http://lucypepper.disqus.com/drawing gibberish in PortugalenThu, 10 May 2012 12:14:42 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/05/portugal-we-need-to-talk/#comment-525534087<p>Lucy, this is probably the best description/analysis/metaphor I've ever heard of "modern" Portugal. I'm so glad you're back!</p>ManuelaThu, 10 May 2012 12:14:42 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-525187991<p>I believe the American National Cancer Institute changed their recommendation about regular mammograms from 40 to 50 years of age (unless there's a family history), given that in women younger than 50 there's a substantial probability of "false positives," i.e. things that might look like worrisome but turn out not to be. That leads to a lot more anxiety, and costs, than the number of cancers it might help prevent. </p>ManuelaThu, 10 May 2012 00:37:43 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-524479113<p>Couldn't resist 'like'-ing your comment. I need further medication. (seaweed, possibly)</p>Lucy MallowsWed, 09 May 2012 10:55:29 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-524472151<p>There is no dilemma: The walk by the sea is by far the best idea. <br></p>lucypepperWed, 09 May 2012 10:50:16 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-524468095<p>I read (and enjoyed) your post but now comes the dilemma: do I g+1 it, tweet it, 'like' it....? Oh gawd, where are the LOLcats and kittens when I need their bland, cuddly advice?<br>[I have nhs counselling about my FB-induced depression...or alternatively just switch off the 'puter and go out for some fresh air and a walk by the sea in the real world]</p>Lucy MallowsWed, 09 May 2012 10:47:23 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/05/portugal-we-need-to-talk/#comment-521669818<p> He's quite modern like that.</p>lucypepperMon, 07 May 2012 12:12:02 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/05/portugal-we-need-to-talk/#comment-521492655<p>Jeremy irons?  </p>Daddy PapersurferMon, 07 May 2012 06:45:41 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/on-children-at-the-cinema-when-the-movie-was-the-avengers/#comment-519510905<p>well said, and beautifully writ.  plus bonus, cute pic.</p>kimvoxFri, 04 May 2012 20:14:50 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/been-drawing-on-dead-trees/#comment-516427962<p> Hi Kim! thank you :)</p>lucypepperWed, 02 May 2012 06:45:59 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-514749500<p>Identified with everything you said... except the big boob bit which I only experienced when I was breast-feeding.</p>BevTue, 01 May 2012 01:25:34 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/stand-up-for-your-tongue/#comment-514083895<p>Had a friend bristle at me once because I called her "rapariga" and don't I know what that means in Brazilian? And no, she wasn't Brazilian. <br>Also, I just noticed the other day that the book I'm using to teach English - which is from a British publisher - has replaced the term rubber with eraser. And then I went and taught the kids the word rubber anyway, and also why the publisher felt the need to change it. </p>AnaMon, 30 Apr 2012 08:30:23 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/been-drawing-on-dead-trees/#comment-513817141<p>inspire rational.</p>kimvoxSun, 29 Apr 2012 19:24:45 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-513816344<p>''<br> using parentheses and asides in overabundance"?  wtf is that?  (no such thing found in this person's reality.)  plus also generalization is fine as long as you know whereof you speak.  (as, of course, you mostly do.)<br>so anyways, yes, yer absolutely right and right on and all and we miss your presence on fb terribly but TOTALLY understand.  it totally sucks rat's ass, pretty much altogether for the reasons you so pretty clearly detailed above.well, except for the matter of finding there, and meeting for the first time Ever, my beautiful , brilliant, awesome daughter, who's, I believe, a year or two older than you.    and I've heard (read) that it has served the same function for others.  this is good, at least in my case.  but, far as I know, I don't have any other unknown children out there, so I no longer need it for that.  other hand, still hoping to find and bring into the family clutches a dead brother's daughter.  bigger challenge.  but the fb part could be left to others.<br>ya know, if my brain was functioning I could do a  response as long as yer original post.  and I love that you never seem to get pissed when I do that.  but not today, not to worry.<br>yes, back to the blogologue.  back to dedication to... something substantial.  been wanting to do that for years, but keeping up w... you know...has taken all the available time and energy.  trying to make a return.  there should be a link in this, I think, to the latest return effort.<br>there has been, heck, is, a fear of losing contact.  prolly silly and senseless.  unlike some, I have only 49 'friends'.  maybe 30 of them, family or friends from blogging, matter.  so why am I dragging?  um, fb is easy.  not necessarily useful or helpful or<br> rewarding, but easy.  I can spend hours on a simple looking image then post it in seconds...  and get no response at all.  but putting it out there was easy.  ridiculous.<br>okay, hope I said something here that made some sort of sense or contributed to someone's... something.  I know it was good for me.  off to fb now, gonna begin the Big Backout.  thanks for clarifying shit.  you're great at that.