GOODNESS THIS WENT AND POSTED BEFORE I EVEN MADE IT UP. HAHAHHA
WE ARE PLAYING WITH OUR COMPUTERS AND WILL BE GOING OUT AGAIN AT 100PM TO MEET OUR SPECIAL FRIENDS I'M SO HAPPY WE WEREN'T ABLE TO SEE OUR GRANDDAUGHTER BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS WORKING AND WE HAVE TO HAVE CHRISTMAS WITH HER LATER ON WHEN HES FREE. THEY ARE GONNA HELP GRAM PA WORK HIS MP3 PLAYER ARRRGH
I GOT A GREAT 32 INCH FLAT SCREEN 1080P HD TV AND A DVD VCR PLAYER RECORDER SO I CAN TAPE MY VIDEOS ONTO A DVD FOR FUTURE USE. I HAVE MANY I NEED TO TRANSFER BECAUSE THE TAPES ARE GROWING OLD AND FADING MISERABLY. ALSO I CAN TAPE TV MOVIES ONTO IT. THIS TV WENT INTO THE SMALL SPARE BEDROOM WHERE WE HAVE THE DVR CONNECTED AS WELL FROM THE MAIN SCREEN. SO WHEN EVER A GUEST CHOOSES THE SMALLER BEDROOM THEY WILL GET THE BEST TV OF ALL HAHA.IT HAS DVR STUFF ON IT
THE LARGE SPARE ROOM HAS A NICE TV AS WELL AND A DVD VCR PLAYER RECORDER AS WELL BUT IT ONLY RECORDS FROM THE DVD TO THE VCR WHY? I DON'T KNOW IT CAME LIKE THAT. ITS AN OLDER MODEL.
THE NEW DVD VCR IS HI DEF AS WELL SO ITS THE BEST ONE YET .
WE NOW HAVE 4 TVS ONE BLU RAY PLAYER 1 DVD PLAYER WITH 5 SLOTS AND 2 DVD VCR RECORDERS (WE ARE RICH IN ELECTRONICS ) AND THE ONE THAT ONLY RECORDS VCRS FROM DVDS. AND BY NEXT YEAR THEY WILL ALL BE OUT OF DATE.
EVERY YEAR ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES BECOME ALMOST OBSOLETE. OUR COMPUTERS WERE ALL THE LATEST WHEN WE BOUGHT THEM AND ARE FADING INTO OBSCURITY. DAD IS ANNOYED BECAUSE HE LIKED THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS AND ORIGINAL AOL SOFTWARE BEST.
NOW WE HAVE 2 COMPUTERS THAT ARE 4 YEARS OLD ONE THAT IS 18 MONTHS OLD AND MY LAPTOP IS A YEAR OLD. ALL ARE OLD BY CURRENT STANDARDS . WE DO NOT HAVE WINDOWS 7, WE HAVE THE OTHERS I CANT EVEN TELL WHICH ARE WHICH NOW THE LAPTOP HAS THE MOST CURRENT BEFORE WIN7.
I MAY SWITCH TO APPLES IN FUTURE. I'M TIRED OF WINDOWS STUFF CHANGING AND VIRUS BUGGING.
WE USED TO LIVE BY AN APPLE FACTORY IN ELK GROVE CALIF BEFORE WE MOVED HERE, THEY CLOSED DOWN AFTER 3 YEARS . MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS HAD WORKED THERE. ONE HAD A LICENSE PLATE THAT READ "NOMSDOS"
MY HUBBY THE GRAMPA GOT AN MP3 PLAYER AND HASN'T GOT THE HANG OF IT YET. FIRST IT WAS " I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOAD MUSIC ON IT" WELL I DID SO I SHOWED HIM HOW. THEN HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET IT GOING HE PUSHED BUTTONS TIL IT PLAYED BUT HAS NO IDEA HOW IT WORKS , HE FOUND IT HAD AN AM FM RADIO AS WELL AND A TAPE RECORDER TOO AND HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THEM EITHER, HE IS DRIVING US ALL MAD WITH HIS STUFF. WE EVEN WENT TO BEST BUY TO SEE IF THEY KNEW HOW TO WORK IT THEY FIGURED SOME OUT BUT NOT ALL OF IT. THEY INSTRUCTIONS SAID A BOOKLET WAS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET BUT HE SAYS THAT ISN'T GOOD EITHER.
I HAVE LEARNED THIS: NEVER GIVE AN OLD PERSON A MODERN ELECTRONIC ITEM BECAUSE THEY WONT KNOW HOW TO USE IT ANS WILL RESIST LEARNING . HAHHA ALSO THEY WILL DRIVE EVERYONE CRAZY.
WE HAD A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY I MADE ENCHILADAS AND COOKED BEANS AND COOKED A HAM AND TURKEY AND ALL THE FIXINGS AND PUNKIN PIES AND A BLUEBERRY PIE AND WE HAD COOKIES ALL OVER THE PLACE AND CANDY AS WELL WE ARE FEELING FATTISH. BUT IT WAS GREAT!!
THE KIDS CAME OVER AND SEEMED TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. THEY SPENT THE NIGHT AND MY GOOD SON GOT THE ROOM WITH THE GOOD TV HAHHA. MY BABY BOY AND WIFE GOT THE BIG ROOM AND THEY GO TO BED AT 600PM USUALLY BUT THEY MADE IT TO 1000 THAT NIGHT.
I JUST HAD TO STOP AND GO FIX DADS COMPUTER THING HE COULDNT GET THE MP3 IN THE FRONT SLOT FOR LOADIGN MUSIC AS IT WAS TOO FAT TO FIT WITH THE WIRELESS MOUSE PLUGGED IN FRONT SO I HAD TO PLUG IT IN THE BACK OF THE PUTER FOR HIM. HE DOESNT KNWO THERE ARE 4 OUTLETS IN BACK AND 2 IN FRONT FRO SPARE THINGS HAHHA.
ONE MUST LEAD THIS POOR MAN THRU SO MANY OBSTACLES, AND HE WONT RE,MEMBER WHAT TO DO NEXT TIME. HAHHA. I HAVE SO MUCH FUN LORDING IT OVER HIM CUZ I CAN PUT TOHETHER MOST ELECTRONIC THINGS THAT COME AROUND. I GOT HIM A WIRELESS MOUSE FOR CHRUISTMAS HIS OLD ONE WAS STICKING.
NOW HES TRYING TO LOAD NEW MUSIC FROM A DISC AND HES COMPLAINING HE CANT GET THINGS TO PLAY. WHAT A GUY.
OK IM DONE FOR NOW.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!!!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
WRESTLERS
LAST NIGHT WE WATCHED A MOVIE CALLED WRESTLER ON A MOVIE CHANNEL EVERY WEEK OUR DISH TV HAS A NEW MOVIE TO SHOW US THAT'S FAIRLY OFF THE THEATRE CIRCUIT.
WELL, HALFWAY THRU I STARTED TO FAST FORWARD AS THE MAN'S TRAGIC LIFE UNFOLDED MY HEART WAS ACHING TOO MUCH TO WATCH. I FAST FORWARDED TO THE BITTER HORRIBLE ENDING.
I JUST CANNOT WATCH TRAGEDIES IT ACTUALLY CAUSES MY HEART TO PAIN.
I WILL PROBABLY DIE LISTENING TO A TRAGIC STORY FROM SOMEONE OR WHILST WATCHING SUCH A SAD THING ON TV.
ANYWAYS I CANNOT BEAR THE JEWS STORIES AND THE SUFFERING IN AFRICA OF THOSE VERY SAD PEOPLE I HAVEN'T THE ABILITY TO HELP AND ITS JUST TOO MUCH FOR ME.
MY FATHER, ACCORDING TO MY MOTHER, DIED FALLING OFF A TELEPHONE POLE AFTER ESCAPING FROM GERMANY. HE WAS JEWISH.
MY WHOLE GROWING UP YEARS I HAD A MIXTURE OF JEWISH AND CATHOLIC FRIENDS. SO MY CULTURE WAS QUITE MIXED. MY GREAT GRAND MOTHER WAS A PUEBLO INDIAN AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BOTH PUEBLO AND SPANISH. THE SPANIARDS THAT SETTLED IN NEW MEXICO MARRIED NATIVE WOMEN AS THERE WERE VERY FEW SPANISH WOMEN HERE . SO NATIVE PUEBLO FOODS WERE ALWAYS SERVED AND I LOVED IT. AND MY FRIENDS HAD JEWISH FOODS AND THEW CATHOLIC PART ALSO HAD ITS FOOD QUIRKS.
I HAD A VERY INTERESTING CHILDHOOD, AND IT INVOLVED SOME VERY SAD P[ARTS.
I REMEMBER HAVING TERRIBLE FEELINGS AND NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY WERE UNTIL I GREW UP AND STARTED TO READ MORE BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLES FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS AND HAPPY AND SAD OCCURRENCES, I GOT MOST STUFF FROM BOOKS NO ONE WAS AROUND TO ADVISE ME OF ANYTHING. I FINALLY REALIZED I HAD DEPRESSION IN MY HEART AND I COULDN'T STAND SAD STORIES AT ALL. SO I GREW UP AND TRAINED TO BE A THERAPIST AND LISTEN TO THE SADDEST STORIES IMAGINABLE, THAT WAS MY WAY OF HANDLING HELPING SAD PEOPLE AND AS A RESULT I WAS VERY SELDOM DEPRESSED.
I LOVED MY WORK AND PEOPLE STILL HAVE A WAY OF TELLING ME THEIR LIFE STORIES WHEN I SIT AND TALK TO THEM AND I'M GLAD TO LISTEN. I DON'T THERAPIZE ANYONE NOW I JUST LISTEN. AND IF THEY ASK FOR ADVICE I WILL GRANT IT BASED ON MY OWN KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY AT THE TIME.
FOR SOEM REASON WHEN SOEMONE HEARS 0OF MY PROFESSION THEY ASSUME IM ASSESSING THEM AS WE SPEAK. I DO NOT. ASSESSMENT IS VERY DIFFICULT AND EXTENSIVE WORK AND IF I WAS TO DO THAT I WOULD HAVE TO CHARGE A LOT.
BUT WHEN I WAS DOING ASSESSMENTS I REALLY REALLY ENJOYED IT, THAT WAS WHEN MY WRITING SHONE. EVERY STORY ON EVERY PATIENT I WROTE WAS LIKE A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN 10 PAGES OR SO,, THAT WAS REALLY FUN TO DO IT TOOK DAYS AND HOURS AND THINKING AND ASSESSING.
DAD JUST INTERRUPTED ME TO COME WATCH A WEIRD CHANNEL ON TV CALLED TURN THE TUB AROUND SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT DANCE, BUT ITS AN AD FOR SOEM KIND OF BUTTER STUFF THEY EVEN HAVE A KARIOKE PART WHERE THEY RUN THE WORDS OF THE AD AND DAD SAYS" WHO WOULD WATCH SUCH A THING AND HES WATCHING IT NOW AND INTERRUPTING MY BLOGGING TO TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT.
WHO WATCHES IT? DAD DOES!! HAHA WHAT AN IDIOT MAN . HES STILL WATCHING I CAN HEAR THE AD NOW HAHAH. CHANEEL 125 ON DISH TV YUCK
OK IM DONE MY THOUGHTS WERE INTERRUPTED BY THIS NONSENSE NOW I HAVE LOST MY TRAIN FOR THE TIME. SEEYA SOON.
LOVE, GRAMA
WELL, HALFWAY THRU I STARTED TO FAST FORWARD AS THE MAN'S TRAGIC LIFE UNFOLDED MY HEART WAS ACHING TOO MUCH TO WATCH. I FAST FORWARDED TO THE BITTER HORRIBLE ENDING.
I JUST CANNOT WATCH TRAGEDIES IT ACTUALLY CAUSES MY HEART TO PAIN.
I WILL PROBABLY DIE LISTENING TO A TRAGIC STORY FROM SOMEONE OR WHILST WATCHING SUCH A SAD THING ON TV.
ANYWAYS I CANNOT BEAR THE JEWS STORIES AND THE SUFFERING IN AFRICA OF THOSE VERY SAD PEOPLE I HAVEN'T THE ABILITY TO HELP AND ITS JUST TOO MUCH FOR ME.
MY FATHER, ACCORDING TO MY MOTHER, DIED FALLING OFF A TELEPHONE POLE AFTER ESCAPING FROM GERMANY. HE WAS JEWISH.
MY WHOLE GROWING UP YEARS I HAD A MIXTURE OF JEWISH AND CATHOLIC FRIENDS. SO MY CULTURE WAS QUITE MIXED. MY GREAT GRAND MOTHER WAS A PUEBLO INDIAN AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BOTH PUEBLO AND SPANISH. THE SPANIARDS THAT SETTLED IN NEW MEXICO MARRIED NATIVE WOMEN AS THERE WERE VERY FEW SPANISH WOMEN HERE . SO NATIVE PUEBLO FOODS WERE ALWAYS SERVED AND I LOVED IT. AND MY FRIENDS HAD JEWISH FOODS AND THEW CATHOLIC PART ALSO HAD ITS FOOD QUIRKS.
I HAD A VERY INTERESTING CHILDHOOD, AND IT INVOLVED SOME VERY SAD P[ARTS.
I REMEMBER HAVING TERRIBLE FEELINGS AND NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY WERE UNTIL I GREW UP AND STARTED TO READ MORE BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLES FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS AND HAPPY AND SAD OCCURRENCES, I GOT MOST STUFF FROM BOOKS NO ONE WAS AROUND TO ADVISE ME OF ANYTHING. I FINALLY REALIZED I HAD DEPRESSION IN MY HEART AND I COULDN'T STAND SAD STORIES AT ALL. SO I GREW UP AND TRAINED TO BE A THERAPIST AND LISTEN TO THE SADDEST STORIES IMAGINABLE, THAT WAS MY WAY OF HANDLING HELPING SAD PEOPLE AND AS A RESULT I WAS VERY SELDOM DEPRESSED.
I LOVED MY WORK AND PEOPLE STILL HAVE A WAY OF TELLING ME THEIR LIFE STORIES WHEN I SIT AND TALK TO THEM AND I'M GLAD TO LISTEN. I DON'T THERAPIZE ANYONE NOW I JUST LISTEN. AND IF THEY ASK FOR ADVICE I WILL GRANT IT BASED ON MY OWN KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY AT THE TIME.
FOR SOEM REASON WHEN SOEMONE HEARS 0OF MY PROFESSION THEY ASSUME IM ASSESSING THEM AS WE SPEAK. I DO NOT. ASSESSMENT IS VERY DIFFICULT AND EXTENSIVE WORK AND IF I WAS TO DO THAT I WOULD HAVE TO CHARGE A LOT.
BUT WHEN I WAS DOING ASSESSMENTS I REALLY REALLY ENJOYED IT, THAT WAS WHEN MY WRITING SHONE. EVERY STORY ON EVERY PATIENT I WROTE WAS LIKE A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN 10 PAGES OR SO,, THAT WAS REALLY FUN TO DO IT TOOK DAYS AND HOURS AND THINKING AND ASSESSING.
DAD JUST INTERRUPTED ME TO COME WATCH A WEIRD CHANNEL ON TV CALLED TURN THE TUB AROUND SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT DANCE, BUT ITS AN AD FOR SOEM KIND OF BUTTER STUFF THEY EVEN HAVE A KARIOKE PART WHERE THEY RUN THE WORDS OF THE AD AND DAD SAYS" WHO WOULD WATCH SUCH A THING AND HES WATCHING IT NOW AND INTERRUPTING MY BLOGGING TO TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT.
WHO WATCHES IT? DAD DOES!! HAHA WHAT AN IDIOT MAN . HES STILL WATCHING I CAN HEAR THE AD NOW HAHAH. CHANEEL 125 ON DISH TV YUCK
OK IM DONE MY THOUGHTS WERE INTERRUPTED BY THIS NONSENSE NOW I HAVE LOST MY TRAIN FOR THE TIME. SEEYA SOON.
LOVE, GRAMA
Saturday, December 5, 2009
COLIN WILSON
IN READING COLIN WILSON'S BOOK ON MYSTERIES HE HAS BEEN COVERING A LOT BY LEDBETTER WHO STUDIED MANY CULTURES AND RELIGIOUS IDEAS. ONE THAT PARTICULARLY STRUCK ME WAS THE CELTIC CULTURE WHICH LATER BECAME THE IRISH IN IRELAND. THE WORSHIPPED THE DRUIDS. NATURE AND MANY GODS AND GODDESSES WHICH ORIGINATED IN INDIA AND EVENTUALLY BECAME THE CELTS BACKGROUND . WE READ A LOT ABOUT LITTLE ELVES AND FAIRIES AND THE LIKE IN IRELAND AND THAT IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED.
A DIGRESSION IF YOU DON'T MIND .... WE HAVE CHRISTMAS CLOCK EVERY HOUR IT PLAYS ANEW AND DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS TUNE , IT IS PLAYING NOW DECK THE HALLS HAHHA. WE JUST LOVE IT . WHEN WE LIVED IN ELK GROVE CA. WE LEFT IT ON ALL YEAR LONG AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER USED TO VISIT US AND THE CLOCK EVERY HOUR BY HOUR PLAYED FOR US SHE LEARNED TO LOVE IT AS WELL FIRST PEOPLE GIGGLE THEN THEY LAUGH AT US THEN THEY ADJUST AND LOVE IT.
IN 1890 A MAN NAMED FRAZER WROTE A BOOK CALLED "THE GOLDEN BOUGH"
MISTLE TOE WAS THE AFOREMENTIONED GOLDEN BOUGH, WHEN IT DRIES OUT IT TURNS A GOLDEN COLOR. THIS WAS A PLANT THAT WAS WELL THOUGHT OF BY THE DRUIDS.
PART OF THESE BELIEFS WERE SUCH THAT WHEN A DRY SEASON FELL UPON A LAND THE KING WAS TO BLAME FOR IT, SO A SACRIFICE HAD TO BE MADE AND THE KING WAS OFFERED UP, LATER KINGS DIDN'T LIKE IT SO MUCH SO THEY MADE A MAN KING FOR A DAY SACRIFICED HIM AND THEN THEY AROSE ONCE MORE TO THEIR THRONE.
HHAAHAH ONLY SHOWS HOW KINGS AND LEADERS OF COUNTRIES ALWAYS SACRIFICE ONE OF THEIR UNDERLINGS TO TAKE BLAME FOR THEIR MISHAPS.
THIS CONTINUES NOWADAYS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHEN A SOLDIER IS GIVEN AN ORDER TO SHOOT INNOCENT VICTIMS THE SOLDIER IS GIVEN THE PUNISHMENT AND THE LEADER IS GIVEN A HAND SLAP.
AND SO IT GOES . ALWAYS THE INNOCENT MUST PAY FOR THE KINGS MISDEEDS.
I NOTICE THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO LINES OF DESCENT FOR KINGSHIP ALMOST IDENTICAL TO OUR TWO PARTY SYSTEM. AND THE HEAD CHOPPER OFFER IS THE VOTING BOOTH.
SO WE HAVE NOT MOVED FORWARD MUCH FROM ANCIENT WAYS AND DAYS IN BELIEF SYSTEMS.
ONCE A GROUP WAS ASSIGNED TO STUDY ALL RELIGIONS AND BASIS FOR SAME THESE STUDIES WENT WELL UNTIL THEY TRIED TO STUDY THE BIBLE SINCE PEOPLE INSISTED IT WAS THE TRUE WORD OF GOD IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO STUDY IT. SO IT NEVER WAS EVALUATED AT ALL. ONLY THE CHURCH PRINCES WERE EVER ALLOWED TO MAKE THE EVALUATIONS.
ENGLAND DEVELOPED A NEW CHRISTIAN RELIGION .. PROTESTANT BECAUSE THE KING WANTED A DIVORCE AND THE POPE REFUSED TO GRANT IT SO KING HENRY THE 8TH STARTED HIS OWN RELIGION. THE WAR WITH IRELAND CONTINUES TO THIS DAY AS IRELAND IS A CATHOLIC COUNTRY AND REFUSES THE KINGS ORDERS.
INTERESTING YES? I HAVE LOTS MORE BUT IM TIRED OF TYPING BADLY.
A DIGRESSION IF YOU DON'T MIND .... WE HAVE CHRISTMAS CLOCK EVERY HOUR IT PLAYS ANEW AND DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS TUNE , IT IS PLAYING NOW DECK THE HALLS HAHHA. WE JUST LOVE IT . WHEN WE LIVED IN ELK GROVE CA. WE LEFT IT ON ALL YEAR LONG AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER USED TO VISIT US AND THE CLOCK EVERY HOUR BY HOUR PLAYED FOR US SHE LEARNED TO LOVE IT AS WELL FIRST PEOPLE GIGGLE THEN THEY LAUGH AT US THEN THEY ADJUST AND LOVE IT.
IN 1890 A MAN NAMED FRAZER WROTE A BOOK CALLED "THE GOLDEN BOUGH"
MISTLE TOE WAS THE AFOREMENTIONED GOLDEN BOUGH, WHEN IT DRIES OUT IT TURNS A GOLDEN COLOR. THIS WAS A PLANT THAT WAS WELL THOUGHT OF BY THE DRUIDS.
PART OF THESE BELIEFS WERE SUCH THAT WHEN A DRY SEASON FELL UPON A LAND THE KING WAS TO BLAME FOR IT, SO A SACRIFICE HAD TO BE MADE AND THE KING WAS OFFERED UP, LATER KINGS DIDN'T LIKE IT SO MUCH SO THEY MADE A MAN KING FOR A DAY SACRIFICED HIM AND THEN THEY AROSE ONCE MORE TO THEIR THRONE.
HHAAHAH ONLY SHOWS HOW KINGS AND LEADERS OF COUNTRIES ALWAYS SACRIFICE ONE OF THEIR UNDERLINGS TO TAKE BLAME FOR THEIR MISHAPS.
THIS CONTINUES NOWADAYS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHEN A SOLDIER IS GIVEN AN ORDER TO SHOOT INNOCENT VICTIMS THE SOLDIER IS GIVEN THE PUNISHMENT AND THE LEADER IS GIVEN A HAND SLAP.
