Pain Pills Cause Goofy Dreams!
The following is a list of things that I dreamed in one night while hurting from vertebrae out of place and on pain pills. I read somewhere one time that you should write down your dreams that you are trying to tell yourself something. Boy, I'm telling myself pain pills really screw up your nights sleep.
The strongest thing I ever take is aspirin and I'll be happy when I can get back to taking only that. Geeze nutty dreams.
I'll have to try interpreting them sometime. I know muddy water and rocks symbolize trouble and difficulty. But I didn't need a dream to tell me I was having problems. Maybe I'm just giving myself some entertainment. LOL All except the last two... those were spooky and I don't like getting scared. I can live quite nicely without getting frightened. I don't watch those kinds of movies, nor do I read those kinds of books. Steven King --- I hear your a great writer, and I'm sure you are, but after Pet Cemetery I swore off you and any of your nightmare stories.
- 1. sleeping on an air mattress on a hillside.
- 2. Small rocks and smaller boulders in a mountain pass road.
- 3. Me and a bunch of people in the snow in the hills.
- 4. Parade at the end of town
- 5. Maze of stores to get to my room. Had to go through one store into another and so on.
- 6. Lions running through and over me in my tent? I think I was in a tent or a tube of some kind.
- 7. When I looked outside of the tent or tube ( it was open on both ends) I saw a black panther about 20 feet away in the weeds ( like river grass) he was in the open. I remember wondering if he was going to do the same as the lions or if they were running from him.
- 8. I was climbing muddy banks ( slimy muck muddy banks) sinking in and makes a sucking sound when pulling out of it.
- 9. I was in the Kern Canyon and it was filled in with snow, and mud slides and rock slides and the switchback winding road was only a narrow path. There were rocks of all sizes strewn in the pathway that had fallen in the roadway. Had to swerve around some bigger boulders to avoid hitting them. I was driving.
- 10. A man standing close over me pulls out my right breast and lets it fall back into the bra cup. He's holding out my bra so it will fall back into the cup. He was so close I couldn't hardly breath; like he was sucking the air out of me. It was hot stale smelling air.
- 11. Another like that was a woman with long brown hair. She was hovering near my face. Kind of floating, only a few inches from my face. I had my eyes closed and when I felt someone's presence, I opened my eyes and she was there and then disappeared. She had a weird look in her eyes and a smerk grin on her face just before she faded out of sight.
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No Girlfriend it isn't You!
No girlfriend it isn't you....
It's all the ungrateful assholes in your life.
I've lived around and with that type all my life and it gets mighty old.
I'm sorry they don't know how to care about anyone but themselves.
I'm sorry they are users and abusers of a kind hearted and loving person.
I'm sorry they leave all the work for you to do, without ever thinking that maybe you could use some help.
I'm sorry they think your Super Person or a Super Hero of some sort; that you'll make everything okay, because you always do.
I'm sorry you love them too much for your own good.
I'm sorry they have calloused hearts and no compassion.
But.... I thank God there are still people like you in this world.
I'd hate to be the only one that feels like a fool for loving these ungrateful excuses for human beings.
But you know what....
Someone better love them and show them what it is suppose to be like, because when you get tired of it.... who's going to put up with their crap?
No.... They need a good old fashioned tongue lashing and for you to leave for about a week without forewarning them.
Call in work with intentional flu and leave a letter for the house dope and grab lil miss and head for a camp trip and don't call.
Let them work it out themselves.
Tell them you'll see them in a week.... maybe....if you've had enough time away to not kill them for being so insensitive.
So much for advice.. Now
Know anyone that has the guts to do it.
I took a case of beer, a couple bottles of mash whiskey, and a couple jugs of cheep ass wine and went to a natural hot tub and camped for a week.
The food was great, the company was fine and I went home feeling like I could hack another go around with the ass holes in my life.
My girl and I had quality time together and we learned to just enjoy each other and our surroundings.
I came home with all but the beer and one jug of wine.
Try it, you'll thank yourself in the morning.
Love ya Kid,
Jan
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Funny Bathroom Signs
Friends donÂ’t let friends take home ugly men.
Sign in WomenÂ’s restroom Starboard, Dewey Beach, DE
Beauty is only a light switch away.
Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC
If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then letÂ’s all get wasted together and have the time of our lives.
ArmandÂ’s Pizza, Washington, DC
Remember, it’s not, “How high are you?” It’s “Hi, how are you?”
Rest stop off Route 81, West Virginia
No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her shit.
MenÂ’s Room LindaÂ’s Bar and Grill, Chapel Hill, NC
At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.
BentleyÂ’s House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson, AZ
ItÂ’s hard to make a comeback when you havenÂ’t been anywhere.
Written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg, AZ
Make love not war----Hell, do bothÂ…. GET MARRIED!
WomenÂ’s restroom The Filling Station, Bozeman, MT
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
Revolution Books New York, New York
If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress? Congress!
MenÂ’s restroom House of Representatives, Washington, DC
Express Lane: Five beers or less Sign over one of the urinals Ed DebevicÂ’s, Phoenix, AZ
YouÂ’re too good for him.
Sign over mirror in WomenÂ’s restroom. Ed DebevicÂ’s, Beverly Hills, CA
No wonder you always go home alone.
Sign over mirror in MenÂ’s restroom. Ed DebevicÂ’s, Beverly Hills, CA
A WomanÂ’s Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, your going to have trouble with it.
DickÂ’s Last Resort Dallas, TX
Finally, a memory of my childhood. My Mom and Dad's joke, whenever any visitors asked to use our bathrooms. "Mark your weight on the wall in case you fall in; that way we know how much water to bale out to save you."
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Tear Jerking isn't it? Grab a tissue.
Today marks the 10th day I've been in excruciating pain from vertebra's out of place.
17th. After exercising 22 minutes, I took a friend to the hospital to have some x-rays taken of her shoulder for her industrial accident claim. I carried her stuff for her around the hospital and to the car. Nothing heavy, but I started hurting that evening.
18th. I went to work, came home and tried to exercise but couldn't stand the pain in my shouderblade after 7 ½ minutes, so I quit and took some aspirin. By bedtime I was in excruciating pain.
19th. I tried exercising again and quit after 5 minutes of torture. I started with ice packs and heat packs and popping aspirin like peanuts. Nothing helped.
I used a frozen steak in a zip lock bag wrapped in a hand towel. Fits great and stays cold a long time. Of coarse I have to throw the meat away after reusing it several times, but I don't have an ice pack and this works. So do frozen vegetables.
20th. Heat seems to work the best so I soaked a hand towel and wrapped it in foil after nuking it for 8 minutes. Then into a zip lock bag and another hand towel. I exercised 15 minutes and was extremely sorry afterwards. I thought maybe I was just needing a good workout. Fact is, I need a mineral hot springs for about a week.
21st. No school for President's Day so suffered in pain until I could get to a doctor on Monday.
22nd. Went to Dr Lush's office; he wasn't in. The nurse practitioner suggested I go to see her chiropractor; just across the street from the 101 quick stop. I got right in. He did his thing and I left hurting more. Come back on Friday at 9 a.m.
