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| Fidál (Grace), 18 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, October 14, 2008 about 7:23 AM Pacific Time I had a new experience at the my dental appointment yesterday. I walked to work because my car is parked in the driveway and I can't start it. After I got off work, I then walked to the medical clinic for my 3:30 PM appointment. I was extremely early because I got off around 12:30 PM. I didn't want to walk home because I knew I couldn't make it back to the dental office, which is closer to work then to my house. Yesterday was the grand opening of the clinic I went to. It's new to this area of town. Anyway, there was a news crew from Channel 3 in Las Vegas. I was on the evening news last night. This is the first time I've been interviewed by a T.V. news program. After the interview, I waited for my dental appointment and they got me in early for that. I walked home and saw myself on the 4:00 news on Channel 3. It's amazing what experiences a person has when they are open and willing to take the opportunity. |
| It's finally beginning to feel like autumn in Las Vegas. Today the temperature in the house got down to a chilly 70 degrees. I think it was colder then that when I woke up at 10:00 PM last night. Today I made soup in the slow cooker. I opened a can of condensed chicken rice soup and chicken noodle soup. I put those together in the slow cooker and added a can of water for each. Then I opened a can of potato garlic soup and tomato soup (non-condensed versions). I added those to the soup already in the slow cooker. The next thing I added was a can of cut spinach. I let all that heat up together and that's what we had for lunch and dinner. That's how I make soup anymore. Sometimes I add a package of rice or taco seasoning, but little else. Unless I feel I need more veggies and then I open more cans. All right, so I'm a canned cook. |
| Jamál (Beauty), 16 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Sunday, October 12, 2008 about 12:00 AM Pacific Time A Grandmother was surprised by her 7 year old grandson one morning when he had made her coffee. She drank what was the worst cup of coffee in her life. When she got to the bottom there were three of those little green army men in the cup. She said, "Honey, what are the army men doing in my coffee?" Her grandson said, "Grandma, it says on TV-'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup!'" I found this joke while cleaning out my e-mail box and I thought I would post it in this blog. |
| Jalál (Glory), 15 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Saturday, October 11, 2008 about 8:20 AM Pacific Time The weariness sets in, while the pain is intermittent. I haven't had a running car since Wednesday afternoon. There just isn't enough power to turn the engine over. At least I hope, that is the problem because if it's anything else I just don't have the money to have it taken care of. I walked to the bank yesterday to cash my paycheck, which is the reason for the weariness and pain. I don't know how many blocks I walk, but I do know it was farther then I have to walk to work. I have to get someone out here to take care of the problem or I'm not going to have a car next week. So I guess I better get offline and call somebody. I know it sounds odd, but I'm not worried about the I have some money, about $100.00. If it cost more then that then I do have a problem. At least until, my sisters check comes. I asked for $200.00 this time, but I don't know if she can afford to send that amount, so we'll probably get only $100. I'm not going to worry about it because worrying doesn't help. I think my biggest problems this morning is the weariness and the pain in my right knee. I'm going to just take it easy most of the day. I'll call Triple A to see if they will sent a truck to take care of my problem. I'll find out how much they charge first, but I'm going to have to have the car taken care of. I'm setting here on the verge of tears and I think it's just the weariness. |
| Istiqlál (Independence), 14 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – -Friday, October 10, 2008 about 3:41 AM Pacific Time Morning has arrived and it's still dark outside. I put a load of clothes in the washer when I went into the kitchen to make the coffee about 2"30 AM. My car is still setting in the driveway, looking like I backed it in, waiting for me to get a battery and a battery cable. After thinking about it, I remembered that my sister bought me a battery in 2005 or 2006. Considering how hot it gets in Vegas, I don't suppose it would hurt if I bought a new battery and had it put in. It's still dark outside. The sky is the color of my strong, deep black coffee. Let me rewrite that statement. The sky is the color of coffee before cream is added to it. I don't take cream or milk in my coffee unless I'm buying some sort of coffee mix at a coffee shop. It's still dark outside and time doesn't fall back until the first Sunday in November. November 2 the time falls back. By then fall is