February 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm (general)
Tags: family, friends, life
I love my family and friends, but I really look forward to being alone. I have always believed that you can’t be comfortable with other people if you aren’t comfortable with yourself.
With the schedules me and my husband work I get a lot of alone time and I’m fine with that. It means I get to do what I want. If I wish to be on the computer instead of having a conversation then I can. I get to eat what I want for dinner. I get to watch what I want to on TV or turn it off and read a book. If I want to take a 3 hour bath then no one cares.
I’m not a hermit or antisocial, I just enjoy my own company and like being alone.
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December 28, 2008 at 2:33 pm (general)
Tags: business, holiday season, work
Although it’s been said many times many ways, this six week marathon holiday celebration season has got to stop.
From the week before Thanksgiving until next weekend (after new years) this country just gets stupid.
Trying to get any type normal business done is almost impossible. Every place you go there is a line. Not so much because there are more customers than normal, but because half the work staff has taken ”off for the holidays” or they are at their “holiday party” many of which are now held during business hours.
Retail sales might be down this year, but look at productivity numbers from almost any business and you will notice that during the “holiday season” they almost always go in the toilet. Trying to get grown people to focus on the work at hand and stop all the “holiday gossip” is like telling a bunch of middle school kids to pay attention, it’s not going to happen. Everyone is more concerned with the new party dress than they are their regular work.
Payroll numbers sky rocket, our largest payroll’s are always holiday weeks. Business people have the same the amount of work to do, but because of holiday time off less time and people to do it in. So the pour sap that is still working ends up doing the job of three people and working lots of over time.
I could handle all of this for about a week, but each year it seems like it extends out a little further and it has gotten out of hand. I know it’s the holiday season, how on earth could I miss it. But some of us still have business’ to run and are trying to make sure they are around for another year.
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December 7, 2008 at 10:07 pm (Mother Nature, general, journey)
Tags: alternative medicine, bark, herbs, nature, poison, roots
Never fails, I make a list and leave something out. If you’ve been following along with the journey then you will know that aalternative medicine was not on the original list.
Well it should have been. Alternative medicine as always been a big part of my life. My mother used to treat me with the remedies she learned her from grandmother. I’ve taken that knowledge and added to it.
Mother nature has provided all the medicine that we will ever need. It is all around us everyday, literary in nature. Herbs are the most common medicine found in nature, but barks, roots and flowers are also used. On some plants all the parts are used. Mother Nature doesn’t like waste.
However natural treatments and remedies are not something to play around with. Mother Nature also provides some on the most powerful poisons on earth. Alternative medicine should only be practiced by someone that knows what they are doing.
Finding a person qualified in alternative medicine can be tricky. Most states have no guidelines. There are however numerous good books available on herbal medicine. Most of them include basic remedies and will also list harmful herbs.
I believe that traditional medicine needs to embrace more of the alternative medicine ways. There is room for both approaches in the treatment of humans and animals.
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November 30, 2008 at 5:27 pm (Mother Nature, general)
Tags: earth, God, Mother Nature, nature
Mother Nature is the primary care giver of all living life. She in the leaves of the trees and the blades of the grass. She is with each creature when it takes the first breath of life and there again with the last and those in between. She weeps when we humans pollute the air and the water knowing that we are destroying the things we need most to survive.
She is saddened by death, but knows that it is necessary for the cycle of life. She has provided all the plants we will ever need to make medicines and can not understand why we destroy them when we cut down the great forests.
You may say you don’t believe in Mother Nature, that it is the Christian God who does these things. But how many times have you cursed her? When the blizzard blows strong or the rain won’t come who do blame? Mother Nature. How can you blame something that you say doesn’t exist?
Mother Nature is not a witch or even Wiccian. She is not evil and something to be afraid of. Her earth was scared to many people before modern religions taught them to fear her. If God created man in his own image who is the model for woman? Why can it not be Mother Nature
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November 29, 2008 at 5:02 pm (general)
Tags: beliefs, family, life, love
When did anything at any store become more valuable or more precious than a human life?
I’ve known for a long time that what we call the holiday season is no longer about friends and family, beliefs and tradition but when did it turn into murder by out of control consumers.
Today I am saddened and disgusted by my fellow human beings and behavior that can only be described as criminal and savage.
Our greed and materialism must stop. It has already sent our economy into a tail spin leaving thousands of Americans jobless and homeless. Now it has cost an innocent man his life.
We are all to blame and this will happen again, unless we stop and think about it really important and return to a true season of giving, from the heart, not the wallet.
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November 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm (general)
Tags: Christmas, gifts, life, shopping
Today is black Friday and I have to work. It’s just as well, I hate to shop. You could not pay me enough to get anywhere near any type of store today. As a matter of fact I will only buy groceries between now and the first of the year and I will only do that because milk won’t keep for 2 months.