23rd. I go to work each day and cry till it's time to go back then fight to get 10 minutes of sleep each night. Nothing helps anymore. Finally in the afternoon on my last run of the day, I pushed the brake handle on the bus when I pulled into the barn, and shot such pain through my body I don't think even birthing matches this; maybe a close second.
24th. I went to work, drove the first round and shot pains through my shoulder and arm again pushing the brake down to where I could use my foot the rest of the way, to set the brake on my bus. When it came time to drive my second run of the day, I was in snotty tears explaining to my boss that I just couldn't do that again. I have to see a doctor; something is wrong in my shoulder.
25th. I took the day off and spent it at the chiropractor, who still can't get something back into place in my neck that's causing my 3 fingers on my left hand to twitch accompanied with severe pain up the outside of my left arm into my shoulder and across into my spine; where it feels like I've been stabbed in the back. He thinks it probably has something to do with the bus break.
I left there very grumpy and went to Dr. Lush's office. I was on a quest to get some help from someone and I didn't care if I had to sit all day to do it.
In Dr Lush's office he hadn't come in yet from his all nighter at the hospital, but was due back at 10:30 a.m. They said he was just returning from vacation and had yesterdays people backed up into today. There would be no way I could get in until maybe 2:30 p.m. To come back and they'd see if they could fit me in.
I went out to the car. Sat there and cried for about 15 minutes and then went back into the office for tissues and to visit the potty. I walked straight over to a chair at the window and waited. Apparently the nurse practitioner who's children ride my bus thought I would need to be back at school to drive the route, because she hurried me into a m exam room where the Doctor happened to notice me and mention he was sorry for the crowed state of the clinic that day and that he would get to me as quickly as he could. I told him I understood and that it was ok, I'd wait. He came in a few minutes later and after talking a few minutes he sent me to the hospital for x-rays and come back on Tuesday. He also gave me a Rx for pain.
Now off to the hospital I went....Still in mega pain but I felt like I was getting somewhere.
Dr approved of the chiropractor and said to continue with him and come see him on Tuesday and they would know more about what's going on in there.
He gave me the paper to take with me for my annual blood labs for diabetes; said I might as well do that while I was there.
I reported to my boss what was going on and he said to not come back to work until I knew something or that it was resolved, and he wants me to fill out an industrial accident claim form. I don't want to not work. I asked if someone couldn't switch busses with me. He said no with no further explanation than they are set the way that is best. In simple terms; he doesn't want to. (I'm still going to ask one of the other drivers if she'll change routes with me.) He said he'd leave the form on his desk for me that I could fill it out after I'd been to the hospital (at my suggestion).
They couldn't do the blood work because I had already eaten breakfast; they like to do them on an empty stomach. No pills, food, nothing but water before those tests.
26th. I had to go back today. After the test I drove to the bus barn and no paper out to fill out.
I called him from there at 9 a.m. and he said he forgot all about it. So I told him I'd come in on Monday after the Dr. (chiropractor)
So this month has been totally screwed for exercising. I've lost and will loose the last half of the month and God knows how much time in March.
What the heck am I going to do If I can't drive school bus anymore?
All I can say is, I guess God has something planned. I just don't see what it is right now, but I'll stand on Him; He's never let me down in 62 years.
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First sketching of orange star rose for the painting.
This is the first sketching of orange star rose for the painting.
I used watercolor pencils to get the feel of the colors I want to blend. I want them more blush; more of a kiss of pink on the orange. The orange has to be a stark, striking orange; almost florescent with rimmed blood red/rose. At least that's what I picture in my mind; now the trick is transferring that image onto canvas. Thank heavens I have until June. Problem is, I only have one oval 8 x 10 canvas. Maybe the canvas fairy will visit my studio between now and then. I certainly hope so, because Spring is coming and that's my favorite time of year for painting.
Oh! Happy Birthday Sis! Hope your day is special, you almost old fart......But who's keeping track? LOL
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Here I go on my soap box again.
Today I finally got my medical card that I was suppose to get 4 years ago; but, I was conveniently not told that I had one coming. I qualified and finally fit into a category without falling through the cracks, but our illustrious Governor in all his benevolence, encouraged the Department of Health and Social Services to gloss over people in my group. In other words; screw the already screwed class. I was one of over 700 people that was shuffled out of the way.
Well, after getting my Medicaid card for February on the 22nd; which by the way is good until the 28th, I promptly went to the eye doctor for my yearly eye check-up; that has been costing me over $600.00 a year for new Rx, frames, and the full exam. (That's $2400.00 out of my pocket that was suppose to be paid for by the insurance; just for the eyes over those 4 years.)
Our politicians (including our Governor) didn't pay out any $ for their check-ups; they had insurance that paid for it...come to think of it, I helped pay for their insurance. Wasn't that sweet of me (and you)? And this is just eyes. I paid out $2700.00 in medicines etc. in 2002; $3000.00 in 2003 and $1440.00 in 2004, for a total of $7140.00; my out of pocket expenses that should have been covered by Medicaid but wasn't. No wonder I'm so far in debt I can't see daylight.
Next on the list of get taken care of quick is the teeth. So I went to the dentist office. He doesn't accept Medicaid, so I had to wait on the telephone for 45 minutes for the people in our state that have listings of all the medical people in the state. They referred me to 6 other dentist that they believe takes Medicaid. She also suggested I call all the dentist in my area and ask if they will accept that insurance.
Meantime I had to go to the doctor this morning. I've had an excruciating pain in my left shoulder blade area. It is doing a bang up imitation of feeling like I've been stabbed in the back. No shit! The pain runs deep into my flesh and covers a radius of about the size of a saucer. Anyway, the doctor wouldn't be in until 11:00 a.m. due to he would be in surgery until then.
Sooooooo.... I went over to the chiropractor. Got in right away.
He said, "No wonder your in pain. You have 3 vertebrae in one series then another 2 lower down that are out of place. You have one rib that is slipped out of place @ one of the 3. The 5 vertebrae are all turned to the left which has caused the rib to slide out of position."
WHAT! I THOUGHT YOUR RIBS STAYED WHERE THEY WERE!
Well class, they don't.
Nope!
They are attached to the spine, but can slide and move just the same as the rest of the bones in our bodies. The cartilage and muscles are what keep them where they are suppose to be.
Now isn't that a comforting thought. Our ribs could decide to slip out of place...rip free of the bone and if they wanted to.... could puncture a lung. @#$%^&*( Who knew! )
So the Doctor of Chiropractic did some thumping and shooting (with some sort of gun apparatus that sounds like a typewriter and feels like OUCH!) and smashing and told me to come back Friday to see if what he did made it start to slide back into position like they are suppose to be.
Swell.... I've done without sleep now for 5 nights and have to go for another 3 before I find out if the #$%^&*( bones are going to go back into place like good little bones.
Problem is, I can't sleep on my back and that is the ONLY position I can get any relief from the pain. I can sleep on either side or even my face but my body just refuses to sleep when I'm on my back.
I've been eating aspirin like peanuts. Gallons of water to keep that from burning my stomach.
Sweet Jesus! I think I'm going to try a rubber mallet tonight. One nicely placed blow to the head might knock me out long enough to rest.
