“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
The dryer isn’t working, so I have laundry hanging all over the house. Probably just the heating element, but I don’t have the money to get it fixed. Don’t have the money to make groceries, cover the bills, or pay the rent tomorrow, either. Almost, but [...]
This is from today’s Daily Word post (from the folks at Unity Church, one of the largest of the New Thought churches):
Daily Word — Friday, September 28, 2007
Environment
Bringing greater order to my thoughts,
I establish new order in my life.
My home and workspace reflect aspects of my personal life. For example, if I notice a buildup [...]
I put this into the Babelfish Translator:
You may speak any language you want in your private life, but when conducting a business transaction in the United States of America, it is important that you learn to speak English.
and asked for the Spanish Translation, which came out this way:
Usted puede hablar cualquier lengua que usted desee [...]
If it is warm, unplug it!
I like my new Gevalia coffee maker, but it comes with a programmable auto-start feature, for those of us who actually expect the coffee to be made and ready 10 minutes before the alarm clock sounds in the morning! Very handy, [...]
According to Weather Underground, it is currently just 81°, but the humidity is 84%, with a pretty good chance of rain. For some reason I can’t find the current mold/spore/pollen counts, but my nose is telling me there’s a bunch of stuff floating around. Whatever.
I have the windows and doors open, and both floor fans [...]
Here in the Houston area, residents of an apartment complex are being evicted and forced to move out TODAY. Why? Failure to pay the water bill. Yeah, okay, so you don’t pay the bills and the water gets cut off and the state or city says you can’t live in a place that has no [...]
Weird. Feels like it’s been a week or two since I went to see Stephanie (The Yarn Harlot), but really it was just a couple nights ago (Tuesday).
It’s already the 21st of the month, quickly approaching rent day, already getting utility and other bills due and just the bills alone are about 8.764 times (at [...]
Last night I was treated to a fun evening with The Yarn Harlot (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee) at her booksigning event up in Spring, TX. A new knitterfriend gave me a ride up there and back, which was fun getting to know someone new along the way. There were several HUNDRED knitters all gathered together for the [...]
Well, isn’t that weird? I don’t know what it was, but I feel better today. A Lot better, actually. I moaned and groaned into the evening, made myself eat a steamed chicken thigh and potato, got to bed at 10:00 and fell asleep almost immediately. I woke several times in the night, each time with [...]
I don’t know if I picked up a bug, or if this is what comes after a fire ant attack, but I am soooooo sick. I thought I had a fever, so I took my temperature. “Normal” is supposed to be 98.6. I couldn’t squeeze it up past 96.5! My stomach hurts. My head hurts. [...]
Two naproxen sodium don’t do a damn thing for a headache. Damn it.
Neither did a nap.
Oh well… I guess I’ll just be sick forever and ever and whine all day long.
Meanwhile, my daughter noticed I had too many emails in my Inbox. So I was sifting through them, deleting most of them. Here’s a [...]
I spent some time playing at http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ and discovered that my full name anagrams out to
A Whining Yard Frost
So dry a whining fart
My name and middle initial gives us:
Insight Awry (yes, I see things differently)
His Wang I Try (how did they know???)
Gay Shin Writ
The Lord is my Shepherd turns into:
Deed Polisher Rhythms
Shielded Prose Rhythm
Our [...]
and the lawn won!
With a projected “less than 10 percent” chance of rain, I thought I’d tackle the lawn, since it had strands of stuff sticking up 12-15 inches. As is my habit, I lightly went over it with the weed whacker first, getting things down low enough for the lawn mower to eat [...]
TS Humberto went east and really created troubles for the people near the Texas-Louisiana border.
But I’m fine.
Well, well, well….. Tropical Storm Humberto is going to come a-calling tonight. It wasn’t much of anything this morning, and now they are issuing hurricane warnings down on Galveston Island.
Not much I can do about. It is supposed to be a large rain event more than a wind event, but either way I’m going to [...]
10. Minimizes laundry; thereby
9. Minimizing consumption of electricity, water, detergents and all the rest.
8. No more deciding what to wear. Just wear what you were born with
7. Your shoes always coordinate with the outfit
6. Nobody doubts your claim to being Jewish (or not)
5. No tan line!
4. Even [...]
I guess Mama Cat did drop her kittens after all. But man-oh-man, what a fucking attitude. I go outside she wants to rub all over my legs, but when I move to come back inside, she actually hisses, bares her fangs, and swats at me with claws extended. I had a cat who went crazy [...]
There are some days you don’t really forget.
I remember sitting in the back seat of the car, a lot our things loaded up, and as we drove [...]
Not my first choice, but I had to call the yarn shop hosting The Yarn Harlot and tell them I won’t be able to make it on Tuesday. She assured me they have plenty of volunteers eager to find some way to help out. I DID, however, ask if it would be okay to send [...]
