how about drinking?

Good Morning Loungettes!!!

Chrissy..I also am up for hearing your opinions.  Who gives a rats behind ..if your right your right and you and everyone else is entitled to their opinion. 

Havent been able to watch any of the shooting footage and reports on tv...its just way too sad and too much for my mind to comprehend.  Then you hear of the mall then a hospital..really????  Will there be any place people will feel safe? 

Its a crying shame that more attention isnt given to mental illness as just that an ILLNESS that may be treatable in some if given the mean and opportunity. 

NM and Julie..you both deserve praise just for doing the job you do do and doing it well and without regret...that position is for special people and you two are it.

SuziQ..hate that you and JeanBean from Nanu Nanu have to push your meeting out.  I was hoping to hear about all the trouble you caused and mischief you got into in LV..well, this gives you more time to plan how you will take over Sin City and make it live up to its name.

Cammi...it sounds like you have had such a great visit from your friend Donna.  What a a special and close relationship with her and Joey as well.  I bet the soaps are beautiful and smell great...wish I was so crafty...I do crafts it just takes me 10 ish years to complete them. 

Looks like Im heading back to Texas at the end of Jan for 9 days.  I have the time off and I was just holding out on buying my ticket and had seen a 250.00 round trip fare on Hotwire a few days ago..just didnt want to commit..but in thinking about it ...chit..its just going to get higher...so ..folded and bought a ticket...for 244.00  So Im set for the next few months...D comes here on the 26 for a week..then I go there for a week 1/2 and then she coms back here at the beginning of Mar for a week.  What happens after March is a mystery..

Latah girls..time to get the day rollin

Dr Pepper and beer?!  WTF?!    Love the stories of your GS Cami.  (c:

Purple stripes!  Yes!  I am getting my hair colored and I want purple too!  I think I'm gonna copy cat.  We of course must then finally meet and see how much we look alike.  (c:

Oh I figured u guys woud think I'm really nuts, I might be, but I see I have good company. LOL Adey after the hoidays please let's try to get together that would be wonderful.

OK I ot it--took me a minute to get it but it came to me--

I forget who works in the school system--Oh it must be awful--does this go on from now on or just a while--then it's back to normal--I always wondered about that. My GS's school has a locked up place and someone has to let u in--but I'm sure if some nut would want to come in they could eadily do it. My mind goes to dark places when thins like this happen.

Good afternoon, Loungettes.  Home early today, getting slushy now in my area so I wound up things early. 

Juliet--It's a sad commentary on our culture that someone can be forced to take TB meds, but nothing can be done about violent, or potentially violent mentally ill people.  I heard a psychiatrist on the radio today talking about how a potentially violent mentally ill person has to be discharged from a facility if he/she doesn't act violent while in the facility getting medication, even if that person says he/she will not take the meds once discharged.  It's almost like the rights of mentally ill people are more important than the lives of the people that person says he will hurt or kill.  In Maine, getting someone "blue papered" (involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric unit) requires a judges signature, and I know of at least one local judge that will not sign blue papers.  He says if the person is that dangerous he should go to jail, not a hospital.  More than once a person has been released from the ED and hurt someone or himself within hours after that judge refused to sign.  Since when is the rights of a person to do what he wants more important than protecting innocent people from injury and death?  It's all just crazy.  You're right, the institutions closed without adequate resources in place to keep mentally ill people safe and in the structured environment so many of them need.  I wish there was some way to hold responsible the people who decided to push through that approach. 

Mema--at least in Maine, they cannot be forced into getting help without proving they are a danger even if they are underage.  In fact, it's probably harder to get help for a teen ager than an adult.  Teen rights is a growing movement here, one that is setting the stage for teens to be able to do whatever they want and eroding parental control.   To me, the thought of being a parent is frightening.  All that responsibility, but no authority to fulfill that responsibility (any form of discipline can be defined as abuse now), sounds like a no-win situation.  Hope your sore throat is behaving better!

Wahine--I rarely speak of my sister, she left the family years ago and hasn't been part of my life in decades.  But what my family went through is typical.  There's an article circulating, titled "I am Adam (whatever his last name is)"s Mother."  It's written by a woman with a mentally ill 12 year old son.  She describes some of the things that have happened, the roadblocks she's had to overcome to get him help.  It's frightening to read, because it's the absolute truth. 

CynCyn--To answer your question "Will there be any place people will feel safe?"  I think that the only places people can feel safe are the places where it isn't advertised that everyone present is a potential victim.  The Batman shooter went to the one movie theater that doesn't allow firearms, not to the once closest to him.   Schools are gun free zones, as are malls.  What this tells a mentally ill person is "this is the place where you can kill lots of people to get famous, and no one will be able to challenge you, 'cause guns aren't allowed.  You will be the only one here with a gun."  Mass shootings don't happen at target ranges or police stations.  Israeli school teachers are required to be armed, and I have heard of a school shooting there.  It's not the guns that kill people any more than it's the SUV that kills the people in it.  The shooter, or the driver, is the one who does the act and is responsible.