AND SO IT GOES . ALWAYS THE INNOCENT MUST PAY FOR THE KINGS MISDEEDS.
I NOTICE THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO LINES OF DESCENT FOR KINGSHIP ALMOST IDENTICAL TO OUR TWO PARTY SYSTEM. AND THE HEAD CHOPPER OFFER IS THE VOTING BOOTH.
SO WE HAVE NOT MOVED FORWARD MUCH FROM ANCIENT WAYS AND DAYS IN BELIEF SYSTEMS.
ONCE A GROUP WAS ASSIGNED TO STUDY ALL RELIGIONS AND BASIS FOR SAME THESE STUDIES WENT WELL UNTIL THEY TRIED TO STUDY THE BIBLE SINCE PEOPLE INSISTED IT WAS THE TRUE WORD OF GOD IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO STUDY IT. SO IT NEVER WAS EVALUATED AT ALL. ONLY THE CHURCH PRINCES WERE EVER ALLOWED TO MAKE THE EVALUATIONS.
ENGLAND DEVELOPED A NEW CHRISTIAN RELIGION .. PROTESTANT BECAUSE THE KING WANTED A DIVORCE AND THE POPE REFUSED TO GRANT IT SO KING HENRY THE 8TH STARTED HIS OWN RELIGION. THE WAR WITH IRELAND CONTINUES TO THIS DAY AS IRELAND IS A CATHOLIC COUNTRY AND REFUSES THE KINGS ORDERS.
INTERESTING YES? I HAVE LOTS MORE BUT IM TIRED OF TYPING BADLY.
Friday, December 4, 2009
MEMORIES OF ENLIGHTENING EVENTS
IN 1977 AFTER LIVING IN THE WOODS AND BUILDING A CABIN AND REALLY REALLY ROUGHING IT, WE RETURNED TO SACRAMENTO AND I TOOK A JOB WITH A STATE FUNDED AGENCY SERVING THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED.
HERE I MET SARAH (A WOMAN I KNEW FROM COLLEGE WHO WAS A SOCIAL WORK STUDENT WHO MARRIED THE DEAN ) AND WE BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS .
SHE MENTIONED SHE WANTED TO GO TO THIS TRAINING SEMINAR IN BERKELEY WITH A DOCTOR SHE HAD HEARD ABOUT NAMED RICHARD MOSS AT HIS HOME. WE WERE TO EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING OUR AWARENESS OF HEALING AND ALTHOUGH NOT SAID, DEVELOPING OUR PSYCHIC POWERS.
RICHARD TOLD US ABOUT A DOCTOR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHO HAD HAD AN EXPERIENCE AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WORKED.
WHEN A YOUNG MAN CAME IN WITH A SERIOUSLY BROKEN LEG AFTER THE X-RAY... HE WENT TO FEEL THE BREAK AND HAD THE FEELING OF GREAT HEAT COMING FROM HIS HANDS THAT HE COULD NOT EXPLAIN, AND FOUND THAT AS HE FELT THE LEG THE BONE SEEMED TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN.
HE AGAIN XRAYED THE LEG AND FOUND IT WAS MENDED, BUT HE WAS SO FEARFUL OF HIS COLLEAGUES SEEING HIM AS A FREAK OR INSANE THAT HE SET THE LEG IN A CAST ANYWAY.
HE TOLD RICHARD ABOUT THIS THING THAT HAPPENED AND RICHARD E DECIDED HE WANTED TO WORK ON DEVELOPING HIS HEALING POWERS. SO HE MEDITATED A LOT AND TRIED MANY THINGS AND PRACTICED RUNNING ENERGY THROUGHOUT HIS BODY USING A SPIRAL CHAKRA OPENING AND CLOSING AND WE ALL AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EXPERIENCE IN LEARNING.
WE NONE EXPECTED ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LEARN . I BELIEVE WE ALL WENT INTO THIS IN A STATE OF SHO SHIN (JAPANESE TERM FOR CHILD LIKE MIND).
WE LEARNED TO RUN OUR HANDS HOVERING OVER PEOPLES CHAKRAS AND FEEL THE ENERGY THE RECIPIENT FELT HEAT IN THE AREAS WE HOVERED OVER WITH OUR HANDS. WE OPENED THE CHAKRAS EVEN THE MINOR ONES AND THEN FELT THE COOL SPOTS ON THE BODIES AND REDISTRIBUTED THEM TO MAKE THE ENERGY EVEN ALL OVER THEIR BODIES. NEXT WE CLOSED THEM AND THE RECIPIENT FELT A DIFFERENCE .
NEXT, WE DID AN EXERCISE AFTER MEDITATION, ALWAYS AFTER MEDITATION TO CERTAIN MUSIC IN THIS EXERCISE WE ENTERED EACH OTHER'S CONSCIOUSNESS AND LATER DESCRIBED OUR EXPERIENCES .
WE EXPERIMENTED WITH MANY EXERCISES . THIS WENT ON FOR 9 WEEKS ONCE WEEKLY, FOR 3 HOURS A NIGHT
THEN ENDED IN A WEEKEND RETREAT AT THIS SAME DOCTOR'S HOME WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE MIDST OF A FOREST IN THE BERKELY HILLS.
ANOTHER EXPERIENCE I HAD WAS ALSO IN THE BERKELY HILLS AT A BERKELY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR'S HOME ALSO IN THESE SAME HILLS HIS HOUSE HAD TO BE REACHED ONLY BY AN OUTDOOR ELEVATOR WHERE WE HELD A UFO, HOT TUB, POTLUCK PARTY. THIS INVOLVED EXERCISES AND DISCUSSION OF UFO SIGHTINGS AND SOME FOLKS DESCRIBED ABDUCTIONS.
DURING MY DAYS FOLLOWING THIS TIME OF MY LIFE I WENT TO MANY SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS FOR VARIOUS DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES OF THIS SORT. IT WAS REALLY REALLY FUN!
HERE I MET SARAH (A WOMAN I KNEW FROM COLLEGE WHO WAS A SOCIAL WORK STUDENT WHO MARRIED THE DEAN ) AND WE BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS .
SHE MENTIONED SHE WANTED TO GO TO THIS TRAINING SEMINAR IN BERKELEY WITH A DOCTOR SHE HAD HEARD ABOUT NAMED RICHARD MOSS AT HIS HOME. WE WERE TO EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING OUR AWARENESS OF HEALING AND ALTHOUGH NOT SAID, DEVELOPING OUR PSYCHIC POWERS.
RICHARD TOLD US ABOUT A DOCTOR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHO HAD HAD AN EXPERIENCE AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WORKED.
WHEN A YOUNG MAN CAME IN WITH A SERIOUSLY BROKEN LEG AFTER THE X-RAY... HE WENT TO FEEL THE BREAK AND HAD THE FEELING OF GREAT HEAT COMING FROM HIS HANDS THAT HE COULD NOT EXPLAIN, AND FOUND THAT AS HE FELT THE LEG THE BONE SEEMED TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN.
HE AGAIN XRAYED THE LEG AND FOUND IT WAS MENDED, BUT HE WAS SO FEARFUL OF HIS COLLEAGUES SEEING HIM AS A FREAK OR INSANE THAT HE SET THE LEG IN A CAST ANYWAY.
HE TOLD RICHARD ABOUT THIS THING THAT HAPPENED AND RICHARD E DECIDED HE WANTED TO WORK ON DEVELOPING HIS HEALING POWERS. SO HE MEDITATED A LOT AND TRIED MANY THINGS AND PRACTICED RUNNING ENERGY THROUGHOUT HIS BODY USING A SPIRAL CHAKRA OPENING AND CLOSING AND WE ALL AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EXPERIENCE IN LEARNING.
WE NONE EXPECTED ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LEARN . I BELIEVE WE ALL WENT INTO THIS IN A STATE OF SHO SHIN (JAPANESE TERM FOR CHILD LIKE MIND).
WE LEARNED TO RUN OUR HANDS HOVERING OVER PEOPLES CHAKRAS AND FEEL THE ENERGY THE RECIPIENT FELT HEAT IN THE AREAS WE HOVERED OVER WITH OUR HANDS. WE OPENED THE CHAKRAS EVEN THE MINOR ONES AND THEN FELT THE COOL SPOTS ON THE BODIES AND REDISTRIBUTED THEM TO MAKE THE ENERGY EVEN ALL OVER THEIR BODIES. NEXT WE CLOSED THEM AND THE RECIPIENT FELT A DIFFERENCE .
NEXT, WE DID AN EXERCISE AFTER MEDITATION, ALWAYS AFTER MEDITATION TO CERTAIN MUSIC IN THIS EXERCISE WE ENTERED EACH OTHER'S CONSCIOUSNESS AND LATER DESCRIBED OUR EXPERIENCES .
WE EXPERIMENTED WITH MANY EXERCISES . THIS WENT ON FOR 9 WEEKS ONCE WEEKLY, FOR 3 HOURS A NIGHT
THEN ENDED IN A WEEKEND RETREAT AT THIS SAME DOCTOR'S HOME WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE MIDST OF A FOREST IN THE BERKELY HILLS.
ANOTHER EXPERIENCE I HAD WAS ALSO IN THE BERKELY HILLS AT A BERKELY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR'S HOME ALSO IN THESE SAME HILLS HIS HOUSE HAD TO BE REACHED ONLY BY AN OUTDOOR ELEVATOR WHERE WE HELD A UFO, HOT TUB, POTLUCK PARTY. THIS INVOLVED EXERCISES AND DISCUSSION OF UFO SIGHTINGS AND SOME FOLKS DESCRIBED ABDUCTIONS.
DURING MY DAYS FOLLOWING THIS TIME OF MY LIFE I WENT TO MANY SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS FOR VARIOUS DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES OF THIS SORT. IT WAS REALLY REALLY FUN!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
THE PSCHOMACHIA
WHEN WE LIVED IN SACRAMENTO THERE WAS A GROUP CALLED THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS THEY WERE DEDICATED TO FUN AND FEAST AND ALL TYPES OF ENTERTAINMENT
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs welcomes you to SubSITE!
ON THIS SITE.
BRAIN TOOLKIT AND SURREALITY REBOOT
BATTLE OF THE SOUL AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
AT PSYCHOMACHIA.ORG
THIS IS AN INTERESTING POEM FROM PSYCHO MACHIA.ORG
First of the fighters to face the fieldand the doubt of the duel’s fate,Faith came forward, disheveled and messy,dressed like a farmgirl from far in the country:Bushy hair untrimmed with bowl or beautician,shoulders bared to give biceps an airing.Heat to get glory had her boiling overall of a sudden, in fact, for this new deed.War nor weapons nor girding of armor –She paid no nevermind. Trusting the mightOf her heart and her hands, raging and reckless,she challenges battle-chance, meaning to smash it.
Behold who dares head out to harass herwith matching might, to strike first and fiercest –TheOldGodsWorship. Her hostile head,Decked with ribbons and medals of honor,Is made to wobble, then rises higher –Till her besmeared mouth, sated on sheep’s blood,Is thrown down to earth and lands underfoot.Her baleful breath was stopped up and broken,her trafficking stuffed down her gullet to throttleher weary and obstinate long dying sigh.
The victrix of the Lord’s legion exults,and Queen Faith heartens the thousands of martyrsShe has gathered against the foe. In praise,She crowns with flowers the strong allies madeAnd orders them robed in flaming red-purple.
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs welcomes you to SubSITE!
ON THIS SITE.
BRAIN TOOLKIT AND SURREALITY REBOOT
BATTLE OF THE SOUL AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
AT PSYCHOMACHIA.ORG
THIS IS AN INTERESTING POEM FROM PSYCHO MACHIA.ORG
First of the fighters to face the fieldand the doubt of the duel’s fate,Faith came forward, disheveled and messy,dressed like a farmgirl from far in the country:Bushy hair untrimmed with bowl or beautician,shoulders bared to give biceps an airing.Heat to get glory had her boiling overall of a sudden, in fact, for this new deed.War nor weapons nor girding of armor –She paid no nevermind. Trusting the mightOf her heart and her hands, raging and reckless,she challenges battle-chance, meaning to smash it.
Behold who dares head out to harass herwith matching might, to strike first and fiercest –TheOldGodsWorship. Her hostile head,Decked with ribbons and medals of honor,Is made to wobble, then rises higher –Till her besmeared mouth, sated on sheep’s blood,Is thrown down to earth and lands underfoot.Her baleful breath was stopped up and broken,her trafficking stuffed down her gullet to throttleher weary and obstinate long dying sigh.
The victrix of the Lord’s legion exults,and Queen Faith heartens the thousands of martyrsShe has gathered against the foe. In praise,She crowns with flowers the strong allies madeAnd orders them robed in flaming red-purple.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
THIS SOMETIMES SUX
YESTERDAY I WROTE A LONG BLOG AND IT DISAPPEARED. I WAS SO MAD!! IT TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY TO WRITE IN HERE AND TO LOSE A WELL THOUGHT OUT, COMPLETED SECTION IS BEYOND UNDERSTANDING.
TODAY I COOK EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE A DAY AHEAD FOR THE BIG DAY. I GOT 2 SMALL TURKEY BREASTS FOR THE KIDS AND TOMORROW WE COOK A REAL TURKEY WHICH WE WILL EAT ALL DAY AND THE BREASTS WILL GO HOME WITH THE BABIES. I WILL PREPARE THE PIES AND THE HAM AND BREASTS TODAY AND MAKE ALL THOSE THINGS READY TO POP IN THE OVEN THEW YAMS AND WELL THE STUFFING IN THE AM BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT ANY GERMS TO SET IN.
THE SALAD AND THE GREEN BEANS COOK TOMORROW. WE NEED THEM CRISPY. AND THE STUFFING WARMS UP TOMORROW AND THE YAMS ALL GO IN THE OVEN . ILL WARM UP THE HAM IN THE SMALL OVEN BEFORE SERVING SEVERAL SLICES AT A TIME WE HAVE THE SPIRAL HAM THING SO ITS EASY.
AND MOST LEFTOVERS WILL GO HOME WITH MY BABY BOY AND MY GOOD SON.
TODAY I COOK EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE A DAY AHEAD FOR THE BIG DAY. I GOT 2 SMALL TURKEY BREASTS FOR THE KIDS AND TOMORROW WE COOK A REAL TURKEY WHICH WE WILL EAT ALL DAY AND THE BREASTS WILL GO HOME WITH THE BABIES. I WILL PREPARE THE PIES AND THE HAM AND BREASTS TODAY AND MAKE ALL THOSE THINGS READY TO POP IN THE OVEN THEW YAMS AND WELL THE STUFFING IN THE AM BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT ANY GERMS TO SET IN.
THE SALAD AND THE GREEN BEANS COOK TOMORROW. WE NEED THEM CRISPY. AND THE STUFFING WARMS UP TOMORROW AND THE YAMS ALL GO IN THE OVEN . ILL WARM UP THE HAM IN THE SMALL OVEN BEFORE SERVING SEVERAL SLICES AT A TIME WE HAVE THE SPIRAL HAM THING SO ITS EASY.
AND MOST LEFTOVERS WILL GO HOME WITH MY BABY BOY AND MY GOOD SON.
Friday, November 20, 2009
SHOPPIN FOR SHOES FOR THE DAD
DAD FOUND OUT THAT HE HAD TO WEAR SPECIAL SHOES TO FLY IN ELOY'S FLY PEN.Skydive Arizona Eloy, AZ Dex Knows.com™ ANYWAYS DAD IS DETERMINED TO FLY AND I CANNOT TALK HIM OUT OF IT. HE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO FLY HE DREAMS ABOUT IT AND SEES THIS AS A WAY TO DO SO BEFORE HE DIES. I KNOW HES GONNA FLY A LOT AFTER HE DIES SO I DON'T KNOW WHY HES WASTING $80 FOR 4 MINUTES HAHAH.
SO WE WENT TO DILLARD'S AND GOT HIM SOME SHOES AND AFTER WEARING THEM IN THE HOUSE ON THE CARPET FOR ABOUT 25 MINUTES HE FOUND THEY HURT HIS FEET SO WE ARE GOING TO RETURN THEM AND BUY SOME FROM THE INTERNET I FOUND SOME EXTRA EXTRA WIDE ONES ON AMAZON.COM
SO AS SOON AS I GET A NEW CHARGE CARD I WILL BUY THEM MY OLD CARD HAD 2 CHARGES I DIDN'T MAKE ON IT SO NOW I HAVE TO WAIT FOR A NEW CARD AND CHANGE MY PASSWORD. DANG IT TO HECK OLA.
ANYWAYS IT WAS NOT TERRIBLY BAD 12 DOLLARS A MONTH FOR 2 MONTHS FOR HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT AND A LETTER THAT SAID I COULD DELETE CHARGES BY WRITING THEM... IT WOULDN'T TAKE MY LETTER AND A PHONE NUMBER WHERE THEY REFUSED TO ANSWER I SENT THE WHOLE MESS TO THE CARD COMPANY. THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR US. THANK GOODNESS.
WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT THE SECURITY OF MY CHARGE CARDS COVERAGE? THEY ARE SO GOOD THAT WAY.
ANYWAYS ITS ANNOYING I NEED TO CHRISTMAS SHOP.
I WENT TO MICHAEL'S AND GOT SOEM DECORATIONS AND GIFT WRAPS FOR CHRISTMAS. IM SO EXCITED I LOVE CHRISTMAS. ONE YEAR WE WENT TO MIDNITE MASS AND IT WAS TORTURE SO WE GO TO MORNING MASSES NOW THEY ARE MORE LOVELY AND I CAN BE AWAKE TO SEE EVERYTHING. NOTHING WORSE THAN FALLING ASLEEP ON A PEW IN CHURCH.
I GOT SOEM WREATHS TO PUT ON THE LIGHTS BY THE GARAGE AND SOEM LITTLE BALLS AND HOLLY AND FLOWERS TO PUT ON THE WREATHS THEY WILL LOOK SO LOVELY I CANT WAIT TIL DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING.
ALSO IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THANKSGIVING I AMD GETTING A TURKY BREAST ROAST AND A HAM TO COOK THE DAY BEFORE AND A REAL TURKEY FOR THE MAIN DAY. ALSO IM COOKING THE STUFFING, THE CRANBERRIES, THE PUMPKIN PIES AND A CHOCOLATE CAKE THE DAY BEFORE.AND THE FRESH VEGGIES AND SALADS ON THE MAIN DAY YUM I LOVE FRESH VEGGIES AND STEAMED ONES A LOT. ALSO THE YAMS ILL COOK BEFORE TOO AND HEAT THEM UP THE MAIN DAY.
ONCE I BOUGHT A COOK BOOK ON A SPECIAL OFFER ON TV BY MARTHA STEWART AND IT TAUGHT ME HOW TO HAVE ALL THE FOOD COME TOGETHER AT ONCE ON HOLIDAYS BUT THEY OVER CHARGED ME FOR IT WHEN I GOT THE BILL SO I SENT IT BACK AND THEY NEVER REFUNDED MY MONEY FOR THE PAYMENT I MADE I WAS SO SAD. IT WAS A WONDERFUL COOK BOOK. AND I REALLY GOT GYPPED . SO MARTHA STEWART IM REALLY SORRY WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS.
HAHAH. ANYWAYS I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING ON MONDAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND TUESDAY I HAVE A DOCS APPOINTMENT. DARN IT I FORGOT IT WAS A BAD DAY WHEN I MADE IT. BUT I DO NEED SOEM MORE LYRICA FOR MY NERVE PAIN CAUSED BY THE SHINGLES I GOT 7 WEEKS AGO. WILL THEY EVER GO AWAY? ITS SO GRADUAL MY LIL BUMPS FEEL LIKE A BAD SUNBURN AT TIMES. AND SOEMTIMES IM FORCED TO TAKE MEDS SO I CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT OR ELSE ILL BE UP ALL NIGHT. AND FEEL SO BADLY ALL DAY WITH NAPS THAT GO ON AND ON. OK HUFF SAID. HUGS TO ALL
SO WE WENT TO DILLARD'S AND GOT HIM SOME SHOES AND AFTER WEARING THEM IN THE HOUSE ON THE CARPET FOR ABOUT 25 MINUTES HE FOUND THEY HURT HIS FEET SO WE ARE GOING TO RETURN THEM AND BUY SOME FROM THE INTERNET I FOUND SOME EXTRA EXTRA WIDE ONES ON AMAZON.COM
SO AS SOON AS I GET A NEW CHARGE CARD I WILL BUY THEM MY OLD CARD HAD 2 CHARGES I DIDN'T MAKE ON IT SO NOW I HAVE TO WAIT FOR A NEW CARD AND CHANGE MY PASSWORD. DANG IT TO HECK OLA.
ANYWAYS IT WAS NOT TERRIBLY BAD 12 DOLLARS A MONTH FOR 2 MONTHS FOR HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT AND A LETTER THAT SAID I COULD DELETE CHARGES BY WRITING THEM... IT WOULDN'T TAKE MY LETTER AND A PHONE NUMBER WHERE THEY REFUSED TO ANSWER I SENT THE WHOLE MESS TO THE CARD COMPANY. THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR US. THANK GOODNESS.
WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT THE SECURITY OF MY CHARGE CARDS COVERAGE? THEY ARE SO GOOD THAT WAY.
ANYWAYS ITS ANNOYING I NEED TO CHRISTMAS SHOP.
I WENT TO MICHAEL'S AND GOT SOEM DECORATIONS AND GIFT WRAPS FOR CHRISTMAS. IM SO EXCITED I LOVE CHRISTMAS. ONE YEAR WE WENT TO MIDNITE MASS AND IT WAS TORTURE SO WE GO TO MORNING MASSES NOW THEY ARE MORE LOVELY AND I CAN BE AWAKE TO SEE EVERYTHING. NOTHING WORSE THAN FALLING ASLEEP ON A PEW IN CHURCH.
I GOT SOEM WREATHS TO PUT ON THE LIGHTS BY THE GARAGE AND SOEM LITTLE BALLS AND HOLLY AND FLOWERS TO PUT ON THE WREATHS THEY WILL LOOK SO LOVELY I CANT WAIT TIL DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING.
