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Let’s see…my purse contains things now that I most certainly did not need in my twenties…like my fan.  When I get a hot flash, I have to have a fan.  I have to have a fan IMMEDIATELY!  Otherwise, I go into panic mode, stomping my feet, feeling skin-crawling anxiety with mood-changing hysteria until I have an apparatus that will create a mighty wind in my face.  I’d lift my blouse, but if I’m in public, that would just be too much information.

As I would in my twenties, I do have a compact mirror in my purse, but the one I have contains a MAGNIFYING component so that I can actually see my twelve eyelashes.  Not that I carry mascara in my purse.  Middle-aged women just leave that at home next to the GIGANTIC magnifying mirror in the bathroom, and if we miss an eyelash at home, well, it’s no big whup, because we have plenty more things to worry about after leaving the house…like where we might have left our car keys.

Of course I carry a small pill box as well in my purse.  It contains 3 valiums in case I do have a panic attack when I can’t find my fan, 4 tums for immediate consumption after a good Chinese or Italian meal out…and 12 Ibuprofen because, well, you just never know when your head will explode, especially after dealing with a teenager driving in front of you who is texting while applying her mascara in the rearview mirror.

And, last but not least, I have 17 pens in my purse because you should NEVER use the pen they give you at the pharmacy to sign anything…just THINK of how many terminally and contagiously sick people pick up that pen.  Same deal at the grocery store…with the ‘stylus’ thingy.  Just use the back of your pen instead.  It doesn’t leave ink on the screen, but accomplishes a successful ‘cash-back/YES’ component.

I have 85 other things in my purse, but we don’t have enough time here.  Just know that my middle-aged purse is as large as my middle-aged BUTT!

KK

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I keep a bag of nuts in my purse because I have low blood sugar at times which causes me to monsterize people if I am in need of protein.  A hard boiled egg would do the trick better but it’s not a good idea to carry one of those in your purse.  You might forget about it and then two days later your purse and everything in it would smell like a dead possum.  You may wonder how I know this.

I have toothpicks for after-popcorn at the movies, a cell phone so I can see what time it is, and matches for in case I get stuck in a dark cave like Indian Joe the half-breed in Tom Sawyer.  I was traumatized by that.  You’ve got to be prepared for anything and that’s what purses are for!!

I also have seventeen pens in my purse because I’m a pen-klepto.  But not on purpose.  I guess I have a tendency to sign my name on a charge receipt and then absentmindedly toss the pen into my purse.  I have a pen shaped like a bourbon bottle with ‘Steve’s Liquors’ on it and one that has a hula dancer whose coconut bra comes off and reveals an ample bosom when the pen is used.  I can’t remember where I got that one but I strongly suspect it was when I got my car window fixed at ‘Bubba’s Car Wash, Glass Fixers and Taco Stand.’

I have three one-dollar bills and a lotto ticket in the side pocket of my purse.  There is also breath gum, five lipsticks, and a paperback book on how to clear the chi in your purse.

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Rootie Kazootie was full of zip and joy.
I was full of wit
An early TV whiz kid
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My mother loved to tell this story about my turn-on and turning point when it came to television.I was only a year old, and my parents—perennial gadget junkies—were flipping through the four channels Chicago had to offer in 1949 on their 10-inch black-and-white television. Buy generic cialis online: leave it to them to be the first couple on the block to buy one of those new-fangled boxes.Howdy Doody caught my eye (or “How Do Ya Doody,” as my mom used to call him); buy generic cialis online.I got so excited; I stood on my head!

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Laramie claimed that being raised on radio gave him a fertile imagination, unlike the TV generation behind him. Buy generic cialis online: he had to imagine it all with no visual cues.We boomers were handed our images on a silver platter; buy generic cialis online.TV was my pabulum; buy generic cialis online.His theory sounded good, but if it were true, why did I grow up so creative?

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What has TV meant to you over the course of your life? What is your relationship with your TV shows and characters?

