September 2, 2009

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    Randomness

    A bullet blog based on a random string of consciousness: :

    • I am now five months pregnant, and starting to feel uncomfortably when sitting in a chair, lying in bed, lying on the sofa. I am just not very comfortable. Urgh. That is not good. I haven't gained but perhaps 10 pounds, so I guess it is the way/where/how Quinn is sitting in addition to the dratted hernia I have right below my sternum. I will be getting the hernia fixed after the baby is born. As well as having a tummy tuck. I am glad that I didn't get the TT prior to getting pregnant with Quinn.
    • This whole thing with that poor girl Jaycee in Calfornia has me sickened. My personal opinion is the skeezebag deservers the death penatly--as does his wife. Not only did they destroy this girl's life, and her family's, but these two little girls that she bore. The information that is coming out about this is more and more sickening, reviling and revolting. It makes me want to cradle these three girls in my arms, pray over them, soothe them, just pour healing out. Obviously something is wrong with these people (abuser and wife) but sane I believe, yes. They were sane enough to conceal their crimes for so many years...now they should pay the ultimate for their perversions.
    • The proposed health care bill... eep. Eek. Yikes. I am hoping there is enough ground swell resistance to it to force Congress/Pres/yadayada to rethink/rework/redo the whole shebang. It definitely will NOT work the way the current proposal is laid out. Face it: the Feds are not good at keeping their own grass mowed, so what makes them think that they can take care of others yards? Yes health care needs reform---but the current proposal is incredibly jacked up.
    • H1N1 Vaccine--so far its voluntary. So. Far. There are rumors of possible fines for "non compliance", the vaccines being given to kids in school, and various workplaces making taking the vaccine mandatory as well. ::blink:: No thank you. Not doing it. Too many side effects. Its too different from any current vaccines. Its untested and there are a lot of bad effects from it. I am not drinking that Koolaid.
    • Speaking of vaccines..have you seen the news about the effects of the Gardasil/HPV Vaccine that is being pushed so insanely on tv for girls aged 12-17? You know..the whole " I want to be one less" campaign. S C A R Y stuff...in some cases (and way too many cases) healthy girls are having the immune systems and health destroyed. "There have been some cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, or GBS, reported after vaccination with Gardasil. GBS is an autoimmune disease that cause seizures, paralysis, tingling, muscle weakness or numbness". Another example of a vaccine being rushed into application with too little accurate and valid testing behind it.
    • What is up with this push for RFID tracking tags? These are tracking tags similar to what is used in pets, and like what the Feds want put in livestock. It seems a number of Ohio hospitals are using these in bracelets & anklets with newborns. OK ... that is fine, I guess. As long as I have the option to NOT let my child wear that thing. It may be "safe" but its MY CHOICE and I do not want it on my newborn. Some states now have these in drivers licenses, and the new passports have these in them. I remember reading a couple of years ago how they were using these in...IN ...criminals in Great Britain. And that the military was planning (or may have already done so?) to implant soldiers with these as a means of identification. Man I am SO not comfortable with how this is headed. I can so see the present administration implementing this as a new "ID" means with the National ID Card (which no doubt will have a chip in it). How long until we MUST have it...til we have no choice? Until we can't buy or sell without this implant? I wonder if it is going to be implanted in the back of the hand or the forehead? Sound familiar.... I am totally creeped out by where this is headed, is what I am saying.
    • I have been craving chocolate ALL freaking week. And I have felt kinda crapola physically. I guess my hormone levels are going through another twist ::munches on small Dove Bar Bite with almonds:
    • I am freaking LOVING the weather this week. Last week the temperatures were in th mid 90s with 75% humidity. Hello August in Maryland. This week the temperatures are in the 70s with probably 30% humidity. L O V E it. And my pregnant person appreciates it greatly too, TYVM. This is my favorite kind of weather.
    • My poor old man doggie, Perry, has a nasty growth on his eye. He has had something small on it for years, but we kept it under control. Suddenly this thing exploded and has gotten humungous. I will take him to the vet to have it removed, as soon as the funds come in. Meanwhile the poor guy is fussing with it constantly. I know he has made it sore and irritated, and other than keeping a surgery cone on him so he can't mess with it, until the funds come in I can't get him operated on. ::sign:: I have been praying for a month that the funds come in soon... I know it will cost $300 or $400 with the tests, anesthesia and such. Dang it. I don't begrudge spending the money at all, I just have been so slow businesswise, and bills have been so tight, I do not have it. It makes me so upset but I don't know what else to do. I numbed the area and removed as much if as a could (with a scalpel) but they are going to have to excise part of his eyelid and stitch it back together in order to get rid of the "seed" of the growth. I looked it up and can't recall the name at the moment, but its not likely that its cancerous, and it is operable. Its just likely to leave him scarred. Poor sweet boy. This dog is so gentle and sweet wouldn't hurt a fly and suffered so much abuse before I rescused him from the shelter. It grieves me so badly that I can't get this taken care of right now.
    • I really need to redo my photography site. I tried to log in to the admin side yesterday and nothing would com eup! Awk. Something in the template php programming got totally bumfuzzled. Thankfully, the template vendor responsed quickly and one of the guys reloaded the admin end for me---an hour or so ago I received an email that they had repaired the issue. Woot! Its all working now so I can put current work on my site. Thing is I REALLY wish I could set the site up completely differently. lol What's stopping me? Money, time and energy. I have more ambition than energy, more ideas than time... drat. D R A T
    • I really would love to photograph a bunch of high school seniors for my site. My plans were to do a "push" for this this summer. Unfortunately getting sick from being pregnant put a major kink in my mojo, so right now I have few if any seniors scheduled. ::booboo lip:: I guess there is always next year....
    • I want to make a cake or brownies or cookies...BUT... I am out of eggs. I have zero energy to run to the store, Michael is cutting the lawn, and Brenna doesn't drive....and there you have it. This .. THIS is another good reason to have built a small coop and have gotten chickens this year, but I didn't. See the above bullet for the reason I did not build a coop OR get chickens this summer, as I had intended. So...now I got no cake. Or brownies. Or cookies.Drat again. Foiled again.
    • What the HECK is going on with Facebook? Since it got hit with a virus a couple of weeks ago their chat has no worked right consistently, the site is lagging and acting freaky, pages and such won't load... COMON what the HECK!! . I enjoy Facebook but holy RIDICULOUS its been acting demon possessed. ::grumpy face::
    • I really need to get on the stick with my sewing projects. I am so far behind I don't know that I will ever catch up.
    • But I have been keeping the dishes caught up pretty well! Yeah me. Not something I am usually good at being consistent with. The only dishwasher in our house is the "two handed" kind. The job is thankless and I swear, no sooner is it caught up than there the sink is filled up again. :^p~~
    • Think that is enough for now. Feeling a bit tired. Probably the chocolate.


