It's about flipping time

Well, hello! I didn't mean to ignore you all for this long. Actually, I had a post yesterday, but I took it down. Sometimes things need to be vented - and then deleted.

This is the picture I tried to use to test out Ian's face look alike, The computer sayd I look like Colin Ferrell - whatever - I don't see the resemblance at all - I don't have a five o'clock shadow.

Anyway - I have had two fantabulous weeekend in a row - and well, work has been making me actually work - the nerve of those folks - so I haven't finished either post about my weekends.

So First - two weekends ago my mom called me from about 6 hours away - dad is feeling good - so they swung by to visit. It was great. In true loner forms - we went to a local place that is a lot like chuch E Cheese for grown ups. We played shooting games and Skee Ball until we were all exhausted. It was a great visit. I miss not being able to get together with themn whenever I want to - and this was a real treat. They only spent the night - then headed back home, missing all that snow by just a few hours.

Then last weekend we went to look at a college in North Georgia. It was COLD and RAINING - and I could have lived without all the walking in the rain - but the college itself was really promising. It is weird being Catholic in the bible belt. I kept lookign around thinking this was really similar to Cathedral where I went to high school .

Anyway - the highlight ( no Bear, it was not the farm stores) was getting ot meet the Wash Lady! Okay, for any of you who also read her blog, she is WAY cuter in person. Made me wish we lived a bit closer. I loved her house - also much nicer in person - and to top it all off, she didn't even flinch when I arrived with husband and three kids in tow to come visit - even though she was hosting a dinner party later in the day - pretty impressive gal - but if you read her, you already know that. Nothing like meeting someone you already like in this forum - only to find you like them even better in "real life".

One item of note - every year for as long as I can remember, TSC has carried baby chicks and ducklings in the spring. This year, they are not carrying them - due to bird flu. My specialty before I came in to diabetes was epidemiology - having a degree in Public Health. It astounds me that we are willing to slaughter thousands of birds because they might carry an illness that has killed less than 20 people worldwide. If we did that to kill deer who carried Lyme disease, or Racoons and bats that carried rabies - it would be inhumane treatment. I am not sure where all this is headed, but I think it is unfortunate that people who make decisions sdon't get their facts straight before they run off and take action. ( Okay, that is as political as I get)