ALSO IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THANKSGIVING I AMD GETTING A TURKY BREAST ROAST AND A HAM TO COOK THE DAY BEFORE AND A REAL TURKEY FOR THE MAIN DAY. ALSO IM COOKING THE STUFFING, THE CRANBERRIES, THE PUMPKIN PIES AND A CHOCOLATE CAKE THE DAY BEFORE.AND THE FRESH VEGGIES AND SALADS ON THE MAIN DAY YUM I LOVE FRESH VEGGIES AND STEAMED ONES A LOT. ALSO THE YAMS ILL COOK BEFORE TOO AND HEAT THEM UP THE MAIN DAY.
ONCE I BOUGHT A COOK BOOK ON A SPECIAL OFFER ON TV BY MARTHA STEWART AND IT TAUGHT ME HOW TO HAVE ALL THE FOOD COME TOGETHER AT ONCE ON HOLIDAYS BUT THEY OVER CHARGED ME FOR IT WHEN I GOT THE BILL SO I SENT IT BACK AND THEY NEVER REFUNDED MY MONEY FOR THE PAYMENT I MADE I WAS SO SAD. IT WAS A WONDERFUL COOK BOOK. AND I REALLY GOT GYPPED . SO MARTHA STEWART IM REALLY SORRY WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS.
HAHAH. ANYWAYS I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING ON MONDAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND TUESDAY I HAVE A DOCS APPOINTMENT. DARN IT I FORGOT IT WAS A BAD DAY WHEN I MADE IT. BUT I DO NEED SOEM MORE LYRICA FOR MY NERVE PAIN CAUSED BY THE SHINGLES I GOT 7 WEEKS AGO. WILL THEY EVER GO AWAY? ITS SO GRADUAL MY LIL BUMPS FEEL LIKE A BAD SUNBURN AT TIMES. AND SOEMTIMES IM FORCED TO TAKE MEDS SO I CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT OR ELSE ILL BE UP ALL NIGHT. AND FEEL SO BADLY ALL DAY WITH NAPS THAT GO ON AND ON. OK HUFF SAID. HUGS TO ALL
Saturday, November 14, 2009
GOD DOES SEE WHAT GOES ON WITH BAD FOLKS!!
AND ADDENDUM TO MY LAST BLOG: RONALD REAGAN HAD ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE THE LAST 2 YEARS AS PRESIDENT AND GOT IT WORSE AFTER HE RETIRED. HE ENDED UP ONE OF THOSE THROWAWAYS HE DETESTED AS WELL. BUT HIS MONEY BUFFERED HIM FROM BAD THINGS HAPPENING TIL HE DIED. NOT SO FOR THE POOR MENTALLY ILL ON THE STREETS.
Friday, November 13, 2009
DAD AGAIN
ONE DAY I WAS SITTING HERE AT MY KEYBOARD WRITING STUFF WHEN I HEARD DAD IN HIS BATHROOM YELLING LOUDLY AND TALKING THE SAME WAY, I THOUGHT WE HAD A HOME INVASION DURING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL , WELL I RAN TO HIS BATHROOM TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND I SAID "WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?"
HE SAID "DON'T INTERRUPT, I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT ...I WAS TALKING to MYSELF"
MORE MADNESS! AFTER THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE WAS PUTTING TOGETHER HIS PUZZLES OR JUST HANGING OUT, HE WORKS THINGS OUT ALOUD HAHHA. REMINDS ME OF KIDS IN SCHOOL WHO HAD TO READ EVERYTHING ALOUD OR THEY WOULDN'T GET IT. NEVER MIND THAT THEY DISTURBED MY THOUGHT PROCESS WHICH DOES BEST IN A QUIET PLACE. ALL THROUGH COLLEGE I ALWAYS WROTE MY PAPERS AFTER THE KIDS WERE IN BED AND DAD TOO. I WROTE SOME PAPERS THAT WERE REALLY GOOD. MY PROFS ALWAYS SAID I MADE A
THESIS OUT OF EVERY ASSIGNMENT. I LOVED TO WRITE AND LINK THINGS TOGETHER IN A FUN WAY. WHEN I WENT TO WORK AT MY JOBS MY SOCIAL ASSESSMENTS READ LIKE NOVELS EVERYONE ENJOYED THEM, WELL.... THEY TOLD ME SO IS HOW I KNOW. I LOVED TO PROBLEM SOLVE WITH CLIENTS AT WORK .ITS A FUN AND CREATIVE THING TO DO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I MISS MY WORK SO MUCH , I HAVE LITTLE PROBLEMS TO SOLVE NOW I'M RETIRED. I PAY BILLS AND ARGUE OVER MISTAKES IN THEM MY ONLY PROBLEM SOLVING LEFT TO ME ANYMORE.
I CAN NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHEN I DECIDED TO BECOME A SOCIAL WORKER...I WAS IN COLLEGE AND I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY AFTER JUNIOR COLLEGE I HAD 65 UNITS MOSTLY IN TH SOCIAL SCIENCES THAT'S WHAT WAS MOST FUN, I HAD TO TAKE BIOLOGY AND A FEW SCIENCE COURSES AND A MATH ONE, BUT OTHER THAN THOSE I WAS FREE TO TAKE GOOD STUFF I TOOK ART HISTORY I TOOK ART AND I TOOK PSYCH AND SOCIAL STUDIES MOSTLY SO WHEN I GOT TO THE UNIV. I WAS ASKED TO DO A WORK STUDY PROGRAM FOR Three units OF COURSE I SAID YES, WELL I SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING THIS I DRAGGED MY KIDS ALONG AND MY HUBBY TOO WHEN HE WAS WILLING WE WENT ON EXCURSIONS WITH MENTAL PATIENTS THAT REAGAN WAS DUMPING OUT OF STATE HOSPITALS WITH A PROMISE THAT THEY WOULD BE WELL SERVED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE WERE DOING THE TRANSITION WORK FOR THAT. the promised programs never happened Reagan was a LOSER then when he became president he dismantled all the states' mental health hospitals . I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT. NOW ALL MENTAL PATIENTS END UP IN PRISONS AND THAT WAS WHERE I WORKED WITH THEM IN MY LAST YEARS OF MY PROFESSION.
NOW PEOPLE WONDER WHY MENTAL PATIENTS ARE WANDERING AROUND HOMELESS AND SICK ON THE STREETS AND NOBODY WANTS THEM AROUND AND WHEN THEY COMMIT A CRIME... LIKE THIS ONE...
A MENTAL PATIENT WAS DUMPED FROM ONE COUNTY TO ANOTHER IN HOPES HE COULD GET SERVICES THERE, HE WAS A SCHIZOPHRENIC MAN ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD AND HE WANDERED INTO A HOUSE WITH THE KITCHEN DOOR OPEN AND HE WENT IN AND MADE HIMSELF A CHEESE SANDWICH, NO ONE WAS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT THERE, BUT THE FAMILY CAME HOME AND FOUND HIM SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE EATING, AND THEY CALLED THE POLICE, HE WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY OF A HOME THAT WAS INHABITED AT THE TIME. HE GOT LIKE 4 YEARS PRISON TIME FOR THIS. A SICK MAN WITH NO MEDICATION WHO WAS DELUSIONAL AND HALLUCINATING. PRISON MIND YOU. IF THAT WAS MY SON OR YOUR BROTHER YOU WOULD BE AGHAST! BUT HE WAS POOR AND HAD NO FAMILY WITH DEEP POCKETS AND FANCY LAWYERS. A THROWAWAY HUMAN BEING. PUNISHED FOR BEING HUNGRY AND GETTING FOOD AS BEST HE COULD. I WONDER WHAT JESUS WOULD DO?
HE SAID "DON'T INTERRUPT, I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT ...I WAS TALKING to MYSELF"
MORE MADNESS! AFTER THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE WAS PUTTING TOGETHER HIS PUZZLES OR JUST HANGING OUT, HE WORKS THINGS OUT ALOUD HAHHA. REMINDS ME OF KIDS IN SCHOOL WHO HAD TO READ EVERYTHING ALOUD OR THEY WOULDN'T GET IT. NEVER MIND THAT THEY DISTURBED MY THOUGHT PROCESS WHICH DOES BEST IN A QUIET PLACE. ALL THROUGH COLLEGE I ALWAYS WROTE MY PAPERS AFTER THE KIDS WERE IN BED AND DAD TOO. I WROTE SOME PAPERS THAT WERE REALLY GOOD. MY PROFS ALWAYS SAID I MADE A
THESIS OUT OF EVERY ASSIGNMENT. I LOVED TO WRITE AND LINK THINGS TOGETHER IN A FUN WAY. WHEN I WENT TO WORK AT MY JOBS MY SOCIAL ASSESSMENTS READ LIKE NOVELS EVERYONE ENJOYED THEM, WELL.... THEY TOLD ME SO IS HOW I KNOW. I LOVED TO PROBLEM SOLVE WITH CLIENTS AT WORK .ITS A FUN AND CREATIVE THING TO DO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I MISS MY WORK SO MUCH , I HAVE LITTLE PROBLEMS TO SOLVE NOW I'M RETIRED. I PAY BILLS AND ARGUE OVER MISTAKES IN THEM MY ONLY PROBLEM SOLVING LEFT TO ME ANYMORE.
I CAN NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHEN I DECIDED TO BECOME A SOCIAL WORKER...I WAS IN COLLEGE AND I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY AFTER JUNIOR COLLEGE I HAD 65 UNITS MOSTLY IN TH SOCIAL SCIENCES THAT'S WHAT WAS MOST FUN, I HAD TO TAKE BIOLOGY AND A FEW SCIENCE COURSES AND A MATH ONE, BUT OTHER THAN THOSE I WAS FREE TO TAKE GOOD STUFF I TOOK ART HISTORY I TOOK ART AND I TOOK PSYCH AND SOCIAL STUDIES MOSTLY SO WHEN I GOT TO THE UNIV. I WAS ASKED TO DO A WORK STUDY PROGRAM FOR Three units OF COURSE I SAID YES, WELL I SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING THIS I DRAGGED MY KIDS ALONG AND MY HUBBY TOO WHEN HE WAS WILLING WE WENT ON EXCURSIONS WITH MENTAL PATIENTS THAT REAGAN WAS DUMPING OUT OF STATE HOSPITALS WITH A PROMISE THAT THEY WOULD BE WELL SERVED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE WERE DOING THE TRANSITION WORK FOR THAT. the promised programs never happened Reagan was a LOSER then when he became president he dismantled all the states' mental health hospitals . I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT. NOW ALL MENTAL PATIENTS END UP IN PRISONS AND THAT WAS WHERE I WORKED WITH THEM IN MY LAST YEARS OF MY PROFESSION.
NOW PEOPLE WONDER WHY MENTAL PATIENTS ARE WANDERING AROUND HOMELESS AND SICK ON THE STREETS AND NOBODY WANTS THEM AROUND AND WHEN THEY COMMIT A CRIME... LIKE THIS ONE...
A MENTAL PATIENT WAS DUMPED FROM ONE COUNTY TO ANOTHER IN HOPES HE COULD GET SERVICES THERE, HE WAS A SCHIZOPHRENIC MAN ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD AND HE WANDERED INTO A HOUSE WITH THE KITCHEN DOOR OPEN AND HE WENT IN AND MADE HIMSELF A CHEESE SANDWICH, NO ONE WAS AT HOME WHEN HE GOT THERE, BUT THE FAMILY CAME HOME AND FOUND HIM SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE EATING, AND THEY CALLED THE POLICE, HE WAS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY OF A HOME THAT WAS INHABITED AT THE TIME. HE GOT LIKE 4 YEARS PRISON TIME FOR THIS. A SICK MAN WITH NO MEDICATION WHO WAS DELUSIONAL AND HALLUCINATING. PRISON MIND YOU. IF THAT WAS MY SON OR YOUR BROTHER YOU WOULD BE AGHAST! BUT HE WAS POOR AND HAD NO FAMILY WITH DEEP POCKETS AND FANCY LAWYERS. A THROWAWAY HUMAN BEING. PUNISHED FOR BEING HUNGRY AND GETTING FOOD AS BEST HE COULD. I WONDER WHAT JESUS WOULD DO?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
DAD ... AGAIN------
TODAY I SAID TO DAD SINCE WE HAVE 2 CASING FOR OUR DLP LAMP FOR OUR TV AND THE LAMPS WITH CASINGS COST SO MUCH MORE THAN THE LAMPS ALONE, WHY DONT WE BUY 2 LAMPS FORTHE MINIMAL PRICE THEY COST AND SELL THEM WITH OUR CASINGS FOR $275 LIKE THE MITSUBISHI PEOPLE CHARGE?
DAD SAYS "OH GOODY WE GET TO GO ON JUDGE JUDY AT LAST!!"
HAHAHHA
TODAY WE WENT TO MIMI'S FOR BREAKFAST AND AN OLD LADY ABOUT 65 SAT IN A BOOTH KTTY CORNERED FROM US AND SHE WAS WEARING A MINISKIRT WITH NO PANTIES!! AAAARGH I GAGGED.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE MINI SKIRTS WITH PANTIES ARE ONLY FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
I HATE HAVING MY BREAKFAST RUINED, BUT THEN IT GAVE A LOT TO GOSSIP ABOUT WITH THE WAITRESSES. HAHAH!
DAD SAYS "OH GOODY WE GET TO GO ON JUDGE JUDY AT LAST!!"
HAHAHHA
TODAY WE WENT TO MIMI'S FOR BREAKFAST AND AN OLD LADY ABOUT 65 SAT IN A BOOTH KTTY CORNERED FROM US AND SHE WAS WEARING A MINISKIRT WITH NO PANTIES!! AAAARGH I GAGGED.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE MINI SKIRTS WITH PANTIES ARE ONLY FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
I HATE HAVING MY BREAKFAST RUINED, BUT THEN IT GAVE A LOT TO GOSSIP ABOUT WITH THE WAITRESSES. HAHAH!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
LITTLE FRIENDS WHO HAVE GROWN THAT I HAVE KNOWN
MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE HAD MANY FRIENDS THAT STARTED AS BABIES AND ARE NOW EITHER GROWN OR TEENS. MANY OF THEM WE HAVE BABYSAT AND OR JUST LOVED FROM FRIENDSHIP. WE SEEM TO LIKE LITTLE GIRLS A LOT BECAUSE WE LOST OUR ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER 25 YEARS AGO... THE FIRST HORRIBLE, PAINFUL EXPERIENCE IN OUR LIVES, AND WE LOST OUR OLDEST SON LAST SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 THE SECOND AGONY IN OUR LIVES.
THE CHILDREN WHO WE HAVE FRIENDSHIPS WITH HELP A LOT IN MANAGING THE PAIN OF OUR LOSSES.
ONCE MY HUSBAND WAS GIVEN THE EVIL EYE BY A WOMAN IN A COFFEESHOP BECAUSE SHE HAD NASTY THOUGHTS ABOUT HIS PAYING FOR A YOUNGSTER'S COFFEE I WAS THERE AS WELL BUT NOT IN HER SIGHT. THAT WAS A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH OF US TO HAVE THAT KIND OF TREATMENT WHEN YOU ARE MERELY BEING KIND TO SOMEONE IT'S VERY HURTFUL.
IT WOULD CERTAINLY MAKE LIFE BETTER IF PEOPLE DIDNT JUDGE UNTIL THEY HAVE FULL FACTS.WE HAVE RAISED SO MANY BABIES TO TEENHOOD OR ADULTHOOD INCLUDING OUR GRANDDAUGHTER THAT WE LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING. NEVER HAVE WE EVER BEEN THOUGHT OF THAT WAY BEFORE .
NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SANTA FE, NM MY BIRTHPLACE. I LEFT WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD THAT WAS IN 1952. WHILE I WAS THERE I SAW OUR LITTLE TOWN AS AN ADOBE HOUSED PLACE WITH ADOBE WALLS AROUND ALL THE HOUSES. I LIVED IN ADOBE HOUSES ALL MY YOUNG LIFE. THEY WERE VERY CONFORTABLE. WARM IN WINTER HEATED BY WOOD STOVES AND COOL IN SUMMER WHEN THEY BLOCKED THE HEAT SO WELL. I LOVED LIVING THERE . I USED TO SKATE ALL THE WAY DOWNTOWN AND GO TO TEICHERTS DIME STORE AND BUY 10 CENTS WORTH OF CANDY THEN SKATE ALL THE WAY BACK HOME ON ARROYO TENORIO STREET. EVERYTHING WAS RUN MAINLY BY THE NATIVES THERE HISPANICS AND INDIANS AND MEXICANS.
I SAY HISPANICS BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM SPANIARD FAMILIES THAT SETTLED THERE IN THE EARLY 1600'S OF WHICH MY FAMILY IS HEIR TO.
THE MEXICAN COMPONNENT WERE HALF SPANISH AND HALF INDIAN. TODAY , SANTA FE IS LIKE A GIANT ANTHILL AND THE POPULATION IS MAINLY ANGLO FROM OTHER STATES NOT NATIVES AT ALL. THE MAGAZINES ARE ALL WRITTEN AND DRAWN BY ANGLOS THE NATIVE POPULATION IS NEVER INCLUDED IN THE WRITING AND DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY THEY DESCRIBE IN THE MAGAZINES LIKE THE SANTA FEAN AND THE NEW MEXICAN. IT IS A SAD THING THAT THE REAL PEOPLES ARE NO LONGER THERE TO DO THEIR OWN HISTORY . EVEN THE RECIPES THAT WE LOVED WHEN I GREW UP ARE CHANGED TO ANGLO LIKE FOODS. WE DIDNT EAT SHRIMP OR FISH , WE ATE A LOT OF FRESH VEGETABLES AND BAKED MEAT CARNE ASADA, AND REAL EMPANADITAS MADE THE WAY WE NATIVES MADE THEM. OUR ENCHILADAS WERE THICK AND MEATY AND DELICIOUS AND STACKED NOT ROLLED THE ROLLED STUFF CAME FROM HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE. AND THEY USE SUCH A SKIMPY AMOUNT OF CHILI ON THEM. WE LOVED GREEN CHILIS WITH FRESHLY COOKED BEANS IN AN OLLA. WE COOKED THEM ONCE A WEEK AND BY WEDNESDAY THEY WERE READY TO BE REFRIED AND VERY TASTY TOO. TORTILLAS WERE MADE FRESH 3 TIMES A WEEK. WE ATE MEAT BEEF ON SUNDAYS AND HAD CHICKEN FOR THANKSGIVING. FRIED CALABASITAS WITH ONIONS,GARLIC AND CHILI SEEDS WERE DELICIOUS AND MADE A MEAL IN THEMSELVES WITH BEANS AND TORTILLAS. MAKES MY MOUTH WATER AS I REMEMBER . I STILL MAKE THOSE NOW AND I MAKE ENCHILADAS AND TACOS THE OLD WAY WITH CUT UP STEAK AND FRESH LETTUCE AND TOMATOES AND CHEESE AND ONIONS AND GREEN CHILIS WITH A LITTLE VINEGAR OR FRESH LEMON JUICE ON THE VEGS. THEN A HOT SALSA IF THE GREEN CHILIES WERENT HOT ENOUGH. FRESHLY MADE SALSA ALWAYS.
WHEN I WENT BACK 13 YEARS AGO, SANTA FE HAD NO MORE ADOBE HOUSES EXCEPT FOR THE OLD ONES. THE NEW HOUSES WERE MADE TO LOOK LIKE THE ADOBE ONES BUT THEY WERE FAKES ALL OF THEM. AND MOSTLY LOOKED LIKE ALL THE NEW HOUSES IN PHOENIX TILED ROOFS AND PLASTER WALLS AND SHEET ROCKED INNARDS. NO VIGAS OR VEGAS. EXCEPT FOR THE MILLIONAIRES WHO SWOOPED IN WITH THEIR MONEY AND STUFF. MOVIE STARS AND NEW YORKERS AND ALL THOSE ANGLO PAINTERS.
ANYHOW IM NO LONGER IN LOVE WITH SANTA FE IT IS COMPLETELY CORRUPTED BY THE ANGLO POPULATION. SO I DON'T CARE TO LIVE THERE EVER AGAIN. BUT MY HEART ACHES OVER MY LOSS AS WELL. IF THERE ARE OTHER DIMENSIONS I HOPE MY REAL SANTA FE LIVES ON IN ONE OF THEM EXACTLY AS I REMEMBER IT. WITH THE STREETS ALL SO AND EVERYTHING IN WALKING DISTANCE OR SKATING DISTANCE. I REALLY LOVED THE ST. FRANCIS CATHEDRAL AND ALL THE YEARLY PROCESSIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE ZOZOBRA BEFORE THE FIESTA WAS A NOT THE GIANT OF THEESE DAYS IT WAS AS BIG AS A MAN MAYBE A BIT LARGER BUT NOT THE HUGE MONSTROSITY IT IS TODAY AND THE CROWDS WERE IN THE HUNDREDS NOT THOUSANDS AS IT IS TODAY. HTHERE WERE NO OFFENSIVE DRUNKS IN MY FIESTAS AND EVERYONE HAD TO HAVE A COSTUME FOR THE FIESTA NO MATTER HOW POOR WE ALWAYS MADE IT. BROOMSTICK SKIRTS AND BATISTE BLOUSES WITH RIBBONS ON THE ARMS AND NECK. WE LOVED THEM. AND THE CONQUISTADORES RODE IN WITH ALL THEIR FANCY OUTFITS ON BIG HORSES. AND MARIACHIS AND DANCING LADIES IN BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES PASSED DOWN FROM THEIR MOMS WITH ALL THESE SPARKLY OUTFITS. EVERY LITTLE GIRL WANTED TO GROW UP AND DANCE LIKE THEM.
MANTILLAS MADE WITH LACE ON HUGE COMBS ...BEAUTIFUL. MY ANCESTRY IS SO COLORFUL. I LOVE MY CULTURE TOO BAD ITS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY FAKES. ANYWAY I STILL COOK THE OLD WAY FOR MY KIDS AND ITS THE ONLY REAL FOOD THEY KNOW. NO RESTAUARNT CAN COMPARE WITH MY HOME COOKING. AND I LOVE TO MAKE IT.
