THE BATTLES I FIGHT

THE BATTLES I FIGHT!!!!!! I WISH I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THEY ARE BOTH LOOSING BATTLES.

I rant at the risk of suggesting that insurance agents all over America loose their source of income...a lot at that!!! They wouldn’t work so hard if it didn’t pay so well because it’s not worth all the work otherwise. If you read my pages on FaceBook you don’t have to read the end of this piece first, however, if not, read below the quotes from my page to get the picture of where I stand:

After moments of anger, desperation and frustration caused from opening my email this morning (I get these from intelligent people) touting the death knell to anyone on the proposed plan, I prepared my coffe and cut up a whole honeydew melon as therapy. I cut myself to boot and watched my blood boil to the surface (not bad, just a metaphore). I watched as I shaved away the green outer parts and learned quickly that you have to waste a lot of melon to get to the sweet part. Being the frugal gormet that I am, it seemed like such waste...like health care today...it takes so much money to get so little, but it’s delicious when cut to the core. WE CAN CUT THE WASTE IF DONE RIGHT.

Whict leads me to reiterate, one plan is all we need. We would probably pay off the deficit if everyone who fights this thing would keep paying what they have to pay now on their own free will and let everyone else pay what would be required.

OK, I got that off my chest.

I’m fighting another quiet battle again. This is about the third or fourth time since moving to the Southwest. What started out as my “water plague” became the ant plague. For those who know me very well, you know that I have every domestic water story under my belt. But Ants, uhh!!!! These are not midwestern ants...they’re too big to survive in this climate. These are tiny ants. Can you imagine the spaces they can fill. I don’t know what one calls a trail of ants, but I had a run-in with a gaggle of them after a night out when I returned home. My neighbor must have noticed I didn’t pick up my paper yesterday and threw it on my front porch. I always shake it out a little because they (the ants) lay waiting in the paper for me to bring them in, I know it.

It was late, I took the paper in and put it on the kitchen counter (grey speckled) next to two purses, the one I used and the one I changed from using during the day. After a couple of moments of adjusting to being home, I picked up the paper and noticed a large number of ants around it. OMG!!!!! I thought...get that paper out of here. I did!... only to get back find out there were tons of ants...it they were people, there would be tons..I knew then that this was not from the newspaper. I actually had a carpenter ant problem in Chicago and the vermin catchers taught me some stuff about how to track them. This was enourmous help to me when I got to Vegas. It happened at the condo and now my house.

I don’t like to use chemical sprays in the house; I had to succum last year to a spraying outside. It worked great until now. About every couple of months I rediscover that my “hothouse” kitchen window, where I keep a lot of plants, opens (at the top). That happened about a month ago and I haven’t closed it since this time around. Sure “nuff” those critters found their way into the house. The little bas____s! My purses were now sitting on a sea of monsters while they lie in hiding from me. I followed the trail and saw that indeed they came from the top of the window.

I, single handedly, by hand, no sprays, killed every ant (I hope) locked the window and locked the drain so survivors could not get back in. I literally killed them with my bare hands, partially by wetting my hands so they would stick to me and the rest with a finger, one by one. Did I mention that they are good jumpers so, of course, by the time I was finished I began to feel creepy like they were on me but couldn’t distinguish reality from fear. It was 2:30 AM when I sat down in front of the TV to unwind and sure enough did get the couple that were trying to find their way off of me. Owee!!!! Needless to say it was hard to fall asleep. A sleepless night in Nevada was had by me.

BETTY

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If one were to examine all the systems of the world it would be discovered that all the civilized nations have decided that health care has nothing to do with politics, it's a right of all the people, and whether they have government or private run, all systems have not-for profit insurance companies...and the payment systems are so simple and complete and all kinds of well care is usually covered even spa care in some countries. People can add on insurance for elective surgery also. There are a number of books on the subject and being written while I write this. HUMANE SOCIETIES care about their citizens. We have a HUMANE SOCIETY for animals why not people?