| Kiss the rain.. |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|12:07 pm] |
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| | Snow Patrol "How to Be Dead" | ] |
The breast biopsy from last week came back benign. Had the biopsy of the second one Wednesday. Have to wait another week for the results of this one.
My mother had surgery Wednesday as well. One of her kidneys had died and was causing all sorts of other dangerous health issues so they hope by removing the dead kidney everything else will correct itself. I hope it does! She is all the family I have left as well as a best friend and can not even begin to think about loosing her.
I have a dentist that has offered to do all the work I need for FREE! I don't know why this has happened to me and it just doesn't seem real. I have been blessed with an amazing gift that will truly change my life!
Spent the last few months coming outta a very bad place. Guilt and shame are large parts of the flood of emotions I can now feel and are taking over. Many others are hitting hard and the years of hiding compound it all. Very overwhelming to go from 10 years of numb to one day all the years hit you along with the shame of knowing it got that way by nobodies fault but your own.
Living where I am cuts so deep. I don't share emotions well and I know my shame/hurt/sadness gets read very differently. How can I build a life I am proud of if I can't find a home. If I could work then this situation would not be happening. My disability is effecting many more than just myself. That adds more hurt, guilt and shame. I will be 30 and feel as though I will never amount to to much more than what I am now.
But I have to remind myself that I am working hard to get back the life I once had and the happiness I knew. I know its not easy to do. Life is not easy on anyone. Sometimes I do get tired of the constant struggles but I always have found a way to pick myself up and care on. This time is no different. |
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| A Day Late and a Dollar Short |
[Feb. 15th, 2008|06:15 pm] |
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Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all had a great day!
It really isn't about cards, flowers, boyfriends, girlfriends. Thats called marketing!! Cause even if you have all those things it dosen't mean your day will be special. With all that pressure, just like with any other day were "told" should have extra meaning, it more likley to blow up in your face.
Yep, anyway, it's a day late but happy v-day! |
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| Imagine what we will tell our kids!! |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|03:35 pm] |
Can you imagine what we will tell our kids!! Hell, my son can not believe we didn't have tv remotes or cpu's in every home! Which meant no internet! No cellphone. NO cable! We use to play outside all day and not come home till the street lights came on!! Now we can't let them outta our site cause God knows what kinda crazy person is waiting to snatch them up! How fast things change! :)-
OLD AS DIRT---
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?" "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I explained -- all the food was slow!"
"We ate it at a place called 'At Home.'" I went on to explain how "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told hi m about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck any more. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our ho use until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But MILK was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with water
because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
"Senility Prayer"...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference." |
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| Thoughts from me to you! |
[Jan. 22nd, 2008|10:42 pm] |
I found this and it says what I need to say. I know and sadly, am to often reminded that we don't always have tomorrow to say what we need. I hope that I show how important you all are to me. I know that I have trouble showing feelings and that my shyness holds me back from doing many things. Like calling people or going places. I am trying to correct that. But I hope nobody has any doubts that I love them and need them a lot more than you all may know.
k, enough girly feeling for one night!
Love to all,
Michelle
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows
I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
"Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
Remember to always say what you mean.
If you love someone, tell them.
Don't be afraid to express yourself.
Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you.
Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late.
Seize the day! Never have regrets!
And most importantly,
stay close to your friends and family,
for they have helped make you the
person that you are today!
SMILE, even through your tears!!!!! |
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| Snoring!! |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|03:22 pm] |
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| | cold | ] |
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| | Ryan Adams "La Cienega Just Smiled" | ] |
First, I must say "HAPPY B-DAY ROB! I love you!!"
O.K. now....
Rob's snoring is earth shattering. You can hear him on the other side of the house and that is not a lie. He always makes fun of his mom for snoring so damn loud and I try to tell him, "hey, hun, u sound just like her!" He thinks I am lying.
So, the other night I was up at 3am, guess what had me up.... Anyway, I took my cell, shut the ringer and used the house phone to call my cell. Let the voicemail pick up and recorded away. They next day I had Rob listen to it. He couldn't believe he sounded like that. Now he is willing to see some one about it. THANK GOD!!