I WILL MAKE SOME FOR CHRISTMAS AND DIETS BE DAMNED!!!
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THE CHILDREN WHO WE HAVE FRIENDSHIPS WITH HELP A LOT IN MANAGING THE PAIN OF OUR LOSSES.
ONCE MY HUSBAND WAS GIVEN THE EVIL EYE BY A WOMAN IN A COFFEESHOP BECAUSE SHE HAD NASTY THOUGHTS ABOUT HIS PAYING FOR A YOUNGSTER'S COFFEE I WAS THERE AS WELL BUT NOT IN HER SIGHT. THAT WAS A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH OF US TO HAVE THAT KIND OF TREATMENT WHEN YOU ARE MERELY BEING KIND TO SOMEONE IT'S VERY HURTFUL.
IT WOULD CERTAINLY MAKE LIFE BETTER IF PEOPLE DIDNT JUDGE UNTIL THEY HAVE FULL FACTS.WE HAVE RAISED SO MANY BABIES TO TEENHOOD OR ADULTHOOD INCLUDING OUR GRANDDAUGHTER THAT WE LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING. NEVER HAVE WE EVER BEEN THOUGHT OF THAT WAY BEFORE .
NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SANTA FE, NM MY BIRTHPLACE. I LEFT WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD THAT WAS IN 1952. WHILE I WAS THERE I SAW OUR LITTLE TOWN AS AN ADOBE HOUSED PLACE WITH ADOBE WALLS AROUND ALL THE HOUSES. I LIVED IN ADOBE HOUSES ALL MY YOUNG LIFE. THEY WERE VERY CONFORTABLE. WARM IN WINTER HEATED BY WOOD STOVES AND COOL IN SUMMER WHEN THEY BLOCKED THE HEAT SO WELL. I LOVED LIVING THERE . I USED TO SKATE ALL THE WAY DOWNTOWN AND GO TO TEICHERTS DIME STORE AND BUY 10 CENTS WORTH OF CANDY THEN SKATE ALL THE WAY BACK HOME ON ARROYO TENORIO STREET. EVERYTHING WAS RUN MAINLY BY THE NATIVES THERE HISPANICS AND INDIANS AND MEXICANS.
I SAY HISPANICS BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM SPANIARD FAMILIES THAT SETTLED THERE IN THE EARLY 1600'S OF WHICH MY FAMILY IS HEIR TO.
THE MEXICAN COMPONNENT WERE HALF SPANISH AND HALF INDIAN. TODAY , SANTA FE IS LIKE A GIANT ANTHILL AND THE POPULATION IS MAINLY ANGLO FROM OTHER STATES NOT NATIVES AT ALL. THE MAGAZINES ARE ALL WRITTEN AND DRAWN BY ANGLOS THE NATIVE POPULATION IS NEVER INCLUDED IN THE WRITING AND DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY THEY DESCRIBE IN THE MAGAZINES LIKE THE SANTA FEAN AND THE NEW MEXICAN. IT IS A SAD THING THAT THE REAL PEOPLES ARE NO LONGER THERE TO DO THEIR OWN HISTORY . EVEN THE RECIPES THAT WE LOVED WHEN I GREW UP ARE CHANGED TO ANGLO LIKE FOODS. WE DIDNT EAT SHRIMP OR FISH , WE ATE A LOT OF FRESH VEGETABLES AND BAKED MEAT CARNE ASADA, AND REAL EMPANADITAS MADE THE WAY WE NATIVES MADE THEM. OUR ENCHILADAS WERE THICK AND MEATY AND DELICIOUS AND STACKED NOT ROLLED THE ROLLED STUFF CAME FROM HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE. AND THEY USE SUCH A SKIMPY AMOUNT OF CHILI ON THEM. WE LOVED GREEN CHILIS WITH FRESHLY COOKED BEANS IN AN OLLA. WE COOKED THEM ONCE A WEEK AND BY WEDNESDAY THEY WERE READY TO BE REFRIED AND VERY TASTY TOO. TORTILLAS WERE MADE FRESH 3 TIMES A WEEK. WE ATE MEAT BEEF ON SUNDAYS AND HAD CHICKEN FOR THANKSGIVING. FRIED CALABASITAS WITH ONIONS,GARLIC AND CHILI SEEDS WERE DELICIOUS AND MADE A MEAL IN THEMSELVES WITH BEANS AND TORTILLAS. MAKES MY MOUTH WATER AS I REMEMBER . I STILL MAKE THOSE NOW AND I MAKE ENCHILADAS AND TACOS THE OLD WAY WITH CUT UP STEAK AND FRESH LETTUCE AND TOMATOES AND CHEESE AND ONIONS AND GREEN CHILIS WITH A LITTLE VINEGAR OR FRESH LEMON JUICE ON THE VEGS. THEN A HOT SALSA IF THE GREEN CHILIES WERENT HOT ENOUGH. FRESHLY MADE SALSA ALWAYS.
WHEN I WENT BACK 13 YEARS AGO, SANTA FE HAD NO MORE ADOBE HOUSES EXCEPT FOR THE OLD ONES. THE NEW HOUSES WERE MADE TO LOOK LIKE THE ADOBE ONES BUT THEY WERE FAKES ALL OF THEM. AND MOSTLY LOOKED LIKE ALL THE NEW HOUSES IN PHOENIX TILED ROOFS AND PLASTER WALLS AND SHEET ROCKED INNARDS. NO VIGAS OR VEGAS. EXCEPT FOR THE MILLIONAIRES WHO SWOOPED IN WITH THEIR MONEY AND STUFF. MOVIE STARS AND NEW YORKERS AND ALL THOSE ANGLO PAINTERS.
ANYHOW IM NO LONGER IN LOVE WITH SANTA FE IT IS COMPLETELY CORRUPTED BY THE ANGLO POPULATION. SO I DON'T CARE TO LIVE THERE EVER AGAIN. BUT MY HEART ACHES OVER MY LOSS AS WELL. IF THERE ARE OTHER DIMENSIONS I HOPE MY REAL SANTA FE LIVES ON IN ONE OF THEM EXACTLY AS I REMEMBER IT. WITH THE STREETS ALL SO AND EVERYTHING IN WALKING DISTANCE OR SKATING DISTANCE. I REALLY LOVED THE ST. FRANCIS CATHEDRAL AND ALL THE YEARLY PROCESSIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE ZOZOBRA BEFORE THE FIESTA WAS A NOT THE GIANT OF THEESE DAYS IT WAS AS BIG AS A MAN MAYBE A BIT LARGER BUT NOT THE HUGE MONSTROSITY IT IS TODAY AND THE CROWDS WERE IN THE HUNDREDS NOT THOUSANDS AS IT IS TODAY. HTHERE WERE NO OFFENSIVE DRUNKS IN MY FIESTAS AND EVERYONE HAD TO HAVE A COSTUME FOR THE FIESTA NO MATTER HOW POOR WE ALWAYS MADE IT. BROOMSTICK SKIRTS AND BATISTE BLOUSES WITH RIBBONS ON THE ARMS AND NECK. WE LOVED THEM. AND THE CONQUISTADORES RODE IN WITH ALL THEIR FANCY OUTFITS ON BIG HORSES. AND MARIACHIS AND DANCING LADIES IN BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES PASSED DOWN FROM THEIR MOMS WITH ALL THESE SPARKLY OUTFITS. EVERY LITTLE GIRL WANTED TO GROW UP AND DANCE LIKE THEM.
MANTILLAS MADE WITH LACE ON HUGE COMBS ...BEAUTIFUL. MY ANCESTRY IS SO COLORFUL. I LOVE MY CULTURE TOO BAD ITS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY FAKES. ANYWAY I STILL COOK THE OLD WAY FOR MY KIDS AND ITS THE ONLY REAL FOOD THEY KNOW. NO RESTAUARNT CAN COMPARE WITH MY HOME COOKING. AND I LOVE TO MAKE IT.
I WILL MAKE SOME FOR CHRISTMAS AND DIETS BE DAMNED!!!
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
TOO SICK TO CARE
I HAVE BEEN VERY SICK FOR THE PAST 5 WEEKS WITH SHINGLES THIS IS THE MOST PAINFUL AND DREADFUL DISEASE I HAVE EVER HAD. THERE IS A SHOT FOR THIS AVAILABLE IN MOST PHARMACIES TO PREVENT IT. IN FACT I NEED TO GET THIS SHOT WHEN MY SPOTS ARE ALL GONE THEY ARE STILL WITH ME AND IF I WASN'T TAKING LYRICA THE MEDICINE USED FOR FIBROMYALGIA FOR PAIN ON NERVE ENDS WHICH THIS DISEASE ATTACKS NERVE ENDS AND IT IS UNBEARABLE PAIN I HAD NO SLEEP UNTIL I GOT THIS MEDICINE . VICODIN AND THAT OTHER BIG DRUG DIDN'T DO ANYTHING NOT EVEN MAKE ME SLEEPY.I HAD HEAVY DRUGS FOR PAIN WHICH DIDN'T TOUCH IT. A FEW TIMES IBUPROFIN HELPED BUT THEN IT QUIT.
I ADVISE ANYONE OVER 50 TO GET THE SHOT AND PREVENT YOURSELF THIS AGONY I HAVE GONE THRU.
OTHER THAN THAT I'M FINE. II HAVE HAD A FEW ADVENTURES BUT FOR LIFE A ME I CANT REMEMBER THEM. ILL BE BACK WHEN THEY COME BACK TO MIND.
I ADVISE ANYONE OVER 50 TO GET THE SHOT AND PREVENT YOURSELF THIS AGONY I HAVE GONE THRU.
OTHER THAN THAT I'M FINE. II HAVE HAD A FEW ADVENTURES BUT FOR LIFE A ME I CANT REMEMBER THEM. ILL BE BACK WHEN THEY COME BACK TO MIND.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
NEW TV SHOWS
A LOT OF NEW TV SERIES ARE STARTING AND OLD ONES WE LIKE ARE COMING BACK ENTOURAGE IS BACK AND SO IS MAD MEN AND DEXTER IS COMING I THINK NEXT MONTH ALSO CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS NOW STARTED AGAIN AFTER ALMOST 2 YEARS LARRY DAVID IS VERY FUNNY BUT NOT TO EVERYONES HUMOR . HE IS SO AWFUL A HUMAN BEING MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE MAYBE YOURE KINDA NICE AFTER ALL HAHHA. I HAVE BEEN WATCHIGN THE NEW HEROES I LIKE THAT SHOW ALSO I AM WATCHIGN A 3 PART ONE I SAW BEFORE CALLED "THE LOST ROOM"
ITS AN INTERESTING ONE ABOUT DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS ALSO THE FRINGE IS ABOUT ALTRNATE REALITIES AS WELL THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND THIS YEAR ALONG WITH THE CONTINUING VAMPIRES (SO MANY) GALORE SERIES.
I DONT FIND VAMPIRES ALL THATS INTERESTIGN EXCEPT I LIKED THE LOST BOYS MOVIE AND THERE IS A NEW OEN COMING THATS A FUNNY COMEDY I WANT TO SEE AT THE MOVIES. ALSO I DONT LIKE ZOMBIES DRIED DEAD CREATURES ARE DISGUSTING. I CAN JUST FEEL THE DEAD SKIN FALLING ALL OVER UGH.
I WAS READING PHILIP DICK'S DEFINITION OF SCIENCE FICTION, IY ISNT SPACE ADVENTURE, IT ISNT MONSTERS, IT ISNT FANTASY ITS WHAT CAN JUST POSSIBLY BE PROBABLE SCIENCE AT SOME TIME
AS FOLLOWS:
However, what distinguishes science fiction from fantasy are the worlds or diverse forms of societies imagined by the author which have the ability to exist, whereas in fantasy literature on the other hand it is clear that the themes approached are contrary to all scientific truth, since the author has to deliberately infringe laws of reality. In science fiction these laws are subtly extrapolated to give rise to speculation which usually concerns [touche] the future in the same way, as the future is by definition the lesser known of the three faces of time. Similarly if the story is set in the present––as could be the case in parallel universes––or again in the past––such as in histories of time travel––the universes of science fiction stay obedient to a set number of rational regulations and not out of some caprice of magical thinking, as is the case in fantasy. One can thus say that science fiction always stays “sane of mind” [saine d’esprit].
ITS AN INTERESTING ONE ABOUT DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS ALSO THE FRINGE IS ABOUT ALTRNATE REALITIES AS WELL THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND THIS YEAR ALONG WITH THE CONTINUING VAMPIRES (SO MANY) GALORE SERIES.
I DONT FIND VAMPIRES ALL THATS INTERESTIGN EXCEPT I LIKED THE LOST BOYS MOVIE AND THERE IS A NEW OEN COMING THATS A FUNNY COMEDY I WANT TO SEE AT THE MOVIES. ALSO I DONT LIKE ZOMBIES DRIED DEAD CREATURES ARE DISGUSTING. I CAN JUST FEEL THE DEAD SKIN FALLING ALL OVER UGH.
I WAS READING PHILIP DICK'S DEFINITION OF SCIENCE FICTION, IY ISNT SPACE ADVENTURE, IT ISNT MONSTERS, IT ISNT FANTASY ITS WHAT CAN JUST POSSIBLY BE PROBABLE SCIENCE AT SOME TIME
AS FOLLOWS:
However, what distinguishes science fiction from fantasy are the worlds or diverse forms of societies imagined by the author which have the ability to exist, whereas in fantasy literature on the other hand it is clear that the themes approached are contrary to all scientific truth, since the author has to deliberately infringe laws of reality. In science fiction these laws are subtly extrapolated to give rise to speculation which usually concerns [touche] the future in the same way, as the future is by definition the lesser known of the three faces of time. Similarly if the story is set in the present––as could be the case in parallel universes––or again in the past––such as in histories of time travel––the universes of science fiction stay obedient to a set number of rational regulations and not out of some caprice of magical thinking, as is the case in fantasy. One can thus say that science fiction always stays “sane of mind” [saine d’esprit].
Monday, September 21, 2009
MORE FUN TIMES
WE WERE TO MEET THE TWINS AT STARBUCKS THEN THEY WANTED US TO PICK THEM UP THEN THEY SAID MEET THEM THEN THEY SAID PICK US UP HAHAH I SENT DAD TO GET THEM. THEN ALEXI AND NIKKI WERE AT STARBUCKS SO WE SAT AND LOOKED AT CONCERT PICTURES FROM THE CONCERT THEY WENT TO FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS AND CHATTED A BIT I Really ENJOYED NIKKI TOO SHES A REAL JOY. 4 OF THE LOVELIEST GIRLS I HAVE MET. BUT LEXI HAD A BIRTHDAY AND WE MISSED THAT I HOPE SHE CAN JOIN US FOR LUNCH AND A PRESENT NEXT WEEK SOEMTIME OR EVEN THIS WEEK WHEN WE ARENT DOING STUFF.
I STARTED MY REHAB EXERCISES LAST WEEK CUZ MY BACK HURTS A LOT AND MY KNEES GREW STIFF FROM LAZINESS.
NOW I HAVE TO GO 3 TIMES A WEEK AND MOVE THEM ON THE CYCLE THE STRETCH THINGY AND THE WEIGHT LIFTING AND TREADMILL . IM STARTING WITH LESS WEIGHTS AND LESS SETS BECAUSE IM TOO FAR OFF MY PROGRAM AND HAD TO RESTART AGAIN. I NEED TO SHED WEIGHT AND FIRM UP. I HAVE TO GO ABOUT 1100 AM AS THEY NEW PATIENTS NEED THE EARLY HOURS TO REHAB UP. TAKES ME ABOUT 1 HOUR TO GET BACK TO DAD AT STARBUCKS AND HES EXERCISING TOO BY WALKIGN ABOUT 3/4THS TO 1 MILE OVER WHERE I DROP HIM OFF.
TUESDAYS WE ALWAYS HIT THE BOOK STORES, IN CHANDLER BECUZ WE DO NOT HAVE A REALLY GOOD BOOK STORE HERE . WE TRIED THEUSED OEN BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. WE GOTO B N N AND PICK NEW BOOKS TO ORDER FROM THE LIBRARY IN CHANDLER CUZ THEY DO THAT. OUR LITTLE LOCAL LIBRARY IS KINDA CONTRARY AND ITS HARD TO ORDER BOOKS ONLINE LIKE THE CHANDLER ONE.
DAD IS SO NICE HE KEEPS TELLING ME I LOOK LIKE MY WEIGHT LOSS REALLY SHOWS BUT ON ME, 16 LBS ARE NEGLIGIBLE.
I NEED TO LOSE ABOUT 30 MORE TO REALLY LOOK BETTER.
DAD LOST ABOUT 25 LBS NO PROBLEM THEN HE ATE PAMNCAKES AND GAINED 5 LBS BACK IN ONE WEEK WE JUST CANNOT EAT CARBS THEY DESTROY US.
WHITE FLOUR AND SUGAR AND CRORN SYRUP LIKE THEY USE IN MOST FOODS ARE THE WORST THIGN FOR WEGHT GAIN. SO WE ARE BACK ON FRESH FRUITS VEGGIES AND PURE PROTEINS. THOSE A RE REAL CHARM WORKERS. THE SOUTH BEACH DIET I MODIFIED IT TO FIT OUR FRIDGE CONTENST AND WE NEVER BUY BAD THINGS ANYMORE.
WELP ILL SEEYALL LATER GOTTA GO WATCH TV I HAVE BEEN PLAYIONG ON HERE LONG ENOUGH.
I STARTED MY REHAB EXERCISES LAST WEEK CUZ MY BACK HURTS A LOT AND MY KNEES GREW STIFF FROM LAZINESS.
NOW I HAVE TO GO 3 TIMES A WEEK AND MOVE THEM ON THE CYCLE THE STRETCH THINGY AND THE WEIGHT LIFTING AND TREADMILL . IM STARTING WITH LESS WEIGHTS AND LESS SETS BECAUSE IM TOO FAR OFF MY PROGRAM AND HAD TO RESTART AGAIN. I NEED TO SHED WEIGHT AND FIRM UP. I HAVE TO GO ABOUT 1100 AM AS THEY NEW PATIENTS NEED THE EARLY HOURS TO REHAB UP. TAKES ME ABOUT 1 HOUR TO GET BACK TO DAD AT STARBUCKS AND HES EXERCISING TOO BY WALKIGN ABOUT 3/4THS TO 1 MILE OVER WHERE I DROP HIM OFF.
TUESDAYS WE ALWAYS HIT THE BOOK STORES, IN CHANDLER BECUZ WE DO NOT HAVE A REALLY GOOD BOOK STORE HERE . WE TRIED THEUSED OEN BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. WE GOTO B N N AND PICK NEW BOOKS TO ORDER FROM THE LIBRARY IN CHANDLER CUZ THEY DO THAT. OUR LITTLE LOCAL LIBRARY IS KINDA CONTRARY AND ITS HARD TO ORDER BOOKS ONLINE LIKE THE CHANDLER ONE.
DAD IS SO NICE HE KEEPS TELLING ME I LOOK LIKE MY WEIGHT LOSS REALLY SHOWS BUT ON ME, 16 LBS ARE NEGLIGIBLE.
I NEED TO LOSE ABOUT 30 MORE TO REALLY LOOK BETTER.
DAD LOST ABOUT 25 LBS NO PROBLEM THEN HE ATE PAMNCAKES AND GAINED 5 LBS BACK IN ONE WEEK WE JUST CANNOT EAT CARBS THEY DESTROY US.
WHITE FLOUR AND SUGAR AND CRORN SYRUP LIKE THEY USE IN MOST FOODS ARE THE WORST THIGN FOR WEGHT GAIN. SO WE ARE BACK ON FRESH FRUITS VEGGIES AND PURE PROTEINS. THOSE A RE REAL CHARM WORKERS. THE SOUTH BEACH DIET I MODIFIED IT TO FIT OUR FRIDGE CONTENST AND WE NEVER BUY BAD THINGS ANYMORE.
WELP ILL SEEYALL LATER GOTTA GO WATCH TV I HAVE BEEN PLAYIONG ON HERE LONG ENOUGH.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
MORE MOVIES
WE SAW THE INFORMANT YESTERDAY, IF IT WASNT TRUE IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY AND WE LAUGHED ANYWAY. SILLY GUY!! I AM WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIG MOVIE NOW. WE LOVE OUR FRIDAY AFTERNOONS WHEN THERE'S A MOVIE WE WANT TO SEE AND OUR LUNCH OUT AT MIMI'S CUZ DAD LOVES THEIR COFFEE.
WE HAVE 4 BIG BIRTHDAYS TO CELEBRATE THIS MONTH, THE TWINS AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER AND HER HUBBY.
I LOVE BIRTHDAYS IT IS A GOOD TIME FOR GIFTING AND EATING HAHAH. I WISH THE TWINS WERE FREE FOR LUNCH BUT NOW THEY HAVE SCHOOL ALL THE TIME. PLUS THEIR WONDERFUL FAMILY HAS PLANS FOR THEM. I AM ALWAYS SO HAPPY TO SEE A FAMILY THAT IS HAPPY AND TOGETHER.
GIVES ME HOPE AND MAKES ME SEE GOD'S GRACE MORE.
GIFTS ARE SIMPLE BUT FULL OF LOVE.
TOMORROW MY KIDS AND MY GOOD SON ARE COMING TO VISIT. I LOVE THEM ALL A LOT.
WE HAVE 4 BIG BIRTHDAYS TO CELEBRATE THIS MONTH, THE TWINS AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER AND HER HUBBY.
I LOVE BIRTHDAYS IT IS A GOOD TIME FOR GIFTING AND EATING HAHAH. I WISH THE TWINS WERE FREE FOR LUNCH BUT NOW THEY HAVE SCHOOL ALL THE TIME. PLUS THEIR WONDERFUL FAMILY HAS PLANS FOR THEM. I AM ALWAYS SO HAPPY TO SEE A FAMILY THAT IS HAPPY AND TOGETHER.
GIVES ME HOPE AND MAKES ME SEE GOD'S GRACE MORE.
