October 25th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Foolishness
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
– Colette
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October 24th, 2006
How Many Me’s?
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Here’s some interesting statistics about my real name too:
- Statistically the 21st most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)
- Statistically the 3183rd most popular last name. (tied with 11 other last names)
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October 24th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Delivering What’s Promised
“Underpromise; overdeliver.”
– Tom Peters
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October 24th, 2006
Not So Impressed With Lending Tree
My father had good luck with Lending Tree when they bought their house in New Mexico. Apparently, Lending Tree was everything it advertises itself to be for them. It presented four competitive offers, etc. My dad was so extremely impressed with the agent they eventually went with that he still speaks very highly of him today.
Now, I’ve tried using Lending Tree in the past. Twice I’ve tried to use the website to do debt consolidation with less than satisfactory results. Both times in the past, I got only one or two offers, usually for credit card companies
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Tags: Lending Tree, mortgage loan
October 23rd, 2006
Shhhhh…Be Very, Very Quiet…We’re Hunting Houses…
It’s been a very busy weekend. I’d like to say that after my procedure on Thursday, I spend the whole weekend just puttering about my apartment, knitting, cuddling with the pets, and watching the squirrels, but my parents are currently on this cheerleading drive to get me to buy a house, so my mom and I went house hunting since she’s here.
Now, my plan had been to wait to go actually look at houses because I only have 2K in my savings and my current lease doesn’t end until April. I thought I’d at least wait until January. In fact,
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October 23rd, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Conservatives
A conservative believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
– Lynwood L. Giacomini
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October 22nd, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Independent Thinking
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
– Ralph Charell
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October 21st, 2006
Quote of the Day: On The Naked Truth
“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.”
– Agnes Repplier
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October 20th, 2006
Friday Five First Sentences
It’s that time again.
- She had waited so long her fingers fingers were numb.
- The drip-drip-dripping in the otherwise peaceful afternoon was slowly driving Dale mad.
- It had been terribly long since Shelly had been tired of rain, but now after 30 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes, she was tired of rain again.
- The secret was out and Tess loved a good secret.
- Spider had picked up knitting in prison, or so he had said.
Now it’s your turn.
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October 20th, 2006
Guilty Or Not Guilty
got this from kay who borrowed from Teena who borrowed from Izzy who stole it from Holly
- Dated outside your race? Guilty
- Singing in the shower? Guilty
- Spit in someone’s drink? Not Guilty
- Played with Barbies? Guilty
- Made someone cry? Guilty
- Opened your Christmas presents early? Guilty but only after I moved out on my own
- Lied to a friend? Guilty but only to spare their feelings
- Watched and cried while watching a soap opera? Not Guilty…I’ve never cried
- Played a computer game for more than 5 hours? Guilty
- Ran through the sprinklers naked? Not Guilty…I’ve always been a prude.
- Ate food that fell on the floor? Guilty … Three second rule
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October 20th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Jogging
“The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.”
– Franklin P. Jones
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October 19th, 2006
Recovery
Well, Pugly went to the vet yesterday and they gave him a clean bill of health plus a vacination for kennel cough. He can go back to doggy daycare next Monday. Lucky puppy!
And here I am in the hospital. After 4 hours of being unable to pee, they finally used a catheter to help relieve me of 700cc of pee-pee. Owie. That’s after they inserted long needles into my left kidney eight times; the doctor told my mother it was only three, but they didn’t use any drugs and I was wide awake for the whole thing. They weren’t kidding
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Tags: kidney biopsy, the puppy, kennel cough
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October 19th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On The Evil Of The World
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
– Ayn Rand
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October 18th, 2006
Thursday Thirteen Neat Things I Wish Someone Would Buy Me (#9)
This week’s list(posted early due to my medical stay) is stuff I’ve found that I think is really cool but I just can’t justify buying for myself (and I don’t play the lotto), but seeing as I’m single and live alone, there’s not really anyone around here but the animals to hint at that I want it other than my parents and, well, let’s just not go into the whole online-wishlist-ordering-online-fiasco thing…
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Birding Company Maine Bay Window feeder — Can you imagine what fun my cats and my dog would have with this little beauty? I just think it would be better than television.