half over, winter is approaching and the holiday season is just getting started. That could be one reason I'm having a difficult time with depression (all though I'm not sure that is the right description for the mood). Holidays are always depressing, I think because most holidays are consider family affairs. The only family I have in Vegas is my Mother. I doubt that I'll see my sister or my brothers during the holidays again this year. I might see my niece and her kids in Henderson. I have to call and see if Mom and I can get an invention for Thanksgiving. I'm not going to cook a turkey. The only part of a turkey I like are the drum sticks and dark meat. If we don't go to my nieces, then I'm going to figure out a way to go out for Thanksgiving. As much as I dislike driving on a holiday, I'm not eating Thanksgiving dinner at home. |
| Istijlál (Majesty), 13 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Thursday, October 8-9, 2008 about 4:18 AM Pacific Time I get in a rut, especially when it comes to saving money. Normally I buy the same store brand of coffee because its $1.00 or $2.00 cheaper then the other brands. The last time I went to Food 4 Less, the Value Brand of coffee I usually buy was sold out. I pay a little less then $5.00 for that brand. This time I bought the Kroger brand which cost a little over $6.00 probably about a $2.00 difference. This morning I opened the new can of coffee and made it. It is both stronger and smoother then the brand I regularly buy, of course this is premium coffee and the other wasn't. Actually, I don't think the Value brand has premium. I'll have to look closer at the coffee selections the next time I go to Food 4 Less. I'm in heaven because I have strong smooth coffee on a day when I really need it. I'm going to have to walk to work today, which isn't that far but it's still a long walk. I'm not in the best physical condition. I don't think the walk is going to kill me or put me in the hospital, but it's going to be a test. The last time I walked any distance my right knee gave me problems and pain, but I can't let a little thing like that stop me. I have premium coffee waiting for brewing when I get back home from work. I have to keep that in mind while I walk to and from work today. If I could afford to take off I would, but the car is acting up again. It ran out of power yesterday on the way home. It still has gas in the tank, so the problem is something else. It's either the fuel pump or the alternator. I borrowed a guy's cell phone to call Triple A and they came right out. I had them tow me to the house, which was less then 5 miles from where the car died so it didn't cost me anything for the tow. I'll call them and have them tow the car to my mechanic either Saturday or Tuesday, unless I can get something done with it before then. I get paid this week, so my check should come through the mail on either Friday or Saturday. If it comes Saturday, then I can go to the bank its drawn on Sunday after noon. They have a branch in a grocery store close by that's open on Sunday afternoon. I can do anything I put my mind to as long as I have the proper reward waiting for me at home. Right now that reward is a cup or two o premium blend coffee. I really wish I could afford to take off today, but that's out of the question. As it is, I'm going to be short one day's pay next week. Oh well, all I have to do is keep in mind the premium cup of coffee I have waiting for me at home. Needless to say, the next time I buy coffee it's going to be the premium coffee; sometimes saving money just isn't worth the price. |
| ‘Idál (Justice), 12 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Wednesday, October 8, 2008 about 5:10 AM Pacific Time Sometimes I get the feeling that something wonderful is going to happen. I'm expecting something, but I don't know what I'm expecting. I have that feeling you get as as child on your birthday. You know you are going to get presents, you know what you asked everyone for, but you don't know what your getting. You have to wait until you open the gifts to find out. That isn't the mood I woke up in, however, I never assume that the mood I have when I first wake up in the morning is the same mood I keep all day. My mood changes as the day advances and I say prayers or listen to my self-talk. I woke up in a rather dark mood this morning. I thought that I had lost everything, but my mood improved after prayers and coffee. I'm not worried about losing everything, if I do then I'll handle it. Actually, at this point I'm not worried about anything at all. I'm focused on make thing blog entry and doing some more reviews today. I have to be at work at about 9:00 AM, but I can't check the water in the car until the sun comes up. I'm going to have to get a new water pump, but as usually that takes a bit more money then I have at the moment. Oddly enough I don't seem to be worried about that or anything else right now. All thought, it is possible that I'm worried because I'm not worried. When I get off work, I'm going to have to add water to the radiator and then go pay the Internet connection fee. I have enough for that. I get paid Friday or Saturday, whenever the check comes through the mail. Do to the fact that my bank holds anything $100 or over when I deposit a check, I'm going to the bank the check is drawn on and cash it. That will give me gas money anyway. |
