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| Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | | 10:24 am |
| | Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 | | 3:02 pm |
Falling apart for dollars......
How it is done. The mysterious and frequent phenomenon of profiteering and its connection with disasters. (later) I can't seem to post the video from Salon.com about Naomi Klein's new book "Shock Doctrine." Sorry. Look it up. The the video was made by the man who directed "Children of Men." I heard Naomi being interviewed on NPR or the local community radio last week. Great work explaining how the profiteers have been managing to screw up everything except their bottom line. | | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | | 12:08 am |
| | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | | 3:09 pm |
rainbow cloud
I was driving along the northern edge of downtown Spokane, looked south at the sky and saw a splotch of brilliant rainbow on what I think was a cloud. There were some subtle wisps of pink outside the splotch/cloud and the rest of the sky was its usual lovely blue with white clouds here and there. I do not recall ever seeing such a phenomenon in my life. No camera, no rider to take a picture. Too bad! Current Mood: enthralled | | Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | | 3:07 pm |
Aerogarden herbs
I have purple basil, Italian basil, chives, mint and dill popping out. In just a few days the cilantro and parsley should show up. Given the size of the parsley plant in our garden I will be discovering new ways to fix it...cook, juice, etc. Today I am considering making a parsley, angelica, onion soup with more herbs and a few parsnips, and whatever else occurs to me. Oh yum. I hope. Current Mood:  hopeful | | Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | | 8:29 pm |
Aerogarden
After 3 months of detoxing plastic outgassing, I set up the aerogarden. The heat from the grow lights set off more plastic outgassing this afternoon. The aroma now is reminiscent of raw oysters, which ain't so bad. Not likely to toxify me anyway. Maybe it is from the feed pellets? Fresh herbs in a few weeks right in my kitchen! And fresh herbs in the garden at Brian's! Yay!! Current Mood: cheerful | | Monday, May 7th, 2007 | | 9:12 pm |
objections
A couple weeks ago I went to work at an elderly lady's home. Her yard had been treated with weed and feed by a local pest control company...against our wishes and her daughter's orders. I had requested it not be done because it makes me quite ill...No wonder for anyone who takes the time to read about the effects of 2,4-D, which is widely used in weed and feed for controlling broadleaf plants. I suffered some nerve damage which translates as shallow breathing, exhaustion and difficulty sleeping, nausea and hunger (can't digest and absorb well at all), headaches, eye irritation, muscle spasms and weakness, and the shakes. Aren't those neurotoxins wonderful! NOT!! When I left she had gone out into her yard and was digging up dandelions against my advice. Many people think they are not vulnerable. Many people think it is about having allergies to toxic substances. I wish people would actually look into the newer scientific information about toxins. But they do not mostly and blindly continue on. She was not doing well when I saw her today. She had some of the same difficulties I did. So how absurd is this? The lawn care/pest control companies sell a lot of this "service" to elderly people. Many of them cannot remember instructions, cautions, etc. There is no requirement to inform people of what they may suffer in effects. And the stuff doesn't even work well. They were setting her up with weed killer treatments every 4 - 6 weeks. One of the amazing things about 2,4-d and some other toxic pest control products is that some of the action is hormonal and can take days to manifest. People do not necessarily show signs for days and by then they do not consider it causative. And there's the cancer angle. It is also not that uncommon for the lawn care companies to make mistakes: spray the wrong yard, forget to inform people neighboring who are on the sensitive list, and to spray after the service has been declined or cancelled. And most of this is done to kill off the plants in the lawn that we would otherwise be able to eat and use to clean up our poor livers from all the toxic crap in our lives these days. It is one of the nicest times of the year and it is way too dangerous to be outside much. Sucks!!! Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | | 12:02 am |
feeding cats during the ongoing recall
I watched the cat food recall news, returned anything on the recall list and bought my kitties some human grade food at a specialty shop. They do not relish eating the really, really good food. And I figured I would just intesperse it with their usual. ha. I went to buy their primary usual today and it had been pulled sometime in the past week. I guess we'll be staying the course. I am glad I was not feeding them one single brand and type. So far one of their usual brands is still on the shelf. So far the human grade food favorites are turkey and sweet potato & venison and peas. They do not seem to know what to do with the raw food (that comes frozen). Given the generous free samples, they'll have some time to get used to it. Current Mood: determined | | Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 | | 11:08 pm |
Tarot that I am....
