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Need to re-evaluate the 101
With most of my smaller physical abilities, I find a need to redo my 101 list, since I’d like to change it to things that I *can* do. So, again, I’ll start over. Which is a perfect opportunity for you to join me. *smile* ~Heidi … Read entire article »
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Cheerios and giving thanks to Military Families
I went to Cheerios.com to see more about this, that I saw on a commercial about giving thanks to Military families. I found that this project is with the USO. I, also, found that there is no way to do this without buying a labeled box of Cheerios. I think that type of propaganda is not what we need to support Military Families. There should be some way via their website to either pdf print the postcard or give us an address. I guess I have no choice but to Thank you, as a Military Family, from right here, because I won’t buy a box of cheerios that I won’t eat. Thank you for all your waiting, stressing, and support of your service member. Love and Blessings this Holiday Season to you and yours. Love from … Read entire article »
Filed under: Stand For Something
Laughing at my Bucket List
July 2010 and today are so drastically different. I can’t say I can come up with 100 things like that again and it was fun and sad to read. Most of my friends I planned to do things with I don’t even speak to anymore. #42 hits too personal to me. I chatted on FB with him, recently. He’s happily married and I doubt he’d ever take me to fulfill his promise. I was just over pleased he spoke to me and doesn’t hate me anymore. I hurt him tremendously as a very young girl. I’m sorry for all the pain I caused him and I hope he knows it. You never forget your first love.. Ron, you still amaze me. Strong and True. and that’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: family and friends, Feeding the Needz, Inspiration, Stand For Something
Serious Confession
My absence in this blog has a lot to do with a complete depression I’m experiencing. It all seemed to start when my father passed away, but that was because I made the mistake of going on an anti-depressant that severely started adding pounds to my body. Supposedly those medications have been changed. Last month, however, I thought that maybe I’m drinking too many of my calories and restricted myself in half of my regular consumption. The result? I gained 20 pounds. 20 pounds! This time, last year, I weighed 100 pounds less than I do today. Since I am post weight loss surgery/gastric bypass and have reorganized insides, traditional diets are out of the question, especailly low carbing. One of my doctors thinks that its metabolic and thyroid related. My therapist … Read entire article »
Filed under: Stand For Something, WLS
Embrace Vulnerability
Its okay to be vulnerable. Its okay to show who I really am. Its okay to be afraid, and get positive about it. I can become who I want to be. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creative Chaos, Featured, Feeding the Needz, Stand For Something
Why is it acceptable to have Insurance companies prescribe our medications?
Its no secret that in January, I had to get new medical insurance. It was part of an acquisition. So, I’ve dealt with their denials of filling many prescriptions that I and my doctor had agreed that I needed. I’d dealt with their letters suggesting another medication that they feel is better or, more like they’ll allow (pay for.) Now, after last week and I finally got my medication, that my doctor didn’t call in for me, that he won’t give me refills for, as if that’s insurance that I’ll make my not needed appointments to him, every month… the insurance company would not pay for it. They claim that its a “maintenance medication” and I must get them 90 days, at a time, from them, directly. Now what do I do? The doctor has … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health/Nutrition, Rant, Stand For Something
An 800 pound Gorilla wants to pee in my Cheerios
The best way to explain it is to copy/paste the emails to you, removing all the guilty party logos, names, and email addresses. Then you tell me what you think. First, you’ve heard of Collected.info right? Collected.info is a Public Feed Reader. I enjoy gathering my Feeds to read there, so I can easily categorize and read for the curating I do. I made a mistake, though. I decided to make a genealogy one and name is after my genealogy site .com and well, umm, that might just make this an dirtier pee than I’m thinking, right now. Okay, here we go: http://familyhugz.collected.info/ Hello Heidi (name deleted to protect the gorilla) here from (name deleted to protect the gorilla). I’ve had several inquiries via email this morning about the feeds at Family Hugz.)(** note ** … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blog Admin, Creative Chaos, Featured, Rant, Stand For Something
A Mixture of Emotional Breakdown Feelings – Latest Refills
