Simple Things

      TO DISSIPATE is to spread thin or vanish.  According to the newest figures released by one of those groups that seem to know everything about statistics, Medicare will be out  of money by 2012.  I’m not quite old enough to be eligible for Medicare yet, and I’m not surprised that it won’t be there when I AM old enough,  but it does give me cause to wonder what will happen in the next 3 years.

     We should all concentrate on being more healthy ~ this is true, and fine for all the young, still flexible people. We would all benefit from exercise and eating right. Maybe I should start walking again.  Right, I’m going to put on my spandex shorts and jogging bra (stop right there, even I can’t picture that without laughing).  But dressed in my sweatshirt and sweatpants, by the time I got to the end of the driveway, I would be sucking up way more than my share of the air. (See a previous blog for explanation).

    And if I could make it all the way to the road, nobody in their right mind would take a chance on walking or running down that speedway. (Except the turkey that I mentioned yesterday).

     I could get a new tread mill, but the cost involved in treating the sprained knees and pulled muscles, would defeat the purpose of trying to run.  No, I think I’ll just have to eat smarter and pass on the excercise bit.

     Speaking of eating smarter ~ how much sense does it make that we can buy junk food at much cheaper prices than we can the fresh fruits and vegetables that we should be eating?  I’d grow my own vegetables, but until they create plants that will grow straight up, and at least four feet tall with the veggie at the top, I won’t be picking my own.  No way I’m getting down there in the dirt on hands and knees!  There’s nothing to hang on to so I can pull myself back up.  The last time I got on my knees at the grocery store to read the labels on some generic canned foods on the bottom shelf, it took me so long to get up, I had to pretend I was praying so other people would walk around me.

      You may have noticed that I wrote this whole blog today without mentioning the “big to-do” that is going on in Washington.  It’s like having a big pimple on the end of your nose, you can’t really ignore it because it’s right there no matter where you look, but if you try hard enough, you can overlook it until it fades away.

   “I used to care ~ but I take a pill for that now.”