"Sometimes I feel old."

"Then I remember my sister is older." Saw this on a T shirt. It's fitting for today since it's my sister's birthday! She is 68 today.

Happy Birthday to her. Yes she's a though not a DU Member

Thank you for my hearts.

They have warmed me through this cold winter.

The Gray House

I apologize because this is on Amazon Prime and I know Amazon is bad because of their support for the tsf. I have been waiting to see this movie for awhile though because it's about history and because my favorite actor Colin O'Donoghue is in it. It's about the Civil War and women who spied on the Confederacy for the Union. It was produced by Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner. I believe it premieres February 27, and am going to watch as a belated birthday present to myself. My birthday is 2/22. I have really missed Colin on screen. He's Irish and I don't know, if he will be filming anything in the U.S. again at least for awhile as I know many foreign actors don't want to come here anymore and I don't blame them.

Anyone else not a football fan?

Don't have anything against sports per say. I used to love watching baseball, basketball, and tennis, but lost interest when so many of my favorite players started retiring.

Football was always too complicated in my mind. A friend tried to explain it to me at our high-school games, and,I never really caught on. I think it's probably related to my math learning issues. That and it always seemed much more violent than most other sports with the exception of boxing and wrestling. I sometimes feel like I am in a very small outnumbered group of people. Even my sister who never used to be a fan got into it now.

I guess I will just play games on my phone or watch a sappy Hallmark movie. I will say though I think Josh Allen of Buffalo is very cute, but wouldn't watch even if the Bills had made it.

Thank you for my heart!

One of my medical mysteries solved.

Four years ago I noticed I started to sweat profusely in the winter after going outside, even after limited activity and length of time. I told my primary care at a regular check up. He said it was probably hormonal, and ask my gynecologist, who I had my annual with a week later.

She had some words about male doctors who blame everything on women's hormones, then said you're ten years into menopause so that's not it. She consulted with her husband also an MD after getting my permission. He told her to refer me to an endocrinologist. The endocrinologist thought maybe it was Cushings. It wasn't. They wanted to run a bunch of studies on me but I said never mind. I was thinking why bother, they have all been wrong so far.

Well for awhile I actually didn't have it happening, only rarely. Cue this year and the frigid temperatures. I have been regularly soaking through two outfits a day. So when my 80 year old cousin called, and asked me how I was handling the cold, I told her about the sweating. She said, "me too, and when I went to my kidney specialist (one of hers was damaged by bipolar medicication), I was suffering a bout." She said she apologized to the doctor and said, "I don't know why I am sweating so much." He replied, "I do! It's your Raynauds disease. "

I was skeptical, but I googled, and sure enough it is a a confirmed symptom. The podiatrist who cuts my nails and checks my toes because of the Raynauds said she didn't know it caused the sweating either. She thought about it, and then replied, "it makes sense though. Your extremities are probably signaling they are cold and need help warming up so your body releases extra cortisol which overheats the rest of your system."

Oh well at least now we know what it is. A lot of us on my Mom's side of the family have Raynauds.

German Shepherd in Need of a Home in North Carolina!

I just saw this on Rocky Kanaka's website. This dogs owner just died and he is in need of a home. Shepherds are my soul dogs and I don't know of anyway else to help this baby, except to share his story. I live in NY and have a Shepherd who prefers to be the only dog.

https://rockykanaka.com/adoption/paddy-a-german-shepherd-who-lost-his-person-is-searching-for-a-new-home-can-you-be-there-for-him-now/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPuB1JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5Cn5ILaW3aN2tOiB1cp5uQhLxzYW7ZcIZyQQGqpoWI5on2vmk-CMZM_pGUsw_aem_C3B62tQT6hmY1Xk9_fVOAw

Hey Winter We Surrender.

Even the snowman has had enough of the weather so far this winter!

— Auralynn (@dogcat19.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T20:52:59.338Z

Best line I have seen so far about Melania movie.

"If I wanted to watch a movie about a hooker who marries up, I'd just stream Pretty Woman." Not mine I stole it.

Thank you for the prayers for my pets.

Dakota the GSD is no longer limping. It must have just been a minor strain. I was able to get out to my cat today. She hadn't eaten much of her food, but my sister suggested heating up some of her wet food and she went right for that.

Thank you again!