Check this little tid bit out.... I needed an ice pack to combat the pain; right? Guess what I found to use; since I don't have an ice pack? I recently bought one of those 3 meal deals, where it has a roast, stew meat and 3 steaks in one package. I had wrapped them in foil and put them in the freezer. Hummm! I think to myself. I grabbed one of the steaks; shoved it into a plastic zip lock freezer bag and laid on it. IT WORKED GREAT! Icy cold, just the right size, and no wet bed.
So guess what I'm having for dinner tonight.... LOL
Yep! Macaroni and cheese...Heck I'm not eating my ice pack.
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Waiting at the Aberdeen drawbridge for a tug boat.
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Lets have a trout fry!
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See what 2 young boys can do with chocolate..... just for fun.
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Two of the busses I drive
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Hi-Ho! Hi-Ho! I Guess it's off to Vegas we go!
Baby news! 7 weeks and 2 days old; strong heart beat but mother may have a bad ovary. Doctor doesn't want anyone to panic yet; but too late. We have difficult times in my family just getting a baby and then even worse times trying to carry one and then the gambit through delivery, and we're not out of the woods when they are born either; for I had 11 sisters that died through various stages, and I lost 3 getting one and my blood daughter lost 2 to get her's and nearly died giving birth to the last one. So we panic when it comes to loosing our babies and this mama is one of our babies.
But we're going to be cool till we have to freak out.... At least on the outside.
My grandson-in-law-to-be went with my daughter and granddaughter for her first prenatal check-up. Funnnnn...nnnny!
It was told to me this way. Jasmin goes into the room. Gets into her paper gown and Robin, knowing what's coming, moves to the head of the table near Jasmin's head; while greeny wet-behind-the-ears, don't-know-shit, never-did-this-stuff Leif; stayed directly in front of Jasmin's feet, which was in the stirrups.
Jasmin was told to insert a dildo shaped apparatus with a camera inside it while laying on the table naked with her mother and boyfriend watching. She said she was totally embarrassed.
Robin being the smart ass she is asked Leif how he felt about Jasmin masturbating while he and his future mother-in-law watched. Then as if on cue...Jasmin decided she wasn't going to be the only one embarrassed, so she flashed Leif (in front of her mother). She picked up the paper gown, flashed her crotch and put the gown back down.
About this time the baby's heartbeat was picked up on the monitor and all the festivities came to a screeching halt and everyone was mesmerized by the baby's very strong heartbeat. So much so that Leif begged the doctor to allow him to record it on his cell phone.
I was played that precious recording when I went over there this evening. My comment to Jasmin was, "The worst part of being pregnant is you wind up feeling like a cow, because everyone pokes and prods you and your put in such exposed conditions for everyone to gawk and poke and feel you up." The second worst thing to me is near your delivery time it feels like your sitting on a cement football and you have to pee all the time.
Oh, Sweet Jesus.... Make everything be okay for this child and it's parents, grandparents and great grandparents, uncles and cousins who are praying for it.
We don't know what the sex is yet, or if the mommy is going to be okay; but we have a strong heart beat of encouragement.
So we are all heading for Nevada for a wedding On the 11th of March. I wish there was some way to take a white shotgun with me for a photo op, but the airlines would frown on that I'm sure. Come to think of it, so might everyone else in the wedding party. LOL
Oh well, I'm just warped.
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Washington is trying to do to us.... AGAIN...In WA state!
Representative Jay Inslee sent me an update on something Washington is trying to do to us.... AGAIN here in Washington state! Read his letter to me and then what I replied. I hope if your a fellow Washingtonian you'll write your representatives and fight this before our state becomes another California; so deep in debt that a hole would look good.
Dear Ms Myers:
I wanted pass along to you the latest developments on a proposal in Washington, D.C. to raise electricity rates on Washington State consumers. As you may know, the President's budget proposes that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), supplier of 60% of the power in Washington State, raise its rates up to 20% a year for the next four or five years.
BPA, as you may know, is the federal agency that sells the power from the Columbia River Power System, a network of hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River. BPA is a nonprofit entity, selling the power at the cost it takes to generate and transmit it, without adding charges. The Administration's proposal would have BPA raise its rates on us to generate profits that would go back to the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C.
Most of Washington State's public utilities receive a large percentage of their energy from the BPA, including the Snohomish County PUD (80%), Tacoma Power (60%) and Seattle City Light (35%). In addition, consumers served by utilities such as Puget Sound Energy also receive an energy price reduction because of BPA. Ultimately, all these utilities would be forced to pass on the rate increases to consumers, resulting in much higher electricity bills to heat and power your home. Many of us in the Northwest are still feeling the effects of the skyrocketing of energy rates and the loss of 105,000 jobs during the 2000-2001 energy crisis.
The Bush Administration's proposal to require BPA to sell its energy at market-based rates rather than cost-based rates, according to a McCullough Research report, would cost the Northwest 40,000 to 60,000 jobs over the next five years, a hit our region can scarcely afford at a time when we are just beginning to recover five years after the West Coast energy crisis. For this reason, all of Washington State's representatives in Congress, Democrats and Republicans, are united in opposing this proposal.
This past Sunday, I met with employees and management at the Nucor Steel Mill, Seattle City Light's largest customer and part of the largest steel producer in the United States, who saw their energy rates increase 59 percent as a result of the energy crisis. Nucor's electric rates at their Seattle mill are the highest of all of their 16 mills across 14 states, highlighting the continued effects of the energy crisis. The Bonneville Power Administration's low cost-based energy rates are primarily responsible for bringing in much of Washington State's industry, from Boeing, various primary metal industries such as Nucor, to paper industries such as Kimberly-Clark and Weyerhauser. Unfortunately, the energy crisis has already removed that advantage for these industries. Raising BPA's rates by 20% a year for the next four or five years at this critical juncture would harm the health of Washington State's job market, a proposition that all of Washington State's representatives are united in opposing.
I recently questioned new Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman during a Energy and Commerce Committee hearing about the rationality of the Administration's proposed rate increases for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). Secretary Bodman suggested that the legacy of charging cost-based rates to their Northwest consumers is subsidized by the American taxpayer. This characterization of BPA is inaccurate: BPA customers repay all of BPA's costs including paying interest on Bonneville's old, appropriated debt and any funds borrowed from the U.S. Treasury.
While I am honored that the Secretary could spend time answering my questions on Bonneville power rates, I disagree with the Secretary's idea that the federal government is somehow subsidizing power consumers in the Northwest when the BPA charges us cost-based rates. Bonneville, which produces power overwhelmingly with publicly owned resources, pays back every cent of its costs to the federal treasury. We do not expect government run libraries to make a profit and we do not expect government run Power Marketing Administration to turn a profit either. The current proposal aimed at changing the BPA rates is illegal and I will continue to oppose the Administration's attempts to impose the equivalent of a very large energy tax on Washington State consumers.
Please rest assured that as a Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I will continue to oppose the attempt to raise the BPA's cost-based rates, ensuring our region's continued economic competitiveness as well as the health of our job market.