Maybe I will be able to sleep a full night again one day! Keep your fingers crossed for me! |
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| It's been awhile since I have updated this thing... |
[Nov. 15th, 2007|05:00 pm] |
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What a day. I was at my spinal doc today because of problems in my legs which may be caused by something wrong w/my spinal cord or maybe in the brain. Have to have an MRI and go back in a couple of weeks to find out what we should do next. Fun.
The floor on the drivers side of the car may be rotting out. Gonna have to jack it up and take a look from under the car. That will be an oh so fun repair! I noticed today that the rug under the pedals was SOAKED and spots had some sinking. I will just keep thinking happy thoughts and everything will be fine! (Let me have my delusions! lol)
Dylan is w/his father this weekend. Family wedding. So, if I don't come up with anything better to do, I will be watching the 1st two seasons of the new Doctor Who show. (Yes, I am a nerd and I am ok w/that) I rented them from the library cause I am to poor/cheap to buy them.
I am off again. Have to go pick up the hubby. And hopefully get some sleep tonight. The bags under my eyes are starting to look frighting! lol
Happy Happy Joy Joy! :)- |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|07:24 pm] |
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: LET'S ROCK AUTISM...NYC!!!
Date: Nov 13, 2007 3:45 PM
This morning, President Bush vetoed the FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill. This bipartisan bill had strong support in both the House and the Senate, but the President objected to the overall funding levels of the bill, which includes modest increases for vital programs - most of which have experienced significant cuts, lost purchasing power or both over the past three years.
This legislation includes significant increases for autism programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health. These increases represent full funding of the Combating Autism Act, and are critical in improving our ability to diagnose, intervene and develop new therapies for autism. We need this crucial investment!
The House could move to override the President’s veto as early as this week. Contact your Member of Congress and urge them to vote YES on the veto override.
Click here to take action now.
https://secure2.convio.net/asa/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=223xeacqo7.app24a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=179 |
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| How Freaky are you? I'm 59 Bad girl! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2007|11:10 am] |
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How Freaky are you in bed?--
GET A PIECE OF PAPER AND NUMBER IT FROM (1-13)
AND NO CHEATING!
SEE THE RESULTS AT THE END OF THE TEST!
WHEN YOU SEND IT ON PUT YOUR SCORE IN THE SUBJECT BAR...
1.WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?
A. LIGHT COLOR
B. CHANGE COLORS
C. DARK
2.IF YOU WERE TO MEET UP WITH THE CRUSH OF YOUR LIFE YOU WOULD...
A. SEDUCE THEM
B. JUST CHILL
C. CHILL AND THEN SEDUCE
3.WHATS YOUR FAVORITE TYPE OF WEATHER?
A. RAIN
B. THUNDERSTORM
C. SUNNY
D. CLOUDY
4.WHATS THE BEST TYPE OF FRUIT?
A. STRAWBERRIES
B. CHERRIES
C. GRAPES
D. PEACHES
E. KIWI
5.THE BEST PART OF THE 24 HOURS IS....
A. NIGHT
B. DAY
C. AFTERNOON
6.WHATS THE BEST SEASON OF THE YEAR?
A. FALL
B. SUMMMER
C. SPRING
D. WINTER
7.HEADBOARD OR NO HEADBOARD?
a-HEADBOARD
b-NO HEADBOARD
8.WHATS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN?
A-LEO
B-VIRGO
C-SCORPIO
D-LIBRA
E-GEMINI
F-ARIES
G-CAPRICORN
H-CANCER
I-PISCES
J-AQUARIUS
K-TAURUS
L-SAGITARIUS
9.PICK A PLACE YOU WOULD HAVE SEX AT OUT OF THESE...
A. ASTRO VAN
B. ON THE ROOF TOP OF A BUILDING
C. PARK
D. AIR PLANE
E. PARENTS ROOM
F. ALL OF THE ABOVE
10.YOUR PHONE SERVICE?
A. SPRINT/CINGULAR/METRO
B. VERIZON
C. T-MOB./NEXTEL
D. ALTEL
E. CRICKET
F. SUNCOM
G. BOOST MOB
11.PICK AN ANIMAL-
A. LION
B. LIZARD
C. SNAKE
D. MONKEY
12.PICK A TOPPING-
A. CHOCOLATE SYRUP
B. HONEY
C. WHIP CREAM
D. NUTS
13.WHICH WAY?
