Somewhere Over the Rainbow

• Icons

  After today I'll remove all my Halloween icons. It's not yet time for Christmas icons. What should I do for new icons?' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  10:24 I hear helicopters outside, probably part of the #victorch Olympic torch relay. I wish they'd called off the Olympics five years ago. # 11:00 @sreno7 Might not be able to stop anything, but there' # 11:01 @sreno7 There is no reason not to express displeasure. [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• rainbow_goddess @ 2009-10-30T23:49:00

  
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:49am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Monster Mash music video featuring the Groovy Goolies

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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:40am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Being a tired, cranky, grammar police person

  Last night I was trying to catch up on my LJ friends list before going to bed. This meant I stayed up later than I had planned to, and that was probably a bad idea.
  
  Someone posted in the diabetes community asking for new [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:22pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  07:56 RT: @mysmelly: “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” -- Groucho Marx # 08:00 @okelay It helps to have seen previous episodes to know who all the characters are & their backstory, but there # 08:00 @okelay ...is an [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• H1N1 vaccine clinics

  I looked at the VIHA website and found that the only place I can get an H1N1 vaccine either tomorrow or Saturday is at CanWest mall. I don't want to take a day off work to stand in line all day at one of the health unit clinics, and Fridays' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:17am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  07:11 @BernardF I'm asking my doctor about one today. # 13:15 My doctor does not yet have the H1N1 vaccine, but I did get the regular flu shot. Now I have a sore arm and want to go to sleep. # 13:15 Unfortunately, I have to be' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

  There is only one show on this entire week that I want to watch. Everything else is a repeat -- House, NCIS, NCIS LA, Criminal Minds. But new Dragons' Den! I've been reading tweets from the Dragons all day (when I had downtime at work, of course.) They all said [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:43am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  13:17 Perogies for lunch -- yay! Dropping sour cream on my dress -- boo! # 13:47 What is Google Wave, and why are so many people so excited about it? # 20:53 Previously healthy 10-year-old girl with no pre-existing conditions dies of H1N1. Eek! tinyurl.com/ylb9nr8 # [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Writer's Block: Seeing stars

  

  Which character from any film, television show, or book would you most like to take on a date and why?

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  I'm going to say Spencer Reid from "Criminal Minds." He's a bit young for me, which [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:57am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  08:02 @okelay I'm pretty sure @dhewlett has always been a U.S. citizen. He's been living/working in Canada but he's not a Canadian citizen. # 08:03 RT @indigogirls2009 “Indigo Girls Live at the Roxy”comes out on DVD 11/17! Re-tweet everyday for a chance to win a copy!#IndigoGirlsDVD #' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Canada's Worst Driver, and Canada's worst passenger

  I just watched the first episode of the latest season of Canada's Worst Driver. I generally find it amusing, and it makes me glad that I don't drive, though it does worry me that there are people like that out on the roads.
  
  However, there is one "worst driver"' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:10am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  
  11:26 @codeman38 I probably use less than five voice minutes a week on my cell phone. I've found that using speakerphone makes it easier to hear. #
  Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Facebook

  So Facebook redesigned its interface yet again (isn't that a least the third time this year?) and since the redesign, I have been unable to update my status. I can comment on other people's posts; I can still play Farmtown and Farmville. I can post links to my wall by' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:19am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Writer's Block: Yes, offense taken

  If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?

  
  

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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:14am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  01:44 .@sreno7 Just heard a new nickname for H1N1: hamthrax. # 01:49 One of the biggest problems using my puffer when having asthma attack is that I'm unable to hold my breath for 15 seconds without coughing. # 10:25 I just voted for pic.gd/3af2ac Check it' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Children on buses

  There was a story in the paper a couple of weeks ago about a woman and toddler who got kicked off the bus because the toddler was screaming and the mother couldn't or wouldn't make the toddler stop screaming.
  
