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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
12:00 pm	survey a stupid time-killer 50 question survey 1. What time did you get up this morning? 7 AM 2. How do you like your steak? medium well, but much closer to well done 3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Hell, I don't know. 4. What is your favorite TV show? pretty much anything on the discovery health channel, and The Golden Girls 5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? I dunno 6. What did you have for breakfast? bad day to ask: peanut butter oreo cakesters. I needed something filling for my heart medicine since I was going out to the store today. 7. What is your favorite cuisine? oh, such a hard question: lets see... so many good ones. Italian, seafood, a good steak or burger, Mexican, Chinese, definitely anything spicy. the hotter the better 8. What foods do you dislike? I'm largely antivegetable but I have to say my most hated food is ground turkey, with ground chicken as a close second 9. Favorite Place to Eat? hard to know. I love a good meal. but some of my favorites are Olive Garden, Crackerbarrel, we frequent Panera Bread and El Paso Mexican restaurant, and I try to make it to the Green House Grill whenever I can. 10. Favorite dressing? caesar or ranch; caesar salad is the best 11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? a white cane 12. What are your favorite clothes? casual and comfortable; mostly jeans and t-shirts. I dress up only for work or church, and singing performaces (when I'm forced to) 13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? so many places. always wanted to see what it was like to live in other countries 14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full half full; I try to be as optimistic as possible although I have my days... 15. Where would you want to retire? havent thought that far ahead 16. Favorite time of day? I don't guess I have one 17. Where were you born? in a hospital 18. What is your favorite sport to watch? football 19. Who do you think will not tag you back? these types of questions are a pointless waste of space 20. Person you expect to tag you back first? see the last answer 21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? I'll read whoever on my friends page fills it out 22. Bird watcher? why would I want to watch birds? 23. Are you a morning person or a night person? morning 24. Do you have any pets? no, my cat died last December 25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? not really 26. What did you want to be when you were little? a famous singer 27. What is your best childhood memory? lots of them too many to recount here 28. Are you a cat or dog person? cat 29. Are you married? nope 30. Always wear your seat belt? yes 31. Been in a car accident? yes 32. Any pet peeves? too many to name here 33. Favorite pizza topping? meat and jalepinos 34. Favorite Flower? honeysuckle I think 35. Favorite ice cream? chocolate peanut butter 36. Favorite fast food restaurant? chick fillet 37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? I havent 38. From whom did you get your last email? probably the GW booksense list 39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? either music or technology 40. Do anything spontaneous lately? nope 41. Like your job? love it 42. Broccoli or Gai-lan? neither 43. What was your favorite vacation? I've had many enjoyable vacations in my lifetime 44. Last person you went out to dinner with? my grandparents 45. What are you listening to right now? nothing at the moment 46. What is your favorite color? green and purple 47. How many tattoos do you have? none, but my sister keeps trying to talk me into getting one. why inflict pain on myself? 48. How many are you tagging for this quiz? see question 19 49. What time did you finish this quiz? its 12 noon 50. Coffee Drinker? not really. when I do drink it I like it well disguised. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
10:28 am	Writer's Block: Music for Thought When you have to study or get work done, what music (if any) do you put on to help you concentrate? View 506 Answers I like this question, but am not sure how best to answer it. I guess, like any other time of day, what I listen to when I work depends on my mood. Sometimes I just need something relaxing for background noise like sky fm solo piano. Other times Ineed something loud and obnoxious like alternative rock. Sometimes, I need to concentrate in a completely silent, distraction-free environment. Most of the time, I find myself listening to a variety of web or mainstream radio: top 40, "hot AC", anything that plays a good mix of music. One of my favorite things to do is to create playlists in digital jukebox of my current favorite songs and shuffle through that while i work or do cleaning. Current Music: the golden girls on tv (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
9:32 am	Tumblr I've joined tumblr. as if I need another social network. I like its simplicity. it is straight forward to set up; no captia. and it posts 1 entry per page without clutter. Check it out: http://ping.fm/guY2i (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