As a service to my constituents, I maintain a website which contains valuable resources and information on Congressional activities. Please feel free to visit the website at http://www.house.gov/inslee for information on recent issues and to learn more about the services my office provides. If you have not done so already, please visit http://www.house.gov/inslee/signup.htm to subscribe to my e-mail updates.
I encourage you to contact me via email, telephone, or fax, because security measures are causing House offices to experience delays in receiving postal mail. My email address is: Jay.Inslee@mail.house.gov. Please be sure to include your full name and address, including your zip code, in your message.
The following is my reply to this letter:
Sir,
I appreciate your stand on the power issue. It is nice to see that not all politicians have gone off the deep end.
At one time I was very proud of my country and my government and I trusted my representatives, but since Bush took office I've watched our country become known as a bully, get into a war through lies, run our government into the red and still allows graft and corruption while expecting and even making the populace pay the freight.
I'm ashamed of the how calloused our government has gotten toward our own people. Allowing our jobs to be shipped out of the country and then blame Social Security for the problem. Wages are a joke; health care is a joke; and so are many other issues, and this new power scheme is just one of many of the new barrage of jokes being played on the American people by our own government.
We are becoming slaves to our government so we do without, send our children to fight a war for the wealthy, and the rich politicians get raises every year and lifetime benefits, and their kids get college degrees.
It is refreshing to find someone actually fighting for us. Please keep me informed on every issue you are involved in, and if there is any way my voice can help; please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank You Sincerely,
Janice L. Myers
South Bend, WA
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New Years Intention still in full swing...Feeling baggy.
Yesterday I exercised full bore for 23 minutes; hurt like a son-of-a-trucker. In fact my butt still hurts and my lower midsection is in pain as well. I know I need to do it again today, but boy is it tough making me get on there and do it.
I'm headed there now, but stopped (I guess, just to fart around and kill time more) to enter into my journal. I guess I could have waited, but I didn't, so maybe I'll just wait until I'm finished to finish this entry.
Sounds like a plan....Be back in 20-25 minutes. Keep your eyes crossed for me that I can make it that long.
"I heard it through the grapevine" CCR was just coming on the player. I hated to get off and quit but my left foot is hurting bad (I got in 20 minutes). I could have gone on longer if the foot hadn't been hurting so badly. Problem is... My left foot is my good foot; so I have to protect it or I don't walk, drive or work.
I'm just now getting my right side in enough condition that I can stand or lean for longer periods of time than I've been able to do in 4 years since the industrial accident that put me out of work. Which is a whole other story; and not a pretty one I might add. That's one for the melodrama.
Anyway, I did what I was suppose to do for 2 days this week. I've been eating vegetables and hardly any meat for a long time now.
Even when my daughter took the whole family out for Asian buffet I was good. I ate fish (shrimp, cod, salmon and crab), chicken and 2 bites of port and everything else was vegetables. I mainly filled up on fish though; God I love fish. LOL I just can't afford to buy the stuff. I'll be glad when my grandson goes out salmon fishing again. He always brings me a big one that I can bake and pig out on.
He brought me some clams from the last clam dig (about a pound) and I made chowder from them. Now when I get the hankering I can go to the freezer and get out some chowder.
Well, that's it for today. Except.... My pants are starting to feel really baggy.
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Two Hour Delay due to Ice
Happy Valentine's Day?
So why didn't I get the call while I was still in bed and in my jammies?
My boss called me this morning at 7 a.m. to tell me school would be delayed 2 hours.
When I asked why, he said, "Look outside."
I'm not kidding.... The rain drops froze as they were falling because the ice was lumpy. Clear lumpy ice all over everything.
BUT!
When I slip and slid to my car and got into it at 9:15 a.m. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my glue job on the rubber around the doors using the garage door rubber I bought.... Yeah! It Worked! No fresh drops inside! AND... No ice inside this morning. It would have been hell to get off if I hadn't taken the chance on the jerry-rigged patch job when I did.
Now you can laugh at me if you want to; I can't stop you, but I truly believe God's Holy Spirit guided me to do it, to save me all the headaches. I almost didn't mess with it yesterday.
But at the last minute I said to myself, "Why not try it now? The sun is shining and it will dry good, plus, you have everything you need here to do it. If it doesn't work you can try it again tomorrow, but they are predicting more rain for a few days; now's your chance to do it while the rubber is dry enough to take the glue."
So.... I got out the stuff and did it before I came home from work on Friday. I messed with fixing the rubber around the doors while another bus driver washed her bus.
It started raining around 5 p.m. that night and rained all weekend. Then turned to ice early Monday morning.
If that isn't being led by the Spirit; I don't know what is. All I know is it's working and I like it. Thanks Dad for you help on that project, and for nudging me to do it at just the right time.
You are totally awesome God; thanks for being my loving father.
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The Family Tree has long Branches
The wedding is going to be on July 4th. When it gets a little bit closer I'll send out indentations with all the info on it.
The wedding is going to be held in a really beautiful church in Coeur d' Alene ID, I would like the dress code to be more dressy than casual.
I'm still working out all the bugs, I really haven't made may plans yet.
If you have any suggestions please let me know.
Were is Jasmines wedding going to be at? I would like to be there. When you find out more could you please forward it to me?
Well go to go,
Love you
Jes.
Jan Myrz <jan_myrz@willapabay.org> wrote:
Jessica,
I have a special request from your Aunt Robin, Uncle Daddy and cousins and Gramma Myers. In other words; from all of us who want to be at your wedding.
Give us some details.
When
Who
Where
Dress code
Time
Reception
What do you want for a gift
Any other information you can give us.
For you from Jazmin and Leif
They are getting married on June 18th
I don't have any other details yet.
Also:
I'm starting you picture this next week.
Okay
Since the heirloom baby blanket got burned in the fire; I'm starting another one that will go to Jasmin and when she's done with it with this baby, unless she gets pregnant real fast again, it can go to the next baby being born into the family with the understanding it goes to the next baby born into the family and on and on etc like the last one was suppose to do that came from my great great grandmother and was baby blanket for all the newborns in the family until it got burned in the house fire. I have it almost half finished.
Well as I said, I don't know how much longer I'll be here.
If something happens check into my blog on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. I'll keep you posted there.
The address link is below.
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Nope no acrobatic toilet shots, just scenery.
Nope no acrobatic toilet shots, just scenery.
Well we're moved in our new place in Pacific Grove, CA.
Sorry about being right about Jasmin, it was just what hit me when you told me. Young girl, older guy, it was pretty much inevitable. I've gone that route and I'm sorry she has to now but the good thing is that she has lots of people to support her. I know if I didn't have the support of everyone around me, I wouldn't of been able to make it. So what does Jasmin's boyfriend say about the whole deal? Expect him to either love it now, and take off later or cut to the chase and take off now. I hate to sound so jaded about it, but it is what commonly happens. But once again, her having a strong support net is the best thing. How did James take it? Not good probably, he is so protective of her. Well, another great adventure begins! I am expecting Jessica to tell me "the news" sooner or later too. Good thing is, we're hot looking grannys aren't we!!!!
Thanks for the blankets. The ones we had before were everyone's favorites.
Keep me posted and give everyone hugs and sloppy kisses.
