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On HiatusI am on hiatus... from blogging for awhile. I guess you could say that I have blogging burnout and writer's block so I'm just going to lay low and try writing later on. Have a great summer!
Later I have been...very, very, bad with posting these past few months, but you can only write about boring mundane stuff about life until you get bored with writing it. There has been something that I've been meaning to write about for awhile, but I kept forgetting. I've been aiming to write about two fun sites that I have found. The first site I found thanks to Val at Mulewings. LetterPop. It's a fun site where you can create newsletters using premade templates. The second site I discovered thanks to Caffeinated Librarian. Shelfari. I really have fun with this site. It's a place where you create an online bookshelf of the books you own. You can find others that also share in the same books that you have. Take a few minutes and check them out.
Later Okay, let's see...Since my last posting, my monitor finally went bellyup, so I was a few days without a computer. Wyrm pretty much stays on his playing World of Warcraft. I just didn't bother getting on his. Tuesday was Wyrm's and CR's birthdays (35 and 16). We celebrated on the Sunday before it with a cookout. CR got 2 computer games (that he couldn't play due to the monitor crises) and Wyrm got the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series. When Tuesday rolled around, I was all ready for work when Wyrm came to me saying that he wanted to call in. He didn't have to twist my arm very much. We both ended up playing hookey from work and went to Owensboro for the rest of the afternoon. Wyrm spent his birthday money that he got from his parents on D&D books while I purchased a reasonably priced monitor at Office Depot. It was a very nice monitor that came to a total of $158. It also came with a $100 rebate that I hope will be accepted. It would be really nice to get $100 back. Once we got home I got busy along with CR's help and hooked up the new monitor. CR was excited so I let him play his new games for awhile before I got on it to check my email. Later on that night I found a nice surprise in my inbox. A friend of mine from elementary school had sent me photos of her newborn son. I was thrilled for her. As for any more news, it seems like work has managed to straighten out the water problem. Here's to hoping the water problem stays fixed, and they soon stop posting to work on Saturdays.
Later Actually written on Thursday, April 5...Such is the annoyance of things mechanical. Last night as I was in the middle of discovering a new thingy to play with on my blogs (thanks to Hack MSN Spaces) my monitor goes completely dark yet the computer is still on. This has been happening off and on for the past few days. Not sure if it is the video card or the monitor itself on the fritz. Good thing that I was just surfing and not in the middle of typing my blog entry. That would have severely angered me to have been in the process of typing my thoughts down and not be able to save. So now I have resorted back to the old fashioned method of jotting down my thoughts with pen and paper. So let us begin... In continuance of my mundane and non exciting life, some interesting things have popped up for the past two weeks. I have been working sporadically due to a water problem. Last week I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I woke Thursday and discovered that production had been called off for my shift. That was a lovely and unexpected surprise. I enjoyed the day be getting my hair cut and ordering our supper from the cafe. Wyrm enjoyed his day with getting his hair cut or should I say shaved. He is nearly bald. Friday I woke expecting to go into work, but again production was called off for my shift. Wyrm however got called in for a few hours. On Monday both of us went into work to hear that we would only be working half a shift. I clocked out around 6:30 PM but had to wait for Wyrm till about 8:30 PM. For Tuesday and Wednesday, my shift was the only one running and now work was canceled yesterday for everyone. Who knows about Friday. I will have to set my alarm to get up and call HR to find out if we are running. I'm loving the time off but my paycheck is hurting. Ouch! The lowdown on my sister is that all of the tests that she had done have come back negative. She's in good health. Her neurologist seems to think that one of her medications that she's been on may be the culprit of her spells she's been having. She's off the medication now and her mind and ours are at ease. I got a wonderful surprise while grocery shopping at Wal-Mart last weekend. As I was walking down the aisles looking for an item, I saw a young girl that seemed familiar to me. She looked so much like the photo of my friend, Karen's, daughter. I decided to keep the girl in my sights. After I was done shopping and heading to the checkouts, I saw the young girl again at the jewelry counter. I made my way slowly past a display stand and lo and behold there was Karen. I almost didn't recognize her with her recently dyed red hair (she's a blonde). We hugged and laughed and were chatterboxes until I absolutely just had to go. As much as I hated to leave, I had no choice. The ice cream I had picked up was starting to melt. I was so elated after that. Nothing could have dampened my spirits then. Well that's been the happenings here so far. Since I haven't been very good at keeping up with my posting, it may be a few days before I write again. Update: My monitor went completely out before I could get a chance to get this typed and posted. It happened while CR was in the middle of a computer game. Thanks to his expertise (he got so mad he started banging on the monitor and the video popped back in) the monitor is working again and hasn't given us any trouble. Also I'm off again due to work being canceled due to the water problem. Will have to call tomorrow to see if I go in or not.