  The story got a lot of comments from so-called parenting [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  11:22 Boss is springing for pizza from Villages Pizza. Awesome boss. :-) # 12:26 Must try to figure out carb count for three slices of pizza -- Greek veggie, west coast veggie, and classic Italian. # 20:35 It's an entire Monty Python weekend on Bravo! Sat night is [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Legitimate business lacks investors because of stupidity

  I watched Dragon's Den tonight (Canadian version) and one of the "contestants" (person promoting their product or business hoping to get investment from wealthy entrepreneurs) was the owner of a perfectly legal, legitimate, medical marijuana business. He himself was a user of medical marijuana for a painful leg injury, and [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:52am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  10:02 Disability awareness gone horribly wrong: tinyurl.com/yh3g53b # 10:09 I was running a bit late this morning and didn't say goodbye to the cats. I doubt they even noticed, but I feel bad now. :-( # 13:44 @Diabetic_Iz_Me Haven't seen or heard of the book but [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• From the Fail Blog

  
  see more Epic Fails [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  08:02 @T1DN Canada is a big country. We have ten provinces & three territories. Diabetes care is different in each, & different for aboriginals. # 08:02 @CEMichael Diabesity is a stupid word and insulting to people who have diabetes and aren't fat. It's insulting to people who' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  06:40 How skipping vaccines endangers us all: tinyurl.com/yh3qtgs Man who wrote book saying that vaccines don't cause autism gets threats. # 11:29 @sreno7 How does one pronounce this first nations name: Che:k’tles7et’h’ ? # 11:42 Is Wednesday's #victoriatweetup for anyone or just for businesses? #' [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Links!

  In place of a real update, I bring you a couple of links:
  
  An epidemic of fear. Discusses Anti-Vax Barbie and how a man who wrote a book debunking the vaccines=autism myth has been receiving death threats.
  
  Fear Not. What does virtual rumour-mongering say about Christians? [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:10am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  09:29 Co-worker brought in homemade peanut brittle. I'll just have a small piece. Or maybe two small pieces. BG was 3.8 so I can indulge a little. # 09:29 But just a little. # 10:21 Just nominated Farm Town for Best Facebook Game mashable.com/owa #openwebawards #' [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 3:03am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Miscellaneous cat stuff

  Poupée is not an overly affectionate cat. She likes to be petted, but she doesn't seek out petting. She is happy to be around her people, and sometimes when she's snoozing in the bedroom she'll wake up when I come in, and if I talk to her, she'll purr.
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 2:50am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Talent not translating to employment

  There are things I am good at. There are things I am very good at. But those things don't translate into jobs, unfortunately. They are not things anyone wants to pay me to do.
  
  I'm good at editing. I'm good at anything to do with spelling, grammar and punctuation,' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 2:38am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  00:20 I love a rainy night by Eddie Rabbit, because it is a rainy night! ♫ blip.fm/~eyorx # 00:30 Since it is a rainy night, here is Eddie Rabbit singing "I love a rainy night." ♫ blip.fm/~eypda # 00:36 Don't let the rain come down! My' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  08:11 @KellyRawlings Didn't you know? People with Type 2 who monitor their BG are more likely to die than those who don't! #diabetesmyth # 08:22 Autistic boy saves choking teacher by using Heimlich maneuver tinyurl.com/yfbh83h (video, sorry, no subtitles) # 08:53 Children grow out of diabetes [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Attempting to be social, and failing miserably

  One of my co-workers, Emily, is a Facebook friend, and she's the one person at work I can talk to about Doctor Who, Stargate, Torchwood and other sci-fi shows. She posted on Facebook that everyone was welcome to come to her birthday dinner at the tapas bar, so I went [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  07:43 Why does this "morning" thing happen every day? It's such an unpleasant concept. Why has no one done anything about it yet? # 10:35 Just sat through a presentation on H1N1 at work. Workplace is compiling stats on how many people call in sick with flu symptoms. [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• A collection of links

  Most of these are ones I posted on Facebook, but there's an LJ link here too that I just had to share.
  
  Last-minute Halloween costume ideas. Many of them are puns, like "ceiling fan."
  
  Interracial couple denied marriage licence. Apparently the judge did this out of [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:23pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  11:38 #bgwed 9.8 mmol/l. When I posted a #bgnow on Monday night, boyfriend asked why I posted my bg when it wasn't #bgwed. Told him it was #bgnow. # 12:23 #bgwed #bgnow 5.4. mmol/l # 12:40 Taking the grey kitty to the vet this afternoon to see how' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Grey kitty vet day

  I took Poupée to the vet today for her long-overdue fructosamine test and to get her claws trimmed. We saw Dr. Welland, who I like better than the other vet I saw when Poupée was first diagnosed.
  