| Fidál (Grace), 11 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, October 7, 2008 about 6:21 AM Pacific Time I reset the homepage to writing.com. Now all I have to do is log into my Internet providers server and bring up my browser. Right now my browsers is Internet Explorer, but that may change to FireFox sometime between now and New Year's Day 2009. I do surveys and some of the surveys won't run on FireFox, at least they wouldn't the last time I used it, which was in 2006 or 2007. I have to uninstall the FireFox browser I have and reinstall a later version. The problem with downloading is my connection. I have a telephone hook-up to the Internet and this makes my download time slow as molasses in January. Therefore, I have to download in the middle of the night. Since I don't like downloading stuff while I'm sleeping, I have to wait until a Friday or Saturday. Right now I'm not going to download anymore then I have to until after I get caught up on my reviewing and survey goals. In addition, there is NaNoWriMo next month, so that will have to be put in my schedule. Not that I actually follow the schedule. I'm going to have to start following it, especially since the dream I had last night. I like having writing.com as my homepage. It saves time when I want to log into this site. Especially since the first thing I do is check my account and see what my GP balance is. I have to get at least another month's premium membership by October 15 and then work toward a two, three or six-month extension. I'd like to make it a 12-month extension, but let me (the great procrastinator) take little steps. I don't procrastinate if the goal is small enough not to seem overwhelming. |
| Kamál (Perfection), 10 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Monday, October 6, 2008 about 6:10 PM Pacific Time I have a new morning ritual. I get up before dawn and wait for the sun to come up. I'm actively waiting, by which I mean I'm either working on line, saying prayers or doing something else. When dawn arrives, I go outside and open the hood of my car. Then I take the cap off the radiator and look in to see if it has water. If the radiator doesn't have water, which is a normal condition since I need a water pump and it loses water, I add water. Sometimes I add coolant, but six days out of seven I add water. The problem now is that I can't remember when I last added coolant. I think it was last week sometime, but I'm not sure when. Tomorrow only places I'm going to drive it is to work and the dentist. I have a dental appointment at 1:00 PM so I'm going to the dentist right after work. After I get off work I'll check the water level in the radiator again and see if it needs water. Then I will go to the dentist and after I get out of the dentist, I'll check it again if it's cooled down enough for me to open the radiator. Today it lost water after I got home from work, but I added water before we went to the bank at 4:00 PM. The weird thing is that it didn't lose water at the bank nor when I stopped at Albertson's to pay my Power Bill. I just love the fact that I can go into the supermarket and pay my power bill. However, I think I'm going to pay next month's power bill online. |
| Jamál (Beauty), 9 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Sunday, October 5, 2008 about 5:34 PM Pacific Time I finished a short story today about the protagonist in my NaNoWriMo novel. The story show an early encounter between her and the antagonist. I had started to make the antagonist another protagonist, but when I wrote the story the encounter between the proved he would make a better antagonist. For once I'm caught up with the NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge. The next challenge is to write about an object in the story. I'm suppose to describe the item. I'm not saying right now what I'm going to describe, but it's an idea object I've been considering writing about a long time now. I'm not sure what's up after this. I've looked ahead in the challenges, but I'm focusing on the present item. I still have some more reviews to do. I also have to finish the edition of the Fantasy newsletter I'm editing. For once I have almost the entire newsletter completed. I have to finish rewriting the draft of the letter from the editor. It's only the first paragraph I have to complete. I finished the draft and then let it lay, when I went back to it I realized I needed to rewrite a paragraph. I like to write like that. Complete a story or a poem and then let it lay for a little while before getting back to it. I don't always do it that way, but when I don't I always regret it later because I miss something obvious mistakes. |