Love Jackie
PS I have had a booger of a time with my mail service through outlook so I'm not sure if the computer needs to be serviced or it's peoplepc. Either way, hopefully I can streighten it out. Sorry about your PC woes, but I don't blame you not wanting to get stiffed with more than what the agreement was.
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Little-bit,
Hi! I hope you are doing okay with the baby. I haven't been over for a week and then it was only to get James, so I haven't heard how things are going.
You okay? Been to the doctor yet?
So has there been a wedding date set?
I'm all over my hurt and shock so if you were thinking I was against you and Leif; I'm not. I know your a young woman with a mind of your own. And that's a good thing. You picked a man you wanted; and that's a good thing.
Yes, I was angry and hurt and upset, but that's over. I know it wouldn't be right for you to have to fit into a mold of my making or anyone else's for that matter. It's your life.....Live it!
I know you'll make a good mommy and since Leif hasn't had a family I'm sure he will be a good daddy too. You guys can learn all the mistakes your own parents made on raising you guys. No instruction manual coming with the baby sucks, but your own natural instincts will be all you need. All I can advise is be the baby's parents; don't let someone else tell you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. You are the two that are responsible for that life and it starts from conception.
Getting suggested advice and help is fine as long as it doesn't usurp your own authority over the child, because when the rubber meets the road; you and Leif are the ONLY parents that baby has and if you WON'T stand up and fight for that child, then you suck as parents.
Lets face it, you've had a lifetime of living examples of what to do and what not to do; use that and grow from there.
If I get too pushy, tell me and I'll back off, but I won't know if you get upset by it if you don't speak up; will I? Do the same with your parents & James and Leif's family.
I love you sweetie and always will and I'll love that little one just as much. AND I promise you I will do my level best to grow to love Leif as much as I learned to love your father. See your mom was right, your father wasn't who I would have picked for her, but then, I didn't have to live with him did I? LOL
Nope, I learned to love him because I chose to try and I'll do the same with Leif.
So if I've been hurtful in any way to either of you, please forgive an old fool.
Love you,
PS.
Gramma Myers Grams Grammernah Grammykins etc etc old bitch etc
We are going to have to pick out a gramma name for me and your mom now. we can't both be gramma. How about me being Nana or Opu and let your mom be Gramma. After all it is her first and the first is always special in their own special way.
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If Love is to Survive it must be Nurtured.
How appropriate for Valentine's Day. It just shows the strength of the love that binds families together. My family was pulling all different directions when the news of Jasmin's pregnancy was announced.
Our immediate family spans three generations. There are gaps, yes, but no chasm that can not be spanned as the following letters attest.
We choose to let love rule in the end, and to set judgments aside for the sake of that unified love. What good would come of a family being torn apart by being to set in their own ideas; especially for someone else's life. We are each given one life to live here, while we are here, and only one life. Having children does not give us Carte Blanch dictatorship over anyone else's life; none but our own.
Many times we forget that and try to force our way on someone else; usually those closest to us. I and others in my family were coming very close to shredding the very fibers of our family in just such a way, over a new little life that will be the center of all of our love, and that wee bonny one will be the new breath of life we have all been waiting for and didn't realize it until now.
My letter to Jasmin and Leif February 11, 05
Little-bit,
Hi! I hope you are doing okay with the baby. I haven't been over for a week and then it was only to get James, so I haven't heard how things are going.
You okay? Been to the doctor yet?
So has there been a wedding date set?
I'm all over my hurt and shock so if you were thinking I was against you and Leif; I'm not. I know your a young woman with a mind of your own. And that's a good thing. You picked a man you wanted; and that's a good thing.
Yes, I was angry and hurt and upset, but that's over. I know it wouldn't be right for you to have to fit into a mold of my making or anyone else's for that matter. It's your life.....Live it!
I know you'll make a good mommy and since Leif hasn't had a family I'm sure he will be a good daddy too. You guys can learn all the mistakes your own parents made on raising you guys. No instruction manual coming with the baby sucks, but your own natural instincts will be all you need. All I can advise is be the baby's parents; don't let someone else tell you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. You are the two that are responsible for that life and it starts from conception.
Getting suggested advice and help is fine as long as it doesn't usurp your own authority over the child, because when the rubber meets the road; you and Leif are the ONLY parents that baby has and if you WON'T stand up and fight for that child, then you suck as parents.
Lets face it, you've had a lifetime of living examples of what to do and what not to do; use that and grow from there. If I get too pushy, tell me and I'll back off, but I won't know if you get upset by it if you don't speak up; will I? Do the same with your parents & James and Leif's family.
I love you sweetie and always will and I'll love that little one just as much. AND I promise you I will do my level best to grow to love Leif as much as I learned to love your father. See your mom was right, your father wasn't who I would have picked for her, but then, I didn't have to live with him did I? LOL
Nope, I learned to love him because I chose to try and I'll do the same with Leif.
So if I've been hurtful in any way to either of you, please forgive an old fool.
Love you,
Gramma Myers, Grams, Grammernah, Grammykins etc etc old bitch etc We are going to have to pick out a gramma name for me and your mom now. we can't both be gramma. How about me being Nana or Opu and let your mom be Gramma. After all it is her first and the first is always special in their own special way.
Jasmin's reply to my letter (2/11/05) February 12, 05
Hey Gramma
Thanks for your encouraging words. I appreciate that you will try to love Leif that way and I know that I hurt you all by this coming along and I never intended to do that to any of you. It wasn't expected for me and it was kinda of a shock but I have grown up to know that abortion is wrong and
this is my miracle after being told I would never have children. To know that I was told that and to know that God has blessed me with this baby is more happiness that I can endure. I love you so much and I think I like Opu
better for a name for you.
The wedding date is June 18, 2005 at 12:00p.m. it's either going to be at the log cabin in Aberdeen or the South Bend
Chamber of Commerce we have to check on prices though.
My first appointment is this next Thursday the 17th at 9:00 I'll call you and let you know how it went. I love you Grandma and so does Leif.
Love you
Jasmin
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The Family Tree Has Long Branches
The letter from my granddaughter Jessica:
Gramma,
The wedding is going to be on July 4th. When it gets a little bit closer I'll send out indentations with all the info on it.
The wedding is going to be held in a really beautiful church in Coeur d' Alene ID, I would like the dress code to be more dressy than casual.
I'm still working out all the bugs, I really haven't made may plans yet.
If you have any suggestions please let me know.
Were is Jasmines wedding going to be at? I would like to be there. When you find out more could you please forward it to me?
Well go to go,
Love you
Jes
My letter to Jessica (My first grandchild of my daughter Jackii, and the first of my family.)
I have a special request for you from your Aunt Robin, Uncle Daddy Tim, cousins and Gramma Myers. In other words; from all of us who want to be at your wedding.
Give us some details. Who? What? When? Where? How? Dress Code? Time? Reception? Gift suggestions? Any other information you can give us?
For you from Jasmin and Leif. They are getting married on June 18th. They don't know where yet. That is all I know so far.
Also:
Since the heirloom baby blanket got burned in the house fire, I've started another to replace it and have it about half finished. So unless Jasmin keeps popping out kids, when your first is on it's way, ask her for it; then take care of it till the next baby is on it's way and send it to whoever is the Mother. That's how this thing works.