Later Book Meme
I borrowed this sometime ago from Caffeinated Librarian and it's been sitting in my saved file so here ya go finally. I guess better late than never.
Okay, so I've been...very bad about keeping up with posting, but in all honesty, there hasn't really been anything of major earth-shattering importance to write about. Along with that, I haven't been in a writing mood lately or in the mood to sit at the computer for that matter. I've been spending my time just goofing off with CR and relaxing. So here's the lowdown for this month of March. So far we haven't heard from my sis about her checkups. She had to go to the hospital for some tests to be run (I believe it was last week) and then those results would have to be sent to the neurologist to look over before he would call her back in. We're just waiting right now. She called me up a couple weekends ago and wanted me to go with her to a baby shower that someone from her work asked her to go to. The only person she would know there would be that co-worker and I knew how she would feel so I agreed to go. We both enjoyed that Sunday out. Mom's been down in her back here lately. Bless her heart. The woman is like the energizer bunny. She just keeps going and going. She just can't keep still and has to be doing something. I believe it's getting better now though. CR signed up for his junior classes on the 15th. He should get all that he requested with him going into the 11th grade. It's looking like he will be taking English 11, Basic Geometry, Chemistry in the Community, Advanced Placement European History, Driver's Ed, Business Law, and Spanish I and II. I can't believe he will be turning 16 next month. My gosh! Where has the time gone? I feel so old. LOL! After a couple of days of not having the Internet (our modem went out and we had to get a new one), I found a surprise in my email. I received a notice that someone had sent me a note on Classmates. I went over to Classmates to see who this person was and it turns out it was a friend from my grade school years. After my father died when I was 13, mom, sis, and I had to move and I lost out on finishing school with my friends. Some of us kept up with letter writing through our high school, but we eventually lost touch with each other. After getting the Internet I decided to search for them and used Classmates to find them all. Well life got in the way again and I lost touch with some of them. Until now. She let me know that she had a MySpace profile and I found her. Meet Karen, my friend since we were little things. We've been emailing back and forth getting reacquainted again and this time I'm not going to lose touch with her. Work sucks major butt right now. We have a new supervisor and he's a slave driver. He's so into kissing his boss' butt and trying to make himself look good that the rest of us are paying for it with being overworked. He's making it very hard to go into work everyday. Wyrm and I are looking into other options though that are becoming available this week. Well that's been all that's been going on this month.
Later Wow! Has the week...went by already? I managed to actually get 40 hours for this week so my paycheck will look somewhat better next. Hopefully I will be able to get caught up on those couple of bills that I got behind on. The weather here has been completely crazy. One day this week it was almost as if spring was coming in. The temps were in the 50's and the sounds that let me know spring is here were plentiful. Music wafting out of windows that were rolled down in vehicles as they drove by, and the constant hustle and bustle that picks up at this time of year. Only it didn't last. The very next day we were under tornado watches and thunderstorms aplenty. Now we're back to the cold temps. Sigh. I'll be glad when spring gets here and actually stays. My apologies once again. I didn't get around to writing those posts that I had planned to. The day gets away from me on the weekends and during the week I basically come home and go to bed. Okay I take that back. I don't just go to bed. Thanks to my hubby I've become addicted to Sudoku and usually work a couple of puzzles before getting sleepy enough to curl up under the covers. Someone asked sometime ago on my sister and how she was doing. Well, she ended up calling her family doctor and demanded to know exactly what those abnormalities were that showed up on her MRI of her brain. The nurse reluctantly told her that it was two lesions on her brain. We're worried. Took had her appointment with a neurologist on Monday this past week. We still don't know anything but he did take vials of blood for bloodwork to be done. She has another appointment, but I can't remember exactly when. It's sometime this month. She's coming down for a visit tomorrow. CR is excited. He loves it when she comes over for a visit. That's my week in a nutshell.