My husband Tim is constantly amused by how emotional and involved I get with the characters in the shows I love.They are my family.I mourn when they die or otherwise move on, and I swear at the writers who send them to questionable fates—or worse, yet, leave me between seasons on a cliffhanger.

While I suspect there are differences worth exploring between Radio Kids and Boob Tube Babies, I’m most fascinated by the theory of Steven D; buy generic cialis online.Stark in his book, “Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows That Made Us Who We Are Today.” Stark believes that in a country as diverse as the United States, TV has created common reference points and a shared culture; buy generic cialis online.His book covers the TV events he feels most shaped us into the nation we are today – buy generic cialis online. Buy generic cialis online: this idea captivates me, because communication and connection are near the top of my personal needs hierarchy, as well as a sense of belonging. Buy generic cialis online: tv covers them all.

Stark also admonishes us not to throw the boob tube baby out with the bath water.In its diversity, television has it all—the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in-between – buy generic cialis online. Buy generic cialis online: boomers are the test tube babies, because we were the first to splash in this TV pool of shared culture.Obviously, since Stark and others have written whole books on the topic, I am only scratching the surface of what it means to be have been on the forefront of this cultural melting pot; buy generic cialis online. Buy generic cialis online: for example, Stark believes the real import of my beloved Howdy Doody was the opportunity to expand children’s marketing. Buy generic cialis online: older boomers (born in the late 1940s) have been bombarded with advertising images, some of us nearly from Day 1 of our little lives.

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* Name your top 5 favorite TV shows of all time.
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* Why did you love this show or commercial?
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I hope this post sparks some dialogue in the Comments, because I truly believe that being the first wave of boob tube babies left a deep imprint on our generation. Buy generic cialis online: if nothing else, we were cued in early to the possibility of nationwide and ultimately global community.We have had the influence of others outside our family and tribe through television characters from an early age.Plus buy generic cialis online, we were treated to some of the most awesome shows ever written: Sid Caesar, Your Show of Shows, Hit Parade, I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, I Remember Mama and a host of others.(Here’s more nostalgia if you want to listen later to some of your favorite boomer TV show theme songs.) If enough of you do the exercise, I’d love to share excerpts in a follow-up post if you’ll e-mail me your results.

Boomer Tube Babies are still a part of a great experiment that melds culture, marketing, and turning life into entertainment; buy generic cialis online.The latter is such a hallmark of cool later living; it might just explain why cutting our teeth on the Golden Years of Television is giving our golden years more glitter.

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There’s a British sitcom called One Foot in the Grave, which I don’t believe has ever aired in the US. Buy cialis generic: it’s all about a retired man who spends most of his time finding ways to get even with or teach lessons to stupid and/or selfish people.While it conforms more or less to the standard sitcom conventions buy cialis generic, the humor was at times dark enough to stir up some controversy.Victor believes what’s wrong with the world is that “nobody does anything about anything.” An example of his philosophy: some jerk cuts him off in traffic buy cialis generic, and he sees a computer company logo on the side of the guy’s car.He calls the man up buy cialis generic, claiming to want to buy a computer.The guy comes to his home and Victor wastes quite a bit of his time before deciding not to buy, and informing the irate salesman he should remember this next time he thinks about cutting someone off in traffic.

Victor’s wife Margaret is fairly tolerant of Victor’s vigilante activities, but she often indicates he’s taking things too far, or creating more trouble for himself than for the wrongdoer – buy cialis generic.Until the final episode of the final series, in which Margaret takes center stage.

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Letting people get by with their irresponsibilities on the basis of a noble notion like forgiveness was never Victor’s style.Neither is it the message of the show; buy cialis generic.It took a death for Margaret to reach Victor’s level of impatience with the human race buy cialis generic, but she has reached it.

As Margaret tells Glynnis what a miracle it is they found each other, Glynnis develops a migraine.Margaret goes into the kitchen to put a couple of Glynnis’ migraine pills into a glass of fruit juice for her. Buy cialis generic: there she stumbles across a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about Victor’s accident.She realizes Glynnis is the hit and run driver who killed Victor.

