It's that time of the year again,  where I go through all the collected junk and try to put a dent in it.  It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a blue million things to do just in the normal course of the day.  Still, it's gotta be done.  So, I'm cleaning out the closets, attic,  and all the other places where junk gets accumulated in this house so that I can price it and sit out in the sweltering heat all day saturday in hopes of making about $50, if I'm lucky. 

Ah, the joy of putting on a yard sale.

I was really taken back when I heard the news that Andy Hallet had died from heart disease.  I never met him personally but he seemed like such a vibrant and exuberant individual.  He was only 33 years old.  That just doesn't seem fair somehow.  Hell! I'm 36.  And yet, at least from appearances, I would say he lived such a very interesting life and he seemed like he was such a very nice person.  And, through his work as an actor he definately had touched peoples lives. 

Some folks will live long lives and never put themselves out there for anything. They'll never really be interesting or exuberant. They'll  settle for the status quo and they'll never go for their dreams. They will do this for a variety of reasons, of course.  Maybe they think their dreams are kind of crazy and to far fetched, or out of reach, or maybe they'll just be to scared. Maybe for whatever reasons they will have  lost so much of themselves that they don't even know what their dreams are anymore. They won't really lose but they won't really win either. 

I hope that when the good Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, and when they put me in the ground, I hope I will have lived a life more like Andy's.

Happy Birthday Nocturnalista! (:

I hope that you had a good one with Cake and presents and family and friends. And I hope that the rest of your year will be good and blessed as well.

I have the flu or some sort of virus.  I'm sick to my stomach, my head feels, like it's going to explode, and I have body aches and chills.  This is really not fair.  I just got out of the hospital not that long ago.

On the positive side.  We had about 8-10"  on snow here.  I think the last time it snowed like that here was in 1988.  The weatherman says that it should be around 67 degrees by this weekend.  Sometimes we get the strangest weather.  I  guess we'll just have to wait and see about that whole 67 degrees thing.  My son had been out of school for two days and went to school two hours late today.  He took over my computer, playing video games on his days off.  He thinks the whole concept of out of school for snow days is awesome. (:    

Those of you that are on my flist or read my journal know that I like to make jewelry.

Well, here is one of my creations.

A  double rose glass cameo wrapped in 14kt Gold filled wire.

I live in a small town in the Southeast portion of the US of A and generally we don't get real exciting news here, but every once in a while something will make the front page of the paper that just makes me shake my head and think, OMG!   Today there was such a story.


It appears a local man was driving around irratically with a flat tire.  Of course, he was definately intoxicated, and when the officer approached him he was completely nude except for wearing his cowboy boots.   When the officer asked him if he had been drinking he told the officer that he had consumed an entire case.  He indicated that his clothes were at home (obviously) LOL  and that he had driven on the flat tire for approximately two miles. Of course, the officer didn't give the man a sobriety test because of his clothesless state of being.  Besides, the mans inebration was just to damn obvious to bother with it. The officer's quote, "Because the subject had drank a case of beer and drove on a flat and was naked. I suspected he was under the influence of alcohol."  While talking with the man the officer learned that he had exposed himself to patrons at both the Sugar & Spice (a local store) and a local QuickMart.   Why to I have a feeling this is probably the sort of person who nobody would want to see naked, anyway.  The man was  arrested for DUI, indecent exposure, violation of the registration and proof of insurance, and for basically being an all around dumbass.  Of course, the article makes sure to clarify that they only arrested him after they found him some clothes to put on.   

I hate  getting lab results back in the mail that just say," call the doctors office".  I'm pretty sure my only problem is that they need to up my dose of medicine that I take.  However, the little card didn't say that and when I called them the receptionist couldn't find anyone available at the time who could tell me anything.  So, I call them and then they say, "wait until we call you."  Now I'm going to spend the whole day until someone calls me feeling like I'm sitting on pins and needles waiting for someone to tell me something about my lab results, which is probably no major thing anyway. But, I don't know that and so I'm kinda worried. 

As gakked from secondalto who gakked it from beadattitude.

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This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something.
I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.