| Jalál (Glory), 8 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Saturday, October 4, 2008 about 12:54 PM Pacific Time For someone who forgot about "October Novel Prep Challenge" and probably just about everything else, I'm slowly catching up. I have to do some reviews today and tomorrow, but considering I have to be careful about driving my car because it needs a water pump I'm probably staying home tomorrow. The only exception to that is going after meds.I could decide differently in the morning, especially if I'm caught up and need some rest time between reviews. At this point, the only thing I'm sure of is going for the meds. I have to pick the meds up tomorrow or they put them back in stock. I need those pills before Monday. I don't know what's been wrong with me lately. I've gone to bed early and let stress get to me. I'm weary and I'm tired, but it's not physical. It could be the change in the weather or it could be I'm worried. It could be almost anything. I know that I'm going to have to start putting dates on calendars because otherwise I end up forgetting something. I don't forget appointments, but I forget other things. I haven't started forgetting passwords or log-ins, so I guess I'm all right. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm not using the problems with the car as an excuse not to get out of the house unless I have to. I'm going to have to meditate on that and see what I come up with. Maybe I just need a little time off from society or something like that. Maybe I need to get my priorities straight. I don't know at this point, but I intend to find out. |
| Istiqlál (Independence), 7 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 3, 2008 about 6:25 AM Pacific Time It's Friday October 3 and I have a three-day weekend. I don't have to go to work today because the staff at school are having classes of their own. I'm not sure what it's called, but it means the teaches are taking classes to make them better teachers. This assistance are doing other stuff and I don't have to go to work. I have other things I can do. For the past two or three days, I've went to bed early and didn't get everything completed. I'm behind on almost everything, I did get one item caught up this morning. My next project is to do reviews and catch up on writing.com writing. Fortunately, I'm only two days behind on October events on writing.com. The only thing I've did the past couple days is catch up on Snow Melt entries for Follow the Leader. It's getting light outside, so I'm going to have to go check the water in my radiator. I think it needs a water pump. It could just as easily need a head gasket, but two out of three mechanics say it's the water pump and the way it's leaking t appears to be the water pump. I really hope it is the water pump, because I can't afford to have the head gasket fixed. I'm not sure how I can afford a water pump, but I'll figure that out. Needless to say I'm not driving very far anymore. I also need to find a black marker. I have a lidless Tupperware container in the garage with coolant in it. I don't want it used for anything else, so I'm going to have to mark it coolant. I found a something I could lay on top of it to keep the dust out, but I still need to make the container. I can drive the car as long as I don't make more then two or three stops. Two stops are probably best especially if I'm driving across town. I don't think that it leaked yesterday afternoon when I came home from the bank, but it did leak a little at the bank. I have to go out now and check the radiator. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by mood indigo  for October 1, 2008."surfaces" can't talkusually just lie there remembering in silence first one action after another; actions which took place on top of them, concealing their secrets beneath from everyone except those who know what took place; surfaces can't talk. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by objurgate for September 30, 2008. "Invalid Entry" I bought my own negative self-talk and managed to shoot myself in the foot, again. So, it's probably just as well that my aim isn't any better then that because there are many more vital organs I could have hit with that arrow. I will recover, I will be stronger for it, I will be less likely to listen to my extreme negativity, but for now I will just limp along until the foot recovers. I am improving! There was a time when I couldn't write at all when I was depressed or upset. Now, however, I can write and I can pray; I will recover! |
