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| I had the car towed back to the house yesterday. It couldn't set at the mechanic's any longer so it's back in my driveway not running. I have put just about as much into it as I cannot afford, so I'm not planning on putting any more into it unless I have not other choice. I had entered two paragraphs of something about the car, however when I went to save and edit, my connection or my browser went goofy. Anyway it didn't save and with my short term memory getting shorter all the time, I don't remember what I wrote. I think it was something about finding the car title (which I don't remember where I filed it) and cleaning out the car so I can donate it to something. I haven't posted in two days and I have two other blogs I have to post something in tonight. I'm tired. I'm chilly. I almost said cold, but it's not cold. I'm not going to complain about the pain in my knee because complaining just makes it worse. On the bright side, in 2009 I will begin receiving my Social Security Check. Not a lot of money, but it's a little bit and every little bit helps. On December 6, 2008 I will have my top teeth pulled and receive half of my new set of dentures. When my gums are healed I will go back for the bottom set of dentures. Yes, I am going back for the bottom set. I do not care about the pain, I just want to be able to eat properly. Besides I doubt that anything could be as painful as childbirth or my right knee. |
| Kamál (Perfection), 19 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Monday, November 3, 2008 somewhere around sunset I'm staring at the screen and can't think of anything to write. It's day three of NaNoWriMo and I haven't written a single word on the novel. I just printed a copy of what I've written off and will take it with me when I go to work tomorrow. I'm working the election polls. I don't know if I'll have time to work on it or not. However, I'm going prepared. Right now, I'm fixing ground beef and mushroom soup in the slow cooker. When the ground beef is done, then I'm going to add rice or something. This will be my lunch tomorrow. I don't know what else I will take with me, but I have to have everything finished and ready to go in the morning. I think I will post this, without doing a spell check or anything. I'im going to run the virus check and then see if I can get some words written before I go to bed. |
| Jamál (Beauty), 18 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Sunday, November 2, 2008 about 8:18 AM Pacific Time On day 2 of NaNoWriMo a weather related accident occured - Time Fell Back. OK, so much for Daylight Saving Time humor. I wrote 1,737 words on day 1 of NaNoWriMo and didn't complete the prologue to my novel. Besides the daily word count goal, I've set a chapter goal. The word count goal for each chapter is 2,000 words, while my daily goal is 1,667. Sometimes when I'm writing I can be short winded and other times I'm long winded. If I set a minimum goal for each chapter then I can judge the best approach when I reach that goal. I think I'm almost finished with the prologue to The Paradox Stone, I have a bit more information to put in it so that the reader can start Chapter 1 with a little background knowledge. Anything else that comes up during the novel's writing can be put in as flashbacks or something like that. Today's weather related accident has my time sense confused. I think it must be about 9:30 or so, but it's only about 8:30. It's going to take a while for me to get the time straight. However, daylight savings time is over and I'm wondering if I shouldn't be getting some sort of time dividend. All right, so my sense of humor is a warped as my sense of time. |
| Jalál (Glory), 17 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Friday-Saturday, November 1, 2008 about 4:04 PM Pacific Time I don't know what's wrong with me today. This morning I logged into the mortgage website to make this months payment and managed to disable the account because I forgot the security questions. Then I attempted to do the payment over the phone. After I put the routing number in the phone cut off. I tried it a second time with the same results. Now I have to call either customer service or the bill paying Monday to deal with that. I don't think there is a problem with the payment (due today) because there is a 10 day grace period and we've managed to get it in electronically on time for at least 12 months. The money comes out of my Mom's account, but I have to do the on line work. It's been cloudy all day, but I doubt that it rains. I feel weird today. I feel out of place. I don't know what's wrong. I'm not worried because I don't feel stressed. I just feel weird. I spent most of the day yesterday riding the city bus from north to south, from south to north, from east to west and then from west to east. I have a graphic in my e-mail that I need to download to a folder in my port, but I can't remember how to do it. I'm working on the prologue to my NaNoWriMo novel. I just reread some of what I've written and it doesn't make sense, but then the prologue is supposed to be made of of journal extracts, so that may explain that. I've written 1,321 words and the goal is 1,667 so I don't have very many words to write. I'm stuck and wondering why one of the male ancestors of my protagonist, is setting naked in an Irish castle dungeon when it's supposed to be a science fiction novel. |