A. UP
B. DOWN
C. SIDEWAYS
NOW THINK OF THE PERSON YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON OR A PERSON WHOSE ASS YOU JUST WANNA SMACK=========
***ANSWERS****
1.
A. LIGHT COLOR------ (4) POINTS
B. CHANGE COLORS- (5) POINTS
C. DARK---------------- (4) POINTS
2.
A. SEDUCE THEM--------------- (5) POINTS
B. JUST CHILL------------------- (2) POINTS
C. CHILL AND THEN SEDUCE- (4) POINTS
3.
A. RAIN--------------- (3) POINTS
B. THUNDERSTORM- (5) POINTS
C. SUNNY------------- (4) POINTS
D. CLOUDY----------- (2) POINTS
4.
A. STRAWBERRYS- (5) POINTS
B. CHERRYS-------- (4) POINTS
C. GRAPES---------- (3) POINTS
D. PEACHES-------- (4) POINTS
E. KIWI-------------- (5) POINTS
5.
A. NIGHT-------- (4) POINTS
B. DAY----------- (3) POINTS
C. AFTERNOON- (5) POINTS
6.
A. FALL-------- (3) POINTS
B. SUMMMER- (4) POINTS
C. SPRING---- (2) POINTS
D. WINTER--- (5) POINTS
7.
-HEADBOARD-------- (5) POINTS
-NO HEADBOARD-- (2) POINTS
8.
LEO---------- (5) POINTS
VIRGO------- (5) POINTS
SCORPIO--- (5) POINTS
LIBRA-------- (3) POINTS
GEMINI------ (4) POINTS
ARIES-------- (3) POINTS
CAPRICORN- (3) POINTS
CANCER------ (4) POINTS
PISCES------- (5) POINTS
AQUARIUS--- (4) POINTS
TAURUS------ (5) POINTS
SAGITARIUS- (4) POINTS
9.
A. ASRTO VAN------------------------------ (3) POINTS
B. ON THE ROOF TOP OF A BUILDING- (4) POINTS
C. PARK------------------------------------- (2) POINTS
D. AIR PLANE------------------------------- (5) POINTS
E. PARENTS ROOM------------------------ (5) POINTS
F. ALL OF THE ABOVE-------------------- (10) POINTS
10.
A. SPRINT/CINGULAR- (5) POINTS
B. VERIZON/IMMIX------ (4) POINTS
C. T-MOB./NEXTEL----- (3) POINTS
D. ALTEL----------------- (5) POINTS
E. CRICKET-------------- (2) POINTS
F. SUNCOM-------------- (3) POINTS
G. BOOST MOB---------- (4) POINTS
11.
A. LION------ (5) POINTS
B. LIZARD--- (3) POINTS
C. SNAKE--- (4) POINTS
D. MONKEY- (3) POINTS
12.
A. CHOCLATE SYRUP- (3) POINTS
B. HONEY--------------- (2) POINTS
C. WHIP CREAM------- (5) POINTS
D. NUTS----------------- (3) POINTS
13.
A. UP----------- (2) POINTS
B. DOWN------ (3) POINTS
C. SIDEWAYS- (5) POINTS
NOW ADD YOUR SCORE UP!!!!!!!!!
RATINGS:
25-34= PRIESTS SON or DAUGHTER. YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAVE IT TILL MARRIAGE.
35-49= PRETTY DAMN FREAKY, BUT THERES STILL A COUPLE OF TRICKS U CAN LEARN... FROM ME.
50+ = TOTAL OUTRAGEOUS FREAK! OMG! CALL ME!!!! NO SERIOUSLY START DIALING!***
LET YOUR SCORE BE KNOWN!!! |
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| My Little Car Accident |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|07:20 am] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
Tuesday, some guy bashed in to the back of my car, in front of the police station (talk about luck, right??). I was stopped and he hit me at about 15 mph. It was fun. You should all try it, who needs Great Adventure?! I am ok. Nothing more than being sore. I'm very lucky!