You are The EmpressBeauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation. The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful. The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her. What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. Current Mood: mellow | | Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | | 5:08 pm |
springtime
It isn't here yet. It's snowing and the snow isn't sticking. Hooray! Here I was, I know not where, all ready to celebrate something. I felt that verve again at dance practice this morning. I was not the only one who had missed it. And it was kinda odd that the dances just came more naturally to my body/myself with the joy present. We have 2 weeks until a performance. It seemed like we would never be ready. And it seems like it always goes that way. I signed up for at least 4 dances. I almost cancelled out of a partner dance, but we've practiced about enough for it to come back to me more naturally. We are facing the opposite direction from the one we are used to and it is scrambling my orientation. It is so funny having challenges like that to experience how the mind, etc works. Changing reference points, reworking movements. I'd lost some movements that I have know for years and had to focus to bring them back. It's those hyperspace jumps and temporal anomalies. I forget how much I can forget. And then I forget how much fun it can be to reinstall while I fuss and fret and wonder what happened. I like this part of the journey. Whew! I hope it lasts for a few weeks at least! Current Mood: amused | | Sunday, January 14th, 2007 | | 9:16 pm |
super villain quiz
Your results: You are Mystique| Mystique |
| 68% |
| Dr. Doom |
| 64% |
| Magneto |
| 59% |
| Apocalypse |
| 59% |
| Mr. Freeze |
| 57% |
| Lex Luthor |
| 54% |
| Poison Ivy |
| 52% |
| Venom |
| 45% |
| The Joker |
| 44% |
| Catwoman |
| 44% |
| Juggernaut |
| 40% |
| Dark Phoenix |
| 40% |
| Green Goblin |
| 40% |
| Two-Face |
| 40% |
| Kingpin |
| 38% |
| Riddler |
| 36% |
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Sometimes motherly, sometimes a beautiful companion, but most of the time a deceiving vixen.
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| | Saturday, December 30th, 2006 | | 12:33 pm |
RosyCat
I missed RosyCat when she took a hiatus from posting...already missed her before she left her mortal form behind for good. She was an intrepid, gifted, kind and lovely soul. I feel sad that she is gone. Her marriage and the love and joy between RosyCat and her husband was awesome and inspirational to read about. Bless them both for their love. It lives on. RosyCat, may you dance in the freedom of your soul to the tunes,pulses and vibrations that bring you joy. I sense you in swirls of ecstasy and glee and honor the difficulties of the path you walked so well. You are awesome! | | Monday, October 30th, 2006 | | 8:00 pm |
venting about vending, time, long and possibly irrelevant?post
I am home again, waiting for UPS to make the third delivery attempt. Normally I would be at a grocery store out west on the old highway putting out, straighthening and sorting greeting cards, party paper stuff and wrapping paper. Not today. I am waiting for Halloween to pass to go take down those cards and replace them with something else. And, I used up my work time for October. Someone someday, maybe long ago, came up with a formula for deciding how much time a merchandiser should be paid for in a month. It is based on the income of the product in the store. It bears little resemblance to how much time it takes to straighten up after the public, parts of the public. Pretty frustrating! Two of the companies I work for use such a formula. And the cards company figures that there not being many greeting card holidays during summer, they cut the time back even more. My account is by a casino. There's another in Sandpoint, which is a lovely resort town. Well it was lovely before the lake was treated with 2,4-D this summer to get rid of milfoil. Shudder! It takes a lot of time to take down cards after holidays, inventory them, fill out paperwork and put up the new cards. I have no idea how many of what variety I have been sent - cards for sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, friends, lovers, religious, etal. I am not looking forward to doing it. It used to be they sent 3 or 4 different size envelopes. Now there must be 8 or 9 sizes. I frequently cannot find a matching size. Watch out that you make sure the envelope fits the card before you buy! I am supposed to replace envelopes whose colors have faded. Ha! And to make sure all the cards have envelopes. I try. And I think about things I could be doing that would actually be creative and beneficial. Oh well. I've watched people come by and mess up my work. The section is right by the pharmacy waiting area. It is a great spot for bored children to swoop through. Whenever the time comes for me to let go of a job