The ice cream topping to my dessert of being pissed at my latest doctors appointment surfaced yesterday. In almost a way to control that I go to the doctor every month, my doctor doesn’t give me refills to any of my medications. They have a call-in, email, or fax system that I had signed up for, at the first of the year. So imagine my surprise when one of my major medications was out and not called in. I waited til Monday, called the nurse, explained the situation, and then she called me back because I left CVS and their phone number on the recorder (the pharmacy that was required of me to have another drug, by contract, filled there, and they messed all those refills up, too,) They said they only had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health/Nutrition, Rant, Stand For Something, Unexpectations
You Must See These – Its time to be disgusted
You’ve heard about how you should see Food, Inc. And you should. You should also add SuperSize Me to that list of Must See’s. But I just finished watching King Corn and if you have Netflix, you should go watch it now. I’m amazed. I’m not sure any food is all that great for us anymore. We are killing ourselves one sip and bite at a time and only we can do something about this. I stopped eating fast food a long time ago. I’m an avid food label reader. I live with others who demand foods i would never buy.. but they are in my refrigerator. I <3 Dr. Pepper. I can live on Pepsi Throwback from Publix until I can switch off the whole soda bandwagon. I’m not there, yet. But … Read entire article »
Filed under: diet, Featured, Foodie Frenzy, Health/Nutrition, Mercury, Stand For Something
Motherhood: My Highest Calling
As Mother’s Day approaches, I’ve been considering the calling that is Motherhood. When I was a little girl, I only knew, for sure, that I wanted to be a mommy. I never knew, then, that I would consider it a personal calling to any little person in need. Many exchange students, from Japan, Thailand, and Brazil, have called me “mom,” before. I’ve assisted helpless little children in public places.. in many capacities from handing them things to helping them open doors. Many things gross me out, but your child using my pant leg to wipe their face or nose would not offend me. Clothes wash. Hands wash. Even when overwhelmed, I can, usually, handle a child’s dilemma. I know that children have smaller environments and their major crisis may be their … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creative Domestication, Stand For Something
My Opinion on the matter at hand..
So Osama Bin Laden is dead. Our Mission is accomplished. Time to leave Afghanistan and Pakistan. We need those troops home to defend us against those that loved Osama and hate us. Stay in Iraq like we stayed in Korea. Our troops are just targets now. We are all targets now. I’m impressed that Obama spoke like we all should be 912′ers. God Bless America. Thank you to our brave Troops. Never forget. Don’t cheer and shoot guns like they did when our towers were falling. Light a candle. Remember. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Feeding the Needz, politics and religion, Stand For Something, Unexpectations
I <3 Egypt – “The Power of the People..”
Filed under: Featured, Feeding the Needz, politics and religion, Stand For Something
Just three little numbers I promised to share
224. I really have nothing more to say right now. :) … Read entire article »
Filed under: diet, Stand For Something, Unexpectations, WLS
My opinion about recent school gun shootings.
First, let’s establish that people kill people. For whatever their reason. We’ve been seeing a huge increase in school shootings and bank robberies lately. I think the laws needs to be changed so people can protect themselves better. I think if more trained concealed weapons were in our schools, more people’s lives would be spared. Not just more security or school police, but school officials with the ability to stop a massacre before it begins. When the gun law was changed about the National Forests, I read all these lines about people worried that people would start being killed. My opinion, then, was bad people get guns and take them there anyway. But, lately, I’ve read how having a gun saved a couple from a bear while on … Read entire article »
Filed under: politics and religion, Stand For Something
CDC Health Questionnaire or Identity Theft?
Over a month ago, I received a screening call, on my cell phone from the “center for disease control.” They were surveying 8,000 random people, to ask them personal questions, to improve the future of health care. After answering questions like “Is this your cell phone?” “Are you driving right now?” “Is this cell phone the only one you own?” and “Do you own any other telephone numbers?” (Notice they didn’t ask about a land line or other phones.. creative, I thought. After telling me that everything was confidential, I was told I could have a $10 check for my compliance, in the survey. They would put my personal information into a different computer. At first, I wasn’t feel too comfortable that the call was legitimate. Then I wasn’t feeling … Read entire article »
Filed under: family and friends, Stand For Something
Have you met Heather Solos and Angela England?
