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Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
My cut is mostly healed (some of you know I cut my foot) It is not seeping into the bandage any more. What a miracle if you think about it.
Good. Yes imagine if we had to consciously heal even a small cut by effort... Every day our white blood cells do battle with bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and our immune system deals with potential threats to our well being. All without involvement of our will or most of the time, our knowledge.
My cat has nystagmus That means her eyes are twitching back and forth and she cannot walk. The cause is the inner ear of the brain. I took her to the vet and he says she could have gotten into something (I don't think we have anything bad). Hopefully she can overcome it and be back to us. It could also be a virus, bacteria, brain tumor, or brain parasite. He said this happens a lot in the summer. I took her to the vet. She got a shot of valium which is making her feel better. She had loud repeated meows until then. Also an antibiotic, hydration which they fill the skin with and it makes a pillow of water. We are going to see if she drinks water (probably won't feel like that), and goes to the bathroom and eats. Send prayers to blackberry.
We found that beloved blackberry cat had a punctured ear drum probably by bacteria. She is eating and drinking and peeing! I think we will get her back together and healthy. She purrs when we visit her in the closed off from other cats den.
I joined a coupon club and it's working out great! I don't have the time to invest like the 'extreme couponer's on TV, hahaha, but volunteering to do 2 hours of clipping last week, earned me first dibs at the stacks. My grocery budget last week was $160. My total was $139 ,and after coupons, I got it down to $89. Including packing school lunches and mine! Hot damn! The secret is holding the coupons until the items go on sale...compare the prices....and our local store doubles coupons on certain days!
An added bonus: The unused and even expired coupons get donated to troops over seas. They are accepted and used by adopted bases. Military pay is not alot....I'm so glad to be helping their families along with mine. Also, I had 4 buy one get one coupons on shampoo and toilet stuff, so I was able to donate a small bag of items to the homeless shelter without worry. Generosity is a beautiful thing!
They just rebuilt the boardwalk in time for Summer this year, after Super Storm Sandy destroyed it last October.... About 75% of the boardwalk businesses reopened in time for the summer season, but only had a mediocre 'come back' as far as $$ went. But at least they were back. Now, this:
Hope this counts as useless. Don't want to go off the off topic thread . . .
ios7 the new operating system for iPads, iPhones and Imaniacs has a great easily accessible timer. Sweep from off the bottom of the device upward to access control panel. Choose the timer bottom right. Set time. Turn off device. When your cushion sitting is oven ready, a sound, in my case, 'slow rise' will emerge. You can of course ignore it and get a few more minutes of dharma snoozing in [wait a minute that can't be right . . .] :clap:
Just for fun...the government has shutdown here. lololol
Announcement: Congress and everyone up there gets paid... I don't. Furlough days for me. Oh well...good thing I just had a retreat, hahaha....I'm wearing my 'go as a river' shirt today to the office to clean my cube out. We got 4 hours to wrap anything up.... then I'll be home....on NB...talking.
Just for fun...the government has shutdown here. lololol
Announcement: Congress and everyone up there gets paid... I don't. Furlough days for me. Oh well...good thing I just had a retreat, hahaha....I'm wearing my 'go as a river' shirt today to the office to clean my cube out. We got 4 hours to wrap anything up.... then I'll be home....on NB...talking.
I work a block in front of the White House and its like a ghost town here. Normally starbucks has a line all the way back to the bathrooms. this morning it was only 5 people or so. It is sad what the people in charge will do to the people who voted them in. All for the sake of extremest points of view. The whole idea of congress is to have a place to argue points but to also come to a compromise.
I'm totally disgusted and appalled at the extremist GOP members who will go to any lengths to wreak disharmony and disapproval around Obama and anything he tries to do. He's not the BEST president we ever had, nor ever will have, maybe not even close, but he's certainly head and shoulders above our American Taliban T-bagger extremists.