</p>kimvoxSun, 29 Apr 2012 19:22:44 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-513787527<p>Stay Happy!  world's first and best wellness program.</p>kimvoxSun, 29 Apr 2012 18:14:53 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/been-drawing-on-dead-trees/#comment-513549172<p> thank you, dearest. I've been having a lovely old time drawing in the real world... calming myself.</p>lucypepperSun, 29 Apr 2012 12:07:34 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/been-drawing-on-dead-trees/#comment-513542777<p>Loverly! </p>Walt TaylorSun, 29 Apr 2012 11:54:53 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-512840510<p>Oh, how I've missed you, Lucy. Welcome back. Utterly unheart Farcebook (or Fuuuuuck, an even better name) for all those reasons and more, and love your piece. <br>Am currently marking time until Diaspora* is up and running to an extent<br> I can drag all my contacts there and brush Faceache's ghastly dust from the soles of my shoes for good.</p>Leaping BadgerSat, 28 Apr 2012 08:08:49 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/stand-up-for-your-tongue/#comment-512803846<p>Hahaha. Yeah, faggots!</p>lucypepperSat, 28 Apr 2012 05:56:52 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/stand-up-for-your-tongue/#comment-512802435<p>I like that, cock, but I must go as my faggots are nearly ready.</p>Cliff LaineSat, 28 Apr 2012 05:51:48 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/why-fk-can-fk-off-and-other-related-mini-posts/#comment-511551361<p>I agree with everything you say Lucy. BUT... when your children go off to uni F*******k is a very good way to keep tabs on them, see what kind of friends they have and enjoy seeing photos of them. Of course they need to be mature enough to allow you to be one of their friends. So at present the 22 yr old and the 20 yr old are my friends but not the 18 yr old.</p>Julie OakleyFri, 27 Apr 2012 07:13:42 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-511516277<p>after 50, if you haven't got a pain somewhere, it's because you're dead</p>rosinaalmavivaFri, 27 Apr 2012 06:30:13 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-511488471<p>And I think there's some evidence to show that worrying about something will make illnesses in general more likely to take hold. This really is a case of TMI. If anything happens to me, I don't want any intervention more complicated than the strongest pain relievers on earth. </p> <p>And how I enjoyed your tirade against F*******k the other day! Quite agree - I'm on there but under a nom de plume so I'm not found by every fruitloop I once worked with for six weeks five years ago, who wants to tell me that Livejournal is down omg.</p>Cliff LaineFri, 27 Apr 2012 06:20:07 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-511195808<p>Oh my GOD Lucy. I soooo know where you're coming from. If it's any comfort (which it probably isn't), I'm five years older then you and have been having those kinds of feelings since, well about the age of 42 (I loved being 40, then being 40+ didn't seem so much fun). I had a total implosion when I was 44 for a variety of reasons &amp; ended up in A&amp;E thinking I was having a heart attack (it was a panic attack). Doctor there freaked me out by telling me I had a heart murmur. So I ended up having that checked out, and I also suffered from funny boob behaviour, so I too went along the mammogram route (in the good old NHS you don't get them regularly till you're 50+ - a friend of mine trialled a let's test out the 40somethings too scheme and ended up with a mastectomy), and can utterly relate to your story. On top of that when I am stressed my guts are all awry, so I live in constant fear of getting bowel cancer...</p> <p>I think it is MUCH MUCH worse when you are an imaginative soul and can see all the worst case scenarios and triple the emotional angst that most people have. Till my heart thing I wasn't remotely hypochondriacal, but sitting in that hospital, imagining what would happen to my kids if I wasn't here freaked me out so much that I haven't been quite the same since, although the panic levels have subsided somewhat... Logically I know I am pretty fit for 46, but I also know I drink far too much, am an ex smoker, and heart disease and cancer is in my family. I try to ignore it as much as I can, but I think it's a fact of life being middle aged. I am trying to retrain myself to think, not, oh bugger I'm fat and middle aged and there's probably something wrong with me into, I'm still here, I don't look that bad for my age, and I can still run up the stairs. There's life in the old bag yet...<br></p>Julia WilliamsFri, 27 Apr 2012 04:33:57 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-510986859<p>I would never ever say you were young Pepperoni. In fact, I reckon you're actually getting on a bit ... definitely older than you look.<br>The potted history of your boobs is excellent and it's also given me an excellent idea where to keep my car keys so I don't lose them. </p>Daddy PapersurferFri, 27 Apr 2012 03:17:56 -0000http://lucypepper.com/wpr/2012/04/boobs-and-other-glands/#comment-510186018<p>I'm at the age now where little  things are starting to go wrong, and like you I worry sometimes about the big things that might be just around the corner. I suppose one benefit of worrying is that you're more likely to look after your health and take preventive steps like getting tested.</p>Stephenmcateer1Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:54:55 -0000