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That's too bad Booklover. I'm so glad we have this here and the lab I go to is right across from where I live too. They are really on the ball there. Once my Doc called with my cholesterol results and I had already read them online. I just played along and pretended I didn't know.

Maybe you better just move on over here! :)
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Interesting Gershun, it looks as though only one lab company is taking part in ON and not the one the samples were sent to. I've often wondered whatever happened to the big push for e-health records a decade or so ago,at least here in ON it seems like it was a billion dollar boondoggle that never got off the ground.
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I wonder why that is? Although to be honest I think a lot of people aren't even aware of it. The way I found out was by accident but I'm so glad I did cause it's nice to be able to keep track of your own records. For instance, the Doctor I have now wasn't even aware that fasting before your cholesterol blood test can lower your percentages. Apparently, I've heard that a lot of younger Doctors tell their patients it's not required anymore but in my case, I'll continue to do so cause my readings were in the normal range when I fasted twelve hours before as opposed to not doing that. I may have been prescribed a medication that I didn't need.
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Every time I bend at the waist I am reminded that there is a little extra padding there. That makes me think about changing my diet. And THAT makes me think of food. Hm, time for a snack?
Something is going wrong with this thought process.
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CW, I don't think your thought process is wrong. I subscribe to the thought that a small is almost always a decent answer to any question. Of course, truly big problems require a snack of chocolate.
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My fav diet plan:

Miss Piggy diet......Never eat anything you can’t lift.

Works for me. Buy you do have to buy larger clothes occasionally.
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Windy, was it you who said once your goal was to be on "My 600 Pound Life"? LOL

Don't do it Windy! Step away from the fridge with your hands in the air!
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What a beautiful evening here, with the sun just heading down over the horizon at 6:30 p.m. It will be sunset soon.
It is pleasant to think of it sinking over the pacific ocean just one hour away, in the west.

I should go there and watch it set tomorrow.
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I was looking through an old newspaper - From Al's Market, April 2 1959

fresh pineapples 2 for 55¢                                California new potatoes 5 lbs 43¢

Spare ribs 37¢/lb                                              prime rib roasts 59¢/lb

Hunt's fancy tomato juice 2 for 53¢              fancy cream corn 15oz   15¢

Giant Tide 79¢ pkg
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Cwillie that's amazing, if a little sad considering what $5 will get you now for dinner!
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Apologize in advance, the $5 temptation is too great:
o n e cheeseburger, no onio n s.
one burger, protein style, mustard instead, extra lettuce, extra tomatoes, chopped chilis, side of pickles....
In-N-Out
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you can eat good at taco bell for $5.00
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Send,
That sounds so good - I was tempted to stop at in-n-out after hoca tonight but instead I'm eating Raisin Bran and blueberries

How about the IRS - computers crashed and everyone gets an extra day to file - lol
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Does anyone remember the hot dog and ice cream diet - lose 10 pounds in 3 days?
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ok, this is a joke, right?
Because if not, I like Costco hot dogs.
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If you have to eat them together I'm not surprised you'd lose weight. Yecch.
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Never heard of ice cream and hot dog diet - yuk!
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It's no joke - you can add in cottage cheese and cantaloupe and tuna and crackers from what I remember - the hot dogs and ice cream are just the added bonus
Google hot dog and ice cream diet - it'll pop up
My best friend in HS and I did it way back when
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😁😆😄 So I did Google this diet and I'm reading the search results. I mean... that just sounds so gross, not to mention it's seriously nutritionally deficient choice of foods. (Wait, are these Chicago dogs?? lol) But it's funny. 😆😆 I remember growing up that a few older women in my life did or were doing the Grapefruit Diet at one time or another. 

You know, I can see the hot dog/ice cream diet being tolerable and even fun when you're a teen girl.  Your stomach is different then, somehow.  You can eat all that junk food and it doesn't bother you, drink all that sugary soda, and your body seems to thrive on it during that time.  

I had some friends, a couple, in Las Vegas who did the cayenne pepper and lemon water fasting diet once a year or so for 7-10 days. They swore by it. If you can get past the first 3 days, you probably would be so high on natural pain relievers and other chemicals your brain puts out when you starve yourself... lol... that it would be not too bad after that.
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Ms Madge- that is the 3- day diet, I have done it, it works. You eat 3 days a particular menu and then 4 days what you want without overdoing it. I exchanged any meat protein for cottage cheese.
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I’m not sure of the time zone you’re in to have seen this unusual phenomenon. We share the same time zone as Sydney, Australia. Last night we came home at 10:15 pm from my cousin’s rosary. I got out of my brother’s car and started walking down to my house. I remembered seeing the moon in the daylight this past week. So, I decided to look up at the moon.

Gasp! It was beautiful! I stopped and called out to oldest sister already reaching our porch and brother with his wife still by the car. I told them to look at the moon. I pointed up. I just stood there staring.... the moon was bright. There were no clouds around it. There was a Perfect widening circle around the moon. It was a perfect circle moving further from the moon and widening outward.

I turned to see if bro and SIL were looking at the moon. They were standing together and SIL was taking photos of it. Yes! It wasn’t as beautiful as the real phenomena but it’s evidence! I asked her to send me a copy by FB messenger. Knowing her, she’ll send it to WhatsAp which I don’t have (no smart phone.)
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Good night, moon
Good night, book
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Pink Moon, MsMadge, Bookluvr!
Goodnight to the cow, jumping over the moon.
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Just stumbled across a very interesting article - business week - March 16, 2018 - free online

Seems Japan's elderly population - nearly 30% of the population - especially women have turned to shoplifting either out of need or loneliness and view being in prison as a haven where there's always people around and meals - guards though find they almost have to be nursing home attendants what with incontinance and the like
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Send-I think Ms Madge just opened the door to a second option. Parking lot or prison. Just a little humor(sorry not very good at it)
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Thank you Smesheque and MsMadge.
It was from prison that the Apostle Paul wrote much of the epistles, until the Lord's angels opened the prison doors, scaring the guards.
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A point to ponder:
I don't think I have ever had a smoke alarm decide it needs a new battery in the middle of the day, it is always at OMG-it's-the-middle-of-the-night. Do you think they make them that way on purpose?
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Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, has a theory about what he calls

"The Cussedness of Inanimate Objects."

Toast falling butter side down. Sellotape lying straight and serene until you try to apply it to whatever you're sticking, when it recoils into twisted bows. Door handles that grab your cardigan, but only when you're in a hurry to get to the phone. Pencils that wait 'til you're just out of the room but still within earshot before they start rolling and fall off the table.

I expect the smoke alarm is thinking "they'll never notice if I peep during the day. I'll wait 'til it's quiet..."
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cwillie, good question about smoke alarms. I'll be half asleep and hear that chirp wondering if it was alarm or something on TV. Little while later hear another chirp. then my mind goes in overdrive thinking the alarm will do a full album of chirps the rest of the night.... since I can't reach the alarm, do I find a shovel and wack at it?

Thankfully my regular electrical person will squeeze in time, it takes him on a few minutes to replace the batteries in the two alarms. Well worth whatever he charges me. No way would I try to set up a ladder at the top of the stairs and try to reach up without visions of fallen down those stairs. The electrician makes it look so easy.
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Speaking of alarms going off. Our place has alarms and flashing strobe lights situated eye-level right across from my bed. One night it started at 8 pm. and continued till 1 pm. the next day. The fire department could not reset it. So I slept with eye mask on and covers pulled over my head, peeking out occasionally. OMG
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