     

     

     

Comments (5)

  • Thanks for the random post.  It's kind of nice to read about the day to day things that happen with you as well as your thoughts on the "big" issues.  Cograts on your pregnancy.  Hopefully you won't have too rough of a time in the second half.  Sorry to hear about Perry's growth.  It's tough when you want to help relieve suffering in another living thing but can't.  Weather in Japan is WET and HUMID right now because it's the tail end of this year's rainy season.  Soon it'll be cooler and drier.  September is the beginning of the rice, apple, grape and nashi  harvest, so we'll have fresh fruit and new rice to eat soon.  Washing  dishes is a job that never ends because nature appears to abhor an empty sink.

  • I like your bullets. RFID -- freaks me out too. As do vaccines (Not- repeat- NOT!!! having my any of my teen or pre-teen daughters stuck with the Gardasil needle!! No way-no how!). As does Obamacare. There are plenty of issues that need to be fixed with current health insurance regs and tort reform would be a huge plus but I don't see any of that being addressed by what is before congress now. ((Sigh.)) It has been encouraging to see people standing up against what their "representatives" are trying to ramrod through.

  • @jeremiahstears Isn't it humid a lot in Japan? We would love to get there one day... and spend a month at least! Sinks...bah..evil wrong wrong when full! lol
    @nettieheidmann I hope people continue to stand up for all their beliefs! I think a lot of what is happening is the current administration is thinking people who were in opposition would sort of "roll" and just things slide...continue to be complacent (which, honestly, they have been far too long)...and the opposite is happening. Town hall meetings to the current admin means we are "unAmerican" in our behaviors; rumors of "mandatory" vaccinations!!? frightening...too much gov't interference..too much control. I hope people keep stand up and SHOUTING out!

  • I'm also 5 months. Well, I'm 20 weeks exactly today. And I get to go to my second ultrasound this afternoon! The big gender determining one! I'm hoping baby keeps its legs uncrossed! As for the swine flu vaccine, I think I'm with ya. It sucks doubly because it's supposed to be especially dangerous for pregnant women if caught, and we're like number 1 on the list to get it. But I have never gotten a flu vaccine in my life, especially not an untested one. I have relatives the world over calling me to remind me to make sure I get the vaccine, since the news has been scaring everyone into thinking that if you're pregnant and get swine flu YOU WILL DIE. I heard that as long as you catch it early and take Tamiflu or whatever it's called upon the slightest symptoms of high temperature/coughing, that you have pretty good chances of beating it. So my plan is to pass on the vaccine (which won't be available until a month or two before baby is due anyway) and just wash my hands frequently, and call the doctor IMMEDIATELY upon getting any kind of temperature/slight flu symptoms and insist upon Tamiflu even before they find out if it's for sure swine flu. Also, I"m SO glad I never got that stupid hpv vaccine. They tried to push it on me every time I went to a girly appointment and something about it stopped me. I told them I'd like to read more about it and get back to them before just randomly taking it. Turns out it's pretty unnecessary if you only have one sexual partner that doesn't have hpv or whatever. It only guards against the kind of cervical cancer that is caused by sexually transmitted diseases. As my husband has never been with anyone but me and I haven't been with anyone but him and neither of us would ever cheat on the other, where the hell would I get a sexually transmitted disease that would cause this cancer? Totally unnecessary.

    I'm also with you on craving chocolate. I have been drinking very minimal caffeine since becoming pregnant but I"m totally going out for an iced Mocha before the ultrasound so that my baby will be nice and active, and so I can feed my chocolate/caffeine craving. I'm almost more excited for that mocha than I am for the ultrasound.

  • For someone with no energy you sound pretty energetic No flu shot for me either. The less government in my business the better.

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