1:28 pm	free to be me Heres another song that I find to be very uplifting and inspiring. it makes me happy. Francesca Battistelli — Free To Be Me lyrics At twenty years of age I'm still looking for a dream A war's already waged for my destiny But You've already won the battle And You've got great plans for me Though I can't always see Cause I got a couple dents in my fender Got a couple rips in my jeans Try to fit the pieces together But perfection is my enemy On my own I'm so clumsy But on Your shoulders I can see I'm free to be me When I was just a girl I thought I had it figured out See my life would turn out right, and I'd make it here somehow But things don't always come that easy And sometimes I would doubt, oh... Cause I got a couple dents in my fender Got a couple rips in my jeans Try to fit the pieces together But perfection is my enemy On my own I'm so clumsy But on Your shoulders I can see I'm free to be me And you're free to be you Sometimes I believe that I can do anything Yet other times I think I've got nothing good to bring But You look at my heart and You tell me That I've got all You seek, oh And it's easy to believe Even though Oh, I got a couple dents in my fender Got a couple rips in my jeans Try to fit the pieces together But perfection is my enemy On my own I'm so clumsy But on Your shoulders I can see I got a couple dents in my fender Got a couple rips in my jeans Try to fit the pieces together But perfection is my enemy On my own I'm so clumsy But on Your shoulders I can see I'm free to be me And you're free to be you (Comment on this)
1:20 pm	whereve I been? tried to post this via AIM through ping fm. it shows on my ping fm site but not on lj. so much for convenience. heres what I tried to post. watch it appear later then I'll have duplicates. whereve I benn? This is the first time ive been home in 3 weeks. working out of town. in fact I'm just here to do paperwork this week then back out again. then there was my cousins wedding; it was a nice outdoor ceremony. my poppy died on June 15 and we went to his funeral. poppy's hobby was racing pigeons so when they buried poppy, they released one of his white pigeons. That was cool. this pigeon had been gone for 2 years and came home the day poppy got out of the hospital. it made it back home again 2 days after the funeral. I guess thats poppy's special pigeon. Dad came and got me at the cemetery and showed me my twin brother's grave. that really meant a lot to me. glad to be home again even if it is just for a week. guess thats all. Current Mood: annoyed at ping fm (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
5:57 pm	if today was your last day by nickelback I havent posted song lyrics in a long time but I wanted to share this song with you: if today was your last day by nickelback. I find its lyrics and message to be very positive and thought-provoking. Here are the lyrics: My best friend gave me the best advice He said each day's a gift and not a given right Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind And try to take the path less traveled by That first step you take is the longest stride If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had, if today was your last day? What if, what if, if today was your last day? Against the grain should be a way of life What's worth the price is always worth the fight Every second counts 'cause there's no second try So live like you're never living twice Don't take the free ride in your own life If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last? Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had? And would you call those friends you never see? Reminisce old memories? Would you forgive your enemies? And would you find that one you're dreaming of? Swear up and down to God above That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day? If today was your last day Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart? You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars Regardless of who you are So do whatever it takes 'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life Let nothing stand in your way 'Cause the hands of time are never on your side If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last? Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had? And would you call those friends you never see? Reminisce old memories? Would you forgive your enemies? And would you find that one you're dreaming of Swear up and down to God above That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day? Current Mood: stressed, reflective? Current Music: mix 106.5 in the living room (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
9:26 am	the ABC's of me a survey I found on zonebbs.com: A - Age: 29 B - Bed size: queen C - Chore you hate: dishes D - Dog's name: no dog E - Essential start to your day item: music F - Favorite color: green and purple G - Gold or Silver: gold H – Height: five foot two I - Instruments you play: guitar, piano, psaltry; but I dont play them so much as goof off with them J - Job title: I dont have a title really but I provide adaptive tech training and assessment services K – Kid or kids: No L - Living arrangements: alone M - Mom's name: Mom N – Nicknames: my friends call me geek or G O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: various surgeries, heart problems P - Pet Peeve: too many to list here Q - Quote from a movie: dont watch movies enough to bother memorizing quotes R - Right or left handed: left S – Siblings: a sister T - Time you wake up: 8-ish or earlier depending on where I need to be that day U- Underwear: yes V - Vegetable you dislike: should i list them all here? I'm largely antivegetable W - Why you run late: better early than late; I schedule things so that I am never late X - X-rays you've had: too many to list here Y - Yummy food or foods you make: I dont really cook but I make a good chex mix Z - Zoo favorite animal: none (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