She comes back into the living room with the fruit juice, as ominous music plays.Glynnis reaches for the juice buy cialis generic, but Margaret withdraws it and stares at her.Glynnis realizes what’s happened and confesses to her role in Victor’s death; buy cialis generic.She was driving too fast buy cialis generic, she was tired, she was about to come back when she saw Margaret arriving to pick Victor up.She sought Margaret out to see what she could do for her, but never found the strength to tell her the truth.

Margaret gives her the juice – more ominous music – and Glynnis drinks it – buy cialis generic.The next thing we see is Margaret sighing and driving away.The obvious question (maybe not from my description buy cialis generic, but when you watch the episode) is: did Margaret put an overdose of painkillers into the juice? The creators have left it open-ended.Personally, I can’t reconcile forgiveness with the show’s overall message about taking action when people behave irresponsibly.

For our purposes, it doesn’t matter; buy cialis generic.What’s important here is that we have a woman in her sixties taking action in her life – buy cialis generic.If she forgave Glynnis buy cialis generic, that’s certainly not something Victor would have done.If she killed Glynnis, that too is something Victor never proposed to do; buy cialis generic.Margaret may have chosen to be the passive partner, reacting to the plots Victor set in motion in their lives, but she is not Victor; buy cialis generic.She’s a very complicated and interesting person in her own right.

At first, I considered the open ending an artistic cop-out (that’s my usual reaction to them), but then I realized how the open ending forces us to think about her at length and speculate about just who she is and what she’s capable of – buy cialis generic.We see her taking various actions – deciding how to spend her time and take care of the daily business that Victor usually handled – so we learn that Margaret is a survivor, which is interesting – buy cialis generic. Buy cialis generic: but it’s the question of whether she killed Glynnis that forces us to think long and hard about exactly who Margaret is, and what she’s capable of.It’s rare for TV or movies to encourage the audience to study women of any age or description.Here it’s actually unavoidable – buy cialis generic. Buy cialis generic: in order to decide what you think happened, you have to get to know Margaret.

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Aside from being a wonderful sister and human being, Sal has problems with directions.  She’s as dyslexic as the day is long.  If I had a nickel for every phone call to me from her cell, hopelessly lost in the wrong part of town, turning right when she should have turned left, not noticing the skyline in her rearview mirror instead of ahead of her…I’d be Bill Gates rich!

So, I bought her a GPS device to put in her car for her birthday.  She said she’d rather have a new caftan, but when I reminded her that she already has thirteen caftans, she reluctantly agreed to try out the GPS thingy.  To help her feel more comfortable about it, I named it, Nancy The Navigator just to humanize the experience for her.  And, as in real life, sometimes there are women who are just bitches with whom one must deal on a daily basis.  Those of you who have these devices know that if you don’t do what Nancy tells you to do, she gets ‘huffy.’  If you make a wrong turn, she says, “Recalculating,” but in kind of a nasty way.

Nancy then tries to get you to make a circle around to the original route that she has specially designed for you.  Where does she get OFF deciding which route you should take?!  Since I have issues with control, I live to fuck with that machine.  Whenever Nancy says to me, “Recalculating…” I say, “Go ahead, Nancy, knock yourself out…I’m NOT turning left here!”

The thing that really pisses me off about Nancy is that she never raises her voice.  I think ‘Hal’ from 2001 is her cousin or coach or something.  It’s creepy.  When I want to fight with someone, I want a good FIGHT…not a calm response from a friggin machine!  It makes me feel better to call her bitch and tell her to shut up, releasing my own endorphins because all I have to do to win the argument is TURN HER OFF!

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I love Nancy.  She has changed my life.  Listen, all you dyslectics out there, run to your nearest Best Buy store and get one of these.  They are user friendly (even for us) and Nancy’s voice makes you feel like someone is really in charge.  You can trust her even though she sounds like that second-grade teacher who called your mother when you swung on the school set on your stomach and weren’t wearing any underwear and …..but I digress.

