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16) The final poster titled LOST has so many different moments from the show. It will require further investigation. But here is a preliminary look without a Hi Res Version:
We see most of our characters over the seasons: Jack, Sawyer, Kate, & Locke are top and foremost. Then we see Hurley, Sun, Jin, Desmond, Dan, Vincent, Juliet, Claire, Charlie, Aaron, Walt, Michael, Ben, Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia, & Eko. Dan is the only Freighter person shown, and Juliet & Ben are the only others in the top portion.
Below, we see the crash w/ what looks to be Jack. Kelvin pulling Desmond to the Swan. The Tailies when we first see them and Jin thinks that they are the others, We see the raft, Dharma Van (probably when hurley is driving), we see a polar bear, torches, what looks to be Eko's grave, the swan when it is known as the hatch, and what looks to be Richard carrying a rifle and looking from the jungle (possibly during the incident)
At the top we have the 4 toe statue, the hieroglyphs from the timer, and an Oceanic flight in the upper right hand corner. There are 2 red dots, that could represent Naomi's beacon when Desmond sees it.
The Numbers in the Poster... OK, you may or may not agree with this, but here are the occurance of the numbers...
4 --- Number of Torches (Hurley, next to Locke, 2 bottom left next to polar Bear)
8 --- Number of time Smokey is seen (I'll post pics of this one for you to see)
Left side by Jack - (run in with Smokey during Piolot)
Right side by torch - (Locke & Smokey - 2 times)
Left side by Hurley - (Juliet's run in with Smokey at the Sonic Fence)
By Eko & L - (Eko & Smokey confrontation)
By Wreckage - (First night on the Beach)
By T - (Ben summons Smokey & Judged by Smokey)
By Sun - (Claire meeting with Christian?)
By Ana Lucia - (Science Expedition)
15 - Flight 815 Survivors Depicted from the front part of the plane (Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Walt, Michael, Sayid, Charlie, Claire, Shannon, Boone, & Aaron) - Aaron is included instead of Vincent
16 - Number of DHARMA Logos at the bottom
23 - Number of Characters that aren't considered part of the background (Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Dan, Desmond, Vincent, Walt, Michael, Sayid, Charlie, Claire, Aaron, Juliet, Ana Lucia, Shannon, Boone, Ben, Eko, Richard)
42 - (May be more of a stretch, but the yellow jumped out at me) This is the number of yellow seen in the plants, torches, timer, & hatch) to be 42, it is the instances of yellow that is surrounded by other color.
Hurley's Torch - 3
Torch Bottom - 8 & 2
Top torch - 7
Timer - 4
Plant by Ben - 4
Plant by Mike - 3
Plant by Eko - 3
Plant by Hurley - 3
Hatch - 1
4 toe statue - 4
Of course there is probably a lot more in this one, but here are some of the moments in the seasons...
Sayid & Shannon - (2x08) - Sayid is carrying Shannon after Ana shot her -
Kelvin dragging (2x23)- Looks to be Kelvin dragging Desmond back to the Swan for a long 3 years of button pushing -
4 toe statue (2x23) we first see this in season 2 -
Jack at the crash site (1x1) -
Eko w/ axe (2x21) - Eko has a dream that requires the axe, he uses it to climb and see the ? -
hatch - the hatch before dynamite is used to get in (1x19)
Others... (2x02) Jin first sees the Tailes and thinks they are the others -
Charlie,claire,aaron (3x04) - after Desmond's first flash regarding the lighthning -
Hurley Van (3x22) Hurley uses the DHARMA Van to get rid of Pryce -
raft - (1x23) the raft is launched but doesn't make it far -
Eko's Grave (3x06) - Eko is buried after the run in with Smokey (need to get a picture of a closeup)
Richard w/ Rifle (season 6 image - watching Incident)
Red dots on oceanic plane (upper right hand corner) - Naomi's beacon in 3x21.
Polar Bear - Various times
Hurley w/ torch - (4x01) on his way to the cabin - unbeknownst to him... -
Ana Lucia (2x21) - in Eko's dream -
Vincent (1x01) - will need to get a screen capture
Timer (Season 2) -
Torches (2x11) - The ring of fire - "Light 'em up" "this is our island"
Hieroglyphs (season 2) - System Failure -


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2012: a year of failed attempts to lose weight
As anyone who reads this blog regularly would know I've made a number of attempts this year to get back on the weight loss bandwagon with very little success. It is amazing how easy it has been to fall into old habits, even after successfully losing 20kg since having my lapband installed. To be fair, I have had a lot of issues this year: my mood slid downwards, my lapband had to be loosened and I endured a bad case of anaemia and Restless Leg Syndrome. It was enough to put me right back where I was before weight loss surgery: pigging out on chocolate and lollies and all things bad for me!
|I have to get back to crossing off these goals!
Comfort eating: Just don't do it
Despite weighing 80kg, I started 2012 feeling pretty terrible, going by my blog posts in January. Check this one out. I sound miserable. Life was getting me down. Then a couple of days later my mood has improved somewhat but I'm spewing up food stuck in my lapband.
By February I'm attempting to exercise more but I'm chronically backed up, and telling anyone who'll listen about it. My Restless Leg Syndrome got worse, bringing with it terrible anxiety and exhaustion. What do I do when I'm anxious and tired? Eat all the stuff that is bad for me.
I didn't blog about it at the time but I remember it all too well: It was sometime in late February that I got gastro and spent a lovely evening from 5pm to 2am chucking my guts up. With a lapband, food can go in your mouth, down your throat and slowly through the band and into the stomach. Once it is through to the other side, it ain't coming back UP again. When lapbandits talk about PBing (productive burping) the food that comes up hasn't made it past the band. It has just been sitting in the pouch on top of the band so it doesn't hurt to bring it up.