10:56 am	random entry the other day, midproject, I needee to open up the pack of blank cds that I got for christmas. and my computer wouldnt read them. turns out they were dvdr's. how annoying. of course I cant hope to return them as I dont know where mom got them from and I took the shrink wrap off and put about 5 of them in my pc in an attempt to read them so... my neighbor ran me to walmart yesterday where I picked up a spindle of cdr's with which to continue my project(s). in the last few weeks i figured out how to configure my audio settings so that I can record or others can hear my computer and my microphone simultaniously. found out that twitter is having some sorta database problem that causes random twits not to display on ppl's timelines and the twitter status page assures us they are working to solve the problem. ready to see spring; tired of this cold cloudy weather. guess thats all the random stuff I got for today; think I'll go fix lunch. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
2:17 pm	blip fm and twitter I discovered a web site yesterday. blip.fm lets you search for songs then "blip" them, or send links to twitter, lj and other social networking sites. been testing it out with system access and jaws and its fairly accessible with both but I have yet to find a consistent method for using the site. It has potential though. but something strange is happening with twitter. as of yesterday my twits will post but a few hours later they just randomly disappear into thin air. at least 2 ppl I follow have mentioned the same thing happening to them. I started keeping track of my # of updates this morning and the last twit would have made it 267. the # of updates says 267 yet a twit, actually about 6 or 7 twits are missing from my timeline. they showed up when I posted them cause I copied them from twitter into a jarte document but then they disappear a few hours later. I think I will stop updating twitter till this problem gets solved. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
5:32 pm	read web pages with less clutter: http://ping.fm/Eset1 (Comment on this)
5:30 pm	5 ways to avoid letting your computer kill you: http://ping.fm/ZSnhz (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
3:26 pm	iron chef I know at least a few people are curious as to the outcome of our family "iron chef" competition this past weekend. about twice a year we hold an iron chef competition in which everyone has to make a dish containing a certain ingredient or following a given theme and we all judge each others' dishes. the prize is usually a t-shirt. the theme for this one was "sweet and savory". this time I actually participated and made a chipotle chex mix which tasted good but came in last. mom and john submitted "pig balls" (pork and ham meatballs in some sorta sauce) and corn fritters. they'd have had a better shot if they had just submitted the corn fritters. cousin c made caribean shrimp with pineapple which was my favorite dish. cousin m made a blueberry lemon cake, my 2nd favorite dish of the competition. nephew made soft s'mores (crescent rolls with marshmallow and chocolate). friends d and j made scallops in appricot sauce. my sister won with her "McGrittle Brittle": peanut brittle with bacon. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 9th, 2009
6:33 pm	1st day of volunteering| So today was my first day volunteering at the blind school. It went very well. A few quick sentences to sum up my day: Lesson learned: tell the paratransit I need to be there a half hour before my start time instead of 15 minutes; they got me there late this morning. Turns out I didnt need any additional tests; yay! Worked at the blood drive handing out refreshments, t-shirts, and stickers. We were given lunch: cafeteria food, but it was nice to have lunch anyway. I didnt mind waiting for paratransit in the warm weather. Its great it was nice enough to sit outside in february. Started learning a few new songs while I sat outside on my balcony. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
3:52 pm	[continuing on] sometimes I forget to put the relevant codes to ping fm so updates intended for twitter wind up in lj or duplicate on friend feed. also installed and configured miranda with the help of truthobjective and though it is not intuitive and very time consuming to set up I do like it now. in fact, on the rare occasion that I use windows live I find myself trying to use miranda commands. and customizing sounds is nice. oooooh! Touchdown Tennessee! (Comment on this)
