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Pez are pure sugar,like Pixie sticks,just flavored sugar.Whatever kind of candy it is,it's all bad for the teeth.I always had too many cavities growing up and got a lot of lectures from my Uncle,who was my Dentist.Still,I just Love candy,even in my old age now.
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A few years ago the grocery store had a limited edition wizard of oz pez collection
I bought them for my niece and nephew
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But they ate them. So much for the valued collections of limited edition PEZ.

Maybe you should hoard some red vines MsMadge?  The brownies and blue birds could weave a potholder once they become petrified.

Aren't P E Z. the ones that came in a little plastic dispenser?
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Good news about the red vines, thanks CM. Also, sorry for the recent loss.
Has anyone tried the baked cheetos?
Doritos had a new chip hear for a while Heatwave BBQ. I started buying them, and now they don;t sell them.
I like the savory more than the sweets. I still like sweets dont get me wrong, hershey kisses with almonds, heath bars, and chico sticks, are a big weakness, I definitely try not to keep those around.
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Speaking of pez, I have a collection of pez dispensers. I was going to throw them out but my brother said, why not hang on to them, they may be valuable one day. I doubt it.........but, ya never know. I also have started collecting wooden cats. I have cats staring at me from all over my place. :)
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Gershun when I have stuff I am not sure about I look on ebay. OF course what people want and what they can get are two different things.. LOL.. My FIL gave us two old irons that you sat on the stove to heat up.. people were asking plenty on ebay.. but none were selling.. I grew up with an antique store.. so I have a pretty good idea of some values. My hubs has lots of old GI Joe stuff,, and its actually going for good prices in some areas.. but it's a crap shoot! Your pez may be worth something. I have tons of old perfume bottles,, glass, crystal worth jack boo these days. People decorate with new modern things these days.
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Thx Pam, maybe I'm rich...............LOL!

My Mom had an old Singer sewing machine I wish we had hung on to. Hell, I'm starting to feel antique myself. Maybe I'll try and sell my face on E Bay one of these days.
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I have a friend who flea markets for a living, in the south. She does very well with fabrics to movie companies. If I could only find someone who would pay the bucks for lots of deer and squirrel mounts! LOL I could really add to FILs bank account!
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Pam, you can still sell your unusual perfume bottles by updating it to modern style. Depending how you feel about doing that. If I love an odd-shape, beautiful (in my eyes) perfume bottle, I would not do anything to 'modernize' it.
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Susan, I like my food to be freshly cooked. I'm not crazy about 'leftover' foods from the previous day. When I read how you would cook several eggs ahead of time, I kind of frowned about that. But, it must have been percolating subconsciously in my mind. Today, as I was sitting down trying to figure out what I want to eat for dinner, a thought popped up about breakfast instead. You see, I'm sick and tired of daily breakfast of microwavable burrito - whether with eggs/potatoes or chicken/rice, etc... I'm sick of burritos.

I bought a loaf of bread for my peanutbutter snacking. Yesterday, I bought salami. And as I was sitting here, a thought popped up that I can have tomorrow for breakfast a toasted sandwich with salami and over-medium egg! I will just have to cook the egg tonight, put it in the fridge, and just micro it tomorrow morning! Yes!!! Oh, man... If only I have fresh avocado, it would go great with it....
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I found a new webcomic that plays instrumental Japanese background music. The comic is obviously of the olden times because they're wearing robes. I'm on the 1st chapter and it just irritates me on how ... the posters make fun of the woman (geisha-style wear) wearing.. Gasp! 'socks and sandals' !!! {{{shaking my head}}} .. Hello, people! She is wearing the traditional socks called tabi and the traditional (usually wooden) shoes called geta... Beautiful music but I need to stop reading the comments because it's almost midnight and their comments are making me upset. I do want to be able to sleep tonight.
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Lovely lovely news story here:

buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/this-woman-was-allowed-to-continue-working-a-supermarket?utm_term=.bhxr3v3Gz#.wbndyny4V
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OK, that brought a tear to my eye.

My Utopian society would find something useful for everyone to do regardless of age and ability. I can remember when I was little the ladies at the nursing home could take an active role in the kitchen peeling potatoes or nibbing strawberries (I'm not sure about the gents). In traditional societies the old women watch the kids while the younger women do the heavy work. Today we just don't have any place for those who can't put in a full day at work or meet 100% of the requirements listed in a job description.
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The Viking was rather chatty tonight even offered someone a cookie - of course when being changed at bedtime she roared and threatened to sock the caregiver
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Are you sure the cookie was not poisoned MsMadge?
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Ha ha
She did make sure to tell her she could only have one though
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Coming on over here to visit, a short visit.
Everyone is having such a difficult time, and there were no words.
I have been spending a lot of time praying lately.