I have spent most of my driving-life looking at street signs and trying to figure out where in the hell I was.  Now, Nancy says in an authoritative voice, “TURN RIGHT.”   I do it even though everything in me tells me to turn left.  And now I don’t find myself on Cabrone Street watching drug deals go down in front of the Yellow Rose XXX Ladies Ladies Ladies Men’s Club while trying to find the Best Buy Store.  You know you fucked up and landed in Crip territory and you’re just hoping no gang member’s initiation into the gang involves carjacking a Honda Civic from some middle-aged white lady lost in the hood.  That was the story of my life when I was a messenger in Los Angeles.  That and finding myself in Orange County when I was supposed to be delivering a fifty-thousand-dollar, signed hockey stick to a mogul in Pasadena.  Oh, if only I had had Nancy then.  I’d have been home early enough to catch Oprah instead of wolfing down a Fish Sticks TV dinner in front of Charlie Rose.

No matter where you are in the car, you can punch ‘GO HOME’ (and there’s a picture of a little house) and no matter how tired you are, she will tell you what to do and warn you about what turn is coming and congratulate you when you get there with an, “ARRIVING AT DESTINATION.”  See, that way you don’t pass your house because you are thinking about why that fat girl at the office keeps giving you dirty looks and why the gas bill just went up 200% and….NANCY!  Bring me back!

And by-God she will.

Trust me on this,

SalGal

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I get plenty of exercise, but after reading this article, I realized I am not doing enough weight resistance exercise.  A 30 minute brisk walk on the treadmill 5 days a week isn’t enough to build up my bones.  So, I plan to add activities like rowing (apparently excellent for the back where osteoporosis usually hits) and weight resistance training.  The day after reading the article, I set up a schedule to add weight training 3 days a week and rowing twice a week.
The article tells us how to eat for our bones.  It stresses the importance of getting calcium from food.  Find out what foods, besides dairy products, are good calcium sources.  I learned that adding more fruits and vegetables is also very important, although I am not sure how I could actually eat the recommended 9 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday.  (Maybe I could, if I can count fruit filled cookies.)  But I will certainly add more fruits and veggies to my diet.  You will also learn about the type of supplements to take, and there is more to this than just popping a few calcium pills a day.

I found the information on bone scans very useful.  Apparently when you get a bone scan, it should be measured by the new FRAX scoring system, which estimates whether or not you are at risk to break a bone within a ten year period.  Important information so you know how to change your life to prevent that painful occurrence.  The “Asses Your Risk” section was an eye opener in terms listing the factors that contribute to getting osteoporosis.

The article wraps up with a convenient age-by-age planner as well as some pertinent information about helping our kids develop strong bones for life.

When I read an article that actually causes me to change my life, I feel compelled to pass it along.  So, pick up the June edition of The Ladies’ Home Journal and get inspired, like I did, to strengthen your bones.  ‘Strong Bones for Life’ is an excellent article for every woman who wants to be able to walk tall into old age.

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According to CTIA The Wireless Assoc., the average yearly output for a cell phone is around $588.  And that’s if you’re average, not if you are a jabberer like my niece and nephew!  The article quotes Jeff Kagan, a telecom industry analyst, saying “Cell phone companies only advertise their newest plans, but cheaper ones are still available…you just have to ask for the plan that matches your habits and budget.”  The article goes on to say that if you act wisely, you can cut hundreds off your cell phone bill annually.  And then Ms.Hanson gives us 13 (lucky 13 in this case!) ways to actually do it.  Run out and grab the mag and read it yourself to get the full scoop cialis 50mg, but here is a thumbnail version:

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8.If you want to text and email, maybe pick a higher-priced bundle plan instead of paying a’ la carte?  Cheaper!

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11.Check out how to limit and control the numbers your kids can call.

12; cialis 50mg.Remember to check your contract…you get a new free phone on renewal, and you can donate your old one.  One place to donate: cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

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Well cialis 50mg, this was a quick look at the major points of this great article on how to save money on your cellphone.  But if I were you, I’d run out and get the Ladies’ Home Journal, June edition, like I did, and read it yourself!  I don’t know about you, but I have better places to spend my moola!

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