With every convulsion my body shook and I retched in pain as I felt the foreign body within my abdomen move up and down my oesophagus. After what seems like forever, I finally got my dad to get me to the emergency room. There I was given morphine for the pain and all but 2mls of the fluid in my lap-band was removed to release the pressure around the top of my stomach. A few days later I weighed in at 79kg, the lowest I'd been since I first got my band installed.
I went back to my surgeon later that week and he was very impressed with my weight. He said that 79kg was a very healthy weight for me and suggested I now try to manage my diet without such tight restriction in my band. I agreed.
Attempting to go it alone: Fail
It didn't take long before my weight slowly started to creep back up so I made several appointments to go back to my surgeon in order to get a fill to increase the restriction in my band, therefore decreasing the amount, and type, of food I could consume. Each time I cancelled. I was so sick of having to be cautious about every little morsel I put in my mouth. The whole cutting up into tiny pieces and chewing carefully and waiting 30 seconds between each mouthful. Eating shouldn't be such a chore! Plus I loved having bread, pasta and rice back in my diet.
But my attempt to eat like a normal person failed. And put on 7 kg.
I thought if only I could give up the bad stuff I'd lose it again. But my addiction to sugar is so strong: I made a really lame attempt to give up chocolate for a month in a bet with my mum and sister. I failed. And then I tried to quit sugar because that is what everyone else is doing and the kegs are dropping off these people. Not me. Another fail.
It's all about ME
I finally did go back to my surgeon a couple of weeks ago and he put a bit of fill in. Not really enough because I can still eat bread, pasta, rice. I will definitely be going back for more soon but I know I have to do this, lapband or not. Only I can make that mindset change and just fucking do it.
I have learnt so much over the last few months about what's good and what's not. In particular, I've learnt an enormous amount about sugar. Basically, it has got to go.
And this has to be a lifestyle change. It needs to be a package deal: Eat less and better and exercise more.
With just three months left of the year, I am making a pledge to myself and to anyone who would like to sponsor me: I've signed up for Droptober. Not only will your sponsorship give me an enormous about of motivation to stick to my guns, you will also be helping the Children's Charity, Variety.
I've started early because I'm hoping to drop those pesky 7 kg I've put on since March.
This is it. I'm psyched. I'm currently up to day six without chocolate and I've had very little sugar.
I'll be blogging about Droptober through the month.
And if you'd like to help motivate me and at the same time help raise some money for Variety go to my spaceship page here.
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After came back from PD for the 1st Exper1ence training, my ex-colleagues and I went to PD AGAIN. But this time, we stayed in Ancasa Resort. The apartment is not bad, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, quite clean though. Thanks Jeslyn for the well arrangement.
Took from balcony, a small swimming pool.
Sea view.
After checked in the apartment and rested for about 30 mins, it's almost 5pm++. We planned to walk to the beach and swim for awhile. But due to the super duper "clean" water, we gave up and took some photos before going back to apartment.
"Sexy bitch" - MingKAI, Johnny, Jeslyn
The apartment we stayed. We saw a volleyball court when we walked back to apartment. Instead of doing nothing, we planned to have a match before we proceeded to BBQ dinner.
Sam, Jeslyn, Johnny (Wondering why he so excited lol), Ivy.
MingKAI, Jeslyn, Ivy, & Johnny
After the match, we walked back to apartment and took the BBQ equipment. Everybody was so hungry and can't wait to setup the fire. This photo was taken around 7pm++, before setting up the fire.
See, everybody was trying so hard just to setup the stupid fire.
Almost 8pm, the sky was getting darker and darker.
Finally, Jet was du gao lan and lost his temper, he threw a box into the bbq pit and burned together with charcoal LOL. Amazingly, the fire was up =D
Why wait? Everyone can't wait to cook their food.
At that night, we're attacked by 2 intruders. Instead of kicking them away, John seemed like very happy and even fed them 9 9.
Look at the mess lol
Honestly, bbq I already tried many times. But bbq at the beach is really 1st time =D
Forget to mention, the air-con of girls's room is working well, but the air-con of guys's room is hot like sauna. Since we didn't have any choice, we were forced to sleep at the dining room. Thanks to the stupid sauna.
Me and Johnny did some hardcore "exercise" at night lol.
4 lengluis.
Ma lat lou =D
Group photo ^^
Ugly leaf.
Nice flower ^^
We checked out at 12 and headed to this Empayar Seremban Siew Pow for lunch as well as buying Siew Pow(烧包).
Johnny's new Satria Neo. Steady and stylish ^^
We ordered a set lunch. Can't remember is 6 or 7 dishes for 11 persons lol.
Tofu & prawns.
Pork rib. I love it ^^
Steam fish.
I can say this is a wonderful trip. 1st time bbq at the beach haha. I also never traveled with this amount of people except for company trip or family trip. Again, thanks Jeslyn for organizing this amazing trip, well done ^^


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The road will be closed so Ahern and Associates Inc., which has been contracted by the Maryland State Highway Administration to replace the bridge, can lower Black Rock Road beneath the bridge, said John Rose, eastern district manager for Ahern and Associates Inc.
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I saw one good review of this, then one rave review of it, so what the hell, I threw it at the top of my list. This is by the same director as the well-regarded May [which I will totally be watching very soon now], and apparently was completed three years ago, but Sony held onto it, then finally dumped it out straight to video, not even bothering with a theatrical release. It's too bad.
One reviewer on the IMDb says "It's fine if you like spooky, but not scary." Which may be true, but it's too bad that 'spooky' is out of style—or at least won't bring in enough money to bother releasing to theaters. I guess The Jacket and Skeleton Key were spooky, but they both had stars. Of course, I have for some time thought that horror should go the art-movie route and become very dry and abstract and released only in art houses and demand that people take them seriously… but you know, no one listens to me. Anyway, I for one am fully in favor of 'spooky,' and wish this one was given a little more attention, as it's quite a solid little movie with a good story and great performances.
