A true story from the police blotter. A fella had been drinking and drove to Wal Mart to load up on more munchies for TV watching. As he exited the store, he could not find his car and concluded it had been stolen. He flips open his cell phone and reports his car as stolen. Just as the police are pulling into the aprking lot, he remembers: I drove my OTHER car, and there it is! He starts to explain to the police his error and heads toward his car to make a hasty exit. But, not so fast. The cop got a whiff of his breath and noticed his unstable condition. A quick sobriety test was made and of course, our subject failed it miserable. Now, the police has reason enough to demand a search of his car. They find a bong pipe and drugs. The jig is up! The police reason that he drove drunk to the store and issued a DUI ticket, and now they are hauling him off to jail on a drug charge. What a bad day. This driver turned himself in. It was he who made the phone call in the first place. There must have been some giggling when this report was written up.

We both will bust out laughing at things we find funny. Especially the antics of animals. Back when we had several Great Danes we were laughing a lot. Our little dog now will also perform some act to get us going. Quite often at tv shows too. I don't even remember what the conversation was or what we were watching but I made the comment quel grimace! Because someone was making a face.(imagine a baby tasting a lemon for the first time) My husband looked at me for a second and said did you just say Pale Green Moss?? To this day if he looks at me and says Pale green moss I just bust out laughing. The original time it happened I literally was on the floor laughing with tears. I will occasionally start saying things in Cajun French like that and he does not know the language so he just looks at me waiting for the English version LOL. By now though he has learned a few of my choice phrases including quel grimace!

My diagnosis for arthritis happened about 7 years ago. I was on DMARD meds and went off them to get pregnant, which was great because I would go in remission with pregnancy. Anyways, that one pregnancy turned into two and after the birth of my second it came back fiercely. This was last year. I started with anti-inflammatories because I really didn't want to go on harsh meds again, which worked for 6 weeks, then went to Celebrex with worked another 6 and had to move to the DMARDS again. I had a pretty strong reaction this time which really worried me as my blood count got really messed up and this when I started a natural route. I did an elimination diet and had results within 10 days - I could pick up a plate with one hand, turn a door handle, pick up my 1 1/2 year old. At the beginning of the diet, if I ate the wrong foods, the inflammation occurred instantly so with paying attention I could really find my agitators. At this point I was at about 80% (3 months in) so I got an IgG test (food sensitivity) and found dairy and soy to be very high on the list. I now eliminate those but will have a cheat with them every so often. Basically, I follow the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent veggies and fruit with remaining being fish, meats, grains, etc. An ideal day for me could be a spinach salad for breakfast (topped with walnuts, fruit), 1 cup cooked oats with 1/2 cup blueberries, an egg with sauteed spinach, onions, asparagus or zucchini - lunch would be something similar, or meatballs with squash, a soup, rice cake with almond butter and sliced banana, dinner can be a salad with souvlaki, hamburger with green pepper and onions, etc. It got easier as I got into it and more food options became available as to what was good for me. I found it hard going by a book as I do believe each person is different for what it good for them. Since being on the diet my blood count (specifically my ESR rate) has changed, my anemia, gingivitis, fatigue, tooth sensitivity is gone. These are all physical changes that happened - I have psoriasis, which is pretty much cleared except a couple of spots but no dry skin either. I have had all these conditions all my life, as they have been monitored, but not in the past 6 six months since starting this diet! My last dental appointment - no lecture! A first for me. I brushed and flossed regularly beforehand and would always get a tutorial and I would follow and would get the lecture again at the next checkup. It's hard and frustrating but I am glad I didn't give up. The next round of meds suggested scared me. I will no longer be skeptical if someone suggests something to me because if I didn't have that reaction to my medication I wouldn't have done it (the natural route). Sorry it's so long.

We went several years, about seven at the beginning of our marriage with no T.V., my parents also barely watched T.V.. My car was having some strange issue and my husband told me to take it to the dealership. He gave me instructions to tell them that the issue was in the, "Matter Antimatter Converter" so I did. The person at the desk looked at me perplexed. I then said let's call my husband. My husband then told both of us that the "Matter Antimatter Converter " is in the emessions. They walked to get the emissions specialist. He came over shaking his head and said, " The Matter Antimatter Converter is on the Enterprise not on your Toyota". I then was perplexed and said let's call my husband. After telling him what the specialist said all I could hear was laughter. When the car was repaired I got a call telling me I could beam myself over.