Today, it was dedicated to hubs and his needs for follow-up at the doctor and an ultrasound two hours later, so we stayed out there. I waited in several parking lots in the rain for him after going in with him once. We enjoyed a healthy lunch out together.
In keeping with my changing my attitude, I smiled a lot, at nothing. But, I smiled.
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The practice of smiling is working great!
It makes me feel better, and people are treating me better!
At first, I thought my face was going to crack, but it comes easier now.
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Ah, Send, when I went to the states - Colorado, Las Vegas, and Virginia - my siblings told me not to smile a lot. When I smiled to the Walmart sales lady, the cashiers, they didn't smile back. I smiled to the mom & pop Asian store people when I entered, and they just stared at me with unsmiling face. When I made my purchases and smiled and said thank you, they did not smile back, etc... It was a culture shock. I was warned over and over to not smile at strangers, etc... But it's very hard Not to smile when I spent most of my life smiling at strangers, at cashiers, at sales clerks back home in our small island.

So, it must be a challenge for you to practice smiling. Did people smile back? It always feels good when they do.
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CM, that was a really nice article. The son is so right. Sainsbury did go above and beyond for his mom. Thanks for sharing.
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Bookluvr,
People do not always smile back. For some cultures, it is almost like a rule not to smile.

Smiling for my own health and happiness, it doesn't really matter if they smile back.
And yes, when they do smile back, it feels good. My smile muscles are working better now.
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The topic of smiling is interesting. I live just outside of Washington DC and I do volunteer work at a local hospital at the information-desk, and my desk-mate and I are always saying "good morning" or "good afternoon" to visitors and patients coming in the door.... and probably 8 time out of 10, we get a smile and a nod or "good morning" back to us. And we live in a large diverse area. Thus, all cultures coming through the door :)

One thing I have noticed and so has my desk-mate [who was born and raised in India] is that if either of us escort a visitor to where they need to go, we always get a warm thank you from different cultures.... plus she gets thanks you from her own culture... except we find from the white Americans not so much [which is my culture], unless they are elderly. We find that very interesting.
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FreqFlyer, uhm... not very surprising. We have noticed that if you’re Asian or brown skin, the Caucasians treat us as inferior. I think, too, it’s because we’re from a small island that is ‘backward ‘, not as modernized as the US Mainland. The good news is ... Caucasians are no longer the number 1 place when it comes to rudeness/snobbery. Currently there are 2 Asian countries vying for that position now.... and yes, when I smile to Caucasians here on island, they don’t smile back. Come to think of it, I’ve actually stopped smiling to them automatically.. unless they show friendliness to me first.
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"Smile"

Smile tho' your heart is aching
Smile even tho' it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by

If you smile
Thro' your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shin-ing thro' for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide ev-'ry trace of sadness
Altho' a tear may be ever so near

That's the time
You must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worth-while

If you just smile....

Nat King Cole on youtube.
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I was talking to one of my nephews today and he was telling me about a new gadget that I had never heard of, the self balancing electric unicycle. You've got to check out the videos... unbelievable! (Obviously for those with more money than sense)
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Speaking of smiling.............I used to hate it when guys would walk up to me and say Smile! I remember waiting for the Skytrain in the morning when I was going to work and one of the Skytrain attendants coming up to me and saying "How come I never see you smile?". I said, look around you............Is anyone smiling?

I think I have what is known as "resting b***h face" :) Look it up on Google. There really is such a thing.
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Looking that up Gershun. I think I will see me there....

Presumptuous of the skytrain employees! Out of bounds, imo. There is nothing wrong with resting faces....what were they always watching you, stalking you? Sheesh.
Or, putting you down was a far out "pick up line?"
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Oh, Cwillie! You meant I would be balancing that "self-balancing" unicycle.
I thought the unit would be self-balancing...like a self-driving car!

Great for your nephews, but for a senior, another way to fall going at a faster rate.

The things people can invent are amazing!
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Send, I think that guy was trying to pick me up cause after that day he'd always be talking to me. One day I was putting all my nickels and dimes in the machine to buy a ticket and suddenly I hear this voice behind me say "what, break your piggy bank?". Another time, "catch the Grizzlies game last night?" LOL Finally one day I saw him chatting up some other girl and I said to him "is that all you do all day, flirt with the girls?" He said "yeah, why not, nothing else to do"
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Saw a great example of a "resting b***h face" but the file format wouldn't work to use as my avatar. It was a picture of a female dog sleeping, with it's tongue hanging out.

How'd I do?
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