GIFTS ARE SIMPLE BUT FULL OF LOVE.
TOMORROW MY KIDS AND MY GOOD SON ARE COMING TO VISIT. I LOVE THEM ALL A LOT.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN
TODAY I AWAKENED AT 5:30 AM
AND I WATCHED TV THEN I WENT ONLINE AND NOW ITS 8:18 AM SOON WE WILL GOTO CHANDLER AND THEN COME HOME AFTER SHOPPING FOR A COUPLE OF THINGS WE CANT GET HERE. WE NEED A TRADER JOE'S HERE BUT I DOUBT THEY WILL ADD ANOTHER STORE DURING THIS TIME OF AUSTERITY FOR BUSINESS.
THEY HAVE DECENT PRICES ON FOOD MORE SO THAN LOCAL STORES. ALSO ITS MORE HEALTH COSNCIOUS. AND THEY SELL ECOLOGICALLY CORRECT PRODUCTS. WE GET THEIR WASHING LIQUID FOR HALF THE COST OF GROCERS STORES.
EGGS MILK AND CREAM ARE HALF PRICE AS WELL. MOST OF THEIR STUFF IS. I LOVE TO SUPPORT OUR LOACAL DEALERS BUT I NEED TO SAVE MONEY MORE THAN BEING LOYAL TO THEM.
I THINK EVERYOEN THINKS THIS WAY.
I HAVE NOTICED THAT MOST MEATS IN OUR LOCAL STORES ARE DROM MEXICO CANADA AND AUSTRALIA , WELL, I REFUSE TO BUY MEAT EXCEPT FROM TH MIDWEST. IF THEY DONT CARRY IT I DONT EAT IT. TRADER JOES ALSO HAVE IMPORTED MEATS SO I DONT BUY ANY THERE. AND SURPRISINGLY, WALMART DOES CARRY AMERICAN GROWN MEATS. AND VEGGIES. I WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT. BUT I HAVE BECOME MOSTLY A VEGEATARIAN EXCEPT FOR BACON FOR BREAKFAST AND AN OCCASIONAL TURKEY SALAD. OH, AND SANDWICH.
IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO SERVE HEALTHY MEALS ANYMORE , SO MUCH CORN SYRUP IN EVERYTHING. SALAD DRESSINGS AND CATSUP, AND ANY PREPARED FOODS ARE FULL OF CORN SYRUP. BEWARE. THAT IS VERY FATTENING AND UNHEALTHY.
FROZEN MEALS ARE FULL FO SALT AND SUGAR THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM PALATABLE. I NOTICED AT MIMI'S THEY OTHER DAY ONE COOK SERVES CABBAGE SALAD WITH HONEY ADDED THE 0THER DOES NOT AND I CAN TASTE THE DIFFERENCE I WAS GIFTED WITH A VERY GOOD NOSE WHICH MEANS I HAVE GOOD TASTE BUDS I SMELL WELL AND TASTE WELL OF EVERYTHING AND I WONT EAT ANYTHING NASTY.
EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD ODORS HAVE AFFECTED ME VERY INTENSELY. I READ SOEMWHERE THAT AS YOU GAGE YORU SMELLER GOES BAD THANK GOODNESS MINE IS STILL A 1. OK ILL TELL YOU MORE STUFF LATER.
OH AND I WENT AND SAID A MEAN THING ABOUT ALL REPUBLICANS AFTER I READ THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT THE 2 MINISTERS WHO WERE PRAYING FOR OBAMA'S DEATH WELL ALL OF THEM ARENT MEAN JUST THOSE THAT KEEP TEARING HIM DOWN LIKE JOE WILSON AND BILL O'REILLY AND SARAH PALIN AND ROVE AND THOSE GUYS WHO ARE CRIMINALS WHO SERVED UNDER BUSH 2 WELL THERE ARE A LOT OF LOW CLASS REPUBLICANS BUT MOST ARE DECENT PEOPLE AND A LOT ARE DELUDED BY THE LYING BIG CORPORATIONS WHO HAVE THEM UNDER THEIR THUMBS MENTALLY THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT FIGHTING TO NOT HAVE HEALTH CARE IS INSANE I WAS IN AMSTERDAM AND FOUND THEIR HEALTH CARE SUPERB IF ONLY WE DID THAT. AND THEY ARE QUITE WEALTHY TOO IT HAS NOT TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR LIFESTYLES.
AND I WATCHED TV THEN I WENT ONLINE AND NOW ITS 8:18 AM SOON WE WILL GOTO CHANDLER AND THEN COME HOME AFTER SHOPPING FOR A COUPLE OF THINGS WE CANT GET HERE. WE NEED A TRADER JOE'S HERE BUT I DOUBT THEY WILL ADD ANOTHER STORE DURING THIS TIME OF AUSTERITY FOR BUSINESS.
THEY HAVE DECENT PRICES ON FOOD MORE SO THAN LOCAL STORES. ALSO ITS MORE HEALTH COSNCIOUS. AND THEY SELL ECOLOGICALLY CORRECT PRODUCTS. WE GET THEIR WASHING LIQUID FOR HALF THE COST OF GROCERS STORES.
EGGS MILK AND CREAM ARE HALF PRICE AS WELL. MOST OF THEIR STUFF IS. I LOVE TO SUPPORT OUR LOACAL DEALERS BUT I NEED TO SAVE MONEY MORE THAN BEING LOYAL TO THEM.
I THINK EVERYOEN THINKS THIS WAY.
I HAVE NOTICED THAT MOST MEATS IN OUR LOCAL STORES ARE DROM MEXICO CANADA AND AUSTRALIA , WELL, I REFUSE TO BUY MEAT EXCEPT FROM TH MIDWEST. IF THEY DONT CARRY IT I DONT EAT IT. TRADER JOES ALSO HAVE IMPORTED MEATS SO I DONT BUY ANY THERE. AND SURPRISINGLY, WALMART DOES CARRY AMERICAN GROWN MEATS. AND VEGGIES. I WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT. BUT I HAVE BECOME MOSTLY A VEGEATARIAN EXCEPT FOR BACON FOR BREAKFAST AND AN OCCASIONAL TURKEY SALAD. OH, AND SANDWICH.
IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO SERVE HEALTHY MEALS ANYMORE , SO MUCH CORN SYRUP IN EVERYTHING. SALAD DRESSINGS AND CATSUP, AND ANY PREPARED FOODS ARE FULL OF CORN SYRUP. BEWARE. THAT IS VERY FATTENING AND UNHEALTHY.
FROZEN MEALS ARE FULL FO SALT AND SUGAR THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM PALATABLE. I NOTICED AT MIMI'S THEY OTHER DAY ONE COOK SERVES CABBAGE SALAD WITH HONEY ADDED THE 0THER DOES NOT AND I CAN TASTE THE DIFFERENCE I WAS GIFTED WITH A VERY GOOD NOSE WHICH MEANS I HAVE GOOD TASTE BUDS I SMELL WELL AND TASTE WELL OF EVERYTHING AND I WONT EAT ANYTHING NASTY.
EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD ODORS HAVE AFFECTED ME VERY INTENSELY. I READ SOEMWHERE THAT AS YOU GAGE YORU SMELLER GOES BAD THANK GOODNESS MINE IS STILL A 1. OK ILL TELL YOU MORE STUFF LATER.
OH AND I WENT AND SAID A MEAN THING ABOUT ALL REPUBLICANS AFTER I READ THOSE ARTICLES ABOUT THE 2 MINISTERS WHO WERE PRAYING FOR OBAMA'S DEATH WELL ALL OF THEM ARENT MEAN JUST THOSE THAT KEEP TEARING HIM DOWN LIKE JOE WILSON AND BILL O'REILLY AND SARAH PALIN AND ROVE AND THOSE GUYS WHO ARE CRIMINALS WHO SERVED UNDER BUSH 2 WELL THERE ARE A LOT OF LOW CLASS REPUBLICANS BUT MOST ARE DECENT PEOPLE AND A LOT ARE DELUDED BY THE LYING BIG CORPORATIONS WHO HAVE THEM UNDER THEIR THUMBS MENTALLY THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT FIGHTING TO NOT HAVE HEALTH CARE IS INSANE I WAS IN AMSTERDAM AND FOUND THEIR HEALTH CARE SUPERB IF ONLY WE DID THAT. AND THEY ARE QUITE WEALTHY TOO IT HAS NOT TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR LIFESTYLES.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
SYNCHRONICITIES
FOR THE PAST WEEK I HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING A SERIES OF SYNCHRONOUS EVENTS THAT HAVE AMAZED ME.
I WILL START WITH THE MOST CURRENT : THE PROPHECIES OF ST. MALACHY THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT THE PROPHECIES MADE BY AN OLD IRISH SAINT WAY BACK WHEN IN THE 1400S I BELIEVE.
THIS COVERS THE POPES FROM BEGINNING TO THE PRESENT. AND THE BOOK I READ WAS PUBLISHED IN 1969 AND BASED ON THE OLD PROPHECIES.
WHAT AMAZED ME WAS THAT WHEN I FIRST GOT THE BOOK IN 1969 THE POPE WAS PAUL VI HE DIED IN 1978 WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL 1 WAS ELECTED AND DIED 33 DAYS AFTER AND IT WAS BELIEVED BY EVERYONE HE WAS MURDERED BECAUSE HE PLANNED TO REORGANIZE THE BANKS THAT WERE VERY MESSED UP AND WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MAFIA WHO SEEMED TO CONTROL A LOT OF THE VATICAN'S MONEY. THERE WERE MANY BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT ALL THIS I WON'T RECANT THEM THEY ARE IN THE BOOK STORES AND LIBRARIES.
AFTER HIM CAME JOHN PAUL II WHO WAS MORE CONSERVATIVE AND OBVIOUSLY MORE AGREEABLE WITH THE STATUS QUO. AND LASTLY IS POPE BENEDICT WHO ACCORDING TO ST. MALACHY'S PROPHESIES IS THE LAST POPE.
HOWEVER, ONE NAMED THERE IS ONE MENTIONED AT THE END CALLED PETRUS ROMANUS WHO WILL COME TO MINISTER TO HUMANITY IN THE DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD.
NEXT ON MY LIST :
BARNES AND NOBLE'S MAGAZINE COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT CALLED: SECRETS OF ANGELS AND DEMONS THE UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO DAN BROWNS NEW NOVEL PLUS MYSTERIES OF THE VATICAN.
THIS COVERS THE ILLUMINATI, THE FREEMASONS AND THE OPUS DEI. ALSO IN THIS MAGAZINE IS A REFERENCE TO THE GOD GENE . A SCIENTIST TESTS PEOPLE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND FINDS IT EXISTS .
A VERY INTERESTING MAGAZINE AND I AM GLAD TO HAVE PURCHASED IT I HAVE A LOT MORE TO READ IN THERE ABOUT EVOLUTION AND RELIGION ETC.
I ALSO HAD A SERIES OF EXPERIENCES THIS WEEK THAT LEFT ME IN WONDER BUT WHICH I DON'T REALLY WISH TO SHARE IN MY BLOG BUT THEY WERE SPIRITUAL IN NATURE AND I FELT CLOSER TO GOD THAN EVER.
ALSO, AMONG MY EXPERIENCES WERE SEVERAL THINGS HOOKING UP TO PARALLEL UNIVERSES INCLUDING THE PROGRAM ON CHANNEL 10 FOX ON THIS SUBJECT.
ANYWAY I AM EXCITED AND ALSO I SAW MY OWN PREJUDICES SHOWING AND CAN NOW RELEASE THEM FROM MY MIND .
BEING ONE WAY BLOCKS MY CREATIVE MIND FROM FUNCTIONING SO I HAD TO LET IT GO. IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT EVIL OTHERS MAY DO IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME IT IS THEIR SOUL THAT'S EFFECTED NOT MINE UNLESS I RESPOND TO IT THEN I AM DRAWN IN BY IT.
AND NOW I CAN LET GO AND I'M HAPPY ABOUT IT.
I AM READING A ,OT ABOUT SPIRITUAL MATTERS AND ILL WRITE MORE LATER.
I WILL START WITH THE MOST CURRENT : THE PROPHECIES OF ST. MALACHY THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT THE PROPHECIES MADE BY AN OLD IRISH SAINT WAY BACK WHEN IN THE 1400S I BELIEVE.
THIS COVERS THE POPES FROM BEGINNING TO THE PRESENT. AND THE BOOK I READ WAS PUBLISHED IN 1969 AND BASED ON THE OLD PROPHECIES.
WHAT AMAZED ME WAS THAT WHEN I FIRST GOT THE BOOK IN 1969 THE POPE WAS PAUL VI HE DIED IN 1978 WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL 1 WAS ELECTED AND DIED 33 DAYS AFTER AND IT WAS BELIEVED BY EVERYONE HE WAS MURDERED BECAUSE HE PLANNED TO REORGANIZE THE BANKS THAT WERE VERY MESSED UP AND WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MAFIA WHO SEEMED TO CONTROL A LOT OF THE VATICAN'S MONEY. THERE WERE MANY BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT ALL THIS I WON'T RECANT THEM THEY ARE IN THE BOOK STORES AND LIBRARIES.
AFTER HIM CAME JOHN PAUL II WHO WAS MORE CONSERVATIVE AND OBVIOUSLY MORE AGREEABLE WITH THE STATUS QUO. AND LASTLY IS POPE BENEDICT WHO ACCORDING TO ST. MALACHY'S PROPHESIES IS THE LAST POPE.
HOWEVER, ONE NAMED THERE IS ONE MENTIONED AT THE END CALLED PETRUS ROMANUS WHO WILL COME TO MINISTER TO HUMANITY IN THE DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD.
NEXT ON MY LIST :
BARNES AND NOBLE'S MAGAZINE COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT CALLED: SECRETS OF ANGELS AND DEMONS THE UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO DAN BROWNS NEW NOVEL PLUS MYSTERIES OF THE VATICAN.
THIS COVERS THE ILLUMINATI, THE FREEMASONS AND THE OPUS DEI. ALSO IN THIS MAGAZINE IS A REFERENCE TO THE GOD GENE . A SCIENTIST TESTS PEOPLE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND FINDS IT EXISTS .
A VERY INTERESTING MAGAZINE AND I AM GLAD TO HAVE PURCHASED IT I HAVE A LOT MORE TO READ IN THERE ABOUT EVOLUTION AND RELIGION ETC.
I ALSO HAD A SERIES OF EXPERIENCES THIS WEEK THAT LEFT ME IN WONDER BUT WHICH I DON'T REALLY WISH TO SHARE IN MY BLOG BUT THEY WERE SPIRITUAL IN NATURE AND I FELT CLOSER TO GOD THAN EVER.
ALSO, AMONG MY EXPERIENCES WERE SEVERAL THINGS HOOKING UP TO PARALLEL UNIVERSES INCLUDING THE PROGRAM ON CHANNEL 10 FOX ON THIS SUBJECT.
ANYWAY I AM EXCITED AND ALSO I SAW MY OWN PREJUDICES SHOWING AND CAN NOW RELEASE THEM FROM MY MIND .
BEING ONE WAY BLOCKS MY CREATIVE MIND FROM FUNCTIONING SO I HAD TO LET IT GO. IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT EVIL OTHERS MAY DO IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME IT IS THEIR SOUL THAT'S EFFECTED NOT MINE UNLESS I RESPOND TO IT THEN I AM DRAWN IN BY IT.
AND NOW I CAN LET GO AND I'M HAPPY ABOUT IT.
I AM READING A ,OT ABOUT SPIRITUAL MATTERS AND ILL WRITE MORE LATER.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ME
WHEN I WAS LITTLE I REMEMBER MY MOM TELLING ME THAT WE HAD TO COVER THE WINDOWS WITH BLACK COVERS BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS GOING TO DROP BAGS OF FLOUR ON OUR HEADS IF WE DIDN'T DO THAT AND COVER UP AND HIDE UNDER THE BEDS. SO I DID.
I WAS LIVING WITH THE NUNS INA HOME WHEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR STARTED FOR AMERICA , THE RADIO SAID THAT THE JAPANESE HAD BOMBED PEARL HARBOR WHICH WAS IN HAWAII IT WAS CONFUSING , IF THEY BOMBED HAWAII WHY WAS AMERICA INTERESTED THEN I HEARD THEY BOMBED OUR SHIPS IN THE HARBOR.
WE HAD BLACKOUTS A LOT AND THEY BLEW SIRENS WHEN THAT WENT ON. IT WAS A CONFUSING TIME FOR US KIDS.
I REMEMBER WE HAD TO USE LITTLE RED TOKENS TO BUY MEAT AT THE STORE AND WE HAD BOOKS WITH STAMPS FOR OTHER FOODS. AND WE WERE ALLOWED 1 PAIR OF SHOES A YEAR WHICH WAS HAVOC FOR GROWING FEET AND THE SHOES WE COULD GET WERE VERY LARGE SOLED AND HEAVY, WE WENT BAREFOOT A LOT THEY WERE SO UNCOMFORTABLE.
THE WORST THING WAS WE COULDN'T GET ANY BUBBLE GUM WHICH WE LOVED.
I ALSO REMEMBER GETTING WHOOPING COUGH IT WAS REALLY AWFUL YOU JUST COULD NEVER STOP COUGHING . THERE WAS NO VACCINE FOR THAT. NOR FOR MEASLES OR CHICKEN POX WE GOT EVERYTHING. AND THE WORST FEAR WAS OF GETTING POLIO SO MANY KIDS GOT IT WE WERE SO LUCKY NONE OF US DID. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAD POLIO AND WAS INA WHEELCHAIR FOR MOST OF THE TIME HE WAS IN OFFICE. BUT, EVERYONE LOVED HIM HE PULLED US OUT OF THE DEPRESSION BY USING THE WPA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION. THE GOVERNMENT STARTED UP WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE STREETS WERE REPAIRED STATE PARKS WERE MADE UP TO BE USED. EVEN IN SOME CITIES TODAY IN SACRAMENTO CA. YOU CAN SEE SIDEWALKS WITH WPA ON THEM.
MY FIRST MEMORIES WERE OF THESE TIMES AFTER MY MEMORY OF GRAMPA AND UNCLE ALFONSO WHO USED TO TAKE OUR PICTURES ALL THE TIME.
I CAN REMEMBER AS A SMALL BABY MY UNCLE TAKING MY PICTURE IN A SMALL TUB BABIES ARE BATHED IN WITH A BAR OF IVORY SITTING IN FRONT OF IT MY MOM AND UNCLE SENT MY PICTURE TO MANY BUSINESSES IN HOPES I COULD GET A JOB AS A BABY MODEL HAHHA.
I HAVE ABOUT 2 PICTURES OF THAT TIME LEFT. I WAS A CUTE BABY I LOOKED VERY WISE. BIG EYES. AND EVIDENTLY HAD LONG LASHES AS ONCE A LADY TOLD MY MOM HOW BEAUTIFUL AND LONG THEY WERE AND I WENT AND GOT SOME SCISSORS AND CUT THEM OFF I WAS ABOUT 3 OR 4 YRS OLD THEN. MY MOTHER WAS FRIGHTENED OUT OF HER MIND SHE YELLED AT ME AND SAID I COULD HAVE POKED MY EYES OUT SHE WAS SO SCARED.
I STARTED BEING A WISE ASS AT AVERY EARLY TIME. I ALSO CLIMBED A HUGE COTTONWOOD TREE TO THE TOP WITH MY BIG BROTHER ND YELLED DOWN TO MOM SAYING "HI MAMA"
SHE SCREAMED IN FEAR AND SAID I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF HAHA WE LAUGHED AND CLIMBED HIGHER. THE TREE WAS ABOUT 40 TO 50 FT TALL.
I WAS LIVING WITH THE NUNS INA HOME WHEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR STARTED FOR AMERICA , THE RADIO SAID THAT THE JAPANESE HAD BOMBED PEARL HARBOR WHICH WAS IN HAWAII IT WAS CONFUSING , IF THEY BOMBED HAWAII WHY WAS AMERICA INTERESTED THEN I HEARD THEY BOMBED OUR SHIPS IN THE HARBOR.
WE HAD BLACKOUTS A LOT AND THEY BLEW SIRENS WHEN THAT WENT ON. IT WAS A CONFUSING TIME FOR US KIDS.
I REMEMBER WE HAD TO USE LITTLE RED TOKENS TO BUY MEAT AT THE STORE AND WE HAD BOOKS WITH STAMPS FOR OTHER FOODS. AND WE WERE ALLOWED 1 PAIR OF SHOES A YEAR WHICH WAS HAVOC FOR GROWING FEET AND THE SHOES WE COULD GET WERE VERY LARGE SOLED AND HEAVY, WE WENT BAREFOOT A LOT THEY WERE SO UNCOMFORTABLE.
THE WORST THING WAS WE COULDN'T GET ANY BUBBLE GUM WHICH WE LOVED.
I ALSO REMEMBER GETTING WHOOPING COUGH IT WAS REALLY AWFUL YOU JUST COULD NEVER STOP COUGHING . THERE WAS NO VACCINE FOR THAT. NOR FOR MEASLES OR CHICKEN POX WE GOT EVERYTHING. AND THE WORST FEAR WAS OF GETTING POLIO SO MANY KIDS GOT IT WE WERE SO LUCKY NONE OF US DID. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAD POLIO AND WAS INA WHEELCHAIR FOR MOST OF THE TIME HE WAS IN OFFICE. BUT, EVERYONE LOVED HIM HE PULLED US OUT OF THE DEPRESSION BY USING THE WPA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION. THE GOVERNMENT STARTED UP WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE STREETS WERE REPAIRED STATE PARKS WERE MADE UP TO BE USED. EVEN IN SOME CITIES TODAY IN SACRAMENTO CA. YOU CAN SEE SIDEWALKS WITH WPA ON THEM.
MY FIRST MEMORIES WERE OF THESE TIMES AFTER MY MEMORY OF GRAMPA AND UNCLE ALFONSO WHO USED TO TAKE OUR PICTURES ALL THE TIME.
