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That's a pretty expensive option for someone with no insurance. Certainly she could go to the ER and run up a big bill that she can make monthly payments on. A better solution for someone on maintenace meds is to find an inexpensive doctor that will treat her, write her prescriptions and run her quarterly labs. She mentioned that she did not go to the clinic in Kroger because it was a minimum of $85. I would think that the bill from the ER would be far greater than $85. Even with payment assistance and discounts offered at hospitals, the ER is not a viable long term option. Those bills add up

Woody Allen did it too. Even though he wasn't married to Mia Farrow, they were in a long term relationship & had children together. Celine Dion once lived with her current husband & his ex wife who acted as her guardians when she was a teenager. There's all kinds of weird stuff hat goes on in this world. Imagine everything that goes on with regular folks who aren't famous & don't make the news.

I have the Cloud also. In addition to it trying to suffocate me while I sleep and being a hot mattress, I wake up sore too. The best sleep I ever had was on one of those Heavenly beds that Sheraton hotels have. I don't know what brand they have or what kind but I always sleep like a baby at Sheraton.

I have one & I don't like it. I sleep on my side with my head on the bed without a pillow. The bed will suffocate you like that. Your face sinks down into the bed. You definitely cannot let a baby or small child sleep in the bed for that reason. It also seems to sleep much hotter than a regular mattress. If I hadn't paid so much for this thing, I'd give it away.

Adorable!!!

My personal experience leads me to believe that. I've been driving into Atlanta to work for a long, long time. Sometimes I would get tired of the commute and try to find something closer to home but the salaries just don't match up. I quit looking for anything close to home years ago. I've been driving to Fulton county to work, either at the airport or downtown for 24 years now.

Firstly a disclaimer - don't do this without checking first, it is most likely illegal in this day and age. Secondly, my mother wanted to do this back in the mid 70's. She brought home huge pieces of granite from the Stone Mountain quarry to put in her rock garden. My father ended up with a hernia from moving them around. Check with a rock quarry. See what kind of boulders they may be able to offer.

Sometimes it just breaks you and leaves you a shell of what you once were. Hasn't happened to me but I've seen it in others. It's a nice platitude designed to help people get through hard times but sometimes it just ain't true.

Remember that old Huey Lewis song from the 80's, I want a new drug? I find myself singing that lately but with slightly different wording... I want a new job, one that won't make me sick, one that won't make my crash my car... It might be the seven year itch but my job is driving me insane lately. I love most of what I do. I like my boss, he's pretty easy going and great to work with. It's not a bad job other than the the fact that the money sucks and a few people in other departments drive me absolutely bonkers with their antics on a daily basis. It's those few people that are really getting

I don't see a skull. I looked and tried to see it but I got nothing.

As they say in my office.... that's a big, juicy baby! Handsome boy.

I would have to correct someone that didn't know that it's feast or famine and says phantom instead. I just wouldn't be able to stand it.

I love Henri's but don't get out that way very often. Alon's is worth a stop when I'm out near Emory. I like to order lunch for meetings from them or from Highland bakery in the Old Fourth Ward. I could eat Highland's homemade pimento cheese sandwiches all day long. I know they aren't good for me but they taste delicious.

When did a rolling road block become known as pacing? I didn't know what the traffic reporter was talking about until somebody explained it to me. Why do we have to change the names of things? And when something changes, why can't somebody clue me in?

Congratulations on your impending nuptials! Go to one of the malls or Kohl's or somewhere like that. I went yesterday and most of the summer clothes are on sale and some are even on the clearance rack already. They've already brought out the fall line and need to get rid of the summer dresses and tops. I did see a few white dresses on clearance. I saw a beautiful dress at Kohl's yesterday that was marked down from $100 to $20.

How on earth were you able to get that close?

Game Stop bought them at one time. They bought CDs also. Don't know if they still do, you'd have to call and check. Even if they still do, I would bet they don't pay much. Years ago, all of mine were stolen. Well, all but one. Out of the hundred or so DVDs that I had, they left behind The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston. Go figure.

Frankly I don't get the label either. I was quoting the other poster who was referring to lazy parents, not making my own observation of other people in general. I know some lazy parents but to assume that people in the car rider lane were lazy and didn't want to get up is beyond my comprehension. That's a lot of people to make assumptions about and I don't know the majority of those people. Oh well, maybe the other poster does know them personally and can give all of us a percentage of how many parents have valid reasons for driving their kids to school vs. what the percentage of lazy, oversl

But if you want to charge parents for dropping off their kids instead of putting them on the bus, how do you do that? To weed out the lazy parent, every parent that drops off a kid would have to be questioned by some poor school official and they would have the burden of determining if it was a for a valid reason. Then you'd have to keep a pages and pages long list that would have to be handed out to whomever was on car rider duty at the school each morning. Or do you just charge everybody and make the responsible parents pay as well as the lazy, "I didn't want to get up" parents because

About the driving your child to school vs. putting them on the bus. I had to leave for work before the bus came. No way was I leaving my daughter to stand on the corner or at the end of the driveway and wait alone for the bus. I wasn't about to leave her at home in grade school either and expect her to leave for the bus stop on time, and remember to lock the door behind her. I drove her to school until she was 12. She was safe & I knew she was ok. I didn't get any calls about missing the bus, got locked out, forgot my key, forgot my lunch money, etc. Parents have to do what's best for the

Hello long lost cousin. Ancestry.com told me that I was a descendant of Charlemagne too. In fact, quite a few people at work have traced their ancestry back to Charlemagne through that website. So many people have said the same thing that I'm at the point where I think that something is rotten in Denmark. Either Charlemagne really, really got around or we were all using the same flawed information to trace our lineage.

I'm looking at a rental cottage on the beach in Alligator Point. It's "old Florida" and kind of out there by itself. No Walmart, no amusement parks, no go-carts or miniature golf. Sounds like heaven to me. The price is right and I can take my dogs as the beach is pet friendly so it meets my search criteria. Anybody been there that could offer any suggestions about where to eat, how far the grocery stores are and things like that?

Darn, I was hoping they would name him Phillip after his old great granddad. But he was never a king so I guess that wasn't gonna happen.

Postman, gorillas do not strike without warning. They give you plenty of time to get away and plenty of warnings. They "strike" only if you ignore their warnings and they feel that you are are a threat to them or their troop members. Choose another animal to make your point, maybe a tiger. Gorillas are peaceful animals who may be entirely capable of ripping you to shreds but they don't need to or want to. Gorillas are my favorites, don't perpetuate the myth that they are aggressive. They have enough of a bad reputation already among those who don't know any better.