We begin with Agnes Bruckner as Heather on her way to this private girls' school, being driven by her mega-bitch mother and her dad, Bruce Campbell. Bruce's face has gotten thick and heavy, and to me at made him look quite interesting, and it was nice to see him acting in a irony-free way. It seems that Heather is in trouble for trying to burn down her parent's home.
As her parents are fussing in the trunk Heather sees Patricia Clarkson as Miss Traverse [I love heavy-handed names, don't you?] approaching from the woods. There's a shot of her reflection over Heather's face as she's sitting in the car that's good, and sets Traverse up as the villain right away. This movie makes it fairly obvious from the start that the women in charge of the school are big trouble, but you don't mind because the rest of it is all handled so well, and you don't really know what their evil plan is.
Traverse gives Heather a quiz of very abstract questions along the lines of "which one of these pictures represents nature?" Heather gets a paper cut on the quiz, staining it with her blood. Then her parents leave, her mother's parting advice to her daughter being: "Don't let you nails get out of control."
Heather soon makes friends with Marcy, a nerdy girl, and is made fun of by uber-bitch Samantha, who is a total blast with her petty tormenting. She does things like knock over Heather's milk and then go "Oh, I'm SOOOO sorry." For a while spooky stuff is happening or Heather is reacting to Samantha, but invariably Heather is blamed for it and gets in trouble. At one point she demands to call her mother and be taken home, Traverse plops the phone right in front of her and tells her go ahead. Her mother is at a party [read: her parents are partying since she's gone] and not listening to her.
Meanwhile mysterious stuff is happening, voices from the woods, ghosts, etc. Naturally, since we're talking about a girls' school, there must be a montage with lesbian overtones, and it is well-handled here, with deft use of a song by Lesley Gore [did I mention that this movie takes place in 1965?]. At some point we find out that about 100 years ago three witches came out of the woods and took over the school, killing the headmistress with an axe. Meanwhile, every now and then Traverse pulls Heather into these little mind-meld sessions that is part of her "special training," and we also find out that Heather can balance non-balanceable materials using some kind of mental powers.
Soon girls start disappearing, and things are getting spookier and more violent. Eventually it turns out that Samantha the bitch was actually trying to warn Heather and scare her off—her knocking the milk over was intentional, as the witches put blood in the milk to control the girls' minds. Eventually Heather's parents show up to pick her up, but don't get very far. It all climaxes with some sort of ritual with the witches that involves all of the girls at the school [as victims], but Heather's dad interrupts it with an axe [Heather's mom has already been killed], and eventually Heather applies the axe to Traverse's neck, ending the spell. Heather then burns the school down and leads all the girls out.
I didn't want to tell you the ending, but one thing you notice is the typical Electra complex thing wherein Heather's mom dies, and her dad, who has been distant, absent and ineffectual this whole time, suddenly starts to trust his daughter, and with Mom out of the way, the two of them can end up together. You will also notice that Heather was sent to the girls' school for trying to burn her house down—the house of her mother. At the end, she destroys the mother-figure of the new house [the school], and again burns the house down, only this time her burning it is approved by her father, who now trusts in his daughter's instincts and abilities.
In fact, now that I think about it, the whole thing makes sense that way. Heather's mother is a bitch and her father in ineffectual. They send her to a school, which is a replacement house with a REPLACEMENT MOTHER [we can't have Heather kill her own mother and still be our heroine]. She defeats the replacement mother, who was controlling her father through witchcraft [just as it may seem to Heather that her real mother uses her "witchcraft" to control her father]. The real mother dies, and her father now pays attention to her and respects her. A similar thing happens in the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
It was very good. There are very few CGI effects for the first hour [they go crazy in the last 15 minutes], and when they are used they are quite effective. I also liked that the witchcraft effects stayed very earthy and natural [trees, leaves, branches, stones], it just made it seemed a little more plausible. The performances throughout are good, especially Bruckner and Clarkson. The only complaint I might have is that it seemed a little easy and straightforward [and disappointingly physical] to kill the villain and set everything right. But since this movie exists mainly for the atmosphere and creeps along the way, one doesn't feel gypped. Here's to spookiness!
Yes, it's very well-done and spooky throughout.
MAY is the director's previous movie, a well-regarded horror film starring Angela Bettis. It's pretty good, but I found this to be a better film.


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Markets Hub: Europe's Markets Edge Up
European stocks tiptoed into positive territory, despite no fundamental changes in the European economy. This weekend, economic leaders will be discussing economic plans for Spain and possibly, Italy, Charles Forelle reports from Brussel. (Photo: Reuters.)
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... I ... it certainly will go and could chill Forelle in Europe ... when it goes on the subject of ... you know when new model for the economy ... the old model ... which is ... the European model does not appear to be working for Europe on director of ... the market thinking the US jobs numbers this morning ... why did the market are happy in Europe I'm a local data are happier than they had been it's been a very very bad week ... of the market here and to start adopted a rather poorly and am so will the to join the U S jobs report ... I am just now I think that a German index that fit into positive territory of French market up ... I'm a nice way for European policy makers who also are Italian Spanish equity market ... I'm hoping they're all little bit relieved a intimate ... beat the Europeans are heavily dependent on global growth ... I'm basically in big economies like Germany need to be strong growth ... everyone the wealth of other export the export balance ... out but you know Europe's fundamental problems still have not changed ... I Italian and Spanish ... ten year government illness door and six percent which is an extremely carrying more worrying level for people over to ... Charles let's turn to this weekend ... a few big shots in Europe are getting together what I'm talking about what might come out of the meeting that will affect the markets come Monday was a bit of a be all and stream of teleconferencing in the various vacationing European leaders ... um and ... that means your topic is going to be Edel ... I'm the and the European and struggled for the past several months to try to figure out a way ... I had to put in place some sort of backstop in case they needed that needed help ... and it got Morelia there that haven't ironed out all the D tells ... the don't know what to do that Italy there is no plan ... on if you know we need to make ... sure the systems from other euro zone countries and that it can be a key ... measure their attempt ... to try to make the rescue fund toward her tricky trouble few things that that that's been the top of the agenda for your ... readers as you say there is no Plan if Italy needs help I mean if you look at what's happening to Italian bonds right now it's been pretty much the same place in Greece was end when when it got its bailout ... that gives his big looking more more like a wait and see ... although Caborn seated then continue doing great on increased by one of them the Italian Treasury has a bunch of cash in reserve that will give it will buy it at least some time ... on you know the fundamentals are are looking at the ... time that Greece does not have wanted ran into trouble what's going ... on to their sometime for policymakers to work something that ... 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Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
after getting wrapped up in strawberry jam and person pitch for the last year or whatever, i've recently revisited this album and must say its fantastic! cant believe i forgot its brilliance...infant dressing table is so underrated.
