Today’s Bits and Pieces: Blanky Farms Chicken

Dec. 29, 2008

Dear Blanky Farms Consumer Affairs, (name Blanky protects the brand name in question)

I am busy, just like you. I do not want to write this letter, but I can’t sleep at night for wanting you to know how I feel and how worried I am about your chicken product.

I am a very long time consumer of your products. I have 5 children and we do eat a lot of chicken.  Lately, I have purchased Blanky Farms chicken and it is tough.(more than once this past month) It does not cook properly and it looks wrong and it tastes wrong.  When you have cooked chicken for so many years, you know when something just is not right.  True, I do not go to the same market all of the time and do buy Blanky Farms product from different markets, but the product name is there and the product should be the same.  I do not buy off brand chickens because of the tough, wrong tasting, wrong texture I have been experiencing with your chickens lately. More

Today’s Bits and Pieces: Cuss Like a Drunken Sailor

I waited with AT&T for 45 minutes to change my program to a different package. Suddenly, they switched me to a survey.  I never got my request in and never heard from a real person. I gave them very bad ratings and then they said you have 30 seconds to tell them what you think and I learned something.  I can take a shower while on speaker phone, de-ball two cashmere sweaters, clean the kitchen, make the bed, get dressed for an afternoon luncheon, sew up two pockets of my favorite all time jacket on the sewing machine and cuss like a drunken sailor for 30 seconds.

Today’s Bits and Pieces: I’ll Try Again Tomorrow

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying…I will try again tomorrow.”

Today’s Bits and Pieces: An Irish Blessing

“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect, It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections”An Irish Blessing –

Today’s Bits and Pieces: SPARKLE AND SHINE

“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from withinElisabeth Kubler Ross M.D.

Bits and Pieces From:Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

Be Sun, in tenderness and mercy

Be Night, cover of disgrace

Be Stream, in gracious and generosity

Be Dead, in anger and nervousness

Be Earth, in humility and modesty

EITHER SEEM AS YOU ARE OR BE AS YOU SEEM

Come, no matter what you are,

Whether atheist or sun worshiper

Whether you’ve backslid a thousand times,

Come, no matter what you are.

Thank you for sending this Anna in Istanbul.

Today’s Bits and Pieces: Going Through Drawers

Going through drawers.

I went through several dresser drawers to clean them out and came across many treasures. It was amazing and rather fantastic to hold things in my hands I thought were so beautiful and had been hidden from me for so long. I gathered the pins, bracelets, necklaces, rings, and recaptured the items in old wallets from way by gone days, tapes, letters, cards, money, (not as much as I would have liked) scarves, hair pins, a magnifying glass, an antique mirror my grandmother had given to me. Shined up it looks like a million bucks.

I felt like I was going through a drawer of someone who had died and was cleaning it up after her. It was nice to know it was I there and not my kids or someone else. It was a thrill to see my own stuff again. I put the new/old pins on jackets and cleaned up tarnished pendants, put on gold earrings I hadn’t seen in eons. Oh what a fun afternoon. Why not go through some of your drawers. It might surprise you and besides it is very good therapy. Remember you don’t have to wait until you die and let someone else do it. You can be that someone else delighting in finding new/old treasures.

Today’s Bits and Pieces: Beginning to Feel a Little Older

Okay, I feel a little old now. Not my body parts, not my mind and not anything monumental. No not at all.  It is just that I spent the day going to the bank. Well, two banks.  I took money from one account to deposit it in another bank giving higher interest. My father did that; Skip does that, not me.  Well, yes, me.  The first bank was the withdrawal bank, strictly business, but the business took 45 minutes or so.  Then, we took the long drive to get to the other bank with higher interest.  We parked and went into the new bank. Oh my goodness, they had freshly baked cookies. I’m on a diet. That was before I came in the door and after I left. Both the chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin is the best melt in your mouth kind of cookie you can get. Well, I do digress from business, but so did they. They offered us two kinds of calendars, the nice, very nice kind.  Now, I had to pinch myself to remember I am in a BANK. More

Today’s Bits and Pieces: A Yeast Rash Cure, if you are willing to try it.

I had a terrible rash break out on my face. It is about the 10th time it has happened. I cream it, alcohol it, and Hydrogen Peroxide it and it lingers. It dries and becomes alligator skin. There is no hiding; it is on my FACE.

I went to a very top, top specialist in the field of Dermatology. Even though I belong to the prestigious network of physicians and services called Kaiser, I went privately for this persistent, ugly and annoying problem. I have had this diagnosed and treated by my prestigious network as well as privately, but this new high class private specialist said it is a type of yeast rash. I acted stunned and horrified. This was a very new diagnosis for me. She said, “People all have yeast inside and out side of their bodies and it sometimes breaks out in various rashes, itches and just a myriad of other problems.” She prescribe several different types of medications. One was $150 dollars and burned like fire. It wasn’t working much.  Then, I got a cream for $515.00. You read that right and remember now I am OUT of network on this.  Plus, I received several samples of other medications in case the others did not do the trick.  I tried them all and I was still plagued.

In trying to figure out a way to help myself, I remembered the doctor saying YEAST.  I looked into the drawer holding my arsenal of drugs and creams, and staring out at me was a  3 day cure pack, which states it cures most vaginal yeast infections. Don’t be disgusting I said to myself as I slathered on that 3 day anti-fungal cream cure on my face, neck and ears for the full 3 days and more for good measure. It worked and is a fraction of the price I paid for those fancy creams. Now, men, I have to assure you, I have had men try this wonderful cure and it cured their red, blotchy faces, their itchy ears and other problems in 3 days as well. True the package says vaginal cream, and you fellows have no vaginas, but you have yeast infections on your face, hands and perhaps feet, also who knows where else. If you have itchy ears, vaginal anti-fungal cream will have gone. Try it, and now tell me any of you what do you have to loose?  Well, I will tell you, about $10.95 plus tax. Be aware that it will work. Get the kind that has the cream separately from the applicators. Good luck.

P.S. Go online to see what cures there are for this kind of yeast rash and you won’t find any that work.

Today’s Bits and Pieces: The Friendship Luncheon

You know we have started a ladies luncheon group and it started with about 18 ladies who did not know each other at all. Many were hesitant and nervous about it, but came anyway. The ladies sparkled throughout the afternoon and many lively conversations ensued.

Now, it is time for another get together luncheon. No one has said, “No.” (Yet) The concept is a good one. We have a name and it is The Friendship Luncheon. So much has happened since the first luncheon; a husband passed; two ladies have hooked up to go to plays together; dinner engagements and friendships outside the circle have sprung up. One granddaughter and another’s grandson have been introduced. It is all so very interesting.  One lady expressed that it was nice to come somewhere where they aren’t asking for money and force you to listen to a guest speaker. She is right.

Our next luncheon engagement is December 13th. Please come.

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