To be fair both sides have gone so far to the extreme that the average moderate has nobody speaking for them. I think this is mostly due to corporations and special interests throwing money behind politicians who will support them instead of what is good for the country. Some serious amendments need to be made to our constitution to stop this corruption (which is just the tip of a large iceberg) the sad thing is the people who can change the constitution are the corrupt ones.
Hubby and I had to drop a car off at the shop today for repairs, so we were trying to figure out how to pass some time. The Temple I attend ( which he has never been to) is right down the street. Just as a shot in the dark, I suggested that we could go there. Sit by the lotus pond and talk...or just be quiet. He does meditate at home, but because of some social anxiety, he has never come with me. Well...we sat by the lotus pond for a few minutes and I then suggested since no one was in the main hall, we could go and sit. ( I had already put his home cushion in the trunk), hahaha. He said sure. Well, a few minutes later, we were doing the whole do. There we were.. just him and I. We did the incense offering, and set the timer. First time in 15 years we sat/meditated together. Just the two of us....I gently walked and got the little drum, and I chanted and we took refuge vows. I did the whole procession and I think my Sangha brothers would have been proud of the job I did. It was a beautiful 2 hours. Did I say it was just the two of us? ......... Gratitude for this moving experience.
It was a beautiful 2 hours. Did I say it was just the two of us? ......... Gratitude for this moving experience.
Marvellous. Inspiring. How wonderful . . . imagine that . . . people sitting together . . . so simple . . .
I was inspired by 'The Dhamma Brothers' movie recently. I also managed, at long last . . . probably due to software upgrades, to sit with the treeleaf on line sangha.
going disc golfing!!!!!!! enjoying the extended summer temperature mixed with the changing colors of the impending fal!
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edited October 2013
New job is awesome. Almost finished my probationary period and am feeling fit, healthy, toned and exhausted. I get to walk at least 4 miles a day, just round the job! But time is precious; hence my reduced absence here. Don't worry - am still around to pat backs and rap knuckles....(The former in far greater proportion to the latter, I'm glad to say.... )
Friiiiiday!! Whoop, Whoop! What's everyone got going on this week-end?
I'm laying low...just relaxing. I spent last week-end (and my furlough days) cleaning up and doing yard work, so I intend on chillin' in the backyard, with a thermos of hot tea and some magazines.
Well, after searching - for weeks - online and in shops everywhere, I finally found the absolutely most Perfect plant table!! I'd seen plenty of them in stores for $150 and up; waaay up. I did not want to (and couldn't really afford to) pay that kind of money for a simple 'tall, sofa table' just to put plants on...
But today, after going out with my sis-in-law Kim, browsing through some thrift shops and antique shops and once again coming up empty handed, we popped into a local estate sale (in my neighborhood) and BOOM!! -- there it was right before my eyes as soon as I walked in the house! Sticker on it said $40, I got it for $35. I love it!!
Weds evening my right knee blew out and dropped me to the ground. 7 hours in the hospital with doctors disagreeing on a diagnosis, most of my thoughts were..well there goes my livelihood of 30 years. I couldn't even touch the ground with one foot. 3 days later I can hobble around a bit, off the crutches, and the future is hopeful.
Weds evening my right knee blew out and dropped me to the ground. 7 hours in the hospital with doctors disagreeing on a diagnosis, most of my thoughts were..well there goes my livelihood of 30 years. I couldn't even touch the ground with one foot. 3 days later I can hobble around a bit, off the crutches, and the future is hopeful.
OWIE!! :eek: Oh my, I certainly hope you start to feel better ASAP! But don't rush things.... blown out knees are temperamental for a long time afterwards. :::hugs:::
Just a general PSA (public service announcement); not meant for anyone on this forum in particular, at all!
Let's take the idea and the word 'rape' out of jokes, out of casual conversation about nothing, out of our sarcasm, out of our editorial cartoons. There is nothing funny, clever, amusing, ironic, or 'edgy' about tossing the idea of, or the word rape around as if you're saying "Hello" to a friend on the street.
