It is the establishment (left and right: < 1% with total ssets >>> 98%) vs. Donald Trump (representing >>>> 1% with total assets at ~ 2%). Very interesting.
With such wealth, why the establishment is still worry? Of course, they want more.
Author: Doris
Work Comes with A Healthy Life Style Too
I have never ever had so much healthy food while not working 🙂 Not just one time, but it is an every day’s intake.
Oral surgery.
We are getting Edda’s wisdom teeth pulled in a few weeks, today was the consult with the oral surgeon. I’ve been learning to be satisfied with squeezing feeling triumphant over every little success because so much of my life can seem like (as in the following photo where the dishwasher flooded the kitchen at 7am) moving from one snafu to another. Today’s success was that we managed to get Edda to have a full panoramic maxillary x-ray done so the oral surgeon can see what he’s going to do before he roots around in there. Edda stood on the a marked spot and we rested her chin on a little platform and the x-ray machine swung 360 around her head and while it was swinging, I held her torso and Keyla held her little TV and we got it! I couldn’t believe it. Her wisdom teeth are there, tilted on their sides ready to erupt in their errant directions.
Jeremy is out tonight – I think at a work event. I don’t know where he is and I’m not sure when he will be home tonight <- this is what I told Vince. They flew in the whole California office to do training about race. In prep for this, he had to do some online LGBT awareness training the other day. We discussed at dinner hypothetical situations such as: if Jeremy decided he was really a woman and not a man, but he still wanted to partner with women, would he be a lesbian? The answer is yes, then s/he would be a lesbian. Then I wondered if he became a woman and I still wanted to be married to him/her because now after 20 years, I can’t really imagine living without him/her, but generally was still attracted to only men, would I be a lesbian? First, we decided that that was really a second order situation and maybe not worth defining, but if we had to, then I guess I would then be bisexual.
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Vince fried some chicken tonight for dinner. And we washed the dishes by hand because our dishwasher is *&#^ broken.
Super Tuesday.
Edda was a little bored at Sunday night dinner. Absolutely no one talked about politics. How was that possible?
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I commuted Monday into DC and did it the old fashioned way. I biked to the Metro, I took the Metro all the way around the red line and then took a shuttle to Children’s Hospital. I spent the day in the OR where I watched a repair of a burst cerebral arteriovenous malformation and a congenital hip dysplasia. It was fascinating and boring at the same time. Fascinating because, come on, how often do you get to see live brain surgery, and boring because surgery can take hours all I had to do was stand there and not touch anything. I watched them saw off about 1/3 of a skull. I watched them take a hammer and chisel to a hip. These are the operating rooms that Edda would go to if she had the spinal surgery. I saw our orthopedic surgeon’s name listed in the operating room where they not only list the surgeon’s cell phone number, but write down preferred gown and glove size and antiseptic for prepping the surgical area. Just so you know, he wears a 7.5 size glove.
Beautiful day.
As our au pair experience winds down – we have about 6 weeks? 8 weeks? left, we are trying to put in place other childcare in place. With the autism waiver, we are able to hire folks to hang out with Edda about 20 hours a week. We were able to have Nat hired by the autism waiver provider and she worked a few hours on Sunday. Ideally, we’d love to have three or four people in our regular rotation who know Edda, so we can have backup and backup for the backup. Having live-in care has spoiled us for sure, we’ve been able to manage sick days, half days, random off days, snow days and Jeremy’s travel and my clinical rotations with ease. Now everything will involve off-site after school care which runs more on a regular school schedule, so these bumps in the school year need to be planned out more in advance. Vince is also growing up, so we are going to start asking him to help out with Edda’s care, which he’s already offered. It’s tricky – asking Vince to care for Edda.
It was an incredibly beautiful day, everyone hung out on the porch and had a tea party.
Vince took lots of photos and videos. I don’t really like handing him my phone because he loads it up with 10,000 images.
I loved this spoof:
Tax Time
I spent almost all weekend to prepare our 2015 tax returns.
Too bad. We owe Uncle Sam a lot, even though we have already paid a lot. The next step is to find some extra $$$ by April 18th (Monday) of this year to pay what we owe 🙂
I would like to have flat-rate-tax with different paying levels and with no deductions at all. This is not only simpler but, more importantly, it is fairer.
Marco Rubio
In my opinion, Marco Rubio is the worst one among all these presidential candidates, republican or democrat, religious or not, black or white, rich or not so rich, on the right or on the left.
The way it is going, he probably will not win any States and, yet, he is thinking he is the best one to be the President. And probably, somehow doing Republican Convention dealings to get him in. He is asking for a huge freebie – a handout. If he can’t win, just gets out. I think Christie and Jeb are much better person than this guy.
Remember, he is one of those “gang of eight” to sponsor so called “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” to grant certain legal status for illegals and, right now, he is running away of his own bill as fast as can, just as President Obama said. Evidently, he has a big mouth and is a liar, a con man, not the other one.
The other day, in the process of proving himself a common guy, he said he just paid off his own college loans. Right now, he is 44. I wouldn’t elect a guy like him to run the country because he is too slow to payoff his own debts, not to mention ours.
Not only that, he cashed in a lot of his 401K savings. It is a very bad move for the common people and, evidently, he is SPECIAL. Why all the media and newspapers don’t report this in depth? Because they are on the same king-size bed with a lot of milking to do, just continuously to fool those common people on the main street. Or, people at Winnsboro, SC, an impoverish town. They are all part of the elites, representing one and/or being one. He is the last great hope for all these elites.
Every election time, the media would ask all candidates to present their plan’s specific. And after all these years, yes, all candidates have one with details. But, none gets actually done no matter who is in office. I suspect the elites use this as their screening process to pick and choose their favorite front man, with no regard to what ordinary people on the street really need and, indeed, would like to have.
In short, he is a perfect mirror to reflect all the illness that we have in our society today. All our shortcoming in our society is deeply entrenched in this guy. Just talking nicely and repeatedly – mechanically and repeatedly. And doing nothing good.
Neighbors
Today, I walked around my neighborhood and played basket ball briefly with these three neighborhood kids. Somewhere down the street is this cemetery.
Winnsboro, SC is a pretty run-down little town with not much employment, a hospital, a CVS, a McDonald’s, a KFC, a Pizza Hut, two Dollar Stores and numerous churches. Of course, there are two Chinese restaurants. I have been there. But, my home cooking is simple and better for me. It also has a BI-LO grocery store and another one called SO-LO 🙂
Kitchen Re-Arrangement
I just re-arranged my kitchen. Show this to Mom 🙂
TMI.
Big day today! Edda got her period today! Everyone is very excited. Here’s everyone’s reaction:
Keyla: Edda’s a woman today!
Jeremy: I’d like to counter that statement with – she is no longer a little girl.
Vince: Mom, I really didn’t need to know that.
Mr. Twigg (Edda’s male teacher via text): Great! Will you send in some extra pads?
I’m excited because I’m hoping it means that Edda is done growing – at 100 lbs and 4′ 10″, it’s enough mass and height for me to handle. Although all the people in the know assure me that she has 2 more years of growing left. Today, we had the appointment to fit Edda’s brace. The orthesist (person who makes orthotics) was so fun and enthusiastic about the brace helping Edda. She took about 30 measurements, it gets entered into a computer and the brace is spit out. We’ll get it in a few weeks.