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I know that it is typically not "good" for people to go off Paxil cold turkey, but I have read that some can easily do it and others can't. Friday night, after being so stressed out with the hospital, after we got our mom home, even though we didn't really have the money, we went to the local LaQuinta and paid for it on my Discover card. We figured that we really needed the rest and we also needed to be able to cry and talk about our mom without making her upset.
I prayed for an answer, and I'm sure my sister did too. We got back after running errands on Saturday. We found that on Friday night and on Saturday morning she had forgotten to take her Paxil. Then, we were all tired on Saturday night and she forgot to take them that night, too.
Sometimes she still has some bathroom problems, but they don't seem to be quite as bad. She definitely has been able to move her muscles the way she is trying to move them. She has realized that she is weak and that is due to low blood pressure. Over all, she has improved from what we saw before she was in the hospital.
Anyway, while I do want to keep this journal for things, I have a blog over at Blogger or Blogspot (whichever it is they call it now). If you have an account or blog there, I appreciate readers, commenters, and followers. The URL of that blog is http://poetryprosepopcorn.blogspot.com |
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Valerie is now at home. I just got home. Briana and I needed a break from all the stress, so we stayed the night in a local hotel. Unfortunately, they (either hospital or the doctors) have not come up with any diagnosis and she is still very bad. She goes into these "episodes" where she has no idea what she does and other times she does things and remembers part of them, but not much of them at all. Like, now, just when we got home, Briana was in the back yard and our mom opened the door. All our mom did was yell "Niblet!" and then Briana told her that Niblet couldn't be out back because the dog door had been closed. Her response was something like, "I know, but I just wanted to see if he was out back." She is pretty hard to understand.
They did a CT Scan and an EEG, but the neurologist saw nothing.
She needs care, but the hospital discharged her on a Friday night and only gave us papers that said there were referrals for home health care and social services. They didn't give us any numbers.
The moment we got her home, she fell when she got out of the car! She said she needed to use the bathroom which was an improvement over the general situation. When she fell, I told her to crawl up the stairs, into the house, and to the bathroom. Briana was going in afterwards and our mom was on the floor writhing around like a fish.
My mom is much heavier than me and much taller than Briana. Then, with my scoliosis and Briana's scoliosis and other problems resulting from her surgery to make it better, we can't take our mom falling on us like she does. It's been happening every day.
My back and my legs hurt so much right now and Briana's ankle hurts - and this is all from our mom falling and not helping to get herself up off the ground.
Yes, she has been declining rapidly. There used to be a few times these weird "episodes" happened, but it wasn't much. However, they've increased in frequency. We need to get help to switch our rooms, too. There's lots of heavy furniture that we can't move on our own. The house is also a mess and this is mostly because of our mom, now. She thinks she is "cleaning" when she throws things around. Briana and I worked so hard to get rooms clean before, and our work is now seems like useless. Sure, sometimes Briana made and makes it difficult, but she KNOWS that! Her making it difficult does not help, but it helps that she understands what happens. Our mom doesn't seem to understand it at all. |
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My mom is currently at Christus St. Patrick Hospital. She is in room 4143. Briana and I cannot keep going up to the hospital every day and we cannot keep calling her all the time. I do need to work and I need to be able to take care of our dogs and the house.
If anybody that is in Lake Charles can visit her, that is definitely appreciated. Then, if anybody ANYWHERE can call her to talk to her (all she does is say the same things over and over to us), it would be appreciated as she "doesn't have friends" and she tries to make me (and Briana) feel guilty about that.
Call St. Pat's at 337-436-2511 and then ask for room 4143. That's her phone to her room and you should be able to contact her. Yes, she is always that hard to understand.
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Then there's all this:
Also, prayers are appreciated! She would never tell the health professionals the truth. She still doesn't tell them the truth. We need to know what is behind this "passing out" or "fainting" or "seizures" and all the falls and the slurred speech and sometimes feeling like one whole side is paralyzed. Then, also, what is going on with her not being able to feel that she needs to go to the bathroom. She has no idea when she needs to go #1 or #2. The not knowing when she needs to go to the bathroom constantly happens in the house and she says it doesn't, but it does. She wears the off-brand depends and it started only for a few accidents and now she says she can't feel the urge to go at all. She can't even feel when she HAS gone to the bathroom in her pants.