what are your thoughts on this album? disappointing? dull? ridiculously overlooked?
I don't get the praise for it. Seems prima facie devoid of tunes or hooks. 'Spirit their gone...' is much better I think. 'Here comes the indian' may work best post doobie in the bath with headphones or something...
I think it's amazing
quite difficult to get into though at first, I remember. It's easy to just dwell within Strawberry Jam and Feels.
Animal Collective - best band around at the moment. Nothing around as artistically pure.
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I recently finished up a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat in Nepal. For the entirety of the course, I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone (except for the staff), write, listen to music, be in contact with the opposite sex, and most definitely use any electronics or internet. I sat and meditated for at least 10 hours every day, waking up at 4:00AM and ending at 9:00PM. It was the most difficult time I've had on this trip, and probably falls up there with one of the most mentally/physically strenuous 10 days of my life. All that being said, it was also by far one of the most focused and enlightening 10 days of my life.
To my understanding, Vipassana meditation is the technique that Buddha used to find enlightenment. It's not associated with any rites or rituals that pertain to any particular religion. You essentially sit for an extended period of time to observe the sensations that arise and pass throughout your body – whether it's a pulsing heartbeat, tingling, cold, itching, pain, etc. As your mind sharpens, the goal is to tune into the subtler sensations, to go deeper into the body (like the scalp vs the brain). With earnest persistence and discipline, the meditator experiences the two sources of misery at the deepest level of the mind-body connection: craving and aversion. My body and mind most DEFINITELY wanted to avoid and squirm out of the massive pain of sitting for an hour or two. However, the whole point of the meditation is to simply observe, remaining equanimous and impartial to whatever sensations arise, realizing that everything is impermanent.
For a few fleeting moments and minutes, I learned to understand pain and how to conquer it. Towards the end of the 10 days, I built up the discipline to sit for an entire day without changing my leg position across various 1-2 hour sessions. There always came a point in my meditation where my entire leg, thigh, butt, knee, hip would be either pulsing with sharp pain or devoid of blood circulation. Eventually, following along with the nightly lectures, I realized that I shouldn't turn my physical pain into mental suffering, that I should just watch my pain without any bias, without trying to get out of the pain. I felt victorious every time I was able to still and calm my mind despite immense amounts of pain. Strangely, I found it easier to focus when my body was in pain than when I was relatively relaxed.
Of course, it is meant to be a lifelong practice, and I am certainly no master of pain or pleasure in 10 short days. However, I feel like the awareness and impartiality that I am starting to develop with physical sensations is readily applicable to everyday life and its many challenges.
Even if I just sat in silence for 10 days and didn't meditate at all, it still would have been an amazing experience. In the absence of YouTube and music, I was surprised to find that my mind filled itself with movie scenes and old pop songs (J.Lo – Jenny From the Block was a common hit, as was 50 Cent, Eminem's last battle in 8 Mile, Monica – Angel of Mine, Shaggy – It Wasn't Me, and other songs that I listened to on a regular basis during puberty). But seriously, I had many epiphanies as a result of not having access to conversation, a keyboard, a touchscreen, headphones, and a general lack of alternatives to thinking to myself. I planned how to get my business off the ground, thought about past heartbreaks and insecurities, Kat and our relationship, my other relationships, my family, my childhood, how privileged I am, my ego and image, and many more things that I can't recall now. I gained a lot of clarity on why I am the way that I am, and who I want to be in the future.
As difficult as the course was at times, I highly recommend the course to anyone even slightly interested. It is an amazingly rare source of self-discovery and focus, and definitely one of the most impactful things I've ever experienced. And it's free! Vipassana centers all over the world (even some in Northern and Southern California) operate entirely out of donations and goodwill, and there's absolutely no pressure to donate if you're broke or backpacking on a budget. While I'm probably okay with not doing another course for a few months, I definitely plan on going back several times in my life.


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This is one of the few CBCs that is set almost entirely in an urban environment. The count circle does contain a few areas of undeveloped land that usually hold a few surprises since they are surround by development. It is possible to see up to 15 species of sparrows on this count, including the elusive Henslow's and Grasshopper Sparrows. Other "Special Birds" seen over the past several years have been: Hooded Merganser, American Bittern, Solitary Sandpiper, American Woodcock, Common Ground-Dove, Black Phoebe, Couch's Kingbird, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Spotted Towhee, Eastern Towhee, Rusty Blackbird, Purple Finch and Pine Siskin.There are two ways to participate: (1) Be a Field Observer – Join one of the teams in the field. (2) Be a Feeder/Yard Watcher – Because so much of the Buffalo Bayou CBC area is residential, Feeder Watchers (those who stay at home and observe their feeder, yard and/or neighborhood) are extremely important to the count and greatly increase the efficiency of the count by observing species that otherwise would not be seen, such as hummingbirds. For more information please visit houstonaudubon.org/birding/christmas-bird-counts.


