Vicki’s Blog

Rambling

Well, I’ve had pictures of the car, after the car accident for acouple of weeks now, and never seem to get them posted….Maybe this weekend, I’ll have to see how things go.

Tomorrow we have a dentist appointment for the girls. I’m not really looking forward to it, because it’s about 1 1/2 hours away, but I’ve already rescheduled it once, and I don’t want to reschedule again.

I am finishing up the last chapter before the mid-term test for my transcriptioning course. I’m very excited. After mid-terms, I will only have 7 more chapters to get through. It has taken a lot longer than expected, because of grading delays, and the car accident. My typing is still not up to par, but servicable to make it through transcribing, as long as I take plenty of breaks in between.

The girls’ schooling is going okay, considering. It seems hard to do five days straight, without the interuptions of a million other things to do, especially when I’m still dealing with Dr.’s appointments and such from the car accident. We made a valent attempt to get back in the swing of things this week, only to remember that we will be out of town for most of the day yesterday, and had several errands this morning…Still we can make up the paperwork that we have missed getting done, that’s easy. And the hours we require, well, many things are learning experiences, including going grocery shopping, and going to the VET center this morning.

We had to go pick up one of our cats from the VET. Some people might think it silly to spend the money on a cat right now, when I am having financial difficulties, but my animals are a part of my family, and to me there was no other choice. Anyway, our George developed an ulcer in his eye a few weeks ago, best guess is that he scratched his eye at some point. In any case I took him in, and our wonderful Vet Assistant gave me some medicine. But the medicine didn’t do the trick, the ulcer continued to grow…so I had to take him back in on Monday for them to do surgery to remove the eye. We were very excited to get him back today. He is tired, and obviously a bit under the weather, but he’s home where he belongs. He has been purring nonstop all day, in his excitement to be back home. He’ll be fine with only one eye, especially being indoors. I think it’s kind of funny that one of my “normal” cats now has a “disability”. I have a soft heart for “special” animals.

Well, I suppose that’s enough rambling for today. Have lots to do still.

Ceiling Fans

The ceiling fans whirred in an almost silent motion. Never stopping, never slowing, silently spinning through life. That was how she felt at this moment. Like she was spinning, and couldn’t stop, get off the never ceasing spin of life. It was just too much! How was she supposed to handle everything that was going on? It was imposible, of this she was certain. And yet, somewhere deep inside her there was a glimmer of peace, a shine of hope.

Weight Loss Pills

You know I discovered something interesting tonight. I did a previous entry about weight loss pills, which is not unusual at all, considering the variety of topics that I write about. However what was interesting is that when I was looking at my wordpress dashboard tonight, I noticed an incoming link that had something to do with weight loss pills. Out of curiousity, to see why they were visiting my site, I clicked the link, and it took me to a page that displayed a portion of my entry, with a link saying something about reading more, so I clicked the link, and it brought me back to my site, and the original entry.

Can ANYONE tell me what this means??? I’ve already checked Copyscape, and it comes up clean, other than I am using the same theme as some other people, but the content of my entries don’t come up as being copied by anyone, so I don’t understand what is going on with that entry of mine.

Espresso Machines

The thought of having to shell out the money for espresso machines was frightening, and yet if she had any desire of expanding her business, and any hope of remaining in competition with the other area coffee shops, than it was something that had to be done.

She liked her little “small town” coffee shop, where she knew most of her patrons by name, and where things were just homey and simple, but more and more people were wanting espressos and capachinos, and the other fancier coffee varieties.

4am

Well you guessed it, it’s 4am here, and I think it’s about time for bed!! Yes I know that most normal people are preparing to get up in just acouple of hours, but what can I say…No one ever said I was normal!!! *LOL*

Got quite a bit of work done tonight, both online and off, and still so much more to be done, but not now. Now it’s time for some rest, so that I can get up in a few hours and wonder how I will ever get through my “To Do” list!! For all the work that I did tonight, not much was crossed of my ever growing list!! It seems if I scratch one thing, I add three.

Was working on transcribing tonight, which just ended up annoying me, as I again find words that I can’t figure out what is said. It’s not as if this guy spits in the microphone, or talks with mush in his mouth, I hear the words he’s saying and yet can’t find them in the dictionary, and spell check says they are wrong, so apparently what I am hearing is NOT what this guy is really saying!! Will try again tomorrow. I just really hate the delays, as I need to get done now more than ever, as my financial crisis is well, a crisis.

Somehow God will provide. Somehow I will be able to keep a roof over my head. Somehow life will go on, it always does.

Retail Franchises

The world of retail franchises was one that she had some experience in, but not happily so. She had worked for years in such places, and it wasn’t the retail part she had a problem with, retail was her blood, it was the franchises that ate away at her. She had dreamed of having her own place someday, and swore to herself that she would never “franchise” the place. It seemed to her that it took all the love out of the place, all the originality, creativity, and sense of being. Maybe that was silly, maybe it didn’t make sense to anyone but her, but that that was how she felt about things.

Wine Club of the Month

Up until her marriage to Devin things like attending the wine of the month club meetings had been laughable! She was not a fancy lady, she had not grown up with excess money, she had not even grown being raised as a lady. She didn’t regret any part of her childhood, other than never being able to meet her mother, who had died when she was 2 years old. But marrying Devin had opened up a whole new section of her life, which included the wine club, which was more of a social event than a serious meeting of any sort. It was drudgery some days, but other days she truly enjoyed going, and not just because it was expected of a lady of her social standing.

Life Goes On

Well it’s been one week to the day since the car accident. Amazingly enough life has not changed all that much. It seems like it should. It seems that after such a horrific experience that life would never be the same again, but that’s just not how things work.

We have no car now, that’s something different, but something that has happened in the past. We have a few bumps and bruises, but again, that is something that has happened before. Megan’s eye is hardly swollen and the bruises are fading, my wrist although still sore is usable again.

I drove for the first today, and was rather suprised that it was just the same as before. No overwelming fear of red pickups or the shoulder of the highways. It was as if nothing had happened. And yet, I know something has happened. I see it when I close my eyes, I hear it when the girls shreik because we hit a dip in the road or something perfectly normal. I am living with the reality of something having happened, and yet it seems like a dream.

Top Rated Diet Pills

I wonder just what the difference is in top rated diet pills? Top rated opposed to not rated? Or maybe it’s top rated opposed to badly rated?? Are diet pills not basically all the same?? Could exercise and healthy eating not solve most people’s weight problems?? I just don’t understand why people would put their health at further risk by taking these weight loss pills, that quite often don’t work, not to mention having horrible side effects that could be very detrimental to their health, alot more dangerous than simply having chicken more than beef, or baking foods verses frying them.

But than I’m not any kind of an expert.

HDMI Switch

Oh man, oh man, pretty much all the electronics were shot, including the HDMI switch. That just out and out sucked!! Thousands of dollars spent on top of the line electronics, and they were now smashed into little pieces all over his house. Well, what had he expected. People who rocked the boat of life usually ended up upsetting the balance of the boat at some point or another, and he had avoided getting wet for quite some time.