I'm not sure if anyone here would take an interest in this (perhaps @Invincible_summer ) but I'm happy to announce I've started up a new blog related to my obsession with early music at musica-antiqua.tumblr.com
...truly "oldies but goodies"! --mostly Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music (mid-18th century) but some stuff stretching all the way back to ancient Greece. This stuff sounds a bit different from classical music, and most people haven't been exposed to true "early music" (i.e. performed in the original way, what is known as "historically informed performance").
I'll provide links to Amazon for the music where I can. I'll probably just post one piece every weekend if anyone wants to listen to something a little out of the ordinary. :wave:
My partner killed my SCOBY(symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, used for making kombucha) a few months ago and I just remembered how surprised I was that I didn't cry. Is it possible I'm actually missing my bacteria/yeast culture?
Also I downloaded an app caller "Happier" it's nice, I think people on this website would enjoy it..
Going out of town for my sister's wedding. I'm so happy for her and her husband-to-be. The downside is that I may be walking my sister down the aisle (which I would be so honored to do)-- my dad is in the hospital from hypokalemia and dehydration-- and simply not eating-- from his chemo treatments. Hopefully he'll be at least able to attend the wedding this Saturday.
My grandma passed away today. I am not truly grieving. I think I believe that it was her time to leave the world. As it is. As it is. Nothing to add and nothing to take away.
Going out of town for my sister's wedding. I'm so happy for her and her husband-to-be. The downside is that I may be walking my sister down the aisle (which I would be so honored to do)-- my dad is in the hospital from hypokalemia and dehydration-- and simply not eating-- from his chemo treatments. Hopefully he'll be at least able to attend the wedding this Saturday.
My grandma passed away today. I am not truly grieving. I think I believe that it was her time to leave the world. As it is. As it is. Nothing to add and nothing to take away.
So........ Who's coming over for Apple Pie?? Home-made; just out of the oven about 30 min ago....
I love baking in the fall and winter.
:bowdown:
Buddha = apple pie = Maitriya
. . . talking of light and love . . . went to Hindu temple as it is Diwali. Visited the 'dark gods' hidden in the nooks and crannies, Kali (Buddhist Tara/Kwan Yin) was glad of a bit of attention. She puts a bit of chilli in her apple pies. What a little devil she is ... My sister makes an apple and pear crumble with cinnamon and dark sugar - yum
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Every day our white blood cells do battle with bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and our immune system deals with potential threats to our well being.
All without involvement of our will or most of the time, our knowledge.
invest like the 'extreme couponer's on TV, hahaha, but volunteering to
do 2 hours of clipping last week, earned me first dibs at the stacks.
My grocery budget last week was $160. My total was $139 ,and after coupons,
I got it down to $89. Including packing school lunches and mine! Hot damn!
The secret is holding the coupons until the items go on sale...compare the
prices....and our local store doubles coupons on certain days!
An added bonus: The unused and even expired coupons get donated
to troops over seas. They are accepted and used by adopted
bases. Military pay is not alot....I'm so glad to be helping their families along
with mine. Also, I had 4 buy one get one coupons on shampoo and toilet stuff, so
I was able to donate a small bag of items to the homeless shelter without
worry.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9245840
The whole darn place is up in flames!
(I typed that sentence)
ios7 the new operating system for iPads, iPhones and Imaniacs has a great easily accessible timer.
Sweep from off the bottom of the device upward to access control panel. Choose the timer bottom right. Set time. Turn off device. When your cushion sitting is oven ready, a sound, in my case, 'slow rise' will emerge. You can of course ignore it and get a few more minutes of dharma snoozing in [wait a minute that can't be right . . .] :clap:
Announcement: Congress and everyone up there gets paid...