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Remember to pay attention to details and follow your gut instinct. In addition, if you and your boyfriend haven't clearly discussed whether the two of you are both monogamous in your relationship, don't assume he has just "automatically" decided to be faithful to only you. Maybe in your cheating boyfriend's mind, your relationship isn't serious enough for him to consider being faithful yet. Make sure you are both clear on where you stand regarding fidelity in your relationship.
1. Lack of intimacy.
This doesn't always have to be in the form of sex. It can be a decline of touching, cuddling, holding hands or kissing.
2. He cheated on his old girlfriends.
If you can talk to some of his old girlfriends, by all means, do it. However, make sure to ask his ex-girlfriends in a kind and calm manner so they do not become defensive. A cheating boyfriend will usually repeat their behavior with their next girlfriend.
3. He avoids you.
A big sign of a cheating boyfriend is when he makes up all sorts of excuses as to why he can't be with you because he's spending time with his "other" girlfriend. If he has to work late, stay after school, is always with his friend's or co-workers more than usual, these could be the excuses your boyfriend is using to cover up his cheating ways.
4. He never answers his cell phone around you.
A way to tell if your boyfriend is cheating is if he always turns his ringer off around you or walks out of hearing distance from you. These are big red flags he may be cheating. If he receives calls at odd hours or speaks on the phone in a strange manner could also be signs he is cheating.
5. He is irritable or criticizes you more.
If your boyfriend's behavior suddenly changes, there is a possibility that he may be finding fault with you in order to justify his cheating in his mind. That way your cheating boyfriend can say you "drove" him away because of your supposed faults. The opposite of this behavior is being overly nice, giving gifts and being lovey-dovey because he wants to keep his cake (you) and eat it too (his other girlfriend).


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Do actual, physical newspapers have a place in the future?
Last week, the journalism club of Riverstone International School spent an hour at BWHQ and a similar question from one of the students prompted an interesting debate among staffers as the student audience looked on. One staffer gave the physical paper about a decade before extinction. Another was more generous with her estimation but didn't discount the idea that extinction may be on the horizon. Others hypothesized about some eventual "bottoming out" that may lead to a revival of the physical newspaper.
But we don't have any crystal balls. We're certainly not industry analysts, and even we don't put much stock into our predictions. We may not have the answers to the future, but we do have a philosophy regarding the present: We embrace the print world and the virtual world with equal enthusiasm. Will we have newspapers in the future? Who knows, but we have them now. And what about online news and the future? Who knows, but we have it now. We print a paper, and then we Facebook, we Twitter, we post stories at boiseweekly.com that never make it into the paper, we blog and we read lots of other blogs out there. Which brings me to this week's main feature. Greta Christina is a freelance writer and blogger out of San Francisco, and although she's published a handful of books, Christina's work lives largely in the digital world. In the blogosphere, specifically.
Printing what amounts to a blog entry as our main feature this week may sound ludicrous. Then again, maybe not. Christina's piece is an interview with blogger Mike Rogers, who is the voice behind blogactive.com and the blogger who first outed Sen. Larry Craig in October 2006. Earlier this year, Rogers starred in the documentary Outrage, in which he talked about his work to expose what he calls hypocrisy in government--top-ranking officials who work against gay rights while not exactly practicing what they preach when they go home at night. Craig features prominently in the interview, and we think you'll enjoy it. Even if it is little more than blogger-on-blogger action.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.Neil Gaiman
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.Neil Gaiman
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.Neil Gaiman
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.Neil Gaiman
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.Neil Gaiman
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.Neil Gaiman
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'Neil Gaiman
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.Neil Gaiman
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.Neil Gaiman
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.Neil Gaiman
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.Neil Gaiman
I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.Neil Gaiman
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.Neil Gaiman
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.Neil Gaiman
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.Neil Gaiman
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.Neil Gaiman
When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.Neil Gaiman
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.Neil Gaiman
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Online Games - QWERTY Warriors
Pretty cool game that The Boy found this morning - QWERTY Warriors. You have to shoot the enemy by typing the word beneath them and firing. It certainly builds your typing skills. I scored 59350 on medium.
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Today I can feel myself peeking through the dark shroud that currently surrounds me. This may well be largely due to seeing my amazing counsellor yesterday.
My counsellor is the kind who doesn't pull his punches and I have been his patient for about 9 years on and off. Funnily enough when I first starting seeing him I wasn't anywhere near as bad as I am now, which is one of the curious things with PTSD. It has a kind of delayed onset. Back then I was seeing him predominantly for depression.
One of the first things he ever said to me that had a huge impact was to 'get a life'. Some may think that is a bit offense coming from a therapist but he wasn't being mean. I was living vicariously through my sons and he was telling me to live my own life. It was after a few sessions with him that I started at TAFE (like community college, for those not in Australia) and filed charges against my abuser. That's right, I originally filed 9 years ago. That is how long the system took.
I see my therapist about once a month and I am lucky that I don't have to pay for the service. I probably wouldn't be able to afford to even have therapy otherwise, which would frankly be a disaster for my family. When I'm having a rough time I will count the days until the next appointment. I then spend an hour spewing out thoughts and feelings and events and everything. He gets told the things that I can't tell anyone else. It's not that I don't talk to my partner, but there are things he doesn't need to know, and doesn't want to know, about my past.
My partner's anger towards my abuser is a palpable thing. He finds it really hard sometimes. I don't blame him, I find it really hard. But he supports me so much. He does his best to be understanding of me and my moods. I find it hard to live with myself so I can only imagine what it is like for those around me.
I wasn't this bad a few years ago. Looking back I can see that things really took a turn for the worst when my best friend died from a drug overdose. She had been abused by my abuser as well. She had joined me when I pressed charges. I lived in a fog for a year after she died, a fog compounded by the suicide of one of my kids' friends and one of my doctors, the murder of an online friend and the death of a long time family friend all in a short space of time. At the point all this hit I was a relatively successful artisan selling online with lots of drive and motivation. In less than a year that all changed.
