Most people that would bother reading this blog know that I’ve been having a hard time finding a decent church here.
Category Archives: Personal
Loving the Free Stuff!
Man, I’m loving this new PoshPoints site. It’s like an online swap meet… you get some free points when you sign up, then you can use your points to ‘buy stuff’ from other members on the site. You can ten turn around and list stuff of your own to ‘sell’ and get more points back, or you can just buy more points.
Sounds stupid right? Why not just use real money, right? WRONG.
- I’m broke.
- A lot of other people are broke.
- I have stuff that’s not worth the fees to sell on ebay, and worth too much to sell for 10 cents a garage sale.
- Other people have stuff that I could really use, that falls into the same category.
- People with 15 free points are more than willing to spend a few of them.
- It’s a little addicting.
With my free points I got a used VeggieTales video, a book, and some hair scrunchies. I sold a few small things I didn’t want, and got 3 more VeggieTales movies, a little toy harmonica, an awesome new Christian CD, and have some new ponytail holders coming (I always lose those darn things).
I now have several things I needed, and a few things I’ve wanted for a long time and couldn’t justify spending the money on. I’m only out the shipping on the things I ‘sold’ (you do have to pay shipping), but the things I got back were worth more to me than what I send plus what I spent on shipping, so it’s TOTALLY worth it to me. AND I’ve de-cluttered some.
How can you lose??
If you wanna check into it, the link is here: http://www.poshpoints.com/default.aspx?ref=9719
I get a few points if you start selling stuff, but even if you don’t, you get 15 free points with no obligation.
Filed under Personal
Yeah, I started out weird
My niece has been staying here this week, and I’ve come to the realization that I really was a weird kid…
We went to church Sunday evening, and it just happened to be a night where they had a really old quartet come to sing instead of having a regular service. When I say really old, I mean the main guy had been leading this singing group for 50 years (literally). In any case, at their age, they tended to lead towards the “Lord, I’m coming home” type of songs. The first song they sang my niece got a horrified look on her face and said “dang, not yet!”
Now, when I was her age (17), I had already been hoping to die for 9 years. It never dawned on me, really, that that wasn’t normal. I guess I kind of always figured that anyone who believed in an afterlife would be looking forward to getting out of this place and go home…
In any case, I was noticing through Psalms this time around, that probably most of the reasons the Psalms bother me is that most of the blessings mentioned involve the promise of a long life, and that’s the last thing I want…
I always knew I was weird, but not in this particular way lol
Filed under Personal
Religion and Politics *GASP*
I never have, and never will understand the people who avoid subjects because they might turn into debates.
How can ANYONE who really honestly believes anything want to avoid the subject just because it might get heated?
Don’t talk about religion or politics? Are you kidding me? Aren’t those a couple of the most important things in a person’s life?
I can see avoiding those subjects when you’re meeting a client for a business lunch, when you’re meeting someone’s parents for the first time, or with perfect strangers. But if you can’t bring yourself to discuss your religion with people you consider your friends then you must not care much about your religion, and if that’s the case, then why even bother claiming it in the first place?
This extends to so many areas of life…
If you disagree with someone on a particular subject, apparently the PC thing to do is to ignore it, because heaven forbid you have a disagreement, or a debate, or *gasp* an argument. But seriously, if the subject is very important to either one of you it’s either going to keep coming up, or it’s going to become a giant elephant standing in the corner.
Have a conversation, have an argument, have a freakin knock-down-drag-out fight if you need to… but don’t just avoid the subject. If it’s not that important, then you’ll have a discussion and you’ll decide to go on disagreeing. If it is important then you’ll have a discussion, maybe even an argument or a debate, and someone might actually learn something or change their mind in the process. If you disagree strongly enough, and it’s important enough to both of you that you actually get in a fight trying to discuss it, then chances are you’re not compatible anyway. Better to find out now than 5 years down the line, right?
Filed under Deep Stuff, Rants
Mosaic of Paper Beads
Just showing off some of my paper beads. I haven’t had a chance to make any for a while due to the arm injury, and I didn’t have anything real to blog :)
Most of these have sold, the ones that haven’t can be found on my personal Etsy shop.
Filed under Business Stuffs
Little things…
My headache has now been gone for two days!!!
I’m almost certain the problem was/is my neck, so I’m being very careful to stay conscious of how I’m holding my head, make sure I don’t sit in my chair with my hair up, and make sure that I don’t hold the phone with my head when I’m talking on it. This seems to be working okay, my neck is still out, but much better.
I tried to draw a bit yesterday, since my arm had been okay for a few days. And now it’s back to being messed up again… been mostly useless all day. Looks like I’m stuck with a useless arm, and if I want to write or draw or anything I’m going to have to do it with my teeth :(.
Using my hands for this kind of stuff has hurt for years, but I always did it anyway from time to time, when I figured it was worth the pain. Now it’s not just pain, but my arm becomes useless… there’s not many situations where writing a bit is worth losing an arm for a day or two… geez
C’est ma vie. At least my head’s not hurting today.
Tomorrow I get to go see why my car is spewing coolant again.
Filed under Disability
leaks and pains
Just leaving an update for anyone who cares…
My arm was out for about a week this time… It stopped working on a Wednesday (the day after my car blew that gasket), and was completely useless for about 4 days, then I had about 3-4 days of partial use.
