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Monday, November 14, 2011
"The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation." --Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Today Is GONNA Get Better, I Claim It In The Name of #Jesus!
My day started out an hour too early with my 31MO grandson retching in bed next to me. (Since hubby works nights, often I will waken to find little Leelan in Pete's spot, where he climbs in while I'm sleeping.) Thankfully, at some point during the night he had "that" cough, with a bit of a gag to it, so I got up and brought a towel to bed...just in case. At that time my lower back was sore but I thought with more rest it would be ok by morning. (I probably didn't blog this, but I spent half the night in the ER, unable to move due to EXTREME pain and spasms in my lower back from arthritis a couple of weeks ago. I was sent home with strong drugs, and still have a few left...)
An hour before my alarm went off, I woke again to "Ugma, HELP ME!" "UGMAAAA!" I grabbed the towel and rolled over in the nick of time to catch it - an entire, unchewed and undigested, 6" long string bean from dinner last night. Thankful that problem was solved, I tried to get out of bed...Let's just say I was also thankful that the closet is about 2' from the side of my bed - able to grab the wall to pull myself painfully up...unfortunately my walker is in the car since I don't usually need it so much in the house (there's something within reach almost everywhere)...but standing from the toilet there's nothing to grab. Still, I made it up, painfully, and even managed the 4 steps to the back door to let the dogs out.
Well, 2 of the dogs at least... Little chi-mix Curly, Pete's precious pet who has no use for me, wouldn't come. After letting the other 2 out the back door, I hobbled back up and to the living room to call Curly again, and this time he followed me. I gingerly got back down the steps, opened the door for him - and Pharaoh and Bing ran back in...followed by Curly! Fed the cat (he eats in the music room, which doubles as his room), and when Curly went into the sunroom I blocked him in there so he wouldn't potty in the house (which he probably already has during the night somewhere, I just haven't found it yet, and couldn't manage it right now anyway).
Meanwhile precious grandson is crying to be picked up (no can do baby, sorry :(...) so I got him cozy in Umpa's recliner (Umpa Pete is still at work, with our only vehicle which also has my walker in it, and is sick and miserable with a respiratory bug, my sweet Petey for whom I would do anything in the world!)...his favorite Booples video playing, and I've got a percocet and half a valium on board, hoping that will nip this back thing in the bud! Now that everyone else is settled - such as it is - I will put an ice pack on my back and wait for the blessed relief that I have faith is soon coming! Lots to do today, got a little boy to play with and dress and feed and do his ABCMouse "lessons" (to him it's all play and he LOVES it!), a sick hubby who will be getting his much-needed rest since he works all night and needs to get better - and who will have a 12-hour shift tonight - dishes to do, food to prepare...at the minimum. Today was going to be laundry day and am hoping I can still do it before we run out of undies - lol - but if not there is always tomorrow!
(Did I mention that during the night I developed a fever and a sore throat and a cough? Looks like I'm catching what Pete has...)
So...just waiting now, but thankful Leelan is happy with his video and it will keep him occupied for a while, my Petey - and my walker - will be home soon, the drugs will do what they're supposed to do without knocking me for a loop (I'll also be taking bug calls today), and all will be well in my world :). I'm everso thankful that Jesus is next to me, with His Spirit within me and enabling me...even though I'm here in the world and afflicted with the world's issues in this temporary flawed body, I can't even imagine getting through it all without Him and His strength!
An hour before my alarm went off, I woke again to "Ugma, HELP ME!"
Well, 2 of the dogs at least... Little chi-mix Curly, Pete's precious pet who has no use for me, wouldn't come. After letting the other 2 out the back door, I hobbled back up and to the living room to call Curly again, and this time he followed me. I gingerly got back down the steps, opened the door for him - and Pharaoh and Bing ran back in...followed by Curly! Fed the cat (he eats in the music room, which doubles as his room), and when Curly went into the sunroom I blocked him in there so he wouldn't potty in the house (which he probably already has during the night somewhere, I just haven't found it yet, and couldn't manage it right now anyway).
Meanwhile precious grandson is crying to be picked up (no can do baby, sorry :(...) so I got him cozy in Umpa's recliner (Umpa Pete is still at work, with our only vehicle which also has my walker in it, and is sick and miserable with a respiratory bug, my sweet Petey for whom I would do anything in the world!)...his favorite Booples video playing, and I've got a percocet and half a valium on board, hoping that will nip this back thing in the bud! Now that everyone else is settled - such as it is - I will put an ice pack on my back and wait for the blessed relief that I have faith is soon coming! Lots to do today, got a little boy to play with and dress and feed and do his ABCMouse "lessons" (to him it's all play and he LOVES it!), a sick hubby who will be getting his much-needed rest since he works all night and needs to get better - and who will have a 12-hour shift tonight - dishes to do, food to prepare...at the minimum. Today was going to be laundry day and am hoping I can still do it before we run out of undies - lol - but if not there is always tomorrow!
(Did I mention that during the night I developed a fever and a sore throat and a cough? Looks like I'm catching what Pete has...)
So...just waiting now, but thankful Leelan is happy with his video and it will keep him occupied for a while, my Petey - and my walker - will be home soon, the drugs will do what they're supposed to do without knocking me for a loop (I'll also be taking bug calls today), and all will be well in my world :). I'm everso thankful that Jesus is next to me, with His Spirit within me and enabling me...even though I'm here in the world and afflicted with the world's issues in this temporary flawed body, I can't even imagine getting through it all without Him and His strength!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Being Online, #Twitter, #Facebook, #YouTube, #Blogs, and all that...