The other one was handed down in the family from my Great Great Gramma Black and it swaddled every baby in the family down to and including you. Now we have to start all over again and since I'm now the only great in this side of the family AND the only one that cares about crap like this; it's up to me to make it. Just thought I'd let you know.
Love you Sweetie,
Gramma Jan
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Oh yeah! And your Mother too....!
I guess I keep the DSL. LOL So far they are standing true to their word. Guess I can take the chip off my shoulder now and stand at ease instead of being in the ready to fight stance. Damned Irish in me; I'm a born scrapper.
Sure and wouldn't ya know me GaunDa Wise threw more than one punch in his glorious life; God rest his soul. And me Uncle Jimmy and Uncle Thomas both were fighters.
Uncle Jimmy's elbows would shoot up and he'd puff out like a struttin cock, waiten for a fight; while Uncle Thaance as we called him (pronounced Tonce ) was the featherweight champion of Ohio in 1948-1952. He and Uncle Jimmy would spar together so Uncle Tom could practice for his fights.
I guess growing up around that just made me a natural scrapper. That and only having boys to play with growing up. It's either learn to fight or play with dolls and get stuck in the house doing "women's work" eeeeeeeeeeeeewww... I'd rather go live with Uncle Sparky on the farm and muck out stalls if you don't mind. Nope never went for that girls did this and boys did that shit. Farm and rancher folk don't see it that way either. So, when someone tries to challenge me to something; it never works. Ask my 3 (count them) yep 3 ex-husbands. They came from that same mind set and it just never took.
So as you can see by the letter I got from the ISP I'm to ignore the threat of cancellation and just pay as agreed. I had a feeling they'd see it my way if they wanted to keep me as a customer.
Too many people will just roll over and play dead now days when someone pushes them. They've gotten so institusionalized that they don't know how to fight back.
Hay,, now there's an idea. I'll give lessons and advice. LOL Well I would have anyway, but can't hurt to offer now, can it? So, looks like I'll be around for a while. The good Lord above must want me to do something. Someone needs to hear this Scotch/Irish/Pennsylvania-Dutch/German and Cherokee rabble rouser or see what one lone feisty person can do when they set their mind to something.
Here's the correspondence between me and the ISP:
This is what I received this evening in reply to my letter to them; below.
Dear Janice,
This notice, is the notice that I mention to you before that you would get and for you to ignore it until the modem is paid. Once the modem is paid you will not get the late notice because you have always paid you statement before the due date. Your account will not be cancelled we know it is because of the modem.
If you have other questions or concerns please contact us again.
Thank you,
Avie Boyd,
Billing Manager
ReachONE Internet Billing Team
-------Original Message-------
To:
From:
jan_myrz@willapabay.orgCC:
Date: 2/10/2005 5:35:04 PM
Subject: Re: Late Notice / Cancellation
ReachONE Statement
Okay... What's this?
I did what you said to do and now I'm getting threats?
Apparently I'm not allowed to pay 3 payments of $39.95 like you said I could. You want the whole amount and are now threatening me to get it.
I don't do threats...
You want to cut me off then go ahead and do it.
I agreed to 3 payments of $39.95 then it would drop back to $29.95 a month. I just paid the first payment Feb 3rd.
So how is it? Do I pay according to the agreement or are you cutting off the service and I send you back a box and cancel all service? It's up to you.
Sincerely,
Janice L. Myers
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Look out! She has glue and knows how to use it.
Yup, move over all you handy folks. I know how to do that shit too.
Remember my leaky car? Huha! I went and bought some garage door rubbers (not latex and not ribbed). Then I got a can of contact cement and a paint brush. He He He He...
It's been dry now for 3 whole days and the sun has helped to dry out the rubber on my car doors. Well with a little help from some paper towels wrapped around it during the day; soaking up the excess moisture from the frost every morning. Yap, frost.. Yah, I know that's just cold wet, but at least it doesn't drip on me when I drive down the street like rain does.
Anyway, I decided to attempt gluing a strip of the garage door rubber beside the door rubber across the top of the door and down half way on the sides, while it's dry enough to maybe stick.
It's suppose to rain again starting tomorrow so I want to do it while I can.
Hay! If it don't work I still have some rubber left over and some of the rubber I took off the trunk when I fixed it. I can't get any door rubber from a junk yard, because my car is so old.
And I'm too damn cheap to buy it new from a auto detailer. He wants an arm and a leg and $100.00 down for one piece. Screw that! I'll jerryrigit!
Wish me luck!
Move over dude on Monster Garage...What's his name? This could get ugly!
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This may be The End
I received a threat that I was behind on my payment with the server today.
The original agreement was 3 monthly payments of 39.95 and it would pay for the DSL box from Centurytel which ReachOne was suppose to pay for and I was to reimburse them. I mailed the first payment as per our agreement on February 3rd, 05. Now this was after talking to the billing person for ReachOne; twice and the final agreement was 3 payments of 39.95 then it would drop down to 29.95 a month instead of 22.95. So for 7.00 more a month I could have DSL and own the DSL box. That is why I signed up for the service; it was within my range.
Now I'm getting threat of cancellation and disconnection if I don't pay the full amount.
Ha!
I wrote and told them I don't do threats!
If they can't stand by the original deal; they can take their box and shove it where the sun don't shine. And I don't care who does the shoving. Centurytel or ReachOne... whoever is the one at fault. All I know is I'm not sending any more than I agreed to originally.
I was told that I only owed $5.?? and something and they would take the 39.95 and deduct the $5.?? and apply the rest to the DSL box. Okay, fine; so if that is what they did, then why am I being threatened? Why didn't they say I needed to send 39.95 and the 5 whatever to pay the amount I owed at the changeover? Something is screwy and I'm not playing any more games over the billing.
I can do without and save myself that much money each month. I don't need to park my ass in front of the computer for hours instead of painting. Taking photographs for painting or just plain getting some exercise and fresh air.
So.....This may be the last post. If it is, good-bye to all; it's been real.
Now see why I called it a real life soap opera? My own personal melodrama. LOL
So what else is new? LOL
God Bless you all and keep your hearts filled with hope and love for one another.
Give the government a piece of your mind; make them see you as a person not a tax dollar or number. Be kind to each other and don't take life too seriously; it's a big joke that is being played out daily. I'm just waiting for the punch line.
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Pictures..my daughter...toilet?
Pictures you or the toilet??
I got this letter from my daughter #2 today. Dear Mom,
I thought I would sit down and write you a quick note. The weather here has been really good except it rained today. Most of the time it is warm enough to not even wear a light jacket, which is a nice change. Everyone here is walking around like they are in the next ice age and we haven't even used the heater!
Did have a funny story to tell...the first time I went into the bathroom in one of the older buildings on the Monterey campus, I almost fell out the door. This stall was so tiny it made me think of a bathroom in a motor home! The door only swung in and I had difficulty getting me and my book bag in it. then the toilet was about 18" from the door and it had an automatic toilet that kept flushing on it's own accord. Then when I tried to get out, I couldn't figure out how to maneuver my bag around the door and I was trying to shove it under the door, but it was too short, and I'm falling all over the place, the toilet is flushing and I'm stuck between the door and the toilet and can't move. All I could think of was the rescue crews coming in to dismantle the door and it being on Rescue 911! It ended fine, I popped out and was free, all with no witnesses!!!