She gets up and it is very disgusting and she trails it through the house wherever she walks. Then, she makes a huge mess in the bathroom (it looks like four or five monkeys have been throwing poop around in the place) and she claims that she tried to clean the bathroom, but she hasn't tried at all. Briana and I always end up cleaning the toilet and the walls and the floor and anything else that happens to be in the bathroom.
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She tries to make me feel guilty for having friends. She tries to make me feel guilty for wanting to find somebody to date. She tries to make me feel guilty for wanting to go back to school.
She has these health problems. She lies to the health professionals. She fights off the EMTs if we call them. Thankfully this last time she didn't do that. However, that was a rare case and we were so relieved that she didn't fight them. She complains about not having friends, but she is the only one to blame for that. Years ago, she stopped going out and stopped talking to people. Then, when she did know people, she stopped calling them!
She even met one gal and talked to her all evening while Briana and I brought a dog house for Toggle to our house in trips. She told the gal that she might call her again. She never called the gal. It's not like she didn't have a telephone. She had her cell phone at that time. She just never called.This is how I feel::  stressed |
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This is text.
This also a test.
Now I will keep typing for awhile.
However, if this does not work,
this is extremely boring.
I do not know what is supposed to happen.
However, this is what Briana is telling me to do.
She says that I need to keep typing and have more line breaks.
Here is one more line break.
Anyway, here's one last line break.
Okay, hopefully this did something. |
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Okay, now she has told me to type something. Here is a message to everybody that is reading my LiveJournal. I do not know what this is going to do or if LiveJournal is going to let it happen. |
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With being a freelance writer and needing views on my articles, I figured it was time to get serious about blogging. I love LiveJournal and am not going to abandon this journal, but I'm still going to keep it mainly as a journal, like I have been using it. I'm actually going to blog over at Blogger.
While I love the comment format at LiveJournal, the other reason for using Blogger is that is has the built in stats for the blog.
So, you can find my blog at Poetry, Prose, and Popcorn. I figure that I'll do the Alphabet Challenge first.
If y'all have any good ideas for blog challenges or just a question to answer in a blog post after I am done with that, please leave a comment here. I need material for the blog since I don't have a certain subject for the blog. |
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Alleluia! He is risen!
I grew up with this song and still love it.
If you know of "Lost And Found," it's time to listen to "Dance!" |
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Toggle went in for his heartworm treatment on the 20th, I think. He was at the vet for two days and told us that he needs to come back on April 22nd.
In the mean time, he's supposed to be RESTING, but he is a HYPER dog! We're trying our best to keep him calm, though.
He ran once already. He was at some apartments down the street and a nice young lady was able to walk him back to the house.
He just does not like staying calm.
We have some children's benadryl (well, generic stuff, but with the active ingredient that is needed) that is supposed to keep the dog calm. However, that doesn't seem to make him calm. It seems to make him hyper.
He has pills for pain if he is in pain, but he doesn't seem to be in pain.
I just wish we could keep him nice and calm, but he never stays nice and calm.
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Remember that entry of mine back on January 7, 2012 that said we might have a third dog? We had one, then we didn't have one, but now we have one again. It's the same dog that is the "third dog."
Yes, it is the dog from the gas station in Wallisville, TX.
He ran away on a Tuesday night when Briana and I went to play trivia. We thought he was probably gone. We guessed he went off to die because he had heartworms and intestinal parasites.
Briana was given medicine to give him to treat these things and was giving him the pills.
He didn't have any tags yet as we hadn't gotten to get anything for him.
Anyway, three weeks to the day he ran away (a little earlier in the day, though), we get a call. I was busy, so I wasn't sure what was happening. Briana and my mom were on the phone and Briana was in my room while I was working. I hear Briana yell, "Toggle!"