I have never really liked to shop but at this time of year my aversion to it just gets worse. For one thing I hate crowds of any kind so a packed store is not my cup of tea. I also have no need for the typical Christmas present. You know, the bath set, the scarf set, the after shave set, the list goes on and on. I discovered a long time ago that if you shop through out the year, you can get just as good deals and presents that mean something to the person that receives them.
But the main reason I don’t like shopping is rude people and during this time of holiday cheer everyone gets a little ruder as they search for the perfect gift that the store doesn’t have anyway.
So to keep my own sanity today and for the rest of the year I will stay far away from any store or shopping center other than the grocery store.
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November 16, 2008 at 7:48 pm (general, money savings)
Tags: advise, economy, government, money, parents, saving
I must admit, I am more than a little confused. Growing up my parents always told me that saving money was a good thing. Now my government is saying I’m not spending enough and that’s why the economy is a mess and people are losing their jobs and homes.
I think I’ll continue to take the advise of my parents. I mean my dad retired at 56 (now he’s almost 70) from a blue collar union job that we worked at for a 70 hours each week. My mom never really worked outside the home. They own (yes own as in no payments) a house in Arizona, land in New Mexico and are looking to buy a house in Colorado. They figure why not since they can get it cheap and thier money isn’t making much interest anyway (thank you federal reserve.) They also own (again no payments) a car, a truck and a fifthwheel trailer. Not bad for a guy with an 8th grade education. My Dad has two rules, save your money for the unexpected and always pay cash. Oh yeah, and where are all my dad’s hundreds of thousands of dollars? Not in the stock market. That seemed like too big a risk. They are tucked away and fully insured in several banks.
On the other hand it seems like our government is being run by a bunch of people that think they are using monopoly money. How many zeros are there in a trillion? Is it nine? This is insane. Since “we the people” now own most of AIG does that mean we all get free insurance. It should. If “we the people” bail out a car company do we all get free cars? We should. I am not in the habit of giving my money away for nothing in return, but apparently our government doesn’t think the same as me or my father. The government doesn’t know the meaning of saving and paying cash. If they run out of money the print more. If we try that it’s called counterfeiting. Why is it different for the government?
So yes, I’ll stick with my fathers advice, thank you anyway. I will continue to save the rainy days. I will also spend money, but only on the things I need or REALLY want and then I’ll spend cash, not credit. And if I get another stimulus check it will go right where three quarters of the first one went, in the bank. I’m not stupid enough to spend money just because some guy with free housing and utilities in Washington says I should.
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November 13, 2008 at 10:42 pm (general)
Tags: clutter, daily life, email, phones, TV
I have become an electronic information back rat. I think most of us probably have. It’s something that kind of sneaks up on you and happens before you know what is going on.
This week at work I cleared out my emails after being gone a week. I had 147 of them. I deleted more than 100.
Our home phone, like most phones do now, keeps track of incoming phone calls. Last night I deleted numbers out that went back to June. I also cleared out the direct TV DVR.
So why do we have this stuff? Why do we keep it? Do we even know the people calling and emailing? Are we really going to watch the TV shows?
The answer is no about 95% of the time. And like any other clutter if we don’t keep on top of it, it will bury us.
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November 9, 2008 at 12:12 am (general)
Tags: election, energy environmental crises, mail, waste
Show of hands please, now that the elections are over who has noticed a marked decrease in their mail?
At our house it’s even worse. We have a registered Republican and Democrat. So we get double the junk mail. Lucky us.
Every canidate now agrees that there is an energy and environmental crises. But yet we were still buried in any number of energy wasting and environmentally harmful fliers.
Okay, another show of hands, did anybody actually decide who they were going to vote for based on these fliers. Did anybody read these fliers.
I think we need a constitutional amendment, no more election mail.
Now that is something I think we would all vote for.
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October 29, 2008 at 1:25 pm (general)
Tags: conservation, energy, lifestyle, save, time change
The clock that is. Unless you’ve been under a rock or out of the country you know that once again almost all of us here in the USA will change our clocks again this weekend.
The questions is, why? Supposeably the answer is to save energy. The problem with that answer is that most of the data the supports the fact that clock changing saves energy is from the mid seventies.
Again unless you’ve been under a rock for the last 30 years, your lifestyle has probably changed since the mid seventies. In fact there is some evidence from the state of Indiana, actually gathered this century, that all is clock changing is actually costing more energy.
And apparently Arizona and Hawaii along with most of the US territories don’t care about energy because they don’t change their clocks, ever.
So is the idea of energy conservation just a ploy for the government to mess with our clocks and sleep schedules twice a year? It could be. I’d at least like to see a new study.
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