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Know When It's Time to Choose a New Vet {Pawnation OLD}
Jan 24th 2012 3:40PM Got sick to death of vets and their staffs that clearly were more interested in dogs than cats, and found a cat-only vet practice. The dog lovers barely touched my cats, spent little time with me/them, showed little interest when we came in the door but oozed and cooed over every dog, had nothing but dog pictures all over the place and asked me the same stupid questions 20 times. Now our new cat-only vet spends an hour with our cats at their exams, has her hands on them almost every minute of that and talks to me like an intelligent adult, not like a child. I took our older cat to the first vet 4 times for the same problem - obvious breathing distress, weight loss, head wagging - and all he did was prescribe more pills. Took him to the new cat vet and they had our cat on the operating table the next day to remove a large polyp. When the polyp returned we had an immediate referral to a specialist that could go in and find all of it. If left to the first, dog-loving vet, our cat would have slowly choked to death. I am absolutely positive that had a dog come in with the same symptoms they'd have had it on the operating table the same day. We'll never again go to a vet that claims to treat "all" pets. It'll be the cats-only vet from now on.
The Great Veggie Burger Debate: Love Them or Hate Them? {That's Fit}
Mar 28th 2011 7:16AM I have friends and family who eat this veggie burger crap. They chew and smile and choke it down and tell you how "delicious" it is.....and they don't mean a word of it. My whack job mother in law will haul out a bag of lettuce in a restaurant, start munching down on it and announce to everyone "it's like candy to me!" BS. I don't eat sawdust ("veggie" anything other than REAL veggies)and I tried "organic" burgers once - one of the most vile things I've ever eaten, and I've eaten rattlesnake, picked herring, eel and more. They were all better than that disgusting thing.
Cats Versus Dogs -- Savings Experiment {WalletPop}
Mar 1st 2011 6:49PM I wouldn't have a dog for free. We've had a couple of them over the years - - barked, drooled, ate furniture, chewed shoes, stunk up the house, ate like horses, pooped all over the yard, killed the lawns with urine.....no thanks. We've mostly had cats - - eat far less, extraordinarily clean to the point that even though they are free to come and go out of a pet door they only use their litter boxes - never someone's yard or any place in the house. They don't chew the furniture or anything else, they don't slobber, drool, shed great wads of hair, bark and whine every time someone comes near or we leave the house, they don't dig holes in the yard or under fences, they NEVER stink, they bathe themselves, they are easily left while we go on vacation because all they need is enough food, water, and litter boxes - no kennels, no pet sitters, no worry about what they'll destroy because we're away, And WAAAAY fewer vet visits than the stinking dogs we had.
Celebrities Who Gained Weight for a Movie Role {That's Fit}
Feb 26th 2011 4:46PM You left off Sean Astin, who gained 30 lbs to play Samwise in Lord of the Rings.
Celebrities Who Lost Weight for a Movie Role {That's Fit}
Feb 19th 2011 3:28PM And Sean Astin gained 30 lbs to play the role of Samwise in "Lord of the Rings."
Light Bulbs Advertised as 'Green' Contain Arsenic and Lead: Study {WalletPop}
Feb 16th 2011 7:57AM HELLOOOO! The "green" stupid twisty bulbs are full of mercury!!!!! I'm stock piling the "old" bulbs as long as their available. Algore and his minions can stuff their stupid twisted mercury filled bulbs...
Walmart and Target Coming to a City Near You {WalletPop}
Feb 16th 2011 7:52AM Target over Wal-Mart every time. Target stores are clean, well organized, I don't have to hear conversations in the aisles about whose relatives are in jail, just got of jail, who beat up who, screaming kids with snot running down their faces, watching slack jawed people roam around with carts filled with crap at the 1st of the month. I go into a Wal-Mart and feel like I need a shower when I get home. Went into one in Northern CA while visiting family and every single announcement over the intercom was in Spanish - every one of them. Sickening.
Jeans: Five Women's Favorite Pairs {Stylelist}
Nov 19th 2010 4:54PM I love them as well. I'm 4' 10", 125 lbs but not flabby. The NYDJ's fit me perfectly in length (with a nice pant boot for instance - 1 1/2" heel is enough), flatten the tummy, and flatter the bottom, and I get so many compliments when I wear them!
Long-Distance Friendships -- Mission Impossible, or Just Really Tough? {Lemondrop}
Nov 10th 2010 10:10AM We've lived in 11 states and 2 other countries in 35 years of marriage. I have maintained friendships in all but 2 of those places. It is hard work, very hard work sometimes, but it's worth it. I haven't lived in the state I was born and raised in in 22 years, but I still have very dear friends there that I've known since I was 12. We all see each other at least every couple of years and we keep up thru email and facebook. Some of my friendships have lasted 41 years now. And they are real friendships - not just people I happen to know.
Middle-Aged Women and Short Hair -- What Gives? {Lemondrop}
Oct 26th 2010 6:22AM I'm with you! I'm almost 55 and have neatly trimmed shoulder length hair that I keep colored every few months (no gray hair for me - ever). I have zero problem with the "maintenance" issue. And I do have a very busy life. I was also told that I was supposed to cut it off by 40. It actually makes my mom angry that I refuse to do it. Idiocy. I remember sitting in church with my daughter several years ago and being horrified (and at the same time highly amused!) that all of the women sitting in front of us had the same awful "wash and set" short haircut, all curled up. Hideous. And I don't have the little pixie face of someone like Jamie Lee Curtis, that can carry off a short cut like that.
