Lauren Reagan Writing Online

It seems like we have been having a rash of serious earthquakes being reported on the morning and/or evening  news in recent years. The Richter Scale ratings are generally in the 6 point range, which is pretty devistating and the cause of severe damage to life, limb and properties. I haven’t heard of one as high as the one that just hit Japan. This sucker was 8.6, that is just crazy!

The pictures and the stories that I’m seeing on Yahoo.com are outrageous. I’m so grateful that no one that I know or love is over in that part of the country right now, or at least I don’t know of anyone, but that doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot in today’s high transient world.  I’m sure I’ll run into someone in the future that was there, or knew someone or was related to someone who had the misfortune to be any where near where this quake decided to ruin millions and millions of people’s lives and businesses.

I understand that the after shocks are still coming strong and that the latest was rated as a 6.8 on The Richter Scale. And that has now been rated as ????5th largest earthquake in the world since 1900. This is the latest photo that I’ve seen on Yahoo.com, can you imagine looking at this up close and personal like, not me dude!

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I had to take off work early today to take my daughter to her doctor this afternoon. Her dad couldn’t get away from his job and she was running a pretty high fever for 2 days now and with tomorrow being Saturday, her doctor’s office isn’t open on the weekends, I didn’t want to chance her getting any worse and one of us having to take her to the E.R. My kid never gets sick Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8am and 5pm.

Although they (the doctor’s office) have horrible office hours, they are wonderful in many other ways. I like that they are right next to the hospital and the other medical buildings and offices that we end up going to for various specialists and testings. When we end up needing a bit to eat, about the only people you see at the McDonald’s, in that part of town, are wearing medical uniforms and are employeed in the huge medical center or one of the surrounding buildings. It’s so nice to finally see that it is OK to wear something other than the same old plain white uniforms for healthcare providers that we all grew up around in our day. More and more of our medical professionals are sporting medical uniforms in various patterns and a nice and growing variety of colors, which I think is a wonderful idea, one that is well over due. I mean who would want to wear the same old thing, day after day, week after week, month after month and God forbid – year after year! An unthinkable concept.

Anyway, my daughterr will be fine in a few days. No anti biotics this time around, which is fine with me. Those horse pills are a pain to try and get her to swallow for 10 days in a row, what a pain. Besides being big in size, the price tag for those puppies aren’t cheap, I can tell you that.

I have always enjoyed the dried Ocean Spray fruits that they have been pumping out for a good long time now. And I’m so happy that they are continuing to put out new flavors. My newest favorite is the Pomegranate and the Blueberry ones. If you haven’t tried them yet I suggest that you give them a try. The are good and sweet, but a healthy snack that you can eat by the handfuls if you care to.

I hope we are all this lucky to be able to stand up and make this statement at 98! LOL

All women should live so long as to be this kind of old woman.

Toward the end of Sunday service, the Minister asked, ‘ How many of you have forgiven your enemies? ‘

80% held up their hands.

The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one small elderly lady.

‘Mrs. Neely?’ ‘Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?’

I don’t have any. ‘She replied, smiling sweetly.

‘Mrs. Neely, that is very unusual. How old are you?’

‘Ninety-eight, ‘she replied. The congregation stood up and clapped their hands.

‘Oh, Mrs. Neely, would you please come down in front and tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years and not have an enemy in the world?’

The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, faced the congregation, and said, ‘I outlived the bitches.’

My sister-in-law, Linda, is enjoying her new job in a near by and very busy pediatric doctor’s practice, that she went back to school and worked so hard to achieve. She is such an upbeat and happy person, who has the perfect personality to be working with kids day in and day out, along with the other people working in this large and still ever growing kid friendly medical practice.

One thing that she was concerned about was the issue of having to wear a uniform to work each day.  Linda is a total fashion and accessories freak and has more clothes then one woman would ever need in her life time and would be miserable having to wear only uniforms at work. So she was happy to find that the other woman working there have turned her onto a great website that offers a a nice variety of scrub clothing that they have been ordering from lately and are thrilled with the quality of their products as well as their prices. Since Linda is so busy with her new full time job and still has the kids and my brother to deal with, shopping online is very appealing to her.

I’m so happy that she has found a great new career with some nice people and I wish her all the luck in the world. I also look forward to hearing some funny and entertaining stories that I’m sure she will come up with in time about the people and the place that she is now spending so much of her time with.