We were told he was in the parking lot of Casa Manana. That is a restaurant that is not far from our house!
So, we go to get him and get him an ID tag.
Once he has his ID tag, he runs away twice, but we are called by people. The first time he is near TSO optical and the second time he is near the Walgreens that is near our house. TSO is also near our house.
I think he was getting lost looking to come back to our house. He LOVES my sister. He adopted her.
Anyway, the dog is spastic, crazy, smart, too smart for his own good, a mess, and a sweetheart all at the same time.
We think he is either a greyhound and jack russell mix or a whippet and jack russell mix. He has the jack russell face and the spots in the fur on the legs and chest like a jack russell. Then he has the thin body and the long legs of a greyhound or whippet.
He managed to unzip a soft sided crate with a zipper door. He jumps (he was jumping the fence to escape), he digs up the back yard, he runs around the house if he's inside, he chews through material leashes, and he seems to think anything he wants to chew is a toy.
He definitely needs training. We were told at the Woofstock SWLA 2012 planning meeting tonight that he needs to be worn out first and then has to be trained. We were also told that Victoria Stillwell's training lessons are the ones that this person knows shows results.
I don't know if having him enrolled in a class at Petsmart or Petco would help as well or not.
He is very sweet when he's calm and cuddles, though. He also likes to give kisses.
Anyway, thanks to people from FCC, we had help putting up a dog run for him so he can be outside, run around the backyard, and he can't jump the fence. At least we have that much done and he comes in at night.
Oh, yeah, his name is Toggle Switch Delaney. Yep, usually just "Toggle" and sometimes "Toggle Switch," when just talking or when angry at him.This is how I feel::  flabbergasted & frustrated |
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Hey! I actually knew the correct answer to four of these on the first read!
1. What is the capital of Utah?
Mormon City
2. Cheryl James and Sandra Denton are better known as whom?
Dope and Dopier
3. The two rounds of discussions that took place in the 70's between the USA and the USSR on arms control are referred to as what?
Tinkering Tailors and Soldiering Spies
4. Who was thrown down a garbage chute by an army of trained squirrels after being deemed "a bad nut"?
The Beanfest Brat
5. What was the fate of the wife of Lot?
All the livestock just LOVED her. After all, they would probably LICK her to death!
6. What is your favorite flavor?
Success, sweet, sweet success! |
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It's been quite a few years since I've hadto do any geometry or algebra. I got a question from ChaCha asking to find the length and width of an area of 5000ft^2.
I had a question like this earlier and I tried to read a web page with instructions. The instrucions on the web page confused me. This time, I found a web page with problems like it and put it as the reference, but I worked out the problem - not sure where I was going at first. I did the work until I got a solution for the length and the width.
When I reached my solution, I was surprised and very happy that I had done the work to get the correct answer!
Here's what I ended up sending (people get ChaCha answers in text messages).
A=LW and 2L=W, so 5000=A and 5000=LW So 5000/L=W, now we know that 2*(5000/L)=L, so 10,000/L=L, multiply by L and 10,000=L^2. So 100=L. Now, 5000=100W So W=50. ChaCha has all your SOLUTIONS!
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I work online, so I'm often online more than I'd like.
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Last night I had a dream that T (T's blog) and Five (Five's blog) still lived in the city where I live. G (G's blog) and I were with them. This was a usual group when we first start with our NaNoWriMo group. Five had gotten it official and I had suggest the coffee shop (which is now closed - it's now Great Khan Mongolian Grill) where we met. G was crying saying how much she was going to miss T. She asked what she was going to do once T was out of town. I gave G a hug and said to T, "I guess we'll have to miss you together." T laughed and responded, "I guess so." I leaned on G's shoulder and hugged her some more as we both smiled at T. That was the entire dream. It wasn't so weird, except that never happened. Sometimes I wish G and I were closer, but she and I are mostly into different things. We do get along when we're together, though. It's not like we don't like each other and it's not like we're not friends. We're just not really close friends.
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Since Saturday (if not Thursday or so), I've typed the word "ChaCha" over 100 times every day . . . |
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I'm a journalist. It's not a long or well-thought out answer. However, it should make people go "duh!"