| Istiqlál (Independence), 16 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 31, 2008 about 7:15 AM Pacific Time I joined writing.com 6 years ago today. This morning I woke up in a worried and depressed mood, but my mood has changed. I'm optimistic and hopeful right now. Mom and I do have to walk to the bus stop to catch a bus this morning, but I'm not going to rush the walk to the bus stop or anything else. I have to pick up Mom's meds and get a prescription filled for myself. I decided on the title of my 2008 NaNoWriMo novel. The working title is The Paradox Stone and the main character in the novel is an outsider in her society. I can only foresee one difficulty in achieving the daily word count goal and that is on Tuesday, November 4. That is the day I'm working the election polls and cannot access a computer, therefore any writing I do n the novel will be in long hand. I'm not sure how many words I can write that way in a single day. Besides which, this is a presidential election year, so the polls will probably be extremely busy and I may not have time to write anything. My daily word count goal is 1,667 words and my chapter word count goal is 2,000 words. The chapter goal may help me offset the one day I know I'm going to have problems. However, it isn't the problems or difficulties I foresee that give me trouble. It's the unforeseen that usually throws me off or gives me a boost, I've found that the unforeseen isn't always a problem. |
| Istijlál (Majesty), 15 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Wednesday, October 29, 2008 about 7:41 PM Pacific Time I've been doing a lot of walking lately, so I figured it was time to take a walk down memory lane. In this case all the way back to grade school. I went to grade school in Blackwell, Oklahoma. My first boy friend was named Tommy Joe. We were in the same grade and I don't remember what grade we were in. In fact, the only thing I remember about Tommy Joe is his name. At the time, Tommy Joe was my grade school boy friend. My mother was expecting my youngest brother. My mother let me name the baby and I named him Tommy Joe after my boy friend. My youngest brother is named after a boy friend I can't remember. If I could remember what my first boy friend looked like or anything else about him, I would write a love poem to him. Probably just as well I can't remember him. If I did write a love poem about him, It would be bitter and what man wants to have a bitter love poem written about him. I could change my mind and write a poem about him. It would be nice to remember something more about him then his name. |
| Kamál (Perfection), 12 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Monday, October 27, 2008 about 4:23 Pacific Time It's Halloween and the interesting T-shirts are coming out of the closet or the top dresser drawer, depending on where they are kept. I saw a thought provoking T-shirt today. The picture on the shirt was a haunted house and the caption read HAUNTED by the voices in my mind Now tell me, what human being isn't haunted by the voices in his or her mind. I doubt that there are very few people who don't hear voices in their minds. Of course, most people realize that the voices are just their own thoughts echoing off nerve cells or whatever it is our thoughts echo off of. A person haunted by the voices in his or her mind would make a good character. Especially if the voices weren't really the person's thoughts but invaders from another planet or dimension. What if the character or perhaps the character's doctor found out where the thoughts came from and decided to put a stop to them. How would this be done? I don't think wrapping the characters head in aluminum foil is going to do it. |
| Jamál (Beauty), 11 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Sunday, October 26, 2008 about 9:12 AM Pacific Time It's Sunday morning and a new week begins. I didn't get up until about 6:00 AM, so I haven't gotten a lot done this morning. I did one review, made an entry in Writing My Spiritual Journey and began my thankfulness list in my Gratitude journal. I did check the bank accounts, which is something I do each day. Last week I attempted a schedule, I didn't get vary far with it, but I attempted it. I'm going to attempt a schedule again this week. I have an appointment with both a doctor and a dentist this week, which means I'm working only three days. I'm taking off Thursday for the medical appointments and Friday is Nevada Day. I have to get to the bank on Monday, so I'm going there right after I get off work. Hopefully I will get home in time enough Monday to make a doctor's appointment for my mother. I'm in a much better mood this morning and my knee only hurts when I get up and walk. I'm actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow morning. Today I'm going to do at least four more story reviews and perhaps some poem reviews. I'm considering setting up another Review Template for articles and I'm going to change my story and poem review template again. I think this will be the last time I change those templates because I have finally found a set-up that makes me happy. |
| Jalál (Glory), 10 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Saturday, October 25, 2008 about 5:29 PM Pacific Time I think I have too much on my plate. Perhaps it's just the two mile walk five days a week. I'm behind in the NaNoWriMo Challenge and novel planning. I don't think there is any way to make up what I'm behind on. Maybe it's a lack of scheduling. Maybe it's that I have too much on my plate. I haven't been sleeping well. If I turn over the pain in my knee wakes me up. Sometimes I can sleep better on the love seat then in my bed, but not always. I have an appointment to see a doctor Thursday afternoon and I'll discuss the lack of sleep and the knee pain. In the mean time, I still have to walk one mile to work and one mile home. The knee pain and the walking is the only thing I've blogged about lately. I seem to be obsessed with it. I can't relax. I think the lack of sleep is affecting my mood. I'm not sure, but I think I may have lost my sense of humor. I know the entries about the knee pain and walking is becoming boring. I seem to be rambling tonight and unable to focus. I may not do the NaNoWriMo this year because at this point, I don't see any use in starting something I won't be able to finish. I'm tired. I think I have too much on my plate. I need to relax, but the only thing that seems to relax me is to do reviews. Getting involved in reading someone else's story or poem and then writing a in-depth review, I know that sounds odd. I need my glasses changed and it's difficult to read some of the stories or poems sometimes, but that's the only thing that relaxes me. |