I CAN REMEMBER AS A SMALL BABY MY UNCLE TAKING MY PICTURE IN A SMALL TUB BABIES ARE BATHED IN WITH A BAR OF IVORY SITTING IN FRONT OF IT MY MOM AND UNCLE SENT MY PICTURE TO MANY BUSINESSES IN HOPES I COULD GET A JOB AS A BABY MODEL HAHHA.
I HAVE ABOUT 2 PICTURES OF THAT TIME LEFT. I WAS A CUTE BABY I LOOKED VERY WISE. BIG EYES. AND EVIDENTLY HAD LONG LASHES AS ONCE A LADY TOLD MY MOM HOW BEAUTIFUL AND LONG THEY WERE AND I WENT AND GOT SOME SCISSORS AND CUT THEM OFF I WAS ABOUT 3 OR 4 YRS OLD THEN. MY MOTHER WAS FRIGHTENED OUT OF HER MIND SHE YELLED AT ME AND SAID I COULD HAVE POKED MY EYES OUT SHE WAS SO SCARED.
I STARTED BEING A WISE ASS AT AVERY EARLY TIME. I ALSO CLIMBED A HUGE COTTONWOOD TREE TO THE TOP WITH MY BIG BROTHER ND YELLED DOWN TO MOM SAYING "HI MAMA"
SHE SCREAMED IN FEAR AND SAID I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF HAHA WE LAUGHED AND CLIMBED HIGHER. THE TREE WAS ABOUT 40 TO 50 FT TALL.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
WHY DO I ALWAYS HIT WRONG KEYS? ITS ANNOYING IM A GREAT SPELLER WHAT IS IT? IS IT MY CROOKED FINGERS. A NEWLY DEVELOPED DYSLEXIA OLD AGE KIND?
AHH MYSTERY
AHH MYSTERY
LOVELY BONES
LAST YEAR OR SO I READ THIS BOOK CALLED "LOVELY BONES" ABOUT A SMALL GIRL WHO IS MURDERED AND SHE IS THE ONE TELLING THE STORY . WELL , THEY ARE MAKING A MOVIE FROM THIS TALE.
I AM READING A BOOK STILL BY PHILIP DICK AND ONE BY LUIS MIGUEL ROCHA ABOUT THE LAST POPE.
AND THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS IM GOING TO START SOON. I READ THAT IN THE 70S WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE. IT WAS IN MY ROBERT ATIN WILSON DAYS THE ONE I STILL READ.
I GOT A COPY OF ILLUSIONS "THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH" FOR MY TWIN FRIENDS .
IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND SPIRITUAL STORY, MY # 3 SON AND I READ IT TOGETHER ONCE IN OUR CABIN IN THE REDWOODS BY THE OCEAN. WE TRIED SOME OF THE EXERCISES AND IT WAS VERY MUCH FUN. ONE WAS HOW TO MAKE A CLOUD DISPAPEAR AND ONE WAS FOR GETTING A BLUE FEATHER.
TODAY HE HAS LITTLE MEMORY OF THIS TIME BUT IT WILL LIVE IN MY MEMORY FOREVER.
MY SON WAS SUCH A GENIUS... WE HAD NO ELECTRICITY EXCEPT A GENERATOR WE USED TO USE POWER TOOLS ON AND TO WASH CLOTHES IN AN OLD WASH MACHINE THAT HAD A WRINGER TO SQUEEZE OUT THE WATER. WHAT FUN THAT WAS AT FIRST AND HOW OLD IT GOT AFTER AWHILE.
BACK TO SON # 3 HE TOOK A RADIO AND TAPE PLAYER THAT WORKED ON AC CURRENT AND CONVERTED IT SO IT RAN OFF A CAR BATTERY AND SOLAR POWER.
WHAT AN AMAZING YOUNG BOY. ALL HIS LIFE HE WAS DELIGHTED BY MAZES AND MADE SOME UP AND WHEN HE SAW PIPES GOING IN MANY DIRECTIONS AS A SMALL BOY HE WAS FASCIANTED, AND HE WAS THE VERY FIRST KID TO HAVE A COMPUTER THAT WAS IN 1976 WHEN FEW LAPTOPS WERE BEING MADE. AND THEY WERE EXPENSIVE WE GOT A COMMODORE FOR HIM AND AN ATARI LATER. HE WROTE GAMES AND PROGRAMS AND WAS SO HAPPY WITH HIS COMPUTER I AM GLAD WE GAVE HIM THAT TODAY HE WORKS ON SAT COM SYSTEMS ALTHO I'M DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT.
I DO KNOW IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH COMPUTERS STUFFS.
I AM READING A BOOK STILL BY PHILIP DICK AND ONE BY LUIS MIGUEL ROCHA ABOUT THE LAST POPE.
AND THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS IM GOING TO START SOON. I READ THAT IN THE 70S WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE. IT WAS IN MY ROBERT ATIN WILSON DAYS THE ONE I STILL READ.
I GOT A COPY OF ILLUSIONS "THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH" FOR MY TWIN FRIENDS .
IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND SPIRITUAL STORY, MY # 3 SON AND I READ IT TOGETHER ONCE IN OUR CABIN IN THE REDWOODS BY THE OCEAN. WE TRIED SOME OF THE EXERCISES AND IT WAS VERY MUCH FUN. ONE WAS HOW TO MAKE A CLOUD DISPAPEAR AND ONE WAS FOR GETTING A BLUE FEATHER.
TODAY HE HAS LITTLE MEMORY OF THIS TIME BUT IT WILL LIVE IN MY MEMORY FOREVER.
MY SON WAS SUCH A GENIUS... WE HAD NO ELECTRICITY EXCEPT A GENERATOR WE USED TO USE POWER TOOLS ON AND TO WASH CLOTHES IN AN OLD WASH MACHINE THAT HAD A WRINGER TO SQUEEZE OUT THE WATER. WHAT FUN THAT WAS AT FIRST AND HOW OLD IT GOT AFTER AWHILE.
BACK TO SON # 3 HE TOOK A RADIO AND TAPE PLAYER THAT WORKED ON AC CURRENT AND CONVERTED IT SO IT RAN OFF A CAR BATTERY AND SOLAR POWER.
WHAT AN AMAZING YOUNG BOY. ALL HIS LIFE HE WAS DELIGHTED BY MAZES AND MADE SOME UP AND WHEN HE SAW PIPES GOING IN MANY DIRECTIONS AS A SMALL BOY HE WAS FASCIANTED, AND HE WAS THE VERY FIRST KID TO HAVE A COMPUTER THAT WAS IN 1976 WHEN FEW LAPTOPS WERE BEING MADE. AND THEY WERE EXPENSIVE WE GOT A COMMODORE FOR HIM AND AN ATARI LATER. HE WROTE GAMES AND PROGRAMS AND WAS SO HAPPY WITH HIS COMPUTER I AM GLAD WE GAVE HIM THAT TODAY HE WORKS ON SAT COM SYSTEMS ALTHO I'M DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT.
I DO KNOW IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH COMPUTERS STUFFS.
AAARGH CUTICLE OPERATION ON DAD
TODAY DAD PULLED UP A CHAIR BY MY COMPUTER DESK AND SAID WHEN YOU HAVE A BREAK.. I WAS PLAYING BEJEWELED HAHAH.. HE HANDED ME AN 18 INCH FLASHLIGHT AND THE LONG NOSED PLIERS... HE WANTED ME TO YANK A CUTICLE OFF HIS LITTLE TOE. I COULDNT DO IT KNOWING HOW HE WAS GONNA PAY FOR IT LATER.. RESIGNED, HE SAID WELL THEN ILL JUST PUT A BANDAID ON IT I SAID IT WAS A GOOD IDEA AND TOLD HIM TO LOTION IT UP FIRST AND THE SOFT NESS WOULD CAUSE IT TO LAY DOWN AND EVENTIUALLY GROW BACK AND NOT HURT ANYMORE.
AYAYAY I WORRY ABOUT HOW ECCENTRIC HE CAN GET ON ME. YESTERDAY HE WANTED TO GO TO THE DENTIST AND HAVE MAJOR IMPLANTS TODAY HE CANCELLED IT. IMPULSIVE LIKE A KID HE IS. GOOD THING IM A SAINT.
AYAYAY I WORRY ABOUT HOW ECCENTRIC HE CAN GET ON ME. YESTERDAY HE WANTED TO GO TO THE DENTIST AND HAVE MAJOR IMPLANTS TODAY HE CANCELLED IT. IMPULSIVE LIKE A KID HE IS. GOOD THING IM A SAINT.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
OK TIME FOR FUN
I NOTICE MY LAST THREE ENTRIES ARE CRABBY, SO I DECIDE TO MAYBE HAVE A CHEERY ONE.
WHEN OUR DAUGHTER DIED IN 1984 OUR NEIGHBORS HAD THEIR SON MOVE IN WITH THEM HE HAD 2 LITTLE GIRLS ONE WAS 4 AND A BABY OF 6 MONTHS. WELL THE GRANDMOTHER HAD A JOB DOING MEDICARE BILLING FOR DOCTORS AND SHE NEEDED SOMEONE TO CARE FOR THIS BABY THE 4 YR OLD WAS IN MONTESSORI SCHOOL .
BOTH OF THESE LITTLE GIRLS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL WITH BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES AND A CERTAIN SWEETNESS AND INNOCENCE ABOUT THEM.
I ASKED IF I MIGHT CARE FOR THE BABY BECAUSE I WAS IN A STATE OF GRIEVING FOR MY DAUGHTER AND I COULD NOT WORK AT MY PROFESSION AS IT WAS TOO STRESSFUL AT THIS TIME. THE GRANDMA WAS DELIGHTED BECAUSE I HAVE HAD SO MUCH TRIANING IN CHILD BEHAVIORISM.
WELL, ANYWAY I TOOK CARE OF THIS LOVELY BABY FOR 1 YEAR UNTIL I HAD RECOVERED ENOUGH TO RETURN TO MY WORK. BUT THIS LITTLE ANGEL SAVED ME AND MY MIND AND HELPED TO EASE THE PAIN OF LOSS OF MY CHILD. TO GET ON WITH THE STORY, WE WOULD TAKE HER ALL OVER THE DOWNTOWN AREA IN HER STROLLER AND WE'D GOTO COFFEE SHOPS SHOPPING AND PLAYGROUNDS AND PARKS WITH HER WE SPENT AT LEAST 4 HOURS A DAY WHISKING HER AORUND AND SHE LOVED IT AND SOON ALL THE DOWNTOWNERS KNEW HER ON SIGHT, SHE WAS SUCHA SWEET TEMPERED LITTLE BABY NEVER CAUSE D ANY TROUBLE OR ANXIETY. PURE PLEASURE TO HAVE HER.
WELL AFTER I WENT BACK TO WORK SHE WENT TO A DAYCARE CENTER RUN BY A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR WORKING MOMS AND SHE LOVED IT. BUT WE STILL TOOK HER OUT EVERY WEEKEND IN HER STROLLER AND SAW HER ALMOST DAILY AND GRANDMA AND I TALKED ABOUT HER PROUDLY AND WATCHED HER GROW AND LEARN SUCH A TREAT!! HER FIRST CHGRISTMAS I VIDEOTAPED IT SHE GOT A PRESENT AND HER SISTER HAD TO OPEN IT FOR HER AND WHEN IT WAS OPEN SHE WAS DELIGHTED AND SHE HAPPILY SAID " A BOCK A BOCK!" A BOX SHE WAS SO DELIGHTED TO GET A BOX SHE DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A PRESENT IN IT . WHAT A DOLL!
THIS WENT ON FOR A FEW YEARS AND EVEN AT AGE 4 SHE WOULD PUSH HER STROLLER OVER TO OUR HOUSE AND ASK FOR A WALK!
ONCE, SHE SPENT THE NIGHT WITH US AND HER SISTER LAUGHED AND SAID TO US? SLEEP HAHAH YOU ARE IN FOR A SURPRISE! WHEN WE WENT TO BED SHE BEGAN TO PLAY AND DAD TOLD HER "NO AMANDA ITS TIME TO SLEEP NO PLAYIGN NOW" AND SHE WENT TO SLEEP. WE DISCOVERED THAT SHE DID THIS A LOT AT HOME AND NO ONE WAS GETTING A LOT OF SLEEP THERE . I THINK WHEN WE GOT A HANDLE ON IT FOR THEM IT ALL WORKED OUT!
TODAY SHE IS 25 YEARS OLD AND HAS A BABY BOY OF HER OWN
SHE AND SISTER STILL LIVE WITH THEIR DAD AND GRANDMA HAS GONE TO THE HEREAFTER. SHE WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL WOMAN SUCH A COMFORT TO ME SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SO KIND AND SUPPORTIVE WHEN I LOST MY CHILD I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THAT FAMILY.
WHEN OUR DAUGHTER DIED IN 1984 OUR NEIGHBORS HAD THEIR SON MOVE IN WITH THEM HE HAD 2 LITTLE GIRLS ONE WAS 4 AND A BABY OF 6 MONTHS. WELL THE GRANDMOTHER HAD A JOB DOING MEDICARE BILLING FOR DOCTORS AND SHE NEEDED SOMEONE TO CARE FOR THIS BABY THE 4 YR OLD WAS IN MONTESSORI SCHOOL .
BOTH OF THESE LITTLE GIRLS WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL WITH BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES AND A CERTAIN SWEETNESS AND INNOCENCE ABOUT THEM.
I ASKED IF I MIGHT CARE FOR THE BABY BECAUSE I WAS IN A STATE OF GRIEVING FOR MY DAUGHTER AND I COULD NOT WORK AT MY PROFESSION AS IT WAS TOO STRESSFUL AT THIS TIME. THE GRANDMA WAS DELIGHTED BECAUSE I HAVE HAD SO MUCH TRIANING IN CHILD BEHAVIORISM.
WELL, ANYWAY I TOOK CARE OF THIS LOVELY BABY FOR 1 YEAR UNTIL I HAD RECOVERED ENOUGH TO RETURN TO MY WORK. BUT THIS LITTLE ANGEL SAVED ME AND MY MIND AND HELPED TO EASE THE PAIN OF LOSS OF MY CHILD. TO GET ON WITH THE STORY, WE WOULD TAKE HER ALL OVER THE DOWNTOWN AREA IN HER STROLLER AND WE'D GOTO COFFEE SHOPS SHOPPING AND PLAYGROUNDS AND PARKS WITH HER WE SPENT AT LEAST 4 HOURS A DAY WHISKING HER AORUND AND SHE LOVED IT AND SOON ALL THE DOWNTOWNERS KNEW HER ON SIGHT, SHE WAS SUCHA SWEET TEMPERED LITTLE BABY NEVER CAUSE D ANY TROUBLE OR ANXIETY. PURE PLEASURE TO HAVE HER.
WELL AFTER I WENT BACK TO WORK SHE WENT TO A DAYCARE CENTER RUN BY A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR WORKING MOMS AND SHE LOVED IT. BUT WE STILL TOOK HER OUT EVERY WEEKEND IN HER STROLLER AND SAW HER ALMOST DAILY AND GRANDMA AND I TALKED ABOUT HER PROUDLY AND WATCHED HER GROW AND LEARN SUCH A TREAT!! HER FIRST CHGRISTMAS I VIDEOTAPED IT SHE GOT A PRESENT AND HER SISTER HAD TO OPEN IT FOR HER AND WHEN IT WAS OPEN SHE WAS DELIGHTED AND SHE HAPPILY SAID " A BOCK A BOCK!" A BOX SHE WAS SO DELIGHTED TO GET A BOX SHE DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A PRESENT IN IT . WHAT A DOLL!
THIS WENT ON FOR A FEW YEARS AND EVEN AT AGE 4 SHE WOULD PUSH HER STROLLER OVER TO OUR HOUSE AND ASK FOR A WALK!
ONCE, SHE SPENT THE NIGHT WITH US AND HER SISTER LAUGHED AND SAID TO US? SLEEP HAHAH YOU ARE IN FOR A SURPRISE! WHEN WE WENT TO BED SHE BEGAN TO PLAY AND DAD TOLD HER "NO AMANDA ITS TIME TO SLEEP NO PLAYIGN NOW" AND SHE WENT TO SLEEP. WE DISCOVERED THAT SHE DID THIS A LOT AT HOME AND NO ONE WAS GETTING A LOT OF SLEEP THERE . I THINK WHEN WE GOT A HANDLE ON IT FOR THEM IT ALL WORKED OUT!
TODAY SHE IS 25 YEARS OLD AND HAS A BABY BOY OF HER OWN
SHE AND SISTER STILL LIVE WITH THEIR DAD AND GRANDMA HAS GONE TO THE HEREAFTER. SHE WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL WOMAN SUCH A COMFORT TO ME SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SO KIND AND SUPPORTIVE WHEN I LOST MY CHILD I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THAT FAMILY.
NAME CHANGES
LAST WEEK I GOT THIS FLYER FOR CAR SALES FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHOEVER SENT IT PUT A SCREWED UP NAME ON IT NOT MINE AT ALL I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE HE FOUND THAT NAME AND HOOKED IT UP TO MY ADDRESS.
I GET SO TIRED OF PEOPLE SCREWING M WITH MY NAME. DURAN IS A VERY OLD NAME THAT CAME OVER FROM SPAIN WITH THE CONQUISTADORES AND ITS MINE AND I AIM TO KEEP IT ALIVE. REMEMBER MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE TREASURER OF NEW MEXICO TERRITORY AND THAT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS A WEALTHY AND REKNOWNED MAN IN HIS DAY AND RIGHTLY SO, OUR FAMILY HAD WEALTH UNTIL THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE 20S AND EARLY THIRTIES.
MY GRANDFATHER OWNED A SERVICE WITH HORSES AND MAIL AND FREIGHT MOVING UNTIL THE AUTOMOBILES CAME INTO FASHION. IM TELLING YOU I DO NOT WANT MY NAME CHANGED SO STOP IT. PEOPLE TRY TO SHORTEN IT CHANGE IT, MESS WITH IT AND I REALLY REALLY HATE THAT.
I GET SO TIRED OF PEOPLE SCREWING M WITH MY NAME. DURAN IS A VERY OLD NAME THAT CAME OVER FROM SPAIN WITH THE CONQUISTADORES AND ITS MINE AND I AIM TO KEEP IT ALIVE. REMEMBER MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE TREASURER OF NEW MEXICO TERRITORY AND THAT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS A WEALTHY AND REKNOWNED MAN IN HIS DAY AND RIGHTLY SO, OUR FAMILY HAD WEALTH UNTIL THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE 20S AND EARLY THIRTIES.
MY GRANDFATHER OWNED A SERVICE WITH HORSES AND MAIL AND FREIGHT MOVING UNTIL THE AUTOMOBILES CAME INTO FASHION. IM TELLING YOU I DO NOT WANT MY NAME CHANGED SO STOP IT. PEOPLE TRY TO SHORTEN IT CHANGE IT, MESS WITH IT AND I REALLY REALLY HATE THAT.
AAARGH THAT DAD... AGAIN
THIS MORNING DAD FUSSES FOR ME TO MAKE COPIES OF MATH WORKSHEETS FOR HIS WOMAN HE'S SPOSE TO TUTOR , AND THEN DISCOVERS ITS NOT TIL TOMORROW AFTER I RUSHED TO DO IT.I HAVE A STACK OF THINGS HE WANTS COPIES OF BY MY PRINTER...BLANK WILL PAPERS HE HAS TO DO A WILL WE ALREADY KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN BUT NOOOOO HE PESTERS ME ABOUT ONCE EVERY 2 YEARS HE HASSLES ABOUT IT.
I JUST HATE TO WRITE WILLS THERE IS JUST SO MUCH WE HAVE AND WHO REALLY NEEDS IT? EXCEPT FOR THE CASH OF COURSE AND OUR HOUSE . WE HAVE 2 SONS AND 1 GRANDDAUGHTER AND THEY GET EQUAL SHARES OF WHATS LEFT AFTER WE CREMATE OURSELVES.
IN FACT HE GOT ON THIS KICK ABOUT LEAVING HIS BODY TO SCIENCE (HAHHA) THEY CUT IT UP AND DO STUFF AND THEN CREMATE THE REMAINS AND TRY TO FIND ME TO DISPOSE OF THEM. I STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT . I PREFER A NICE CLEAN CREMATION AND DISPOSE OF ASHES AT THE RIGHT TIME.
ALL AT ONCE WITH NO FUSS.
MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GAVE HIM THAT IDEA TO START WITH.
I DO NOT LIKE TO HAVE A MESS AT FUNERLAS AND MEMORILAS I NEED A NEAT WAY TO DEAL WITH STUFF SINCE ITS SO PAINFUL AS IT IS.
EVERY TIME HE AND SHE GET TOGETHER MORE INSANITY CREEPS INTO MY LIFE. I JUST WISH THEY'D EAT THEIR MIMI'S FOOD AND NOT PLOT AND SCHEME HOW TO ANNOY ME.
EAT YOUR SUGARY TREATS AND DO NOT HASSLE ME IM HAPPY JUST TO BE LEFT ALONE.
I JUST HATE TO WRITE WILLS THERE IS JUST SO MUCH WE HAVE AND WHO REALLY NEEDS IT? EXCEPT FOR THE CASH OF COURSE AND OUR HOUSE . WE HAVE 2 SONS AND 1 GRANDDAUGHTER AND THEY GET EQUAL SHARES OF WHATS LEFT AFTER WE CREMATE OURSELVES.
IN FACT HE GOT ON THIS KICK ABOUT LEAVING HIS BODY TO SCIENCE (HAHHA) THEY CUT IT UP AND DO STUFF AND THEN CREMATE THE REMAINS AND TRY TO FIND ME TO DISPOSE OF THEM. I STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT . I PREFER A NICE CLEAN CREMATION AND DISPOSE OF ASHES AT THE RIGHT TIME.
ALL AT ONCE WITH NO FUSS.
MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GAVE HIM THAT IDEA TO START WITH.
I DO NOT LIKE TO HAVE A MESS AT FUNERLAS AND MEMORILAS I NEED A NEAT WAY TO DEAL WITH STUFF SINCE ITS SO PAINFUL AS IT IS.
EVERY TIME HE AND SHE GET TOGETHER MORE INSANITY CREEPS INTO MY LIFE. I JUST WISH THEY'D EAT THEIR MIMI'S FOOD AND NOT PLOT AND SCHEME HOW TO ANNOY ME.
