're still stuck with the name.

Women are affected 10 times more frequently than men. PBC is usually diagnosed in people 30 - 60 years old and many are diagnosed by finding of an abnormality during routine liver blood tests.

Itching and fatigue are common symptoms along with jaundice, cholesterol deposits in the skin, darkening of the skin (like a permanent suntan) or fluid accumulation in the abdomen and/or ankles. The telling tale for me was an itchy 3" x 4" patch of skin on one arm along with fatigue.

Other disorders associated with PBC are impaired functioning of the tear and salivary glands, arthritis, thyroid problems, renal stones and gallstones.

There's no known cause or cure although a wonderful medicine originally derived from bears bile called Urso, now made synthetically helps some people tremendously and most PBC'ers die from something else.

ENERGY, please find me, there's so much i want to do in this new year of 2011 and not all is selfishly wished for.
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