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January 10th, 2007
Here are the goals I’m setting for myself to work on this year to work toward greener living. (I’ve chosen these from the book It’s Easy Being Green by Crissy Trask.) Through the year, as I check things off to my satisfaction or want to update the list, I’ll be doing it over in the memos/pages area.
- Use my printer’s sleep/stand-by mode.
- Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving. Running the water continuously for just two minutes can waste three gallons of water!
- Buy a shower curtain that will far outlast cheap plastic ones; a shower
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January 10th, 2007
Someone please take away my credit cards and change my amazon.com password. Give me an allowance for food.
Must. Stop. Spending.
Tags: spending, spendthrift, spendaholic
January 9th, 2007
Since the beginning of December, I’ve been going twice a week to physical therapy in this warm water pool to treat my fibromyalgia. This week I’m switching to once a week on land and once a week in the water. I’m going to miss the comfort of not sweating during my aerobic workout. 
However, an hour in warm water always makes me a little “rushed” afterward…just saying.
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Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging, pxn8, physical therapy, water therapy, fibromyalgia
January 9th, 2007
Well, it appears that I’ve got signs of at least one unwanted house critter — though you know if there’s one, there’s more.
The clues:
- Some thing’s definitely been imbibing in the bird seed I’ve got stored in the basement and it’s not the birdies I bought it for, which makes me very grumpy.
- Needy and Pugly have both been interested in some thing beneath the stove.
- Pugly has been barking at the wall between the kitchen and the living room for no apparent reason. (There goes my theory that he’s gone insane.)
- Two nights ago, Needy was very interested in the skittering of
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Tags: mice, rodents, rats, little red house, the cats, the puppy
January 8th, 2007
Random Joy
- After a long day, I like to kick back with…? HGtv, my afghan, and my animals.
- Do you know anyone “famous”/who is the “most famous” person you’ve ever met? I’ve met lots of famous people at sci-fi conventions — actors, writers, and artists. Most seem to be more down to earth at them. Laurell K. Hamilton, Jewell Staite, Ruth Thompson and Timothy Zahn come to mind. Didn’t care for Anne McCaffrey or Claudia Christian at all.
- What is your favourite piece of classical music? - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
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Tags: Monday\'s a Bitch, meme, bloghopping
January 6th, 2007
This is the view from my kitchen table. I love watching the birds lunching at the bird feeder outside in my front yard while I’m eating. Being able to watch t.v. too is nice too.
Tags: project365, photo blogging, photoaday, oneaday
January 4th, 2007
As I mentioned in this week’s Thursday Thirteen (I wonder how many people accidentally type “thurteen”), after my experience in the emergency departement on December 15th, which I still think was a repeat of the infamous 1997 December ED experience minus the really good and fun drugs, the doctors and that pesky surgeon have come to the conclusion that perhaps now is a good time to remove my gall bladder.
Apparently, now that “one” gallstone has escaped and caused me such horrific grief, another attack could happen again at any time or it
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January 4th, 2007
I start my morning with all but two of those bottles on the bottom two rows, thanks to all my medical problems. One of these, two of those.
Don’t think the other two bottles get ignored. Those are the night meds.
The top shelf has the pain meds for those days when the migraines and fibromyalgia is unignorable. Though, technically, I don’t take the aleeve or ibuprophen anymore. They’re just there for company now.
I vaguely remember when I used to just take a
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Tags: medications, photo blogging, project365, fibromyalgia, wellness, photoaday
January 4th, 2007
My mind works in strange and mysterious ways…
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- How often do other people change out the underwear in their underwear drawer? I mean, so they schedule a regular amount of time? Twice a year maybe to go through and throw out all the ratty old underwear they wouldn’t wear on vacation or on a date or in front of their cats and replace them?