My business pretty much went into hiatus, my mojo went on an extended vacation and all the old demons came back. The biggest difference was that I wasn't dissociating anywhere near as much as I used to, which meant I felt the pain a lot more and found it a lot harder to deal with. Around the same time we started to have some serious issues with one of our sons, issues that led to a lot of tension and unpleasantness.
So fast forward to now and I am at a standstill, encased in a shroud of darkness where the moments of joy, lightness and sunshine are rare and beautiful things. No longer are day to day things trivial. Every moment that you feel 'ok' is a big deal, because they don't last very long.
People think it is amusing when someone says 'well I got dressed today'. For someone with severe PTSD/depression/anxiety this is a major achievement some days. Hell, getting out of bed is a freaking miracle. It is not unknown for me to spend more than 20 hours in bed, only getting up to pee and maybe find something to eat, preferably chocolate.
We have codes in our house now. If I end up 'in the closet', then I have reached meltdown point. I literally sit inside our walk-in robe in the dark, often rocking back and forth and howling. It is a good month if I don't end up in the closet. It is a great month if I don't even come close to that. I've had two months of no closet time. I've come close a few times, but frankly my partner has caught me before I fell. So instead of going in the closet I just lay in bed and howled and then slept. That is usually the step after the closet.. so I will take it as progress.
Our other code is my ipod. If I have my ipod plugs in my ears then I am wordlessly telling everyone that I am not coping. This happens a lot if the house gets noisy (not unusual with 4 kids at home). Too much noise means anxiety, my filter doesn't work so well these days. So I drown it out with music. I'll often be on the computer whilst wearing the ipod. It's like I don't want to deal with everything, but I also don't want to be shut away in the bedroom.
The last code is the bedroom door. I will often go and sit in bed and watch Dr Who or cakey shows (my daughter's term for shows like Cake Boss and ChoccyWoccyDooDah). If I leave the door open I am 'still available', if the door is shut it means 'fuck off'.
6 year olds don't do codes and my daughter will ignore all indicators that mum is in a bad place. But I don't yell at her, I usually give her a hug and she curls up next to me and we watch tv together. My illness is not her fault, or her problem. It is hard to be a parent and be mentally ill. In fact some think you cannot be both. I know people who have had kids taken away because they are ill. I'm lucky I have a support (my partner and my mum), but frankly without my kids I would be worse. They are proof that I can do great things.
Well, that was a huge ramble. Today is actually a pretty good day, even if I have only had a few hours of sleep. I'm the kind of tired that hurts, but my mind feels 'ok' today. I will make the most of it.
Welcome to Being Blossom. The purpose of this blog is for me to tell my story. Parts of my story are upsetting and may not be for everyone. The background story is unlikely to be in chronological order. I will also being opening up on my journey through PTSD/anxiety/depression. This will hopefully be a cathartic exercise for me and help me gain back some control over my life. I welcome comments, but please be respectful.
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Message from the Artist: ...to celebrate devotion despite the weather: social weather, mental weather, emotional weather, nature's weather... come storm, rain, sun or sadness: they are here for each other....(read more)
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Message from the Artist: Fresh and abundant, dewy and growing - like the folded petals of a tender rose. We choose to create beauty for those around us, we create food, we create life. We manifest time when we stop and take in the moments. The 15th painting in the Kindred Collection.
Message from the Artist: Busy… too BUSY... That word has really bugged me for years. We definitely find ourselves caught up in lots of activities, work and responsibilities, but should we ever be too busy to connect with those we love? When Grandma is gone, will we regret... (read more)
Message from the Artist: They are vulnerable in their skin, but close together and connected by intimacy. They belong. Tucked within a warm and benign world, their world. I have had the word "Belonging" written on my easel for almost a year, knowing that the perfect piece to fit that name would come along, and here she is.
Message from the Artist: May we find a bit of clarity if only for a few minutes, before noticing and acknowledging our thoughts and feelings. No need to make them go away, they just want to be recognized. And when we surround ourselves with the most beautiful souls, we can teach peace, and find tranquility together.
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The 4th Alabama Manufacture's Shootout, also know as AMS 4.0, was held in Cullman, Alabama last weekend. AMS is always known to be a big race, and this year was no let-down with about 580 entries. The AKA team was well represented with the likes of Tebo, Pavidis, Lutz, and many more. Pro Buggy qualifying was dominated by AKA with Tebo taking the first two round and Lutz grabbing the top spot in round 3. Tebo started on pole of the 45-minute main with his pair of TQ runs followed by AKA teammates, Lutz (2nd), Pavidis (5th), and the up and comer Dylan Gerard (12th).
Tebo let the TQ advantage slip away a few laps into the main, but he quickly regained his composure to get back into the lead pack with Lutz and Adam Drake. After 30 laps of battling the field started to spread out with Tebo out front and Lutz in tow. At the end of 45-minutes, Tebo would hold on for the win, Lutz finishing 2nd, Dylan Gerard with a very respectable 6th place finish, and Pavidis 8th. All four AKA drivers chose Soft Impacts. Red Inserts, and EVO Wheels for the main.
When it comes to 4wd SC, Ryan Lutz is always in contention for the win. This held true all weekend where Lutz would put on a show for the masses. Ryan took top honors for all 3 rounds of qualifying and lead every lap in both A1 and A2 to take the overall win. AKA teammate, Pres Ilog, finished on the podium with a 4th overall. Lutz was running Soft Enduro 2's with Wide Red Inserts and Ilog ran Super Soft Gridirons with Red Inserts.
Jonny Johnson made the trek from Arizona to compete at AMS. He was laying it down in Open truggy taking the TQ with a couple fast runs. In the 30-minute main Jonny was able to hold off Austin Hughes and Mike Santana from their charges for the lead. At the halfway point it was smooth sailing for Johnson as he walked away with the win, just a few seconds shy of lapping the field. Jonny ran Super Soft EVO Impacts, Red Truggy Inserts, and EVO Wheels for the main.