Well, I hope this made you smile!!! I'll send pictures when I get them developed.
Love ME
What's a mother to think?
I see visions of wet toilet paper stuck to the sole of a shoe and being drug along behind in a steady stream back to the stall. But then I'm warped. It never happened, but it would have been a funny ending.
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I'm still working on the bottom one. I like it but I need to look at it for a while. This is the way I store my paintings; there is one on the back side facing the wall. That way when I need to look at one, all I need to do is flip it over.
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This is a Watercolor titled Baobab Sunrise
by Janice Myers
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This is a research photo sent to me by Penny Strain who helped me find pictures of orange roses for the wedding painting I've been commissioned to paint.
I think she will be best pleased with this arrangement and a blending of these colors for a more blush orange. I'm going to add a little more peach coloring to the orange so they aren't so brash.
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Research photo #2 sent to me by Penny Strain. Thanks again Penny for your help researching orange roses for the wedding painting.
I also like these star shapes and will incorporate aspects of this picture into the wedding painting.
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Research photo #3 sent to me by Penny Strain. I appreciate your help so much Penny.
For the wedding painting I will use these for shape and contrast, then add parts of 2 other photographes for color and arrangement.
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EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!
At least someone in the family is doing good right now. Yeah! Peri and Steve.....Whoh! Whoh! Whoh!
Excuse me I'm having a party right now.
You can check it out yourself using this link.
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Worms
I had to post this... my sister sent it to me and it boosted my moral; hope it does the same for yours.
A minister decided that a visual demonstration would add emphasis to his Sunday sermon.
He put four worms into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a jar of semen.
The fourth worm was put into a jar of good, clean soil.
At the conclusion of the sermon, the minister reported the following results:
The first worm in alcohol -- dead.
Second worm in cigarette smoke -- dead
Third worm in semen -- dead.
Fourth worm in good clean soil - Alive.
The minister asked the congregation -- "What can we learn from this demonstration?"
A little old woman in the back quickly raised her hand and said; "As long as you drink, smoke and have sex, you won't have worms"
AMEN!!
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Dealing with Twitterpation
As for Jasmin. She's happy she's pregnant. (Just plain stupid to me.) She doesn't have any of the Myers traits at all; she's following Tim's side of the family and all the women in that family are the proverbial knocked up and lala land women who dote on their men like they are god's. F'n drives me nuts when they do that shit. Gimme a break ladies; don't you have a mind of your own? Is your life ruled by your crotch, for Christ's sake. Apparently! Okay, so she got pregnant; but to go around telling everyone at school that she's 18 (she's actually 17) and that Leif isn't as old as he really is (he's actually 24 and she won't be 18 until October 26). Excuse me, but that sure sounds like she's embarrassed to me. Denial
Now she's going around planning a wedding in a white gown. Leif is trying to tell everyone how to raise kids and he's going to spend at least 5,000 on a wedding since a traditional wedding usually costs 15,000 or more. (Just to give you an idea what this ass hole is like....he picked the day my oldest granddaughter that isn't pregnant is getting married... then couldn't understand why we all say no f'n way; we can't be in Idaho at her wedding which has been planned for a year and we are expected to be there and have said we will be there....just to tell her to go get f'd so we can honor two idiots that defied everything they were told, and sneaked and connived till they got Jasmin knocked up to (in their minds) force everyone to let them get married before the baby is born and permit Jasmin to leave school and home before she's 18.
I swear to God, I am so ashamed of her. I was totally blindsided knocked out by her real self. I never in my wildest imaginings ever thought she would be like that. All these years she's been lying to everyone? Apparently. I guess that's why I'm having so much trouble dealing with it; I hate liars with a passion.
Robin (Jasmin's Mom; my oldest daughter) James and I went for a drive last evening in the rain so we could talk and maybe resolve personal issues to help us all three deal with it better. We came to the conclusion we too "chew on something until the flavor is all gone and then stick it in our hair" as the line from Sister's of the Divine YaYa Sisterhood said. Only difference is we each stick it someplace different.
My step-daughter was 14 and got pregnant the first time she even came in contact with her boyfriend, because she was just plain dumb about sex. He later became the 1st ex-husband of 2, but she fought to stay in school and get her diploma then went on to beauty college and learned ASL signing and was working teaching sign to kids and doing hair to support her girl (the one that's getting married in July). She automatically took responsibility like she should have, but Jasmin is living in the lala land romanticizing the BABY...sigh, and mooning over wedding gowns for pregnant women. She just doesn't get it. I love her to pieces, but right now I'm stirred up emotionally.
Jasmin, when you read this, I hope you can understand that I'm just dealing with this news in the best way I can. I WILL be there for you and the baby and I WILL accept your choice for a husband....... eventually. Just give me some time.
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Some things just don't make any Sense
I really had a hard time falling to sleep last night. I kept thinking about the
new pregnancy news that shattered the peace and humiliated the whole family.
I haven't been face to face with Leif yet; I have this offal urge to let fly and punch
him in the face like my grandson James did, so I've avoided going around him till I can get a grip on myself.
I've been praying for forgiveness for those hateful feelings. I asked for the ability to be understanding and forgiving of those that cause sorrow filled hearts, because they don't realize what they are doing to the others around them.
I prayed, "Lord help me; let me be more like you." I finally fell asleep after I got up and binged on some cookies and milk at 10:30 P. M.
It's amazing but this morning my BG's (blood glucose level) was only 120 at 6:00 A. M. Don't ask me why it was so low. I say it's low in comparison to the other day when I ate a salad and my version of spaghetti and meat balls. I use Raman noodles and put canned spaghetti/meat sauce over it like angel hair pasta; cooked of coarse. I made meat balls from ground sausage I had in the fridge. So in the morning when I checked my BG's at 6:30 A.M. the reading was 380; the highest it's ever been.
I was so shocked then and again this morning. Neither day had I exercised and the night before the morning it was only 120, I had green beans ham and potatoes for dinner and ice cream for desert. Then about a fist full of fruit Newton's and a chocolate chip cookie with a 12 ounce glass of milk.
Excuse me but that was pigging out, yet the reading was lower than the night I just ate a normal small portion of spaghetti, meatballs and salad. It's just plain nuts.
I took a Vitamin A at about 10:00 P. M. and was able to sleep solid until 4:45 A.M. Then it was like the alarm had gone off. I was done sleeping. Maybe I'm just gearing up for the time change; I don't know, but 5 hours of sleep doesn't seem like it's enough somehow.
Oh well, thank God it's Friday. Sad thing is I have all my laundry to do, plus clean the apartment; windows, floors, curtains & blinds. You know the stuff you let go till it looks at you and makes you feel like your a slob if you don't get it in gear.
I have to start scrubbing walls too. Great - now mix that in with putting new rubber around the doors on my car and I'm going to be a busy beaver for a while.
At least it's suppose to rain this weekend.
On second thought, that means I'll have a car full of water. EEEEEEEeeeeeeeww!