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Yes, superstitions exist.
You didn't ask me if I was supersticious.
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I don't get all the popularity with zombies.
Anyway, can I make my own weapon? I'm gonna have a huge section of electric, remote operated, iron maidens with knives and axes all over instead of just sharp points where major organs would be located. That way the zombies have to try to come through and then I'll just close them on them and poke and they're chopped into bits!
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Jan. 7th, 2012 @ 10:04 pm
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So, the Lost and Found concert was fun. There's other interesting news - that we might have a third dog. It'll obviously be my sister's dog. That is, as long as it stays here and as long as it gets attached to her. She's given it the name Toggle. Yes, "Toggle Switch Delaney."
While at the concert, we saw somebody's wife and found out she's older than me. However, it seemed so wrong because it looks like she's about 14 or 15! It looked like she belonged with a youth group! That was crazy!
We went to Golden Corral, Taco Cabana, and Steak 'n Shake while in Houston. None of the places were impressive. In fact, Golden Corral's food didn't taste great at all. It was nothing like Briana and I remember when we stopped at one when we were in Les Petites Voix.
The dog was found at a gas station in Wallisville, TX. I had to go to the bathroom when we passed that way again, so I stopped at the same gas station and asked if anyone had asked about the dog. Nope. The people there were happy that the dog would get a home with us or if it doesn't work out, that it will go to a no-kill organization here. It is a very sweet dog.
None of my friends seemed to be able to come or to meet me. I was concerned that if I had invited one of our friends that it would trigger Briana's allergies to cigarette smoke. It's always bad for her, and our friend is nice about putting on perfume, but sometimes Briana has such trouble with the smoke. I also wasn't sure if she'd be able to go or if I could get in touch with her. Many times I cannot get in touch with her.
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Actually, I do. There are 193 countries in the world. I know this because I constantly play Sporcle. South Sudan is the most recent country. While Scotland considers itself a country, and perhaps it should be, it is not a country. It is part of the United Kingdom.
Jan. 4th, 2012 @ 10:44 am
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Fiction:
Blueprints for Building Better Girls, by Elissa Schappell (Simon & Schuster; $24). Starting in the late '70s and moving into the present day, Schappell's eight accomplished stories examine the interior lives of a memorable cast of female protagonists.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL#ixzz1hzIn7ufO
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (Knopf; $22). Otsuka's exquisitely written novel follows a group of so-called picture brides who sail to San Francisco in the early 1900s to marry men they have never met.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL#ixzz1hzKAVIEC
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, by Benjamin Hale (Twelve; $25.99). This audacious interspecies coming-of-age story - in which a chimpanzee acquires language and attempts to make his way through human society - is a brash, glittering and engaging yarn.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL#ixzz1hzKNNkeR
Toxicology, by Jessica Hagedorn (Viking; $25.95). One would be hard put to find a New York novel that's more fun to read, or more memorable, than this one.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=3#ixzz1hzNI2fXE
Nonfiction:
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields (Henry Holt; $30). Shields' biography is an astute and vivid portrait of a uniquely American writer.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=3#ixzz1hzXcH05G
Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, by Errol Morris (The Penguin Press; $40). Anyone who likes staying up late to read about odd historical puzzles or puzzling humans will relish this book of cold cases in the history of photography.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=3#ixzz1hzXmHsU9
Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches, by Anna Politkovskaya; translated by Arch Tait (Melville House; $19.95). This collection of journalism is a marvelous testament to the courage and skill of a Russian investigative journalist whose murder remains unsolved.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=4#ixzz1hzXzozle
Lost in Language & Sound: Essays, by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin's Press; $22.99). Shange's latest collection of wide-ranging essays comprises autobiography; jazz, dance, literary and drama criticism; and a look at the situation of black people in America.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=4#ixzz1hzY7HpFt
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown, by Julia Scheeres (Free Press; $26). Scheeres humanizes the nearly 1,000 lives - a third of them children - that ended Nov. 18, 1978.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=6#ixzz1hzb4AfFP
The Use and Abuse of Literature, by Marjorie Garber (Pantheon; $28.95). Garber offers an immensely readable yet vastly erudite reflection on the history of literary writing, literary criticism and the social value of both.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=6#ixzz1hzbDanyM
Van Gogh: The Life, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Random House; $40). Naifeh and Smith's staggeringly thorough biography is a tale of ambition, hard-fought, fleeting triumphs and dark despair, and has the dramatic pull of a gripping 19th century novel.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=6#ixzz1hzbIEWxB
A Widow's Story: A Memoir, by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco; $27.99). Oates' book, neither overly sentimental nor detached, is a gorgeously written rumination on widowhood and the struggle to reclaim identity in the aftermath of profound loss.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/23/RVOV1MF9LM.DTL&ao=6#ixzz1hzbis1BC
Dec. 29th, 2011 @ 11:27 pm
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I love writing. There's no doubt about that. However, I also loved my Mass Media Law classes and my Mass Media Ethics classes.