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SUN - a voice for registered nurses
Special to the Leader Post - Tracy Zambory, SUN President.
When people think of registered nurses, words like "caring" and "compassion" are often the first things that come to mind. There is no arguing there are those innate and unique qualities that cannot be taught, but what many people forget or are unaware of is that registered nursing is also a science.
The knowledge and skills registered nurses possess have been acquired through extensive education and clinical experience, and truly do make the difference in life or death situations. The fact is, research shows registered nurses save lives.
This statement may sound overly simplistic, but, in reality, it sums up a wealth of conclusive evidence linking registered nurses with better patient care and improved outcomes. Greater registered nurse staffing is associated with shorter hospital stays, a decreased risk of hospital-acquired infections and complications, and reduced hospital death rates.
All the evidence points to Saskatchewan's registered nursing workforce being a foundational pillar of our health care system and critical to ensuring our province's patients and their families are receiving the safest, highest quality of care possible. It's clear that if we start to erode the numbers of frontline registered nurses in spite of this evidence we begin to weaken our health care system at its very foundation and in the long run, patients will suffer.
Unfortunately, however, this is a trend we are starting to see as regional health authorities scramble to meet growing budgetary pressures.
There is no question that we are being forced to do more with less. Meeting the demands of our growing and aging population, who have increasingly complex medical needs requiring more of the system and those who work in it, has become a constant challenge. We certainly are at risk of falling behind, and in many respects we already have.
Transformation is not optional and, in fact, in Saskatchewan, our health care system has almost become synonymous with the term. Change is a good thing, as long we always look at the "big picture" and make decisions that are both economically viable and sustainable. And, most importantly, patient-and family-centred care must always take precedence over the bottom line.
There is no single answer to address these challenges, but one thing is certain, our province's registered nursing workforce must be at the forefront of change. It is one of Saskatchewan's greatest health care resources and cannot be lost or replaced in the midst of system-wide transformation.
A substantial body of evidence points to the need for a long-term strategy to recruit and retain a healthy registered nurse workforce in every corner of the province. This will ensure we are delivering the highest standards of patient care. Some may think such a strategy is unsustainable, and equate increased registered nurse staffing with soaring costs, but research is consistently telling us the contrary.
In fact, a higher proportion of registered nurses is arguably the best way to bend the cost curve and run a safe and effective health care system.
Appropriate registered nurse staffing can prevent adverse events that would prolong a patient's hospital stay. It would also ease excessive workload pressures, allowing registered nurses to practice to their full scope of knowledge and expertise, resulting in better, safer care and ultimately lower patient resource consumption.
What this all means in the long-run is medical cost savings, improved productivity, and lives saved.
In our province, the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) represents almost 9,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioners). The union plays an important role in Saskatchewan's health care system, giving registered nurses a greater voice in the workplace so they can confidently be a voice for the patients and families they care for.
SUN promotes higher quality patient care by advocating for better working conditions and registered nurse staffing levels that are in line with what research points to as safest for patients. Registered nurses rely on the work their union performs on their behalf - it empowers them to work to their full potential and to realize their passion for helping others, which, at the end of the day, is the sole reason they do what they do. Registered nurses wouldn't settle for anything less and neither should the people of Saskatchewan.
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Thanks to the hard working peeps at Wibsite I can now insert photos again (Thanks guys!) So here's a photo of the lovely blue bead that I have won as part of One World One Heart.
And here (as promised) is Mr D (Cub Reporter)'s first article from the paper. Woo-hoo!
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December 18, 2011
All week I looked for my camera. It is probably a good thing it took me so long to figure out in which safe place I'd left it. If I'd found it sooner, perhaps after the first knitted gift was finished this past week, I might have taken a full shot of it, a spoiler, indeed. Looking everywhere, over and over again, gave me time to cool my ardor. I love this little pattern. Knitting it is a bit like that chips commercial , after one, you need another. By the time I finaly looked in the toe of the hiking shoes that I'd left in on the floor of the car I'd finished three. Safe places, indeed!
I've posted details on my Ravelry project page. The details should be safe there. The recipients don't ravel. I've added another to the stack since this picture was taken Friday. It's a rusty red and it is mine!
Seriously, this project is a quick knit, using an aran wt. yarn and #8 needles. If you are still searching for a pattern, suitable for a girl, that you can finish in time for Christmas, look no further. One skein of my Breckenridge makes two. The one on top, in Forest, was leftover from another project.
The colder temps this morning, gave the perfect excuse to try one out. I've been trying to manage a three mile hike through the woods everyday. When I'd gone a mile and warmed up enough that I didn't need this little gem, I found it to be the perfect size to roll up and stuff into my pocket.


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'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds' - Bob Marley - Redemption song
Saturday, 28 July 2012
So fucking confusing is this dilemma you are facing, the complications and cravings are even worse than basing. One fucking hit and all your hard work goes down the drain, and your life returns to misery and pain. How the fuck does this shit in any way make sense, the only thing im sure of is that it leaves you so fucking tense. You know what happens if this one single bad choice you make yet unconciously you make a choice your sober streak to break...
I know that other people think you are fucked up, stupid and wasted, to go back to all this pain and misery youve tasted. Yet when then somthing inside you gets a hold of your personality, and this motherfucker just cant let you be. No it has to give you a push right back into the abyss - and of all your hard work it has to take thw piss. I wonder if there is a 'right way' to get it right to quit? And if there is god dammit when will i find it???
'As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.'
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All of a sudden your T-Mobile SideKick doesn't send e-mails with the POP3 setup? Yeah … That's bad, T-Mobile support has a quick fix, though. Plus everything else about the SideKick works so well … I guess this is a minor rant. What to do? You have to delete your account that is not working. Then set it up again. You might want to write down your settings for the account before you delete.