because something I love to do is working out financially, this will be the first job to go. And it looked so good when I saw someone working a card section years ago. Magazines are larger, provide a better workout and more movement to put up. The time estimates are made by people who work magazines, and while they seem inadequate at times, they are not based on sales. If they were, some of my stores would be 20 minute jobs. I have stores in some poorer area of town and in one area that doesn't seem to be heavily into reading. It doesn't take much time for my work to get messed up in any case. People put magazines in front of other magazines on the racks, in the checkouts. I don't know how anyone finds anything sometimes. People frequently ask me where things are in stores. I am working. I wear an apron. I often have little clue. And I remember being rude to a vendor for not knowing the store decades ago. I don't have time when I am working. I do not shop these stores much. I used to go to the store on Monday and the magazines would be out in bundles on the floor in a cart. I'd go through, find the puzzle magazines I wanted, cut the bundle open and buy it. It's okay with me now if someone does that, but I never thought that the vendor might need to do a count. Someday I may have atoned. Hope to have something lined up before then, like a profitable aromatherapy, counseling practice, sales of artwork and maybe sweepstakes! Later, after UPS comes I am going to a birthday dinner. Happy Birthday you birthday man!!!!! Current Mood: dorky | | Thursday, October 5th, 2006 | | 11:01 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | | 9:43 pm |
pirate name
My pirate name is:
Calico Jenny Flint
Often indecisive, you can't even choose a favorite color. You're apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org network | | Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 | | 9:41 pm |
How am I?
I shouldn't take iq tests while I watch intense movies. My work load has decreased. Whew! I'm getting extra time approved when I need it. And yet I freaked out at my cards job yesterday.. not that anyone noticed. And then to top off the electric doors closed when I started to walk through to leave. Hmmmm. I pushed them open. Kinda freaky. For many years I met with some other women (men rarely showed up) for gatherings where we went under and explored other lives (whose? who knows?) It didn't take long. I usually found a way to alter the life...do some healing. It's been a couple few years. The main stay friend moved to the coast. What helped me today was delving into my feelings of frustration and grief for a "story" and finding some empathy for the character I found. It suited me well. A big fall from social grace into some tedious labor. Used to dancing, having fun and being constrained by class. Then the tedious labor. And it wasn't freeing at all. There was still the social restraints and taboos from the old life to add to the restraints and taboos of the new. Always hoping for a return to the life of relative luxury, but not the restraints. Anyway, I got a sense of what some wealthy may fear Scudding/playing and groveling/laboring at the grindstone are very different states of being. Big OW!!! I think both realities would not be to my liking. I felt tight clothes, no choices. The wealthier version had far better distractions/diversions. Big culture shock. My social security mess has dragged on, speaking of stress. I got all the paperwork from my massage therapist. Most of it from my chiropractor. He gave me the last of it today, but he'd copied the first statement he wrote up instead of the second one that would cover everything. So, I had to call and ask him to get the second. Hated that! I've gotten a couple extensions and I know there aren't likely to be any more. It's all due very soon. He thought the new statement was in my chart last week, but it wasn't. While he was looking for it I spied a copy of my medical records from Denver Childrens Hospital. The last I'd heard he hadn't received them (back in 2000?). He'd had them for about 5 years. I saw the diagnoses and the clear path of the vaccination to the polio encephalitis. Then all the visits for dysentary, staph and strep infections later, which I got in the hospital. Late summer 1949. If I hadn't already suffered through the Dalkon Shield mess I'd be looking for a good lawyer. Tomorrow I go see my naturopath (75 mis away). I am hoping he has the paperwork ready for me. After watching "The Missing" tonight it doesn't seem so scary. Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett go looking for her daughter in the frontier southwest. She'd been kidnapped by a brujo (an evil witch) and his crew who slow roasted the ranch foreman and slaughtered many other people on his way to seizing 8 young women to sell. Quite compelling. Current Mood:  contemplative | | 9:26 pm |
| | Saturday, August 5th, 2006 | | 11:59 am |
recently...