I love Youth Ministry, but nothing with that has worked for a job and now with my mom not having great health and knowing how my sister is with Asperger's, staying in Lake Charles is a good idea. There are no other ELCA churches in the city other than St. Paul and the Episcopal churches (one of which I attend), have their Youth Ministry set.
I've been thinking about doing online classes.
I got a call from Post University yesterday and they seemed pretty nice. I'll have to find out about tuition and grants and scholarships.
Today I got a call from Everest University. They were pushy and I did not like them. They also only have Associate's and Bachelor's in paralegal studies.
Post University has a certification program that can be taken. Studies for higher degrees in the same field can be done later.
I'm still looking at other options, too. However, I figure, I want to do something and be successful at it.
I love my writing, and I'm good at it, but it also is not a well-paying job. At $3-$4 an articles, that's only about one cent per word. Sometimes it is a bit more and sometimes it is a bit less.
I would love to write for Coastal Living about the Gulf Coast. I have not seen things in that magazine about the Gulf Coast and, obviously, it is where I live.
Okay, back to researching and writing and doing other things that I need to do.
Dec. 28th, 2011 @ 10:53 am
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Dec. 25th, 2011 @ 12:47 am
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I've been driving to destinations semi-unknown since Friday. However, a lot of the problem is Hammond, LA has no idea how to have decent street signs! You can hardly see them in the daytime and you CANNOT see them at night! Sometimes there are streets missing street signs.
Anyway, Briana was showing me "drawing" on Google Maps.
She had me "drawing" by putting in different destinations. We came up with "driving the elephant." I have never "driven the elephant" and I don't know if anybody has. However, we find it interesting.
Perhaps the first person to drive the elephant will be given some type of prize if they can PROVE they drove the elephant by videos or pictures or something so they are taken in "real time?"
Google maps says the drive can be done in 4 days and 3 hours - that is if you never have any traffic problems, never have to stop to eat, never have to stop to go to the bathroom, and never have to sleep. I think it would be something more like 7 days.
Anyway, here are the directions for "driving the elephant."
( Driving the Elephant )
This is why we call it "driving the elephant."
Dec. 11th, 2011 @ 09:05 pm
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*doing a quiz about words in movie names*
Hey! How Green Was My Valley!
Oh, My valley was so green . . .
HOW GREEN WAS IT?
*answers needed*
Nov. 30th, 2011 @ 12:07 am
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There has been this commercial for Anderson on and it keeps asking "Would you date someone that's not your race?" or something like that. The one gal on it says, "Seeing interracial couples sickens me."
I'm not sure if she was white or black. Honestly, what does it matter? If I like a guy, a like a guy. I don't care about his skin color! It's all about who he is and his personality and how he treats me. It's NOTHING about the color of his skin!
Thinking about this, when I dated VGB, he said that he wasn't racist. I later saw an online dating profile for him that said he would only date whites or Asians. Yep, not racist, huh? Don't worry - I know I'm so much better without him and without his drama and without his fantasy world. It's just one of those memories that comes to mind every so often.
