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- I enjoy mild temperatures and am not generally one to be clamoring for the heat of the summer, but I’m wanting it now for the relative meteorological stability it will bring. Could certainly do without anymore death and destruction for the next forever, but I’m also just weary of staying up watching the weather.
- There are spots around here where it’s not exactly raining cicadas, but it’s definitely sprinkling them—and the eerie drone of them is relentless. This is the hugest season for them I can ever remember.
- Looking like a beautiful day for The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
- Sustainedly played with a Kindle for the first time last night. Thinking harder about one now than I’d like to admit, despite past declarations. Trying to wait out the urge. I have other plans for my next little bit of mad money.
- American Idol finale down from last year, which was then an all-time low. I know lots of you like it, so I’ll just leave it at that.
- One in five young adults has high blood pressure. Sheesh. A much younger colleague was just discussing his with me yesterday. He’s flirting with it. It’s insidious because it doesn’t hurt. Folks, get checked, and if it’s elevated, get it down now. It’s easier when it’s mild, and it’s easier when you’re younger. Maybe you can avoid medication entirely, instead of hoping to drop to just one like I am.
- Want to see a music video made from the scenes in between the sex scenes in porn? It’s oddly poetic and not tacky itself, though the comments are.
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I second the high blood pressure advice. Mine started going up after I had my kids, and I’ve been on medication since the age of 38. I’m not overweight, I don’t smoke, I exercise regularly, & try to watch my salt intake. Nothing else I can do, so I take my meds religiously. And they don’t have any side effects that I can tell.
Get checked, people.
I’ll just be blunt here, and tell something I’m not proud of in the hopes it may help someone.
When I showed up at the doctor’s office early last year because I figured it was time to get back on blood pressure medication – you know, since the plan had been for me to lose weight, and I hadn’t done so, so I should at least control it – I expected to see about what I’d seen several years earlier, which was a reading of about 160/95.
Instead, it was 210/125. I was completely asymptomatic at 210/125. The doctor said that if I left it uncontrolled, my odds of being alive in five years were about 50/50.
Needless to say, it’s controlled now, and well.
Tonight, before you go to bed, go have a look at your children asleep in their beds. Think of what you are to them. Think of all of the concerns you strive to keep off their minds completely, because you’re their parent, and you’ll handle it, whatever “it” is. Think of the tranquility they have from that, and consider that in a very real way, said tranquility enables the unbridled joy of childhood.
Then go look in the mirror and tell yourself that you’re not going to address your hypertension.
On a different note, is it wrong that I can identify a numbers of those actresses – and even some of the movies that some of those scenes come from – from that porn-based video?
🙂
Falcon, nah. 🙂 I liked it a lot better when they looked like people.