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Our Daily Thread 3-30-13

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday! 🙂

I hope everyone had a Good Friday yesterday.

We did. 🙂

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Quote of the Day

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

Vincent Van Gogh

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I’ve always liked this song, and the movie. Rebecca St. James, and she’s rather animated about something.

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Did you get it? Animated….  Hehe, I crack myself up. 🙂

Who has a QoD?

42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-30-13”

  2. Good morning Annms.

    I hope today is better for you. Try a nap, but set an alarm. You don’t want to sleep too much and have the same problem tonight.

    I was up until 1:00am too.

    But I was watching Duke win, so I didn’t mind. 🙂

    Go Duke! 🙂

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  4. Good morning. Last night was a quiet and bright (full moon) night. I went right to sleep. Around 10 pm (as far as I can tell) I had the most vivid nightmare of my life. I dreamed I died. As I died my bowels emptied, so I died covered in —-. I thought, My wife, a neat and clean person to the point of being obsessive-compulsive, will kill me. Gradually, I woke up. So slowly and gradually, I asked myself, “Is this what it feels like to be dead?” I checked the clock in the moonlight. It said 11:00 pm. Witching hour. Next to me I could hear my wife gently snoring. “Grr … grr … grr ” is what it sounded like. Like a sweet little wolverine mother dreaming of tearing rabbits apart and tenderly feeding them to her darling baby wolverines with tender maternal affection.

    Quietly I arose and went to the bathroom and examined myself. Not yet covered in **** though I plan to take a shower, even if the last shower I took precipitated a TIA. After I reassured myself I observed a very large moth in the bathroom. It was close to black in color. “Who writes these ****** scripts?” I thought with disgust. I grabbed some tissue and crushed the moth.

    Then I got up and decided to share with my evangelical friends. I hope you were having a good morning, filled with the numinousness of the universe. An atheist friend of mine (before he turned on me, but what do you expect of atheists?) said that “numinous” can mean a) filled with awe at a universe filled with the presence of God or b) filled with awe at a universe filled with meaningless random pointless beauty that only a depraved atheist such as me can appreciate.

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  5. Yesterday, cbadwjh wrote The thing that made me wonder a bit was a “non-believing, gay, Catholic priest.” If he is still in the priesthood he is living a fraudulent life, not an authentic one.

    Your comment reminds me of George Burns’ old crack, “Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

    If Richard Wagner, the non-believing gay Catholic priest is genuine and truthful about his life while the Catholic church is still covering up abuse of children and pretending there is a God for which not the slightest empirical evidence, what is the “fraudulent life” and what is the genuine life?

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  6. Random, I like the George Burns crack 😉

    Just because Wagner feels the Catholic Church is perpetuating a giant fraud, he does not needs to live in their fraud. He does if he presents himself as a priest within a system he gives no credence to. He cannot justify his fraud by theirs. Martin Luther said something like, We all do our own dying so we had better do our own believeing. I respect you very much because you do your own believing.

    Wagner not so much. If he wants to use his catechism as part of his credentials to his unbelief that is fine, but to present himself as a representative, a mediatior, to God is a lie.

    BTW, I personally don’t believe in the Catholic system or that ordering of the priesthood. But that’s my own believing.

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  7. In Wagner’s defence, I can find nothing online where he presents himself as a Catholic priest. In everything I have found the all-important ex is there. It seems I was led astray. By an atheist no less! 😉

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  8. I am on a mad cleaning spree this morning. Mr P’s Baby Boy will be visiting later and we all want to go play. (This is the 21 year old not the Sweet Baby Boy–4months).
    Lunch is at my house tomorrow at 2pm. Ham, Leg of Lamb, roasted asparagus, potatoes, green bean bundles, rolls, chocolate cream pie, iced tea, coffee. That should about cover it all. You think?

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  12. Anyone who has earring knowledge: I got my ears pierced for my husband a couple of years ago, never would have done it “for me.” And I’ve been fighting for about three weeks with tenderness, redness, crustiness, etc. The biggest problem has been deciding whether to sleep with earrings (discomfort if I try to sleep on my side) or take them out overnight and put them in again in the morning (which means having my husband put them in, and some pain). Today my ears look like they’re trying to scab over from the “injury” of being pierced, and my husband got blood trying to put them in, and decided not to try. (He knows I wear them for him, and he doesn’t want to give me pain.)

    So, any suggestions of what I should do? Put them in anyway, even with pain and blood? Wait a few days and they won’t have closed up completely? Get them repierced in x number of weeks? I’ve been using the ear-cleaning solution at least twice a day, plus creams the pharmacist suggested at least once a day. But it seems as though the symptoms have just changed without getting better.

    If it were just me, it would be an easy answer. I now have some pretty earrings (including a pair my sister just gave me that I haven’t been able to wear yet), but I prefer necklaces and rings. But I pierced them for him, and if it’s reasonably possible to be able to wear them, I would like to.