I was busy working, working, working. I was getting pretty stressed and hoping for a let up (one with more $$ coming in just as a surprise would have been the best), when I had a sudden drop in hours. I was driving 60+ miles to stock magazines at a Costco (have to be there by 6:30am and out of there by 9am) every Friday morning and usually Monday again (because the shipments were not arriving Friday). I did that for at least 6 weeks and lo, my boss found someone in that city to do it. Hooray. Now I only need to go this coming Friday to help train her as he (boss)is out of this area next week. His territory is quite large, vast and yet tractable. That company is coming to the end of some cycle and merchanidising hours are restricted. It would be good if the hours were a bit more realistic. In some areas they are and some not. I am hoping we do not have any big chores to do in the meantime. I always love it when they change things around and do not change our budgeted hours to accomplish their goals. Another company I work for has this person(s?) who think that merchandising (stocking) greeting cards is a snap in the summer. No, there are no messes. People put the cards back where they belong with their envelopes. Children do not come along and play with the cards. Ha ha. I hurt myself trying to meet my time Monday and still couldn't do it. I usually just ask for more time from my supervisor and get it, but that is getting very old. He does not make up how much time to give me in the first place. There is something about repeated unrealistic expectations that do not budge that drives me nuts. I guess I need to get over it/through it. Let go of it and not get into little pressure sessions with myself. Ideally, I start to get tense after a couple hours doing cards. I try to limit my time anyway. Not my favorite work and it is the lowest pay I have. It hurt my heart last week to try to make the 1:15 time. I think I have some issues there to explore!! Like why would I think it was even possible and pressure myself to meet that goal? Like I was slacking off before?! NO. Bad Peggy supervisor of Peggy! Insane imprint alert!! Fortunately for me the previous week I got some great compliments about my work merchandising, my artwork, counseling, and remedies. It reminds me of when I was up for the supervisor position and did not get it, but that came up right after I'd gotten a raise and good+ evaluation. I've been back to the renal/dialysis center a couple times to care for anonymous client. I found a way to calm and help the client quite a bit, and she wanted me to stay. This last time she was quiet. I do need a rest. I have lots of housework to do, and spend little time here...not enough to settle into doing the housework. Too busy trying to keep up with email and my healthcare needs. ON the go a lot. I'd love to start another painting and finish a couple others. I am hoping it is time to implant an ad for my counseling biz in the local weekly. Maybe I oughta do that before I ask the universe for more work in general and get some extra assignments again. Today we are off to Coeur d Alene for the big arts fest. Same place I was driving every week. Love it..CdA, love some other places in Idaho too. I am glad I am not living there. Northern Idaho has gone nuts with a milfoil problem and are dosing many lakes with 2,4-D, which makes me very ill in oh so many ways. I guess they'd best get ready for a big increase in cancer, dementia and the numerous other miseries, neuro and organ failures of that nasty herbicide. Insane and sad!!! So sad! I'd love to go swimming. Not in that stuff! | | Thursday, July 20th, 2006 | | 9:55 pm |
| | Monday, June 19th, 2006 | | 12:53 am |
 | You scored as Spiritualist. You are a Spiritualist. You are most at home in the subtle realms of existence, and since you can't be there all the time, you communicate with spirits regularly to keep at least one foot on higher planes. As you progress, more and more of your interaction is based on planes other than the physical, and while this can draw strange glances from those who overhear, for the most part you are able to blend in and go unnoticed. It's a shame, really, because you have depths therefore unseen by your peers.
Spiritualist | | 95% | True Alternative | | 80% | White Lighter | | 75% | Otherkin | | 65% | Aimless Eclectic | | 65% | Mystic | | 65% | Magician | | 50% | Discordian | | 45% | </td>
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