08 Nov 2007, 6:35 pm
Thanks for the concern Blessedmom.I hope that didnt sound like a lecture,lol.I have thought this out and just wanted to share my "reasoning".I am having the BF keep an eye on me(when ever he isn't on the internet,plunking his guitar,watching the news).Actually he probably wont notice until I come home with 10 cats from the shelter or start wearing make-up and high-heels.Then I am sure he will rush me to the ER. 
Have fun at work(that is possible,right?)
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08 Nov 2007, 7:08 pm
Just lurking. 
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08 Nov 2007, 9:51 pm
Shiva H. Vishnu! I'll stop complaining about the rain now.
This sounds like just the issue that could be addressed by the co-operative/credit union movement. I don't know how widespread that philosophy is in the USA, though.
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08 Nov 2007, 10:21 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/08/homele ... index.html
It is sad, isn't it.
I do have to say something about this article, though. I paid more than 80% {yes, eighty} of my income for housing for many, many years, and more than 60% until just very recently.
Housing is incredibly expensive here for everyone, including vets. Most of the available jobs are minimum wage or not a lot more, unless you have a technical or professional skill. When a one-bedroom apartment is over $1,000 plus bills and you earn $7 an hour... life is hard. Without a high-demand skill (which is lacking for many, many people, not just veterans), the risk of going homeless can be a paycheck or a rent-raise away. And gods forbid you get sick, or have a child who gets sick, or the place becomes uninhabitable and you don't have the deposit for another place, or you get laid off from your job.... There are forty thousand names on the waiting list for "Section 8" (government subsidized) housing in San Diego. Which is pointless, anyway, as almost no landlord will take it - they can make way more money on the open market.That being said, one would hope that someone, some nonprofit, could be set up to temporarily shelter people who have no family to go to when they get out of the service. If for no other length of time than to get them some kind of training that would allow them to be self-supporting. And for those who have, or who develop, mental or physical health issues... what to do? Once upon a time there were retirement homes for soldiers, around the turn of the 1900s, for the injured. Why are they gone now? Down the same road they've gone for anyone with those issues. Just gone....
Yeah the crazy thing is they make up a small percent of the population, but a large share of the homeless. The crap doesn't hit till later and it is almost impossible for the new guys not on my GI bill to get even a small amount of what I'm suppose to get. They have taken away and take away more every year from what they promised, we didn't ask for it, it was in the contract and someone is backing out of the deal and it isn't me. Who could that possibly leave? Call your damn congress people!! Email them, it's easy. Make them at least stick to what was on the dotted line when they signed. Here's one that hasn't even shown it's ugly face in the news. If someone smokes a joint or some such stupid thing, they kick them out one, that's right 1, make that a ONE!! !! ! day before they could get benefits. They did it to my step son and he got the Army Commendation medal on his own time for taking better care of the f****n Nukes in Korea. They still use his system, but they booted him one day before he could even get the money he put in from his pay for school. He won't fight it, but by god I know damn well they do it to others too. That little medal isn't easy to get, my first cousin got one as well, but he's a lifer, made soldiar of the year. Well, he didn't mean to a lifer, but they won't let him out. I have another cousin that got one too, but I can't tell you much other then he was NSA and busted a Russian thing (I have to leave it vague, other then it has to do with eyes in the sky). They f**k you over ever chance they get. We didn't call it the green weenie for nuthin.
08 Nov 2007, 10:26 pm
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08 Nov 2007, 10:31 pm
08 Nov 2007, 10:33 pm
oh, now, there's no reason to go calling me names!! !
i don't wanna be one! 
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08 Nov 2007, 11:42 pm
clapclapclapclap!! !! NanNanNan!! 
Okay, I should probably be in bed. I'm so tired my eyes are burning and everything is silly. Just one more load of laundry and a few more rows on my project.
I work the dayhome tomorrow and go to my other job in the evening. I'm not sure how I am going to manage December when I have 5 dayhome kids and more hours at the store for Christmas. Ah well, at least I have the whole weekend off for a change. 
Chuck, Nan says you need a mop. Would this work?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpO5jVrIjJs[/youtube]
09 Nov 2007, 12:00 am
09 Nov 2007, 12:07 am
Sweet dreams Nan.You will have the dreams of the victorius.(I hear they are rather nice )
Very cool mop Blessed.Animals dont need fancy toys.....just lots of patience and an "owner" with a sense of humor.
I think there are others here interested in "herbs and such"....found this guy on-line that I though was pretty funny(a little new age sappy is OK,it's just when they take it to serious I get "culty nervious vibes".)
http://herbcraft.org/whatsnew.html
Anyway,he seems pretty real and had an interesting recipe for fibroid tumors I will check out(when I have access to fresh plants next "thaw"...only 8 months and counting 
He highly recommended Burdock and Mullien.....they grow like weeds(haha).I plan on collecting some and makin me some "concoctions"....I've been interested in this stuff for years but never done more then nibble on some plants.That was all before the I knew about the internet....this should be interesting.
09 Nov 2007, 12:21 am
Thanks for the link, Krex! His information is good and very interesting. I'll be stuck there for awhile tomorrow.
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09 Nov 2007, 1:01 am
Ha!
Woke up last night at 2:00am - noticed a lot of noise going on. Figured it must be the heating unit I "repaired". Went into the attic and shut it off. The noise continued. I went downstairs to find that the washing machine's hot water hose had burst. Shut that off. The noise continued. Wandered into the downstairs bathroom to discover that the toilet tank's water regulator top on the fill valve had broken and was spewing water as well. (Thank goodness I was home!) Have spent the rest of the morning removing water from the laundry room, hallway, kitchen, bathroom, living room, and downstairs bedroom. Have fans set up everywhere. Once the walls, carpet and floors dry out, looks like I'll be re-painting.
(water coming out of the electrical outlets is probably not a good thing, eh?
).so, Chuck? Sorry to hear you got flooded! You helped me out when I got flooded. And when you are in the roar of the fans, think of your sister when she was flooded and just close your eyes and go with the roar of the fans and think nice thoughts.
It eventually gets over.
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09 Nov 2007, 2:16 am
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09 Nov 2007, 9:35 am
We regret to inform you that Nan could't be here to accept her award(s) this evening. Shes out dropping 4way windowpane and orange barrel microdot with her childhood friends in the counter-culture." oh, lawd, I just loves me some 4 way windowpane!
the orange barrels never did hit me right, and I was not a fan.
LSD was always my "drug of choice."
Merle
