Meet Our New Surgeon General - There's Hope For 2015

Don't know if any of you paid much attention to our President's selection of our new Surgeon General who after seven months of squabbling was approved a couple of weeks ago by a 51-43 vote in our Senate. It's really quite amazing that he made it through since he's anti-gun and the NRA was having a fit with his nomination.

Meet Dr. Vivek Murthy, seen here with Senator Cory Booker. 

(I love Booker who is vegan but that may be another post.)

  
So why am I blogging about him? Because he is a breath of fresh air. A growing minority of us believe that the government's status quo position on health care and the role nutrition plays needs to go. We still give subsidies to the meat and dairy industries and not the fruit and vegetable industries, knowing that our citizens don't eat enough produce. We have one of the sickest populations in the West. Hate to go all valley girl on you but, um helloooooo?

Dr. Murthy is wicked smart. He graduated valedictorian of his high school, did his undergrad at Harvard University (graduating magna cum laude in three years' time) then got a combined medical and business degree from Yale. He currently practices at Brigham's and Women's Hospital and get this --- he's 37 years old. I've also read that Dr. Murthy has almond milk, carrots, and high-protein grains in his fridge, another sign of intelligence :-)

 I reward you for reading this post with the following Jon Stewart video:

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Wishing You a Healthy Happy New Year!!

(eat your fruits and vegetables)

Buddies - Love This Picture

Chappu (L) and Tippy (R) can often be seen just hangin' out together. Chappu likes to lick Tippy's head and Tippy enjoys it so much she never asks Chappu to stop. Obi used to enjoy Chappu's licking but after a minute or two it ended in a tussle. The relationship these girls have warms my heart. It looks like Tippy has her arm around Chappu... OK tail.

Final Kitchen Post

I'm not as tardy as you'd think, seeing as we still have to do the final walk through with the folks who did our remodeling. There have been A LOT of problems. Our biggest complaint is that no one seemed to be overseeing the work that was being done. Instead of a supervisor noticing that the shoe molding hadn't been replaced, that the old paint was showing through the new paint, cabinet doors had gouges in them, a few of the floor planks had lumps under them, the caulking was cracking off, etc. etc. etc., we had to walk around with note pads and keep asking them to come fix stuff. We do like the final results though; here it is from left to right: (click on any pic to enlarge)

Let us know when you're available and we'll invite you over for dinner!

Hmmm...

Seems at the very least I could complete posting about the new kitchen. Perhaps tomorrow...