Here's the play-by-play: In e-mail mode where you see the list of e-mails, with the inbox, etc.; pull your menu down to Settings: Accounts. You will see a list of all of your accounts that you POPPED. Go to the little troublemaker account with the scroll wheel, then click that DIAMOND (upper left button) to get the menu pulled down again. Hit the DISCARD command. Then go back and create a new account and re-enter your tech stuff for the account.
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seems like the next logical step in the current series of threads on laughable prog bands
anyone like them? they feature heavily in at least one Judd Apatow film, which probably says something, although I'm not sure what exactly
lampooned on Futurama.
when Fry was back in the 80s or something
he had a RUSH mixtape
2112 (the song is amazing) and worth their existence,
the rest of their back catalogue, not so much.
the nerve!
will listen to it later, see if it's terrible or not
longer than that.........21 minutes and 12 seconds long!
You'll love it, then embark on a Rush odyssey, wasting loads of time, before coming back to this one song! Whatever happens, don't be tempted to look up anything else and you'll be fine.
never understood the love for 2112
it's goofy as shit. I'd say the album's second half is better, but still not their best.
again, despite awful prog nerd tendencies
i can't even grasp what people like about this bandmonoshono this'd this
adored them in my teens
and still have a massive soft spot for them, particularly their super naff synth-driven stuff from the mid eighties
Wasn't an Apatow film
Was I Love You, Man which is actually pretty good.
oh dear I didn't research that very well
just assumed since it had Paul Rudd and Jason Segal that Judd Apatow had some involvement
still, it's basically the same.... the reference to Judd Apatow is more of genre signifier than ... uh fact. yep. and yeah I did actually really enjoy it
although I'm sure there are references to them in proper Apatow stuff as well? I dunno. maybe in Freaks and Geeks?
Jason Segal's character in Freaks and Geeks loved Rush
I assume his I Love You Man character is a big reference to thatJaguarPirate this'd this
Limelight, Red Barchetta and Freewill are all awesome
so, you know, shut upPuds this'd this
I don't think I know anybody who doesn't like rush. moving pictures, permanent waves, signals, that's the era for me.....fellover and Silentcommand this'd this
what are you guy's fav rush songs/?
I've heard Tom Sawyer and that's pretty much it
I pretty much like most of everything they did from Rush up to Power Windows.
They did go a bit shit after that. Moving Pictures is one of the best albums ever made.
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Great bunch of lads, Rush
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Not the biggest fan, but the new album was pretty good.
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Also it's been said, but Moving Pictures is an excellent album.
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I like a bit of their albums, but I've always thought they were pretty hit or miss as a whole and their post-Moving Pictures 80s material was pretty forgettable.
The Tom Sawyer synth hook
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Machine Head - 'Unto The Locust' (roadrunner) 4.5/5
So has the wait been worth it? Well on first play through I think I can say that it has. There are only seven songs on off here, but one exception they all weigh in at around or over the six thirty mark giving a total album play time of around fifty minutes, and not one of those minutes is wasted. Every second is used to showcase what a versatile outfit Machine Head really are. We get some fine slices of old school thrash, tasty chunks of meaty death metal, some very interesting almost progressive moments, even snatches of classically influenced guitar work and folk rock interludes.
From the opening bars of I Am Hell (Sonata In C#) with its neo-classical motifs, to the closing climax of Who We Are with its children's choir and huge stadium metal chorus that resolves into a distant and plaintiff string quartet, there isn't really a weak moment on show; but if I have to pick a fave track on offer then it has to be Pearls Before Swine with its old school thrash riffage and razor cut guitar solos.
Overall I'm very impressed with 'Unto The Locust', I wouldn't go as far as saying its the best album of the year, but its up there with them. Very Highly Recommended.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
persistance, diligence, perseverance, tenacious, commitment, and....dedication.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
A Light at the End of Our Tunnel
Being poor can really suck. For the last few years, we have been working to pay off credit accounts, fearful of layoff, and frankly extra money for the simplest of things has not been there for us. As payments on the bills have gone down, we still needed to hold onto anything extra, just in case.
Starting in September, my social security begins. It will supplement my pension and take a huge burden off both of us. Let me describe just what that means. Ordinarily we stayed home, watching a movie on television. Perhaps a trip to a local park, but careful on the gas usage. Our meals were things that could be made to stretch the food dollar. Just recently we went to a movie. It was the first one we had attended in years. Next month we are going to Renaissance Fair. We could not afford it before and both of us are giddy by the prospect of going. Even before the first check has arrived, there is a lightness in our step and a discernible shift in our attitudes. In some ways this apartment had become like a prison to us. Ironic that it will be only our second Renfest together. We will go in September, exactly ten years since we attended our first. It was only our second date, and by the end of the day, we knew we were going to be a couple for the rest of our lives.
Now much of the new income is spoken for. A sizable piece goes to paying off the remaining credit card bills. A good hunk goes into savings. But there is some allocated for good old fashioned play. Is it an accident that both of us are dieting now? I'm not sure but what there is a correlation. We will need energy to get about and live an active lifestyle again. Just today we were laughing and chattering back and forth in a way that we really haven't for awhile.
As I reflect on our experience, I think of how fortunate we are. She had a job and I have a pension. I supply the health care through my retirement for both of us. What of those who are losing their homes, their jobs, their insurance? How about those souls out on the streets homeless? By the standards of much of the world, we are quite wealthy, victim as with many of pursuing credit as a means of instant gratification. Yet the gratification we are feeling now is the liberation from those "corporate ties." If the American economy depends on credit, I'm afraid I'll have to let them down. I was ready to make this journey years ago. Now Robin is on board too.
Of course there is always the chance she could get laid off. Then it would be tight for us again. But now we have begun to build resources to weather that possibility.
So my word for today is gratitude. Perhaps hope is another. Today, life is good, and I am smiling.
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