EAT YOUR SUGARY TREATS AND DO NOT HASSLE ME IM HAPPY JUST TO BE LEFT ALONE.
ADDENDUMMY
OKAY JOHN FORBES IS THE MILLIONAIRE FREEWAY 5 IN SACRAMENTO IS NAMED FOR.
AND NIMITZ WAS AN ADMIRAL IN THE NAVY AND THE FATHER OF THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE I WAS TOLD.
TODAY I ORDERED NEW MEXICO ENCHILADAS AT ARRIBA'S MEXCIAN RESTAURANT THEY WERE A DISPPOINTMENT NO BODY KNOWS HOW TO COOK THOASE EXCEPT NEW MEXICANS IN SANTA FE NM.
THE PUT A DRY OLD TORTILLA ON AND LAID SOME SHREDDED BEEF ON IT AND LAID A SECOND TORTILLA FLAT ON THAT AND SPRINKLED LIGHTLY WITH VERY MILD SAUCE RED SAUCE. UGH.
MINE ARE MADE BY USING CUT UP STEAK INTO SMALL PIECES AND A SAUCE MADE WITH RED NEW MEXICO CHILI WHICH IS HOT, AND GARLIC THENTHE TORTILLA PREFERABLY A BLUE CORMN TORTILLA IS DIPPED IN THE SAUCE, A BAKING DISH IS COVERED WITH A LAYER OF RED SAUCE AND THIS TORTILLA PLACED IN IT, THEN CHEESE AND ONIONS AND SAUCE ON THEAT LAYER UPON LAYER OF TORTILLAS ARE DOEN LIKE THIS UNTIL THE BAKING DISH IS FULL, AND LOTS OF CHEESE AND ONIONS TOP IT OFF IT IS BAKED FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES IN A 375 DEGREE OVEN AND SERVED WITH ICEBERG LETTI=UCE ALL SHREDDED AND REFRIED BEANS IN OLIVE OIL ON THE SIDE WITH MORE CHEESE. HOT CHILI SAUCE IS ON THE SIDE IN CASE YOU NEED MORE HEAT. NOW THATS NEW MESICO ENCHILADA NOT THAT CRAP THEY SERVED ME FOR 12.00 A PLATE.
NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE AUTHENTIC ENPANADITAS OR SOPAIPILLAS OR POSOLE EXCEPT SANTA FEAN HISPANICS AND INDIANS. MEXICAN AND NEW MEXICAN FOODS ARE VERY DIFFERNT.
TACOS ARE MADE WITH STEAK BITS AND LETTUCE TOMATOES ONIONS CHEESE AND GREEN CHILES AND VINEGAR SPRINKLED ON THAT WITH A RED SALSA HOT ONE ON THE WHOLE THING AGAIN BLUE CORN TORTILLAS THE FLAVOR IS SUPERB!!
AND NIMITZ WAS AN ADMIRAL IN THE NAVY AND THE FATHER OF THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE I WAS TOLD.
TODAY I ORDERED NEW MEXICO ENCHILADAS AT ARRIBA'S MEXCIAN RESTAURANT THEY WERE A DISPPOINTMENT NO BODY KNOWS HOW TO COOK THOASE EXCEPT NEW MEXICANS IN SANTA FE NM.
THE PUT A DRY OLD TORTILLA ON AND LAID SOME SHREDDED BEEF ON IT AND LAID A SECOND TORTILLA FLAT ON THAT AND SPRINKLED LIGHTLY WITH VERY MILD SAUCE RED SAUCE. UGH.
MINE ARE MADE BY USING CUT UP STEAK INTO SMALL PIECES AND A SAUCE MADE WITH RED NEW MEXICO CHILI WHICH IS HOT, AND GARLIC THENTHE TORTILLA PREFERABLY A BLUE CORMN TORTILLA IS DIPPED IN THE SAUCE, A BAKING DISH IS COVERED WITH A LAYER OF RED SAUCE AND THIS TORTILLA PLACED IN IT, THEN CHEESE AND ONIONS AND SAUCE ON THEAT LAYER UPON LAYER OF TORTILLAS ARE DOEN LIKE THIS UNTIL THE BAKING DISH IS FULL, AND LOTS OF CHEESE AND ONIONS TOP IT OFF IT IS BAKED FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES IN A 375 DEGREE OVEN AND SERVED WITH ICEBERG LETTI=UCE ALL SHREDDED AND REFRIED BEANS IN OLIVE OIL ON THE SIDE WITH MORE CHEESE. HOT CHILI SAUCE IS ON THE SIDE IN CASE YOU NEED MORE HEAT. NOW THATS NEW MESICO ENCHILADA NOT THAT CRAP THEY SERVED ME FOR 12.00 A PLATE.
NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE AUTHENTIC ENPANADITAS OR SOPAIPILLAS OR POSOLE EXCEPT SANTA FEAN HISPANICS AND INDIANS. MEXICAN AND NEW MEXICAN FOODS ARE VERY DIFFERNT.
TACOS ARE MADE WITH STEAK BITS AND LETTUCE TOMATOES ONIONS CHEESE AND GREEN CHILES AND VINEGAR SPRINKLED ON THAT WITH A RED SALSA HOT ONE ON THE WHOLE THING AGAIN BLUE CORN TORTILLAS THE FLAVOR IS SUPERB!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
MORE THINGS I NEED TO SAY
TODAY WE CAME HOME FROM AWAUTUKEE AS WE WENT TO LUNCH WITH OUR KIDS AT ARRIBA'S WHERE THEY SERVE VARYING DEGREES OF HOT CHILIS MY SON AND I LOVE HOT HOT KIND AND WE BOUGHT SOME HOT GREEN CHILIS FOR HOME USE.
THE HIGHWAY 10 IS NAMED THE PEARL HARBOR MEMORIAL FREEWAY AND MY HUBBY SAID ITS BECAUSE THE BATTLESHIP ARIZONA WAS SUNK AT PEARL HARBOR WITH ALL THE SAILORS ON IT. IT IS STILL VISABLE AND PARTIALLY SEEN OUT OF THE OCEAN. I ASKED WHY THEY DIDNT TAKE THE BODIES OUT HE DIDNT KNOW IF THEY DID OR NOT. IT HAS BEEN MY OBSERVATION THAT WHEN A CATASTROPHE OCCURS RECOVERING BODIES OF DEAD PEOPLE SEEMS MOST IMPORTANT.
I WONDER WHY? IF THEY ARE DEAD THAT IS MERELY A SHELL THAT CONTAINED THE ORIGINAL BEING THAT LIVED IT.
WHEN MY MOTHER DIED AND I VIEWED HER BODY I COULD SEE SHE WASNT THERE. IT WAS AN EMPTY SHELL OF MY MOTHER. THAT WAS A REAL SHOCK.
IN CALIFORNIA WE HAVE AN INTERSTATE 5 NAMED AFTER THE BILLIONAIRE FORBES I CANNOT REMEMBER HIS FIRST NAME NOW BUT I WONDERED WHAT HE HAD TO DO WITH CALIFORNIA AND FREEWAY 5.
THERES A GRANT GEYER FREEWAY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND I DONT KNOW WHO THAT WAS. A NIMITZ FREEWAY IN THE BAY AREA. NIMITZ SOUNDS LIKE DIMWITZ WHAT IS IT AFTER?
THERE ARE GRANT GEYERS ALL OVER THE PLACE EVEN IN ARIZONA. SO WHO WAS THE FREEWAY NAMED AFTER AND WHY? TO FIND OUT I HAVE TO SIGN INTO A PLACE THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF MY OWN PERSONAL INFO AND IM NOT WILLING TO DISCLOSE ALL THAT.
IF YOU ARE SO FAMOUS THAT FREEWAYS ARE NAMED AFTER YOU, THERE SHOULD BE CLEAR INFO ON YOU. EVEN FORBES HAS NO PLACE THAT GIVES HIS FIRST NAME IT WILL ONLY MENTION THE MAGAZINE CALLED FORBES. UGH.
ANYWAYS I HAD MUCH MORE STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT BUT MY MIND SLIPPED INTO NON MEMORY MODE.
WHEN MY KIDS WERE SMALLER WE USED TO PICNIC AT MATHER AFB PARK THE NOW DEFUNCT BASE IN SACRAMENTO, WITH THEIR DAD, THIS WAS PART OF FAMILY TIME WE DEVELOPED FOR OUR KIDS SO THEY COULD SEE THEIR DAD MORE DURING THE DAY.
ANYWAYS ONE DAY MY HUBBY AND I WERE HAVING A GROWNUP DISCUSSION WHEN OUR NO.2 SON WANDERED UP TO LISTEN . WE TOLD HIM TO GO AND PLAY AWAY FROM US AS WE NEEDED TIME ALONE HE ROLLED AROUND ON THE GRASS AND SAID "PLAY, PLAY, PLAY" IN PROTEST TO GOING ELSEWHERE. WE ALL STARTED TO LAUGH AS HE WAS FUNNY ROLLING AROUND LIKE THAT.
THE HIGHWAY 10 IS NAMED THE PEARL HARBOR MEMORIAL FREEWAY AND MY HUBBY SAID ITS BECAUSE THE BATTLESHIP ARIZONA WAS SUNK AT PEARL HARBOR WITH ALL THE SAILORS ON IT. IT IS STILL VISABLE AND PARTIALLY SEEN OUT OF THE OCEAN. I ASKED WHY THEY DIDNT TAKE THE BODIES OUT HE DIDNT KNOW IF THEY DID OR NOT. IT HAS BEEN MY OBSERVATION THAT WHEN A CATASTROPHE OCCURS RECOVERING BODIES OF DEAD PEOPLE SEEMS MOST IMPORTANT.
I WONDER WHY? IF THEY ARE DEAD THAT IS MERELY A SHELL THAT CONTAINED THE ORIGINAL BEING THAT LIVED IT.
WHEN MY MOTHER DIED AND I VIEWED HER BODY I COULD SEE SHE WASNT THERE. IT WAS AN EMPTY SHELL OF MY MOTHER. THAT WAS A REAL SHOCK.
IN CALIFORNIA WE HAVE AN INTERSTATE 5 NAMED AFTER THE BILLIONAIRE FORBES I CANNOT REMEMBER HIS FIRST NAME NOW BUT I WONDERED WHAT HE HAD TO DO WITH CALIFORNIA AND FREEWAY 5.
THERES A GRANT GEYER FREEWAY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND I DONT KNOW WHO THAT WAS. A NIMITZ FREEWAY IN THE BAY AREA. NIMITZ SOUNDS LIKE DIMWITZ WHAT IS IT AFTER?
THERE ARE GRANT GEYERS ALL OVER THE PLACE EVEN IN ARIZONA. SO WHO WAS THE FREEWAY NAMED AFTER AND WHY? TO FIND OUT I HAVE TO SIGN INTO A PLACE THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF MY OWN PERSONAL INFO AND IM NOT WILLING TO DISCLOSE ALL THAT.
IF YOU ARE SO FAMOUS THAT FREEWAYS ARE NAMED AFTER YOU, THERE SHOULD BE CLEAR INFO ON YOU. EVEN FORBES HAS NO PLACE THAT GIVES HIS FIRST NAME IT WILL ONLY MENTION THE MAGAZINE CALLED FORBES. UGH.
ANYWAYS I HAD MUCH MORE STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT BUT MY MIND SLIPPED INTO NON MEMORY MODE.
WHEN MY KIDS WERE SMALLER WE USED TO PICNIC AT MATHER AFB PARK THE NOW DEFUNCT BASE IN SACRAMENTO, WITH THEIR DAD, THIS WAS PART OF FAMILY TIME WE DEVELOPED FOR OUR KIDS SO THEY COULD SEE THEIR DAD MORE DURING THE DAY.
ANYWAYS ONE DAY MY HUBBY AND I WERE HAVING A GROWNUP DISCUSSION WHEN OUR NO.2 SON WANDERED UP TO LISTEN . WE TOLD HIM TO GO AND PLAY AWAY FROM US AS WE NEEDED TIME ALONE HE ROLLED AROUND ON THE GRASS AND SAID "PLAY, PLAY, PLAY" IN PROTEST TO GOING ELSEWHERE. WE ALL STARTED TO LAUGH AS HE WAS FUNNY ROLLING AROUND LIKE THAT.
Friday, August 21, 2009
CHILD REARING AND HOW I FAILED AND DIDNT
I HAD 4 CHILDREN 3 BOYS and 1 girl. THE FIRST TWO BOYS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING. I JUST PRAYED FOR QUIET AND OBEDIENCE AND OCCASIONALLY I SWATTED A BUTT. BY THE TIME I HAD THE 3RD ONE I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN SWATTING I HAD READ DR. SPOCK. AND MY HUSBAND WAS STILL DOING THAT. ONE DAY HE MENTIONED HOW HARSH ANOTHER COUPLE WAS ON THEIR CHILDREN I SAID HE COULDN'T TALK WHEN HE WAS DOING THE SAME THING. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD HE NO LONGER SWATTED OUR KIDS. MY HUSBAND HAS A UNIQUE ABILITY THAT ONCE HE DETERMINES HE IS DOING A WRONG THING HE CAN CHANGE IT IMMEDIATELY.
BUT... HE HAS TO DECIDE IF ITS WRONG FOR HIM. IF I MAKE IT MY DESIRE TO CHANGE HIM IT DOESN'T WORK, BUT IT HAS TO BE HIS EPIPHANY.
MY EX-DAUGHTER IN LAW WAS A VERY GOOD MOTHER TO MY GRAND DAUGHTER. SHE WAS IMPRESSIVE.I THINK THAT GIRLS RAISED INA PERMISSIVE BUT STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT WITH CLEAR RULES DO BETTER THAN BOYS WITH A CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENT. MY BOYS HAD THAT. MY DAUGHTER WAS A VERY NICE PERSON AND ALWAYS FOLLOWED RULES. UNLESS SHE DIDN'T KNOW THEM.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A VERY FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN MANNERS OF REARING BOYS THAN GIRLS.
BOYS ARE MORE DIFFICULT. JUST IN MY OPINION.
THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE IS NO MATTER WHAT ...BOTH PARENTS MUST AGREE ON THE RULES OR IT FALLS APART AND YOU GET CONFUSED AND DEPRESSED KIDS WHO WHINE AND CRY A LOT AND ARE UNABLE TO THINK IN A LOGICAL MANNER.
YOU CANNOT CREATE ORDER IN A MIND THAT IS RAISED WITH CONFUSION ...CONSISTENT RESPONSES BY PARENTS IS ESSENTIAL. THAT IS THE CRUX OF THE CHILD REARING MATTER.
BUT... HE HAS TO DECIDE IF ITS WRONG FOR HIM. IF I MAKE IT MY DESIRE TO CHANGE HIM IT DOESN'T WORK, BUT IT HAS TO BE HIS EPIPHANY.
MY EX-DAUGHTER IN LAW WAS A VERY GOOD MOTHER TO MY GRAND DAUGHTER. SHE WAS IMPRESSIVE.I THINK THAT GIRLS RAISED INA PERMISSIVE BUT STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT WITH CLEAR RULES DO BETTER THAN BOYS WITH A CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENT. MY BOYS HAD THAT. MY DAUGHTER WAS A VERY NICE PERSON AND ALWAYS FOLLOWED RULES. UNLESS SHE DIDN'T KNOW THEM.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A VERY FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN MANNERS OF REARING BOYS THAN GIRLS.
BOYS ARE MORE DIFFICULT. JUST IN MY OPINION.
THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE IS NO MATTER WHAT ...BOTH PARENTS MUST AGREE ON THE RULES OR IT FALLS APART AND YOU GET CONFUSED AND DEPRESSED KIDS WHO WHINE AND CRY A LOT AND ARE UNABLE TO THINK IN A LOGICAL MANNER.
YOU CANNOT CREATE ORDER IN A MIND THAT IS RAISED WITH CONFUSION ...CONSISTENT RESPONSES BY PARENTS IS ESSENTIAL. THAT IS THE CRUX OF THE CHILD REARING MATTER.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
MORE NEW BOOKS
I GOT 3 MORE BOOKS TODAY ONE BY ROY HAZELWOOD WHO WAS ONE OF MY FORENSIC PROFILE TEACHERS, AND A COUPLE MORE ABOUT STUFF I CANT NOW REMEMBER. I FINISHED THE LAST BOOK ABOUT THE GIRL AND THE FUNERAL HOME AND OBSESSION WITH DEATH AS A CHILD. IT WAS A TRUE STORY AND LEFT ME WITH A SAD FEELING. SOME PARENTS HAVE NO THOUGHT FOR THEIR CHILDREN AT ALL. MAY THEY BURN IN HELL. IT SEEMS THAT WEALTHY PEOPLE HAVE THE LEAST KIDS AND THE POOR HAVE ENDLESS KIDS, IF I RAN THE WORLD I WOULD MAKE IT A RULE THAT YOU COULD ONLY HAVE THE KIDS YOU COULD PAY FOR THRU COLLEGE.
MORE CRIME STORIES
ONCE I HAD A CLIENT IN PRISON FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY WHO HAD A PRIVATE PLANE AND HE WOULD FLY TO DIFFERENT CITIES AWAY FROM HIS OWN COUNTRY AND ROB BANKS AND FLY BACK TO HIS HOME TOWN. HE PRETENDED TO BE DOING BUSINESS FOR HIS STORE WHICH HE HAD IN HIS OWN COUNTRY AND WOULD CLEAN UP THE MONEY THIS WAY. HE ALSO KEPT VERY LARGE SUMS OF MONEY ON HAND AND HIDDEN.
WHEN HE WAS FINALLY ACCOSTED , HE DENIED ALL, BUT THE VIDEOS IN THE BANKS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED HIM AND HE WAS UNABLE TO DENY ANY LONGER, ALSO AIDED BY HIS OVERCONFIDENCE AND HE DROPPED A GLOVE IN ONE BANK AND HIS FINGERPRINTS WERE LIFTED OFF OF IT, AND A SCARF AND MASK AT OTHERS. HE FELT INVINCIBLE AND THAT IS WHY HE WAS CAUGHT. HE HAD LONG SENTENCES IN HIS OWN COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE USA.
HE THEN PRETENDED TO HAVE MENTAL ILLNESS TO AVOID HARD TIME BUT UNFORTUNATELY WAS ASSESSED QUITE THOROUGHLY BY EXPERT FORENSIC PEOPLE.
A LOT OF MONEY WAS NOT RECOVERED HE HID IT WELL. NOW WITH THE NEW LAWS AND AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THE WEALTHY AND CROOKED PEOPLE ONCE HID THEIR MONEY IN HIDDEN BANK ACCOUNTS ALL WILL WASH OUT .
THIS IS CAUSING MUCH NERVOUSENESS AMONG THE TAX EVADERS OF OUR COUNTRY. SOON WILL BE OUTED.
WHEN HE WAS FINALLY ACCOSTED , HE DENIED ALL, BUT THE VIDEOS IN THE BANKS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED HIM AND HE WAS UNABLE TO DENY ANY LONGER, ALSO AIDED BY HIS OVERCONFIDENCE AND HE DROPPED A GLOVE IN ONE BANK AND HIS FINGERPRINTS WERE LIFTED OFF OF IT, AND A SCARF AND MASK AT OTHERS. HE FELT INVINCIBLE AND THAT IS WHY HE WAS CAUGHT. HE HAD LONG SENTENCES IN HIS OWN COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE USA.
HE THEN PRETENDED TO HAVE MENTAL ILLNESS TO AVOID HARD TIME BUT UNFORTUNATELY WAS ASSESSED QUITE THOROUGHLY BY EXPERT FORENSIC PEOPLE.
A LOT OF MONEY WAS NOT RECOVERED HE HID IT WELL. NOW WITH THE NEW LAWS AND AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THE WEALTHY AND CROOKED PEOPLE ONCE HID THEIR MONEY IN HIDDEN BANK ACCOUNTS ALL WILL WASH OUT .
THIS IS CAUSING MUCH NERVOUSENESS AMONG THE TAX EVADERS OF OUR COUNTRY. SOON WILL BE OUTED.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I REMEMBER MY DAYS IN THE 70'S
IN THE 70'S IT WAS A LOT OF FUN, WE USED TO GO TO STERN GROVE FOR THE DAY... PACK A HUGE LUNCH AND ICE CHEST FULL OF COLD SODAS AND BLANKETS TO SIT ON ON THE GRASS.
THERE WE HAD A SUNDAY CONCERT WITH MANY FAMOUS AND GREAT MUSICIANS AND SINGERS. THEY WOULD ALL CONTRIBUTE A CONCERT FOR US BECAUSE WE CAME AND ENJOYED IT AND LATER WE PAID FOR IT AT A MUSIC HALL LIKE THE FILLMORE WEST OR THE BERKELY AUDITORIUM OR ANYPLACE THAT WOULD HOUSE OUR ROCK BANDS.
THOSE WERE INDEED THE DAYS.
AND SOON EVEN IN SACRAMENTO THEY HELD CONCERTS AT THE DOWNTOWN PARKS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS ALL SUMMER.
I REMEMBER IN THE 90'S THEY FENCED OFF THE PARK AND THEY HAD SOME SAFETY ENFORCERS AT THE GATES TO MAKE SURE NOTHING HARMFUL GOT IN LIKE WEAPONS OR DRUGS.
IN THE 70'S WE HAD NO FEAR THERE WERE NO WEAPONS TO FEAR. PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED EACH OTHER AND WERE VERY FRIENDLY AND SUPPORTIVE IN EMERGENCIES. LIKE KIDS WOULD RUN OFF THE WHOLE PLACE FOUND THEM. AND KIDS WERE ALWAYS WELCOME AT THESE GATHERINGS BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD HARM THEM.