I don't. Furlough days for me. Oh well...good thing I just had a
retreat, hahaha....I'm wearing my 'go as a river' shirt today to the
office to clean my cube out. We got 4 hours to wrap anything up....
then I'll be home....on NB...talking.
It is sad what the people in charge will do to the people who voted them in. All for the sake of extremest points of view. The whole idea of congress is to have a place to argue points but to also come to a compromise.
figure out how to pass some time. The Temple I attend ( which he has never been
to) is right down the street. Just as a shot in the dark, I suggested that we could
go there. Sit by the lotus pond and talk...or just be quiet. He does meditate at
home, but because of some social anxiety, he has never come with me.
Well...we sat by the lotus pond for a few minutes and I then suggested since
no one was in the main hall, we could go and sit. ( I had already put his home
cushion in the trunk), hahaha. He said sure. Well, a few minutes later, we were
doing the whole do. There we were.. just him and I. We did the incense offering,
and set the timer. First time in 15 years we sat/meditated together. Just the two
of us....I gently walked and got the little drum, and I chanted and we took refuge
vows. I did the whole procession and I think my Sangha brothers would have
been proud of the job I did.
two of us? ......... Gratitude for this moving experience.
How wonderful, @Vastmind :clap: You made me tear up too! (((HUGS!!)))
I was inspired by 'The Dhamma Brothers' movie recently.
I also managed, at long last . . . probably due to software upgrades, to sit with the treeleaf on line sangha.
Your story made me happy
But time is precious; hence my reduced absence here. Don't worry - am still around to pat backs and rap knuckles....(The former in far greater proportion to the latter, I'm glad to say....
What's everyone got going on this week-end?
I'm laying low...just relaxing. I spent last week-end (and my
furlough days) cleaning up and doing yard work, so I intend
on chillin' in the backyard, with a thermos of hot tea and some
magazines.
I'd seen plenty of them in stores for $150 and up; waaay up.
I did not want to (and couldn't really afford to) pay that kind of money for a simple 'tall, sofa table' just to put plants on...
But today, after going out with my sis-in-law Kim, browsing through some thrift shops and antique shops and once again coming up empty handed, we popped into a local estate sale (in my neighborhood) and BOOM!! -- there it was right before my eyes as soon as I walked in the house! Sticker on it said $40, I got it for $35. I love it!!
::: happy dance! :::
3 days later I can hobble around a bit, off the crutches, and the future is hopeful.
Oh my, I certainly hope you start to feel better ASAP! But don't rush things.... blown out knees are temperamental for a long time afterwards. :::hugs:::
Hang in there and take it slow. Sending hugs...
When walking just walk.
When Sitting just sit,
When hobbling, just hobble.
Above all, don't wobble!
. . . next week Dharma dancing
When it rains, it pours!
Let's take the idea and the word 'rape' out of jokes, out of casual conversation about nothing, out of our sarcasm, out of our editorial cartoons. There is nothing funny, clever, amusing, ironic, or 'edgy' about tossing the idea of, or the word rape around as if you're saying "Hello" to a friend on the street.
This guy is right, and his anger is justified.
He took me through it! :clap: :bawl:
So........ Who's coming over for Apple Pie??
Home-made; just out of the oven about 30 min ago....
I love baking in the fall and winter.
...truly "oldies but goodies"!
I'll provide links to Amazon for the music where I can. I'll probably just post one piece every weekend if anyone wants to listen to something a little out of the ordinary. :wave:
Also I downloaded an app caller "Happier"
it's nice, I think people on this website would enjoy it..
Buddha = apple pie = Maitriya
. . . talking of light and love . . .
went to Hindu temple as it is Diwali.
Visited the 'dark gods' hidden in the nooks and crannies, Kali (Buddhist Tara/Kwan Yin) was glad of a bit of attention. She puts a bit of chilli in her apple pies. What a little devil she is ...
My sister makes an apple and pear crumble with cinnamon and dark sugar - yum