It’s not back to normal even now, I can’t lift anything heavy and it’s randomly dropping things, but it’s back to semi-normal and it doesn’t hurt to look at it.
My car was out from that Tuesday through the following Thursday I think, borrowed about $600 to fix the coolant leak, and it seemed to be running okay again, but I didn’t drive it much.
Then I went to the neuro Monday (my aunt drove me down). He took his lunch hour to see me, and had some intern with him to show me off… turns out he had just presented my case as a case study at a conference too.
He tells me that if my arm goes out again, I’m just supposed to eat ibuprofin like candy (his exact words were “take a REAL dose” and then “people our size need at least 600-800mg every 2 hours”… “just make sure you take an antacid so you don’t destroy your stomach”), because there’s nothing else they can do for it. Great. He is sending me to an ortho that he seems to think is the best in the world though, so hopefully I’ll get some useful braces for my arms or something, and some new leg braces (for joy for joy). He also gave me some real pain pills too.
I got home from the dr office and crashed, threw my neck out sleeping in my easy chair with my hair up, and had a massive headache that kept me in bed most the time through Wednesday. Went to the store Wednesday night, wore a ball cap and my head stopped hurting, til I took the cap off and the entire top of my head turned read and hurt like I’d bruised it… what the heck? Didn’t stop hurting til Thursday afternoon. I woke up Thursday with a nose/sinus bleed, took a shower, got it to stop, then got a regular nose bleed. Got that stopped, got ready to leave, got in the car to drive an hour and a half and got the sinus bleed and bled down the back of my throat the whole drive.
Get to Urbana, and my dang car is leaking coolant AGAIN!!!
My niece had a nice birthday party, got to play with the kids, headache was gone and everything, sinuses stopped bleeding about the time I got there. Headed home late, went to bed early so I ccould get up and get the car to the shop.
So this morning I can’t get up… this afternoon I still can’t get up… finally pull myself out of bed only to discover that the blasted headache is back full force and my left eye doesn’t feel like it’s opening all the way. I examined myself in the mirror and it looks okay, and looks like it’s open all the way, or at least close to it, and if I try to open it further I can. If I start seeing double or catch myself losing coherancy I’m gonna go to the hospital though…
Filed under Disability, Personal, Rants
Chevy makes crappy cars
Never buy a 2000 Malibu…
Replaced (on just the cooling system):
| Radiators | 2 |
| Water Pumps | 2 |
| Pressurized Coolant Tank | 1 |
| Leaky Coolant Tank Cap | 1 |
| Coolant Hoses | 3 sets + 2 individual |
| Gallons of Coolant | >30 over 5 years? |
| Intake Manifold Gasket | yeah, like I can afford that now |
And this doesn’t count the 8 or 9 mis-diagnosed problems, the alternator that was blown by a tech replacing a radiator, or all of the diagnostic tests over the past 5 years.
Filed under Rants
sigh
I officially give up on trying to do regular updates.
My arm appears to be screwed up again… that’s what I get for trying to use power tools (silly me trying to put LESS strain on myself by using a power sander, what the heck was I thinking, sheesh?) If I get the use of my arm back, I’ll probably just lose it again as soon as I try to clean the house up. I should just give up and find a nursing home.
I won a free meal in wilmington (half hour drive).. made a special trip to take advantage of it… car blew something on the way, I’m now spewing coolant, looks like from inside the motor… yep, I’ll be paying for that with my no-money-in-the-bank, electric-in-danger-of-shut-off, 2-car-payments-late, don’t-even-think-about-groceries self. I’ll get right on that.
I officially hate my life, just in case it wasn’t clear.
Filed under Disability
I never do this, but
I felt like doing it this year…
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
I signed papers on a house, got a product featured on a blog, and turned down the biggest retail opportunity of my life.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I never do new year’s resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A cousin did.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No one close, a few extended relatives and a friend’s father.
5. What countries did you visit?
heh, none.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Enough money to stop hiding from creditors and live comfortably.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Dates almost never remain etched in my memory, because my memory sucks.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting along with my mother (for the most part).
9. What was your biggest failure?
Another year without a local friend.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Always.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
house
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Nothing stands out.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The american public, following like sheep to the slaughter house.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Blocks & bills.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The opportunity I ended up having to turn down.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2006?
I never remember songs by year.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder? uhm, I don’t know, probably sadder
ii. Thinner or fatter? same
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
praying
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
chatting/procrastinating
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
(n/a already over)
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Stupid question for anyone that knows me.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
uh, no.
23. How many one-night stands?
lol
24. What was your favourite TV program?
For lack of cable: House, M.D. and Bones
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No.
26. What was the best book you read?
Don’t remember.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
What’s a musical discovery?
28. What did you want and get?
A color laser printer, burning tools, and a lot of really needed Christmas presents.
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
Uhm, I haven’t seen more than 2 or 3, so i’d have to say Cars, which I got for Christmas.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Cookout, 27.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
fashion? lol
34. What kept you sane?
sane? lol
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
fancy? lol
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ugh, the entire political front is full of equally disturbing issues, let’s just say the total abandonment of the constitutional concept of freedom and unalienable rights.
37. Who did you miss?
my best friend and my grandmother
38. Who was the best new person you met?
uhm, a cute little boy at church named Sammy
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Intelligence is completely useless in this society.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“Home, let me go home (why don’t you let me go home?) this is the worst trip, I’ve ever been on.”
that sums up my entire life.