| Istiqlál (Independence), 9 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 24, 2008 about 4:51 PM Pacific Time. For the past four days I have walked one mile to work and one mile back home. My knee hurts, I'm weary. This morning I got a ride half way to work, so today I walk only 1 and 1/2 miles. If I had walked the full two miles, I'm not sure I would have made it home. I had intended to go to the bank after work, but I couldn't make the walk to either bus stop, both are about 1/2 mile away. So now I have to go to the bank in the morning, at least I hope I'm able to go to the bank in the morning. I have to make the two-mile walk only three days next week. I have a dental and doctor's appointment on Thursday, October 30, at the same clinic. The dental appointment is a 8:00 AM and the Doctor's appointment is at 2:15 PM. I don't know if I will be in any shape to see a doctor by then, but I'm going to attempt it. Even if the dentist pulls my teeth then I'm going to wait until the doctor's appoint to leave the clinic. If I have to walk that day, I'm not going to walk home after one appointment and then back for the other. The doctor's office is probably about 3/4 of a mile from the house. I went to bed early yesterday and didn't get anything done. The only reason I didn't go to bed early today was that I need food. Actually I need protein, in this case chicken. When Mom and I go to the bank tomorrow, we'll stop at Food 4 Less on the way home and get something to go with the beef we have in the freezer. |
| ‘Idál (Justice), 7 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Wednesday, October 22, 2008 about 4:12 PM Pacific Time I'm in a better mood today. I don't know whether I'm getting used to walking two miles a day or I've resigned myself to doing it for the rest of the year. It was cooler this afternoon then yesterday or this morning. About midmorning the wind began to blow and the wind chill factor kicked in. So the walk home was rather nice, all though I didn't see a yellow flower in bloom today. I didn't need to see a spring flower blooming to give me encouragement today. My right knee hurts when I walk on cement, but as long as I keep my mind busy the pain isn't too bad. They say you feel pain in the mind anyway. If that's the case then as long as I keep my mind focused on something besides the knee and negative thoughts, I won't have a problem. When I got home I took a nap in the love seat, so I'm a bit behind on writing. I went to bed early last night, but I don't think I will tonight. I feel a lot better then I did yesterday. Of course, today I ate some protein before I left for work. I also had a meat dish for lunch and Sloppy Joes for dinner. I'm going to have to increase my protein intake now that I'm walking more. I still haven checked the answering machine yet, but I'll do that before I go to bed. |
| Fidál (Grace), 6 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, October 21, 2008 about 5:29 PM Pacific Time After a long and weary day, I'm tired and want to give up completely. I won't of course, I never make important decisions when I'm in this mood. I walked to work today and I walked home. Mom has had a difficult afternoon and evening. It doesn't help that I'm tired and would like to go to bed, but if I don't do a specific amount of reviews today then I'll be further behind then I am. I am so down at this point, I don't know what to do. It's still daylight outside and I have other things to do. Mom attempts to clean house, but all she gets done is laundry. I know we can't have that much laundry. There are only two people in this house and she does three or four loads of laundry everyday. I tried this morning to get the only two loads of laundry I thought we had, but when I came home she was doing laundry. I don't know where she finds it. Maybe the dirty laundry magically appears out of hyperspace. It can't appear out of cyberspace because the computer is off when I'm not here. I walked to work and home today, the same tomorrow and probably for the next month or two. I applied for Paratransit, but I'm not counting on getting it. I'm basing this on a dream I had last week, before the interview. In the dream, I took Mom to work with me. I'm taking that to mean she will get Paratransit, but I won't. If she gets it then I can go with her, which means she will be going to my doctor's appointments from now on. That will make her happy and get her out of the house. She is in a much better attitude when she gets out of the house. |
| Why does the sun rise? Morning is for praising God intoning love's gratitude. Tomorrow morning I walk to work while praising one mile of walking. NOTE: Tomorrow should be an interesting day because today I decided that the only way to get thing moving in my life is to start pushing. |