| Fidál (Grace), 4 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, September 30, 2008 about 4:38 AM Pacific Time I heard weird noises during the night. It sounded like the wind blowing aluminum trashcans around or something similar. I don't know what it was because I didn't get up and look out. I haven't looked out my front door yet because it's still dark outside. I suppose I should, but I'm not. I have too much too do this morning to worry about what's outside. If there is a problem, the I'll deal with it when daylight comes. The weird thing is I don't think the wind was blowing very much last night. In addition, my bedroom is at the back of the house, so I shouldn't have been hearing anything going on in front of the house. When the wind blew the elm tree down in February, I didn't hear anything at all. So what ever was going on, was going on either in my backyard or one of the neighbors backyards. Part of me says I should be worried about it and part of me says there is nothing to worry about. I'll have another couple of cups of coffee, then I'll find my shoes and go outside to see what's up in the front of the house. I'm not going in the back until after dawn. It's dark out there and there are spiders. All right, neither of those is a good excuse for not investigating weird noises in the middle of the night or any of time of the day, but they are my excuses and I'm sticking with them. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by emylitha for September 28, 2008. "Invalid Entry" I have, I just don't have a home for them, but it is going to be a children's story.Spot - a black and white cat. Received name because he has a white spot on his throat where his vocal chords are located. Spot has the power to make anyone petting or hearing him purr happy. It don't matter how bad there mood was before Spot crawled on their shoulders, curled himself around their neck and begins to purr, his purr changes there mood. Pearl - 87 year old who has a slight short-term memory problem at specific times during the day and the night. These problems occur at regular intervals, eventually she remembers what it was she forgot, but at odd times during the following day. Ann - a rag doll that is bewitched and either blesses or curses the person picking her up. The blessings and curses are random and no one picking her up ever know which is going to occur. Andy - another rag doll, but he can talk to people. The person he is talking to is the only one who can hear him talk. When someone picks him up he talks to them. Sara - Pearl's granddaughter and a witch. She lives with peal and takes care of her when necessary. Joy - Pearl's daughter and Sara's mother. She holds down two and sometimes three jobs. Therefore, she is seldom home. She doesn't trust her husband, Clay, and believes that the money he gives her is counterfeit. Clay - Sara's father and Joy's estranged husband. He appears at holidays with gifts for Sara and Pearl. He always hands Joy an envelop containing fifty or hundred dollar bills. Morgan - Clay's sister and Sara's aunt. She is never around at any holiday because Clay is around. She isn't on speaking terms with her brother. The reason for this isn't clear because each time she is asked why she gives a different explanation. Jake - Joy's twin brother and Sara's uncle. Jake shows up at Thanksgiving and Christmas. He always brings food and a gift for each person in the family. The gifts he brings are completely inappropriate for the person getting the gift, but appropriate for someone else in the family. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by flex for September 27, 2008. Yes, "Invalid Entry" in more ways then one. Mom got a letter from my stepsister on Friday, it surprised me. Not that it surprised me she wrote, that didn't. What surprised me was that it was a letter written on a card, I expected an e-mail. I didn't know people sent cards like that anymore. Of course, P. is close to my age and we were raised at a different time, when it was more common to sent cards and letters.I'll either pick out a couple of nice cards at the store or print off something from the computer. I'll probably print it off, since it looks like I'm in my last week at my present job. I doubt that I'll be getting an assignment some place else. So the next couple of months is going to be even tighter. I haven't told Mom yet, there is no use worrying her until I have to. I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing after this week, but I'll deal with that when the time come. I've put off responding to this because I didn't want it to be so down. I enjoyed that job, but ... forget about what i was going to write. It was nice hearing from P. again. I'm going to focus on the positive and see if there is any lesson I can learn from this experience. It's still dark outside and I'm always a little more depressed in the dark then I am in the light. I enjoy being surprised by people. It's nice to have your faith restored in the human race once in a while. It's the drivers in Las Vegas that usually surprise me with their courtesy. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by katwoman45  for September 26, 2008."'I Have A Dream' was taken..." and the world is interconnected. A event or political concept in one nation has an effect on the rest of the planet. The realization of the interconnectedness of life and nations began to dawn on humanity in the middle and late nineteenth century. Each decade and century since has revealed this interconnectedness in greater and greater detail through devastating events across Earth.The twentieth century was a century of war. There was World War I, (the Great War) the War to end all wars, which it didn't. There was World War II and the dropping of a two atomic bombs on and enemy nation. I could go on listing all the wars of the twentieth century, but the history books do that much better then I can. The books may not tell everything that led up to each war, but they tell enough for one to get the idea of what was happening. Unfortunately, the history of a war is usually written by the victor and not the defeated. The twenty-first century arrived, with humanity still fighting wars. However, in this century the interconnectedness of the world is seen in greater deal through the wars and crises themselves. Part of the problem is the screw you attitude of greed, but this is only one component of the crises. Another component is the belief that one religion, one nation, or one individual is better then another individual because of some specific criteria. There are other components, but it is the combined effect those components that reveal the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Humanity is a single species, living on a planet that is interconnected. What happens in on part of the planet has and effect on the rest of the planet, politically, materially, physically and spiritually. The present crisis will not be solved by people and nations working independently of each other, but by those who work together for the common good. So when we write our politicians let them know we think the world is interconnected and that we want them to work toward the common good of the planet not just their individual cities or states. |
My response to the Leading Journal entry by Jay's debut novel is out now! for September 25, 2008.My thoughts "like a piece of fruit in a Caravaggio" are related to each other only because they in the same container, my mind. This morning, my thoughts are variegated threads of randomness; crazy tangled unconnected threads moving through my brain ******** A friend, now passed into the next world, once said: "The things I worried about never happenedd, the things that happened were so far off the wall that I would never have considered worrying about them." Sometimes that's the way with my worries. At other times the things I worried about did happen, but they were never as bad as the way I envisioned them. ******** I have a tendency to second guess decision, I can do nothing about. I should on myself, which can be a very messy thought process. It's probably a good thing, that I can't go back and change my decisions after I've made them and put them into action. If I could the space-time continuum would be as screwed up as I think my life is sometimes. ******** I have worries, I have fears, every human being has fears and worries, but most people don't obsess on them or do they. Maybe there's a really good reason we can't read other peoples' minds most of the time. ******** My worries and fears are vain imaginings, illusions meant to distract me from my purpose in life; my purpose in life is to know, love and woship God. ******** I have a tendency to shoot myself in the foot, figuratively. Most people call it sabatoge, but that doesn't really explain the way I do it. |
The Final Challenge – Tortured Light: Inner Thoughts to Ensnare the Soul Sometime inner thoughts can distract an individual from become her true self and achieving our purpose in life. I think each individual born into this world has a purpose and an ultimate goal to achieve while on the material plain. An individual's inner thoughts can prevent the soul from achieving that purpose. Inner thoughts, if the individual isn't careful, can cause the individual to pursue vain imaginings rather then his or her true purpose in life. This is why knowledge of self is so important. A human being has two natures, a spiritual nature and a physical or material nature. The soul or spirit is the spiritual part of the individual, while the body is the physical or material part. To become one's true self an individual must develop the spiritual nature as well as the physical/material nature. Developing the material nature and the body isn't difficult because part of developing the body is a natural growth process. The individual goes beyond this when he or she does physical exercise or pursues a career to develop his or her physical and material attributes. In most cases development of our soul and spiritual attributes part of the natural growth process. The individual must make an effort to develop the spiritual attributes. Prayer and meditation helps in this process, but other things that help as well. Sacrifice also helps develop the spiritual nature of the individual. When an individual has a choice between two different things he or she wants to do, but can only do one of them. Then the individual chooses and makes a sacrifice, this sacrifice helps develop the soul. Some sacrifices are more important then others, but only the individual and God know which sacrifices go further to develop the soul. |
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