Many of my friends are up and coming in the blogging world. Two got recent recognition and I wanted to bring it to your attention. First, my good friend, Heather Solos was mentioned, on Problogger with 39 other bloggers to watch in 2011: Her profile has grown organically over the course of five years. She co-founded Home-Ec101.com, “a site designed to teach real people, real skills, as they apply to real lives.” In addition to this, she has gotten a book deal, leveraged in-person meetings to get great results, and has achieved multiple writing spots in newspapers. You can learn more about how she did this in her interview on BlogcastFM. Angela England, founder of Untrained Housewife, whom I was fortunate to meet, in person, at Type-a-mom, was recognized in an About.com … Read entire article »
Filed under: family and friends, Stand For Something, Uncategorized
I’ve been blogging five years now! Amazing..
I began blogging in 2005. It took me a little thought to think of that date. (Luckily its programmed in the html of the widget.) I never would have thought five years and three laptops later, I’d be at the beginning of a new blogging life. The big blog hack and crash, of 2010, has had its toll on my patience and some days its hard to remember all the hundreds of posts are not here, anymore. I’ll continue to dig through the back doors, and bring forward some of those lost treasures. As the holidays are in full swing around us, I almost refuse to leave my house, to sit in traffic or wait in any lines. IF I can’t have it easily, I won’t have it at all! I’m thankful for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blog Fun, Creative Chaos, Ephemeral Pursuitz, Featured, LowCountry, Unexpectations
The new form of DeadBeat Parents..
I’ve been wanting to blog about this subject for over a year but it was hard for me to consider that I really might tick some people off by what I’m going to say. Wednesday, I pulled into CVS, next to a car that was running, with rather loud music playing. The ONLY real problem I had about this is there was a child in the back seat, by himself. I want to say he was five or six.. but what is wrong with people? You can’t just leave them to run in and get something at a pharmacy. I’ve, recently encountered a worse situation, outside of Blockbuster and BB’s attitude about the “problem not being their problem” pissed me off even more. Both of these times I didn’t have … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creative Chaos, Everyday Nothing, LowCountry, Personal Protection, politics and religion, Stand For Something, Unexpectations
Blissdom ’11 Contest Giveaway from One2One Network
I want to tell you a little story. I have these wonderful girlfriends who live inside my computer. :) Sometimes we have opportunities to see each other in real life at conferences. Blissdom is one of those conferences that is coming up in Janauary that I would love to attend.. but just can’t work it into my budget. One2One Network is sponsoring a contest to help some of us get together in Nashville, at the Opryland Hotel. I really would love to see my friends. I would really love to learn better blogging techniques. I would really love to learn all that I can to be better in my everyday. That’s what these conferences help me to do and be. These ladies have given me new hope in the idea that women can be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ephemeral Pursuitz, Feeding the Needz
Reading Moving On – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sarah Ban Breathnach is a genius! Anything with her name on it, will get my attention now. I’ve been stuck, in my book, on the same “chapter” for over a week. It just spoke to me, and I couldn’t move on. So, I read it again, this morning. How does it know me so well? That section is titled “Bleak House” and starts, “I don’t know which is worse, remembering a painful past or ignoring an excruciating present.” Sarah painfully compares her present with her past, when she was in full “Simple Abundance” swing. I don’t have to feel that I failed the path I wanted to be on, after reading “Simple Abundance,” because I’m just normal, from what I’m reading. I gift that book because it speaks to me. Its a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Love, Creative Chaos, Ephemeral Pursuitz
101 Update : 10 Aug 2010
Sometimes things happen that aren’t planned. This week I’ve accomplished some things off my 101 list.. by accident. This is one of the blessings of having a list to revolves around my everyday life. There will be challenges, but this week: #7 I bought a S&W .22 Revolver #19 I listed more than 10 more books on paperback swap and its been a busy swapping week. #51 and #90 I placed a “our photos are uploaded to http://withaz.net/photo-walks” on the back of my new business cards that include my Notary Public. #96 I’m going back to school and I submitted my FAFSA … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ephemeral Pursuitz, Feeding the Needz, Unexpectations
Ephemeral Pursuitz #51 Make HomeMade Play Dough
Just in time to start working on my 101 in 1001 Dayz posts, again! via skiptomylou.org Thanks for sharing, in the craft camp, Jill. Hat Tip to Maria, at Meckmom.com … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ephemeral Pursuitz, Inspiration, Linky Love
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