Anyway, I've not hit my word goal for today, but I am taking a bit of a break from writing. I've still got research to do, too.
It seems the research is keeping my inner editor at bay, so that's a good thing!
Nov. 4th, 2011 @ 10:54 am
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Sometimes categorizing fiction is strange. I'm excited about my NaNoWriMo story this year! I hope i can get a good amount of writing done for the story. I also hope it comes together to make a good story.
It looks like Jeopardy! is repeats until Friday. I can watch today's while reading the J! Archive to see if I don't remember the contestants. Zap2It gives the date it was fist aired and there no concern being that J! Archive has all the questions ever since Jeopardy! started airing.
My story, I guess is historical fiction. It's fiction. It'll be based on some stuff that happened in history, but it is going to be more of a modern day setting. Perhaps it is also a little bit of a mystery. I'm not exactly sure about that.
I keep trying to prioritize things in my mind for November.
God - ALWAYS!
Woofles
Writing for Nano
Briana - taking her wherever/doing whatever
Exercise
Writing for Ac/Y!CN
Sporcle
Facebook
Oct. 31st, 2011 @ 12:51 pm
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Nanowrimo starts on Tuesday. I have an idea and a basic outline this year! I still have to do some research, but yay!
We finally got my Daddy's medical records. He was on so many medications. A few changed over the years. However, we figured we needed to get them as we've been hearing about all kinds of law suits. I don't know if any of them would help us or not, but having more money to pay basic things would be nice.
It really is a huge list:
Actos 5
Actos 30
Altace
Ambien
Amoxil
antibiotics
Avilide
Catapres patch
Celexa
Coreg
Cozaar
Crestor
Doxepin
Exforge
Flexeril
Flomax
Humalog
Humulin N
Humulin R
Lantus
Levaquin
Levemir
Lovenox
Marcaine(w/epinephrin)
Norvasc
Novolin R
Pepcid
Phergan Supp
Reglan
Vancomycin
Vistaril
Anyway, I'm excited because two of my articles were distributed. I don't get paid much for that at all, but it's exciting to see people want my content!
I could only find this one about October 30th being national candy corn day.
Those don't get me page views, but they do link to my profile. I have no idea how many people would actually click to my profile from there, but there's a chance I'd get some more readers or at least some people to browse my articles.
I'm still not feeling great. I was fine for our NaNoWriMo kickoff and then as I was at home, my stomach started feeling upset. However, I should get up and try to settle down.
Oct. 31st, 2011 @ 12:45 am
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Briana and I went to Pub Games tonight. While we can team up with others there, I've wanted to find some more girls to team up with - need one to three more - because six can be on a team and I want to keep a spot open for Julie when she can come.
We didn't win, but we always have fun!
There were some people driving around the country who were from California. They said they are going to have a blog - something like "Where in the world are Mark and Lori?" I need to remember that because it will be an interesting blog if they get it done.
Lori was EXTREMELY well endowed upstairs, but she had a good sense of humor. Briana kept telling jokes about boobs and then she told one about gas, too.
Briana got the sillies as we were leaving, so I drove back to the pub and let Briana talk to some of the people that where still sitting outside the pub. It was fun getting to know more people and talking to them.
At home, Briana has now asked me to write her a story about a haunted piano and that in it, somewhere in the story, it has to mention cheese - she said somebody can mention cheese or it can just be mentioned in the story. I told her that I'll write it at some point.
I just asked if I should post this story on Associated Content (Yahoo! Contributor Network) when it is written and she yelled "YEAH!!!"
Oct. 25th, 2011 @ 10:53 pm
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The other day after Pub Trivia, Briana saw that some picnic tables were for sale. We said we didn't know about them and then on Saturday, we went to get one. We actually got two because they are not full picnic tables, but half a picnic table each. Why? Each half of the table turns into a bench! Then two benches can be converted to look like a regular picnic table. If half of one is converted, it looks like a desk without a back, but really long.
Our neighbor works with cement and came over to talk to us because we were not sure if we wanted to pour a cement slab for the table or if we only want to move it onto the cement that we have poured in the back. We will have to decide on that.