You know, I used to love getting online, couldn't wait to catch up with my friends on Facebook every morning while I had my coffee...again at lunchtime...then during an afternoon break...in the evening while I wound down for the night... Now I have to force myself to go there. Oh, it isn't my friends, I still like to catch up with them! But it's no longer worth the effort. When I sign on I have to click all those little blue triangles to remove all the top stories. Then as I attempt to scroll down to see what's left, I am constantly interrupted by pinterest-like photos and posters - so many that there are more of those than of actual newsy posts by my friends! I hide them all, they irritate the heck out of me, if I wanted a half-dozen copies of each of a hundred cutesy sayings in graphic form cluttering up my wall, I'd have just joined pinterest! By that time I've caught up with the news from SOME of my friends - the ones that Facebook deems important enough for me to see easily - and I now have to go to my "Everyone" list that I had to make just so that I could see what's going on with everybody else. By the time I scan that (and since I can't hide the freakin' graphics on a list page I have to visually pick out the updates from the graphic flotsam and jetsam) and go back to my FB wall, there's a whole new crop of top stories and graphics junk littering the place! All that work leaves me no time to post my own updates or comment on others' updates, and I've wasted all of my FB time on just housekeeping. So most of the time, I don't even bother with FB anymore - once a day of frustration and wasted online time is more than enough for me, and I only endure it because I truly love the friends and family that I connect with there.
Meanwhile, Twitter remains neat and clean and simple. I scroll down a list and see what's new with my tweeps, comment on their posts, share my own updates, thank my new followers, post some personal notes, check the twitter pages of a few "favorite" tweeple, and I'm done in a matter of minutes, off to the next thing in my day. No muss, no fuss.
Since I've grown to dislike FB so much I've been spending more of my online time at YouTube. I have never seen before that there is a real community there, as I used to just go watch random videos. But I've discovered vlogs and, even though I only follow 3 of them, they are very satisfying to me. I've grown to care about these 3 people, pray for them, and someday may even learn to vlog myself! Again, what you see is what you get, the relationships forged there can be very satisfying (as the vloggers point out), and it's simple to get to what you want without a whole lot of junk getting in the way or wasting my time.
I have always enjoyed blogs. I subscribe to a whole heap of them on Google Reader. I rarely read blogs on the computer, but when I have down time (ie, falling asleep at night, in a waiting room at the doctor's, waiting for the final spin cycle to complete, whatever) I open my gReader app and catch up on a few. Oh, I'm never completely caught up, but always make sure I start with my favorites and work from there. (In ideal world I would only subscribe to my favorite blogs, but sometimes I click that RSS button when I get caught up in the excitement of the moment - lol.)
(Where does email fall into all of this? I check it first thing, every time I get online, do my replies or file away the info, and then move onto the rest. But I've left almost all of my yahoogroups - probably a year ago - and my email load has been reduced by about 90%, so it isn't as significant, time-wise.)
I can't, and don't want to, let my online time take over my life. During the busy seasons when I'm at my computer taking bug calls anyway, I spend a little more time doing social online things during business hours, between calls. The rest of the year I have many other things to do besides sit at my computer (as I did the last few years when I was too sick to live a "real" life most of the time); when I am here, my time has to count. Not be wasted by a bunch of useless housekeeping tasks, but really communicate and interact with other people, or research and learn, or be blessed or be a blessing. The internet is an adjunct to my "real life", not a replacement for it, and for me it's all about the people.
Meanwhile, Twitter remains neat and clean and simple. I scroll down a list and see what's new with my tweeps, comment on their posts, share my own updates, thank my new followers, post some personal notes, check the twitter pages of a few "favorite" tweeple, and I'm done in a matter of minutes, off to the next thing in my day. No muss, no fuss.
Since I've grown to dislike FB so much I've been spending more of my online time at YouTube. I have never seen before that there is a real community there, as I used to just go watch random videos. But I've discovered vlogs and, even though I only follow 3 of them, they are very satisfying to me. I've grown to care about these 3 people, pray for them, and someday may even learn to vlog myself! Again, what you see is what you get, the relationships forged there can be very satisfying (as the vloggers point out), and it's simple to get to what you want without a whole lot of junk getting in the way or wasting my time.
I have always enjoyed blogs. I subscribe to a whole heap of them on Google Reader. I rarely read blogs on the computer, but when I have down time (ie, falling asleep at night, in a waiting room at the doctor's, waiting for the final spin cycle to complete, whatever) I open my gReader app and catch up on a few. Oh, I'm never completely caught up, but always make sure I start with my favorites and work from there. (In ideal world I would only subscribe to my favorite blogs, but sometimes I click that RSS button when I get caught up in the excitement of the moment - lol.)
(Where does email fall into all of this? I check it first thing, every time I get online, do my replies or file away the info, and then move onto the rest. But I've left almost all of my yahoogroups - probably a year ago - and my email load has been reduced by about 90%, so it isn't as significant, time-wise.)
I can't, and don't want to, let my online time take over my life. During the busy seasons when I'm at my computer taking bug calls anyway, I spend a little more time doing social online things during business hours, between calls. The rest of the year I have many other things to do besides sit at my computer (as I did the last few years when I was too sick to live a "real" life most of the time); when I am here, my time has to count. Not be wasted by a bunch of useless housekeeping tasks, but really communicate and interact with other people, or research and learn, or be blessed or be a blessing. The internet is an adjunct to my "real life", not a replacement for it, and for me it's all about the people.
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