    One thing that’s annoying is that when I tried to look up instructions for pierced ears on the internet (a few weeks ago), all the answers were assuming one had just recently gotten pierced ears. There just doesn’t seem to be anything out there about care beyond the first six months. (Are you supposed to take them out nightly? Clean ears daily, weekly? Though I could put them in myself until this stuff started, I didn’t exactly like to do it, so I slept with them in–no one ever said not to–though I did find them a nuisance overnight.)

    Anyway, if anyone wants to e-mail me, post a link, whatever, I’d appreciate it, since I’m clueless what to do from here.

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  13. Cheryl, it could be a reaction to the metal in your earrings. Try gold posts. I also find that the hook type earrings are much more comfortable for my ears than posts and studs. In fact I only wear the hook type as I answer the phone a lot at work and all other earring types bother. Keep using rubbing alcohol and a bit of blood should clear up eventually. Hopefully, it’s not a bad infection.

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  14. Cheryl, I get that every once in a while (and my ears were pierced when I was ten). I just take my earrings out for a few days until the inflammation goes away – I have left them out for weeks without the holes closing up. It happens more often if I wear any other earrings than a pair of stainless steel hoops, so unless it is a special occasion, I stick to the hoops, and I always take them out at night.

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  15. Cheryl, I have this problem every now and then and I think I gave this advice to Donna a couple of years ago. A lot of less expensive earrings have nickle in them. Get your best gold post earrings and a tube of Neosporin (this is what works best for me). Do not ever sleep in earrings. When you put in your gold post earrings squeeze up a little Neo and dip the post in, then put the earring in your ear. At night after your bath put a little Neo on your finger and rub it into your ear. I have a pair of gold and diamond “huggies” earrings that I have worn almost every day for the last 12 or 13 years. I also have the required Southern Belle Pearl earrings. Currently I am taking applications for someone to buy me a pair of Tahitian Black Pearls. 😉

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  16. Adios, I got the recipe for green bean bundles from the weekly Publix flyer.

    As far as roasted asparagus: 1 or 2 pounds of asparagus with the hard ends snapped off. Rinse, coat with a couple of tablespoons olive oil, spread on a baking sheet, sprinkle with salt, pepper, sometimes a little balsamic vinegar and roast in about a 350 degree oven until they are done. You can deside what done means to you. You can roast most veggies like this and it brings out the natural sugar in them.

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  20. Thanks for the earring advice. Since my sister had problems with cheap earrings, I’m only interested in gold or silver. But the pairs we’ve gotten have been the more inexpensive of the real gold or silver, and the first pairs he bought were gold-filled silver (they are my only ones with hooks rather than posts, but I can’t manage to put them in myself, so I’ve only worn them for special occasions) . . . and the second or third time I wore them the gold had mostly given way to silver. So I’m not really sure of the quality of made-in-China gold or silver. I’ve been using Neosporin the last couple of days, but so far nothing really seems to be helping. I think I’ll leave them out a few days and then try again. Thanks.

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  21. Oh, and I almost phrased my question to “Kim or anyone else who might know.” Kim, you’re my fashion adviser, and I hope you don’t take that personally (seeing as how I’m not exactly known for my style sense).

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  23. I still use neosporin in that tip that Kim gave me. 🙂

    And even expensive 14K gold and sterling have nickel in them, it’s used as a bonding agent in virtually all jewelry, pricey and cheap alike.

    Nowadays, nickel has become a very common allergy (mine developed only in recent years & I couldn’t figure out why my ears kept suddenly getting infected after many years of wearing pierced earrings, mostly sterling silver). I read somewhere that the more piercings you have the more likely it is you’ll develop a nickel allergy.

    A jeweler suggested the nickel issue to me several years ago (I was also breaking out from any kind of necklace chain around my neck, looked like hives), so I found nickel free earrings online — but they also carry them at the Rite Aid drug store. The kicker is they are quite inexpensive — and they give me no problems. Some are nickel-free sterling silver (which are a little more expensive), others are made of titanium which I think have worked the best for me.

    But that said, you may just be getting an infection that isn’t clearing up and it has nothing to do with nickel at all (I’d get those, too), so I’d go without earrings for a few days, use hydrogen peroxide and neosporin … See if that clears it up.

    The holes shouldn’t close. (I think I skipped wearing earrings for the better part of 1-2 years, maybe longer, before I knew they had nickel-free earrings and began wearing earrings again, but my ears were pierced when I was 21, a long time ago now).

    Those infections can be very painful, my sympathies.