I want to go back to bed but I think it would just make it worse at this point :( Got to much to do, not to mention an away match today w/Dylan's cross country team. It's at a school I went to for a bit, Mount Sinai (sp??). Haven't been back there in atleast 12yrs. Not that any of this matters.
Maybe I will just lay down for a few mins......... |
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| I moved :( |
[Oct. 21st, 2007|08:56 pm] |
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Just thought I would let anyone who cares to know that I am no longer in Middle Island. If you have that #, you could keep it but that seems silly since the new people won't know you. MOVING SUCKS!! Just incase anyone was unaware of that fact. Goodnight and Goodluck :)- |
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| It’s Alive... |
[Aug. 31st, 2007|08:56 am] |
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| | White Stripes "you don't know what love is" | ] |
My car that is. After being stuck w/no car for almost a year now, damn it really has been that long. Anyway, we did the body work Sunday (Thanks Mark for your help!) Last night we got the headlight on and the Dmv shit finished. So, today, my husband, drove to work! I know, it's so simple but it brings so much joy when you have done w/out!!!
Well, now I guess we need to figure out how to afford the gas for the damned thing! :)- |
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| We Are Moving |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|01:37 pm] |
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| |  nerdy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | watching the movie Singles | ] |
We are moving to N.C. how fast is kinda up in the air. We will be outta here by next summer but maybe as soon as this winter. It depends on if I can find something small and cheap here FAST. I will write more but this is exciting and sad. I have always wanted to move back off the Island. I knew this would not be where I would settle. Just can not afford to live and have a family here sadly. As soon as I came back to the Island my quality of life dropped dramaticly. This is going to be even more confusing and what have you for Rob who has never lived anywhere but Centereach and Middle Island!! I really hope I can see so many people before I go. Stress!! lol It really is the one constent in my life. I wonder what I would do if my life ever feel into a routine, something that would be called, normal. I think I would go bonkers. :)
Hope everything starts falling in to place for us. We need a little break. But then again don't we all need one! I just hope we are doing the right thing. You can never truley know intill it's done and you are looking back at the path you picked. |
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| mate survey |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|09:42 am] |
1. Who is your man/woman? Rob
2. How long have you been together? Married 5 about 7 in all
3. Dating/Engaged/Married? Married
4. How old is your man/woman? he is 26
5. Middle name? James
You or him/her:
1. Who eats more? him
2. Who said "I love you"? We both did at the same time
3. Who sings better? He says I do and guess thats true cause I sing all day long and he will never burst in to song :)
4. Who's Older? Sadly, I am older **Sniffle**
5. Who's smarter? Both, really, if u need jepardy type info, Rob's your man. I had it easy at school as well. But I also tend to have more of the common sense/street smarts that he so dearly could use! :)-
