Busy to Boring

    The last half of this week was stressing and busy, well for me anyway, others probably wouldn't have considered it busy but with the way that my life goes it was busy for me. I have been scrambling to try my best to get some documents together for my annual review(for my geared-to-income apartment), which included many phone calls, and I do mean many these kept me occupied from Wednesday to Friday morning. Why is it that when you need to track down a few specific people you get anyone but them? So I had to make a lot of phone calls. The results are that I now have all but two of the documents, one of which will be ready to be picked up Monday morning...oh wait, it is now Monday...so just a few more hours until I can pick up that document and the last one I need is being sent in the mail. I have to have all submitted by the 21st of this month which is rapidly approaching.
     I'm planning to bring in what I have today after I pick up one of the documents in town and then I will hope that the other arrives before the 21st so that I can get that one in too.

    Friday was well, interesting, is one word for it I guess. Joram, my furry sweetheart woke me up at 4:30am as he has been doing a lot lately, he really wanted to go outside. I was lucky enough to wake up with a really bad migraine. I was dizzy and nauseous and knew I would be spending some quality time in the bathroom, which I did all morning! That finally abated around 11:30am, shortly after I got a call from a friend to invite me to go shopping with her. She knows that I don't have a car and rely on public transportation which makes it hard to get much shopping done. With how bad my Fibromyalgia is I can't carry very many bags at a time so when I take the bus into town for shopping I'm limited in what I can get.
   Long story short, my generous and kind friend that does have a car took me shopping with her. I was able to get a few things for Joram and me that I really needed including: for Joram - a new toy that he is crazy about, a clipper kit(i can now put the scissors away and trimming is so much easier), treats; for me: 2 new bras that fit good and that I am happy with, a few snacks, and a very satisfying trip to the book store.

   I usually only get one or two new books per month as I am on a very limited income, but I had some extra money this month as back pay that I was waiting for came in. That meant that I could take advantage of a promotion at the book store to get bonus points on my rewards card. I think my friend and the staff of the book store thought I had gone crazy as I was excited and quite enjoying myself in picking out my books. At the end of my good time in the book store I came away with 4 new books and two new bookmarks. My book collection is growing!!! Growing slowly but it is growing.

   Yesterday I took the opportunity to use the new clipper kit for the first time which also happened to be my first time of using a clipper ever. It was so much easier than trying to trim Joram with scissors. It was so fast. I didn't get perfect results, but I'm satisfied with my first clipper trim. Joram was really good he stood still the whole time (which never would have happened with the scissors) until I got to his front paws. He really didn't want me to trim his front paws. So I decided to leave them for now as he had been so good and plan on definitely getting his front paws trimmed later today.

This is what he looked like after his trim. I had a hard time keeping him still for the picture, had many blurry pictures. By the time I finally got this picture I was struggling with him and my phone. Didn't realize the picture was taken sideways until after. By that point I was so frustrated I decided to keep this picture and figured I could rotate it when I posted it...yet I can't figure out how to do that! Can anyone help me out on how to rotate the picture!???!

That brings us to Sunday. I wasn't feeling good at all so I decided to stay home and take it easy for the day. Turns out that I should have gone out or made some kind of plans as I ended up being so bored. But I did get through Sunday and now it's past 12am so it is now Monday although I haven't gone to sleep yet I will be headed there in a while. Hope to have good dreams!

BB

d&j





Migraine hanging on

I'm quite tired and run down from having this migraine for the last 5 days, so i guess tonite i'm just going to go through my thoughts. There is a blog i like to read because i get more differing opinions on American politics than i can get anywhere else, since he posts excerpts from many different sources. What i don't like is when he makes comments bashing the religion of Islam.
  I understand that he, and i and everyone else is entitled to their opinions. However i worry a little about the hundreds of followers he has. Will they assimilate his view because they trust him, or because they've noticed that they agree with him on 98% of issues that he brings to his blog through his personal posts (meaning non-excerpt posts, or personal comments made before or after the excerpts). I'm trying not to be judgemental or critical. I'm just typing-out-loud, instead of thinking-out-loud. I really hope that those people are making their own judgements and not just following the herd.

Here's a hopefully short story about my view of Islam. I will readily admit that I don't know all that much about the religion, though i would love to learn anything i can about it.  Anyway, at the age of 15 i met this girl who helped me through a period where my depression was very bad, shortly after the first time i was raped. Her and i became very close!! She did not wear hijab (i think that's the right term, but if i am wrong please correct me) at that time. It was about 4 or 5 months before i was invited into her home. When i walked into her house i was pleasantly surprised, her whole family was as kind, considerate and understanding as her. There was a feeling of calm and acceptance in the home. I'm 32 now and lost touch with her, we'll call her K.A., many years ago. I often wish that i knew where she was now, i deeply regret that we did not get to continue our friendship, i moved to Sudbury at the same time K.A. and her family were moving to Toronto. She was proof to me that what most refer to as 'the religion of peace' can be just that. Unfortunately like in everything else you can get some bad 'seeds' that ruin the reputation for others. I respect and admire Muslims and always will. Others have tried to convince me otherwise, but they can not change the experiences i had with K.A. and her family i will love them and admire them for the rest of my life.
ok maybe short story turned out to be long. Sorry if this was too long. I needed to get my opinion out. I would very much like to hear what anyone has to say on anything i said here!!!

All's Quiet

    Today has been a quiet day. Only me and my cat Belle here today.

 Photo courtesy of my sister's cell

   Yesterday my sister and nephew were here visiting. I had a good time with both of them. I introduced my sister to a typing game that she fell in love with(it's hard to find games that she actually like lol).
I enjoyed watching my nephew play my new xbox360 game (samurai warriors2). We had pizza for supper and then came the sad part when they had to go home.
   I've been waiting to receive and email from a friend that lives far away from me right now. I'll keep being patient and hope it comes in sometime this month.
   I didn't get to go to Church today which turned out to be good after all since i woke up with a migraine...i get migraine's way too often, and for so many different reasons.
  Right now just trying to get some reading done and keeping quiet, don't want to make migraine worse, and hoping to get to bed at a decent time tonite if i can. Hoping my CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) won't stop me from sleeping. I do need some rest tonite.
   My cat has been more quiet than usual today, might be from the fact that yesterday was clip the claws day. She got through it alright but has been quiet ever since, in about an hour she's due for her usual nightly 'hyper time' which usually lasts five minutes.