Cammy--I like the idea of purple streaks in your hair! 

Adey--good to 'see' you!  Where you been? 

ORLA--schools and jails seem to be getting more and more like each other over time. 

I am here, Pants, make me a dwink pronto. and make it a double. Just read through the thread and the topic is interesting and also very sad. My ex DH works in the mental health field and gets so frustrated when the violent ones are set free. It is a no win situation.

NM, I am so sorry that you had to go through so much with your sister, how very sad.

Cammie, love love love the purple streaks in your hair, you is a wild woman and mese loves that. What a sweetheart that Donna is, so glad she is so good with Joey. He sounds so adorable, I would be kissing on him if I saw him and don't tink he would like dat hehe!

Suz, feel better girl. Chit, I am sorry you are not feeling well and praying that the crud leaves you ASAP. Sorry about not meeting Beanie but at least you will have something to look forward to.

Orla, I remember you saying about schools being like jails, how sad is that? Gosh, when I was in school and I am sure true for all of you, anyone could jest walk into the school and no one ever got hurt. It is a sign of the times and it ain't purdy.

Well I guzzled down dose two dwinks and need me two more. I am hurting from my chest clean up todey, it ain't purdy but I am so hopeful. I got a great lesson in bacteria, wooo hoo, exciting stuff! Well probably not but I found it quite interesting to know that bacteria can lay in our bodies and be dorment for many years. Good to know. My PS is very educated in that area and dat pleases me. He is cute, other than the comb over, dude should just let the bald spot out, he would look much better than doing dat comb over ting. Men!!

so anybuddy partaying with mese? chug chug chug, dwinking like a bug. hehe!

cheers!

Darn it, did I miss you, Dorkie? Been bizzy and really need to get in bed too, as have to get up early. Hate that i missed dwinking wid ya! I bet you are in ecstasy-heaven right about now!!! Brown Chicken, Brown Cow..... *wow*!

Night Nighty Girls, Night NIghty Pants 'n Dorkster, NIght NIghty Tenders, NIght NIghty Wenches, Night Nighty Liz da Ho, NIght Night Moon!

Kathyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Bernie I lovd wsking up to a big smile from u--Thank you.

Dork--OMG when u said about the whole all of a sudden I had a terrible psin around there. What an ordeal u'r going thru. And u have every right to compain and let it be about u--I'm confused--u went to work?  How coud u possibly go to work? I hope I misread that--my mind is boggles sometimes. U rest Dork--feel better take what u need for pain, that's for sure. I've got news for u if u started huggin" on my GS he wouldn't let u stop. He's so cuddly--and he cried for about 20 min. after Donna left. quite a scene here.

Cyn YaHOO u'r goin' to Texas soon too. I'm so glad now u have this to really look forward to. It'll be great.

And of course I had to watch some news today--OMG I don't know why cuz it's to to much for us to understand, let alone a child.

Im going back to sleep I hope--Donna is leaving today (this afternoon) so she'll be by this morning for a couple of hours.

My love to all and I'll be in de lounge tonite.

Good morning, Loungettes!  Another sloppy day here, gonna wait and head in to work once the sun is up.  IT's well above freezing, so everything should start melting off soon, but it's gonna be slushy and yucky for a while.  Sigh. 

DorKable--I was too tired to join in last night after work, but wish I'd had the energy.  Coulda used a dwinky.  Now I have to go to work and have to stick to coffee!  Learning about what's going on in your body is always interesting, isn't it?  Glad you like the new PS.   And you are NOT a debbie downer or a wendy whiner.  You are a human being going through chit and you have a right to moan, groan and whine.  And we'll listen and buy you dwinkies!

BBBBernie--too funny!  What a way for an angel to end up on top of the tree!

Cammy--it is hard to understand, isn't it?  Hope your back to sleep was calm and peaceful!

Juliet--Ah, the joys of misinterpreting/misunderstanding what a child says.  Ever hear the one about the Dad who was driving with his son when his son asked "What is sex?"  The dad, using the same logic as the Grandpa, explained the birds and the bees.  After a moment of silence the boy asks his Dad "How do I put all that in the little box on the Little League application?" 

Princess Glitter Sizzle's DOTD is the Slushy Morning

1/2 cup orange juice

1/4 cup milk

2 tablespoons white sugar

1 oz peach schnapps

1/2 oz vanilla vodka

ice

Combine ingredients, mix in a blender with ice until slushy. 

has stella turned up yet?  i heard the tardis is missing!

its from the tv show dr who,its his time traveling machine,  and thats me ,my bil alan and my nieces and nephew