3:49 pm	[oops!] oops hit enter too soon; meant to hit an apostrophe. as I was saying. When Explorer gets home, I'm sure she'll bring my missing groceries by. glad she got it and it wasnt left laying at walmart. Also among my purchases today were a swiffer mop and a vacuum sweeper. I have a full size vacuum, but its cumbersome and I have trouble controlling it, so I figured I'd do my day to day vacuuming with the sweeper. I really dont like shopping at walmart and dont think I'll go back for awhile. Today wound up being very productive and everything went smoothly transit wise. Currently watching the playoff game between the titans and the ravens. Go titans! In case your curious about the recent posting errors and strangeness in posts, I signed up for ping fm and friend feed recently which together are helping me manage my ever growing list of twitter/lj friends and other relevant blogs. ping fm will let me update any or all of my networks from instant messengers and sometimes I forget to put in the relevant (Comment on this)
3:41 pm	[update] I had every intention of doing a christmas/birthday update but never quite got around to it. Christmas and birthday were both good and I enjoyed spending time with my family. Got a lot of nice stuff, including a new karaoke machine, luggage, and digital jukebox software. Things are still coming along in my new location; got my paratransit card the other day. ordered a book of transit passes online, got those in the mail today. Went to walmart this morning; first time using the paratransit card. Transit went very well. However, our shopping assistant sucked. Believe it or not, she'd never heard of Velcro so I had a hell of a time finding that, and forget about finding labeling tape; she handed me scotch tape, scrap book tape, anything but... so I gave up. and when I got home, I realized I was missing a whole bag of groceries which included the Velcro I worked so hard to find among other things. Fortuneately my friend Explorer who went shopping with me had gotten that bag, so Ishe'll (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
8:26 pm	apparently twitter isnt recieving twits from twitteroo. ate 3 so far. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
7:53 pm	nostalgia I'm writing this here cause I dont think anyone would want to hear me ramble about this. Whether you read it is your choice. This christmas season, I find myself wishing I had the old records and cassettes I used to listen to every year at christmas as a kid. So I've spent a lot of time in recent weeks finding and acquiring "classic christmas music". Its pretty cool. Before I started writing, I had planned to write a whole rambling entry about this topic of getting older and feeling nostalgic, but now I dont know what to say. All right then, I return you to your regularly scheduled programs. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
7:30 pm	summary what better way to summarize the past 2 days than with twitter updates? 12/10/2008 12:23 PM googling local restaurants. lot of ethnic stuff... mom and i are gonna try "the city's best bbq" tonight. think its time for tequitos for lunch. “signed up to friend feed. got all my nonprotected blogs and twitter pages added” 5:21 pm “auto forms mode in jaaws 10 definitely has its drawbacks.” 5:21 pm 12/11/2008 7:24 PM friend feed so far has been an exercise in frustration; guess I should read before I leap. to be continued... about 6 hours ago from web think my friend feed is for my personal pages and friends/imaginary friends is where I am supposed to put the blogs I read. about 6 hours ago from web so have lots of work to do on friend feed. will podcast when I get it figured out. about 6 hours ago from web guess I'm putting off christmas shopping till after lunch. about 6 hours ago from web oh forgot... apparently the bbq place closed down; we wound up at a cactus willy's which was buffet, expensive, and average at best. about 5 hours ago from web of all times not to print off the google results! about 5 hours ago from web mom brought my tree; we bought decorations and musical colored lights! about 5 hours ago from web after fighting with friend feed all day, and the constant phone interruptions, I feel very scroogish. off to christmas shop. bah humbug. about 5 hours ago from web took awhile but I finally got friend feed displaying most of my friends pages properly. how does one get it to agrigate podcasts? sighs. about 2 hours ago from web bought 5 of 7 xmas gifts; off to balance the checkbook. about 2 hours ago from web Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
Friday, December 5th, 2008
10:32 am	Goodbye, Merry Cat Today I had to put my Merry out of her misery. For the 2nd time in less than two years, she began vomiting persistently and continued to vomit even after she stopped eating. She nearly died of this illness in 2007 and this time, its been nearly 2 weeks now. She's lived 13 very good and productive years, and I can't prolong her suffering. I've been praying for God to do His will with Merry and that if this was her time, to take her in a way I can accept. So last night I bought the essential Now Christmas from walmart music downloads (they use a downloads manager now, and I believe its DRM free mp3's) to cheer myself up, then cried myself to sleep while I listened to it. I told God to take Merry to Heaven with him and to let my twin brother take care of her. And then I had a dream that reaffirmed to me that I'd made the right choice. I believe Merry definitely has a place in Heaven. I'm not yet emotionally ready to do any sort of tribute to Merry, but some day I will be. And I will do some sort of tribute to her, either in writing or podcast or both. or maybe in song... Some day... Current Mood: sad (1 Comment |Comment on this)