TODAY I WOULD FEAR TO LET GO OF A CHILD'S HAND IN ANY PARK ANYWHERE SINCE WE SEEM TO HAVE BEEN INVADED BY MULTITUDES OF CHILD PREDATORS. SAD
TODAY WE SEEM TO BE INFESTED WITH THEM. IS IT THE CULTURE THAT MAKES IT OK FOR THEM? THE MOVIES THE INTERNET? WHAT? HAVE OUR MORALS BECOME SO CORRUPTED BY THE ENTERTAINMENT FIELD THAT WE NEED TO STOP THEM SOMEHOW? I DON'T KNOW. THE LAND OF THE FREE AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT INTERFERE WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S FREEDOM. I WAS WATCHING A PROGRAM ON TV ABOUT SOME SOUTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD INTERPRETED " THE LAND OF THE FREE" AS MEANING EVERYTHING WAS FREE FOR THE TAKING. ODD. THIS WAS ON " WITHOUT A TRACE". AND AS A RESULT THEY GOT HOOKED INTO A FAKE CHURCH THAT HAD THEM VISIT PEOPLES HOMES TO CASE THEM THEN LATER BURGLED THEM. ANYWAYS THAT IS A GOOD SERIES. IT BRINGS A LOT OF CULTURAL ISSUES TO THE FOREFRONT.
THAT IS LIKE THE AFRICAN FAMILY IN PHOENIX WHOSE 8 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS RAPED AND THEY BLAMED HER FOR IT.
I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RECULTURIZATION PROGRAMS WE USED TO HAVE FOR FOREIGN PEOPLE TO WISE THEM UP ON WHATS WHAT IN AMERICA?
I REMEMBER IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEN THE CAMBODIANS CAME TO AMERICA ND WERE EATING ALL THE SQUIRRELS IN THE PARK THE CITY TOOK ACTION IMMEDIATELY AND STARTED A CULTURE CLASS FOR THEM , THEY ATE DOGS TOO ,
AND MANY CHINESE SERVE CAT MEAT IN THEIR COOKERY TO THIS DAY. BE SUSPICIOUS OF A CHINESE RESTAURANT IF THEY FEED CATS AT THE BACK DOOR THAT MEANS YOUR CHICKEN IS CAT MEAT. HAHHA ONCE A CAFE IN NAPA WHERE WE LIKED TO GO TO LUNCH WHEN I WORKED THERE, WAS DISCOVERED TO BE SERVING CAT MEAT AS CHICKEN UGHHH. I HAVE NOT LIKED CHINESE FOOD SINCE THEN.
IN SACRAMENTO THERE WAS A CHINESE GOURMET RESTAURANT CALLED THE CORAL REEF WHICH HAD THE ONLY CHINESE FOOD I EVER REALLY LIKED, CHICKEN IN PAPER AND THE MORE PEOPLE CAME TO EAT THE BIGGER THE SERVINGS THEY GAVE YOU.
WE TRIED CHINESE FOOD HERE ONCE AND I ASKED FOR ITEMS ON DISPLAY IN THE HOT FOODS SERVERS AND THEY INSISTED ON GIVING US STUFF FROM THE BACK WELL IT WAS TERRIBLE! WE TOOK IT BACK AND LEFT IT ON THEIR DOORSTEP OF THE RESTAURANT CUZ IT WAS CLOSED.
THUS I'M DONE WITH THAT FOOD.
HOW FAR I STRAYED FROM ROCK CONCERTS EH? WELL THAT'S HOW MY MIND RUNS... ON MEMORIES.
NUFF SAID.
THERE WE HAD A SUNDAY CONCERT WITH MANY FAMOUS AND GREAT MUSICIANS AND SINGERS. THEY WOULD ALL CONTRIBUTE A CONCERT FOR US BECAUSE WE CAME AND ENJOYED IT AND LATER WE PAID FOR IT AT A MUSIC HALL LIKE THE FILLMORE WEST OR THE BERKELY AUDITORIUM OR ANYPLACE THAT WOULD HOUSE OUR ROCK BANDS.
THOSE WERE INDEED THE DAYS.
AND SOON EVEN IN SACRAMENTO THEY HELD CONCERTS AT THE DOWNTOWN PARKS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS ALL SUMMER.
I REMEMBER IN THE 90'S THEY FENCED OFF THE PARK AND THEY HAD SOME SAFETY ENFORCERS AT THE GATES TO MAKE SURE NOTHING HARMFUL GOT IN LIKE WEAPONS OR DRUGS.
IN THE 70'S WE HAD NO FEAR THERE WERE NO WEAPONS TO FEAR. PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED EACH OTHER AND WERE VERY FRIENDLY AND SUPPORTIVE IN EMERGENCIES. LIKE KIDS WOULD RUN OFF THE WHOLE PLACE FOUND THEM. AND KIDS WERE ALWAYS WELCOME AT THESE GATHERINGS BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD HARM THEM.
TODAY I WOULD FEAR TO LET GO OF A CHILD'S HAND IN ANY PARK ANYWHERE SINCE WE SEEM TO HAVE BEEN INVADED BY MULTITUDES OF CHILD PREDATORS. SAD
TODAY WE SEEM TO BE INFESTED WITH THEM. IS IT THE CULTURE THAT MAKES IT OK FOR THEM? THE MOVIES THE INTERNET? WHAT? HAVE OUR MORALS BECOME SO CORRUPTED BY THE ENTERTAINMENT FIELD THAT WE NEED TO STOP THEM SOMEHOW? I DON'T KNOW. THE LAND OF THE FREE AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT INTERFERE WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S FREEDOM. I WAS WATCHING A PROGRAM ON TV ABOUT SOME SOUTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD INTERPRETED " THE LAND OF THE FREE" AS MEANING EVERYTHING WAS FREE FOR THE TAKING. ODD. THIS WAS ON " WITHOUT A TRACE". AND AS A RESULT THEY GOT HOOKED INTO A FAKE CHURCH THAT HAD THEM VISIT PEOPLES HOMES TO CASE THEM THEN LATER BURGLED THEM. ANYWAYS THAT IS A GOOD SERIES. IT BRINGS A LOT OF CULTURAL ISSUES TO THE FOREFRONT.
THAT IS LIKE THE AFRICAN FAMILY IN PHOENIX WHOSE 8 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS RAPED AND THEY BLAMED HER FOR IT.
I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RECULTURIZATION PROGRAMS WE USED TO HAVE FOR FOREIGN PEOPLE TO WISE THEM UP ON WHATS WHAT IN AMERICA?
I REMEMBER IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEN THE CAMBODIANS CAME TO AMERICA ND WERE EATING ALL THE SQUIRRELS IN THE PARK THE CITY TOOK ACTION IMMEDIATELY AND STARTED A CULTURE CLASS FOR THEM , THEY ATE DOGS TOO ,
AND MANY CHINESE SERVE CAT MEAT IN THEIR COOKERY TO THIS DAY. BE SUSPICIOUS OF A CHINESE RESTAURANT IF THEY FEED CATS AT THE BACK DOOR THAT MEANS YOUR CHICKEN IS CAT MEAT. HAHHA ONCE A CAFE IN NAPA WHERE WE LIKED TO GO TO LUNCH WHEN I WORKED THERE, WAS DISCOVERED TO BE SERVING CAT MEAT AS CHICKEN UGHHH. I HAVE NOT LIKED CHINESE FOOD SINCE THEN.
IN SACRAMENTO THERE WAS A CHINESE GOURMET RESTAURANT CALLED THE CORAL REEF WHICH HAD THE ONLY CHINESE FOOD I EVER REALLY LIKED, CHICKEN IN PAPER AND THE MORE PEOPLE CAME TO EAT THE BIGGER THE SERVINGS THEY GAVE YOU.
WE TRIED CHINESE FOOD HERE ONCE AND I ASKED FOR ITEMS ON DISPLAY IN THE HOT FOODS SERVERS AND THEY INSISTED ON GIVING US STUFF FROM THE BACK WELL IT WAS TERRIBLE! WE TOOK IT BACK AND LEFT IT ON THEIR DOORSTEP OF THE RESTAURANT CUZ IT WAS CLOSED.
THUS I'M DONE WITH THAT FOOD.
HOW FAR I STRAYED FROM ROCK CONCERTS EH? WELL THAT'S HOW MY MIND RUNS... ON MEMORIES.
NUFF SAID.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
NEW BOOK
TODAY WE WENT TO CHANDLER TO THE BOOK STORE b&n AND I GOT A NEW BOOK "DRIVING WITH DEAD PEOPLE" ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL WHO IS IN A FAMILY WITH A FUNERAL HOME.
AND HAS A FATHER WHO DRIVES TO ALL ACCIDENTS AND HAS A VIDEO CAM ON HIS CAR TO FILM ALL ACCIDENTS.
THIS STORY REMINDED ME OF A FAMILY I DID THERAPY WITH ONCE WHERE THE FATHER DID JUST THAT .
AT ANY RATE, I CANNOT SAY ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT BUT I MUST ADMIT I WAS ALWAYS FASCINATED WITH THIS BIZARRE PERSON. AND I NEVER FOUND OUT ANY MORE ABOUT IT SINCE THEY LEFT TREATMENT AFTER 2 VISITS.
IN MY 35 YEARS AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST, I HAD MANY INTERESTING CASES AND I CANNOT GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT ANY OF THEM BUT CAN MENTION SIMILARITIES AS I JUST DID BECAUSE IT IS DISGUISED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT CANNOT BE CONNECTED TO THE ORIGINAL CASE.
IN MY PRISON DAYS I HAD MANY CASES THAT WERE INFAMOUS AND IN THE PAPERS AND SOME EVEN ON THE TV THAT WERE VERY WELL KNOWN. UNFORTUNATELY I AM UNABLE TO SHARE ANY UNTIL I GET A SIGNED RELEASE OF INFORMATION FROM MY PATIENTS I HAD THERE. MANY WERE EAGER TO HAVE THEIR STORIES TOLD IN THEIR OWN WORDS BUT MY JOB DESCRIPTION FORBADE ME TO DISCLOSE THEM ANYWAY.
I WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO WRITE UP ALL MY CASEWORK BECAUSE IT SEEMS A SHAME O NOT TO SHARE SUCH FASCINATING INFORMATION.
I HAD MUCH TRAINING BY VERY WELL KNOWN PERSONS WHO WORKED FOR THE FBI AND THE SECRET SERVICE AND JUST WERE FORENSIC EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING FOR ME. IT HELPED ME IN TREATING SEX OFFENDERS AND MURDERERS AND ET ALL IN PRISON.
THE JOB I HAD THAT WAS NOT IN PRISON WAS AT A SETTING WHERE PATIENTS WERE CONVICTED BUT MENTALLY ILL AND WE SUPERVISED THEM IN THE COMMUNITY TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER ACTIONS WHICH ENDANGERED THE COMMUNITY A LOT LIKE PAROLE AGENTS BUT DEALING ONLY WITH MENTALLY ILL INCARCERATED PERSONS RELEASED TO THE COMMUNITY. THAT WAS AN EXTREMELY BUSY AND RESPONSIBLE JOB WE DID EVERYTHING FOR THESE CLIENTS. MANAGED THEIR MONEY UNTIL THEY COULD DO SO, TESTED THEM FOR DRUG USE, MADE UNANNOUNCED VISITS TO THEIR HOMES AND SEARCHED THEM, HELD GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL THERAPY SESSIONS EVERY DAY. AND WROTE EXTENSIVE REPORTS TO THE COURTS REGARDING THEIR PROGRESS AND ACTIVITIES. AND TESTIFIED IN SOME CASES. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED MY PROFESSION ND WOULD STILL BE THERE EXCEPT I BECAME DISABLED WITH ARTHRITIS IN MY KNEES AND WAS UNABLE TO CLIMB STAIRS OR WALK LONG DISTANCES WITHOUT EXTREME PAIN. I RETIRED DUE TO THIS AND SINCE HAVE HAD MY KNEES REPLACED BUT I STILL WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE LONG WALKS ON THE PRISON MAINLINES.
BUT I DO MISS MY WORK VERY MUCH.
WELL THATS ABOUT IT FOR TODAY. HUGS ALL
AND HAS A FATHER WHO DRIVES TO ALL ACCIDENTS AND HAS A VIDEO CAM ON HIS CAR TO FILM ALL ACCIDENTS.
THIS STORY REMINDED ME OF A FAMILY I DID THERAPY WITH ONCE WHERE THE FATHER DID JUST THAT .
AT ANY RATE, I CANNOT SAY ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT BUT I MUST ADMIT I WAS ALWAYS FASCINATED WITH THIS BIZARRE PERSON. AND I NEVER FOUND OUT ANY MORE ABOUT IT SINCE THEY LEFT TREATMENT AFTER 2 VISITS.
IN MY 35 YEARS AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST, I HAD MANY INTERESTING CASES AND I CANNOT GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT ANY OF THEM BUT CAN MENTION SIMILARITIES AS I JUST DID BECAUSE IT IS DISGUISED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT CANNOT BE CONNECTED TO THE ORIGINAL CASE.
IN MY PRISON DAYS I HAD MANY CASES THAT WERE INFAMOUS AND IN THE PAPERS AND SOME EVEN ON THE TV THAT WERE VERY WELL KNOWN. UNFORTUNATELY I AM UNABLE TO SHARE ANY UNTIL I GET A SIGNED RELEASE OF INFORMATION FROM MY PATIENTS I HAD THERE. MANY WERE EAGER TO HAVE THEIR STORIES TOLD IN THEIR OWN WORDS BUT MY JOB DESCRIPTION FORBADE ME TO DISCLOSE THEM ANYWAY.
I WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO WRITE UP ALL MY CASEWORK BECAUSE IT SEEMS A SHAME O NOT TO SHARE SUCH FASCINATING INFORMATION.
I HAD MUCH TRAINING BY VERY WELL KNOWN PERSONS WHO WORKED FOR THE FBI AND THE SECRET SERVICE AND JUST WERE FORENSIC EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING FOR ME. IT HELPED ME IN TREATING SEX OFFENDERS AND MURDERERS AND ET ALL IN PRISON.
THE JOB I HAD THAT WAS NOT IN PRISON WAS AT A SETTING WHERE PATIENTS WERE CONVICTED BUT MENTALLY ILL AND WE SUPERVISED THEM IN THE COMMUNITY TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER ACTIONS WHICH ENDANGERED THE COMMUNITY A LOT LIKE PAROLE AGENTS BUT DEALING ONLY WITH MENTALLY ILL INCARCERATED PERSONS RELEASED TO THE COMMUNITY. THAT WAS AN EXTREMELY BUSY AND RESPONSIBLE JOB WE DID EVERYTHING FOR THESE CLIENTS. MANAGED THEIR MONEY UNTIL THEY COULD DO SO, TESTED THEM FOR DRUG USE, MADE UNANNOUNCED VISITS TO THEIR HOMES AND SEARCHED THEM, HELD GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL THERAPY SESSIONS EVERY DAY. AND WROTE EXTENSIVE REPORTS TO THE COURTS REGARDING THEIR PROGRESS AND ACTIVITIES. AND TESTIFIED IN SOME CASES. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED MY PROFESSION ND WOULD STILL BE THERE EXCEPT I BECAME DISABLED WITH ARTHRITIS IN MY KNEES AND WAS UNABLE TO CLIMB STAIRS OR WALK LONG DISTANCES WITHOUT EXTREME PAIN. I RETIRED DUE TO THIS AND SINCE HAVE HAD MY KNEES REPLACED BUT I STILL WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE LONG WALKS ON THE PRISON MAINLINES.
BUT I DO MISS MY WORK VERY MUCH.
WELL THATS ABOUT IT FOR TODAY. HUGS ALL
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
THOUGHTS
TODAY WE WENT TO CHANDLER AND I READ MY BOOK WICKED THERE AND HAD ICED TEA, A HUGE GLASSFUL I ALSO HAD A NAP ,UNINTENTIONALLY. WE HAD BREAKFAST AT THE MIMIS THERE. HUBBY JUST LIKES THEIR COFFEE AND NO ONE ELSE'S SO WE ARE ALWAYS STUCK GOING THERE FOR FOOD. AND THEIR MENU IS GETTING SMALLER ALL THE TIME AND THE PORTIONS ARE ENOUGH FOR A CHILD NOW. USED TO BE YOU COULD FEED 3 PEOPLE FROM A LARGE SALAD MADE OF WALNUTS CRANBERRIES STRAWBERRIES AND BACON. NOW ITS LIKE HALF THE USED TO BE HALF PORTION. AND THEIR PRICES ARE UP AS WELL. ALSO THEY ARE HAVING A BIG PUSH TO SELL LIQUORS THERE. THE CHANDLER MIMIS JUST STARTED THE LIQUOR BUSINESS RECENTLY WE ALWAYS HAD IT HERE.
ANYWAYS I WAS THINKING OF MY HUBBY AND MY DAUGHTER IN LAW... THEY ARE LIKE 2 PEAS IN A POD. SOMETIMES THEIR JOINT THOUGHTS BECOME LIKE "QUAIL AND QUAIL" AS MY SON PUT IT. REMEMBER HIM? THE RETARDED VICE PRESIDENT?
HE WAS SO FUNNY. SUNDAY THEY GOT INTO SOME DARK CHOCOLATE DROPS IN THE FREEZER WHICH I BOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH BEACH DIET STRAWBERRIES DIPPED IN DARK BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE PORTION OF THE DIET.
WELL THEY ARE NO MORE. I DID BUY SOME DARK BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE TODAY AND STRAWBERRIES ONE OF OUR FEW DESSERTS THEY ALLOW. BOTH HUBS AND DAUGHTER IN LAW ARE ADDICTED TO SWEETS AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL WHEN WE HAVE ANY IN THE HOUSE. THEY ARE GONE INSTANTLY. BOTH ARE CARB ADDICTS AS WELL.
AND THEY ACT AND THINK ALMOST ALIKE AND THEY ARE ALWAYS GETTING INTO MISCHIEF TOGETHER AND KEEPING SECRETS ABOUT IT. THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY. LIKE TWO YEAR OLDS.
WELL, I AM LIKING WICKED A LOT AND I WANT TO SEE THE BROADWAY PLAY IT WAS IN PHOENIX RECENTLY DANGIT. MAYBE WHEN I NEXT GO TO SACTO IT WILL BE ON .
I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO GO TO NEW YORK CITY AND SEE IT ON BROADWAY MOSTLY.
ONE DAY WE ARE GOING THERE AND SEE AS MANY SHOWS AS WE CAN GET TICKETS FOR.
ALDO I WANT TO SEE THE EMPIRE STATE BLDG AND GO OUT ON A TRIP IN A BOAT IN THE HARBOR.
AND SEE ALL THE HISTORICAL STUFF THE MUSEUMS AND THE OTHER THINGS IT IS FAMOUS FOR.
THE BALLET
I LOVE BALLET. I SAW NUREYEV IN BERKELY ONCE AND BARYSHNIKOV IN SF. AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE WOMEN BALLERINAS THEY ARE SO GRACEFUL AND TALENTED.
WE SAW GELSEY KIRKLAND ONCE AT THE SACRAMENTO BALLET FOR A PERFORMANCE, EVERY NUTCRACKER THEY ALWAYS HAD A VERY WELL KNOWN DANCER TO STAR IN IT EVERY YEAR.
THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET HAS MANY EXCELLENT DANCERS.
ALSO JOFFREY BALLET IS VERY GOOD THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE IS ALSO ONE OF THE BEST AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET CO AS WELL.
THERE IS PHOENIX BALLET AS WELL, I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM PERFORM BUT ID LIKE TO.
ANYWAYS I WAS THINKING OF MY HUBBY AND MY DAUGHTER IN LAW... THEY ARE LIKE 2 PEAS IN A POD. SOMETIMES THEIR JOINT THOUGHTS BECOME LIKE "QUAIL AND QUAIL" AS MY SON PUT IT. REMEMBER HIM? THE RETARDED VICE PRESIDENT?
HE WAS SO FUNNY. SUNDAY THEY GOT INTO SOME DARK CHOCOLATE DROPS IN THE FREEZER WHICH I BOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH BEACH DIET STRAWBERRIES DIPPED IN DARK BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE PORTION OF THE DIET.
WELL THEY ARE NO MORE. I DID BUY SOME DARK BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE TODAY AND STRAWBERRIES ONE OF OUR FEW DESSERTS THEY ALLOW. BOTH HUBS AND DAUGHTER IN LAW ARE ADDICTED TO SWEETS AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL WHEN WE HAVE ANY IN THE HOUSE. THEY ARE GONE INSTANTLY. BOTH ARE CARB ADDICTS AS WELL.
AND THEY ACT AND THINK ALMOST ALIKE AND THEY ARE ALWAYS GETTING INTO MISCHIEF TOGETHER AND KEEPING SECRETS ABOUT IT. THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY. LIKE TWO YEAR OLDS.
WELL, I AM LIKING WICKED A LOT AND I WANT TO SEE THE BROADWAY PLAY IT WAS IN PHOENIX RECENTLY DANGIT. MAYBE WHEN I NEXT GO TO SACTO IT WILL BE ON .
I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO GO TO NEW YORK CITY AND SEE IT ON BROADWAY MOSTLY.
ONE DAY WE ARE GOING THERE AND SEE AS MANY SHOWS AS WE CAN GET TICKETS FOR.
ALDO I WANT TO SEE THE EMPIRE STATE BLDG AND GO OUT ON A TRIP IN A BOAT IN THE HARBOR.
AND SEE ALL THE HISTORICAL STUFF THE MUSEUMS AND THE OTHER THINGS IT IS FAMOUS FOR.
THE BALLET
I LOVE BALLET. I SAW NUREYEV IN BERKELY ONCE AND BARYSHNIKOV IN SF. AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE WOMEN BALLERINAS THEY ARE SO GRACEFUL AND TALENTED.
WE SAW GELSEY KIRKLAND ONCE AT THE SACRAMENTO BALLET FOR A PERFORMANCE, EVERY NUTCRACKER THEY ALWAYS HAD A VERY WELL KNOWN DANCER TO STAR IN IT EVERY YEAR.
THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET HAS MANY EXCELLENT DANCERS.
ALSO JOFFREY BALLET IS VERY GOOD THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE IS ALSO ONE OF THE BEST AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET CO AS WELL.
THERE IS PHOENIX BALLET AS WELL, I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM PERFORM BUT ID LIKE TO.
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