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  24. Good Morning…Michelle that was a beautiful tribute to an amazing woman…thanks for sharing
    Cheryl, I had that happen once or twice with my ears…I used peroxide to heal them, leaving the earrings out…they healed and I have found I can only use sterling silver…no nickel… in my ears….gold causes an allergic reaction (I cannot wear my original wedding ring either)…my ears tend not to like posts…I wear hoops.
    We are experiencing a most beautiful Spring weekend here and I’m headed out for a hike…blessings to you all…..and for what it is worth Ann….I was up at 2:00…we could have had a conversation on here in the wee hours of the morn 🙂

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  25. Nickel-free jewelry is becoming fairly easy to find — Target also carries nickel-free earrings though I think there’s something in that metal they use (they’re super cheap, but pretty cute styles) that doesn’t agree with my ears, either. 😦

    I was at a craft fair a couple years ago and saw some celtic style sterling silver earrings I liked, but nothing said they were “nickel free” (they tell you to not buy earrings unless they specifically say on the packaging that they’re “nickel free,” not just “hypoallergenic” — hypoallergenic & stainless steel also made my ears break out, as did 14K gold).

    The artist, though, told me that she made all her jewelry nickel-free now (since the allergy is so common) and said if I had any problems with them that I could send them back to her.

    They worked out fine and they’re one of my favorite pair of earrings now.

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  26. But I wore gold & sterling earrings for years and years with no problems. I guess you can develop the allergy at any point and then you’ll probably have it for the rest of your life. (My stainless steel watch and the sterling ring and bracelets I sometimes wear don’t bother me, though, which is strange.)

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  30. Janice, I’ve always cleaned off the earrings with the cleaning fluid when I take them out, and then I don’t put the same pair in (and figure that if anything is alive on them still, surely it will die before I put them back in). But, again, that’s where it would be helpful if they told people how to do long-term care, not just “do this for the first three weeks, and then this,” and after six months they don’t say anything more. (You can’t wear dangly earrings until six months, and it was just about exactly six months for me from piercing day to wedding day. So I wore the dangly earrings he bought me before I even had my ears pierced. But after six months, then what?)

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  31. What Donna said. I also got mine pierced for my man before our wedding. They were too much trouble so I don’t wear them and have not for years. The holes are still there. He understands and has no problem with it. He loves me the way I am. Which is good because I am told I am rather….different…

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  33. Cheryl, it probably varies from person to person — some wind up with more sensitivity than others; as long as I’m wearing titanium or other strictly nickel free earrings, I don’t have to really do too much (and I don’t always put on the Neosporin). I’ve worn the same pair of earrings for several days (taking them out at night) without a hitch, no Neosporin or anything.

    When one ear starts to feel maybe tender, I’ll go back to using the Neosporin on the hooks, and/or skip wearing earrings for a couple days.

    The infections do clear up, and for me (with the exception of the period when I developed the nickel allergy and didn’t realize that my earrings were causing the reaction) I’ve rarely had any problems.

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  34. I used to wear earrings 24/7, all through my 20s and 30s — usually just the very thin gold or silver wire hoops that you could sleep in easily. No problems. Ever. (Until the “allergy” developed in my late 40s, I think.)

    Now I always take earrings off at night.

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  35. I agree with Donna on the “perhaps we were;t meant to poke holes and wear decorative jewelry in them” idea. We told all our daughters they had to wait until they were 18 if they wanted to have the ears pierced.

    What am I doing?!?!?! I joined in on the jewelry and recipe thread! I should talk basketball since its Saturday! But then, the way the tourney is going, I might as well talk food and fashion.

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  37. Children cooking: A fifteen year old offered to cook for the missing sixteen year old, who returns today. She wanted to make chicken pot pies and did a beautiful job as she is an excellent pie cruster ,maker. Anyway, she decided she needed a catch pan for drippings and put a glass rectangular pan in but forgot to add the water. Then she remembered and added hot water. The pan exploded as one might expect. Everybody is fine but I hope they all learned!

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  39. Oh Mumsee, I was once making pork chops parmesan in a glass pyrex dish. The pork chops browned and crusted in the oven and then I added the room temperature tomato sauce and it sounded like a gun going off! I haven’t done it since!

    The table is set with a silk tablecloth father-in-law (because he still was when he died) brought back from Japan isn the 1950’s, Mr. P’s mother’s china and silver. My mother’s crystal, plus a crystal that matches it that we found in a thrift store when we were dating (remember I told you the lady said how about 20 dollars for all of it and I thought she meant a stem) and a CERTAIN SILVER LADLE that appeared at my house last fall.

    I invited George to join us and spend Easter with his daughter tomorrow, you know in the spirit of in-laws and out-laws, family and non family. He declined.

    I am off to marinate a leg of lamb (which we will have to tell Baby Boy is just a roast) . Wish me luck this is my first one.

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  42. In Wagner’s defense, I can find nothing online where he presents himself as a Catholic priest. In everything I have found the all-important ex is there. It seems I was led astray. By an atheist no less!

    Anybody who believes anything an atheist says, gets pretty much what he or she deserves.

    On the other hand, I just read “Christ is risen !!”

    I am going to eat lunch and then I will go for a walk in our woods. Most people (as far as I know) around here are in church today and perhaps they will see Christ risen. Perhaps as I walk in the woods, I will see him. After all, I am fairly sure that most of the people who post comments here tell the truth. Most of the time. To the best of their ability. Wait!

    What’s that I see outside my window?

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