Knit Lite Knitting Needles — Knitting needles that light up in the dark. How cool is that? I mean, I have a problem with lighting because it tends to trigger headaches with me — something that not all doctors get (it’s like my face gets flushed on the side that the light is coming from and then if I stay that way to long, a headache with develop and if I don’t treat it, a migraine, etc.). If I had these, I could keep knitting even after I’ve had to turn the lamp off maybe.
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October 18th, 2006
Plugging In Could Hurt You
Since several of us on the blogosphere were just discussing the use of iPods/MP3 players in public and their effect on society, I found this article to timely…considering it’s another more permenant effect and all.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Listening to loud music with earphones on a digital music player for more than 90 minutes a day can damage your hearing, according to a new study.
The study of 100 doctoral students concluded that people who listened to music at 80 percent of volume capacity, at which point the sound is considered loud, should keep it to under 90 minutes a day.
“If a person exceeds that on one particular day and happens not to use their headphones for the rest of the week, they’re at no higher risk,” study author Brian Fligor told Reuters. “I’m talking about someone who’s exceeding 80 percent for 90 minutes day after day, month after month, for years.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: iPod, MP3, hearing loss, music, earphones
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October 18th, 2006
Ideas About Getting More Commenters
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the people who come here to comment more often on posts — you know, have more open dialogs, etc. So, when I come across this sort of post on one of my regular reads, I’m intrigued. However, for me, she was preaching to the choir, but I thought I’d like to pass along her tips edited with my own opinions. I’m hoping you fellow readers and passerby will add your own suggestions and thoughts to the comment section. (ah-ha!) Mind you, I’m basically going by
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Tags: bloghopping, blogs, commenting, blog traffic, trolls, spam
October 18th, 2006
Sadness = Not Enough Coffee
Oh! I get it!
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Tags: Dilbert, cartoons, coffee, depression
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October 18th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Sounding More Believable
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.”
– David H. Comins
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October 17th, 2006
The Good, The Bad, & The Deficient
I keep trying to remember that each test that I go through is about data elimination, but to be honest, when the Rheumy’s nurse called this morning and told me that my CT-Scan of my lung from Friday was also normal, I got teary. I really did almost start crying in dispair. She sounded quite sympathetic on the phone. That must be difficult for a nurse to have to sympathize with a patient because the tests came back without finding anything wrong.
So we still don’t know why I get short of breath so easy, but they didn’t
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Tags: potassium deficiency, myalgia, CT Scan of the lung, wellness
October 17th, 2006
Recommended Reading — Mostly Women’s Rights Edition
- A Proposed Small Step For Womenkind — Buttercup @ Buttercup & Bean writes about the problem of unwanted attention from men and how the real problem is not that women are putting themselves in situations where they could become targets but that men feel that they are entitled to any “piece of female ass that shows up in their vicinity.” Excellent post.
- To iPod or not to iPod (or, See the Person!) — Colleen @ For All the World to See wonders if technology isn’t creating a society of isolation and anti-social individuals.
We pass people in the grocery, on the street, at school, at work, in the car and they’re just people. The plural, the generic, the masses.
But they aren’t. Each person is a person.
And what a difference we would make if we saw each one of those people as a person , not as one of a mass.
As an individual, who maybe had a bad day, woke up on the wrong side of the bed, their coffee maker didn’t work this morning, they got in a fight with their kid, they got some unexpected money, they passed a test, they finished a big project, have a headache, found out their mom has cancer, found out their wife was pregnant….
You get the idea.
What if we each did that, maybe not to every person we came in contact with, but made an effort to really see the person we pass on the grocery aisle or who serves us our coffee, or who takes the parking place we had our eye on? What if?
What if we didn’t wear our iPods so as to be lost in our own little world, but instead had the earphones out of our ears, so we heard the little old lady behind us in the grocery ask for help getting something down…or we actually talked to the server who takes our order, instead of talking to them in short, one-word comments while our cell phone is pressed to our face?
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