Later Blogher Conference '07: A World of Difference
Tracks that have been scheduled so far include:
"Art of Life Track (2-day) This track will be devoted to the passions about which so many of us blog...food, art, photography, crafts, knitting, writing, poetry, music and more. Business of You Track (2-day) This track will be devoted to personal and business advancement. We expect to discuss speaker and media training, self-branding and promotion, mentoring, turning your blog into a book or a business, and perhaps even managing your time, your finances, your blogging policies and practices...the business of you. Community Track (1-day) This track will explore the care and feeding of communities. Possible topics include building bridges between local for-profit and non-profit companies, continuing the discussion of community assistance and relief programs that was kicked off at Blogher '06, how to galvanize social change with your blogs, and wherever else the Blogher community leads us! Identity Track (2-day) This track is about both the immutable and the dynamic aspects of our lives. Race, gender, age, sexuality, parenting, singledom, faith...many of us blog about who we are, not what we do, and this track will explore your many facets. Politics Track (1-day) While Election '08 coverage and the drive to register women voters would be enough ground to cover, we're also looking to expand the Politics track beyond the U.S...should we be talking about the politics of war, about gender equity worldwide, about how different regions of the world are drawing women into the political process? You tell us. Technical Track (2-day) We're calling in some gurus to help us build two days of Deeply Geeky content. Last year we covered audio, video, photography, tagging, HTML & CSS, SEO and more acronyms galore. What should we focus on this year? In addition to the tracks above we will have some general sessions, plus some alternative spaces, like an Internet Cafe and a Collaborative Workspace. We are also considering adding an optional Sunday half-day unconference, sort of a "BlogHerCamp" and would love your feedback on that. Let us have it!"
Blogher is also asking for ideas:
Does it sound enticing yet? If so, start saving those greenbacks for hotel reservations (There are 3 hotel options available ranging from $27.80/night up to $209/night). Keep an eye out on Blogher for more info as it becomes available. Well, I just woke...from a lovely 3 hour nap. Rainy weather like today makes for good napping and that is what I just did. We are getting our fair share of rain since it's been going on since morning. I'm not complaining though. I've had enough of winter and those temps in the 50's this past week was wonderful. I'm eager for spring to get here. Talk about surprises. The wardens at work have decided to be generous now and let us work on Monday. People are talking that maybe we will get 40 hours this week. Hah. I say you wait. They'll post it about Thursday that we won't work Friday. This getting less than 40 hours on my paycheck really bites. Especially since now I've got that bankruptcy garnish coming out every week. I've got something interesting tidbits to blog about (or they're interesting to me at least) later so look for some posts coming up.
Later This week has been...kind of hectic for us. Tuesday mom woke me early to let me know that CR was having ear pain. He had been dealing with a sore throat over the weekend. I woke Wyrm so he could get dressed, and we headed out to Multicare. This was at 7:30 AM. Luckily at that hour the waiting area was kind of empty so we were seen to rather quickly. The doctor said that his ears weren't red, but they did have fluid in behind them. His sore throat was red but didn't look infected. All she gave us was some samples of an antihistamine to dry up his sinuses. After getting home his other ear started hurting. Both ears are fine now, but his sinuses are still stopped up and he can hardly hear. He just went back to school yesterday. With President's Day on Monday, he has a 3-day weekend to rest up. On Monday I had called my lawyer to let him know that my employer has cut back on our hours so I'm not bringing home a 40 hour paycheck. My lawyer had told me before that if there were any changes in my finances or if I am behind on bills to let him know. Well that's what I did, and the receptionist clearly said that she would leave him a note. I received a call later that afternoon informing me to stop by and pick up some papers. I thought that it was some type of paperwork to fill out to reassess my financial situation. Wednesday was when I was able to stop by his office. The papers that I was supposed to pick up wasn't what I thought they were. Instead I was picking up my checkstubs, bills, and tax returns that my lawyer needed. When I asked about my phone call that I had made and explained my situation, at first I was told there was nothing that could be done, but when I said I was doing exactly what my lawyer told me to do, this lady changed her tune and proceeded to tell me a bunch of crap. To make this long story short, I explicitly gave my opinion and walked out. Man was I mad! Since I