6. Who's temper is worse? Last few years, HIS by far!
7. Who does the laundry? He was doing it cause of the operations but I am starting to pick up the slack.
8. Who does the dishes? our dishwasher if it can all fit
9. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? rob
10. Who's hair is longer? mine easily though rob wants his longer
11. Who mows the lawn? the maintenance men
12. Who pays the bills? the fairy god mother
13. Who cooks dinner? Mostly Rob or I wouldn't eat lol
14. Who drives when you are together? both but at night he has to cause my eyes are old and stupid.
15. Who pays when you go out to dinner? who care it all comes from the same account!
16. Who's the most stubborn? Him!! I can be but have given up trying to hold up against his insanity!
17. Who is the first one to admit when they're wrong? Me
18. Who's parents do you see more? His
19. Who named your dog or cat (s)? Rob named one cat & turtle (who is in a nice new home) Dylan names the other cat
20. Who kissed who first? I kissed him I think
21. Who asked who out? Funny, a friend from work kinda set us up cause we were both to chicken to ask the other out
22. Who's more sensitive? lol HIM BY FAR
23. Who's taller? him. I am a midget!
24. Who has more friends? I don't count friends like that
25. Who has more siblings? we both have 1
26. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Let not touch that subject right now lol |
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| 5 Yrs w/ball & chain today |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|11:39 pm] |
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5yr wedding anv today! Hip Hip Hooray!! :)- Went to see the Bourne movie. Fucking great movie just like the others. The band at the bar last night turned out to be great. And after we left Dave & others at the diner, John, James, Honnet, Rob and I went on a misson. Stop at John & Carl's mothers, get giant roll of shrink-wrap, go to Carl's place and FULLY wrap his car then motorcycle then connect them both together at 3AM. Honnet brought his camera so there is photos of the finished job. Good times were had. I am going on 2hrs sleep at this point but it's been a great 2 days. And it's been a WONDERFUL 5 years! I am lucky. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 2nd, 2007|04:52 pm] |
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| | discontent | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Radiohead "Fake Plastic Trees" | ] |
Hmm, where should I ever begin?? I use to write in my blog everyday when I used livejournal now it seems I spend all my internet time on bulletins and comments. I think I am going to start use pen and paper again. I can say more, be more honest w/myself.
Our wedding Anv is Saturday. 5 years. Crazy! I have spent 10 of the last 12 yrs married. And I will be 29 this month. My son turned 12 a couple weeks ago. Life is just passing by. Faster but no less sad then it has always felt for me. I wonder if everybody feels it as much as I. But everones journay is diffrent, yada yada.
Let's see, car...still not on the road. Still hitting the pavement. Which means Rob dosent get home till atleast 8pm and just on the home trip home has to walk over 5 miles to catch all the diffrent buses need. Not to mention how it feels to depend on his folks to get to docs appts and what have you. Way to old to be putting ourselfs in that position anymore.
Rent got all screwed up and now I get to go to court next week. Might need to find something very quickly and just throw our shit in to storage. Maybe just leave the Island earlier than planned. It is harder on Rob than I. He hasen't had to move like I did in my childhood and then when I was married to Mike and the Navy sent us here or there. Disability pays me shit so sadly, the burden of supporting 3 people falls on him mostly.
I have always worried what this would do to him. The night I broke my spine, before I went home after the hospital we sat in his car talking and I told him that he should move on. That I knew what was a head for me, not just from the accident but being in the middle of a VERY nasty divorce and everything that was happening. I tried many diffrent ways to make him run for the hills. I didn't want to be the reason for him not reaching his full potential. I knew that things would always be harder on him for being w/me then if he would have left. But he wouldn't listen. He is pig headed :) But I have been watching this once happy guy change before my eyes and I can't stop it or help. It has reached the point that worry has turned in to fear. He trys to carry it all quietly and it's killing him.
So much to think about. This to shall pass! That which dosen't kill me only makes me stronger and that much more wise for the next hurdle. Beauty and youth are wasted on the young that is one thing I am sure of! K, it's Yoga Time! |
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| Stella Awards....lol |
[Jul. 13th, 2007|11:33 am] |
Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella
Awards."
Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who
spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in
NM).
That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous,
ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.
Here are this year's winners:
5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was
awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle
tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store.
The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the
verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms.
Robertson's son.
5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won
$74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand
with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was
someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his
neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was
leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage.
He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic
door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house
because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he
pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found
himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of drydog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have
been 2nd Place!
4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded
$14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by
his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its
owner's fenced yard.
The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog
might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams
who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it
repeatedly with a pellet gun.
3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber
Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a
soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the
floor because Ms.Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds
earlier during an argument.
2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued
the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from
the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front
teeth. This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the
window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
1st Place: This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new
32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU
football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise
control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the
back to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the
freeway, crashed and over turned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for
not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do
this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The
company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit,
just in case there were any other complete morons around. |
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| Great to know |
[Jun. 21st, 2007|01:04 pm] |
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GREAT THINGS TO KNOW (Just print and stick in your kitchen drawer)
1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads if any
6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
9 Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too
11 Bee stings - meat tenderizer
12. Chigger bite - Preparation H
13. Puffy eyes - Preparation H
14. Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
15. Stinky feet - Jell-O!
16. Athletes feet - cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this stuff)
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if they eat it!
20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper
21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
26. Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
27 Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many years!
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste
31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
34. Baked on food - fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
36. Dirty grout - Listerine
37. Stains on clothes - Colgate
38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!
40. Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
42. When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness or softness? Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie. They are: Monday = Blue,
Tuesday = Green,
Thursday = Red
Friday = White and
Saturday = Yellow.
So if today was Thursday, you would want red twist tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)! The colors go alphabetically by color Blue- Green - Red - White - Yellow, Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember. I thought this was interesting I looked in the grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with the plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping. |
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| Happy Father's Day! |
[Jun. 17th, 2007|12:27 pm] |
Hey JIM!!!
Happy Father's Day!! Hope you have a great day!
Take care!! Hope to see you guys soon!!
Much Love to you and the little one!
TTYS, Love,
Michelle, Rob and Dylan!! |
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| Polygamist community faces rare genetic disorder |
[Jun. 14th, 2007|12:08 pm] |
Link at bottom-
COLORADO CITY, Arizona (Reuters) - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.
The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have the world's highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity that causes severe mental retardation brought on by cousin marriage, doctors say.
"Arizona has about half the world's population of known fumarase deficiency patients," said Dr. Theodore Tarby, a pediatric neurologist who has treated many of the children at Arizona clinics under contracts with the state.
"It exists in a certain percentage of the broader population but once you get a tendency to inbreed you're inbreeding people who have the gene there, so you markedly increase the risk of developing the condition," he said.
The community of about 10,000 people, who shun outsiders and are taught to avoid newspapers, television and the Internet, is home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a sect that broke from the mainstream Mormon church 72 years ago over polygamy.
The group, who wear conservative 19th-century clothing, is led by Warren Jeffs, who was arrested in August and charged as an accomplice to rape for using his authority to order a 14-year-old girl against her wishes to marry and have sex with her 19-year-old cousin.
Doctors in the area declined requests for interviews and families refuse to talk to reporters. But former FLDS members, independent doctors and authorities say the disorder appears to have struck at least 20 children in the past 15 years.
"The disease itself is very rare in the rest of the world," said Dr. Vinodh Narayanan of Arizona's St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center and Barrow Neurological Institute. Doctors worldwide had only studied about 10 cases just a decade ago.
"Once you get people within in the same community marrying, then the chances grow of having two people carrying the exact same mutation."
'CLOSED DOOR'
Local historian Benjamin Bistline said 75 to 80 percent of people in the area are blood relatives of two men -- John Y. Barlow and Joseph Smith Jessop -- who founded the sect on the remote desert plateau in the early 1930s.
"There aren't any new people coming in. It's a closed door and that gene just keeps getting passed around," said Bruce Wisan, a court-appointed accountant overseeing a trust of the sect's assets.
Dr. Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Institutes of Health, said the bad gene could have been introduced after the original founding families settled there. "Any person who joined that community could have brought that mutation with them," he said.
Tarby, who has recently retired, said he first observed the problem when an FLDS couple came to a Phoenix clinic about 15 years ago with a 10-year-old boy suffering from a degenerative condition. He sent a urine sample to a lab in Colorado for analysis and was stunned by the diagnosis.
Since then, increasing numbers of children in the community have been stricken with the disease, which causes unusual facial features, frequent epileptic seizures, episodes of coma and possibly early death.
In the disorder, brain cells fail to receive enough fuel to grow, multiply and function properly because of a missing enzyme needed to generate energy from food, causing severe mental retardation and muscle control problems.
Tarby met with about 150 FLDS members in November, explaining that the disorder was not caused by tainted drinking water as rumored but by cousin marriage.
But even with that knowledge, it is still hard for people to leave the sect, said Brenda Jensen, 55, who fled the FLDS several years ago and now works for the Utah-based HOPE Organization, which helps women leave.
"If they are willing to marry their cousin, or unwilling but do it anyway, or even in a relationship that is closer than that, it can be very hard for them," Jensen said.
And local habits, are deeply ingrained, authorities say.
"They will tell you if that's what God wants for you than that's what you will get," said Gary Engels, an investigator assigned to Colorado City by the Mohave County attorney's office. "They don't think too much about marrying cousins and things like that."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/us_nm/usa_mormons_genes_dc;_ylt=AjFUbda2w__YmP82HoRZkjUDW7oF |
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