  Unlike the vet we saw a few months ago, Dr. Welland was [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:51pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  00:42 I thought I could go for one day without my asthma medicine. I was wrong. # 20:11 What is agave nectar? Guy on Shark Tank says it's low glycemic, but what is carb count? Can a diabetic drink this without a rise in bg? # 22:47 @[...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Autism: the Musical

  Just watched "Autism: the Musical" on the Knowledge Network. It was a great show. There were kids on all parts of the spectrum. Some were what would be called low-functioning, some were high-functioning or were Aspies, but most were somewhere in-between. There was one kid whose parents considered him (and [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 2:06am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• Maybe I'm not meant to host Thanksgiving dinner

  I invited my sister to come over for Thanksgiving dinner so that Monster could look at her malfunctioning laptop and also fix the turn signal on her car. I enjoyed having my sister here for dinner. However, I did everything myself, and now I am completely exhausted and my kitchen [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  10:11 Digging out The Joy of Cooking to figure out how long I need to cook my ham for. A half-hour per pound. Ham is just under 4 kilos. # 10:28 @sreno7 Going by recipe in Joy of Cooking, baked ham requires half hour per pound, probably to [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• rainbow_goddess @ 2009-10-12T15:42:00

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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:42pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  00:03 I suppose since I invited my sister, @sreno7, to my place for Thanksgiving dinner on Monday, I should clean the place. # 00:15 @sreno7 "Nothing to trigger my asthma" means I should probably vacuum at least. Good thing you're used to cats. # 00:24 @sreno7' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• rainbow_goddess @ 2009-10-11T00:47:00

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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:47am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  13:43 Apparently the Phantom of the Opera has #aspergers tinyurl.com/yggh5vq # 18:24 @sreno7 Boyfriend says if you come during daytime on Monday, he will fix turn signal flasher on your car, and he'll look at your laptop too. # 18:25 @sreno7 I'm making ham, yams [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• rainbow_goddess @ 2009-10-10T10:12:00

  Woman asked to get off the bus due to cough.
  
  The woman didn't have the flu, and even if she did, she was coughing into her frigging SLEEVE. She wasn't coughing in anyone's face. She wasn't hurting anyone.
  
  I cough. Sometimes I cough a lot, especially during' [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  07:59 @biggerhamster They're going to be giving the vaccine at work at some point, but I don't know when. # 08:01 @leeannthill What happened on plane? # 08:04 Happy long weekend! Well, long weekend starts at about four o'clock this afternoon for me. :-) Going to' [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  00:07 @sreno7 Can you come Monday? That is actually the day I was thinking of. Boyfriend eats at his friend's house on Sunday. # 07:55 Superhero Facebook status updates: tinyurl.com/ydx994c # 07:58 Shouldn't have stayed up so late last night to watch Criminal Minds, but seeing' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  08:32 Twitterfox says "network error with statuses_friends_timeline." What does that mean? It died around eight last night. # 12:06 @sreno7 What are you doing for Thanksgiving? # 12:24 My latest A1C is 6.4, a little higher than last time. # 16:25 My #bgwed? You don't want' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  08:35 @sixuntilme If you can stand the smell, cats hate onions. I rubbed a raw onion on my couch, and my cats wouldn't come near it. # 14:34 @Diabetic_Iz_Me Dx'd in 1973. I drank Tab, Fresca and Bubble Up -- all diet pops that were available in [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• rainbow_goddess @ 2009-10-06T12:59:00

  There's this fellow called "Dr. Dave" who writes a syndicated newspaper column that is published in the Sunday paper. He happens to be local. His column generally has a humorous bent. He also has a radio show called "Wisequacks." His most recent column was about what he (and far too [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
  by The Woman in Purple

• My Twitters for the day

  13:33 Hilarious "Chinglish" signs. tinyurl.com/nwvqxr (I especially like the one that admonishes you to be a nice tourist.) # 15:17 Starting to feel like I'm going to doze off at my desk. Good sign that my blood sugar may be too high. #diabetes # 18:06 @sreno7' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:01am EDT
  by The Woman in Purple