However, he said that our property goes as far back as his property does. I always assumed our property ended where the fence was at the back of the yard (well, what I assumed was the back right now). We still have the document and we know we can go to the courthouse to get the information, but I had no idea that more of the land might be our property because I was not concerned as it was a house and a fenced in back yard.
This could change things, not in the near future, but later, it could. Who knows?
Oct. 25th, 2011 @ 05:20 pm
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| » I knew it! I knew it! |
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Mellow Yellow (the song) is NOT about drugs, like my friend said! I knew what "electrical banana" would be if it were about drugs (and she didn't), but it's not about drugs!
See?
Okay, there is one other story about the "electrical banana, but I don't if it's anymore about drugs.
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] targe"new">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] Mellow Yellow (the song) is NOT about drugs, like my friend said! I knew what "electrical banana" would be if it were about drugs (and she didn't), but it's not about drugs! <a href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2554" target="new">See?</a> Okay, there is one other story about the "electrical banana, but I don't if it's anymore about drugs. <a href="http://ebanana.orconhosting.net.nz/" targe"new">Here is that story.</a>
Oct. 25th, 2011 @ 05:05 pm
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| » Writer's Block: Oodles of noodles |
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Macaroni and cheese - especially the way my sister found to make it! Yummy!
Then, I like alfredo, lasagna, spaghetti - but I'm picky about some of it, too. Alfredo, not so much, as long as there are no veggies or seafood.
Oct. 25th, 2011 @ 05:00 pm
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| » Wal-Greens and Trivia |
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Walgreens Caused a Headache Today
Briana wasn't feeling good today and needed some stomach medicine. She wanted liquid immodium, but at first she just said immodium and that can mean the store brand. We thought that the pills would be okay. I went to the drive-thru for the express pick up at our closest Walgreens (just a turn and down the street).
I go up to the window and I ask, "Do you have your brand immodium?" The gal at the window goes, "I don't know." I sigh and I look at what they say they sell express and find what it is called. It was something like "Walgreens Anti-Diarrheal" followed by the information. So I say exactly what is printed on the sheet about being able to get the medicine. I also point at the sign while saying it.
After that, the lady behind the window goes, "I don't know." I sigh, again. I point at the sign on the window. I keep pointing at it and then she finally picks it up, reads that the medicine is on it, and finally puts the sign back.
After all that, she asks, "Do you need some?" Really? You think I'm asking about the medicine and I don't need any? Why would I be at a pharmacy drive-thru asking about anti-diarrheal medicine if I don't need some?
By this time, I'm wondering how she can even be working in a pharmacy if she has no idea what they sell at the drive-thru and no idea that when people ask about the medicine at the drive-thru, they probably need it. If I had wanted to simply know if they sell the stuff, I would've stayed at home and called the store!
She then has to leave the pharmacy to go get some off the shelves. Really? They sell that at the drive-thru, but they don't have any in the pharmacy to sell at the drive-thru?
It ended up that the pills had gelatin, so Briana wanted liquid and my mom went inside for that when we went back, but that has nothing to do with how much of an idiot the lady at the drive-thru pharmacy was.
Trivia
Briana and I (and sometimes my friend, Julie) have been going to play trivia at McFarlane's Celtic Pub. They have pub games on Tuesday nights. (We've been trying to get three other girls, since it is like a girls night out for us - a break, away from chores, daily life, etc. Our mom would find the environment too loud, as Briana normally would, but she LOVES the trivia). Briana and I do pretty good with the trivia, although pop trivia isn't always our strong point (though, some we know well). We won with Julie on the one night. We've not won again, but I think it is mainly because of the games and not the trivia. One time, I completely failed at darts because both of the darts bounced off the chair and did not land in the dartboard. I did horrible at casting the fishing line (it was a child's rod, no weights, a paper fish, so I casted like I remembered from fishing and that didn't work well at all.) I wasn't good at putting the ping pong ball into a shot glass (I'll let Briana do that one again as she was better). I wasn't great at getting a paper airplane into a box. The plane flew, but it flew in circles.
