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here's my random thought... a while ago Amy had started a thread called "The Waistline watchers club" or something to that effect. I thought of it because the photos I've seen of myself scream "cow! cow! cow!" so it needs to be addressed.

I'm not a scale-stepper. I'm more of a "how do I feel, and how do my clothes fit" sort. And I will feel better, and my clothes will fit better in about 15 lbs. Onward!

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wow this is really weird...

I've always thought of months, days of the week, grades at school, subjects at school, numbers, hours of the day, notes on my viola, and probably a lot of others, as each having a specific colour. I had noticed it before, and I find it very helpful for organising stuff, but I had no idea that it was actually a scientifically recongnised phenomenon and has a name:

Grapheme-colour synesthesia - Wikipedia

Man, I love wikipedia.

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I'm glad it has a name, as well... I've been assigning colors to things I hear and see and smell all my life. Like the music from a guitar, depending in the tone, will be smokey bronze, and the voice from a singer's mouth, if it's Roger, is like warm chocolate color, complete with puffs of steam from the heat.

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't

Get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up truck on a warm day was always a special

Treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one

Actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside, playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride

Down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into

The bushes a few times,we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no

Surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no

Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or

Rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who

Didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If

YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS! :P

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