Well I have either been very sick or taking care of very sick people lately.  Last tuesday my husband came home from work with a stomach virus.  The man is very rarely ill but he was running a fever and couldn't keep anything on his stomach for that whole evening.  The next day he went back to work but I got sick and I mean really sick.  I was so bad he had to leave work early to take me to the Doctor.  I couldn't even pick my son up from school I had to have a friend of mine do it.  I'm still not back 100% and my tongue feels like sandpaper.  The day after that my son came down with it and when I took him to the Doctor, while we were there, my daughter became ill and threw up in the waiting room all over herself and me.  To make matters worse my mother-in-law had to be put in the hospital last week after becoming terribly dehydrated from taking an antibiotic that she didn't react well to.  She got so bad her kidneys actually shut down for a little while.  She's doing much better now, though.  And her kidneys seem to be if not back to normal than working close to it.    So, I've not been having a fun week lately.  I hope that everyone out here in lj world is doing a whole lot better. 


I have a new story idea.  I actually have alot of new story ideas I just really haven't had the time to sit down and finish up "New Possibilities" and start any of my new story ideas.  I have this story idea for a BTVS/ATS/Bones crossover story idea.

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So, what do ya'll think? 

There are two bible verses that for some reason kept running through my head today and I finally figured out why.

Ephesians 4:26-27   Be angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:  Neither give place to the devil.

It's funny that I would think of this at all because it has been a few years since I've even set foot in a church.  As a general rule I don't think organized religions serve God to well.  It's just way to easy for certain people in the leadership of such organizations to get well-meaning but otherwise ignorant people to do heinous things in the name of God, for their own personal benefit.  And as a general rule I don't think that sets to well with God.  And yes.  I do believe in the concept of a God.  I think that 911, the Crusades, the Spanish inquisition, and any number of other atrocities commited in the name of religion prove my point pretty well.

And yet I do like to on occasion read my bible because I find certain undeniable values and truths in it.  So, be angry and sin not.  I've been angry before, lots of times, I'm quite certain I'll be angry again.  I'll probably be lucky if I'm not angry again before this day is over.  I can honestly say that I don't believe that I have ever been any angrier than I was on September 11, 2001.  I know that  on September 11th alot of people felt afraid, and I don't know, I imagine anger is a way to cope with fear or maybe even comes about from it. I'm really no psychologist so I wouldn't know much about analysing it to well.  The one thing that I do believe though is that anger in and of itself is not bad it's all in how you react to it.  What you do with it.   

I have alot of good reasons for being angry.  I saw 3,000 or more innocent people, who did absolutely nothing wrong but get up in the morning and go to work, die.  And I got to hear a bunch of extremists yammer on about how noble and just their cause was and how God condoned it.  That one in particular pisses me off because if God condones the indiscriminate murder of innocent people, the selling of drugs, identity theft and all the other illegal things terrorists do to finance killing even more people,  than how I ask?  Is good any different from evil?  And if good is no different than evil isn't it all one in the same?

And yet, On September 11th I saw great good overcome evil.  I saw both the worst and the best that humanity had to offer.  I saw what the terrorists had done but I also saw how the people on flight 93 fought back and wouldn't let them hit their third target.  I saw firemen and police officers rush into the burning towers realizing that they had to know good and well that they probably wouldn't be coming back out if they did, to save as many lives as they could.  I heard a story from a survivor how one individual who had died in the towers wouldn't leave his wheelchair bound coworker to die alone.  I heard about how the head of security at the towers died because he wouldn't leave till everyone else was out.  I saw acts of great compassion in a city that isn't always known for acts of great compassion and for at least one day we were all New Yorkers.

When I talk to my children about 911 thats what I want them to know.  That a very evil thing happened that day, but that good rose to the occasion.   And also, that we all have choices to make in life, and its not bad to be angry...very, very angry when bad things happen in the world.  However,  it's how we choose to react to those things that matters the most.   That they can either seeth and build resentment and hatred in their heart toward others or that they can go out and do something good.    Send the local firemen and law enforcement a card saying that we appreciate their service.  Send food and clothes to local shelters or donate our time.  Thank someone in the service for defending us.  And don't just do good and decent things on the anniversary of 911, do them everyday.   I don't think they will ever make a monument that truly befits or memorializes those that died and sacrificed their lives to save and protect others on 911 quite as much as just choosing to do something good for others.  And also, I can't think of a better way to stick it to those extremists who thought that such an act would break us as much as doing good for others does.  And when it's all said and done we'll see what God condones.