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A woman took her father to the VA hospital. While there she tried to purchase a diet soda only to be told a different price compared to other times, poured it out and left.

This is where the story gets interesting. The officials at the facility used the video cameras to see where she went and with whom. They used her father’s private medical records to try and track her down. They are trying to bring FEDERAL charges on her over a soda.

How many laws on the privacy of medical records did they break? Why such a hubbub over a diet soda? Why Federal charges? How is this serving the country, the veterans, or ANYBODY?

Can anyone spell harassment? or how about a waste of time and tax dollars?

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I know that I started with an unusual word, but it is the word that describes what happens.

Our oldest kitty has decided that when someone is petting her in a certain area of the house, she will FLUMP unexpectedly. First, we have to be getting ready to go to sleep. Second, we will tell both babies that it is beddy-bye nighty-night time, yes we use a secret code to talk to our cats.

Next, everybody goes into the bedroom. We humans adjust the bedding, with the weight of the cats on the bed of course. They wouldn’t have it any other way. We then pet each baby so they know they are still the rulers in the house. I should have put the world rulers in quotation marks. They each pick the person to say good night to, and this is where the FLUMP comes into play.

When petting each furry person (aka fur-purrson) the petting stroke starts at the nose and goes all the way to the tip of the tail. The oldest cat will then perform her FLUMP. A FLUMP is a fully limp undertaking of a melodramatic plop. AKA F.L.U.M.P. If you stop petting, she will stand up, nose your hand, and when you pet her again - FLUMP. If you ignore her, she will nip or pinch you to get your attention. Did I mention that they think they are the rulers in the house? If we do not perform these services, our toes get chewed on at night. So let the petting services and the FLUMP commence. I guess routine in important to every one in their own way. I will admit that I miss the petting services if I go straight to sleep and don’t take the time out to rub fur. I have my routine, too.

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What type of shoes do you wear? I imagine there are as many types of shoes as there are people. As for me I like to wear something that has been called thong slippers. You know the type where the strap goes between the toes and only the bottom of the foot is completely covered.

I used to wear clogs when I was young. Thick soles, covered foot, the heel exposed. I liked them for the ease of kicking them off. Now there are Dansko shoes which look similar. They look comfortable and easy to wear. The main reason why I no longer wear regular shoes is having to tie them when my hands hurt from Arthritis, and my feet sweat.

Being the shape that I am (very rotund) does not make it easy to tie shoes, and having hands that hurt also makes it hard. Those shoes that I mentioned earlier do look comfortable however. Maybe I’ll check them out more thoroughly and find something that I really like.

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I have a confession for you. Hello, my name is Tilly and I am an internet junkie. I freely admit that not that long ago I did not go on the internet, I did not know how to navigate. I was fully analog. (I think I have mentioned before the analog bit.) I love to use Stumble Upon.com to look around. My sister in Arkansas also sends articles to me or recipes, or games

One of the recent games that she sent is a grid of letters. You match the letters that are in line with each other either across or up and down, eliminate them and clear the whole board. I find myself returning to this game over and over again. It makes me think and try to plan logically. Logic is not always a word that is applied to me, but this game makes me use it.

I have put a link in this article if you want to give the game a try. It will eventually lead you to another site that has more games. You have to clear the block first.

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Yup it is the dreaded acne word. I think everyone has had them at one time or another.

I remember when growing up, it was very embarrassing to have spots show up on your face. Some kids would have a really serious time with those things. There are a lot of different ways to treat those nasty things, the secret is to find something that works.

There is a site that does check out the different types available. They have done a review on Proactiv.

Even in the old days kids and young adults had skin problems. Did you realize that in the old days they used to dab on whiskey to dry the skin and help the acne to go away. EWWW Imagine smelling like a brewery to get rid of zits ! At least these days things are made that smell better.

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This is a serious subject. Drugs are a part of all of our lives. Aspirin, Tylenol, Motrin are drugs. However I’m not here to talk about them or the things that are prescribed by doctors to help sick people to survive. I’m talking here about drugs that leave people needing drug treatment therapy.

Every day we hear about celebrities that need to go into special places that help people dependent on drugs. Ordinary people have this happen to them, too. My nephew has had a problem with methamphetimines in his life. He needs drug rehab.

Right now he is incarcerated and that is not possible. I had a friend explain that ‘meth’ changes a person even to changing their personality, and they are no longer the same person that they were before. Their chemistry is so changed that everything about them is different.

I hope that if you know someone with this problem (no matter the drug), that you are able to help them, and that they are willing to accept help.

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I will admit that I am not a real techno type of person. I have admitted before the position of an ‘analog’ person. I just found an article that explains how a paraplegic can walk again !

Yes, I did say walk again. An Israeli man, Amit Goffer, has created a device that can enable a person to walk, who had been stuck in a wheel chair. This is not just a stand up type of wheel chair. This device actually moves the legs of the person involved. They would be indeed walking. No longer would they be facing other people at belly level, but facing others face to face, eye to eye.

This is totally amazing and wonderful

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That word can be fun or dangerous. Well, today I’m going for fun. My sister and I communicate all the time even though she lives in Arkansas.

One thing she does a lot is send me recipes over the internet. When I look at the pictures or read the list of ingredients, my stomach starts to growl and it stirs up my imagination. It is so much fun to read what she will send each time, and some of her comments are hilarious. One of my favorite comments is - Bwahahaha. In other words, uncontrolled laughter.:)

There isn’t enough laughter in this world of ours, so any excuse to laugh makes the world brighter. Some of the sites have such beautiful pictures of what is to be fixed that they should be in picture frames. Just think of it, an art gallery filled with yummy pictures of tasty food. Of course if you could find a way to give the art gallery the scent of wonderful food, any restaurants in the neighborhood would get a lot of business after each visitor leaves. Now that would really be fun temptation !

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I don’t have any kids, or babies. However, members of my extended family are experiencing family growth. I have a great niece in Arkansas, a new great,great nephew in Texas, and the one thing they have in common, other than being babies, is the need for crib bedding.

I never realized there was so much stuff that could go into a baby crib. Remember, I have no kids of my own. I get to experience this vicariously through family instead.You don’t want a crib that is only white stuff. Color is needed for the baby to look at and learn to explore new things. Blankets, sheets, crib padding, curtains in the baby’s room, toys, all sorts of things. Even mobiles that hang over the crib for the infant to focus its eyes on and the grab and learn co-ordination with its arms and fingers. There is more to having a baby than any one can think unless they have experienced it themselves. Check out any baby supply site and you will understand where I am coming from. Babies are worth the extra effort to make their world colorful and beautiful.

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Hello, my name is MUD.

I was walking and found a white cat paw under the arch of my foot. It was not planned, but it happened. If there is any critter on the face of the Earth that knows how to glare, a cat know how to glare.

I didn’t plan for it to happen, but it did. When I followed the offended fur purrson to apologize, the apology was ignored and she stayed as far from me as possible. I also feel like mud. Her paw is a whole lot smaller than my own clod-hopper (size 10). How do you apologize to a fur purrson when that purrson doesn’t understand English?

Well, I am just going to have to cringe and bear it until she decided to forgive me my trespass. I hope it isn’t long. In the past we have had cats that held grudges for a while. Waking up at night to find toes being chewed on definitely tells us that we did something wrong.

What’s this? I feel a soft white furry body rubbing on my shin. I am forgiven - YIPPEE.

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