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Row Row Row my Car
Here's a tear jerker for you. I called the junk yard to see if I could get the rubber stripping for my doors (both sides) for my Buick LaSabre. Guess why? Oh go on... guess. Okay I'll tell you; because every time it rains my car fills up with water. The rubber around each door is so shot the water just channels down around the edges and to the bottom where it floods in on the foot wells and puddles there. I have to change the paper daily. Oh fun! Oh Glee!
Last rain we got lasted for almost 2 weeks and totally soaked my carpeting, papers, and mats and still had 3 inches of water sin standing puddles ....INSIDE.
Want to schlock in and go for a ride?
Well I was trying to dry the car out and get some new to me rubber from the junk yard where I got the trunk rubber, but the guy just called me back (this is our last day of sunshine for a while) and told me, "Nope, don't have any".
"Do you ever get cars in occasionally that might have what I need"? I says.
"Nope"!
"Well do you know anyone that might have it? Maybe another junkyard? Do you have a network or something"?
"Nope"!
"Okay, do you know of anyone that does that kind of thing"?
"Maybe a body shop"!
Notice how helpful this guy is; Or is it just me?
All I know is I'm sure glad I didn't drive the 50 mile round trip to Aberdeen and back to find out; much better to use the phone. I can take the disappointment much easier over the telephone. So now I have to check other junk yards myself, because old Delbert Delbert there was so magnanimous with his help.
I just need to stock up on lots of papers until the sunshine pops through again. Ponksatoni Phil says we have six more weeks of winter, so I'm thinking of building an ark and putting my car motor in it. On second thought, it isn't the streets that are flooding; that only happens when we have an extremely high tide and lots of rain too. Back to the ol drawing board. That's a better idea. To heck with the car... I'll just paint another picture.
I see visions of a cartoon.
See the person cutting up a kids bicycle tires and gluing the strips on the doors on each side. Then the next panel... The doors don't close and the rains start. Now, that's not funny; that's pathetic!
Speaking of cartoons, I could be like Red Green and duct tape them. Now there's an idea; wonder what he'd come up with. LOL He always says, "Keep your stick on the ice". Well I'm saying I'll keep my oars in the trunk with my hip boots; I might need to drive to the market or work.
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Here I am in all my glory. Maybe I should do a self portrait.....LOL Hope you enjoy my artwork. I can be commissioned. If you have a picture of something you'd like painted; I do that too. Oh it's a joy.....Believe me. My dream is to paint and to live on a house boat.
I have included 25 hats I was able to get pictures of before they were given away to pre-schoolers and the homeless. I'll be adding more paintings, sketches, afghans besides more hats and whatever else I might slap paint on. I'm a paint-o-haulic and turning junk into works of art.
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Art comes in all forms; even hats.
Snow person hat crochet
by Janice Myers
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Swan hat crochet by Janice Myers
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Conventional beany with balls
crochet by Janice Myers
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Pony tail with bangs hat crochet
by Janice Myers
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Hickory Dickory Dock... the mouse is on top of the clock... hat;
all crochet even the mouse. by Janice Myers
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One of my favorite hats I made for the pre-school kids on my bus. It's a lady bug.
Little David's favorite critters are lady bugs.
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Spiders, catepillars and bugs oh my!
Crochet hat by Janice Myers
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Tera the Dactle
crochet by Janice Myers
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Red Sands Beach
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Pencil sketch of Clare Wisstle's Lamp-post tractor by Janice Myers
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Practice in Trees
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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You Saw What?
You Saw What?
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Tiger lilies
Tiger lilies
watercolors pencils by Janice Myers
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Mariner's Beacon
Mariner's Beacon
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Willapa River
Willapa River
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Walker Pass in Spring
Walker Pass in Spring
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Winter Morning in Raymond
Winter Morning in Raymond
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Water Hole
Water Hole
Watercolor by Janice Myers
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Another Chapter in the Melodrama
I just received a call from my daughter to inform me I'm going to be a great grandmother. My granddaughter and her asshole choice for a husband to be took my grandson and his friend with them to Astoria. While on the way Jasmin got sick and Leif and she began talking and she shushed him. James picked up on it and when they got home, James immediately went to his mother's room to talk to her. Since she works graveyard shift, she sleeps days, so James had to awaken her with "I think Jasmin is pregnant, mom."
Robin called Leif and Jasmin into her room and confronted them both. Jasmin replied "Yes, she tested positive on a home pregnancy test."
About this time Leif and Jasmin were told they better tell Tim within 4 hours or Robin was going to tell him, and it wouldn't be a pretty experience for either of them.
Leif took Tim for a drive to tell him and returned when Tim told him he had heard enough; that if he didn't get back home Leif wouldn't be able to drive home.
Upon return to the house, as Leif stepped into the house James was waiting for him and began punching him about the head and shoulders. Tim was still up at his Jeep suffering as only a loving father can when he's told his baby girl is now pregnant and not even out of high school. All the dreams for her future has come shattering around him. He needed time alone. He heard the uproar and came down to find Leif on his knees backed into a corner between Jasmin's room and James' room. Tim grabbed James and shoved him into his room and wouldn't allow him out until he calmed down.
Robin went into James and hugged him, telling him it was a good thing Tim got there first, because she didn't know if she would have been strong enough to pull James away, or if she would have even bothered trying. Mainly because she wants to beat Leif up herself.
She said she turned to Leif and said, "What did you expect to have happen? This is a tight knit family of Irish, Scotch and Indian. Did you honestly think we'd just say, oh well? You've stolen my girls future. Your pious bullshit with the promise rings of purity. Lies and sneaky backhanded bullshit. How could we react any other way. James is too much like the Myers side of the family. Straight forward and in your face. You dirtied our whole family, because grandma and I both stuck up for Jasmin when Aunt Jackii said she thought Jasmin was pregnant when she heard Jasmin had been sick so long. All because you two couldn't control yourselves."
So now Leif is sporting a nice purple puffy eye that he can explain at work.
I just wonder how long he will stick around now.
Robin and Tim asked me what I thought and all I can say is, "Other than wanting to rip her head off for being stupid, I love her anyway."
Tim says because he's not able to work right now, (his hand is still healing from the surgery), that he will baby-sit the baby to make sure Jasmin graduates and gets her diploma.
She turns 17 this November and should be a Sr next year and will turn 18 before she graduates. I told Robin it sounded good but she can do whatever she wants now and they can't do a thing about it.
This is a good example of what happens to a young girl that is molested by an older man. She nearly ran away from home when another older guy conned his way into the trust of this family and told everyone he was just 19 when we discovered he was 23 and she was only 15. He had her so messed up she gave up on herself and had to spend time in therapy. We thought it helped but apparently it didn't, because she went right back out to another older guy; the only difference with this one is he was English instead of Laotian and made good wages instead of living off his parents.
I really don't know what to think right now other than. James was being a brother and he wanted to hurt Leif bad, but killing Leif would have ruined both of the kids lives and put a lot bigger cloud over the family than a young woman having a baby will. We can't always control the what's and whys, but we can control how we react to them.
My Mother, God rest her, always said, "Love bends, it won't break; it stretches farther than you'll ever know. It's our job to let it."
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