am off, yet again, on Monday, I am planning on calling my lawyer again only this time I'm going to insist on talking to him directly. For Wednesday, Wyrm and I had both signed up to take the TABE test. The downside to this was we had to be there at 8:30 AM. Of all nights to toss and turn, I went in to take the test on only 4 hours of sleep. Ugh. I left feeling confident over the reading, mathematics, and language sections. The applied mathematics section was a different story. I was sure that I had done terrible. At one point I threw down my pencil and was just going to give up, but Wyrm encouraged me to finish. We left from there and went on into work. Oh, did I say that I had only 4 hours of sleep the night before? I was really tired by the time Wyrm and I got home. I had no trouble falling asleep that night. For Thursday, I had an appointment to get my prescription for my Zoloft. The doctor that I was seeing previously went to another area. After using up the refills I had left on her slip, I then had to get busy and find someone else that would fill my prescription. After that visit, Wyrm and I left to pick up our test scores. I was thrilled to see that I had done very well. I even did okay with the section that I thought I did terrible on. Even Wyrm did well on his test. There were no appointments scheduled for Friday so I got to sleep a little longer, and I plan on catching up on sleep this weekend. That's my week in a nutshell
Later Here's a quick rundown...of how things have went this past week. Wyrm and I finally got over being sick and returned to work on Thursday just to find the posting that our shift would not be working on Monday. Makes for a sucky paycheck. Right now I'm having to juggle bills since they've started garnishing my check for my bankruptcy. Ironic how everything wants to just hit me all at once. Right now I believe that Wyrm is looking into a management position at another plant near where we live. I've typed up his resume for him and we're working on getting the phone numbers and addresses of some people that we think would be good references. We also have scheduled to take the TABE test that they require on Wednesday. Bad thing is that we have to be there at 8:30 AM. Ugh. Not good time for testing, but what can we do when that is all that's available to us. Have an appointment to pick up my meds today at 11:15 AM before we head into work. We are going to be two tired individuals for two days.
Later Ugh. Wyrm and I...have had a rough weekend. It began Thursday night on the way home from work. Wyrm was having to run to the bathroom and it only go much worse when we got home. Luckily for some strange reason work decided to let our shift off for Friday so Wyrm spent the biggest part of that day in the bathroom on the toilet and hugging the trash can Today I spent resting. I am so tired it feels as if my legs don't want to hold me up. Tomorrow I will be home for a doctor's appointment so that will give me another day to get my strength back. So far we are all back into eating. Just nothing really greasy or fried. Hope your weekend was much better than mine.
Later There is one question in my life...that I have contemplated over and over and still do not have an answer. What is my life path or purpose in life? Do you ever think about this question? I have thought about it off and on over the years but have really been thinking hard these past few. I have the book The Purpose Driven Life and started reading it but never finished. I have a bad habit of that. You know the "starting something and then not finish it". It's a constant rumbling in the back of my brain that doesn't let up, "what am I supposed to be doing?" I don't believe that my life goal was to be working at a dead end job paying off a bankruptcy for the next five years. In fact I know that's not what I should be doing. Deep down in my soul I know that there is something that I am supposed to be doing with my life, but I just can't seem to figure it out. They say that usually you should do something that interests you. Well, writing, reading, playing around on the computer and Internet, video games, and photography are what interests me. Now what could I possibly turn into a career with those interests. I've tried studying photography under the NYIP courses, but alas never finished. The same with web design under Penn Foster Career School. I blame my work for not having the motivation. It's extremely hard for me to concentrate with the hours that I keep. My brain usually stays clouded and exhausted which causes me to have problems concentrating. I enjoyed both courses very much. I actually enjoyed the web design course more so. That is one thing that I had thought of. I would very much love to go back to school and study web design. With my working hours though that is just not possible. I love to write. Words often dance in my head and I must put those "steps" down on paper. It's normally in the form of poetry although I have tried writing stories. Again everything falls under the "I start something but don't ever finish it". It would be interesting to try something freelance, but I don't know exactly what that would be or even where