Knock those hooters around!

When I had my mastectomy, I had the implants put in at the same time that they removed the cancer. But the implants they put in, were inflatables. Yeah. Once a week, the doctor would add some saline to inflate the expander, which would stretch the skin. I guess about four months later they'd remove the inflatables, (the expanders), and replace them with the saline implants. So I was actually gonna be leaving the hospital flat chested. The thought of THAT devastated me. Those of you who knew me, remember my bra size. As far at I was concerned, to go from THAT, to flat chested was worse than the cancer. I couldn't even imagine how awful it would be to leave the hospital with that part of my body amputated. Oh. I laughed. I joked. I had people placing bets - Feeling me up, then guessing how much they weighed. (9 pounds) But, underneath I was having panic attacks. It was too awful to think about. Enter Missy. Bless her heart. She knitted me boobies. Yes. She. Did. She found a pattern online. And made me "Knitted Knockers" Crocheted breast prosthetics. So that I wouldn't have to leave the hospital flat chested. How adorable is that? This was all almost 10 years ago. The inflatables didn't inflate. I got deathly MRSA in one side. (This has NEVER happened before) Story of my life. I had to have that one pulled out. Then when they thought the MRSA was gone they put it back in. I got MRSA again. (This has NEVER happened before) So, I had both sides pulled out. And I walked out of the hospital Flat chested. But finally out of pain. The Knitted Knockers were put in a drawer. with the mastectomy bra, and forgotten about. Until last week. All of a sudden I noticed one of the Knockers was lying in a different area of my house, every few hours. That's when I realized my cats were playing "bat the boobie around".

But why can't a GUILLOTINE go through airport security?

My Mom, dad, and I, go through Kindles like water. My Amazon account is now up to like: "Julie's 7th Kindle". My mom didn't like the touch screen, so I bought her the Kindle 4, where you press the buttons on the side to turn the pages. I came up from the ocean and plopped my beach chair right down on the Kindle, cracking the screen in half. I bought a Kindle Fire for my cousin in the Masonic Home, but she didn't use it once. It sits in my room haunting me. This Christmas my dad had his Kindle Paperwhite stolen out of the lost and found at Myrtle Beach TSA. He decided to take this bagel cutter, (that was a gift) in his carry-on luggage. And couldn't understand why they wouldn't let him take it on the plane. TSA made him go back through security and have them put it in his checked luggage. He's explaining this to us, and was mystified that they made him surrender it. This! Bagel cutter! A GUILLOTINE! With a 4 inch triangular pointy knife. Dad! Seriously! He said, "But it had the plastic around the knife" OK. Because plastic can't be stepped on and broken. And that lethal knife pulled out, and used to take a plane down. OHHHhhh...... So. He had to go BACK through TSA to Spirit, where the woman at the counter (after giving him a raised eyebrow) had to run in the back, find his luggage, and put the GUILLOTINE in there. Then my dad had to go BACK through security, take his Kindle out of his carry-on, and put it on the machine. But, he was so flustered over the whole "GUILLOTINE" incident, that he forgot to grab the Kindle And he didn't remember it until AFTER he was in my car, and at my brother's house, and then still, until he was back at my house. Where we all searched diligently for it, with no luck. When they got home and he went through TSA, he realized that maybe, with "GUILLOTINE-GATE", he had forgotten it there. So he searched, and asked, and looked in Lost and Found, but it was gone. Someone had helped themself to a paperwhite Kindle. Merry Thieving Christmas to them. Fortunately, I had my mom's touchscreen Kindle to send to him. It doesn't light up. But it's a Kindle. "Julie's 8th Kindle."

Can i be a "bag lady" in this day and age?

I just had to run to Walgreens to pick up photos. And, it being a lazy Sunday, OR, me, being lazy, on a Sunday didn't feel like getting dressed. So I threw on a pair of sweatshorts over my longjohns, and an Avalon sweatshirt over my pajama top, and a ripped Polo ball cap on, and left the house. It was the ugliest-ass outfit you ever saw. Never mind the fact that the sweatshorts are Ralph Lauren, They're sweatshorts! And GREY. Ugly. And my longjohns have blood on them down the calf because I neglected to notice that I cut my leg. And when I bleed, it's a murder scene. And I didn't comprehend the hideousness of my outfit, until it was staring at me in the reflection of the Walgreens door. And I realized I looked like a bag lady. Except in this "Oh So Sensitive" Politically Correct climate, I couldn't say that. So I decided that the new term is "Big Brown Bag American". But watch. Even though Bloomingdales has had that term forever Someone will object to the use of "brown".

Mirror, Mirror

I am pretty much close to blind. Without my glasses So when I put mascara on it's a disaster. I have to be an inch from the mirror, which then gets fogged up and I get all sweaty from the close space Today. I found out that putting mascara on in the airport is about the worst makeup experience I could ever have. The counter was three feet wide. So I had to take a running jump, to parkour onto the counter just to sit on top of it. And then, lean OVER the sink, to see my eyes. Meanwhile the sink was electronically activated, So everytime I breathed I got soaked. while my right side was getting squirted with soap. And there were no paper towels. Or hand blowers They only had those "Efficient Hand Dryers" That you stick your hands down into and sound like a rocket blasting off. So, ticked off, I rounded the corner, thinking maybe toilet seat covers would work to dry me off in a pinch And there, hanging on the wall, was a full length mirror.

No whining, no trolls, no adults......

I was so tired of seeing all the negative posts The politics. The racism. The butt hurt. The whining. The people who were offended by the capital letter in the sentence above it. So I hunted for a "fluff" page. Something that would be fun, all positive posts, light and breezy. I found it in a Grey's Anatomy page. It was great. All cute posts about the show. Questions about the characters. What if this happened? And not one miserable post about current events. Exactly what I was looking for. Almost too perfect. I couldn't believe it! There were no trolls trying to post about politics, or grumble about the fact that there are interracial couples on the show. Then on "Open Question Friday", (You can talk about something other than Grey's) Someone posted: "What are you afraid of?" Someone answered "getting my period for the first time. I heard that it hurts." Yeah. I was on a site with pre-teen girls.

What's in a name? A lot! When it has bad press twice!

I think we can safely say that the name "Scott Peterson" has been ruined forever....

Gun control? Here we go again!

Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Here we go again. With today's shooting there's gonna a major outcry for gun control. But we still need to look at the underlying issue of mental health. You can take all the guns away but you're still gonna have people who are mentally ill. and they're gonna find a way to "get revenge". Whether it's using a bomb. or driving a truck through a crowd. So, call for gun control. But it's not gonna solve anything. No. It's not. We need to look for signs of kids being bullied Or signs of mental illness. Like anything out of the ordinary on social media. that gives HINTS that someone may be focusing on a topic or subject that could come out in a violent burst that hurts people. It's not hard to see the warnings! Maybe if everyone was as vigilant abut these kids social media accounts that glorify weapons, as they are about guns after an incident, they could stop the shootings before they happen.