Random Slices of Life (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1004726 [Link To Item #1737247] I have a new blog. This one is too filled with old painful things. You can find me here: [Link To Item #1737320] Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:14:28 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/714447 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/714447 For Christmas, Hubby and I gave each other a trip to Kauai. We got here on the 15th and we go home Christmas Eve. We are staying next door to Hubby's Great Uncle and Great Aunt where they live half the year. They live right on the beach. We've been sleeping with just the screen in the sliding door open in the bedroom. It's so soothing to sleep to the sound of the crashing waves. The beach is only about 100 feet from the patio. The place we are staying ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:49:01 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/713859 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/713859 On Friday, I had another episode. Another hemiplegic migraine. That means at least another week of sitting in the house with my family waiting on me like a small child. I hate it. I hate being an invalid. I can't even shower without Hubby in the shower spotting me in case I go down. What a stupid helpless feeling this is. I hate it. Monilad is sick. At home with a sinus infection and instead of me caring for her, she is stuck making me breakfast and lunch. Watchin...[Read Full Post] Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:16:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/707733 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/707733 You know how sometimes you just have those crappy years? 2010. It's one of those crappy years for us. We can't seem to catch a decent break. On Tues the 14th, I woke up with a migraine...the usual kind, no big deal. It was a migraine, I've had hundreds. I'd cope. I couldn't see, so I wouldn't drive. No big. I only have a class and a lab that day. I texted a friend and she told me she'd cover notes for the class. Just the lab to deal with. No problem. I'd email the T...[Read Full Post] Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:16:36 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/707261 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/707261 Tonight Hubby, Monilad and I worked in the garden. Parts of it seem to be gangbusters--the corn and pumpkins--and parts....well, not so much--the tomatoes. We had nice weather to garden in, though. Sunny, warm, about 70 degrees, a beautiful early fall day. Yes. I did just say fall. I know it's only mid-August, but we didn't really have much of a summer here. It seems to have gone to fall already. Yesterday it snowed in the mountains (rain down here in the valley at my hous...[Read Full Post] Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:55:30 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/704498 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/704498 I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Texas. It was unplanned and unpleasant. My grandmother died and I went down for her funeral. I hate funerals. My family is large and boisterous and loud and rowdy. I am not these things. Except when I am around them. Then I am loud out of self-defense. It's the only way to be heard. I'm exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally. Just flat wrung out. My grandmother, or Mamaw as we called her, lived in the hind en...[Read Full Post] Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:45:57 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/704081 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/704081 Every Tuesday, I have a booth down at one of the local farmer's markets. (There is also a Saturday morning farmer's market.) I perform Reiki and read tarot for the throngs of folk who come for fresh produce and see the local artisan's wares. I've been doing this since June and the market runs through mid-September. I usually have alot of fun every week, whether I make money or not. (Business varies week to week.) Last night was an excellent night. It was also...[Read Full Post] Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:31:18 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/702007 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/702007 Or...no news is good news. A basic breakdown on my life in May: Finals got over. Yay! Did well in my classes. An A-, a B+ and a B-. Yay, me. One week later classes started again. Boo, hiss. Calculus--not my friend. One month after losing my job, I'm still ironing out the kinks in Unemployment...have yet to see any money. Am ever hopeful. They at least have stopped trying to get me to quit school only to give me money so that I can attend school. In...[Read Full Post] Wed, 26 May 2010 14:00:45 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/697398 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/697398 Last Friday evening about 7 o'clock I was home alone. I had just started dinner by kicking on the grill and getting the thawed steaks ready to put out on it, when I got a phone call on our home phone. We seldom answer the home phone because no one calls us but telemarketers, but for some reason I picked up. It was a State Trooper asking me if I'd heard from Monilad. My heart hit my feet. I almost fainted. Instead I calmly told him no and asked why. He must have made that kind of call before because he started by telling me she was fi...[Read Full Post] Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:45:52 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/694709 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/694709 Yesterday while I was as school I got a phone call about 1 o'clock. It was the main manager from the hardware store where I work...worked. The bank foreclosed on it. They closed the doors permanently about noon yesterday. Nineteen more people are in the unemployment lines. Me included. I'm sad and angry and resigned about the situation. I know that we did everything we could to keep it from happening. Cut everywhere we could, saved everywhere we could, budgete...