Maybe I should plan some visits now. Are plastic cutlasses and pirate eye-patches still cool at college dorms? Maybe times have moved on. Maybe I should look for something different. Something cooler. Nah. What's cooler than pirates? They even have songs! Totally going to dress up as a pirate and go kidnap my kiddo for a day. After that, who knows? Do they still sell Wonder Woman under-roos? I bet you can get them on Ebay. Ebay has everything.
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( 0 / 0 )I don't suppose there's really any shock that I haven't updated for a while at this point. I've had a proclivity for sporadic postings in the past. All the same, I'm back again. Finally finished up all the physical therapy my insurance would cover. Don't get me started on my opinion of insurance verses my therapist and doctor deciding when I am well enough. As you might expect, I'm quite grumpy about it all. Of course, practically right after that was all said and done, I would have to come up with pneumonia. On Christmas, yet. That cough sure hangs around a while. Since my deductible is all paid up, I also went in and took care of a few minor issues during the past months. Nothing to really get excited about, just some advice on how to deal with how the skin on my feet really seems to be awfully dry during the last couple of winters and some other, equally earth-shattering issues.
Here is hopeful this post finds everyone who reads it enjoying a winter full of good health and happiness. Seems we've made it into 2012 ok, although now I read the Mayan calendar ends the END of 2012, and not the beginning. I'm not sure if the distinction came before or after the world failed to end as we rang in the new year. I guess one thing about it, if they just keep predicting the end of the world, sooner or later someone will probably get it right.
Speaking of things I am rather tired of hearing about, who else does not care what Casey Anthony is doing now? Yeah, yeah, I get that lots of folks don't like she wasn't found guilty and immediately strung up in the courtroom. Over is over, people, it isn't like she's doing so hot as I think the last I heard was she's on probation wherever it is she's at now. Lets just let her finish destroying her life in peace and move on people.
Hm. You'd think after so long of not writing, I would have more to say here. Overall, life is just busy being life for me recently, and I don't think most are even as interested in what that means for me as they are in whatever ol' Casey is up to these days. I'll just leave it with a wish for everyone is enjoying a happy and healthy New Year.
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( 3 / 25 )Some of you may be wondering why no blog postings for a while now. At first, I was just busy with summer family activities and my new hobby of competitive couponing. I'm not sure how many of you are also aware my arm was injured in a fall back in July. At first, pain really kept me from enjoying a lot of the activities I'd been used to. It was determined physical therapy was the best solution for my problems with my arm, and I was really pleased to find the physical therapist was able to reduce my pain significantly right away. Unfortunately for my blog, my further grueling schedule of physical therapy has kept me from picking up where I left off. On top of all the time spent on appointments, home exercises, and miscellany related directly to the physical therapy, I have found the work much more tiring than one would think, given the simplicity of the exercise.
For anyone wondering, it doesn't seem like physical therapy is quite what people think it is. At least not entirely. What I mean is, I think most people expect it to be hard work and potentially uncomfortable. One of the things I didn't realize is how much of a goal relief from pain is in the process. I have also found the ability of my therapist to target specifics nigh on uncanny. I am not sure I can explain it well, but the degree to which she can specialize each activity around a very small target if she so chooses is no less amazing than if she were able to touch a section of a muscle with a magic wand and make it do exactly as she intends. Since my problem is based in the muscular, she has been able to progress my healing step-by-step as she wishes from this ability to an uncanny degree. Other than that, the most shocking realization for me has been how tiring the seemingly simple exercises she prescribes have proved for me. Despite that, I'm getting better fast. Look out world!
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( 2.9 / 98 )Just a few days ago, I joined my friends from Norway watching footage posted on the web of events near their home resulting in the deaths of nearly 100 people. We cried together over the senselessness of the deaths. We mourned together the loss of innocence of an entire country's entire youth. We commiserated after one got the news a friend's younger sister and a distant cousin were some of the young lives cut off too short. I related that a friend's older brother and a good friend of mine from college were killed in the twin towers. Another college friend survived because he was stopped to pick up donuts for his office. Then I see this:
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If that's Christianity, please don't ever associate me with it was my first thought. Of course, I don't believe Jesus wants anything to do with that, either. What sane person with a heart would? All the same, never call me Christian ever. I don't want anyone anywhere to think I have ever had a thought anything like any of those. From today forward, "Christian" is just another word for "shame" in my book.
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( 2.8 / 97 )These are the rules for use of a vehicle we're giving to the daughter. Comments welcomed.
It has come to my attention you'd like a car and the freedom to use it. Here are the steps you will need to take.
1. Learn and demonstrate an ability to find your way around town.
2. Learn and demonstrate an ability to drive cross country where necessary on rural roads.
3. Give us advance notice of where you expect to go whenever possible. For a trip to the local grocery, five minutes is sufficient. For a longer trip, say to the next county, generally 24 hours would be the minimum to allow time for any necessary maintenance to be done.
4. Should there be a change of plans, an immediate call to let us know is required. In many cases a simple text message would also suffice. Example: Left for grocery, ran into friend and want to go shopping with them at a nearby shop for half an hour. A text is sufficient unless you were picking up groceries needed for that day's meal. Then please drop the groceries off first, thanks! Example 2: Left for shopping at the mall for an hour. Run into friend and want to go to a movie which starts over an hour hence. Please call. Unless there is something pressing such as homework this should be no problem, but I'd like to make sure you have sufficient funds, etc.
5. It is expected no one will be permitted to drive the Explorer other than yourself or specified adults where necessary.
6. Demonstrate an ability to handle minor maintenance and usage issues. This means you need to demonstrate ability to know the car needs fuel, fuel up the car, clean the windshield, check the lights are working, put air in a tire if needed, and change a tire if required.
7. Demonstrate the maturity to speak responsibly and respectfully with your elders. Responsible, mature, respectful adults do not relay messages through friends or refuse to answer calls. Should an incident of this nature occur during the demonstration process or after full independent use of the car has been earned, keys will be surrendered for a period not to exceed one week at the discretion of the disrespected party or parties.
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