Oh, our team name is a pun, of course. It's "Pubby Dogs." If Julie comes, we include "An official unofficial division of Team America: World Police" because she likes that movie and that name.
Gary Shannon (yes, from "Gary and Heather in the Mornings" on 92.9 Fun Radio) hosts trivia. Afterwards, Briana likes to give him a question or two or at least some of her cryptic crossword clues. Gary says that our stuff is too hard and thus many times we are "the team to beat," even if others beat us at the games.
Last week, we got to talk to Gary more and we gave him some trivia. I stumped with the question, "What is the only country that begins with O?" I also stumped him with "What two letters of the alphabet do not begin any country names?" We stumped him with the capitals of the Baltic States (three countries) and the three countries. (This evolved into a good conversation about books and movies and acting).
Anyway, on Saturday, my mom went to the Pub to get some picnic tables/benches that Briana wanted. After they were delivered, we went there to eat since she was out and we had wanted her to see the pub, but when it was quieter so she could enjoy it.
Gary happened to come in and he said hello to us.
Before we left, we asked him some trivia again.
Briana asked him what series about a religious worker starred Dawn French and that stumped him.
I thought it might be more fair if I asked him music trivia since he works in radio. I asked him about the Bay City Rollers.
He knew where they were from.
He did not know where Bay City was located.
He did not know how the Bay City rollers got their name.
He said that one of these times he'll be on vacation or not able to host trivia for some reason and we'll end up hosting and nobody will get any questions right. I don't know about that. Some of those teams seem pretty smart.
I keep thinking of more music trivia right now. Maybe he'll know some of this stuff. I'm not looking it up because I want it to be stuff that I actually know off hand - just like all the other stuff we've asked.
Oct. 23rd, 2011 @ 10:13 pm
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| » I watch the DVRed episode of SNL where Melissa McCarthy hosted . . . |
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I watch the DVRed episode of SNL where Melissa McCarthy hosted. Honestly, it seems like they aren't having a great season. I didn't find the episode all that funny, nor the previous one which was the season opener.
However, like usual, I did have the caption on because I've become insanely addicted to finding funny errors in the captions! I like to share the funniest ones!
Dialogue: "Son of bee sting."
Captions: "Son of a beach day."
Dialogue: "Bananas and cheddar."
Captions: "An elephant shatters."
Oct. 19th, 2011 @ 11:21 pm
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| » wftd |
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Main Entry: infradig
Function: adjective
Etymology: modification of Latin infra dignitatem beneath dignity
: being beneath one's dignity : UNDIGNIFIED (it was clear ... that off-season cruising was rather infra dig -- Richard Gordon)(considered helping with the dishes to be infra dig)
The language used by the teacher was infradig of the students' comprehension.
Sep. 13th, 2011 @ 01:33 pm
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It's been a long time since I've done this, but I love this word, so it's now my word for the day! I think these will be random and I'll post when I like :)
shog verb \ˈshäg\
shogged; shogging
transitive verb
chiefly dialect : jolt, shake
intransitive verb</i?
1 chiefly dialect : to move in a jerky manner
2 chiefly dialect : to move along
Sentence:
When she saw the strange look in the man's eyes, she shogged past him down the trail.
Sep. 2nd, 2011 @ 01:19 pm
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| » Woofles says hi! |
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Today, Woofles kept stepping on the backspace key on my laptop, so I asked him if he wanted to type. I put him so his front paws would reach the keyboard. Here's the result:
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Aug. 31st, 2011 @ 01:39 pm
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| » LJDQ Answers |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) ljdq answers are fun and silly. This time, however, a few things are not quite appropriate for minors (but if you don't mind, they're just the words.)
( answers under here )
Aug. 27th, 2011 @ 12:47 am
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| » Here - just . . . something. |
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I'm here - I'm just - what - I don't know. I just . . . SHOULD be writing LOTS and I mean LOTS, TONS more than I am. My body just seems to want a rest or a break, I guess.
Aug. 20th, 2011 @ 11:57 pm
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