to look. I've toyed with the idea of trying to come up with my own online magazine about blogging. Wow two interests that I love doing. I also feel that this could be something that I would feel passionate about. My lack of confidence in myself holds me back on this one. It would seem a daunting task for me to take on by myself and I could ask people if they would want to jump on the magazine bandwagon with me, but I don't have the funds to pay said people for their time and service. Also, what would I write about, how would I come up with the design, etc, etc, etc. Doubts surround me enough that I would not attempt this. So what's left for me to do? Do I stay working at a dead end job that leaves me wanting so much more for myself? I don't know. I'm hoping that maybe the thing that I am supposed to be doing with my life will somehow just fall from the sky right into my lap, and if that happens I plan to grow me a money tree right in my back yard
Later Have you ever read something...knowing that it would probably be in your best interest if you didn't click on a link but curiosity got the better of you and you just clicked anyway? Well while blogwalking the other night, I stopped at Caffeinated Librarian's to read what she had been up to. I read her entry on "The Freaky Side of Harry Potter" and just had to see what the deal was with those photos on Mugglenet (Click at your own discretion. Nearly nude photos of Dan Radcliffe) Ack! I will never be able to watch another Harry Potter movie or read another Harry Potter book without those images being embedded in my brain. Speaking of Harry Potter. I am happy to hear that July 21 is the release date of Book 7 in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. I have been eagerly waiting for the next book to read what happens. I'm also slightly disappointed. Once I am through reading the book I will be finished as this is the last book in the series. I've come to adore the characters that J. K. Rowling has created and will miss reading about their adventures.
Later I am in...a bum mood right now thanks to my hubby, Wyrm. I won't go into details with it cause it's a sore spot right now, but I wish there was some what that I could get my point across and be heard. Geez it's cold. Right now it's 11 degrees outside. I just wanted some snow not freezing cold. My sis is having some problems right now. She's been having some odd kind of dizzy spells and slurring her words. She went to her family Dr. who ordered an MRI. She called mom on Monday to tell us the results. The tests came back showing some abnormalities in her brain and she has already been set up to see a neurologist sometime in February. My poor sis is upset and scared. Just wanted to jot something down. I wish I didn't have writer's block or whatever this funk is that I am in. I'm off to bed.
Later It's that time of the month...where I have been awarded my W-2s from my employer after waiting patiently. Now it's time for Uncle Sam to hold out his hand and I being the good little US citizen dutifully hand over my time and a few brain cells and file those annoying tax returns. This year I'm doing something totally different. Wyrm and I usually just head over to our tax preparers and just let them handle the hassle while we shell out about $200 of those precious dollars of our refund. Not this time. I decided to follow a link I found on my local news website about free filing for federal returns and bravely go where I have not gone before. Doing my own taxes. My eyes sincerely hate me for doing this. They are dry and really irritated. My federal returns were no problem. Whiz bang! I was done and proud of myself. Now my Kentucky state returns were not so simple. No. My state had to be difficult and cause me to have a brain meltdown. It wouldn't have been so bad if the website's software would have just simply added our state tax withholding to our KREDA. I shockingly discovered that it didn't when I got to the end and in red letters it told me that we owed the state. "What! I don't freaking think so!". Especially after so many years we have received refunds albeit small ones, but it's still money back in our pockets. After experimentation of where to put the KREDA amount and talking to an online CSR on IM (and even they couldn't help me, it had to be referred to their administrator), I decided to go with my initial idea of putting the amount in a certain area and just be done with it. In the end it came out with us getting that refund and all of my information that I typed in for the W-2s is correct. Hopefully I won't get audited. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
Later I'm just going to...ramble a bit here before I head off to bed for the night. I don't know what has happened to my writing mood lately. It's as if it just got up and went. The fact that I honestly don't have anything to write about doesn't help matters either. I am really wanting to see some snow accumulation before spring gets here. It seems like all of my snow has went to Texas, Colorado, and Arizona of all places. Mind you I don't want near as much as Colorado has gotten, but a few inches will suffice. It's off to bed for me.