[Read Full Post] Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:29:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/693461 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/693461 Well, volcano... As you may (or may not) know there is a volcano erupting in Iceland right now. When ash gets up in the atmosphere, it wrecks havoc on jet engines. Clogs them up, (worse than pigeons). As a result, most of Europe is kind of hung up right now flightwise. Since the volcano errupted originally in March, I've been searching for a Volcano Cam like the others I posted here. But, here's the problem....I don't speak, or read, Icelandic. I finally found something though. *^*...[Read Full Post] Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:28:33 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/693351 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/693351 So lately I am completely obsessed with "Stargate SG-1." You know, the original series. Hulu has the entire series up until May 16th so I am working my way through them furiously. There were like 216 or so of them and I'm up (down?) to right around 100 or so left. (Almost through Season 5.) I'm watching an episode as I type this. In fact, if my computer is on, pretty much I'm watching an episode. I'm getting in at least 3 a day right now. Hubby re...[Read Full Post] Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:29:11 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/692901 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/692901 So I'm just geeky enough that in my Favorites on my computer, I have Volcano Cams. Here are a couple of my favorites, they are from the Hawaiian observatories: [Link: 'http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/HMcam/'] [Link: 'http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/KIcam/'] [Link: 'http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/POcam/index.php'] [Link: 'http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/MLcam/'] I love to look at the first one after dark. The lava sho...[Read Full Post] Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:54:58 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/692611 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/692611 This week was Spring Break. We basically vegged all week. Today, though we field-tripped it. We headed down to West Yellowstone. (Or as the locals call it, just "West".) We always talk about seeing the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center and the IMAX. Today we went. It was pretty cool! Here is the link for the Discovery Center--- [Link: 'http://www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.com/'] It's pretty cool there. They rotate out the bears, so every 45 minutes or hour or so, they put out a...[Read Full Post] Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:20:49 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/690773 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/690773 I draw a line in the sand. I stand on one side of it glancing back over my shoulder at the hash marks and footprints behind me. "This far and no further," I declare. Meaning it this time. Knowing I'll step across. Wondering how far down the slippery slope I've already come. Wondering if this is the step that will tip the scales so that me, the sand and the whole works will go sliding down the slope. If I am past the point of no return. I...[Read Full Post] Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:10 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/690088 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/690088 Thank you all for your well wishes. I'm feeling much better. I've got one more midterm exam (in Minerology) before we go to Spring Break. Hubby and I are headed to Chico Hot Springs this weekend. We are super excited to be taking a break. It's just for the night, but I really feel like I need it. We are taking a couple of days off over Spring Break, too. So, I'm pretty stoked about some time off with Hubby. He and I don't get a lot of...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:16:37 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/689388 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/689388 I am a happy person for the most part. I mean, if you ask me, "are you happy with your life?" I'm probably not even gonna consider. I'm just gonna answer, "Yes!" And smile at you. Not today though. And not for the last two weeks. I've had a vague dissatisfaction with life for the last two weeks. It's not enough that I think I'm starting to spiral into a depression (a real concern with me this time of year) it's mo...[Read Full Post] Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:18:33 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/688464 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/688464 Ok, by request...why scientists believe the Earth is 4.56 billion years old. First a little Wiki-background on our main player: "Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 - December 5, 1995) was a geochemist born in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. He graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Patterson developed the uranium-lead dating method into lead-lead dating, and by using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, he calculated an age for...[Read Full Post] Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:00:07 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/687738 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/687738 Move along, nothing to see here. Except I've crashed and burned the first Calc test. (There's no going down in flames emoticon, so just imagine one here ) Calculus SUCKS. Hard core. But I struggle on. I have to get at least a C in this class and in Calc 2 that I take this summer. Then I'm DONE with math. Until I take Physics. Ugh. Mineralogy is hard, but I'm doing ok in it. It's a fast paced, weed out class, but I'm holding my own for now. Wanna kno...[Read Full Post] Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:09:03 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/687412 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/687412 Yesterday was Hubby's birthday. Hybby is one of those people who doesn't like a fuss to be made about him. Ever. He's a quiet guy and just likes quiet. (And he's married to me...go figure. ) To him, a birthday is just another day on the calendar. But Monilad and I get a kick out of making Hubby celebrate, if for no other reason than we get cake. Every year, we get him the silliest cake we can find at the bakery. (No ordering ahead....it must be out of the case.) Over ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:17:18 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/686402 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/686402