| Kamál (Perfection), 5Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Monday, October 20, 2008 about 9:49 AM Pacific Time Judge sends God lawsuit to afterlife That's what the UPI headline read. Apparently an Omaha, Nebraska state Senator attempted to sue God. He wanted to prevent "... the almighty from bringing about earthquakes, tornadoes and other acts of natural violence." State Senator Ernie Chambers, a 28-year veteran of the Nebraska Legislature was apparently making a comment on frivolous lawsuits. Another state lawmaker wanted to prevent frivolous lawsuits through enacting a law against them. However, Chambers thought that anyone should be able to sue anyone else at any time, so he sued God. I think it should be left up to the judge sitting on the bench to decide if a lawsuit is frivolous. If the judge believes the lawsuit is frivolous he or she can always throw it out. |
| Jamál (Beauty), 4 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Sunday, October 19, 2008 about 8:50 AM Pacific Time There are times in a woman's life when she scares herself so badly, she wants to run naked from the house screaming. I'm not sure if this is one of those times or not, but I've scared myself again. This morning I realized that I'm dealing with some more of the same issues my mother has dealt with all her life. Mom is afraid of doing something wrong. Lately, she has presumed she did something wrong when she didn't. In fact, she apologizes for doing something wrong. I try to assure her that she hasn't, but she doesn't seem to want to accept that. Mom keeps repeating that she did something wrong again in different situations or over and over with the same situation. I've found myself thinking the same thing. I've found myself presuming I've did something wrong before the vote is even in. Of course, with me the thought is {c;red}I've screwed up again! I don't always screw up. Actually, I think its impossible to do everything wrong or to screw up all the time. Mom has dealt with the problem all her life and never resolved it. I'm going to have to resolve the problem in my own life or it's only going to get worse as I get older. |
| The both develop patience and frustration, not necessarily in that order. I got online earlier today and then my connection was severed. I'm connected to the Internet by a telephone line, so this is a normal occurrence. However, today was different. First the phone number to my provider was busy for about an hour and I couldn't get through. Then the server didn't answer in a timely manner. The problem was the load on the lines, but it was frustrating for a while. Then I decided to just be a little patient and do something else. That what patience is having something else to do in the meantime. I'm back online, I have reviews to do and e-mails to answer. The e-mails may not get answered today because the reviews are coming first. It's going to take a while to do the reviews. |
| Jalál (Glory), 3 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Saturday, October 18, 2008 about 9:21 AM Pacific Time When I need encouragement the most, someone usually sends me e-mail messages that give it or make me think. I'm not talking about the newsletters with quotes in them, in this case it's friends who send interesting items they have come across in their own e-mail boxes. When I read my yahoo mail this morning there was a message with the subject line "Charlie Brown Philosophy" This e-mail contained the following two quotes that I needed today. “Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!” Author Unknown “Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!” Author Unknown |
| Istiqlál (Independence), 2 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 17, 2008 about 10:39 AM Pacific Time No wind caresses the the limbs of the stone pine tree on this cold autumn morning. My muse is hunting inspiration in the chill and finding it. My mood is yo-yoing but my muse pushes through the darkness to the light. |
| Istijlál (Majesty), 1 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Thursday, October 16, 2008 about 8:49 AM Pacific Time I didn't go to the Feast of Ilm (Knowledge) last night. I don't have a car and no one could pick us up for Feast. After walking to the bank and back home, I was in no condition to do any more walking, so taking the bus was out. The next Feast is on the evening of November 3 and I have no idea who is hosting it. I'll find out later in the month. Today we have an appointment to qualify for Paratransit, I hope both Mom and I can qualify, but if only Mom qualifies that's OK. If I don't qualify I'll have a problem getting to work, because without a car it means walking, which increases the pain in my right knee. I'm going to have to call the clinic for an appointment to see what the problem is with the knee. Thanks to some very special people, I have an upgraded membership until December 15. I'm giving myself those two months to either save enough money or earn enough GPs to get a year's premium membership. I took off work today and I have to call the school to tell them I won't be in tomorrow. I just can't face another walk this week. Actually, my knee can't face it and as much as I need the money, I'm just going to have to suck it up and deal with it. I have figured out that the walk to a given place isn't the problem. I can walk to work or to the bank without a problem, the problem occurs on the way back home. |
| ‘Idál (Justice), 19 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Tuesday-Wednesday, 15, 2008 about 12:23 PM Pacific Time I'm behind  on just about everything. I finally got a thank you e-mail sent for the gift of the upgraded membership. I called into work for today and tomorrow, but I'm going to have to go in Friday, because I can't afford take any more time off. Not that I could afford to take this time off, but the car is in the shop and I just needed a bit of rest before starting out again. As it is, I'm going to have to go to the bank as soon as I eat lunch. I'm going to talk to the bank, I don't know if I'm going to walk back or not. That depends on how I feel and what time it is when I get to the bank. |
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