My personal assumption is that even if something did work, you'd find something new to whine about. You are the perpetual victim, if it isn't medical its problems with people, lawyers, doctors, judges, ex-husbands, ex-friends, yada yada yada.
Oh My Gosh! I have to day it again.... MEGA DITTO!! Sounds like my mother (gosh, the stories I could tell too) and me (wt & other "bad" habits). I'm attacking the weight thing anew -- yoga or stretching for @ least 1.5 hrs per day (hard to fit it in, but I don't want to be my mother! & aching & complaining all the time) AND when we take our 20th anniversary trip (18 days from now), DH and I have agreed, no naughty foods or beer until we've walked 10,000 steps on my new pedometer!!!! Wishing all of us with those cranky, unmotivated, .... relatives a calm and peaceful holiday season (do what we do! just spend a couple of hours with the icky ones & spend a lot more time with the non-ickies in your life). EG
Good one. There's another great French noble woman, whose name I'll have to think of. But, at her chateau in the Loire, when all the nobility were having heads chopped off, the locals protected her as she'd actually helped to encourage a better life for the villagers, etc. I can see the chateau - been there, but cannot think of the name. It has 4 lovely round towers in the forecourt.
Then there's always Catherine d'Medici - who manipulated, organized, and generally ran some kings, and more.
It`s not all honey, being an only child, is it? I mean - you get the LOT - both sides of the coin! Dad was the moaner and griper in our family - Mum was fine most of the time. I often wished I had siblings - if only to take the pressure off a little! LOL! As it was, I used to keep out of the way as much as possible.
Well, my name isn't based on my ancestry in a truly historical way... my first name is the feminine version of my dad's, although my mother swears I was named for the song "Hey Paula". My middle name is for my maternal great-grandmother, but it's definitely from their English heritage :).
What has always irked me about my name, though, are the people who swear that my first name is a nickname or shortened version of Pauline. It's not. at. all. My first grade teacher insisted that this was the case (her first name was Pauline) and couldn't understand why I wouldn't answer when she called me Pauline. At that age, I wasn't being smart, I just truly didn't realize she was talking to me! But it really gave me grounds for disliking people who try to impose their narrow and rigid view of how the world should be on others!
Being of German, Cherokee, Scots, and English descent, I guess I did come out of the "name game" pretty unscathed... lol
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