Later Yesterday was the day...of the dreaded bankruptcy hearing. Although in actuality it really wasn't that bad, except for the fact that for the next five years my paycheck will be seriously whacked. Only myself to blame there. Wyrm and I rose to the sound of the alarm going off at 7:00 AM. Er, scratch that. We really rose at about 7:20 AM after me hitting the snooze button twice. We left the house at 8:00 AM to a wonderful surprise of our gray skies spitting snow flurries. On our trek I was bombarded with questions concerning what would be taking place once we get there, exactly how do we get there, who do we see, where exactly do we go? Huh? How was I supposed to know? Because this was my hearing was the response. Back and forth we went until I explained to him that all I knew was what was on the papers provided to me by my lawyer's office and that wasn't much. We arrived and what seemed like just a few minutes it was already over. Good. We then left the federal building and headed our way to the mall. Sometime earlier Wyrm had reserved a copy of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion pack collectors edition and as luck would have it yesterday was its release. The reservation was made before all of this bankruptcy was taking place so I was wondering how to pay for this without having to just forget it. Luckily after some scrounging, I managed to find some Gamestop gift cards that I had put away and forgotten about. We left that store with his game, strategy guide for his game, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow for CR without paying any money. Oops minus the $10 down. That was it. The cards completely covered everything. I was happy. When we got home it was naptime for me. I only meant to sleep for just a couple of hours and be awake when CR came home from school, but that bed felt so good and warm after being out in the chill I ended up sleeping till around 5:00 PM. I then spent the rest of my time with him. Yes, I am still being lax on posting. Here lately I just haven't been in a writing mood of sorts or even in a mood to sit at the computer like I normally do. All of my extra time is either coming home from work and going straight to bed or spending time with CR till late at night. I don't want to just call him a "mama's boy", but it feels good to know that he actually enjoys my company. It seems like most teens nowadays are desperate to be somewhere where their parents aren't. He's such a good kid. I'm so proud.
Later Here is a "One Word Meme"...that I found over at Tea and Bon Bons with Amy and decided to try it for myself. You can only type one word. No explanations. Will 2007...be the year for changes for me? One thing is for certain. I am determined to change my mentality and negative way of thinking. So much so in fact that today at my therapy session was my first try with hypnosis. Yep. I'm trying hypnosis for gaining self confidence to help me with learning to drive and dealing with other people's opinions of me. That is my main holdback on alot of things that I would like to do. For some unknown reason, I am constantly being concerned about what other people think of me and the things I do. I know I shouldn't let what other people think bother me, but I do. I'm really working hard on trying to change this though. A funny thing occurred during my session today. Here's how it went. Wyrm accompanies me during my sessions so we both entered the Dr.'s office and took seats. After the routine chit chat of how I'm doing, off go the lights and the hypnosis tryout begins. Here I am. Trying to relax and let my muscles relax, eyelids relax, and everything relax. Does it work? Not totally. I could only get so far until I became very aware of my irritating sore throat, the burning sensation in my nose (I still have this yucky crud thing going on), and every joint in my body starts aching including my problem ankle and foot. After a few minutes of trying to fight past this point in order to relax, I decided to just give up and go with it just concentrating on what the doctor was saying. So here I am trying to relax, joints aching, throat sore, burning sensation in my nose, just listening to the sound of his voice that is low and soothing and then what else do I hear? Zzzzz. Huh!? My darling husband is sitting in the chair next to me snoring. Of all things to reach my subconscious and get through that was the one and I got so tickled. Out I came of whatever state I was in (I don't think I was fully under) and started laughing. Even the doctor was laughing too. Poor hubby is sitting in the chair with his goofy grin saying, "What's going on?" I playfully slap him on his knee. "You ding dong. You're over there snoring." "I was snoring?" was Wyrm's astonished reply. "Yes, you were snoring. He was supposed to be putting me under. Not you!" I answer amidst laughter. And with that my psychologist excused us for the day making note of the awareness that I had of my joints for the next session to somehow incorporate it in. We made my appointment for the next visit and then it was off to home.
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. By Saturday he was starting to feel somewhat better but was still kind of drained. Late Saturday night I started feeling weird
and by around 6:00 Sunday morning I knew what I was in for. I spent the biggest part of Sunday sicker than a dog until late that evening
. So now I pose the question to you. Do you ever wonder what your life path or purpose in life is to be? |
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