hi all: imaginary conversation: "so, did you take a vacation this summer?" "nothing special, my sister and i just took a small road trip from almonte to toronto and back" "back to your old home town, eh? anything exciting happen?" "nothing out of the ordinary, we just re-united with our children whom we hadn't seen for 33 years and met grandchildren we'd never seen before" "that must have been a pretty emotional few days!" "not really, but i did spend a lot of time 'kicked out' and couldn't figure out why" "well, duuuuhhhhh!" real conversation: (after meeting my daughter and her husband and my 6 day-old-grandson in person) "i've got three more sweeties in my life" (after re-meeting my sister's long lost 35-year old son in person) "make that four sweeties" (after meeting my sister's 15 month-old grandson in person) "the sweetie count has now risen to 5" bio-chemical conversation: "hormone alert! all dopamine take cover or suffer zappification!" "stress alert! all dopamine detected anywhere in this body-bag witll be eradicated tout de suite!" "excitement alert! any remnants of dopamine survivors will be hunted down and destroyed!" "elation alert! the dopamine has left the body-bag! repeat: the dopamine has left the body-bag!" grannie jannie more grateful than ever grinning ear-to-ear non-stop (all above conversations courtesy of one fairy-god-parent yet again) janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: [log in to unmask] smail: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada