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Diane Keaton

Julie — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:47:03 +0000

Now there is a lady I can respect. I don’t know how she stays so young looking and vibrant. I love her movies, she is very talented and has the Oscar’s to prove it. But her personal life is so different from what we see in the public eye.

She grew up like most of us, a normal kid. She left home at 19 to act in NYC and she struggled (like most of us did when we first left home). I was surprised that she suffered from bulimia. She led a happy childhood, but found out in later years that her parents were not the happy couple she had believed they were, when she read her mother’s diaries after her death in 2008. Her mother suffered from Alzheimer’s (such a cruel disease).

I really respect this woman and what she stands for.

Sore Feet

Julie — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:17:05 +0000

Within the last 3 years or so, I have had a terrible problem with my right foot. I can’t seem to sit for very long without experiencing extreme pain when I stand up. It finally got so bad that I had to go see the doctor. I had even put myself on crutches for a month prior to my visit to my podiatrist to see if that would help. When it didn’t help, I called the doctor.

I have a very common condition known as plantar fasciitis. It is a very painful condition of the plantar surface (bottom of your foot) that is caused by a variety of things, such as being over weight, injury or bone/heel spurs. In my case, I have a heel spur that is digging into the ligaments and tendons on the bottom of my foot and causing extreme inflammation.

The doctor put me in a walking cast for a month to see if that would help, and it did not. It got so the only way I could even stand on the foot was when I was wearing the cast. So now I am in physical therapy for the foot. The PT seems to be helping. They are putting a patch on my foot that is soaked with an acetic acid solution, this is supposed to help dissolve the heel spur. The patches cost $109 each and insurance will not cover it!! I did a little research online and discovered that acetic acid is nothing more than common household vinegar!! I can do the treatments myself at a very low cost!! I am elated!!

Arsenic and….baby formula?

Julie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:52:55 +0000

First it was unwashed fresh fruit, then it was fruit juice, and now brown rice syrup and baby formula? What are they trying to do to us? It’s bad enough we have to worry about e-coli contaminating our fruits and vegetables, but now we have to worry about a deadly poison as well? And in of all things, baby formula!!!

I think that the FDA had better get busy and start regulating our food products a little more stringently. After all, our tax dollars write their paychecks.

Our enemies don’t have to worry about getting rid of us, our government will take care of it for them by not monitoring what is in our food.

Toddlers and Tiaras

Julie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:58:43 +0000

Have you ever watched the TV show called Toddlers and Tiaras? Â I find it deeply disturbing. Â These mothers are disturbed people trying to live their dream through their daughters. Â They are so hard on the children, making sure they don’t gain too much weight, making them adhere to a strict routine.

I think they should let the little girls be little girls. Â They are making them grow up way too fast. Â And some of the coaches!!! Â I think that child beauty pageants should be against the law!!!

When will the “chicken littles” get over it?

Julie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:01 +0000

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you.Â For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men?Â Good grief!Â Get over it already!Â If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

I don’t understand

Julie — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:58:31 +0000

I was quite surprised and disappointed recentlyÂ to learn that the people who are receiving Medicaid to help pay for their medical expensesÂ cannot getÂ Medicaid to pay for mental health expenses. I don’t understand the logic behind the reasoning of Medicaid not paying for mental health issues when it seems to me that so many people are suffering from povertyÂ because of their mental health issues. When I watch television shows; it could be a news program or it could be an episode ofÂ Law & Order orÂ Criminal MindsÂ or some other type of television show related to crime it seems that so many of the people that are committing the crimes are poverty stricken and suffer from mental illness.Â I have several close friends and even have family members that are struggling with emotionalÂ and mental problems that they can certainly benefit from receiving some kind of mentalÂ therapy that they can’t afford to get.Â Paying for therapy is just not an option for them.Â Â I am sure thatÂ a lot of people would be upset with me if I suggested that Medicaid pay for these kinds of treatments because that would probably mean that income taxes would be raised to pay for those treatments; but I think that in the long run, and society in general, would benefit if these people got the treatments they needed.

Zumba

Julie — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:35:35 +0000

I would LOVE to take a Zumba class.Â It looks like so much fun!Â There are a few things stopping me from taking them, however – time, money, and health.Â I don’t feel like I have enough of any of those to be able to take a Zumba class.Â And to be honest, I didn’t know of any local places that hold Zumba classes – until recently.Â I just found three local places that hold Zumba classes.Â Unfortunately, all of the class dates and times are during the days and hours that I work!Â Maybe it just isn’t meant to be.Â

Black Friday madness

Julie — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:26:15 +0000

I am so glad that I stayed home today and cleaned house instead of going out into that insanity that is called “Black Friday.”Â I remember last year when I heard on the news that in New York there was a crowd of shoppers so eager to get into their Wal-Mart that they broke down the doors and stampeded over a Wal-Mart employee, who was trampled to death by the crowd!Â That is absolutely crazy and stupid, and I think that this is a very good reason to stop holding “Black Friday” sales in the future.Â There really is no need of this insanity!Â Stores can hold good sales without all of this craziness going on, for crying out loud!Â There has got to be a better way!

Doppleganger

Julie — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:50:43 +0000

Found this photo of a lady while I was surfing around a bunch of different sites this morning looking for a new hairstyle. The strange thing about it is that she looks just like my sister, Amy. My sister has not yet “gone grey,” but if she did, I know that she and the person in this photo could pass as twins!

Choice or not

Julie — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:40:37 +0000

There has always been controversy surrounding whether being straight or gay is a “choice” or biological. I was interested this past week to be reading several articles regarding recent scientific evidence that supports that sexual orientation is a biological event. One such article was in Time.com, which talks about what the gay brain looks like. Another, similar article was in the US News and World Report.

My personal feelings have always been that it is nature, not nurture that determines sexual orientation. I wish that people would just “get over it” and treat gay people with the same respect that they treat straight people. I know that some of the larger objections have simply been that they take offense at those who go above board with public displays of affection, but to be fair, that offense is committed by a lot of straight people, too. I can hardly walk down the aisles of the local Wal-Mart without finding myself walking behind a straight couple where the man reaches behind the woman and pinches her butt. I find that very offensive!