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Feel free to add your own worries to my list

1.  TSA- getting through TSA (I have a metal implant which causes me to have to be literally “frisked” every flight I take)
2. food – you know the saying  – everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.  Well,  not really.  But even when I eat “healthy” food, every day the news tells me there is something wrong with such food.  Take fish.  Low in cholesterol, high in protein, but now stacked with mercury.  Great!  Orange Juice – too many carbs!  Barbeque’d anything – carcenogens from the fire?  Wine – bad for you in one day’s reports, good for you the next. 
3. cell phone radiation – the verdict, apparently, is still out.  these things may cause brain tumors.  but who knows.
4. mrsa infection – just a workout at the gym and bam! there ya go – some weirdo germ gets in you because the person before you didn’t wipe off the machine or sneezed or heaven know what.
5. politics – I’m worried I’m going to go crazy before the presidential election due to the neverending chatter on tv, on my answering machine, on the internet etc.  I am *very* interested in this election for many reasons, but it is also driving me nuts.
6. computer files -  losing them at a bad time (same with internet connection)
7. clutter – i’ve been watching and listening to lots of media about clutter and according to at least ONE expert – it’s making me fat.
8. Keith Ledger – he used prescribed medicines.  now look what happened.  could my doctors give me similar contradictory meds?  I feel bad about his untimely death.
9. Google - I worry about how well my site is doing with Google, how much influence they have (too much in too many ways), if anyone can compete (tonight Yahoo turned down a bid from Microsoft and it’s rumored Google might be putting itself in the middle.  “Google already has offered to help Yahoo avert a takeover and urged antitrust regulators to take a hard look at the proposed deal.” – found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_yahoo today.
10. driving over pot holes.  I’ve just returned home – one of the main thoroughfares I use nearly every day is so awful in places that I fear I’m going to ruin my car. Really – one year I got a flat tire after driving over a major pot hole. Had to replace the whole thing.   I live in a cold midwest city and this creates expanding and contracting pavement.  Pot holes are a fact of life, but honestly, this year it’s just nuts!  I’m thinking the streets in Bagdad are better than some stretches of this particular road.  I’m not sure why, since every summer the road crews show up and close off portions of the road for weeks and weeks on end.  I thought this would help end the pot hole issue but nope.  Didn’t do it at ALL.
11. network security – are you parked outside my house stealing my bandwidth??  or worse??  (p.s.  – if you are, move on please – there is zilch here to interest you)
12. crime – yup – worried like the rest of you.  especially random acts of violence.  People gunned down in malls, stores, schools etc.  There was a time I didn’t seriously consider this as a real threat.  But sadly, it is. I’ve heard enough stories enough times.  And it adds to my daily worries.
13. More about travel – now United wants to charge me for a 2nd bag – I thought I’d also read that the weight limit is further reduced but I can’t find that information now. 
14. earthquakes – I guess I’m in a fairly unlikely place for those to occur here, compared to Californians, but still we have had some minor ones.
15. global warming – yeah..  this is REALLY scarey.  I’m concerned for my own generation, but even more so for those to come.
16. health care insurance – or lack of it.  Yes, I do believe everyone deserves some basic medical care.  I’ve heard arguments on both sides of the coin, but those opposed have yet to convince me.  Also, I’ve talked to Canadians who supposedly “complain” about long waits.  Well folks, I myself waited MONTHS for a needed Dr. appointment.  We need to get a grip on this issue for all our sakes.
17. the economy – I’m not sure exactly WHAT I’m supposed to worry about – will I have enough to eat? will I be properly housed? will my kids have these comforts? will they have work? All I know is things cost more and more.
18. genocide – this is a serious one.  I’m worried about crazy people in power or with rebel armies armed and killing others in mass numbers for no reason.  It seems history is not enough of a teacher to prevent this. 
19. Dr. Oz’s radio show – they moved his time slot on my XM Radio and I’m worried I won’t be able to enjoy his wisdom as often as I want to.  Pleeeze - put him back to the 1pm time slot, Oprah!
20. Britney Spears – well yeah – I feel bad and I worry about how fame is totally screwing up some of our “icons”.  Not all – there are far more NOT so screwed up, but look where she is these days.  Look where fame has led a disporoportionate number to dreary endings.  And the kids want to be *like* them – something to worry about.
21. Professional Sports - more screwed up “icons” – cheating athletes, athletes on steroids or other performance enhancing drugs, outrageous contracts, commercialized ball parks, etc.  Can sports ever be a simple past time again?
22. time - I worry it’s going too fast!
23. socializing – I’m always waiting for the proverbial “other shoe to drop”.  I might, at any given moment say the wrong thing, act the wrong way, forget to say something I should, forget to invite someone, forget to r.s.v.p. on time, this alone is at least a separate 27-things-I-worry-about sort of list.
24. emails - I worry about deleting the important ones – hence I worry if I’ll ever sort them out – I keep too many.  This is related to my 7th item – clutter.
25. war – I worry about the war in Iraq – if and when it will end and if there will be stability there.  I worry for our soldiers there (and everywhere else)
26. poverty – I worry about poverty around the world and poverty right under my nose.
27. oversleeping- I worry if I’ll wake up on time or oversleep.  I’ve done that a few too many times!

Ok – that’s 27.  I forgot a bunch of stuff – I worry about victims of Katrina still, and my list is quite long.  But, the title of this post prevents me from carrying on more.  Please add your own.