- Speaking of underwear, am I the only one who’s ever bought new underwear just so I didn’t have to wash clothes? Or whole new outfits
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, meme, bloghopping, WAL-Mart, Target, the puppy, South Park, underwear, The Closer, Monk, Eureka, T.V., Amazon.com, mold, mildew, fibromyalgia, migraines
January 3rd, 2007
Pugly hates riding in the car. I haven’t figured out why. He generally likes wherever we go — doggy daycare, Planet Dog, visiting folks. However, he hates the ride. He generally sits with his little head pressed against the seat, either with his eyes closed or staring at me with those puppy-dog “are we there yet” eyes.
Sometimes I think he’s just motion sick. He’s thrown up a couple of times.
But then other times I think he’s just afraid of my
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Tags: Pug, the puppy, project365, photo blogging, photoaday
January 2nd, 2007
Everyone’s doing it.
Yup, I’m a joiner.
Actually, now that I’ve read up on it and realized that you don’t have to take a picture of yourself every day for a year like Mac is doing over at peskyapostrophe, I’m not so scared of it.
Basically, I just need to take a photo every day for 365 days. The challenge is to take some sort of interesting photo every day and at least one picture of myself every month. I can handle 12 photos of myself. Heck, I’ve got one
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Tags: self-portrait, photo blogging, project365, photoaday
January 1st, 2007
So, last night I watched the Heroes season so far minus the pilot, which I watched ages it ago. Now I understand what everyone’s been talking about. This series is far better than those series that just try to shock and confuse like Lost and Desperate Housewifes, in my opinion. At the very least, this one feels like it’s going somewhere. It’s definitely the kind of show I like — government conspiracies, government agencies, Dicken’s-like character connections and nearly-mets, betrayals, memory-wipes, nearly unstopable bad guys, love triangles, good guys with tainted pasts, sidekicks who are loyal…not to mention superpowers.
I’m glad
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Tags: Heroes
January 1st, 2007
See if you recognize recent events in the U.S. in this passage talking about the history of the Catholic Church…
The Church turned to its own canon law to authenticate an agency which could enforce adherence to Church authority. In 1231 Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition as a separate tribunal, independent of bishops and prelates. Its administrators, the inquisitors, were to be answerable only to the Pope. Its inquisitional law replaced the common law tradition of “innocent until proven guilty”with “guilty until proven innocent.” Despite an ostensible trial, inquisitional procedure left no possibility for the suspected
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Tags: The Dark Side of Christian History, history repeats, George W. Bush, America
December 29th, 2006
There was this guy on Route 115 today. All decked out in snow gear including those snow pole things…on roller blades.
Maine is really suffering for snow this year.
Tags: Maine, snow, roller blades, camera
December 29th, 2006
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So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.
I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, knitting, reading, books, housecleaning
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December 29th, 2006
I’ve seen this meme here and there this month. I can’t recall where now. The idea is to re-print the first sentence of the first post from each month in 2006. With the New Year approaching, this seems like a good time to do so…and I’m curious.
(If the “first post” fell on a “Quote of the Day” or similar, I skipped it to one of my own posts.)
December 27th, 2006
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week. 
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December 27th, 2006
When I was a vegetarian in the early to mid-1990’s, it was never about animal rights or some ideal cause. In fact, I had great fun on mailing lists and newsgroups, stirring up the vegan and vegetarians who were all about “not eating anything with a face” or “animals are our friends, we don’t eat our friends!” Basically, I was a vegetarian because I was just plain tired of eating meat — even the smell of it made me feel a bit ill.
This is not to say that I don’t respect people who do actually become vegetarians because
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Tags: vegetarianism, vegetarian, pescetarian, cloned animals, Peter Clement, FDA
December 27th, 2006
I like today’s Fibromyalgia Tip of the Day : Making Lists:
Make a list of things that you enjoy doing. Days when you are out of sorts and bored, this list can come in handy. It sounds silly to think that you might forget what you enjoy, but bad days can be heavy with “fibrofog” and so reminder lists are always helpful.
I think everyone, not just fibro sufferers could stand to put this tip into use. When you’re out of sorts and having a bad day, even
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Tags: fibromyalgia, depression
